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	dana 2009-06-07 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	Haha. It's bad, and yet I can't stop reading it. I have an urge to re-write entire sections, and to edit entire sections, or just, knock out a lot of scenes which aren't needed. I'm not a writer, I wouldn't consider myself that great at it, but I'm confident I could do those sex scenes better, and that's very scary. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lollercoaster
2009-06-07 01:11 pm UTC (link)

I've been obsessed with ai no kusabi for years now and I was so damn excited when I heard they were licensed! These books are so difficult to read, though. I could never figure out if it's a problem with the original Japanese, the English translation or both.

I'm pretty sure that if I wasn't already familiar with the story I wouldn't make it through the first book and that one didn't even have any sex scenes!

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	dana 2009-06-07 01:15 pm UTC (link)
	I heard it was fairly bad in Japanese as well, it's just the storyline that saves it, OK maybe the universe, it just need a lot of editing to cut all that rambling. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lollercoaster 2009-06-07 01:29 pm UTC (link)
	that makes sense. After all, the disorienting and abrupt time/POV changes can't really be blamed on a bad translation. I already adore AnK but a heavily edited, non rambly AnK would blow my mind. I wish the AnK universe would be used in other works :/ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	adevyish 2009-06-07 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	I picked up the Only the Ring Finger Knows books (which was licensed by the same company as AnK), and I ended up putting those books up on BookMooch because they read like average fanfic. No sex scenes either, but bad writing + Times New Roman = ew no. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lollercoaster 2009-06-08 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	ugh yes. The presentation is so bad. They really shouldn't be charging $9 for these things. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	adevyish 2009-06-08 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	It's really too bad, because DMP's manga division seems to have better taste. I'd been looking forward to novel translations. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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