#the illustration in the last photo is Satoi’s and it says “thank you for reading” :)

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DIABOLIK LOVERS アニメ公式ノベライズ Official Anime Novelization Frontier Works, 2014 ISBN 978-4-86134-701-6

Written by Yukuzuki Hiroha 結来月ひろは Illustrated by Satoi さとい Translated from the Japanese by @otomehonyaku (you can find the translation in this post!)

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Story (from the blurb on the back of the dust cover) Following her father’s job transfer, Komori Yui is sent to live with the Sakamaki brothers. However, these six brothers turn out to be sadistic, ill-tempered vampires. The men are after Yui’s sweet and incredibly rare blood, and go to great lengths toying with her body and soul to get it. Before long, Yui finds herself trapped in an alluringly dangerous love game(1)...

1. 吸血愛戯 (ラブゲーム): Stylised as ‘love game’ but written with the characters for bloodsucking (吸血), love (愛), and play (戯). The latter character also has a connotation of playfulness/mischief.

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I thought I’d post some pictures of the Diabolik Lovers novelization that I’m translating right now! It was sold as a proper 小説 (しょうせつ, novel) and it’s about 300 pages and 12 chapters long, but as you can tell by the relative lack of long paragraphs, it’s still more like a light novel that heavily relies on your familiarity with the characters and their looks/voices through the anime and visual novels. The two pages of the running text in the second-to-last picture only amounted to about half a page in English (*´꒳`*) It’s been really fun to translate so far, so stay tuned for the next chapters!

#the illustration in the last photo is Satoi’s and it says “thank you for reading” :) #it’s so cute aaa #the whole idea of translating a novel was actually a bit daunting but it’s written in a really easy-to-read style #which makes it quite quick and easy and fun to translate actually so I’m glad! it’s good for keeping up with my Japanese hehe #also I took the photos without the dust cover because i left it at home so it wouldn’t get messed up in my bag ;-; #diabolik lovers #dialovers #diahell #diabolik lovers translation #diabolik lovers translations #otomehonyaku #my translations #Diabolik lovers novelization