Hey guys, Reigokai here!
As you may already know, Dragon Knight is a web novel I am translating on this website. It is a massive story that has more than 1,900 chapters and each chapter has a decent length.
Now, onto the real talk.
I am beginning to feel like translating Dragon Knight isn’t worth it anymore…
As I have said before, I translate because when I post and see people comment and react, it feels as if I am reading together with those people.
I don’t get that feeling from Dragon Knight anymore.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually like that story a lot. The wars are resolved in pretty imaginative ways that you are actually convinced they won because they strategized; the battles are realistic, depicted in ways where I can feel they are actually ‘human’ and they can die, the number of people each member of the main cast kills is not ridiculous like in other stories where they just nuke them all; the story has a very defined main cast with fortes and quirks that they use on their advantage, each member also has weaknesses too, they complement each other well; the world is really well build, each place having their culture, factions, and races making them feel different.
If I like it that much, why am I stopping?
As I said before, I translate to get that feeling of ‘reading with others’. Otherwise, I could just read it by myself, which is faster.
Let me put a comparison here. Reading it raw by myself would take around 10-20 minutes per chapter; translating a chapter will take me at least 4 hours. Couple that with the fact that I stick two chapters minimum when releasing and that’s 8 hours. Editing takes an extra 30 minutes.
It is easy to tell which one would take less time.
And so, to summarize, I like the story, yes, but translating it doesn’t feel gratifying anymore. It is slowly turning into a ‘It might be better for me to just read it by myself, what’s the difference?’.
These are my honest thoughts, and I hope you guys understand why I am dropping Dragon Knight. With this, I will at least have some more time, find another story maybe on top of Weakest Mage to bring to you guys?
Anyways, sorry for the long talk there. I just wanted you guys to know my feelings before throwing this announcement.
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Aw i really enjoy dragon knight, thanks for translating though.
What I've learned from this is i need to start actually commenting instead of lurking, I quite enjoyed that one but fairs fair you shouldn't translate something because you feel like you have to when you can translate something because you want to
Well thanks for letting me read all the chapters u did i guess?
Thanks for the hard work. Looking forward to seeing what you pick up next!
Thx for the hard work sir
Tsuki ga michibiku just showed signs of life.
THE MAIN STORY HAS A NEW CHAPTER JUST POSTED YESTERDAY
Really? A new chapter?? Not a extra chapter??
Extra chapter 49 was posted the 28th and the new chapter was posted the 29th
AS a matter of fact BOTH
Seriously?
%100 true
Once again I did my regular check on the raw and "THERE IT IS A NEW EXTRA CHAPTER" was posted last two days ago.
Well its a shame, I was really enjoying that one, but oh well, you got to do whats best fro you and I will support you. Hope another group picks it up and continues with the same level of quality.
Sorry i never leave comment at all, and doesnt read because of works (that killing me) DK has good view of the world the writer want to built, yet if you say so ita okay. Dont force your self i know how hard it is to do something that you feel doesnt has the "thing" anymore. Thank you for everything you have done since tsuki
I mean, even I noticed that Weakest Mage was getting way more attention than DK. And that's fine, in itself; WM takes the standard Isekai plot and does some interesting things with it.
But to me, WM just feels so *safe*. DK, on the other hand, is doing so much more with just about everything. The characters have more depth, the setting is complex with layers of history, and the stakes are about a thousand times higher from the word go. Even the narrative itself takes risks, alternating between Solje's nearly stream-of-consciousness narration and Sharon's pseudo-omniscient "songs".
So yeah, I'm personally disappointed. Can't argue the numbers, obviously, and I don't dislike WM. But I'm gonna miss Solje and his crazy worldview.
But hey. Thanks for all your hard work on the series thus far. It's been quite a ride. 😁