What happened to this? There's no one interested on keep TLing this?
>>139162566
>JewPress
also
>SAO
>>139162566
LN's better imo.
>>139162566
Yenpress is translating it.
It has Argo, instantly making it the best work related to SAO.
>>139164651
I prefer the Progressive manga over the progresive LNs.
I had no idea she was so cute.
Why does /a/ hate SAO:Prog?
It's at least 37 times better than SAO.
>>139162566
It is being TLed iirc, no one talks about it though because Yenpress lawyers are always present,
>>139166255
They could put it up on torrents, nobody could stop them. There's no excuse.
>>139166255
Who? The only SAO translator I know is tap and he didn't do Progressive
>>139162566
Yen translated all 4 volumes available in Japan so there's little motivation to do whatever already exists.
>>139162566
Mfw when it's only available as a paperback and nobody has bothered OCRing it.I would have actually paid money for a copy if it was good enough and in ebook form.
>>139168696
If only there was a way for /a/nons to pool their loose change together to buy the books and then scan them.
>>139170127
I smell a KIIIIICKSTAAARTER!
>>139166102
What happened to the manga? Even the scanlator's site claimed it would be out soon but months later and no new chapter.
>>139170892
I just realized I have the scanned raws of the manga I got from somewhere.
Can anyone make use of them?
>>139171420
Maybe contact the group scanlating them, although from what I read they already have most of the work done on 13/14, but maybe your raws are better than theirs? Who knows?
if people actually want to read this series, i'll post the link to the YenPress translation here
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=792779
>>139171838
LN translation btw, not manga translation, sorry if its confusing
>>139171910
What I have are the raws of volume 4 of the manga. I think they're also from nyaa.
The fan TLs were atrocious anyway.
>>139166102
>I had no idea she was so cute.
Himura Kiseki draws super cute girls, but their Argo is definitely a best.
>>139166724
YenPress is a company that focuses on "westernizing" light novels. Because they officially license a franchise, current fan translations and finished fan translations are shut down.
>>139173367
I think anon is asking who was TLing Progressive, not who YenPress is.
No one is fantranslating Progressive LN because Yen Press is faster and better than the fantranslators we had.
>the half-done Rondo that was on Dreadful Decoding for the longest time
Truly dreadful.
As far as the Progressive manga goes, I'm not sure if people are having trouble finding decent raws after China banned SAO or something. In general, I feel like there's little interest.
>>139171838
Neat. Someone finally got around to doing this.
>>139173583
he restated YenPress practices because they go wide and far out of their way to DMCA everyone, that's what he's getting at.
>>139174421
The only person we had who translated the Progressive LN stopped of his own accord because he was overtaken. I've also not heard of the scanlation group who was doing the manga getting DMCA'd over the Progressive manga.
For being a pretty big title for Yen Press, the SAO main series has at least 3 active or semi-active translators, and no one has mentioned getting DMCA'd by Yen Press or Kadokawa for SAO.
In short, in this case, I don't think it's Yen Press killing translations. There was a dearth of interest even before YP picked up the license.
>>139174620
No back a long time before when the first Progressive novel came out DMCA were issued, that killed the interest in it by translators. That person of their own accord happened after.
Is this as good as Accel World? SAO leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but at least I can accept that the author improved and learned from his mistakes as evidenced by AW. If he's making a genuine effort to fix his mess it could easily be worth a read.
>>139174927
Rondo and Monochrome Concerto (and Aria) existed in full even before Progressive was a thing. I'm pretty sure Rondo translations started before Progressive even came out in Japanese. But even then, there was minimal interest.
I can't say that YP really squashed the SAO translation scene when there was never really one for the Progressive materials and while the translation scene for the main novels is decently healthy.
>>139174193
>after China banned SAO
What?
>>139175268
Meh, all I remember was DMCA take down of the original SAO novel from baka, progressive had 1 1/2 chapters translated from web source, and Alicizsation interest had waned at that point. I assumed DMCA applied to progressive series as well as the original at the time.
>>139162680
no.
>>139175840
>>139174193
<citation needed>
>>139175885
I thought baka didn't get DMCA'ed, wasn't it just their policy to take down LN's that get picked up?
Can we drop the LN from this discussion already? The board name is "anime&manga", talk about the manga only then.
>>139162566
So progressive is rewritten LN? But still continuing first ln?
>>139178085
Kill yourself
>>139168696
>>139170127
>>139171838
So while I was frankensteining my own EPUB together for Volume 1, I found there seems to be some missing text in Chapter 2 part 7.
>I nodded. “Nezha’s upgrading fraud was done at the order of their leader, Orlando. I think. Do you know exactly when Nezha’s Smith Shop first set up in Urbus?”
