I actually wanted to translate three chapters this week so I can have more leeway next week, but alas, this chapter has so many terms in regards to tea ceremony and gave me a run for my money. It doesn’t help at all that this chapter is 1.5 times longer than usual and my brain just gave up thinking from overworking. This chapter alone ended up taking me 4 days to translate. Good thing I only released one chapter last week and the other chapter was half completed already.

Thoughts of the day:
I heard sugar is nutrient for the brain, I wonder how true is that?

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 9

If you see me inputting a lot of comments in the chapters, that’s me getting stressed out in the middle of translating and had to find a way to vent it out.

Anyways, moving on to business. I have given this offer to someone who left a comment in Patreon, but he never did reply back, so I’ll be giving this opportunity to the first comer. Now that I’ve gotten a fair amount of patrons, I can afford to spend up to 50 dollars per month to buy the VIP chapters off another reader, at the rate of 1 dollar per chapter. Do note that I can buy all thousands of VIP chapters from the publisher for not more than 60 dollars, then why am I spending 50 dollars per month to buy only 50 chapters from a reader instead? Isn’t that counterproductive?

It’s simple, what I need is a raw text file, the image format of the raw from the publisher is not what I’m looking for, and it’d slow down the translation pace too. (I’ll explain more on this in the next post).

If you’re interested to take up this job, please send a sample text file to [email protected]
Preferably Volume 2 Chapter 18, the first VIP chapter of Demon Sword Maiden. I need to check the text file against the raw from the Publisher to determine if the accuracy is high enough for me to pay for the future chapters. Once approved, I will send you an email for confirmation and we can discuss the payment method and delivery method after that.

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 8

Yep, I don’t have a schedule. Even though I was releasing 2 chapters at a fixed time per week, I do not want to set anything in the stone because it will only end up pressuring myself, and I know for a fact that I can’t keep a schedule. If I don’t have one to begin with, nobody will expect anything, and nobody will be disappointed if I am late with my chapter release.

Same goes with Patreon, please be reminded that becoming my patron is 100% voluntary and the rewards are not guaranteed. You only get early access to as many chapters as I have translated. For only 3 dollars, you will gain access to everything I have. Be it 1 chapter, 2 chapters, or 10 chapters, it will cost you nothing more than 3 dollars per month. I will not ask for more to get early access to more chapters as that would be contradictory to everything I said prior to this.

For now, I find that translating one chapter with an average of 3k words in 2-3 days to be manageable, so you can continue to expect this steady pace for a while. That is unless real life gets in the way or the author increases the chapter length, I hope not right?

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 7

I have so many things to say but there’s just not enough column to contain all my rant. But the really short version is that life sucks so expect only 1 chapter next week.

Anyone who cared to read the long version; there are two reasons:

Thoughts of the day:
I said that I don’t have a schedule, but I am somehow keeping up with two chapters a week. *Mind Blown*

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 6

Translating is easy, that’s what every bilingual person must have thought of at least once. I can finish reading a chapter in 30 minutes, I should be able to finish translating one chapter with just the same amount of time.

However, it is not that easy in reality. The words don’t get automatically translated in your head, the structure of the sentence is different in both languages and you have to think of the most appropriate words to use in order to translate each sentence without losing its meaning. One sentence which can take you 3 seconds to read will take you 3 minutes to translate. One chapter that can take you 10 minutes to read can take you 4 hours to translate.

I have a friend who told me he could translate a single chapter in 30 minutes, so I gave him a project and asked him to translate it for me. I asked him the next day, he told me it’s not done. I asked him again the day after the next, he’s still not done. And this process repeated for a month and he’s still haven’t provided me with a single chapter.

Translating sound like an easy job, but it’s actually not. You have to stop whenever a new term come out and do some research to see if there’s an official translation of said terms and if there is not, you have to think of how should you translate that word. I especially hate any words with the “神 (literally: god)” character in it. Any terms with that “god” character attached may come in several meanings and is very ambiguous. To name a few, it can be “consciousness”, “mind”, “spiritual power”, “shikigami”, “eyesight”, “temple”, “expression”, or literally “god”.

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 5

Rain is a blessing from heaven. I almost died from heatstroke at work just now, no kidding. It was so hot I could feel the heat getting into my head. Why can’t the weather play nice and lower the temperature to a moderate degree! Don’t you just hate summer? It’s so hot to an unreasonable degree! What’s worst than summer is that you are in a tropical country where summer is prevalent 365 days a year.

Thoughts of the day:
I wish spring would come to me, in both meanings. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 4

Yes, I guess many of you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting on Ziru’s Musings. There are various reasons but I guess the main reason had to be this: It’s just not worth the hassle.

What? That wouldn’t cut it? Okay… here goes the nagging.

Thoughts of the day:
Wow the author literally used a Japanese character in this chapter’s title.

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 3

Wao… what just happened? The site just went “Error 520” for the entire day and got me panicked at work. After I got back and spent a few hours trying to fix it, and then without really accomplishing anything in the end, the site health just went back to normal. What gives… I wasted all day worrying and trying to find out what is the issue and it just up and fixed by itself…

What an unproductive day it is… I am already as busy as I can get, yet this site was toying with me for an entire day 🙁

I’m thinking that maybe it’s time to move this website to another server soon. I just don’t have the time to take care of this site while working full-time and translating simultaneously. It is better if I just move to a managed server so I can have professionals looking after my site for me while I do my own thing, even if it is a lot more expensive than unmanaged server…

Correction:
Changed Bathrobe to Yukata (Suggested by IB)

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 2

Well, this is nothing new as it’s always been this busy at work every year from February to April. Anyway, just a heads up. Starting from this week, I will be required to work even during the weekends until the end of April.

Since I do not translate during the weekends, I doubt it will affect the current release frequency. But who knows, translating is still considered a “work” no matter how nice you try to put it and there’s a possibility I will need to work overtime during weekdays as well. There’s also the chance that I might have another mental breakdown from overworking and go into a slump. Anyway, I will try to keep up the translation without putting too much mental stress on myself.

Thoughts of the day:
What do you guys think of Progressive Web App (PWA)?

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• • Volume 1 (Second Arc): Chapter 1