Aldnoah.Zero Extra Episode 03

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Aldnoah.Zero Extra Episode 03 is a drama CD that came with volume 4 of the Aldnoah.Zero BDs. It's set in a school-life alternate universe, where the cast attends "Aldnoah Academy". 

Note that Extra Episode 02 is a series of short stories (that I may translate at some point), not a drama CD. I don't even know what Extra Episode 01 is, if it even exists.

BD volume 9 will come with another drama CD (Extra Episode 06), and the BD box set will include yet another drama CD titled "Hikari no Mahou Shoujo Seylum"; I may sub some, all, or none of them.

If the subs look like shit, sorry. Timing/typesetting/etc are not my favorite things to do. 

I would've put this on Youtube, but the audio-matcher gizmo matches the segment of "Bre@th//less" at the end and blocks the video (outside of Japan, anyway). 

I am not dead

I kind of dropped off the face of the earth in January because of real-world things. In particular, depression that led to me fucking up my last semester of college and not graduating. Shit sucks. Anyway. I've updated the sidebar "Current Projects", but here's a brief rundown:

Huge apologies to /u/ and our friendly /u/ typesetter for fucking out after the first volume of the Madoka Rebellion manga; thankfully, it looks like they were able to finish volumes 2 and 3 with the help of some other translator(s) - see here.

I'll finish the first volume of the Kyoukai no Kanata light novel at some point; no guarantees on a timeframe. I may or may not work on further volumes (the anime was not great and kind of soured me on the whole franchise).

The Hyouka "Arienai Makuaigeki" segments are still a thing I plan to do. No guarantees on timeframe.

Black Rock Shooter: The Game is stalled at the typesetters, who seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. I don't know what happened to them, so here is the translated text in case somebody else wants to edit them into the raws: translated text.

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - Rebellion volume 1

Manga Raw: MEGA [externally-controlled link]
Scanlated Manga: mediafire [externally-controlled link] 

I have re-joined forces with our friendly /u/ typesetter to work on the Rebellion manga, by Hanokage and Magica Quartet. Here's volume 1. Volume 2 has been published, but we don't have any raws, so we're stuck until those show up.

P.S. Kyoukai no Kanata is not dropped, but it'll be a while longer before I get back to it. BRS The Game is not dropped, but it's stuck at typesetting (visit Lost n Found if you want to ask them about it). The Hyouka drama CDs (the Arienai Makuaigeki segments) will get done eventually. The Beatless LN is apparently being officially translated. It really sucks. You heard it here first. I'm thinking about doing some excerpts from the Monogatari series at some point. If there's anything else you want, drop me a line and if it's interesting, I'll consider it.

More Kyoukai no Kanata stuff

I've added translations of the voice samples that were uploaded earlier today, as well as info on the radio show that's going to start airing in October. Also, some nice person converted my translations of the PVs into subtitles and added them to the actual PVs. Check that out here.

Kyoukai no Kanata PV translations

I don't have the time right now to learn how to work Aegisub, so in lieu of that, here are translated scripts for all the commercials and promotional videos for Kyoukai no Kanata that have been released so far. As more come out and I translate them, I'll update this post.

Kyoukai no Kanata website translations

I've translated some things from the official Kyoukai no Kanata website (http://anime-kyokai.com/). If I add more things, I'll list them in this post.

A few thoughts on the translation of Kyoukai no Kanata, part 2

Hey, folks - I've finished translating chapter 1 of volume 1 of Kyoukai no Kanata, which contains a few more terms of art that demand English analogues. Check after the jump for some extra info and also a bit about Shindō Ayaka's dialect.

Fate/strange fake

Fate/strange fake (full): mediafire [PDF, ~11 MB]
Fate/strange fake (reduced): mediafire [PDF, ~0.5 MB]
Fate/strange fake complete collection: mediafire [zip, ~45 MB]

And with that, folks, Fate/strange fake has been completely translated. It's been over four years since Fate/strange fake was published in March 2009; more than five since the original April Fools' joke back in 2008; and about eight months since I started working on this in November 2012.

BRS The Game chapter 3

BRS The Game chapter 3: at LnF

A few thoughts on the translation of Kyoukai no Kanata, part 1

Kyoukai no Kanata contains a few terms of art for which I have invented English analogues. Now that I've released part 2 of chapter 1, which contains a number of these terms, I think it's appropriate for me to identify them and explain my rationale for selecting them. I have done so here - check after the jump.

OreImo x Railgun blog post 2

Pastebin: (link)

Yeah, this is too good to pass up, actually. This week, Kirino and Kyousuke travel to the studio, where they meet Kuroko. Kirino and Kuroko then geek out over Misaka. Read to the end for a special surprise.

OreImo x Railgun blog post 1

Pastebin: (link)

There was an announcement (link 1, link 2) on Nicovideo's website that there's going to be some sort of in-character crossover talk show type thing between OreImo and Railgun (featuring, specifically, Kirino and Biribiri). There was a blog post on the Nicovideo blog that's sort of an introduction type thing, which I've translated (link above).

