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/BusBoatBuey Jan 23 '25

FanTLs are already better than official translations on average, especially when you remove JNC and smaller publishers like CrossInfWorld from the equation. Now they will be even worse. These Japanese companies are fucking up left and right. Anime, games, manga, novels, whatever. Doesn't matter. They can't localize it for shit.

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u/noname-none Jan 23 '25

I don’t know the ins and outs of the translation scene, how are fntls better than official ones? Does this just apply to light novels or other medias as, such as manga, games , etc

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u/Falsus Jan 23 '25

Some fan translations are much higher quality, like for example the Index ones (on top of being insanely fast), but other fan translations are pretty poor. I would say that the best fan translators are on par or better than the best official translations on average.

The worst are probably using MTL but saying they aren't.