8 Answers2025-12-24
This could also be a project for a Lost Media Wiki-style website for fanfiction - users can create listings for missing stories, for fragments of stories that have been found, and collaborate to complete the missing works.
In the meantime, networking might be the best tool to find a lost story. Spread the word you are searching for a story on all the platforms you are active on. Tweet about it, make a Tumblr post, ask your Discord servers. If you are that polite and show your appreciation for the found material, fandom archivists are quite willing to share their finds with you.
6 Answers2026-05-09
You search online to read a story, such as “Jane Rayan”, and after a long search you finally find it on an aggregator website with a horrible layout. So you end up ruinig a great story for the sake of a bad website. Instead you could use a text-to-speech tool to have your computer or phone read it out to you while you do something else to avoid eye strain.
Most devices have screen readers built in these days. At first it sounds a bit weird but you can get used to it quite quickly, and actually it can be quite good for novel-length work which doesn’t have a lot of deep description and is more plot-driven. I have been known to ‘read’ (in that I listen to the chapters being read to me) quite a few of the fan-translated novels out there while I’m making dinner, or walking, for example. It can make what otherwise might be a very frustrating search online into something that you can be doing at the same time as something else.
9 Answers2025-09-08
Surprise surprise surprise that I have to say this but for any Webtoon Original (published through the Webtoon platform), it would be through the Webtoon platform as they have exclusive licenses to said Originals. (Just checked the Webtoon app and yes it is there and updating).
This has got to be one of the most obvious questions ever. Anyone could tell you that for Webtoon Originals, you would go to the Webtoon platform where they have licensed the work exclusively. And yes, My Dear Hunter is on the platform and is being updated. I’ve added a link to the work on the Webtoon platform below. Any other site would be either an incomplete pre-license fan translation or an illegal scrape of the work. Not good for the long-term. Go to the source, just as you would for buying a Big Mac – it’s on the McDonald’s website, for example. Sure, you might be able to find a poor imitation of a Big Mac elsewhere, but why on earth would you want to?
7 Answers2025-09-09
I came across this post searching for answers. I know there are many memes regarding this book on the social media platforms. As for me reading it, however, I never got around to it. It seems like an immense task to even locate it, so I may just have to watch a YouTube video that summarizes it instead.
9 Answers2026-02-01
One has to consider not just where one is going to read a story, but also in what order its chapters are to be read. The Translator’s Table of Contents (linked from Shinkai at the top of this page) lays out chapters of Flowers are Bait in prologue, main story, and bonus sections. That they were written to be read in that particular order is crucial to appreciating several layers of symbolism which grow gradually from the protagonist’s growing realization of the true nature of the flowers he’s been using to catch girls. Getting to understand that slowly is key to his growing up and, to readers, to their getting to appreciate the central metaphor of the story. An aggregator might not care to recreate the structure for such work, though.
10 Answers2026-05-27
Just a word of warning re: translation issues. Such as reading some very unusual wordings of phrases, characters having inconsistent names, occasional poor use of grammar. This is the trade-off for getting lots of content rapidly and cheaply. Such apps are designed for quantity and speed, so if you are a grammar/names-type then this will get on your nerves something dreadful. But plot and emotions come through just fine for those who don't.
Most of the story’s core elements, including the relationships, conflicts, and melodrama, translate well and are usually expressed adequately in the story, even in less-than-perfect language. The emotional shifts in the story, whether it be a betrayal, jealousy, or a grand gesture, are all elements that are fundamental and easy to understand in a story. They are human in nature and as long as the basic elements are there, you can be sure that the emotional shifts in the story will be expressed clearly. A bad translation is just a doorway to the story, not a masterpiece in itself.
12 Answers2025-08-25
I sometimes just have to wait. The really popular novels will often end up in a more stable home in the end – perhaps an official platform licenses it, or a fan completes it and releases it as a full PDF. I’ve abandoned my search for a number of novels only to find them a year later on a forum, fully translated and conveniently compiled into a PDF for your reading pleasure.
But meanwhile you could read another novel off your never-ending ‘to-read’ list. The amount of web novels out there is virtually endless. So as not to ruin your fun of reading the novel that you’re having trouble finding, don’t get too obsessed with finding it. Set up a Google Alert for the novel’s title. Follow a related subreddit. When a good source of the novel turns up, you’ll be notified of it. Transfer your energy that was previously devoted to actively searching for a way to read the novel to now watching for opportunities to read it. The novel will still be there when the way to read it becomes more apparent.
5 Answers2026-07-09
I’m just reading the manhwa on Tapas, for the novel translation of ‘Pick Me Up’ it’s too fragmented and inconsistent for me to really care about right now. (That being said, I believe it is currently ahead of the comic, although it’s difficult for me to find individual English chapters of it and it would require far more effort on my part to read the novel rather than the manhwa). The art really adds to the gacha summoning scenes, so that’s a major draw for me to just read the manhwa.
10 Answers2025-08-19
Wait. Which Payback is that even? I only know of two BL stories with that title; one’s a Korean novel, most likely, set in a revenge plot, and the other’s a Chinese web novel. Where would I search for that? If it’s the Korean novel then I’d look for the raws on sites like KakaoPage or Ridibooks.
As there is no official English translation available for ‘Payback’, we rely on fan efforts to translate this BL novel. I recommend checking out the Korean BL communities on Discord, as these channels are usually sorted by title and completed translations are linked. Note that most of these servers require an invite link, which can be found on the Twitter accounts of the translators or in the respective server’s descriptions. Although it may require a bit more effort, translated content on these servers is usually very well formatted and up-to-date.
10 Answers2025-06-10
Translator’s Twitter is worth checking out. Often translators announce updates on their Twitter accounts or on Curious Cat and then link to the appropriate chapter on their free hosting (usually a free blog like WordPress or Blogger). This is because big aggregator sites tend to repost chapters without the translator’s permission, so it’s best to go to the translator’s site directly for the latest, greatest version. Turning translator seems to post update announcements fairly regularly on his Twitter account. A search for his name should turn up recent updates to his work. It’s a lot easier than wading through a bunch of middlemen.