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ABOUT PR!
Prince Revolution! was the name of this website, which was created in April 2009, but the name has since come to refer to the group of translators and proof-readers who work behind its scenes. PR! aims to provide free English translations of various Chinese young adult/light novels. We have two projects at the current moment, 1/2 Prince and The Legend of the Sun Knight, both by Yu Wo. As of November 2010, these novels are also being translated into Spanish and German by our sister sites, Prince Revolution! Hispana and Prinz Revolution.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Do you have questions related to our website, group, or the projects that we’re working on? Our FAQ is here to help. Do us a favor, though, and make sure that your question hasn’t already been answered before you post your question via the comment system. If you’re requesting for spoilers, please make sure that you include your email address.
NOTE: Do not post your recruitment-related questions here. The recruitment page has its own FAQ section, which you should refer to for answers about recruitment issues.
Q: How can I contact you, other than through the site?
A: For general administrative questions or concerns, please email admin@princerevolution.org. For questions or submissions specifically regarding the English translations, please email english@princerevolution.org.
Q: When is the next update?
A: We update on a monthly schedule, during the first and second weeks of every month – that means the around 7th and the 14th.
Q: Is there a way for me to be alerted to updates?
A: There are a couple of ways. On the right menu you can use our RSS feed or sign up via email. You can also try checking Baka Updates, here. You can also check out our twitter feed at @princerevolutio, which will send a tweet automatically whenever the website is updated.
Q: Does Yu Wo (the author) know about PR!’s translation site?
A: Yes, she does. We informed her some time ago (May 2009) and received her approval to translate ½ Prince.
Q: How did PR! manage to contact Yu Wo?
A: We left her with a message on her Q&A board and also wrote her a short email. Her email address can be found on her webpage, right at the top.
Q: Does PR! have Yu Wo’s permission to translate The Legend of Sun Knight?
A: Yes. We asked and received her permission in January 2010.
Q: Does PR! have Yu Wo’s permission to translate ½ Prince and The Legend of Sun Knight into languages other than English?
A: Yes. We asked and received her permission in November 2010.
Q: Did PR! draw the avatars and artwork found on the site? May I use them?
A: No, we didn’t draw them. The avatars for the ½ Prince character page were drawn by Zhan Bu Lu, one of the official artists for ½ Prince. The avatars for the Sun Knight character page were drawn by Icicle, a doujin artist for Sun Knight. You must ask them for their permission if you wish to use them.
Q: Has PR! been permitted by the artists to use their artwork then?
A: Yes, with certain conditions.
Q: Can I share your translations by putting them up on my forum/website? I’ll make sure to give proper credit!
A: The answer is NO. The main reason for this is because if Yu Wo ever asks us to take down our translations or if the series is ever officially published in English, we can easily remove them from the site. It would be much harder for us to ensure a complete removal of our translations from the web if it’s uploaded on other sites/forums. Moreover, if our translations are uploaded onto other sites/forums, then readers who stumble upon our translations on those sites will not necessarily be aware of our rules regarding the translations, such as no stealing credit, no attempting to profit from our translations, etc. If you really wish to spread the love, please just put up a link to our site instead.
Q: Can I distribute your PDF versions of the translations (via IRC, by uploading it elsewhere, by distributing printed copies, etc)? I won’t (try to) profit off it or steal credit!
A: The answer is NO. In fact, the reasoning is exactly the same as for why we do not allow our translations to be shared on other websites. Feel free to share the link to the PDF, though.
Q: Could you guys enlarge the novel covers on the PDF files?
A: No, because we don’t want anyone to mistake our PDF (or pass it off) as an official English version of the novel.
Q: I’m also thinking of translating the same projects as PR!, but I prefer to work alone and at my own pace. Mind if I start my own translation site?
A: No worries. Just don’t use any of our translations or any content created by us, such as our character pages.
Q: I’m thinking of translating ½ Prince into another language (e.g. Russian), but I am unfamiliar with Chinese. Can I use PR!’s translations to translate ½ Prince instead?
A: Sure. Visit the recruitment page for more details.
Q: Could you guys upload any of the novels in Chinese for me to read?
A: The traditional Chinese version of ½ Prince can be found Yu Wo’s webpage. The Legend of Sun Knight is not available online in traditional Chinese. As for the simplified Chinese version of the two novel series…let’s just say that Google is your friend.
Q: Will you guys be translating the sequel volume for ½ Prince?
A: Yes, we will.
