User blog comment:WhiteSamurai/The vote on quality/@comment-85.245.142.109-20150327165503

So, I only started to read light novels about 3 weeks ago, and guess what, Re:monster was the one that got me started. Then trough the comments on this wiki I was introduced to a lot of great stories and I'm now hooked. To that, White, you have my many thanks!Lets get to the point, Option 1 was of course my first choice, but then I started reading some of the comments...and to be honest I might have changed my mind. Now the reason for this change of heart is the following:1) You are doing this alone2) You are volunteering to this..out of your own free time...out of your good will (MANY, MANY THANKS FOR THAT) 3) You are, as previously stated, getting sick of the story. As such you are no longer enjoying translating it.

So basically, you are sick of it, and the only reason you are still doing this is for the readers. Now as someone who takes pride in is work and likes to deliver something that he, himself, would say is up to his standards I do understand option 1. But then I read the following, on one of the comments:

"Checking the character descriptions, I see references to the story showing that it has surpassed at least 245 days. The last readable translation here is day 122. Option 1 assumes a "blistering" translation rate of 2 story days/month. That's 24 story days/year. So, about 4.5 to 5 years just to catch up to where the story is right now. How many years do you really want to be working on this?" This, for whatever reason, made me think of the infuriating release pace of Berserk and as such I started to wonder the following:If he does Option 1, while being alone, then we will get awesome quality translations, but then any new people who, like me, are new to the series (not to mention the people who are already fans) will start to demand new content bitching and moaning for whatever reason, without having read the comments and previous "wars". As such new "flame wars" will start and, he (White) will probably start getting more and more sick of it, and lets face it, keeping that up for 4,5 to 5 years (even 1 year) is enough for anyone to give up. Giving up will mean,  at a first stage, quality will dip then releases will be further and further apart with the final stage being quitting altogether.As such, I would recommend Option 2 not only for your sake but for the fans sake. Bear in mind that I'm assuming  (and I think a lot of people are) Day 122 Pending version (the one that is below the  "A WhiteSamurai partial release" ) is an example it. Seriously, it's good enough. Now here is a question (point of clarification) for White, Are there any Days that illustrate Option 2 and Option 1 perfectly? If there are, which are they? I don't think a lot of people know the difference (myself included). Now if by Option 2 you mean something very close to google translate, or even worse, something like what I encountered on the New Gate wiki (seriously is it only me that finds the 1st and 2nd volumes incredibly incomprehensible (I gave up after that)?), then fuck it...Option 1 all the way. If not, Option 2. Then, after you have caught up with the story, IF YOU WANT, you can go back and redo some of the chapters.Here is my advice,I honestly do hope you read it all but if you don't it's fine... and sorry for any mistakes in grammar and syntax I make, It´s not my native language.MANY MANY THANKS, a huge fan.