August 29, 2021

This is my favorite book

I would kill for the other volumes to be translated, that's how much I love this book. While this book is consistently at N3 level, people of lower levels can enjoy it doe to how much repetition the book has!

If you love found family--Grumpy old man and this orphan child--Original Magic Systems and world budiling--Thieves and magic! Well, this is the book for you!

It has areas that learners art all levels can learn from and I've been using it as a textbook for my students! I also ran a discussion club Here if anyone wants to watch it.

Even though this book was translated from English, you can tell the translator put their all into the translation! From things as small as translating the Twlight district as たそがれ街 to as big as ignoring fake English words and creating their own Japanese words!

水晶玉って何に使うんだろう?(I wonder how Crystal Ball’s are used) 「これ、どんなふうに使うんだ?」(what do you use this for?)

「水晶玉として使う」(It’s used for Crystal Ball stuff)

全然答えになってない。(Well, that totally wasn’t an answer)

English Text

Scrying globes?

“What do they do?”

“Eskry.” Nevery said.

I love the books characters, foreshadowing, and aesthetic and I wish others would read this book as well!

Here's some other comments I made on the translation if you want to see more!

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similar in difficulty to夏目友人帳 1L26
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