These novels have never been released in the US right?

 

Has anyone read them and know what they are about/if they add more to the Birth By Sleep plot?

 

Does anyone know where i can read translated versions of them?

 

Thanks!

I believe you can find translated versions of them online, but it would be very hard to find. They add much more to the plot, giving the viewpoints of Vanitas and other side characters. It's unfortunate they have not yet been translated into English, but YEN PRESS, the company translating the Kingdom Hearts Manga said they are currently thinking about bringing them over to America.

There are novels?

I hope they bring them over!

I believe you can find translated versions of them online, but it would be very hard to find. They add much more to the plot, giving the viewpoints of Vanitas and other side characters. It's unfortunate they have not yet been translated into English, but YEN PRESS, the company translating the Kingdom Hearts Manga said they are currently thinking about bringing them over to America.

That would be amazing if they did that! Is there an official interview or statement on that? i would definitely get them

Goldpanner has translated parts of BBS into English (the first few chapters of the first novel) on http://khenglish.wordpress.com/index/kingdom-hearts-birth-by-sleep-vol-1-something-strange/ 

 

OR you can read a completed English fan-translation of the entire first novel on http://pageaday.dreamwidth.org/ . This translator has also translated the Re:Coded novel in full and the official collection of Kingdom Hearts short stories Other Diamonds and Axel Seven Days BUT YOU MUST MAKE AN ACCOUNT. ONCE YOU DO SO YOU ARE FREE TO READ IT.

 

There are two other chapters you can read in English: http://kh13.com/forum/topic/21463-dark-memory-translation-vanitas-backstory/#ixzz2Qj2REr00 is Vanitus' backstory (I freaking love this!)

 

and also the chapter Contrast at http://remember-kingdom-hearts.tumblr.com/post/28870649241/bonus-translation-of-the-novel-chapter-contrast 

 

All of these are unofficial English translations of the official novels. I DID NOT TRANSLATE THEM. None are fanfictions. I hope that this is what you wanted

 

Forgot to say that the account you must make to read the novel on Dreamwidth is FREE

 

There are 3 official novels in Japanese with no official English translations.

Volume 1 Something Strange, Volume 2 Best Friends and Volume 3 To The Future

Yen Press at some point stated that if they had enough interest they would consider publishing them in English so go ahead and tell them on social networking that you want them!

Edited March 20, 201411 yr by star7crystal

http://www.khinsider.com/news/Let-Your-Voice-Be-Heard-for-KINGDOM-HEARTS-Novels-3307

 

There is your link my friend.

http://www.khinsider.com/news/Let-Your-Voice-Be-Heard-for-KINGDOM-HEARTS-Novels-3307

 

There is your link my friend.

So i thought there was just novels relating to BBS but i see that there are more. How many total novels are out there?

So i thought there was just novels relating to BBS but i see that there are more. How many total novels are out there?

20, several for each game. There's a box set at the official SE store (http://store.jp.square-enix.com/detail/SE-E0037), but a] it's crazy expensive and b] I don't know if they ship overseas. ...hmm, might ask my bookstore to special order it when I go back.

So i thought there was just novels relating to BBS but i see that there are more. How many total novels are out there?

There are 3 novels for Birth By Sleep

2 novels for KH1 (These appear to be difficult to find though)

3 for Chain of Memories (2 for Sora's story, 1 for Riku's story)

3 for 358/2 Days

4 for KH2

1 for Re:Coded

2 for DDD (1 for Sora's Story, 1 for Riku's story)

 

and 2 novels where each chapter is a short story related to Kingdom Hearts (for example 1 is set just after Sora and Riku join Kairi and co back on Destiny Island after the fight with Xemnas, and another is a story about Namine eating Ice Cream with Prence, Olette and Hayner before wiping their memory about it sometime in KH2). These are called Axel Seven Days and Other Diamonds.

 

None of these have been officially translated into English but if you look around you can find some good fan translations. The best (in my opinion) are Goldpanner and Tyger. Goldpanner has translated 4 novels in full, these are Riku's Chain of memories novel, and all 3 of the 358/2 Days novels. Tyger has translated the Re:coded novel, the first Birth By Sleep novel and Other Diamonds and Axel Seven Days.

 

Here's the link for Goldpanner's site with the translated novels: http://khenglish.wordpress.com/index/

 

I hope this helps

Edited March 20, 201411 yr by star7crystal

thanks so much for the feedback! I really hope these get translated one day, but ill definitely read those fan translations