Mo Du English TL

[autodach]

Mo Du/Silent Reading is getting an official English translation!

Announcement on Seven Seas Website

Comments

[momijizukamori]

Unfortunately I'm skeptical it'll be as good as the existing fan translation - none of their others I've read have managed to hit Danglars' quality :\

[quillpunk]

that's awesome!

[autodach]

Yeah, E. Danglar's translations' quality is amazing. The new tl can only hope to match. I will reserve judgement until I read it though.

[douqi]

Vindictively hoping it gets put back up again the second the Seven Seas licence expires.

[momijizukamori]

Do we have any info about license lengths, actually? Though the site's on Wayback Machine anyway, heh

[halfcactus]

Yeah I might still check it out because I've never read any version of the novel, but I'm worried that it's going to be a rush job if it's not built on an existing translation.

I'm a little excited for extra illustrations, though!

[ehyde]

iirc I saw someone say that they're releasing the hardcover TGCF so soon because of the license expiring soon, but it was secondhand info and I don't remember the details

[geraineon]

Thanks for sharing about the news!

Hopefully the TL for this will be good. I'm a little spoiled by E. Danglar's translation...

[jiuyeqiying]

Not to burst bubbles, but it's being handled by the person who did Zhenhun, and if Zhenhun's quality was not as expected, might be good to temper expectations for this one...

[jiuyeqiying]

AFAIK should be around 5 years or so (capped at 5)? Vietnam's Qiye license expired around that period from its publishing year if my memory did not fail me, unless NA licenses get a longer period.

[geraineon]

Ah, thank you for the info!

[momijizukamori]

Hard to say for sure, but thanks for the data point!

[jiuyeqiying]

Yeah, there's still too little data to go by. If you don't mind some additional data on the side (non-JJWXC titles), I believe (the now defunct) Chaleuria, which was founded in 2018, had a number of their ebook licenses expire in 2021. You're welcome uwu

[jiuyeqiying]

Welcome uwu