Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku | Main Story

[healingbonds]

MahoYaku Masterpost

Notes:
The main story is fully voiced, so please download the app (Apple | Android) and listen along. While we do include visuals where they seem important, it's infinitely more entertaining to see everything happen in-app. (Plus, the soundtrack is excellent!) The full main story is unlocked at rank 75.

As with all our other translations, this main character is a man and uses the default name "Akira." We've opted for appropriate alternatives for Japanese honorifics that show up in the text. The one exception is that Mitile still calls Rutile "nii-sama" rather than "big brother" or his name. Romanization for many spells was referenced from this Twitter user's work.

This project was a full team effort, and we had a total blast doing it. If you've enjoyed any of our translations and wish to support us, please do so by supporting MahoYaku so that we can all continue enjoying this story for a while to come!


Chapter 1: If We Could Become Friends
Chapter 2: The Sage's Manual
Chapter 3: The Great Catastrophe
Chapter 4: A World Where Wizards Live
Chapter 5: Crest of the Moon
Chapter 6: Set Fire to the Magic Headquarters!
Chapter 7: The Sage's Wizards
Chapter 8: A Mixer with the Wizards
Chapter 9: The Northern Tower
Chapter 10: Words of Blessing
Chapter 11: The Flight to the Parade
Chapter 12: The Party at Granvelle
Chapter 13: The Northern Wizards
Chapter 14: A Collapsed Tower and the Shadow of a Bird
Chapter 15: A Request from Drummond
Chapter 16: The Lunar Eclipse Palace
Chapter 17: Wicked Wizards
Chapter 18: You Can Walk All Alone
Chapter 19: Bizarre Injuries Left by the Catastrophe
Chapter 20: The Omen of Umbra Volans
Chapter 21: A Story for the Sage's Manual

Comments

[faile]

It's been really great to read this alongside a close listen to the main story; in many ways it's made the experience so much more richer. It's clear that this has been crafted carefully, deftly and with a lot of love.

The fantasy setting is an utter delight to read, and the writing is wonderful — quieter, impactful sentences with lovely turns of phrases — and that really comes through in your translations. What I enjoyed most about this translation is that I read in it the tone and rhythm I hear when I listen to the voiced story, without losing the tone or imagery of Tsushimi's writing. The end result reads so effortlessly crystalline. Thank you so much (!!!) for all your hard work - this is really wonderful and I'm sure I'll be rereading it again.