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FlavorOfLife · 2011-12-30, 16:13

Stumbled onto this novel through pure happenstance and search for this turned up zero.

This is a great read if you've played MMORPGs before though some of it also applies to optimizing in table top pen and paper RPGs. Its pretty detailed including even stat blocks

As far as i know this is unlicensed. So far i've read it up to chapter 15 over at http://novel.oddsquad.org/p/moonlight-sculptor.html . The originals are in korean (figures it was a korean writer for a MMORPG novel) and up to over chapter 30.

kadaj1st · 2011-12-30, 20:55

i've read it maybe around a years ago ?
and the translation progress is so slow ==
and it cant really called a light novel since it has no illustration
and the cover is the same from the first volume

FlavorOfLife · 2012-01-17, 06:23

For those interested, Oddsquad has translated chapter 16. And i was wrong. It actually 33 volumes, each having about 10(?) chapters, which would make it a total of 330 chapters.

As for this not being a light novel due to lack of illustrations, wiki seems to disagree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel

Hell_ping · 2012-01-17, 06:54

For LN, we had this proposal to us at B-T, so you guys don't have to come over and ask us.

http://www.baka-tsuki.org/forums/vie...hp?f=15&t=3586

And Light Novel is light mostly because of what the publisher designates it as.

To quote Oddsquad's statement:

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Just a slight heads up. The author of LMS has posted on his blog that he has noticed the recent online activity in regards to English translations of his novels. He has stated that although he does have an English distribution contract he will not pursue free translations until at least volume 5 is complete due to the fact that problems with the distributor have indefinitely held up printing after volume 1.

There is an addendum to this however. He will immediately take action if he see's anyone making a profit from the distribution of translated copies. Note: He is not saying that you cannot pay professionals to translate the novels, just that you can't charge people for the translated product. As long as this principle is kept however, he has said that he will not be too fussed, even going so far as to say that he might give official permission for translations of volumes past number 5.

And a translation of the author's exact words from a forum poster:

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Regarding translation of The Moonlight Sculptor -words from the author

English translation of The Moonlight Scultor was conducted and it was published in US market. However, it was only for the first volume of the story. Due to troubles the distributor there is in, publication of following story has not happened yet. Aside status quo, the first volume which was officially published has been on sale up until now in forms of e-book and make-to-order product.

It's already been three years since things stopped running, and recently I came to know how the following stories of the book is being translated and distributed. People who involved in this practice are from some US forum and such, after reading the first volume published.

I've read an article in the forum saying they should pay their own money for quick, precise translation. Also I found a lot of people worrying about if it wouldn't violate copyright-related rules. So I've decided to straighten things up by telling you, the readers about what I have in mind.

As of now, the Moonlight Sculptor published in US haven't reached the break-even point. In fact, there is no commercial profit from the book. And I doubt it would ever in the future. My guess is that official translation of the following story wouldn't happen in near future; not in three years at least. Therefore, I will not exercise my copyrights over the translated works of fifth volume of the story published in Korea. For now, I am saying that my promise will take effect until December, 2014.

Of course, the promise will stay valid under one condition; the readers translate the story with noncommercial intention and enjoy it.
If someone officially profit from the translated work by selling them over Amazon.com and such, it might make things difficult and complicated.

If people who enjoy translated versions of the story increase in numbers, I will extend the valid terms of my promise. Not to mention that I will agree to have people enjoy further part of the story in terms of promotion on Korean literature.

Not exactly a promotion, but more to highlight that, no, there won't be any official release in the future. Delete this post if you must.

FlavorOfLife · 2012-02-08, 03:22

Just a heads up for those interested. The hardworking people over at Oddsquad has now finished up to chapter 18.

chancs · 2012-11-12, 13:32

Two chapters of the manga on mangafox today

blackwhite67 · 2012-11-12, 18:12

I didn't know this novel got a thread of its own. On Jcafe its got over 100 pages!

Oddsquad has finished translating the first two volumes recently. The rest you can find here. It's translating at a decent pace. The blog is updated at least three times a week.

Now, this novel is Korean so the writing style may be a little difficult to swallow since its largely different from the Japanese style of writing what with the honorifics and all, but its AMAZING in its own way. Not to mention simply hilarious.

As for copyright issues Teh_Ping is right. I managed to download the official English translation a while ago and I saw the illustrations. Forget, I even said that last sentence. You are better off not seeing them. If you do see them, you will understand why this novel was dropped in America.

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Originally Posted by chancs

Two chapters of the manga on mangafox today

No Chancs. The title is misleading. There is no manga for this novel and the series you referred to is something else altogether.

Eijigawa · 2013-01-14, 01:18

Just finished reading Volume 4 of this novel.... IT'S FUKKEN AWESOME!

It's so addictive that I can't stop reading for one whole afternoon!

