lol honestly there are so many fapping emojis because they are funny

I would love to help out in some capacity! My knowledge of Japanese is minimal, to say the least, so I won't be of much use during the translation portion of the project. However, if you need an editor/proof-reader, I'm your girl!

We sure are!

We'll probably divide and conquer, I'd love to see the interview with Saito and Ikuhara also translated, although I know it's harder to read that text. If someone's all in to translate it though, and need better copies I will do my best. The pages are very low quality so it's hard to get a good scan from the original.

If someone with good fluency is in to translate the entire manga (plus or minus the interview), that would be ideal obviously, but if people would rather commit to smaller chunks we could do something like distribute pages and then check each other's work in the thread. It's not a super text heavy manga like at all, so it shouldn't be too vicious a project.

Keep in mind too, that Saito is already confirming another installment in winter, which I will also naturally be scanning like a boss as soon as I get it, so it'd be awesome to have some people interested in keeping the project going as long as Saito keeps droppin' mixtapes here.

I haven't got round to reading it yet, but from a brief flick through, I also thought the manga doesn't look so hard to work on. I think I'd probably have some trouble with the interview though.

OKAY I LIED, I STARTED READING AND THEN I DIDN'T WANT TO STOP, AND...... this manga chapter is a fucking trip?? As a post-anime story it does not make really any sense at all; I get the sense that it's some kind of weird anime/movie/manga? mash-up twenty-years-after AU. It references events that, to my knowledge, never happened in any version of SKU, and is a self-contained story so the lead-up takes a long time, the mid-story beat comes out of nowhere and is just as abruptly dropped, and then the ending is SUPER abrupt. For those looking to know what happened to our beloved cast after the Revolution, I would take this story with a grain of salt.

That said, the art is SUPER pretty, and (speaking to the crowd now here) if you're a fan of Saionji and Touga you'll probably enjoy it all the same--it has a lot of interesting interactions between the two, even if some of them maybe don't make a lot of sense. I actually really enjoyed Saionji in this story, and quite frankly I'd translate it for him alone.

So yeah, I'll get working on a translation proper over the weekend, then post it where appropriate! Probably here? IDK, I'll figure it out. I can't guarantee I'll get the whole thing done because this is a lot of pages, but I'll try! For all my complaints, I did enjoy it... sort of. THIS STORY DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU.

EDIT: ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT it just occurred to me that if we have several people offering to translate, it might be wisest to break up the story in chunks in terms of who's translating what (for example, one person takes pages 1-15, one takes 16-30, or whatever). I already read the whole thing so I can take whatever, but if we're gonna do that, we ought to coordinate that sooner rather than later.

Last edited by Ayu Ohseki (08-03-2017 10:48:14 PM)

In my opinion, it's not that intimidating a project, and doesn't need to be split up. I know that multiple people want to help, but I think it's better if one person just steps up to the plate and translates the whole thing, for simplicity and consistency's sake. It could be me, it could be koleXIII, it could be whoever. As far as I'm concerned, it may as well be you, Ayu!

I typed up the Japanese script this evening to help speed up the process. It should also make it easy for other Japanese-proficient volunteers to proofread and double-check the translation, too. Sorry, I wasn't always consistent about labeling who's talking; I was just being lazy and didn't do a second pass. Here you go, whoever wants it.

After the Revolution, Japanese script in text format:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tgv … sp=sharing


I'm looking forward to talking about the chapter, but I can wait until there's an English translation. I was hoping for something bonkers, but this was bonkers in entirely unexpected ways.

Last edited by Dallbun (08-03-2017 11:37:20 PM)

Omg y'all are doing God's work right here

I agree if one person is willing to go for the manga that's ideal. Keep in mind there is another chapter coming in a few months so this could be an ongoing effort! As of now I don't know if the new chapter will follow Touga and Saionji but I suspect not, if this was a contained story than she'll probably cycle through the cast, and they just came first because they're her favorites.

I'm working the next few nights so I'll take Touga to work and start stripping the text from my scans. I'll know pretty fast how much help I'd like on that, but given that I already spot cleaned each of these pages with more detail than it'll take to pull down the Japanese, it should be easy work.

If anyone is willing to translate the interview that would be dope as fuck, probably a good place for one of the more experienced translators given Ikuhara hates direct answers of all kinds. Btw, ANYONE ELSE NOTICE HOW FUCKING GOOD HE LOOKS

Bro has been in the garden known as Ohtori Academy this whole time. Or the office of an excellent plastic surgeon.

As for the content I can't speak to the words but I really love how it's kind of a mashup of the different versions of the story, and from what I'm seeing she definitely is taking the best parts of each. Akio being dead is a fun play on the movie, and him offing himself after Anthy leaves is not the most preposterous thing you could say happens. The aesthetic from the show is a welcome stabilizer. If anything feels wrong it looks as though Touga and Saionji are surprised to see each other, which is dumb. Those two are the worst kind of codependent they'll never leave each other's sight.

