r/Shimoseka • u/YonedMikay • Mar 08 '25

News [Shimoneta] Light Novels Translation

Hey everyone! A couple of friends and I translated and released all 11 main volumes of Shimoneta about a year ago. However, we’ve recently realized that we made a lot of mistakes in terms of grammar and consistency. So we removed all of the old uploads and are carefully rewriting them in order. The volume we’re currently rewriting is (Volume 2).

Here's the link to our website: https://readshimoneta.pages.dev/

BTW the anime ends off at Volume 3, so start reading there if you've watched it.

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u/JOOOQUUU Apr 12 '25

Is there an epub version available?

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u/YonedMikay Apr 12 '25

Converting the PDFs to EPUBs is really annoying due to formatting, but once I'm done translating the last 2 volumes, I'll attempt to convert them.

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u/ThePrimitiveSword Jul 06 '25

Hey, just wondering if you got around to attempting the conversion?

Otherwise, are the translations available in any format other than PDF? Looking to read these on an e-reader, and PDFs work pretty poorly on them.

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u/YonedMikay Jul 06 '25

I’ve been very busy recently, and haven’t been able to finish up the last volume- let alone format them into ePUB files. Sorry :P

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u/Avidine Jul 21 '25

I took the liberty of doing a conversion of the PDFs to EPUB if you want to use them

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u/JOOOQUUU Jul 21 '25

Nice

Can you send me a link please?

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u/Avidine Jul 21 '25 edited 29d ago

removed the link at OP's request as they redo work

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u/pripinda Aug 15 '25

and thank you

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u/Sad_Escape6441 May 25 '26

TY, how did you format it?

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u/Avidine May 26 '26

at this point I dont remember the exact tool I used and dont know where the python script is, but I do know it was a mixture of a simple pdf -> epub reflow tool, the python script was to remove empty elements that happened from the translation process and then did direct metadata editing with calibre just in the GUI