I’m going to begin translating the remaining EGA Side Stories starting from today, so please look forward to them.
Once I’m done with those, I’ll begin translating Summoning At Random, and after catching up, hopefully I’ll be able to translate them as they come out.
Finally, once everyone who’s ordered an LN gets theirs in the mail, could they send me a landscape photo of the EGA LN and their name on a piece of paper?
Like this: 
I’m going to put them all on a special page. I was thinking, since quite a few people are buying it anyway, may as well turn it into a game.
お兄ちゃん、やめてぇ！ 
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Congrats! You sure get a lot of these!
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This is my victory over you sheeprabbit! Especially considering my previous humiliating defeat. I now stand truimphant before thee!!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!
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:munch: mochi sure is good~
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@Nguyen Gia Thai ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Nice idea, I like it
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Can’t wait til the summoning chapters are translated and ready to be admired!
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Mmm, I bet you will get 15 pics
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Let’s do this ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ style!
16!
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It will take a while for me. I did the 12 week shipping option to have tracking on it. After the last fiasco where the JP game I bought was sent back to Japan without notice (extra month delay, Orz), I want to watch the tracking so I know when it comes.
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That’s fine!! It’ll be a permanent hall of fame! Mine won’t be here for a week as well.
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That is a really good idea. :D
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Thanks!
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I don’t think I’ll be buying the LN any time soon. Tho if I ever have extra money and learn this whole international-buying-thing it will probably be in the next few years.
TDLR: Soon (TM)
Also, is “Summoning at random” the spin-off of EGA?
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well don’t say it like that. even if you have to lie.
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Yep! And unless your country has weird laws, then international shipping is the same as domestic. You just put in your address, and they do the rest.
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what is this new project?
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quasi-sequel spinoff. i say quasi cause it’s set 2 yrs after EGA
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ohh. okay. cool.
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Does Anri get together with Ojisan?!?! (*_*)
I want to know!!! But seriously, no spoilers XD XD XD
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I looked into buying it. Why does EGA cost and weigh more than twice as much as all the other LNs I want to buy?
Also, how do the shipping options scale with item # and weight? I want to make my order as efficient as possible. It seems like FedEx International Priority actually has the best scaling with additional weight until a certain point where it promptly starts scaling poorly, EMS is lol no, and SAL is just about linear?
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Most WN adaptations are around that price.
Mushoku Tensei: http://www.amazon.co.jp/無職転生-~異世界行ったら本気だす~-2-MFブックス-理不尽な孫の手/dp/4040663934
THE NEW GATE: http://www.amazon.co.jp/THE-NEW-GATE〈04〉蒼き古の聖地-風波-しのぎ/dp/4434204289
Hachinantte: http://www.amazon.co.jp/八男って、それはないでしょう-4-MFブックス-Y-A/dp/4040673565
Kenja no Deshi: http://www.amazon.co.jp/賢者の弟子を名乗る賢者-3-GCノベルズ-りゅうせんひろつぐ/dp/4896375084
Also, how do the shipping options scale with item # and weight?
Don’t quite remember sorry. SAL is always cheapest for me anyway.
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/fee/intel/sal.html
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Weird, checking out the product dimensions, it looks like WN adaptations are around 50% larger in area, but have about the same number of pages, and cost and weight about twice as regular LNs…even from the same publishers….
Fedex’s website meanwhile is infuriatingly unhelpful for calculating rates (＃｀д´)ﾉ
Well guess I’ll need to put together a list of things I’ll want to buy and ship it together with FedEx or SAL as either way its more cost efficient than multiple orders.
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WN adaptations are bigger. Usually LNs are the normal, small ‘ln size’ book, but WN adaptations are about the size of regular books.
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So normal LN are those tiny hand-sized books, whereas WN adaptations are about the size of official LN translations.
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Eh, but wasn’t SAO originally a WN too?
Also, I was all like what are you talking about, my copies of Index, SAO, Durarara, Hataraku Maou-sama, and Log Horizon are as big as if you not bigger than my regular English books, then I actually carefully read your second post (^_^)ゞ
Oh how I wish that the sizes of all these LNs and WNs and English translations would be the same though grrrrr….
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“Eh, but wasn’t SAO originally a WN too?”
SAO and Mahouka etc. are WN adaptations, but they’re major ones that were basically done the same way as normal LNs.
And yeah, the English and Chinese etc. localisations are all normal-book sized. I was quite jealous when I saw how big the Chinese illustrations were…
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I’m holding off getting the LN until I have the funds and actually figure out what needs to be done to get it into the country.
There are some slightly “friendly” laws and I’ve heard that stuff ordered from overseas can sit at customs for longer than it takes to actually be delivered.
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At least someone didn’t try to steal what’s inside the package. Several of my books from overseas were destroyed by thieves thinking something precious was inside. Of course that was over 20 years ago, maybe the security has gotten better now.
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There’s a reason why the national post service in my country isn’t used for anything valuable.
I mean besides spending 5 months a year on strike.
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summoning at randomis that a new series? are you gonna do some more tilea soon
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Summoning At Random is the EGA spin-off, and yes, more Tilea soon.
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What about At the Northern Fort? I might be crazy but it seems to have just popped up with 2 chapters and no announcement or post.
Tilea’s Worries makes me bang my head too much for me to buy but by god, that cover is nice…
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I’m tling At the Northern Fort as an LN, so it’ll just be the one page with slow and irregular updates. It’s just a cute and fluffy story, and nothing really drives you to want to know what happens next, so it’s lowest priority.
It’s just the one book too, so yeah.
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Nothing except a terminal addiction to cute and fluffy series. Nowadays, every season, I pick one or two slice of life and fluffy animes to watch every week, and marathon other series I would have watched in the past once they finish airing when I have time off. Anyways, glad that its getting any updates at all, nothing else I could ask for, thanks!
Kinda sad its only a single volume though :(
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*agonizes over buying it*
>.>
<.<
*hides under covers because THAT WILL SOLVE ALL HER PROBLEMS!!!!*
XD
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sidestorys again ~ ah well time to completely ignore this site till something new gets translated it was fun while it lasted
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What’s wrong with the side stories? Personally I enjoyed them.
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There’s always going to be that one guy no matter what world your in.
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I will be sure to share mine once I get it in about… 12 weeks.
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I don’t know if you can get this done when ordering from the US, but Japan Post does has an option for shipping books only (it’s cheaper than normal shipping by about $15 iirc). It’s called a book bag or something, and it might not pay off unless you have a minimum weight. I had 2 bags of close to the maximum weight, I think it was 10kg each–but that was a ridiculous amount of books, 8 volumes of Overlord plus a whole bunch of bigger books.
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Anyways, will you be continuing to post the pics if we send them later? I just spent my budget on competition gear for sports, of all things :P
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Of course! The wall of fame will always be open for anyone who gets their hands on one!
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Can you tell me where to send the picture exactly? Since I don’t know your email, and I can’t get it to work out with wordpress.
(I have absolutely no idea how to use wordpress except for posting and following)
Incidentially, the illustrations are quite good and fitting :)
I regret nothing.
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Just upload it to puush or tinypic and post it here!
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Just got mine~ Now I need to rededicate time to studying Japanese again.
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Send me a pic.
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Finally got around to taking a (terrible) photo, with bonus extra book:
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Do you have a msg of some sort that you would like to go with the picture?
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Nah, nothing in particular.
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