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Yes i have, and while you always lose bits in translation, i've found the majority of them have kept the essence of the story. Thewy arent rewrites which is what you were basically saying.
As the companies have learnt more from the fans they've improved. You can never get a 1 to 1 translation in anything, not even tech journals.
However i've found they take more care over novels than they do over manga precisely because of limitations novels put on them.
And i've even talked with a translator. She did me a 1 to 1 translation of the first scrapped princess novel ages ago, and then went through explaining what would be changed in a normal english translation. And she's a native jap who does novel translation for a job.
I've since compared it with TP's release, and while they arent perfect, they keep alot of the stuff that i thought would have been lost
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