Q: How many volumes are there in the ½ Prince series?
A: There are eight volumes in the main series. The series has a sequel, which is only one volume long.
12:09 pm, January 14, 2011anon /
T^T I want a paper copy! As much as I want Prince to be licensed, I don’t, cuz then this would be taken down… Ah, the pain. :p
I love you guys for having this site and the translations by the way. :D
6:15 am, January 18, 2011Shadow Rebirth /
@anon
If you want a paper copy, you can always download the volume PDFs =]
12:29 am, December 23, 2011MinusApplePlus /
@Shadow Rebirth
I want to buy the novel xD too bad I cannot find it anywhere and even online stores !!!!
5:52 am, January 19, 2011Kira /
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Admin: Yes, we’re aware that there are several different loopholes, but we are not going to do anything about them. We merely want to discourage any copying, not make things too difficult for our readers.
1:17 am, January 24, 2011Kira /
Well, I do remember i came across a website that uses pictures instead of texts, with the right click disabled, and the pictures was jumbled and puzzled, so that piecing it together was a mess. black and white pictures loads fast as well, albeit heavier than texts file. A larger picture would make it easier to search in the caches and all. But someone could just print screen and do OCR later.
4:40 pm, January 22, 2011Namika /
Will be Sun Knight made into PDF like Prince too? I like paper print more that reading online (my eyes hurt if I read too much)…
P.S. I love your work, guys :D When I found the site, it was like second Christmas for me :D
5:44 pm, January 22, 2011Shadow Rebirth /
Yes, all of our volumes will be made into PDFs.
7:24 pm, January 23, 2011Emil B /
Im happy so see this page. Found it like a week after I read the english translated manga of 1/2 prince on mangafox.com and it then spent 7 hours in a row reading ;) ( Read it on 1/18/2011 , a date I will not forget )
After I read 1/2 prince, I had a “hearthache” about reading more of it, both manga and the novel and REALLY wanna play a game like this.
There is technology that can be created for a game like this ( Similar, not exactly ) and I hope they will use it sometime, it would obviusly become a big hit!
6:24 pm, January 27, 2011Emil B /
For those that wish to read the manga version heres the link:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/1_2_prince/
Personly, I read both the manga and novel , thank you for translating the novels ;)
Can I also ask how often the author releases a novel and how long time it takes to translate it?
6:13 am, January 28, 2011eilinel /
Thanks for the link. The novel is complete in Chinese, but translating it took a long time. Depending on the translator, translating a chapter can take 1~3 months, then we need 1 month or so to edit for accuracy and proof-read for grammar consistency. It’s not that we don’t want to release the chapter, but please just understand, we are putting a lot of hard work behind the scene. We know you aren’t bugging us, but to the general public: That’s why, while we appreciate your support, we DO NOT appreciate anyone bugging us for more releases. Thanks.
6:53 pm, January 28, 2011Emil B /
Im sorry, didnt mean to bug you, if I could Chinese I would help you translate it ( Or I would just read theim all :P )
Im thankfull for having you, very important, beings ( Translators are important beings, else who would help ous play Korean MMORPG’s or know when Asian people are insulting ous ? Ofc you would help ous translate back so we can insult theim also ~~ ) for translating this for ous.
2:41 am, January 29, 2011Shadow Rebirth /
Don’t worry, we’re aware you weren’t trying to bug us for releases =] That’s why eili added “We know you aren’t bugging us, but to the general public…”
Thanks for your support!
9:28 pm, February 7, 2011Emil B /
No release today?
I’ve waited the last seven days and Im going up early last three days to see if it got updated yet…
So, I’ve came to a conclusion, go pay for me to learn korean so I can help out with translating ~~ Its a Win/Win situation !
2:34 am, February 8, 2011eilinel /
The original novel language is Chinese, so you are paying to learn the wrong language =p.
4:36 pm, February 8, 2011Emil B /
Hmm, then, lets learn Chinese first, then korean, and then japanese!
Then I can translate ANY mangas! Win/Win AND /Win
2:47 pm, March 11, 2011Emil B /
Its already the 11th, Can I read it anytime soon `? :(
12:53 pm, March 15, 2011Emil B /
And now its the 15th.
Whats going on ?
12:58 pm, March 25, 2011Emil B /
No more updates????
8:41 pm, May 8, 2011lollipopchu /
this page clears up a lot of my questions :) If this got licensed in my country, I would love to be able to borrow the novels from my library but then this site would be taken down DX What if the licensing company only translated a few volumed and then dropped it? Would you guys be able to continue then?
