Light Novel Translation That Keeps Volumes and Names Intact
You can translate a light novel, web serial, or complete volume with AI: upload the whole volume once and GoodTrans emails back editable Markdown and TXT, a bilingual review file, and a document-level quality report. Volume and chapter breaks stay in reading order, and a glossary holds character names, ranks, and honorifics across every chapter. Confirm you hold the rights to the work before starting.
Built for serials, not single chapters
Light novels fail on the boring parts: a rank that changes spelling in volume two, an honorific dropped in chapter eleven, a volume translated out of order.
Volume and chapter order
Each volume is translated as one document rather than a pile of pasted chapters. Volume titles, chapter headings, and interlude breaks stay in reading order, and context carries across chapter boundaries.
Honorifics and ranks
Decide once how -san, -sama, -kun, Senior Brother, Young Master, or a cultivation realm should read, then keep that decision across the whole volume instead of letting each chapter reinvent it.
Glossary that survives the series
Upload a CSV, XLSX, or TXT glossary, or type one rule per line. Reuse the same file for later volumes so a protagonist, a sect, or a skill keeps the same name from volume one to volume ten.
Bilingual review file
Source and translation sit side by side in one HTML file, so an editor can move paragraph by paragraph and mark the passes that need a human decision instead of rereading 300 pages blind.
Quality report per volume
An automated report lists omissions, terminology drift, changed numbers, and structural damage, plus which check families actually ran for your language pair. It is a review aid, not a certificate.
Async delivery by email
A full volume takes time, so the task runs in the background. Submit it, close the tab, and the package arrives by email when translation finishes; failures return the consumed credits automatically.
How light novel translation works
Four steps from raw volume to a review-ready package.
Upload the volume
TXT, Markdown, or PDF up to 50MB, or pasted text. EPUB has its own chapter-aware path on the EPUB translation page. Confirm source and target languages.
Lock names, ranks, and style
Add your glossary and decide the honorific convention up front. This is the step that keeps a hundred-chapter series readable instead of merely translated.
Check the estimate and submit
The credit estimate appears before you submit, based on the real length of the volume. Long volumes then run asynchronously in the background.
Review the package
The email contains editable Markdown, plain TXT, the bilingual review file, and the quality report. Read the report first; it points at the segments worth a human eye.
Light novel translation — questions
Direct answers on volumes, honorifics, series continuity, cost, and formats.
Ready to translate your volume?
See the credit estimate before you commit. Upload the volume, lock the names, and let it run while you get on with something else.