I am really sorry for the slow updates and this intermezzo. As I stated before, I am currently busy with my thesis so I canāt translate as much. Itās vexing, I know. I feel it too even though Iām the one translating~ T^T
Now, one night, I surfed through NU forums. To see, maybe, another potential novel that has been dropped by another translator. And, just for a fleeting moment (perhaps fate? IDK~) suddenly I got curious for AOAKT. Well, just, curious. So, I typed in the search box of NU forum, āAi o Ataeru Kemonotachiā.
AND THEN, SUDDENLY, I FEEL LIKE AN ICE RAIN POURED ON ME, HARD AND COLD!
WHY?
BECAUSE I FOUND THIS POST AT THE TOP OF THE LIST!
In case you want to read the whole post, hereās the link: Question ā Ai wo Ataeru Kemonotachi | Novel Updates Forum
(Click. Click! Just clickā¦)
Then, I went to the site, joined their discord too (because they posted it protected by password and you could find the password in their discord.)
I read through their TL. Iāll be honest, I just opened their chapter 41 vol 1. Looks good too, even though they admit that they used google translates. It got flow, coherence, grammarā¦ Idk whether it strayed from the raws or not. The moment I saw coherence, I donāt care about anything anymore.
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, THEY ALREADY TRANSLATED UNTILā¦ FAR.
Now, hereās the interesting fact.
When I wrote that sentence āAND THE MOST IMPORTANTā¦..ā, I wanted to check again until which chapter they translated it, so, I went back to their site again. AAAANNNNDDDā¦. I REALIZED THAT THEYāRE TRANSLATING THE BOOK VERSION, WHILE IāM TRANSLATING THE WEB NOVEL VERSION.
BUT BRUH, WHATāS THE DIFFERENCE?
The web novel version that Iām translating has 81 chapters+1 epilogue+23 extras. So, a total of 105 chapters. And the book version has Vol. 1 which is 56 chapters, Vol. 2 which is 23 chapters, and Vol. 3 which is 18 chapters, but until this post was made, the translator-sama translated reached Vol.3 ch.17 YESTERDAY. Theyāre progressing. So, the book version has a total of 97 chapters (+ Vol. 4, but the translator said that they couldnāt find the raw to the Vol. 4).
Honestly, I lost my motivation to continue translating this version. HOWEVER, Iām BARELY hanging on to this very fine spider-web thread called āTHE TOTAL CHAPTERSā.
So, my dear readers, tell me, should I continue, should I not? Should I stop this, should I not? Comment below. Or, if you prefer a private chat with me (and maybe cheer my broken heart T^T), I welcome discord DM at Kurokami Anko#0491.