Kyoukai no Kanata volume 1 progress tracker

Progress tracker

Filename	Done	Total	Progress
vol01\p010-014 prologue.txt	94	94
vol01\p016-026 chapter 1 part 1.txt	221	221
vol01\p026-038 chapter 1 part 2.txt	249	249
vol01\p038-044 chapter 1 part 3.txt	136	136
vol01\p044-053 chapter 1 part 4.txt	189	189
vol01\p054-056 chapter 1 part 5.txt	59	59
vol01\p056-063 chapter 1 part 6.txt	144	144
vol01\p063-064 chapter 1 part 7.txt	31	31
vol01\p064-080 chapter 1 part 8.txt	353	353
vol01\p082-085 chapter 2 part 1.txt	83	83
vol01\p085-104 chapter 2 part 2.txt	396	396
vol01\p105-149 chapter 2 part 3.txt	998	998
vol01\p149-167 chapter 2 part 4.txt	189	394
vol01\p168-181 chapter 3 part 1.txt	26	295
vol01\p182-193 chapter 3 part 2.txt	109	238
vol01\p193-212 chapter 3 part 3.txt	269	441
vol01\p212-224 chapter 3 part 4.txt	204	256
vol01\p224-230 chapter 3 part 5.txt	37	142
vol01\p232-238 chapter 4 part 1.txt	67	134
vol01\p238-242 chapter 4 part 2.txt	24	81
vol01\p242-272 chapter 4 part 3.txt	97	664
vol01\p273-275 chapter 4 part 4.txt	11	51
vol01\p275-289 chapter 4 part 5.txt	21	260
vol01\p290-302 epilogue.txt	142	286
vol01\p304-305 afterword.txt	9	21

Overall translation: 66.89%

Task	Progress
Second-pass editing
Latexification
Scans

Currently available on pastebin

Prologue - p. 10-14
Chapter 1 - p. 16-26, p. 26-38, p. 38-44, p. 44-53, p. 54-56, p. 56-63, p. 63-64, p. 64-80
Chapter 2 - p. 82-85, p. 85-104, p. 105-149

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• Update (15 Jun 2013): I've not made much progress on this lately, since I've been busy finalizing Fate/strange fake. Now that that's mostly done, I'm back to working on Kyoukai no Kanata at full strength.
• Update (12 Jul 2013): I've acquired volume 2 of Kyoukai no Kanata, so that'll come in good time. I've also finished scanning and (poorly) post-processing my copy of volume 1, so this'll speed up my transcription quite a bit.
• Update (5 Aug 2013): Transcription complete, thanks in large part to my new best friend Adobe Acrobat X Pro. I'll be upping my translation pace in an effort to get volume 1 done before the fall anime season starts.
• Update (7 Sep 2013): In case you didn't notice, I've translated some other Kyoukai no Kanata-related material - see here for some translations of the official website and here for translations of some promotional videos.

(Last updated: 27 Oct 2013 at 02:05 AM UTC)

Kyoukai no Kanata translation

Kyoukai no Kanata ("Beyond the Boundary") is a light novel series written by Nagomu Torii, and published by KA Esma Bunko, i.e. Kyoto Animation's light novel division.

It's also getting an anime sometime soon (by KyoAni, of course), and there's a promotional video for it out. (Granted, the PV was for the light novel and not the anime per se, but I imagine it should look similar.)

I'm pumped.

BRS The Game chapter 2

BRS The Game chapter 2: at LnF

Chapter 2 of Black Rock Shooter The Game is now available. Get it at LnF's blog, linked above. 

BRS The Game update

Just a quick update on the status of BRS The Game: LnF are still working on typesetting the remaining chapters of volume 1. No guarantees, but you might see another chapter this week, since they seem to have some free time on their hands.

BRS Innocent Soul chapter 12 (END); BRS The Game chapter 1

BRS Innocent Soul chapter 12: at LnF
BRS The Game chapter 1: at LnF

The Black Rock Shooter - Innocent Soul manga had apparently been sitting at 11 out of 12 chapters scanlated for the longest time. The folks who typeset chapters 10-11 (they go by Lost and Found - visit them at their website) contacted me about translating the last chapter, and here you have it. Go to the Downloads tab on their blog to download this chapter. Universe-specific terminology is kind of inconsistent across all the scanlated chapters, so be wary of that.

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica ~the different story~ - Volume 03 script (END)

Script: (mediafire - typesetter-friendly | pastebin - reader-friendly)
Manga Raw: mediafire [externally-controlled link]
Scanlated Manga: mediafire [externally-controlled link] 

Our friendly /u/ typesetter will be typesetting this volume in due time; when he does, I'll update this post with a link to the completed volume.

Fate/strange fake plans

Update, 25 Jun 2013: It's alive!

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica ~the different story~ - Volume 03 PREVIEW script

Script: pastebin

A preview for volume 3 of ~the different story~ is available from the publisher: link. I'll revise the script when the full volume comes out; for now, this is just a quick TL job.