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Review Detail of FNU_LNU in Everyone's an Overlord: I Have the Military Unit Editor!

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FNU_LNU
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This is translation review, not novel review. If you are not familiar with it, webnovel has started westernizing most of the novels in 2021. This is awful practice that kills original novel. At best you get only names, places and organizations westernized and at worst you get half novel gutted and other half totally rewritten by translator. With best case scenario you get only names, places and organizations westernized which introduces plotholes cause while names are westernized, actual writing and character culture arent. You get chinese way of thinking, chinese places and organizations translated into most famous western (USA) alternatives and as a result you see absurdity. And with the worst case scenario, you are not actually reading original authors work, but some "translators" plagiarization cause half novel is removed (sometimes critical explanations) and other half is badly rewritten. And cause this requires so much work compared to normal translation, either webnovel is stealing original authors work and rewriting it (cause most of those novels dont come from qidian) or they are just using translators that dont know chinese so they are rewriting story with help of MTL (seen too many edited MTL translations lately on webnovel). overall any westernized novel deserves automatic 1 star review.

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DARKLORD_PB
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I agree👍

LordJ:I suppose they try to westernise these novels because typically the west which this site is aimed towards, will typically not have a great understanding of eastern culture/places etc. Personally i agree it is bad practice to change a novel in this way where it effects creativity, the original idea and does not cause any negative light, However i also think this site should take out any racism or nationalistic propaganda based content though it doesn't really seem to do this or filter enough anyway.
LordJ
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I suppose they try to westernise these novels because typically the west which this site is aimed towards, will typically not have a great understanding of eastern culture/places etc. Personally i agree it is bad practice to change a novel in this way where it effects creativity, the original idea and does not cause any negative light, However i also think this site should take out any racism or nationalistic propaganda based content though it doesn't really seem to do this or filter enough anyway.

FilledWithHope
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At this point I understand eastern novels more than western.

LordJ:I suppose they try to westernise these novels because typically the west which this site is aimed towards, will typically not have a great understanding of eastern culture/places etc. Personally i agree it is bad practice to change a novel in this way where it effects creativity, the original idea and does not cause any negative light, However i also think this site should take out any racism or nationalistic propaganda based content though it doesn't really seem to do this or filter enough anyway.
SCP3812
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i don't believe this site should change the novel at all, if they take out some propaganda and try to replace it, with the quality of novels on this site, I don't see them being able to replace it properly. plus replacing any of the content of a translated novel is just a bad idea, and takes away the originality of the novel no matter how badly o how well it was written.

LordJ:I suppose they try to westernise these novels because typically the west which this site is aimed towards, will typically not have a great understanding of eastern culture/places etc. Personally i agree it is bad practice to change a novel in this way where it effects creativity, the original idea and does not cause any negative light, However i also think this site should take out any racism or nationalistic propaganda based content though it doesn't really seem to do this or filter enough anyway.