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>>20385309
The big thing is really the size of the project and learning to lingo associated with Horizon, with Kawakami's own quirks sprinkled on top.
It's not so much that it's crazy difficult, but rather that you have a solid base to work from and already have experience reading a lot of Japanese (you can't just jump from textbooks to translating a novel because the slowest part would be literally reading the Japanese).

For those who can already read LNs (or even translate at a reasonable level) it wouldn't be that difficult to start translating Horizon, after getting up to speed on the lingo. Preferably you would read a decent amount in the original Japanese first before starting translation so you'd have good grasp of the commonly used unusual words. The problem is more the scale of the project.

>>20385514
The most recent photo I have is five years old and doesn't show the two figures I have. Of course I have all the novel volumes and almost everything there is still in my home country.

>>20383491
It does beat my collection.

>>20382865
It's not like previews show everything.

Is this real life?

>>20378952
Doesn't look like it.
From what I've gathered the chapter is about transferring Toori from the shrine he is currently associated with to the Asama shrine and there's a possibility to kinda level him up during that process that requires some recognition of him as a "person" that can't be done because his father isn't around.
I don't think I've reached the point of the illustration, yet, but probably they thought of another way he could gain that recognition.

>>20379109
I'm sure there are, but without knowing roughly where in the book I'm looking for that information it could take me a long time to find it.

>>20378882
You can always try asking me for specifics relating to certain illustrations.

>>20376984
>The Kyokai Senjou no Horizon anime was quite popular during its time.
Not outstandingly, though. Remember it averaged around 20k per volume (which isn't bad, but isn't spectacular; it didn't top any charts). Getting the boxed set is pretty much a miracle.
Sales of the LN certainly got a boost from the anime, but still, it's not in the league of the really popular LNs. And I'd say it's pretty much too late to make shorter spinoffs that don't rely on the main story because who are you targeting them to? The people who watched the anime five years ago but didn't get invested in the LN series?

It just doesn't really make sense to do it as a milking enterprise.

>>20376892
Kawakami writes spinoffs and epilogues because he wants to. Horizon isn't THAT popular that the publisher would force more to be written so it'd sell under the brand name.
Sure, it's still profitable for them, but Kawakami has a loyal enough fanbase that he could write any of the other stories he has in mind and would still pull around the same sales so they'll just let him do what he wants.

>>20376144
Yes.

Okay, and as for the afterward. Kawakami says that he is planning to write side stories and continuations to their adventures, but it isn't stated it will be next or what the next series will be.
The second half of the afterward is mostly contemplation on how his idea from junior high school finally reached completion and such.

>>20376123
That was supposed to be spoilered too.

Anyway, the end.

>>20376113
Damn it, that was supposed to be spoilered.