1:18 am, September 1, 2011Shadow Rebirth /
@lollipopchu
Possibly. We’d have to discuss it with Yu Wo at that time.
8:21 pm, July 29, 2011angelika /
THANK YOU!!! I just can’t explain how i’m grateful that you do this hard for us!!!
12:39 pm, September 8, 2011dark.chii /
i was wondering, do you also plan on translating the LSK side stories? because i heard that yu wo wrote some and i’d love to read them ..
p.s. is it true that LSK has only 8 volumes?
7:23 am, September 10, 2011eilinel /
Yes we plan to translate the side stories~~ We plan to collect all the side stories into “1 bundled volume” at the end of the story.
Yu Wo originally plan to write 8 volumes, but from her recent facebook’s post….we might see 9 volumes of LSK. Who knows? As far as I currently know, the plan is still 8 volumes.
9:40 am, September 11, 2011dark.chii /
@eilinel
with “at the end of the story”, do you mean after you’ve translated all the volumes? i’m not trying to sound ungrateful, because i really appreciate it that you translate LSK and 1/2 prince (though i haven’t read much of it yet), but i think it’s a bit sad if you do so (i heard some side stories take place before the story).
11:00 am, September 11, 2011eilinel /
Yes. *shrugs* They are side stories~They offers more insight into the characters, but they don’t really affect the story otherwise. Plus, Yu Wo keep releasing them on a irregular basis … we can’t say for sure she won’t be releasing more of them, which is why I want to wait untill all the volumes are done.
12:24 am, September 12, 2011dark.chii
@eilinel
sorry for the empty post before >_>
ok now i understand. cool, i didn’t know that she still writes some.
9:47 pm, January 22, 2012kierah /
I’m not sure if you guys noticed this, since it’s not on the website, but some one has made an app on the android market for PR!. It can be found here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.andytank.princereader&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEwMiwiY29tLmFuZHl0YW5rLnByaW5jZXJlYWRlciJd
Well, umm, is it okay for the app to be there?
12:53 pm, January 23, 2012Shadow Rebirth /
Yes actually, we’ve been working with the developer on that =] We’ll be officially announcing it next month.
4:06 pm, March 22, 2012Kierah /
The PDF Files for the LSK & HP Volumes aren’t available anymore because MegaUpload shut down. Can you guys please post the download somewhere else? Thank you! ^_^
4:26 am, March 23, 2012dahlys /
We already moved them a long time ago! Right after MegaUpload shut down, in fact. Please check the download page again.
9:14 pm, March 31, 2012jmbondy /
So, something to point out to you that I’m not entirely sure isn’t an april fools joke, but whenever I try to access http://www.princerevolution.org, I get redirected to vvv.princerevolution.org and this is the same website in Chinese. However, I was able to access the english version of this site by searching through google for something other than the homepage. However, if I try and click on the homepage from here I am redirected to the chinese version of this. I just thought to bring it to your attention because it only started happening today.
8:16 pm, April 5, 2012Jasae Bushae /
allo~ XD i know i already asked this but i never got an answer and my comment got poofed away so i was wondering: What were the april fools jokes of previous years? I am quite curious since I only began reading in august of the previous year just shy of april and its foolery
10:57 pm, April 5, 2012lucathia /
You can find last year’s April Fools’ chapters here:
http://www.princerevolution.org/tag/af-2011/
The joke is on the ending of each chapter.
9:01 am, April 6, 2012Jasae Bushae /
@lucathia
XDDD awesome XD
whats this line from? i dont recognize it
“It’s Friday, Friday! Gotta get down on Friday! Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend. Yesterday was Thursday. Today is Friday. We so excited, we gonna have a ball today! Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards!”
1:30 pm, April 6, 2012lucathia /
That song is called Friday by Rebecca Black. It was quite a sensation last year, known for being widely disliked. (Though I had to look the song up after we released the chapter. XD;;; )
7:38 pm, April 6, 2012Jasae Bushae
@lucathia
ooooh i see~
my first guess was a commercial jingle for a resturaunt XD
5:45 pm, May 10, 2012Jasae Bushae /
Well this is going to be a slow month chapterwise.
the last chapter for the current sun knight book plus epiloque, one chapter for 1/2 prince and two more sidestories
im guessing its slowed down a bit due to more spreading out of translators to get the side story portion finished :3
wells it shall be a grand read none the less ^^