CNine · 2013-01-14, 04:04

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Originally Posted by Eijigawa

Just finished reading Volume 4 of this novel.... IT'S FUKKEN AWESOME!

It's so addictive that I can't stop reading for one whole afternoon!

wait till you read "100 won more expensive salt"

brunkcowok · 2013-01-14, 11:17

like it,Just a heads up for those interested. The hardworking people over at Oddsquad has now finished up to chapter 18.

Kyosuke_Nanbu · 2013-01-14, 20:12

Oddsquad stopped long ago.Now the translation is mostly done on royalroadweed.
There are more volumes translated there than you see on BT.

Eijigawa · 2013-01-16, 22:46

Just started Volume 5, Weed sure is getting more fukken crazy awesome as chapter goes by!

Vol. 5 chapter 3 has just been released! Gotta love those Geomchis, their scene is sure a riot to laugh at!

Moonlight Sculptor on Baka-tsuki

Grave_digger · 2013-02-06, 16:15

This LN it's soooo goooooood.Sculptor job for the MC , how greedy the MC is, how he treated his servant ( poor death knight,tori and the rest ). how he brainwashed people around him.This LN is the first time to make me want to be born as korean ( all this time i only wanted to be japanese ). i really liked the way weed hunt and see the companion want to die ( one of them glad when he's dying and finally set free until weed recover his health

)

CNine :it's 200 won (around 2 cent ?) more expensive salt,after that he believe he got divine punishment for buying it

Ejigawa : i really love those Geomchi.you think it's already funny ? ( indeed it's funny )wait for their adventure in vampire city and tower of heroes.the one who see them said "they are not human " and "i'm human ,i appreciate the fact that i'm just normal human "

blackwhite67 · 2013-02-06, 16:17

Wait till you see what he does to the elementals.

Eijigawa · 2013-02-06, 20:58

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!

Translator, please translate faster! I wanna finish reading Volume 5 ASAP !

I'm surprised that there's still no manwha(manga) ver of this epic Weed Adventure~

Grave_digger · 2013-02-09, 09:12

Did you go to odd squad or royalroadweed ? isn't there is summary of volume 5 ? well i'm satisfied if summary detailed enough. i just hope they put summaries on volume 17,18,19,21- 31 there is only question and answer

. As for the large scale battle i like volume 16 !!!! weed set up the fight for 3 boss( all undefeatable monster )

+ 1 church enemy faction (weed target) into four way battle royal !!!! even if only one of the boss appear it will bring chaos

,and weed brought three of them.people from the media called him insane for that.

@Ejigawa : it's true !!! they should make manhwa and anime for this epic adventures.maybe they still don't know the design of the character !!! coz in this novel there is no image beside cover.it's always happening in japan anime the character doesn't show up because they still can't decide the character design

Eijigawa · 2013-03-07, 22:35

And Volume 5 is completed! And Weed now on an A class Quest!!!

Now awaiting Volume 6 to be fully translated, can't wait for the start of the epic battle between Orc & Dark Elves Alliance vs the Legion of Undead!

Spoiler for Vol 6. Spoiler:

ryan55 · 2013-06-17, 09:31

Hi, I'm a korean who saw the works on royalroad.com and saw that there are some details that are mistranslated and want to see if I can help as a proofreader. So I posted an application for recruitment and after I got the first reply I replied to him and didn't get the second one, so I was getting nervous and would like to ask if there is an age restriction in doing this kind of stuff

Eijigawa · 2013-06-18, 18:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryan55

Hi, I'm a korean who saw the works on royalroad.com and saw that there are some details that are mistranslated and want to see if I can help as a proofreader. So I posted an application for recruitment and after I got the first reply I replied to him and didn't get the second one, so I was getting nervous and would like to ask if there is an age restriction in doing this kind of stuff

Actually they transferred to another site which is royalroadl.com. Go here if you're still interested to contribute to the translation: http://www.royalroadl.com/recruiting/

ryan55 · 2013-06-19, 09:55

Yeah, got recruited as a translator, but as it's a first seemed tougher than I thought. Any advice on how much I should translate on a day?

2011-12-30, 16:13	Link #1
FlavorOfLife Uncaring Join Date: Sep 2010	[Light Novel] The Moonlight Sculptor Stumbled onto this novel through pure happenstance and search for this turned up zero. This is a great read if you've played MMORPGs before though some of it also applies to optimizing in table top pen and paper RPGs. Its pretty detailed including even stat blocks As far as i know this is unlicensed. So far i've read it up to chapter 15 over at http://novel.oddsquad.org/p/moonlight-sculptor.html . The originals are in korean (figures it was a korean writer for a MMORPG novel) and up to over chapter 30.

