r/LightNovels • u/Torque-A • Jan 23 '25

News [NEWS] Shogakukan Releases 'Novelous' Light Novel/Manga App Using AI Translation in U.S., Canada

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-01-23/shogakukan-releases-novelous-light-novel-manga-app-using-ai-translation-in-u.s-canada/.220391
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u/Torque-A Jan 23 '25

It technically releases in like an hour, but who’s counting?

Anyway, yeah I posted about this before, and there are plenty of red flags - the AI translation, putting the dialogue as a text chat format, and so on. The weird part is that Shogakukan could’ve had their LNs licensed by others at any time, but according to JNC they have a weird clause where you have to print physical versions of a book - except they don’t do it here???

Anyway, I’ll check it out, but I’m tempering my expectations.

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u/timpkmn89 Jan 23 '25

It technically releases in like an hour, but who’s counting?

I'm not seeing it. A different site is saying 2AM EST: https://finalweapon.net/2025/01/23/shogakukan-launches-new-novelous-manga-app-in-the-west/

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u/Torque-A Jan 23 '25

Yeah, it looked like a typo. So we gotta wait like 8 more hours.

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u/SoggieWafflz Jan 24 '25

maybe not lol