User talk:-BANLK-

Your Request
I have just replied to your request on my message wall over on Community Central, where you originally asked it. Thanks, Revriley (talk) 08:14, August 19, 2017 (UTC)

"Hello" Response (on LNs)
On my delayed response: I may or may not have burned myself out wiki-wise yesterday creating pages and full summaries for ten chapters on the DMDP Wiki over the course of ten hours...what can I say.

On Vamp!: I'm glad you liked it! All hail Watt, the pettiest of petty villains. He's so good. Gerhardt's so good. Michael's so good. Dorrikey, Doubs, QAWSED, the twins, Shizune (who is one of the most stone cold characters Narita has ever written and I'm so here for "woman who just does not give a damn"), Dimguil (he's in one book but I desperately want an illustration of him, Dorrikey + Mirald, and the Blue-Haired Werewolf give him a name Narita )...I love Vamp!. Please let him write Vamp! VI already.

Your Question: I most certainly can direct you to sites where you can buy the official Yen Press translations. Here is the series on Amazon (I don't know why they haven't included Volume 9 in the series collection yet, but it will likely show up in the "customers also bought" sections). Here is the Barnes & Noble equivalent. Bookwalker. Google Play. They're also available on iBooks, I believe. Inquiring at your local bookstores is always a nice thought.

Now, I suspect that is not the answer you necessarily wanted, given how you worded your question. If, perhaps, you had other translations in mind... Yes, I do know how one could read the fan translations.

No, I'm not sure if I'm comfortable providing access (directly or indirectly) to them on the wiki's platform.

It's true that this wiki includes information from novels yet to be officially translated--but for the majority of Baccano!'s history (and the majority of this wiki's existence) there were no official translations to speak of. Of course the fandom relied on non-official translations. They made the fandom. They are the reason I was able to get into the light novels at all, and the reason I am financially supporting the official translation now.

There's a difference between drawing upon non-official translations for information on the wiki and providing access to them (esp when official translations now exist), and I don't want to do the latter on what is essentially an online reference/encyclopedia for fans. I don't want to necessarily make it easier for people not to support the official translations via the wiki I administrate.

And on that note, me being a sysop is all the more reason why I probably should not do such a thing on the wiki. Copyright violations are a thing, and there's a reason fan translators take down their translations of series when said series receive official licenses. (Well, aside from the reason wherein they want to encourage supporting the official translation). They don't want to get into legal trouble with the publishers.

In short: I don't intend to share links/access to the fan translations on the wiki platform. As an admin, it would set a bad example and it would potentially be legally troublesome. As a fan, I don't want to publicly provide links on a wiki that gets 1.5-2.5k views daily and make it easier for visitors not to support the official release.

I do encourage you to support the official release if you are financially able (and not geolocked or something, which...I just realized might be the precise problem for you. You have my full sympathies on that if so; geolocking's the worst). As for using the fan translations in addition to them, I do want to make it clear I'm not opposed to that at all (as it's something I've obviously done myself). Let me just say this: that I won't link to them here does not mean there are not other roads that lead to Rome.

Revriley (talk) 18:44, January 19, 2019 (UTC)


 * Ronny's Origin Story
 * See, this is all the more reason I should write an article on the subject. Note to self: bump up to-do list.
 * So: Ronny's origin story, which is summarized (and thus canonized beyond doubt) in Volume 22...his origin story doesn't actually originate in the light novels. Narita originally wrote it for 電撃ｈ＆ｐ(はじまり＆ピリオド) - Dengeki h&p (Beginning & Period - a limited Dengeki magazine issue published in November 2007. The magazine contained the "first story and final chapter" of various Dengeki Bunko works as written by the works' authors, with most it not all of these stories being parody works/having parody elements, in an April Fools mode of sorts.


 * (Narita not only wrote Ronny's origin story for the magazine, he wrote the Durarara!! short story Durarara!! x0 Goodbye Mikado-senpai for it too.)


 * This magazine, by the way, is super hard to come by these days. The reason the fandom knew what happened in Ronny's origin story all this time is because there are two existing fan-translations of its Chinese translation (so NOT translated from the original Japanese).


 * These fan-translations (which I am comfortable sharing because there is of course no official English translation and almost certainly will never be one, + again magazine is long out of print) are as follows:


 * The first attempt as translated by Bluttier and shared on FFN.


 * The second go by Monomae on Tumblr. Between the two I recommend this one. The "I could distort the physical phenomena of this world, and just as easily destroy this very planet beneath your feet. Of course, I wouldn’t carry out such a useless action" line is from Part 2/3, by the way.


 * So have at it! Oh...one more thing. You know how I said the magazine is very hard to come by this days and not cheap?


 * I own it now. The bonafide Japanese magazine. Mine.


 * (It arrived in the mail in November and no, I'm still not over it). I did some hasty mediocre scans of the Baccano! story and sent 'em to a Japanophone fan (and did the same with the Durarara!! story to another Japanophone fan) -- so it's possible she'll translate the story from the original Japanese in the future. So that's exciting.


 * While we're on the subject of "Baccano! media without official translations," you may want to check out the Endings Index of all 59 Endings of the NDS game if you haven't already (as cleaned up from the original Endings Index compiled by the same fan who I sent the origin story to, with her permission). The game's main article has a link to the full translation of Ending 3 (canon) at the bottom, but I don't necessarily recommend reading Ending 3 (or anything about it) until after you read Volume 14.


 * (There are also spoilers for Ending 3 on the main page so I'd advise not looking at the "Endings" section of that article. Hm, maybe I should collapse that section).


 * Summaries of Volumes 1-2 of the 2006 manga also exist on their respective articles, and you can read about Jacques-Rosé Boronial and Rosetta (two characters who debuted in the 2006 manga and have cameos in the light novels) on their articles to learn more about them as well. If you haven't come across information about the second audio drama on the web (Firo Prochainezo Witnesses the 53rd Death of Pietro Gonzales), I'm adding summaries of the tracks to the article so that's something to check on in the future. (You could also check out the Pietro and Dominico, Elita, and Antonio Baro articles if you're impatient).


 * Sorry, I know you literally only brought up Ronny's origin story, but I did think it only fair to highlight some of the other Baccano! media that has no official English translation... Anyway. Enjoy the story! Like I said, do go into it knowing that there are going to be major parody elements in it as part of the magazine theme. Despite the parody elements, the main ideas behind the story are otherwise canon.


 * Revriley (talk) 07:02, January 20, 2019 (UTC)