Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5551986-20181227102057/@comment-957629-20190320112536

Timjer wrote:

Okay, that I can't agree with. It's not the novel and author's fault that the publisher doesn't want to bother having it translated. And I would suggest showing a bit more respect to the people who go through the trouble of translating all of it in their free time. Seriously, if those people didn't do that, we wouldn't even have anything to discuss about. I couldn't care less if we didn't have the novels to discuss about. The novels have been being released for over a decade and nobody cared until they had no Manga.

Also saying an amateur translator is an amateur is not disrespectful. I didn't blame anyone I merely highlighted a problem that you aren't even sure what the "nail" meant and now have to completely speculate that nail means Chain of Fate. That is not disrespectful that is a factual problem with the current set up.

And on that, I would actually argue that many of us in the West are completely, indirectly at fault if a publisher does not want to invest money into translating something that they will see very little returns on because the West pirates a lot so they won't get that money back.

If people want publishers and production companies to invest money into Bleach then they need to be realistic and show them that Bleach can make money and purchase Bleach media. That is the only way to get them interested in bringing Bleach back to the Western Hemisphere.

But anyway, that was completely besides the point as ts not disrespectful to say an amateur translator is an amateur translator. They do not get paid for it thus it is amateur. It is not an insult, it is just a factual statement about the situation that you chose to take offense to because you love the novels.

The lack of official translations leave us with "Well I think this means" which may be fun for fans but does not work in a database scenario where we need citations and references.

Any way I am going to close this per our Forum Rules, I wasn't going to before but it violates the rules and has become toxic.