>“Umm...I think it was the very day that the second floor was opened.”
(missing text)
>at the battlefield, then turned to the path that wound down the mountainside. I rushed to stop her.
>“...are easy if you’ve got the money. So that’s what’s going on,” she said, her voice hard. Asuna bolted to her feet and glared down
(missing text)
>Something that won’t just expose how their weapon-switching trick works but also give us solid proof.”
Anybody have the actual books and can post what goes in these empty bits?
Is Progressive's writing actually any better than the main series or is it just a placebo?
>>139182023
Progressive is about videogame adventures instead of drama, it's more like the Aincrad side stories than it is like fairyshit or PTSD.
>>139163368
This. I never care about manga adaptions of anime or LNs.
>>139164651
>argo
pretty much
>>139166102
>>139183655
Not to knock on Argo or anything but I still don't buy the conceit of her being so super amoral that client confidentiality is nonexistent for her. It sounds cool and edgy on paper but in practice she'd get no clients and be pressured out of the market by someone who won't sell the fact that you are a client of hers to someone else.
>>139183655
What's going on here?
>>139175840
>>139178044
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-06-09/china-blacklists-attack-on-titan-death-note-36-more-anime-manga/.89055
There was a sudden and massive culling of SAO translations online, and that stopped Chinese scanlations of the Progressive manga dead in its tracks over there. Maybe it's still being scanlated underground over there, but I'm not really sure what the Chinese fan community's relationship with the Great Firewall of China is, so I didn't dig too far.
>>139178048
This. Well, there was the big hooplah a few months ago, but that wasn't what affected SAO.
>>139184493
>>139184864
Surely Taiwanese/Singaporean/Malaysian Chinese don't give a fuck about Glorious PRC's firewall.
>>139180299
Make a comment on the nyaa page so he'll see it and know to fix it.
>>139184493
asuna shut herself in since her sword was stolen
kirito left to go get groceries because he's a housewife and asuna needs to eat
he got some mystery steamed buns and figured they were beef so thats what he told her
they were cream, and she got it all over herself like so by accident
argo walks in at the worst possible moment so she just connects the dots on her own
>>139184952
I am sure there are. But the Taiwanese translations in particular are useless unless you can read or suss out the traditional script.
>>139184952
Yeah, probably, but the sites I followed appeared to cater mostly to mainlanders. And I couldn't easily find which ones were based in Taiwan and which were based in glorious Commieland, so I gave up.
>>139185486
I'd be willing to try. I just don't know where the scans are.
>>139180299
Both on the same page.
>>139185680
Ok, looking at your picture it seems there was some kind of transposition error. Easily fixed, thanks.
Guys. Stop it with the LN.
>>139186207
gonna share it when you're done?
>>139187305
LN? But FBI-kun, its fanfic.
>>139187749
Even worse.
>>139187322
All I did was append the YP's V1C2 from >>139171838 onto the end of an existing epub of the fan TL of V1C1 and V1 intermission, for personal convenience. It's a literal copy and paste job, anybody with Sigil could do the same.
>>139187802
oh so you weren't telling us to stop for our own sake
it was because you don't like it
i take back my previous kindness
>>139187943
Different anon. I have no issues with LNs.
So is progressive like an extended version of the SAO storyline? With a chapter per level or something?
If so, it solves the problem I had with the anime (too short), is it worth buying?
>>139187943
>i really wish i weren't here right now
More like
>i really wish my wife isn't dressed as shitty mudslimes.
>>139188503
Yes, it is. It's also quite good, actually.
Never understood why A1 didn't adapt Aria in the Starless Night, as that arc was already out by the time they made the anime. It would've made the pacing a whole lot better.
>>139188727
>Never understood why A1 didn't adapt Aria in the Starless Night
But they did adapt Aria in the Starless Night. Are you thinking of Rondo of the Transient Sword, or perhaps First Day?
>>139188727
>Never understood why A1 didn't adapt Aria in the Starless Night
But anon.
They did.
>>139188727
What about the Asuna/kirito romance, is it better developed? Or at least as good as expected for a LN?
>>139188800
>>139188819
Oh yeah, my bad. I was thinking of those.
>>139188899
Well, unlike the original novel and how it made you feel "Wait, who the fuck is this bitch?", Progressive makes you think "How did it take 2 years for them to hook up?"
>>139188984
Excellent. And I'm also reading from the Amazon reviews that both characters are better fleshed out individually as well. Might actually get this.
>>139188899
Pretty much what >>139188984
said
They interact much more, so it feels like a proper development of their relationship. I'm quite okay with how it goes, it's cute, and I'm kind of a sucker for that, so yeah.
