Forum - View topicContent cuts found in the Seven Seas release of 'Bloom Into You - Regarding Saeki Sayaka'.
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Casval Rem Deikun
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(I hope this is right place to share this.)
For those interesed, Bloom Into You, also has Seven Seas editing. Here is the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/mclmju/content_cuts_found_in_the_seven_seas_release_of/ |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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Perhaps we could change this thread to "Post Seven Seas Content Cuts you find here." There's an article about it in Talkback for anyone who's interested. animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-04-26/why-seven-seas-altered-its-light-novels/.171956 Let's get active in making sure Seven Seas knows we're keeping an eye on them.
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SomurCsawn
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It's been four months and Seven Seas hasn't addressed the content cuts. Now more has showed up:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/opllg8/seven_seas_and_more_content_cuts_in_bloom_into/ |
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adam_omega
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Seven Seas has plans to release adjusted editions of Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka (Light Novel) Volumes 1-3 later this year. This light novel series wasn’t censored, but an in-house evaluation determined that the editorial process cut more lines than were necessary when it was done, so we’re re-editing them using our updated editorial policies. The changes will be minor.
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Alan45
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@adam_omega
Under what circumstances would it be necessary to "cut" any lines? |
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SomurCsawn
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Iruma, the author of the Regarding Saeki Sayaka series, once said in an interview (source, don't open at work) that when he writes good prose, it feels like touching comfortable, fine blue cloth. And not-so-good prose feels like touching rugged...
Following the analogy, cuts made to his work seem to make this cloth threadbare. |
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Breunoke
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Are there any updates on the revising of this series? Since it has issues more than just content cuts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/s5dnpl/seven_seas_and_translation_issues_in_bloom_into/ Some lines seem to be the result of translation errors rather than editing though, such as 開いた should be "opened" instead of "closed". (I thought the explanation for that example was overkill  )
The inconsistent translations for repeated text in each of the volumes might be due to the text being split between the two translators who didn't/couldn't communicate with each other, not that it makes the contrast between the color gallery's excerpts and the story less annoying. The opening lines of volume 3 read really differently too. Setting aside the content cuts, it seems the professional translator and the fan translator went with different definitions of the words/phrases, but the context makes it clear that the fan's meaning fits better with the dialogue that follows. |
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Breunoke
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So...what happened to those plans about releasing re-edited versions last year?
https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/vxbmgb/seven_seas_and_more_translation_issues_in_bloom/
Are the issues that difficult to resolve when the fan has a series of blog posts identifying the passages of concern and providing a suggested translation? Not to mention the problems in the manga and anthology volumes... |
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rubelahame
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Under what circumstances would it be necessary to "cut" any lines?
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Breunoke
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Is Seven Seas fine with having the reputation of making empty promises of revisions?
Examples of the text not reading right in English: https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/zh0zur/spoilers_volume_highlights_of_translation_issues/ Even if a reader can't really notice content cuts until they watch the adaptation, they can clearly notice translation errors when the resulting story and characterization makes no sense. |
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nobahn
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Crap.
 
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