We turn long-running serial fiction into English that doesn’t read like a translation.

A small studio with a long publishing record. The flagship figures are public on our WebNovel profile.

Machine translation tells us what a chapter says. It doesn’t tell us how the chapter should sound, what a joke is doing, or what a character called someone four hundred chapters ago. That part is the job.

1. First pass

   AI and machine translation produce a working draft and flag the names, terms and lines that need judgment.

2. Context

   Ambiguous lines are resolved against the surrounding chapters, the character’s history and the logic of the scene.

3. Adaptation

   Idioms, humour, references and social cues are rewritten wherever a literal version would lose the meaning or the laugh.

4. Voice and continuity

   Each character keeps one voice, and every name, title and term stays consistent across hundreds of chapters.

5. Line edit

   A human editor works through the chapter line by line for rhythm, clarity and natural English.

6. Release

   Proofreading, formatting and a final check, then publication on schedule to readers on WebNovel and Patreon.

Literal

A toad lusting after swan meat.

Published

He’s reaching so far above himself it’s embarrassing.

Our first year ran on AI tools coordinated by hand. That works for one series at a time. To run several at once, and to keep a 700-chapter story consistent from its first chapter to its last, we are building an internal production system around long-context language models.

A finished series is far longer than any model can read in one pass. So the system has to know what each chapter depends on, fetch exactly that, and remember what was true at every point in the story.

Story record

A versioned record of characters, relationships, forms of address, terminology and the rules of the world, tracked chapter by chapter. The system knows what was true at chapter 212, not only what is true now.

Retrieval

Before any pass on a chapter, the system gathers the earlier passages, names and facts that chapter relies on, from anywhere in the series.

Specialised passes

Separate checks for continuity, contradictions, terminology, localization, dialogue and prose. Each returns structured notes for an editor instead of quietly rewriting the text.

Human approval

Nothing changes the story record or reaches readers until an editor signs off. Editorial judgment stays in charge.

Cost control

Context that rarely changes, such as the series guide and style rules, is cached and reused. Routine checks go to smaller, faster models, and judgment-heavy passes go to the strongest one.

Character

Shen Yu

As of

Chapter 412

Addressed as

“Young Master Shen” by servants. “Senior Brother Shen” by sect juniors since chapter 188. By his given name only by his mother.

Voice

Dry, short sentences. Never flatters. Swears only when frightened.

Current state

Left arm injured (ch. 405). Owes the Lu family a debt (ch. 97), unresolved.

Fixed terms

His sword technique is always “Falling Frost.”

Where it stands: parts of this already run as separate, hand-run workflows. We are now joining them into one system and testing it on book-length material.

First, more series in parallel, with fewer continuity errors and steadier release schedules.

Then, original serialized fiction. We will design those stories ourselves: the structure, the characters, the world and the turns. The same system will handle research, continuity, drafting support and revision. Every creative decision, and the final text, stays with people. Readers can tell the difference between a story someone shaped and one that was merely generated, and we intend to publish only the first kind.

Our work has been published on WebNovel and Patreon since December 2024. Both accounts belong to IseeBlack and link back to this site.

• WebNovel Our publishing profile, including the 733-chapter flagship series
• Patreon Membership and advance chapters for readers who support the work

IseeBlack was founded in December 2024. It is a small, founder-led studio: the founder directs localization and editorial work, with a proofreader and part-time editorial support.

The studio is bootstrapped and funded by its readers.

For publishing, collaboration and technology enquiries:

founder@iseeblack.com