My piece for @orvcookbook, featuring tea time with kimcom AS WELL AS my personal herbal creation (for those who didn't know, I'm a druid by night). LEFTOVER SALES ARE OPEN!!!
Our team has basically completed the ebook changes for the Peaceland section, so we wanted to give a summary of what the differences between the serialized version and the ebook look like. We usually do this in a single post for the entire volume, but the Peaceland arc has had the most amount and most significant changes of ebook changes to date. It will be easier to do it separately.
We won't go into full detail about every change. We just want to give an overview for those who are curious. As we've said in the past, the serialized version and the ebook version play out the same, and the broad strokes of the arc are the same. The ebook merely expands on many of the scenes, and deepens the lore by giving us more information about the Japanese incarnations and the conversation about grey morality in the apocalypse. It also expands on the connection between authors and their creation, as well as authors and readers. There was also an added plot thread that wasn't there that blended well with the existing storyline.
We won't explain what all we did or didn't add. You will be able to read it for yourself in the coming days. Just know that we did our best to blend the two versions in a way that wouldn't affect the integrity of the serialized version.
This is a bit lengthy, so we'll put it under a Read More. Spoilers for Volume 6, if it is your first read.
Overall, the racial tensions were toned down as there was a shift from Japan vs Korea to Disasters vs Small People. This was always here, but it was made much more obvious in the language, namely in that the Disasters are referred to as such (with their faction not being the "Japanese faction" or "Japanese incarnations" but rather just "Disasters" used in narration). Kim Dokja reasserts numerous times about it being Disasters vs Small People as well.
Rather than famous Japanese Historic constellations, the authors changed the focus to yokai/demons in the ebook. Most of the Japanese forces now have Japanese yokai as their sponsors. This is based on the the 5th scenario since Japan was dealing with an invasion of yokai while Korea dealt with the theme of Chronos.
The initial encounter between Kim Dokja and Shin Yuseung with Japan now specifies names and sponsors of the Japanese enemies, including the introduction of the major minor character for the arc, Michio. As such, the scene is longer with more dialogue. It also features more detailed fighting/torture of the Small Person Gillemium. Shin Yuseung's first real on screen fight was also extended to show off her skills, including showing early on how she picks up skillsets from the other party members.
The walk to the Japanese base with one of the captured Japanese incarnations has been taken by Michio, who is friendly toward Kim Dokja. Michio takes much of the original backstabber's dialogue and thought processes, but we are also given more details about what is going on with the Japanese incarnations. The scene has also changed some of Kim Dokja's expectations and thought processes to reflect the changed plot (as he expects they will run into the Snake where they're going, but is surprised by a different "snake". This context doesn't exist in the serialized due to Kim Dokja knowing the other major Disaster is the incarnation of a Historic constellation figure).
The entire fight against the Prime Minister (who has a different title in the ebook due to having a different sponsor) plays out roughly the same, but there are more details about the Japanese side (and Kim Dokja piecing together that things are different in this turn and figuring out what's going on) and added system notifications, including telling the reader what the new scenario is when Disasters side with the Small People instead. This was left out entirely in the serialized version, including all further mentions of the changed scenario other than telling us that our party is now on the Small People's side.
The fight against the Prime Minister in the serialized version is heavily focused on the historical context and showdown that highlights how Dramatization works and how powerful it is. This is shown through a folklore version in the ebook.
Dialogue between Kim Dokja and Han Suyeong has been somewhat expanded upon throughout the arc to add more back and forth.
Once Kim Dokja, Han Suyeong and Asuka Ren are traveling to find Kyrgios, there is expanded dialogue to talk more about Izumi, the Japanese incarnation who is now Yamata no Orochi's possessed incarnation, and how the Japanese side got to this point. There's also some humanization of the ones who chose to become Disasters, following along ORV's themes of no black-white mentality.
Han Suyeong's bullying of Asuka Ren gets worse.
Asuka Ren gets an entire extended scene to build up her character and her powers as Peaceland's creator. It also changed her backstory and history with her work a bit to show more anger and frustration on her part, adding more details in general to her motivations and guilt.
Kyrgios's training scene is also expanded upon, giving the readers a chance to understand Kyrgios more and see the bond form between him and Kim Dokja.
The fight in Veronica is much more expanded upon, adding in Lee Jihye getting a moment to shine because there is a moat now that was not in the original serialized, and showing her, Gong Pildu, and Michio taking down a Disaster. This also gives more depth to Michio's character growth from his cowardly figure.
Some added narration and dialogue throughout the arc also adds competence to the party members to show they don't need Kim Dokja to act. Also, that Kim Dokja filled Lee Hyeonseong in on his plans in Peaceland before everything, as Lee Hyeonseong now has dialogue that tells us he's at least somewhat aware of the major plans and the Snake.
Many of Asuka Ren and Kim Dokja's scenes have added dialogue, expanding on the conversation of readers and authors.
The fight with Yamata no Orochi has been expanded upon to conclude Izumi's (and the Japanese faction's) story.
Kizumi Hiroshi, the incarnation who gave Yu Junghyeok the Totsuka no Tsurugi, has some of his role somewhat subsumed by Michio, who also gets a final scene with Kim Dokja to wrap up his narrative arc.
The final conversation between Asuka Ren and Kim Dokja where he questions her for a clue about tls123 has been tweaked and slightly expanded upon.
Will the ebook side stories and the exclusive physical side story be translated too?
Someone else is currently doing the official Side Story, but we'll be in talks with them further down the line about collaborating. They're a friend.
As for the 4 individual side stories, not sure yet. We haven't actually discussed it. It would be something the team would have to agree on, and both are a little too far off in the future to know for sure yet.
