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Well, it's been a few days since I finished my 'fic. (The Allison & Lillia stuff is still, like, dancing on my head and I don't know what to do except ride it out for awhile...) Now for something different.
I've been trying to brush up my Japanese lately, and one way I'm studying is by trying to translate things that I would like to read. At "muddling through with a stack of dictionaries* and occasionally getting lost and just taking a desperate stab" level, I don't feel up to signing on with a scanlation group or anything like that, but my translations won't do anyone any good hoarded privately on my hard drive, so I thought I should at least share them with you all.
What I've got today is After 0 by Okazaki Jiro, a collection of sort of Twilight-Zone-esque sci-fi one-shots. Way back when I was a youngling, there was a Japanese-learners' magazine called Mangajin that I enjoyed very much and still mourn sometimes, and among the various things they reprinted were a couple of After 0 stories, and they're what's stayed with me the most. I bought the whole thing awhile back, and have slowly and sporadically been working on translating it as described above, so here for your perusing pleasure is the first story: "The Buddha Descends," in the form of rough scans with a translated script (rtf format).
http://www.uploadstation.com/file/YpsBca9/after0_1-01.zip
(If you try this at some later date and the link is dead, leave a comment and I'll try to refresh it.)
Sorry about the annoying uploader site link; a disadvantage of giving up my own web-hosting... I apologize also that the scans are crap, but I'll tell you why they are: these books are printed so tight into the spine that the only way to get really good scans would be to carefully cut the pages out (when there's a little sidebar at the end you will completely have to take my word for it), and I wasn't willing to dismember my keeper copies or put down the money for sacrificial duplicates, so I decided to just not worry about it. Translating straight prose would be easier in a way, since I could just put it up as blog posts; well, maybe later (since I did find raws of most of the Allison & Lillia stuff...).
And since I can at least post this much, here's the translated script:
( The Buddha Descends )
I have a couple more of these almost ready and will post them soon, at least if anyone wants them.
*and by "stack of dictionaries" I mostly mean Rikaichan.
I've been trying to brush up my Japanese lately, and one way I'm studying is by trying to translate things that I would like to read. At "muddling through with a stack of dictionaries* and occasionally getting lost and just taking a desperate stab" level, I don't feel up to signing on with a scanlation group or anything like that, but my translations won't do anyone any good hoarded privately on my hard drive, so I thought I should at least share them with you all.
What I've got today is After 0 by Okazaki Jiro, a collection of sort of Twilight-Zone-esque sci-fi one-shots. Way back when I was a youngling, there was a Japanese-learners' magazine called Mangajin that I enjoyed very much and still mourn sometimes, and among the various things they reprinted were a couple of After 0 stories, and they're what's stayed with me the most. I bought the whole thing awhile back, and have slowly and sporadically been working on translating it as described above, so here for your perusing pleasure is the first story: "The Buddha Descends," in the form of rough scans with a translated script (rtf format).
http://www.uploadstation.com/file/YpsBca9/after0_1-01.zip
(If you try this at some later date and the link is dead, leave a comment and I'll try to refresh it.)
Sorry about the annoying uploader site link; a disadvantage of giving up my own web-hosting... I apologize also that the scans are crap, but I'll tell you why they are: these books are printed so tight into the spine that the only way to get really good scans would be to carefully cut the pages out (when there's a little sidebar at the end you will completely have to take my word for it), and I wasn't willing to dismember my keeper copies or put down the money for sacrificial duplicates, so I decided to just not worry about it. Translating straight prose would be easier in a way, since I could just put it up as blog posts; well, maybe later (since I did find raws of most of the Allison & Lillia stuff...).
And since I can at least post this much, here's the translated script:
( The Buddha Descends )
I have a couple more of these almost ready and will post them soon, at least if anyone wants them.
*and by "stack of dictionaries" I mostly mean Rikaichan.
