As much as people would love to think that localizers are getting what they deserve, this isn’t the bad ones being removed, it’s just cost saving.
I for one won’t pay for AI translation of anything since I can do that on my own if I wanted to read a machine translation.
This feels insulting. If there’s one thing publishers shouldn’t copy from every other scanlator, it’s MTL (not saying all scanlation teams do, but there are too many that do). Why the hell would I pay for this.
Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the The Ancient Magus Bride manga in English
Why am I not surprised
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I don’t know anything about the translation industry, but I’ve read a few manga published by Seven Seas. Have they always been one of the cheaper ones?
Is there an up to date tier list of publishes somewhere?
I don’t know the ins and outs, but they’re supposedly one of the worse companies to their translators and the actual translations:
If seven seas is publishing something it’s not worth reading. They’ve been caught doing censorship multiple times. Go look for literally any other way to enjoy what you are into.
I could see it working if the machine result has a pass over done by editors. If it’s just straight from AI to Publish it’ll probably be bad.
Honestly, these days I’d prefer advanced mtl to a shitty localization every time. Nintendo has turned me into a hard liner, working to figure out what the fuck a character just said is better than that character just not saying anything. I’m an old head, i remember needing to work that shit out, it sucked but at least it wasn’t purposefully mangled.
Man i miss fanlations being the standard, they are so much better.
Localization is necessary though. I agree that localization can go too far, but most translations have some form of it, because languages have their own unique quirks and nuances, that MTL won’t pick up on, losing its meaning or impact in the process. If it’s dependent on QA to be good, it’s doing it wrong. QA should be the last gate, not the first.
