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I got sidetracked this time when I found that this game is actually quite congenial to ripping sprites, so I got the ones from the story mode and submitted them to Sprite Database, too. You can see them here.

And now we come to Genma... Who might actually be the most distasteful character in this thing. (If he has any actual fans, I feel for them here, I really do.)

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( Genma's Story, English and Japanese )

Next time, I'll be finishing things up with Keith.

In the meantime, I'm trying not to get sucked into the vortex of doujinshi-buying *too* quickly. Something in me really likes the quirky idea of becoming a collector of dojin for an obscure old video games series, and the ones that have already arrived do make me happy (they're like these art objects...), but it gets so expensive so fast...

Today is Gates!

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( Gates' Story, English and Japanese )

I think I need to slacken my pace a little, but I'll be back probably on Monday with Sonia.

The first batch of the dojinshi I was crazy enough to order also arrived today, so I'll have to nose around at those...

Today is Wong's story, which was surprisingly high-stakes and exciting for a goofy little thing like this. I did have to wing it on some of his four-character proverbs, but I think I'm reasonably close...

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( Wong's Story, English and Japanese )

Next up is Brad!

This is the other one I had done already, last thing to post tonight, honest.

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( Emilio's Story, English and Japanese )


Up next is Wendy, who was delayed a bit by the technical difficulties over at the LJ-comm and such, but hopefully I'll have it in a few days.

P.S.: IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THIS POWER!!

It's that time again! Another After 0 story is translated and ready (for the zero people I know to be reading these, but I enjoy the accomplishment). In this one, the first in a long (long) running thread, a murdered man returns from the dead to bring his killers to justice --- in the body of his own infant son and with the assistance of his wife/mother. It's really kind of messed up.

As before, a zip with scans and translated script:
http://www.uploadstation.com/file/pWE5UF8/after0_1-04.zip
(If you find the link dead, leave a comment.)

( And the script under the cut... )

Hope you enjoy it!

Other than this, though, I've been kind of a mess this week and have been dropping the ball on writing and other things after finally poking at the manga/light novel raw site a little too much and putting myself into a feeding frenzy; I really did have to go through the list to catch some of the stuff they had (somehow I hadn't thought to check for Gakuen Kino, and I hadn't even known there was a manga behind Space Family Carlvinson), but I also admit to downloading a bunch of vaguely-interesting-looking detritus that was probably unnecessary. I'm finally through it, though, so hopefully I can get back to normal...

Maybe I shouldn't post this so fast, but wth, have another After 0 story!

This one is called "Manga Recommendations;" it's actually the last story in the volume, but I skipped ahead to translate it because I just had to know wtf. Now that I know what's going on, I can't quite decide if this story is really pretty fun or annoyingly self-righteous; for me it's apparently both. So what about you? What popular manga artist (or other comics artist) would you like to see transformed into a hideous monster? ---I swear to god this guy's name is a coincidence, btw.

You know the drill, half-assed scans plus translated (rtf) script:
http://www.uploadstation.com/file/q6ZuCf8/after0_1-13.zip
(If you find the link dead, leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.)

And the script under the cut:
( Manga Recommendations )

Hope you enjoy it!



This is the last After 0 story that I already had translated. There's one more that I had started on and will finish, although I've hit a little stumbling block; you see, the last panel looks like this:



And those are all real words, so I'd feel like I was copping out if I didn't try to translate them...

Once that story is done, though, I might try my hand at the first Allison novel...

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.