Hope you enjoy this one! I'm also done translating one more from this volume (the one with the mirror hypnosis), so keep an eye out for that coming soon!

Nice! Are you planning on doing the whole magazine?

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Please dear translators, can you PLEASE avoid using stupid font people never use ?

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@Narote - Possibly, depends on how much time I get, I always start with my favorites first though. If I do, I'll be sure to post a whole collection too.

@lw123789 - I have yet to see a consensus on font choices. Previously I have had people claim this or that font is awful, so I changed it, yet for every person that praised the change, another complained, so now I just choose whatever appeals to me.

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@bored_one28

font bad, change font please, also tighten up leading. thanks bro :)

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fonts are okay to me. Thanks for the work!

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@bored_one28 anime ace v2 is the standard font.

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@BlueDye - Anime Ace v2 is one of the ones that I have specifically received complaints about, though I did still make use of it for the "narrator" bits in this.

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as long what appeals to you isn't anime ace or manga temple, it's probably fine
anyway, here's a rant about why anime ace is a bad font, taken from the vorbis typesetting guide

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I am going to start this font with a positive comment, and then I will get into why this font is an atrocious plague upon mankind. Fair enough? Anime Ace has a very technically sound stressing. I like it, and wish all fonts did this. That being said, this font has terrible kerning, the letters have little no flow, they clash with each other, they're way too bulbous and topheavy (just look at those "Rs" and "A"s), it alternates styles between curved/cartoony approach and severely-cut lines ("M" and "N" being two obvious offenders) which make it look like you're using two separate fonts. The F and E look nearly identical, which is pretty unfortunate since 80% of the letter is above what should be the middle-mark (the crossline on the A, the lower part of the R's loop), which means the reader's eye barely registers the bottom portion of the letter and makes for poor, confusing readability. I mean, look at the bottom of that line. It's like one straight, solid line, even across the "A". That's barely what an "A" even looks like! That's a triangle! Distinction between letters that aren't even similar (the "R" and the "P") is poor, and forces the reader to concentrate on the individual letter rather than the word and bubble as a whole.

In addition to that, this font is incredibly wide, which we ALL know is going to mean that you're going to either cram your letters into the tiny little space you DO have, or you're going to have to snap them in half and put them on two lines. Both options suck. And by coincidence or not, so does this font.

So why is it so used? I have no idea. I bet it's because it has "anime" in the name, so that magically implies that it's a fabulous font and would go GREAT with manga, right? RIGHT?

If you bold it, it serves passably well as an SFX font. But that's about it.
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please do read up on a typesetting guide. readability trumps everything in most cases, and your dialogue font of choice is not good for skimming (not as bad as anime ace tho, fight me aa-plebs). there's also no need to vertically justify text (filling up all the white-space) -- appropriate leading makes for better readability, blah blah blah

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@bored_one28

Please change your fonts. The font you used for regular dialog is more suited for moans than dialog. Good fonts for dialog are: CCVictorySpeech, Wild Words, Back Issues BB, Wurmics Bravo, Wurper Comics, some from the Komika series to name just a few.
It's probably impossible to reach a 100% consensus on if a font looks good or not. But if a person who is actually typesetting tells you that your fonts are shit, you should at least consider that he might be right.

Just compare your work with some from top groups like RedLantern Head Empty, The Lost Light, biribiri, LWB or others and ask yourself where are the differences and if your stuff is next to their level.

Here are some typesetting guides that can help you:
https://mangadex.org/title/08e1f85a-bb12-4fe4-aec5-0d7a80b3a261/anonblack-s-typesetting-guide?tab=chapters
https://www.insidescanlation.com/etc/the-idiots-guide-to-editing-manga/guide/main
https://www.ruinevil.com/rawr/editguide/index.html
https://quicksandscans.wordpress.com/resources/

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@bored_one28
The guides are from different times and different editors with different styles, preferences and tastes. Contradictions are probably inevitable because there isn't this one and only style that's correct. In the end it comes down to that you have a to pick fonts that you like from the large pool of suitable comicfonts.

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@Ancient-Alien

Thanks for the links, I went through a couple of them, but to be honest they didn't make the situation any better since they disagreed with each other (both on typesetting methods and font choice). Some of the opinions presented there I also frankly disagreed with (as in which of two presented typesetting styles looked better). I'll go through the other two when I get the time and see if I can form a consensus.

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At the end of the day, this is something you did for free, in your own free time. So, instead of demanding you measure up to some arbitrary font standard (especially considering you didn't request feedback), I'll just say thanks.

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@solowing - I really appreciate your gratitude. I don't mind advice or trying to course correct in the future to meet consensus, but neither am I trying to meet anyone's artistic standards. Just having something like "no one will complain if you use these fonts" would be nice :P

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Thanks for the translation, I had an eye on this one and think you did it justice. It's a great hypnosis story!

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When the Demon King gave his death speech, I expected he had some hidden plan, like turning her into his successor or something. Instead he just wanted to ruin her life? What a sore loser.

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