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Loli Elf Prologue

As promised, here is the prologue of Loli Elf & Her Happy Life. For now we don’t have fixed schedule of this novel and from chapter 1 onward, the novel will be translated by a novice translator. While his translation is more or less accurate, the English writing skill is still far from good enough. Therefore, he will be under strict supervision by Dex for the next few months and if his writing skill is still not good enough to get a pass, we will probably need to find a new replacement translator for this novel.

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» Prologue «

[New Series] Loli Elf

And here we go all over again! Re:Library brought to you yet another… SAY WHAT?!?! ANOTHER ONE?! Has Silva gone crazy?! This is the third one this month! Please staph!! You’re gonna drive yourself bankrupt!!

Silva.exe has crashed… … …
Silva.exe has rebooted

*Cough cough. Please ignore that. Anyway, what was I saying again? Ah yes, that’s right, we have added yet another new Gender Bender novel to our repertoire. No, we haven’t got any new chapters yet, the first prologue will probably be up by tomorrow. For now however, we have some nice sneak peeks for you, click the links below for some cutesy images:

» Character Sheets «
» Important Locations «

[News] How the Epidemic has affected the Publishers as a Whole

I believe many of you are under the assumption now that everyone is locked at home due to the current “situation”, that the publishers are earning crazy bucks and is having the time of their life right? Well, normally, that would be the case, but what we all didn’t know is that the ad rates is easily influenced by the economic situation.

Since Digital ad budgets are the fastest and easiest to pull when the market drops and revenue forecasts for public companies (the ones that advertise the most) change; digital ad campaigns rarely involve any sort of contract, and it’s pretty simple to cut a campaign or add one back in quickly. Businesses who advertise, particularly public companies, want to keep their company in or near the black as much as possible, especially as they have to report their earnings at the end of Q1 (March 31st). If they can easily cut an expenditure, they will.

The long and short of it is that since everyone is now locked at home, there are much lower demands for stuffs like petrol and non-essentials, so the public companies spend less money to advertise their stuff, which in turn drag down the ad rates. Here’s an easy diagram to compare the fall in ad rates compared to last year:

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Another factor which I believe is causing the ad rates to fall is that the ads on mobile devices tend to have a higher rates, but now that everyone is locked at the comfort of their home and is more likely to use their PC than their phone, that has in turn deflated the ad rates we are earning. Not to mention that it is far more easier to install Adblocker on a PC than a phone.

If it is not too much to ask, we’d appreciate it if you can add our site to your Adblocker’s whitelist. And I know some of you out there may be eager to help, but I don’t recommend to spam click the ads. Clicking the ads and immediately closing it would instead increases the bounce rate and be treated as an “ad fraud”, it would actually do us more harm than good. We’ll be eternally grateful if you can just whitelist our site and only click on an ad which you are genuinely interested in.

I know this is a hard time for everyone, but we all should do our part to stay at home and prevent the spread of the epidemic as much as possible. Please stay safe and keep yourself healthy, we can get through this together. Bless you.

[New Series] Hero King

And here, Re:Library brought to you… yet another new series!! Two new series in one month, wow!! Huh? What? Did I say something about restraining myself and slowing down my pace? You must’ve misheard. When there are so many capable translators out there looking for a job, when there are still so many Gender Bender novels out there that I wanted to read, how can I restrain myself!

This translator is introduced to me by Yuki, he is known as Mab, and honestly, this is probably one of the best translator I’ve seen yet. His work attitude is admirable, he works really fast, and his vocabulary is also pretty good. I can’t ask for better! Please put your hands together and give Mab a warm welcome.

The plan for Hero King is 2 chapters per week, this for now is a teaser chapter. We will only officially start publishing this series at a fixed time in May.

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» Chapter 1 «

Reborn as a Transcendent Chapter 20

This will be the last chapter I translate for now, the next chapter onward will be translated by Snoring Dragon. Since ID has finally been discharged from the hospital and returned, we are now leaving Demon Sword Maiden in his capable hands and have transferred Snoring Dragon to take over this novel instead.

Though, I’d like to apologize to the Patrons for the lack of chapters these past two weeks, please bear with us for now as we wait for the translators to fully adjust themselves. I promise that I’ll upload the chapter as soon as I received them.

