About This Translation
Novel Summary (translated by Frog-kun): Project Qualidea begins!
Told through two perspectives, this is a tale about a world about to end and a dazzling time of youth–
Kusaoka Haruma, a student from a low-end high school, and the angelic kouhai Chigusa Yu. Two people who should not be in the same year level end up meeting as a result of a fateful incident. Abnormal weather, abnormal phenomena, abnormal actions. An ordinary life that falls off the rails little by little, and a bizarre urban legend.
According to “The Random Crossroad” — at midnight, if you come to the end of the T-juncture and choose the wrong path, you can never come back.
As they chase after a girl whose whereabouts are unknown as a result of these events, could what they find exceed Haruma and Yu’s wildest expectations…?!
The first appearance of two hugely popular authors in Dash X Bunko! The masters who took the doujin world by storm enter the light novel world with a vengeance!!
Don’t miss this revolutionary project!
I am a moe girl from outer space who is disguised as a frog. I-I’m not translating because I like you or anything!
You may or may not know me from my other haunts on the Internet. I keep a personal anime blog where I write about whatever anime I like at the time and post up my own personal translations. Somehow, the agents at Nano Desu discovered I was planning to translate OreGairu and accosted me for their dastardly purposes. Then I got Stockholm Syndrome and decided I quite like it here, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I’m pretty serious about the process of translation, since I believe light novels should be enjoyed like any other kind of literature, so I’m always open to feedback and/or criticism. I hope you enjoy reading!
Supervisor/Editor – msirp
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msirp was born into nobility and splendor. He spent many a days in a vibrant, hue-filled garden and many a nights ‘neath the sparkling, peaceful stars. Regardless of wealth and status, all youngsters develop curious minds and msirp was no exception. His curiousity lead to frustrations and indignations from his family and servants. A tumultuous spirit welling up within him, msirp abandoned everything he had for a chance to find the answers to life’s greatest questions. He died of tuberculosis, shortly thereafter.
Enslaved forever to talk in third-person, msirp’s spirit continues its poor excuse of a search through editing for some anonymous people it met on the internet.
Editor – CoffeeFlux
Heyo!
I’m a worthless high-schooler that sits around and does nothing but program and consume Japanese media. I should probably be spending this time studying, but that’s no fun (my picture explains my approach to schoolwork rather well). I make an exception to this policy for my summer job of teaching programming.
While I know almost no Japanese, I’m quite good at Spanish, which is basically the same thing, sorta. At some point, I’ll hopefully sit down and learn Japanese, but since I currently only know romance languages it will likely prove to be a difficult process.
Anyhow, I’ve gotten very good at technical writing, and thought that editing LNs might be a fun way to practice informal writing a bit more. The fact that others can benefit from my work is icing on the cake.
Looks interesting. The author of Oregairu is also working on this as well, so hopefully it’s my kind of novel. 🙂
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“The first appearance of two hugely popular authors in Dash X Bunko! The masters who took the doujin world by storm enter the light novel world with a vengeance!!”
wow
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So when will the pdf/epub available for download?
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I have a question? But this novel have pictures?
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Yes.
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Do you have it? I think the novel will be better with, it’s a little stange without^^
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Oh shoot sorry I thought I was responding to a different project. I’m not sure if this one has illustrations. Frog-kun can answer that question better.
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Yes, the novel has pictures, but I’ll upload when I’ve finished translating.
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ty so much
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Okay so does the first volume is written by Tachibana Koushi or Watari Wataru x Sagara Sou. and then are u also planning to translate The Itsuka Sekai wo Sukuu Tame ni – Qualidea Code Please enlighten me!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hi Cora,
This volume is written by Watari Wataru x Sagara Sou. Also, I have no plans to translate Qualidea Code at this stage.
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ok I hv a question in my mind. Is this volume written by Watari Wataru x Sagara Sou or by Tachibana Koushi??
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Qualidea of Scum and a Gold Coin is written by Watari Wataru x Sagara Sou
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yo
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Out of curiosity, was it Yu or Yuu?
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“Yuu” is how the name is spelt in Japanese, but the romanisation listed on the Japanese website is “Yu”. I went with “Yuu” for the translation because it more accurately represents how the name is pronounced.
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I’d like to know about the delay between updates…
Are there any regular time such as one update a week or such…
And i’m a fan of oregairu novel so i have high hopes in this project…
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How many chapters are there in volume 1 of this? Is it just 5 or are there more?
Just finished reading 5 chapters and I’mean stoked for more 😀
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There are eight chapters and an epilogue
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Thanks for the hard work, Frog-kun and editors! It’s getting spooky now with chapter 6 end, looking forward to more
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Only online or there is also a pfd?
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How fast, as expected from translator oregairu, too bad I hope you guys assist grimgar project too, that it’s slow
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May i ask if there’s a possibility for the second Arcs of Qualidea (Itsuka Sekai wo sukuu tame ni) to be translated? The third one also kind of interesting
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