Hello, as some of you might have noticed in the pinned post, all the novels were recently added in English:
Reading order:
First, start with the Dragon Raja series:
1 - Dragon Raja I - The Blazing Dawn
Adapted in season 1 of the animated show.
2 - Dragon Raja II - The Mourner's Eyes
Adapted in season 2 of the animated show, currently airing.
3 - Dragon Raja III - Black Moon Tide (Beginning)
4 - Dragon Raja III - Black Moon Tide (Middle)
5 - Dragon Raja III - Black Moon Tide (End)
This story arc will be adapted in season 3 of the animated series (it could potentially require more seasons due to its length)
Once you've finished, continue with the sequel series Dragon King:
6 - Dragon King 1 - World Reset
4th story arc and the latest book in the franchise, set two years after Dragon Raja III.
"Keep reading" for a small Q&A
Are these official?
There is no official translation of the novels. The fan translation was achieved by different means:
Starting on 2021, I translated the books with google and adjusted/fixed inaccuracies as I read them. I posted some of these for a while, they were legible but lacked personality, often made mistakes and felt robotic. Many other members of the community helped to improve them.
In 2024, ChatGPT proved to be a very decent translator, since it recognized intention and felt more natural, but it can be unreliable at times.
I redacted a huge instruction set on how to translate each name, term and franchise-specific words, even explained some concepts to it and the bot employed them all properly! I ran each novel through it page by page, fixed any error that I noticed and when in doubt, I'd compare it to the google versions.
Still, these books were very long and errors still slipped in, like repeated pages (I'd screw up the copy/paste process sometimes) or a character having the wrong name. Readers have been very helpful in the past year by reporting any errors that they found and the books are much more polished now.
Are these the canon versions?
Sort of... Since I had no access to the Revised Editions, the original volumes were used instead. I eventually came across pictures of the paragraphs that were changed in the new versions and used them to update the translations. Anything relevant like modified dates, new lore and character moments is present in the translation.
Dragon King is 100% canon.
Why is Dragon Raja III three-books-long?
Dragon Raja was originally a serialized story that was later compiled into novels. While the first two arcs fitted nicely into individual books, Dragon Raja III ended up much longer than expected and had to be printed in three separate volumes.
Is Dragon King a reset/reboot?
Nope, it's a continuation of Dragon Raja, we're still waiting for Dragon King 2 to come out in China.
Joker Game Novel Translations: Book 1, Chapter 1 [Joker Game], Part 1/6
THESE TRANSLATIONS ARE FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY, NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED. PLEASE DO NOT RE-DISTRIBUTE, USE FOR OTHER PURPOSES OR REPOST WITHOUT PERMISSION.
[Word count: 610]
Translations for part 2 will be up soon, stay tuned!
Also, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all your support and encouragement, couldn’t have done it without you! ^^
As there’s still not enough people showing proper appreciation for the JG novel translations I thought that just reblogging them on this blog too might not be enough so I’ll also let you know, chapter by chapter why they’re amazingly cool and you’ve to read them because, in case you don’t know, not only they’re awesomely translated by @imayooshi, they’re also an awesome read.
1. Sakuma is the narrator here! As in you don’t just get to guess his thoughts, you really can give a peck into his mind!
2. The chapter starts a little differently from the anime. Don’t you want to try to guess why?
3. More details about Gordon! Okay, you don’t care about him but it’s still worth it!
4. More details about Muto! And you want to know them even if you don’t care about him so as to get what a dirty bastard he is!
5. Miyoshi! Come on, how can you resist to Miyoshi?
6. More explanations about the setting! You were a bit confused by it? The novel has the answers!
7. Sakuma being cool and starting to reason things out! Really, you’ve to read it!
And this is just the first chapter! Come on, go read it and reblog! Spread the JG love!
I you don't mind me, Im going to reread the whole manga and screenshot every moment where Suo ISN'T just a guy in the same class, where it IS a big deal, where him and Nirei ARE something, and where Nireis curiosity ENDEARS him. Because Suo is a LYING LIAR who LIES.
Seen fics and art with Mihawk x Shamrock and brain just went to Zoro saying 'wounds on the back are a swordsman greatest shame' and the idea of Mihawk having world noble brand or a mark of the Figarland family on his back.
Mihawk meeting Shanks after and not ever fully believing the happy go lucky attitude knowing he's dangerous and then seeing him use conquers haki stopping the war and is like 'knew it'
Bonus
Also thinking about Crocodad theory and cross guild
Dragon showing up
Crocodile: Oh fuck it's my ex
Shamrock showing up
Mihawk: Oh fuck it's my ex
and Buggy is just there like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?
