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The publishing house at the time bought the rights to translate JKR's work, so I think it's probably a gray area at best. I don't think people would make as big
by jimmies 9y ago
The publishing house at the time bought the rights to translate JKR's work, so I think it's probably a gray area at best. I don't think people would make as big of a deal now as they did in the past, though.
It was novel - before the work done by the team, most websites in Vietnam only posted books retyped/digitalized by hobbyists, but no one other than the anime fans who did new translations. It was unsurprising to me to look back, many of the people who helped on the project were anime people. At one time we were having sister forums, Harry Potter and Anime.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoWere the anime fans translating their anime from Japanese or English? If Japanese, did they work off of a Japanese translation of Harry Potter? Or was it mainly that anyone from the anime-translating community who could also understand English became interested in your project?
- jimmies 9y agoI was not involved in the Anime/Manga scene so I cannot say for sure, but from my understanding, the people who know Japanese and could translate it from Japanese were the minority. There was a blend of English and Japanese sources in the anime scene though. I don't know the exact mixture. Definitely not for the Harry Potter case. The only source we had for Harry Potter was the English version. It took about 1 day for the English book to be scanned and appear online on KaZaA after the official book release, and leaked versions came up even earlier (but we don't know what was real, many were fanfics and viruses). All translated versions of any language other than English came way later, and as we wanted to consume the books as soon as they were released, English was the only choice.