Talk:Haruhiro/@comment-32400128-20170626192753/@comment-32400128-20180815204707

Sorry for the very very late answer,

I buy and read the novel in english when it is out (there is an official translation that is now up to vol 9) but I have Japanese copies of the novel that I can slowly decipher if I really need to find out something or if I find the translation dubious and decide to verify in the original work.

The official translation is of a good quality. It's not perfect (for example the choice of using Meery for Mary's name, ever since The Lord of  the Rings Meery feels like a male's name) but I really appreciated that the translator tried to keep the different levels of conversations. Like the way the characters address each others (with -kun -san abscence of particle etc) which is much richer in Japanese than English and convey how formal one is toward another, and is basically impossible to translate. Same for the fact that some charaters talk about themselves with the 3rd person, that's almost unthinkable in english but it is only curious or slighly weird in japanese.

Anyway there are electronical versions so it's not expensive either.