Kuma 289 – With 290 and some pretty important news

The links to the chapters are down below, but you may want to read the rest first.

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As Kuma has been licensed officially by Seven Seas (see this tweet), we are dropping the series. Here are two more chapters with our normal editing process applied, and then we will dump the rest as-is. They will remain up on our site until we are given a notice to take them down.

Now, I know some of you are probably making faces like these

Well, making this novel popular was actually all part of our evil plan to get it licensed, and then we would drop it to make you all feel despair!

Blame yourself for making it popular!!!

That said I think most of us over here are quite happy that it got licensed (because we’re lazy and don’t want to work on it anymore, of course).

You should also note that the Light Novel is different from the Web Novel, as actual professional editors passed through it, and the author put more time and effort into getting it out. You should expect most inconsistencies to be taken care of.
Having a licensed professional translation is also often better than just some minions doing it as a hobby (I’ve heard many good things said about Seven Seas too).

I will now have to prepare and dump all the unedited chapters at once… That’s gonna take some work…

None of the other novels are dropped, so you can keep reading those here.

Here are some messages from the rest of the staff

From Ria Ria

I didn’t join for the bears but when I did start proofing I binged like everyone else, but Kuma was always done proofing before other novels. Manga came along and I jumped to the task but our translator soloed it. What was there for me to do when it came to Kuma? I wonder what will happen to the minions who joined because of Bear. Regardless, we’ll all miss our Bear Girl… TwT
~ Sincerely a Lazy Dead Minion

From Regeane Wolfe

It was a fun ride with you guys, thanks for the support and do remember to support the author’s official release too!

From grae

Grae’s message can be found here

From ShinonomeResearchLabs (SRL)

Despite my short tenure at first as a reader, then proofer, and sometimes editor of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, I really enjoyed having a part in the translation of this series. It was effectively the first series I’ve worked on, so I’m a little sad to see it go. Here’s to hoping the licensor publishes it quickly (and secretly that they drop it so we can pick it up again). Now, uh… Speedphoenix, help me out here. What else are we supposed to write?

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Here’s chapter 289.
Here’s chapter 290.

Translated by Aikawa and Aki, Edited by Mali, proofed by SRL, grae, Tekbot and Speedphoenix.

Also, last week’s next linked to this song.