r/SurvivingtheAcademy

Hey everyone!

I'm the translator behind the BetterTranslation version of The Extra's Academy Survival Guide. I recently decided to make a Reddit account for BetterTranslation, and figured this was probably the most fitting community for my first post 😅

I've actually seen BetterTranslation mentioned here a few times when people were asking where to continue the novel, which was pretty cool to see.

I'll probably be hanging around the subreddit from now on, so if you ever have questions about the novel, notice a mistake in one of the chapters, or are just curious about something, feel free to tag or message me.

And of course, I'm a fan of the series too, so I'm looking forward to actually joining some of the discussions here after spending so much time translating it 😂

Nice to finally meet you guys!

Beautiful story from start to finish. There's just one thing that's been lingering on my mind longer than it should have. After they do the deed, Ed mentioned Lortel had to sleep in his bed because her bed was unusable after they did it. My first thought was that since it was a different time period, bed frames and mattrases probably weren't as durable as they currently are in modern times. But then I quickly dismissed that because they were staying in a high quality place so the bed obviously must have been of good standard. So then the next thought was, how? Do you know how chaoticly forceful you have to be to break through a bed?

Assuming it was a wooden bed, Ed would have to be putting in about "2,000 to 4,000 Newtons), or roughly 300 pounds of steady weight, to break an average wooden bed. Be it missionary, doggy, or whatever other positions they tried that night. Realistically, Lortel should have been damn near paralyzed from the waist down the morning after. Putting in enough force to break a bed is literally worse than what he did to Janica and SHE was the one to wake up the next day with a sore back. The only other 2 ideas that come to mind is that at some point, lost in the ecstacy of the moment, one of the two could have accidentally released some magic that destroyed the bed. The other option is that the bed was so heavily stained in their body fluids after multiple rounds that it became, as Ed said, "unusable". And hey, if he was going that crazy then sure, good for him. But putting in that much force on a girl with a smaller frame and a VIRGIN girl no less, is insane.

I know, it's not something I really need to be overthinking to this level. But my ADHD wouldn't let me let it go due to how absured the implication was and how inconsistent the aftereffects were compared to Janica's, especially since she's built bigger than Lortel. Anywho, thanks for coming to my ted talk and entertaining my intrusive thoughts lol.

I’m making an animation for this cuz i really like the story, novel, and manhwa. But when I was story boarding it out, it really occurred to me just how much narration there is😭 Like not just Ed, every dam character lol. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing but geez man. It’s like 90% narration and 10% dialogue lol

What i mean is that like we don’t get introduced to many characters. And when we do they kinda plain ngl. I wish we got introduced to more guys like zigg instead of them focusing on the harem. I feel like that’s why people don’t like taylee either. He’s got nothing behind him. He is more understandable tho since he’s supposed to be the stereotypical good guy. But they couldn’t have let Ed make more friends that weren’t main characters? Also, we know like nothing about the main characters besides zigg and lortel.

And by plain i kinda mean like wade and the other first years. Zigg and others had more fleshed out backstories. Wade showed up and the story was like “This is wade, uhhh he’s the son of a general, and he wants to beat up semi-strong people👍” His only purpose was to make Zigg cooler (which i don’t dislike)

That is one thing i’m liking so far about the novel, is that more characters are fleshed out. Maybe i just missed smth idk man

1.Lortelle
2.Yennekar(Janica)

3.Lucy

4.Belle

5.Clarice