English Spice & Wolf Ditches Horo

Rage doesn't make sense. Import the original, download a translation, use your kindle for better feeling.

Won't support this cover. It's a shame for the good book behind it.

hurrrr.. i are internet tough guys.

no - you just wait for a torrent and call it gg. you can avoid buying it altogether to get a point across imo.

not to mention that is one fucked up looking face if you ask me...

The object of a boycott is to show your displeasure with something, in this case a company.

I actualy understand the want to make it apeal to a larger audience. Manga and light novels sell horibly in the US. I do agree though that unless they can get the book into the fantasy section it's a waste of time.

If we don't support the original illustration besides those silly pictures dedicated for sex hungry American, one day every English-translated Japanese light novel will be raeped in such way. Can you imagine every light novel we like is with a stupid cover? So don't ever say book cover is not important, this simply shows that you are one of those raepist outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yeah, I'm talking to you, FUCKING IDIOT!!!

"The object of a boycott is to show your displeasure with something, in this case a company."

So you would rather make them fail because they got the fucking COVER wrong, instead of showing them your appreciation because they actually went ahead and brought the book to your market?

Congratulations retard, next time you won't even have a cover to bitch about.

couldnt they have just printed 2 versions ? ._. even if some say 'I dont want to read a boo with a chin-... ¬_¬ dont wanna say it xD ...with a 'cartoon' cover', they'd be contradicting themselves after seeing the fantasy-like one beside it...

Instead, we'll have online translations to still read.

Hey man don't judge a book by its cover.

Eh, it would of been nice to stick to the original cover since distorting it is changing the audience it is supposedly targetted to. If you're gonna spend the time/money to translate and bring a book over to the US, why distort the cover and abuse the base support of the light novel? Thats a bit ridiculous as even liberal/conservative politicians never attempt to lose the interest of their base.

Still am glad that the book is making it out to the good ole states, but am disappointed that Yen Press decided to forego base support and gamble for new audiences. Never a good way to do business and it insults Horo-sama.

going to lol when it is still put in the manga section of bookstores and still has shitty sales as a result

I knew I wasn't the only one thinking this. You bastardize the cover in an attempt to have it put in the fantasy section, but ultimately, once people see the illustrations inside, they'll put it right in the manga section ANYWAY. And if they risk changing the interior illustrations, they risk losing the entire base of the book, thus failing on an epic level. Yen Press, wtf are you thinking....

That... THING... isn't Horo. I won't ever touch that book.

Everybody sucks, everyone is epic fail. I hate yaw. =(

that thing isn't horo

that's a novel right?
i kinda understand them,
the imagine thing.

for the anime watcher, our image of horo will be the same regardless of the cover
and for the non anime watcher, the image will be on the cover, and the face will be another(because it didn't show the face much)

so, what they are actually trying to do is to attract both audience. which is a good market move.

well, it's true that some anime fan might get angry.
but if one's a true fan of spice and wolf... he will buy it regardless.

for me >> the original cover is so much win...

The real problem here is that if they are going to such lengths as to change the cover and alienate the foreign fan-base then the credibility of their translation itself seriously comes into question.

This is nothing more than a blatant lack of respect for the original literature (as are all attempts of localisation).

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Exactly. Once you leave the bounds of the original and begin to alter core principles (the image of Horo-sama), then it brings into question the legitimacy of everything although I doubt that the translation would be incorrect, it may be liberal translations that may or may not fully convey the original meanings. Sticking to the base is always a +.

Liberal translation is fundamentally incorrect. You'd be surprised what passes for 'translation' even when so called professionals are involved.

"We think this design really captures Holo’s playful spirit"

The cover pisses me off but them calling her "Holo" pisses me off even more.

I hate YP now! -.-#

That cover is aweful, and why did they make her hair lighter...