User blog comment:Valgaaf/First time I bought light novel/@comment-6697950-20160830174249/@comment-6697950-20160901193435

@Anon


 * 1) Shipping costs. I'd be paying what I pay for the English translated book just for the shipping if I bought the Japanese version instead. And I'd need to bundle buy to be economical. On the other hand, the books I get from Book Depository have free shipping, so I don't need to bundle order.
 * 2) Reading the Japanese version takes much more time and effort than reading the English version.

@Valgaaf I'm not sure why others are hating on the Yen Press translation, but I personally despise their overamericanisations. I mean, I can understand removing honorifics (even though they are kept in the manga... way to be consistent...), but why on earth change the metric system to the Imperial one? Who on earth uses it other than Americans? Such a change is totally unnecessary and really gets on my nerves every time I see a measurement. Especially since rather specific measurements get turned into rounded up approximations, which makes them inaccurate.

Another issue I have with the translations is their inaccuracy on naming and terms, as well as various consistency issues. Yen Press already has at least three versions for the same guild name, one for each story the guild is mentioned in. If I'm paying for a book, I do expect quality.