It'll be interesting what choices she makes if other cast members show up. Touga and Saionji are not entirely different from one incarnation to the next, but what about Juri? Of course if this continued entirely to center on these two I would in no way be unhappy about it. It strikes me as consistent to an effort to market to an age group that would be more likely to consume semi yaoi content also. But if she takes that road I know the English-speaking fanbase probably won't be very impressed, and given the shout out Lady Neb saw, it seems like we're supposed to take this story as closed?

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As for the content I can't speak to the words but I really love how it's kind of a mashup of the different versions of the story, and from what I'm seeing she definitely is taking the best parts of each. Akio being dead is a fun play on the movie, and him offing himself after Anthy leaves is not the most preposterous thing you could say happens. The aesthetic from the show is a welcome stabilizer. If anything feels wrong it looks as though Touga and Saionji are surprised to see each other, which is dumb. Those two are the worst kind of codependent they'll never leave each other's sight.

It'll be interesting what choices she makes if other cast members show up. Touga and Saionji are not entirely different from one incarnation to the next, but what about Juri? Of course if this continued entirely to center on these two I would in no way be unhappy about it. It strikes me as consistent to an effort to market to an age group that would be more likely to consume semi yaoi content also. But if she takes that road I know the English-speaking fanbase probably won't be very impressed, and given the shout out Lady Neb saw, it seems like we're supposed to take this story as closed?

If the next story focuses on Juri, or even Juri and Miki, I'd be all over that TBQH. Unfortunately there's no way of knowing that for sure... This story FEELS self-contained, but there are definitely plot threads left dangling so it's not impossible that we might see a continuation of The New Adventures of Touga and Saionji. As for the two of them being surprised to see each other, I assume you mean when they meet up inside the Chairman's Tower? There's a good explanation for that--the two of them have gone into the same field (purchasing and managing art for galleries) but are working for different people within it and therefore are rivals (AS YOU DO), so they're in Keep Secrets From Each Other Mode. In light of that, the fact that they both react the same way to a mysterious letter (i.e., go back to Ohtori Academy and break into the Chairman's Tower late at night) just shows that, surprised or not, they remain on the same wavelength.

That said, I have my own complaints about characterization, but as long as I can tell myself, whatever, it's a weird mash-up AU, it really doesn't bother me much. (*laugh*) One of the interesting bits in the interview actually talks about how Saitou and Ikuhara don't actually agree on what kind of people Touga and Saionji are, and that even the anime staff all had differences of opinion on what they were like, which IMO explains a lot in light of how these two are characterized here. They're very much like their anime selves, but despite being post-Revolution (or at least claiming to be, the story itself is weird on that point), it's like the Revolution never happened. REGARDLESS, yeah, it feels like a one-shot side story, so I'm hoping the next story will be about Juri and Miki. Or just Juri, I'd be happy with that too. Or maybe Juri, Miki, and Nanami, which would be great--Nanami actually gets a passing mention in this story, but we never find out what became of her, so if this next story is set in the same weird mash-up AU, I'd love to actually get to see her.

Hi there! Im Wolfzard, i'm new in this forum i was invited by the FB Page "Revolutionary Girl Utena 20th Anniversary" in order to help with the manga translation.

I work as a japanese language translator so i think i can help with it


Yoroshiku!

To be fair, if there's one career they'd both have it's that. Saionji is artsy and Touga is a social snob and art requisition covers both bases. I can see them being civil with each other but still in competition, if with blunted fangs compared to the dueling game.

Also of course Touga still goes through women like a marathon runner through water.

Honestly at surface level this seems like a pretty plausible where are they now scenario, though I probably think so for different reasons than Saito. It doesn't surprise me there was a lot of disagreement about who these characters where especially. Saito as a storyteller, at least at the time, seemed like she was hesitant to flog characters she likes, so she goes comparatively easy on these two while the showrunners tortured the crap out of them, ultimately making them more compelling. I do like the way she's making which continuity if any matters appear vague, but that will get hairy fast once she reaches characters that don't match up as well.

Welcome, Wolfzard! Dallbun's covered it already. It's awesome so many people are stepping up, I remember when the fandom was ten times this size with a tenth the number of translators, hehe.

Been pretty busy today with various things, so sorry for not checking in sooner! Right now I'm standing at approximately half done, and I think I can have it finished by Monday (Sunday I have plans with a friend). I fixed some typos and added in a couple missing SFX and a missing line in the transcription too--nothing big, though. I'll post it once I'm finished.

EDIT: Actually the back half goes a LOT quicker than the front half, so I just finished! It's 3 AM though so I'll post in the morning. Or... whenever I wake up.

SECOND EDIT: ACTUALLY I had to stay up for a thing so I figured I'd post the link while I was waiting:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wwE … sp=sharing

Last edited by Ayu Ohseki (08-06-2017 01:27:02 AM)

Just realized I forgot to do a sweep over the file for any leftover notes, typos, et cetera. Did that just now. Should be okay to read now. It's open for commentary.

Here's the link again, just because: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wwE … sp=sharing