Translation company interested in the Ultimania guides

[Kuja9001]

The Japanese translation and publishing company Interbooks Co. LTD is looking for new material to bring overseas. To gauge interest in an official translation of the Final Fantasy Ultimania books, a petition has been created by one of its employees.

https://www.change.org/petitions/be...he-final-fantasy-ultimania-books-into-english

 

[Death Penalty]

Thank you for sharing this. It would be great if this could wind up other places, because I really want to see this succeed.

 

[masterlobo]

This needs more attention!

 

[Nikolasvanitas]

Nice ,I would like to support their petition

 

[Azuardo]

omg yes, this would be a dream come true.

A heck of a mighty task, but one can dream!

 

[Jenova]

I'd love to able to own the Ultimania guides in my native tongue. Definitely supporting this.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

I'm all for this.

 

[APZonerunner]

Fuck, signed. I need the FF9 Ultimania in my life.

 

[Azuardo]

How much do these things sell for in Japan, converted, approximately? Like, how much would they likely end up going on sale for here, if translated?

I mean, I'd likely end up buying a lot of these, for FF7, 8, 9, 10...maybe 12, and who knows about 13. I imagine I'd be talking at least £100 or more?

 

[LeonBlade]

Definitely interesting, however, where exactly did news of this spread from? It seems a bit strange for Interbooks to not make some official statement about this, and instead, opt to only create a petition about it on a website and make no other attempt to publicize the effort from an end that would reach a wider audience. I tried looking in to this more, as I would love to see this happen, and I'm not finding really anything other than people finding the change.org petition and talking about it. More strangely, I see a post on NeoGAF and one user who lists two "updates", yet I see no mention of these updates on the change.org page. Why wouldn't a company whose focus is to "make the japanese world accessible to the people overseas" make more of an effort to publicize this? I don't want to seem negative about any of this, I just find it confusing. If anyone has any information about this that I haven't found to verify this petitions validity, please let me know.

 

[masterlobo]

Definitely interesting, however, where exactly did news of this spread from? It seems a bit strange for Interbooks to not make some official statement about this, and instead, opt to only create a petition about it on a website and make no other attempt to publicize the effort from an end that would reach a wider audience. I tried looking in to this more, as I would love to see this happen, and I'm not finding really anything other than people finding the change.org petition and talking about it. More strangely, I see a post on NeoGAF and one user who lists two "updates", yet I see no mention of these updates on the change.org page. Why wouldn't a company whose focus is to "make the japanese world accessible to the people overseas" make more of an effort to publicize this? I don't want to seem negative about any of this, I just find it confusing. If anyone has any information about this that I haven't found to verify this petitions validity, please let me know.

I am honestly skeptical as well, but I don't think we lose anything by signing. Unless there's small print saying we are selling our souls!!!

No, but seriously, I understand your concern and let's hope OP delivers.

 

[Death Penalty]

My thoughts as well. It smells a little fishy, but the site is well known and signing doesn't cost anything. I'll just pray this is real.

 

[Kuja9001]

Definitely interesting, however, where exactly did news of this spread from? It seems a bit strange for Interbooks to not make some official statement about this, and instead, opt to only create a petition about it on a website and make no other attempt to publicize the effort from an end that would reach a wider audience. I tried looking in to this more, as I would love to see this happen, and I'm not finding really anything other than people finding the change.org petition and talking about it. More strangely, I see a post on NeoGAF and one user who lists two "updates", yet I see no mention of these updates on the change.org page. Why wouldn't a company whose focus is to "make the japanese world accessible to the people overseas" make more of an effort to publicize this? I don't want to seem negative about any of this, I just find it confusing. If anyone has any information about this that I haven't found to verify this petitions validity, please let me know.

Updates come from here and its an employee of Interbooks atm not the entire company.

 

[TRI Mike]

I'd fuckin' get them all. ALL.

 

[Azuardo]

Unfortunately we have to declare defeat.
Interbooks Co. LTD
Japan
11 Jul 2014 — Dear FF fans,

First of all I would like to thank you all for signing this petition and I must apologize for kept you waiting for an update.
In these three months we found a few way to contact Square Enix indirectly and directly but we had the same answer from everyone.

At the moment Square Enix is not interested in making an English translation of the Ultimania series books for various reason I cannot say here. Even if the petition reached 10,000 signs the result wouldn't have changed.

I am very sorry for not being able to make this dream come true.

Regards

Caracciolo Paolo

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