2013-01-14, 01:18	Link #8
Eijigawa Half-assed Nightmare~ Join Date: Jun 2007	Just finished reading Volume 4 of this novel.... IT'S FUKKEN AWESOME! It's so addictive that I can't stop reading for one whole afternoon! __________________

2013-01-16, 22:46	Link #12
Eijigawa Half-assed Nightmare~ Join Date: Jun 2007	Just started Volume 5, Weed sure is getting more fukken crazy awesome as chapter goes by! Vol. 5 chapter 3 has just been released! Gotta love those Geomchis, their scene is sure a riot to laugh at! Moonlight Sculptor on Baka-tsuki __________________

2013-02-06, 20:58	Link #15
Eijigawa Half-assed Nightmare~ Join Date: Jun 2007	Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!! Translator, please translate faster! I wanna finish reading Volume 5 ASAP ! I'm surprised that there's still no manwha(manga) ver of this epic Weed Adventure~ __________________

2013-03-07, 22:35	Link #17
Eijigawa Half-assed Nightmare~ Join Date: Jun 2007	And Volume 5 is completed! And Weed now on an A class Quest!!! Now awaiting Volume 6 to be fully translated, can't wait for the start of the epic battle between Orc & Dark Elves Alliance vs the Legion of Undead! Spoiler for Vol 6. Spoiler: And my favourite girl Dyne/Dine is ALIVE !!!! And she's so emotionally touched by Weed's statues of her and him in the Undead Cave of Lavias! I want to read their reunion A.S.A.P. !!! __________________

2011-12-30, 20:55	Link #2
kadaj1st Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2010	i've read it maybe around a years ago ? and the translation progress is so slow == and it cant really called a light novel since it has no illustration and the cover is the same from the first volume

2012-01-17, 06:23	Link #3
FlavorOfLife Uncaring Join Date: Sep 2010	For those interested, Oddsquad has translated chapter 16. And i was wrong. It actually 33 volumes, each having about 10(?) chapters, which would make it a total of 330 chapters. As for this not being a light novel due to lack of illustrations, wiki seems to disagree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel

2012-02-08, 03:22	Link #5
FlavorOfLife Uncaring Join Date: Sep 2010	Just a heads up for those interested. The hardworking people over at Oddsquad has now finished up to chapter 18.

2012-11-12, 13:32	Link #6
chancs Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: where magic is reality	Two chapters of the manga on mangafox today

2013-01-14, 11:17	Link #10
brunkcowok Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2013	like it,Just a heads up for those interested. The hardworking people over at Oddsquad has now finished up to chapter 18.

2013-01-14, 20:12	Link #11
Kyosuke_Nanbu Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008	Oddsquad stopped long ago.Now the translation is mostly done on royalroadweed. There are more volumes translated there than you see on BT.

2013-02-06, 16:15	Link #13
Grave_digger Member Join Date: Apr 2012	This LN it's soooo goooooood.Sculptor job for the MC , how greedy the MC is, how he treated his servant ( poor death knight,tori and the rest ). how he brainwashed people around him.This LN is the first time to make me want to be born as korean ( all this time i only wanted to be japanese ). i really liked the way weed hunt and see the companion want to die ( one of them glad when he's dying and finally set free until weed recover his health ) CNine :it's 200 won (around 2 cent ?) more expensive salt,after that he believe he got divine punishment for buying it Ejigawa : i really love those Geomchi.you think it's already funny ? ( indeed it's funny )wait for their adventure in vampire city and tower of heroes.the one who see them said "they are not human " and "i'm human ,i appreciate the fact that i'm just normal human "

2013-02-06, 16:17	Link #14
blackwhite67 Banned Join Date: May 2012	Wait till you see what he does to the elementals.

2013-02-09, 09:12	Link #16
Grave_digger Member Join Date: Apr 2012	Did you go to odd squad or royalroadweed ? isn't there is summary of volume 5 ? well i'm satisfied if summary detailed enough. i just hope they put summaries on volume 17,18,19,21- 31 there is only question and answer . As for the large scale battle i like volume 16 !!!! weed set up the fight for 3 boss( all undefeatable monster ) + 1 church enemy faction (weed target) into four way battle royal !!!! even if only one of the boss appear it will bring chaos ,and weed brought three of them.people from the media called him insane for that. @Ejigawa : it's true !!! they should make manhwa and anime for this epic adventures.maybe they still don't know the design of the character !!! coz in this novel there is no image beside cover.it's always happening in japan anime the character doesn't show up because they still can't decide the character design

2013-06-17, 09:31	Link #18
ryan55 Member Join Date: Apr 2012	Hi, I'm a korean who saw the works on royalroad.com and saw that there are some details that are mistranslated and want to see if I can help as a proofreader. So I posted an application for recruitment and after I got the first reply I replied to him and didn't get the second one, so I was getting nervous and would like to ask if there is an age restriction in doing this kind of stuff

2013-06-19, 09:55	Link #20
ryan55 Member Join Date: Apr 2012	Yeah, got recruited as a translator, but as it's a first seemed tougher than I thought. Any advice on how much I should translate on a day?