Thread:Ashleyien/@comment-918376-20150707020140/@comment-918376-20150711041447

I tend to skim because some parts of the translation weren't very smooth for reading in English (Japanese to Chinese to English, after all). Also, it's a bad habit of mine that I developed from a young age, so I tended to finished reading books for school front-to-cover when we were only supposed to read a certain chapter.

The BSK were more interesting (for me) for one more in-depth reason and for one shallow as hell reason. The more in-depth reason would be because of the West Wind Brigade manga, where Isaac got more characterization. He's basically a male tsundere, but he's willing to admit his faults if he's not being stubborn (i.e. with Icelus/Iselus). In WWB, he's given more of a moral compass (whereas in the anime, he's just portrayed as being completely callous about Hamelin's actions), recognizing that what Hamelin's doing with the kids isn't right and that the PKers should be stopped. He helps Souji PKK some of Magus' (the instigator the PK attacks) allies, but argues that he's doing what's best for those in his guild by giving them something to do, instead of letting them mope around.

(And the shallow reason is that I like Rezarick. No idea why to be honest, but I guess I like his VA ... who also happens to voice one of my favorite Silver Sword character designs, Ragoumaru. I think I can relate to him being the only one dealing with the administrative work.)

Shiroe/Kanami can go burn. I loathe that pairing, if only because it gives him yet another "romantic interest", even if it's one-sided (also because rabid shippers are cancerous). The anime director and/or storywriters just really seem to like pairing people. I think they realized that I hate it, so they added it in spades come second season. Yeah, there were a number of people that were like "That's definitely Shiroe's kid!" despite the fact that it would be completely out of character for Shiroe to do that. Also, Shiroe mentions forgetting the last time he saw sunlight back in the beginning of the series. He's not the most ... social person out there. I really doubt he's interested in getting laid, especially with all of his conversations with Naotsugu in volume 1/episode 1. People apparently haven't met people like Shiroe in real life. From my experience, they're usually not really interested in girls at all. Games are the sustenance that they feed upon. No game, no life, basically.

Honestly, it was basically the names and some of the speaking patterns that made people go "omg yen press is shit this is terrible." There wasn't anything particularly jarring to me, except for the Koryuu thing that we've mentioned before. The Demiqas/Londark mistake was in the Japanese version of the light novel, the Chinese version, presumably all the other versions that have been published, and it wasn't changed for the English one. It's kinda sad to see that the translating publishers aren't informed of any mistakes in the light novel, since it means that the Silver Sword members' illustrations/mini profiles won't make it into volume 7 (the editor forgot about them and they were completely excluded). Also, the end of the volumes, with Mamare's info, will take them to a dead link since he changed websites.

Good luck with your Tet cosplay! I'm unfortunately not a big fan of cosplay myself, nor have I ever tried it, so I can't help you much in this regard.