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Beautiful Thorns (Untranslated) 1 of 2 (first half of the manga) (about 45mb)

I feel bad not finishing it but my back is really bothering me and I think 10 hours of image processing is enough for today. They printed this one with fucking blue ink so it scans even worse compared to the first one. I've had to do way more work on each page. I left some printing noise and such where the text is, since I'm going to have to go back and erase all of that anyway.

I swear the blue ink is like...copyright protection or something to keep people like me from doing this. I'll e-mail Ayu.

Edit: I'm Giovanna. Ignore the avatar.

OH WOW!!! This looks pretty amazing!!! Thanks so much for sharing it! Now I can't wait for part 2.

I wish I could find "After Revolution" I can't find it anywhere...

OK LOSERS here's the other half this has been fucking hell

Beautiful Thorns (Untranslated) 2 of 2 (first half of the manga) (about 32mb)

Please translate, the Russian site already has. XD

If you didn't grab the first half, the whole thing is here: http://www.filehosting.org/file/details … Thorns.zip

Ayu Ohseki wrote:

Man, the Russians are fast.

"Mr. President, we must not allow an Utena gap!"

I've done an initial read! This should be pretty quick/easy to translate. Dallbun, if you're willing to transcribe the manga, that would be a great help--I can start as is, but it was really helpful for the editing process last time, and I think that'd remain true this time too.

Sure, I should be able to do a good chunk tonight. Glad to help!

Last edited by Dallbun (02-03-2018 01:41:01 PM)

Or... whoever's working on editing, I guess? Do we have anyone on that? The script is not complicated but there's a point where I scratched my head, and you never know when someone might have insight on how to phrase something or what's going on in the dialogue or what have you that improves the script.

Dallbun wrote:

Well, even if there's not much that needs editing, I assume its useful to Gio to be able to visually confirm what English text matches which part of the original. If you're done on your end, I'll try to transcribe the whole thing tonight too, baby willing. It doesn't take too long.

Yeah, for sure.

As a note, I did do alternate translations of several lines this time--I refrained last time, but a lot of suggestions then were aimed towards rephrasing various lines, so I figure it'd be useful to include them.

All done, at the same link as above.

MUAHAHAHAHA excellent.

I'll start stripping the text! I work for three nights after this but I can work on scanlations during break since that doesn't need the huge media box.

Hey hey! I've stripped the text and will start working on adding the translation in once it has gone through editing and such. I can't edit for the Japanese but I'll edit for English and such if necessary as I put the content in. Awesome work guys.

Giovanna wrote:

Hey hey! I've stripped the text and will start working on adding the translation in once it has gone through editing and such. I can't edit for the Japanese but I'll edit for English and such if necessary as I put the content in. Awesome work guys.

Sure thing! Thank you much~

Okay so I made a few changes in red to the translation for editing, mostly wording kind of stuff.

I'm about 2/3rd through putting in the text but I need to sleep... I'm super sick and out of sick time now. (I just called in on SuperBowl Sunday and didn't realize it, go me!)

Give the changes a scan and I think you're right Dallbun, the Jyuri thing is just...insult to injury at this point. This manga is...uh...divisive. In that everyone's arguing on Twitter over which part they hate more. I kind of don't pity Saito this one, at least in so far as this end of the fandom, that thankfully she has fairly minimal contact with I hope. There was literally no way to make everyone happy and she more or less went with 'go back to the same point we were at.' so nothing scary changes.

I will be able to finish this at work tomorrow and distribute it soon. I have a few errands to run since ROFL I LEFT MY LICENSE RENEWAL FOR MY LITERAL BIRTHDAY! Not gonna lie I've been super distracted from a lot of everything important with trying to make the Japan trip happen.

Still need to book an Airbnb in Osaka rofl.

Good job sacrificing your health and well-being for our sakes, Gio! Now please don't do that thing anymore for a while.

Now that the chapter's out in English, I just want to say:

I love how we see grown Miki and learn nothing about what he's up to in his life, because no matter what doctorate he's pursuing or conservatory he's teaching at or milkshake shop he's running, he is definitely 100% showing up to cheer Juri on at every one of her matches, and that's the most important thing.

I also love how Juri's character revelation is "I don't need to fight for someone else's sake. Actually I don't need a reason at all! I'm just a very competitive person." I assume that on top of being a fencing champ, she's also going to become a champion bowler and Street Fighter player.

Finally, I hope that every iteration of Utena forevermore has someone die saving someone from drowning in a river, and I hope it's never the same people twice.