For those of you who do not know, chapters 1-551 are the Main Story. This is the story of the Kim Dokja Company.
There are 4 small side stories that are like additional content. They are called the Yoo Mia Side Story (a story about Pre Scenarios Yoo Joonghyuk. "Yoo Mia" can be read as "Lost Child"), Dumplings Made By Another (a story about Yoo Joonghyuk and his master in the 2nd turn, as well as his birthday), Someone Who Remembers You (a story about Han Sooyoung and Yoo Sangah, reflecting on Kim Dokja), and Treasure Hunt (a story about Kim Dokja and Yoo Sangah's first meeting as they do their job interview for Mino Soft).
These are extra/exclusive material, I believe, so they're more difficult to find.
Spoilers from here. Don't read beyond cut if you haven't completed the Main Story
Then there is the Side Story, which is the official continuation of ORV from chapter 552 onwards. It is currently in the 800s for chapters and still ongoing.
The Side Story is not optional/additional content. It is the second half of ORV. It is called the Side Story because the Main Story is the story of the "Kim Dokja Company", and the Side Story is more focused on Kim Dokja (among other things that won't be discussed because of spoilers).
You can choose not to continue from the Main Story into the Side Story, but you are choosing to leave the ending ambiguous and not find out what truly happened to Kim Dokja. It's your choice. But the Main Story is not the end.
You can contact @orviposition about the translation of the Side Story.
The above is great info, but I have one small correction to make lol - the side story is 553+ (552 is dumplings made by others), and we're actually in the 900s right now. The side story is usually updated 3x per week, and as of August 8th, the most recent chapter is 915.
According to Singshong, the current season (s5) is the final season of the Side Story, but we don't know yet if there will be epilogues to finish tying up loose ends. I personally suspect that they'll have to do that unless this season ends up being very long. However, for those of you who want to wait until it's done to read it, hopefully it'll be finishing within the year.
Hey I'm still new to orv so I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, I see people posting in celebration of a thousand chapters but when I looked online the other day it said there was only 550 something? Is the thousand chapters a spinoff, or something else, or did I find info on the wrong thing? I just wanna get all the orv content I can get my hands on and indulge my inner dokja
Please see this discussion for deeper explanation about the Main Story and Side Story.
TL;DR, The Side Story is not "extra content", a "sequel", "extra content" or an "After story". It's a direct continuation of the ORV Main Story. ORV does not end at chapter 551. This is a very common misconception due to the naming conventions of the first and second half, along with how the Main Story concludes. This was purposefully done for metatextual reasons by the authors that are a spoiler to reveal.
The combination of the Main Story + the Side Story means there are currently 1000 chapters of ORV.
We congratulate the authors SingNShong for reaching 1000 chapters of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. It's an amazing achievement. We hope for their sakes it doesn't get 2,149 more chapters, even if it would be incredibly admirable for commitment to the bit.
Our team has been contacted by an entity claiming copyright over the translation we are doing. They went as far as to send a notarized letter via our email. It appears this "tls1234" is being represented by a small but powerful Corporation...(Though, the heading on the attached digital letter says they're a Company?) They've threatened legal action if we don't post a translated fragment of their story that focuses on the "self-proclaimed genius author". We're not looking to step on any toes, so we'll be fulfilling their demands shortly. We've already emailed them back to let them know we'll follow their demands.
Our team has been discussing our options, and we have decided our next step.
We don't want to end this project anymore than you all do. We love working on it, and we love providing to the community. However, we cannot tolerate disrespect of the very few rules we have in place. Once again, we repeat that our documents are not to be put on ANY public platforms, including social media and reuploading it to archives. This is to protect our team and protect this project. All downloads are meant for PERSONAL use, at the very least until our project is complete.
We have decided to try a middle ground for now. We don't believe there is an easy solution to removing the documents from the archive, so we will treat it as a circumstance we cannot reverse and will proceed as thus:
We will post Part 1 Volume 6 following our original plan. We will be keeping an eye out to see if this volume is also added to the archive. Pending what happens, one of two things will occur:
IF our wishes are respected and we see that no more reuploads of our documents have occurred, we will proceed as we have done until now. We will treat this as a mistake that came from us not being clear enough, and we will allow this to be the one singular slip-up for the community.
IF our wishes are not respected and we find any more reuploads ANYWHERE (but especially on the archive where our documents are currently at), or any of our other rules broken, we will be removing all downloading ability. We will continue to upload, but nobody will be allowed to download the documents and everything will be in a read-only format. If we find ANY further breaking of our rules, we WILL shut this project down.
Basically, this was the one (1) mistake we will allow the community. We once again ask to please respect our singular wish for the sake of this project and the ORV fandom as a whole.
WHILE THE PROJECT IS ACTIVE, PLEASE DO NOT REPOST/REUPLOAD OUR WORKS OR DIRECT LINKS TO THE DRIVE AND ITS DOCUMENTS ANYWHERE ON PUBLIC PLATFORMS.
It has come to our attention that our retranslation documents have been uploaded onto a public archive. As we did not seem to be clear in our explanations of what not posting on public platforms entails, we want to give the archiver a chance to take down the documents.
We do not want out documents on ANY public platforms, including archives. Please take down the documents. We don't want to have to shut down this project.
This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:
He only visits once a year,
I splurge big on him when he’s here,
His kisses make my tastebuds tango.
Who, bitch, your man?
Nah, bitch, a mango.
Saw a piece by @xnighten which had this cool black out poetry style look! ^^
I thought it was so cool and wanted to do something like it with the ORV boys :D
The result turned out pretty nice in my opinion~
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