Shiki Novel Translations 3.18.0

[sinnesspiel]

Links to Chapters

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18 - 5

Culture/Translation Notes:

18 - 4

Shimotsuki - The eleventh month of the lunar calendar, which is around December. Literally translated as the frost month when the first frosts are beginning to show, the gods were said to be weakened at this time. Thus Shinto festivals called Kagura are held to ward off evil spirits or encourage and strengthen good ones. Traditional songs are performed with taiko drums, flutes and other classical instruments and the specifics of the dances and songs vary by locale. These traditions are practiced in advance and passed down primarily through oral tradition rather than in writing. Thus why it would be heard being practiced while walking through the village.

It is often an all night festival, with common customs include wearing Oni masks and spraying holy water.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I just found out about the Shiki novels and wanted to know if you're still working on it or dropped/on hiatus. Sorry is this question bothers

[(Anonymous)]

This is the most I've ever seen of the novel translated. I've been looking for an English fan translation for year and none are finished, so I really want to thank you for even having this much done. I seriously hope to see more. <3

[(Anonymous)]

I know how annoying this must be but please come back I beg🙏 shiki has been long forgotten(it was never really that popular anyways) but you still translated a big part of an ancient unpopular novel with heavy medical terms so mad respect to you anyways but I am just really curious as to how it will end this time around and it is almost over and this just feels like an new level that can't be unlocked. Part of me is happy that there is still shiki content I haven't consumed but at the same time I'm also going insane so yeah, good afternoon/evening/morning/night if you see this

[(Anonymous)]

I've never realized that this has a novel. Anyway, is this series still ongoing?

All chapters of the novella in one file

[(Anonymous)]

Help please, I am totally confused on how to navigate this site. Maybe the author can put all the translated chapters into one file and share a link to download this file?(

Re: All chapters of the novella in one file

[sinnesspiel]

Welcome to Dreamwidth!

Tags are one system to help navigate by. They're the most useful if you're keeping up with the latest releases. I've tagged each post with what's in it.

Shiki is broken down into parts called Books (the physical large books, two), Parts (about half a book a piece), Chapters (about ten per part), and sections (3-7ish per Chapter). Each 'section' is on a separate post. Cultural notes are compiled on Chapter posts.

There's also the Town and Character Map which has links to every chapter in which a character features, to help refresh your memory. But because there are so many characters, tags can be a touch cluttered per post.

This journal's profile is probably the best index if you're starting from the very beginning, at least until the entire work is complete at which point I'll have a master post. I have the first of two books compiled into an easy to navigate form. Clicking on the 'Chapter' will lead to the cultural notes, and at the top of the notes are also links to the #-# subsections. Most subsections are like a 5-10 minute read, so if the chapter has a lot of notes, keeping the chapter page open and reading the subsections in a new tab and then coming back to it might be easiest.

Maybe I'll compile it when I'm done but I'd need to really sit down and edit for typos, and decide what to do with the translation notes if putting it into one hard file.

Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for your hard work! Shiki is my favorite anime and I dreamed of reading the original source. Unfortunately, in my country I cannot purchase any of these books. Please don't leave this unfinished. I wish you strength and inspiration! Looking forward to continuing!