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» Chapter 20 «

Reborn as a Transcendent Chapter 19

Hm… I guess since everyone’s at home now, more people are looking for work “online”… there’ve been so many new potential translators coming to me these days, but I don’t have enough funding to pay all of them… wE-NeEd-m0rE-fuNDs,Plox-sUbcrIbe-t0-pAtrEon.

Well, all jokes aside, it’s a shame that I can’t hire them all, but then again, hiring too many people at once can also be stressful. You have to make sure their translations are of high quality and submits their work on time. Having to edit a badly translated work is rough enough, having to keep chasing after them for late submission is even worse. I definitely don’t enjoy doing any of those, and having to fire someone is probably the worst feeling of all. So yeah, I’ll take my time slowly. We still need to “train up” the two problem child(? Adult?) at the moment before we decide whether to take in someone new…

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» Chapter 19 «

The Saintess Chapter 14

This chapter is unedited, and so is most of the other previous chapters~ If you find any daunting grammar mistakes, typos, or the general flow of the sentence, feel free to grill me 😀

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» Chapter 14 «

Hero’s Daughter Chapter 70

Meh~ Aurum manages to submit a bit earlier today but Dex was already asleep when I pinged him, so I shall be your host again for today~ Meanwhile, Yuki has already finished one of the outsourced chapter! Banzai!! Now we have 13 more chapters left to catch up!

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» Chapter 70 «

Hero’s Daughter Chapter 69

Weeeeell… Nupz, Aurum still didn’t make it, we’re still barely hanging on a fine line here. This chapter was just submitted a few hours ago and we’re still rushing to get Chapter 70 done before the next 24 hours. With all that said, we’re thinking of outsourcing 5 chapters to Yuki and has him help us out for half a month. Let’s hope that we’ll be able to catch up to everything by the end of this month.

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» Chapter 69 «

[New Series] Hero’s Redo

And Re:Library brings to you… a new Gender Bender novel!!! Hero’s Redo ~ A Hero That Once Saved the World Reborn as a Girl ~ is a slice of life action story about a hero who was traumatized by politics and people afraid of him for being too powerful, so the mage in his party decided to turn him into a girl. But he was so traumatized to interact with humans that he just hid inside the mountains until two girls who came to the mountain were caught in danger. After saving them, they decided to bring her to their town to pay her back for helping them. Thus begins the new life of our traumatized hero.

The original plan was to start this project next month when we finish Female Knight & Dark Elf, but the project was pushed forward thanks to one of our sponsors. Therefore, we commissioned a temporary translator (who I’m not going to name) to do the first batch, but even after one whole month, we still get nothing from said translator, and this is the only chapter we end up with. Even so, the quality of the translation is so bad it’s giving me headache just to proofread it. Fortunately or unfortunately, we even have had to make two of our Patrons edit for us, I’m gonna build a shrine to worship Exisero-sama and Yanga-sama.

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» Chapter 1 «

[Manhua] Rhapsody of Mulan Chapter 15

It’s been a while since I made any update for Mulan huh? Well, we’ve actually already finished chapter 15 ~ 16 a while back, I just got lazy to upload them here. And I also haven’t received any ZIP file from Dex for Chapter 16.

You can read the latest chapter done by us on MangaDex, but since Google has featured our site on the top for Rhapsody of Mulan, I thought I might as well upload them here as well~

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» Chapter 15 «

Reborn as a Transcendent Chapter 18

My sleep schedule is a royal mess. Sleep at 5am, woke up at 12pm, then goes back to sleep at 3pm and wake up at 5pm. After that I stayed awake until lunch the next day and slept until 5pm… I need to fix my sleep schedule… And I also need to do some exercise… I could feel my tummy literally starting to bulge now… Let’s do some Ring Fitness! Best indoor exercise game ever!

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» Chapter 18 «

The Saintess Chapter 13

Another wild Saintess chapter!! Ahh I’m so free this week~ NOT!! Project Gender Bender is supposed to give me more free time to pick out more Gender Bender novel to translate, but contrary to my expectation, it’s actually making me busier.

I have to do translation check to make sure everything is correctly interpreted.
I have to edit the chapter to make sure they are presentable, and this gets especially time consuming if the translator has poor English skill.
I have to keep reminding the translator of their deadline and keep chasing them for the submission.

These three problems have me on edge all the time, and two of them are especially bad. One in the writing & interpretation department and another in late submission department. Looks like it’s almost time to do another round of purging…

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» Chapter 13 «