Is there a master list of all the SAO & related content & respective timelines somewhere like there is for the 'monogatari series?
Or will I have to spend a day looking shit up and trying to figure it all out.
>>139188503
>With a chapter per level or something?
It's actually a book per floor at the current rate. The assumption is he'll stop near the end of the single digit floors when they split up.
>>139188819
To be fair to A1 the story Kawahara turned in couldn't be adapted into one episode
>>139188984
>How did it take 2 years for them to hook up?
NPC waifus
>>139189232
Oh yea, I forgot about the dark elfu. Did Kirito put it in?
>>139189148
>The assumption is he'll stop near the end of the single digit floors when they split up.
Wait, he's not fully expanding the entire SAO story? I assumed it would be the full 75 levels, maybe skipping just a few or having a few levels per book in the form of short stories.
When can we expect Yen Press to do Volume 4?
>>139189347
No way he's doing like 70 volumes.
>>139189435
That's why I said about skipping levels and short stories. But I also can't see the author just ending it when they split up when there a lot more that can be done for the story and the romance. I want to see their marriage developed a bit more as well as the beginning, I want to see how Asuna got involved with the guild and Kirito's difficulty with going solo.
>>139189347
>74 volumes of Progressive
>>139189421
>On Sale Date: 10/25/2016
>>139189295
The delicious dark elf so far has shown all the awareness of a harem protagonist.
>>139189104
http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_(series)
Yen Press has been steadily retroactively getting digital publishing rights for series. Index volumes 1-6 were added to their digital catalog last month, and next month Maou-sama is being added too. Can we expect them to ever add SAO and AW the same way?
>>139189843
>>139190052
>manga
>>139190052
>$7 for 0s and 1s
Fucking hell. I'm okay paying $5-10 per volume for dead trees because it's a physical thing I can hold and read, but trying to charge more than a couple of bucks for a purely digital version with zero reproduction cost is retarded.
>>139190085
Oops, YP somehow lumped the paperback and electronic versions of LN vol. 3 and manga vol. 3 together because reasons.
>>139189711
eh, thanks
looks like I'll still have to manually put everything in chronological order myself, but at least there's a full list of titles to work from
do I even want to know how bad the scanlation scene is for trying to get ahold of everything what with YP's takedowns and shit?
>>139189674
>But I also can't see the author just ending it when they split up
The entire reason for the story was Kirito/Asuna and him training her to survive in the game as a means for Kawahara to expand on some aspects of the MMO such as boss fights, the mechanics of mats or npcs. Her going off on her own is basically the end of the story.
>>139190449
We need to fight hard against YenPress and other companies who DMCA'ed fan translations.
They are doing this for money and self-indulgence. We have to fight them, no question asked.
>>139188586
say what you will, she looks good in that outfit
>>139190449
>YP's takedowns
As said upthread, this didn't actually happen for SAO.
The main series novels are up to date with translations.
There are no fan translators for the Progressive novels or manga.
All other side materials listed in the link has been translated with the following exceptions:
>the Material Editions have only been translated through ME13
>SAO Alternative GGO is being actively translated but is currently only on volume 2
For whatever reason, Sisters' Prayer is not listed, but that's also translated.
Oh! I think Girls Ops was not counted in the above SAO LN link, but it's a spinoff manga.
http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_-_Girls_Ops_(manga)
This also has no fan translators after Tap unilaterally gave up translating it once it got licensed.
>>139189079
progressive is tip top tier
>>139190449
I think literally the only thing YP has actually sent a takedown notice for is Danmachi.
>>139191250
Even ragged wizard's robe is better than that shit.
>>139191358
>>139191275
>takedown stuff
Interesting. I'd heard they issues takedowns very early on which spooked the few groups who were working on stuff to not bother with anything new.
If that was inaccurate, I'll have to stop referencing it.
>>139192607
It probably has more to do with BakaBT and its policy of shuttering all translations of things that are licensed.
It doesn't stop translations, per se, but it makes it more difficult for translators who care about their BakaBT cred or something.
>>139192766
>BakaBT
I meant Baka-Tsuki, obviously. Brain fart.
>>139192607
>>139192766
A long, long, long while ago (like, back in 2010 or something), C&D was sent to Baka-Tsuki for Haruhi, Spice and Wolf, and Book Girl.
Besides Danmachi they haven't sent any notices since. They didn't send C&D to the new Spice and Wolf translators, they didn't send C&D for Index New Testament, and they didn't send C&D for SAO's Alicization volumes.
I guess it helps that Baka-Tsuki is very prompt about killing stuff the day the licenses are announced.
>>139192766
>>139192873
interesting, thanks
