User blog comment:Baru Drake/Buddyfght Gaiden "Meiru Amagasa" (fantranslation)/@comment-5959367-20190711182014/@comment-5959367-20190711191247

It's fine, no worries!

I'll get on translating Hikaru's story once I've finished few things... :'D (university, ugh)

Hikaru's story was good, I really love his personality (both on- and off-stage) and Bigbang was also surprisingly funny, also Ageha being his mentor was great concept. However, this story as well as both Meiru and Belial were just fantastic! Meiru's backstory was interesting and I instantly loved his and Belial's contrastring Buddy-dynamic and quarrels! Ace keeps giving us great characters even when the anime is over.

It's a real shame these stories aren't getting animated, because reading them just makes me want to see them in action. And you have to leave out some characterization details like first-person pronouns when translating text, so people don't get all in-language details in English. (For example I find Hikaru's change between his on-stage "ore" in katakana, and his off-stage "ore" in kanji really important detail! And Belial being "ore-sama"-character is way too perfect and made me instantly love him.)