A very good question came up regarding whether we at Nantonaku will be taking up Mitsui Aika’s official ameblog “aika”.
While I would love to add “aika” (and others) to the list of blogs we translate, which currently includes Michishige Sayumi’s Official Gree Blog and Niigaki Risa’s Official Oricon Star Blog, “It was happy?”, the chances of that happening are currently unfortunately low.
With the additional probability of Gakisan returning to a Q&A format in the near future, it takes a lot of time for me as one person to translate those blogs soon after they appear. Add to that the fact that I don’t know how many actual readers I have out there that would support 3 blogs translations without any reasonable amount of traffic to them. It’s true I do these translations for fun and I enjoy doing them, but the demand of them in addition to the daily requirements to keep alive (and well fed and what not) make it hard to justify this move, especially doing it all alone.
So I leave these questions to you, my readers:
1. Do you want to see Aika’s blog translated?
2. Do you have a way to secure/increase readers (or at least confirm the number of readers I have) in order to make it valid?
3. Would you sacrifice the “timeliness” of the blogs in order to add another blog translation to the mix?
Giving me good answers might not result in those actions being taken directly, but the more perspectives I get one the matter the better justifications I can make on whatever decision I make.