Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 19 (light novel)

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I love Re:Zero, the story is phenomenal and this novel is a banger just like the rest of them. However, YenPress (the English localization company that translates these novels) is complete and utter trash. I wish I could review the novel separately from YenPress because they’re the absolute worst.I have never seen a group of more incompetent translators. They only release about four novels per year (in theory: we often get less due to nonstop delays) because they’re unbelievably slow yet their translations are still complete trash; *Every single YenPress Re:Zero novel has at least one major blunder— all of them.*Many character and city names are translated horribly (T.B., Patlash, ETC.), some characters have their names swapped with another at random (Rem and Ram), YenPress will delete lines at random (Garfiel saying an idiom about Reinhard in arc 4), they will merge certain lines together at random, YenPress will even make up their own lines at random (Crusch telling Subaru that she’ll think about him when she’s ready to marry during arc 3— something that didn’t even remotely happen in the original novels.), just as YenPress will make up their own scenes (Subaru strangling Beatrice with his bare hands in arc 4… something which does not happen in the original novels.), and this list just keeps going. There is no end to the blunders that these incompetent translators make.So, finally, the major blunders in novel 19 by YenPress (spoilers): YenPress merges two poorly translated scenes into one scene, they mislabel one of the Sin Archbishops in a complete mischaracterization (leftovers instead of bizarre eating), they call “authorities” “powers” interchangeably when the source material doesn’t, and finally Subaru is mistranslated to be the one who fought Reinhard instead of Regulus— the villain and actual guy who fought Reinhard. Again, these are only the major ones, if I were to list every single blunder by YenPress, we’d both be here all night.

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Like all of the other volumes this issue slapped. However, certain chapters did drag longer than they needed to. As well, certain characters just being useless is an annoying anime trope that is seen in this novel between to members of the cast. I did enjoy the scenes and how it was nice to see Subaru grow as a character as was able to come up with a solution without abusing return by death for an arc. Was nice to see. I can’t wait for this to be animated.