Talk:Overlord Volume 13/@comment-78.165.5.176-20190705230652/@comment-37782702-20190707222610

To anon above:

Except Maruyama shouldn't be complaining about the fans translating the bonus volume at all when its Only available in Japan. How he doesn't realize that is beyond me. His tweet complainting about the fan translations is just a scapegoat for his whinings. I appreciate his writing style, but its his attitude that gets me.

And why would we buy the Yen Press releases when they are inferior in quality compared to the fan translations? Yen Press butchers the source material by making pointless name changes (Demi-Humans are called Sub-Humans, Heteromorphs are called Grotesque, the Sorcerer kingdom is called Kingdom of Darkness, Karma is called Sense of Justice, Etc) ,having Various Mistakes like Albedo calling Shalltear a bunny as an insult….which doesn’t even make sense and wasn’t even the insult she said in the original. in the original and the correct translation, she called Shalltear a Lamprey because of the Lamprey-Like mouths the True Vampires have. Brain is called Brian in their version as well. The fan translations fixes the mistakes by making updates, That can't happen with books. Lastly, Yen Press takes FOREVER to release a single volume, Skythewood released 9 volumes in just 1 year, while Yen Press released 10 volumes in 4 years. Whats their excuse for taking so long?

"some folks thought that it's better to spoil the work of a person by making it free, and that you support the folks in question, sorry, but you aren't a real fan."

so the people who spent all their hard time translating for the non-japanese reading people, who in turn support them are not true fans? Yea...what utter nonsense. it was thanks to Fan translators such as Skythewood and Nigel that Overlord became popular in the first place. Yen Press only licensed Overlord because it got popular thanks to the fan translations. Don't try to hand-wave the fact that the fan translations brung a large amount of fans to the series.

Also, why did you add the "Sensei" honorfic to Maruyama's name?? was it really nessasary?