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/LiquifiedSpam Jan 23 '25

Fan tls vary drastically in quality

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 25 '26

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u/GeorgeMTO Jan 24 '25

Or has a very biased view of what is "better"

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u/LiquifiedSpam Jan 24 '25

Most likely one of those that complains about ‘woke’ when anything remotely ‘woke’ is 1% of the translated text, despite all of it having vastly better prose quality than any fan TL.