User blog comment:Valgaaf/First time I bought light novel/@comment-29058994-20161020034851

As Gsimenas said, light novels were designed for "light" reading, i.e. the writing style and characters used (as in language, not story) were oriented for a younger audience. Of course, considering the difference between Japanese and English, this style is often lost in translation. For the most part, I don't mind Yen Press, since I can't understand any Japanese and theirs is the "official" version, and thus has undergone professional, qualitytranslation. Though I do understand how people dislike the overlocalizations and disregard on the author's official statements on spelling, as well as some inconsistencies and inaccuracies between volumes; as a perfectionist with a long lasting (though somewhat fickle) memory, that can be a nagging annoyance for me. However, I suppose that can attributed to the long periods of time translators can spend on one project; series can change hands between different styles of translations and the translators might become aggravated by the sheer work they're undertaking and might want to finish it up as quickly as possible to get back to their lives. They're only human like us after all. Plus, the localizations aren't so bad; Kirito's "ox-hausted" and "donut know" quips in Progressive Volume 1 and 3 respectively are pretty amusing, and having the original joke without footnotes or context would probably go over my head. I'm also surprised to see how fast Poland is translating and publishing the volumes compared to the USA; what is it Polish translators have that allows them to provide the local translations faster than the Americans?

By the way, I've noticed you commented my blog but didn't directly answer any of the questions I posed in there. Not that I'm offended but I'm curious on your imput on them (if you'd like to offer any, that is).