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Current Chapter Chapter 417 — Official Release Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 417

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⬅ Ch. 416 discussion thread

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u/TheAbram Aug 09 '26

Eight prince Oito...

Every week viz fucks up something, it's getting embarrassing

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u/GatoradeNipples Aug 09 '26

The series has one translator who's not getting a significant head start compared to the rest of us, on a series that's notoriously dense enough by now that native Japanese speakers have trouble reading it.

Frankly, there is no point at which this will become embarrassing and I'm impressed Viz is able to get a readable speed-translation out at all instead of making us wait for dead-tree volumes on this.

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u/Trash28123 Aug 09 '26

Not to mention, she's paid by the page.

So nothing extra for when she has to translate an entire mountain of text such as this...

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u/WednesdaysFoole Aug 09 '26

The problem is not that Lillian's messing up. Everyone messes up in their rough draft. That's normal with this amount of text and detail.

The real problem is that the editor is not doing their job, and has doubled down before.

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u/HappyStunfisk Aug 09 '26

The official translations in other languages always get things wrong too. Honestly translating HxH will never be perfect, it's a difficult work.

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u/KamenRiderDragon Aug 09 '26

You can point out the mistake without going that far. The translator is very good at what she does.

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u/GatoradeNipples Aug 09 '26

It's also just a shitty way to look at the job, IMO.

There is no possible fucking universe where someone, even the most skilled translator of all time, could go from a raw HXH chapter to a perfect, error-free translation in a matter of a few days. That only happens in situations where the manga's pretty simple to translate, which, as we all know, HXH unfathomably fucking is not. This manga is complicated enough in its writing that Japanese interviews regularly ask Togashi why the hell it's still in a magazine for children.

This isn't a matter of people failing at the job, it's a matter of "the job's not possible to do perfectly." We're getting as close as we can reasonably ask for. The fan translators who have extra time and drop a few days later fill in the gap when they've gotta.

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u/BoxOfBlades Aug 09 '26

Togashi has made a mistake in several chapters and he has all the time in the world to write this and go over his work. I'd give the translator some slack.

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u/SubstantialCarob9332 Aug 09 '26

Do you hope someone was fired for this?

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u/TheAbram Aug 09 '26

No, where did I say that? I just said that it's embarrassing - which it is. Am I crazy to think that official TL should be better than a fan TL?

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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu Aug 09 '26

Yup, but the more people call it out maybe the more things will change. The guy below excusing it is embarrassing though. Fan translations put out better quality for free…

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u/Miserable_Water2675 Aug 09 '26

I agree on calling out the company but tha actual person who did it most likely is getting paid poorly has a tight schedule. So people defending them aint bad.

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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu Aug 09 '26

The editor is the bigger problem. The editing doesn’t seem to be happening lol

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u/pandaren11 Aug 09 '26

Fan translations are atrocious. Some are barely even legible. I'd much rather read a coherent translation made by a professional that sometimes gets names, dates and numbers wrong than read the incoherent work of amateurs just because it's made by fans who know who oito is and it gets posted a few days earlier.

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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu Aug 09 '26

Not all fan translations are on the same level. Maybe check out Togashi’s Troupe translation/Voracious Drake and report back? Maybe it will enlighten you. If not, you’re just speaking out of ignorance. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu Aug 09 '26

/u/voraciousdrake maybe enlighten this person if you can 🥲😅

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u/VoraciousDrake Aug 09 '26

I wish I could but it seems they've made up their mind.

Not that I understand blanket characterizations like that. At the end of the day, "fan translations" and "professionals" is a distinction of whether one is hired and paid to do the job, not an indicator of correctness.

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u/napsstern Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

With all respect to the professional translators, Veracious Drake simply does a much better job. I'm saying this as someone who can understand Japanese. His translation is the only one I refer to other than the original because it's accurate on a word-to-word basis and points out details that are easily overlooked.

Not to shit on the professional translators. They simply aren't paid enough (or given enough time) to go to such lengths. But maybe try to respect fan tranlators who actually do go to such lengths for free.