DasRay and the team here, long time no see, now we bring you Volume 11 of “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime”.

Epub & PDF ( Drive contains Coloured Edition)

Slime Reader (Will be updated soon)

This time around, we are very excited to bring you a special edition with coloured illustration. This is not official colouring done by the illustrator of the Light Novel Mitz Vah, so please consider this a fan interpretation of the illustrations. These amazing colourings were done by Theri (@jetsettheri), go support his work at his twitter handle.

With that being said, I would like to apologize beforehand regarding the quality of one specific chapter, I don’t think I’ve disclosed this publicly before, but members of the team are very aware of my criticism (or distaste) for some of Fuse’s writing, and this certain chapter embodied everything I hate about this series’ writing.

I think most would understand why once they read the chapter, I (and Anna because I was mentally exhausted halfway through) finished translating so it last and it was edited hastily as well, I’ve also deliberatedly asked the team to focus more on other chapters, so expect the quality to be low. I take full responsbility for the possible displeasure it will cause for the readers, but please try to understand, I don’t get paid enough to fry my head with garbage. Luckily, even if you choose to ignore this chapter completely, it will not affect your overall experience with the volume’s story whatsoever, so rest assured in that regards.

Nevertheless, we hope you all enjoy the conclusion to the Western Nations Arc. From Volume 12 onward, Rimuru and his companions would begin their rivalry with the Eastern Empire.

Regarding future translations

With volume 11 comes the end of the Western Nations arc, and it also marks the sixth volume we have translated. We have grown from a small team of 4 people to now a much more competent group with over a dozen editors, proofreaders contributing to the translation. Personally as the transaltor, I would like to thank each and every member of the team, whether you are those who had become inactive, left the group, or newly joined members, thank you all for your hard work, it has been an arduous but enjoyable journey. And on behalf of the team, I would like to thank you, the fans of the series for your continued support of our fan translation.

On that note, I would like to announce that I will be taking an indefinite break from translating to focus on my personal life, another hiatus you may say, but just for myself. You may have noticed in the credit that we have had the pleasure to recruit our Korean translator Anna. In the past few volumes, Anna has only worked on small bits of the volume, but after volume 11, she will be tackling the majority of the volumes, likely for the next few entries.

It is likely that the next volume would take a longer time to come out, but do be reminded that we are not on official hiatus, however, there likely will not be an estimate for volume 12 any time soon, please be respectful and patient during the wait.

And that concludes about everything we have to say. Hope you all enjoy the new volume, have a good one.

DasRay and his team here, welcome back!

Volume 9 has arrived! And our translation officially resumes! Thank for your patience, we hope you will enjoy the new Opening of Tempest Federation Arc:

EPUB & PDF

Slime Reader (Our own Reading App)

PS: Immediately after this post goes up, it may not be there yet as Muggy is still working on it. It should be updated in around an hour.

And an early valentine gift as compensation for our long hiatus (If your valentine consists of hentai and memes). Do remeber to read the disclaimer in the folder, the link leads to some NSFW content:

EPIC DOUJIN SHITPOST

Not convinced, or not man enough to click the link above, check out these very real reviews from our editors:

I dunno man, seems kinda gay to me, but okay. lol

Voxel

Yo this shit is hellaaaa gay

Censored

As always, we welcome any constructive criticism and suggestion. We hope to hear what changes you liked and disliked about this volume, and we are very motivated to bring you the next chapter in Rimuru’s story.

You are all truly wonderful, have a good one.

Hi, this is DasRay. Recently I have gotten many questions regarding the release and progress of volume 9 translation of Tensura. There happened to be things regarding the progress among other things that I hope to address, so might as well blog about it.

Current Progress and Release Date of Volume 9

As of the time I’m writing this, that is mid January, me and another translator (new member, say hi to Annie when the volume’s put) have translated around 70% of the volume. Editors have done around 20-30% of the editing/proofreading. Volume 9 is in fact one of the longest volume of Tensura that we’ve worked on, and let’s just say not every single chapter is that fun to translate.

With that being said, I’ve actually been rather productive for the past week, and translation should be expected done in another week around the corner of Chinese New Year. After this most members of the translation team would be focusing on editing and proofreading, which is likely another week of work. If considering some additional polish, the ETA of Volume 9 will be around Early February. The file release will again be on our website, I’ll per usual post the relevant links on reddit and discord server (which currently I’m not in, boohoo).

What we are changing

After a long hiatus, some of my personal views on what should be in a Japanese to English light novel translation has changed, and this time we will be experimenting with some changes that will make life easier for both us and the readers:

1. No more Japanese quotation signs. E.g. 「」. All dialogue, skills will be using the English quotation signs “” from now on.
2. Passage are now translated in predominantly past tense, but if you see some grammatical misuse, please understand it’s very difficult for us to spot as there is a difference between story telling in English and Japanese.
3. We will try to fully integrate options for official (yenpress) translation of names and skills in our free online reading app “Slime Reader”. This is already a feature since Volume 8 if you haven’t checked it out.
4. Translation will be less rigid in following the specific sentence structure/metaphor of the Japanese texts. Instead we will try to make things more sensible in English.
5. Less dank memes that are completely out of context, perhaps some appropriate ones in context. Sorry guys, translation is very serious business.

Btw, do you know I’m translating a tensura doujin?

Details to be revealed during release of vol 9, kappa

Also, you don’t know how happy I was to learn that yenpress isn’t releasing vol 8 until May, not that anyone should be happy about such late release, but still… *wink*

That’s all, thank you for supporting our translation and the Tensura series, remember to support the official release of Tensura manga and light novels. See you at volume 9.

ワンドロ参加できないから先に三上悟と異世界人メンバー描いとく https://t.co/7VQxAmivMY—
しゃけ沢@2/16西1ケ51b (@shakesura) July 06, 2019

and other stuff

Long time no see, don’t get excited yet, we are still on hiatus. But our hardworking editor Voxel (Special Thanks to him) has been working on revising the LN side stories that I translated back in March. The one previously available on the website is a very rough version. The updated version has aligned the terminologies and overhauled the grammar. (Also available on slime reader, so check it out) We are also testing out some new formatting and we will accomodate the main story translation with it in the future.

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10WVW8gyIaPkNNMjCYKu6OyLLZB7g_Ilc?usp=sharing

As for the main volumes, we will resume the translation at the end of November. So stay tuned.

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And other stuffs

Kept you all waiting huh, well, we are finally done with editing volume 8. Although we suffered an unwarranted period of lack of productivity in the editing department, I’m very proud to say that this volume is arguably the most refined release for the all the past translation that we have done.

Google drive link

Slime reader

I hope you all will enjoy the volume, and though we will be taking the hiatus, keep your hopes high, go support the official light novel and managa release and just enjoy Tensura series in all the ways you can. Thank you for your support and we’ll see you next time.

Yours truly,

DasRay and his sweatshop minions

Another quick translation of the other half of the interview from volume 8.5, the illustrator of Tensura みっつばー-sensei (Mitz Vah). I think the interview really reflects a lot about his outgoing personality and the style of his drawings. Not as long as the Fuse piece, but you will get some insights to the work he has done through this.

Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/9hhFkKw8

Cheers.

Now just gonna wait if the Taiki-sensei’s interview from vol 13.5 to ever get a CN translation (prb not kek)

So just did a quick translation of Fuse’s interview in volume 8.5, some pretty interesting stuff here that reveals a lot about both the author and his writing style. Even though this is an old interview, it still has some pretty interesting content to check out. (there are some confusions which are highlighted, won’t affect overall read)

Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/AMidTJwZ

Mitz Vah interview from the same volume is coming soon.