Tonigobe

An addendum to my blog post.

A post on my WWOEC thread by draven prompted me to write a little more about this project... that and 'coz I'm up in the middle of the night. :/

Speaking of prompts (hah! what a segue!), as I wrote in my response to draven, "...what prompted me, and got me curious about the ending, was a post on another forum, where the guy posted the first 5 chapters. (Just like you were planning!) After poking around (Google, MangaUpdate, WWOEC and other searches, etc.) and realizing nobody's tried to complete it... not even Loliconnection... I figured, 'what the heck! Go for it!'"

...and so I went for it.

The interesting challenge, as an editor/translator, was to keep the typesetting and translation style of Loliconnection... which in the end, was most difficult for me to adapt to entirely. But the process did allow me to discover other typesetting styles that I hadn't tried until then, and that I may use in the future.

Another challenge was sticking to Zero Degrees translation. Initially, I only intended to spend three (count 'em. 3!) days--one weekend-- to finish both chapters 6 and 7. It ended up taking me the whole week! Much in large part because of my differences of opinion in certain translation interpretations... but that may be a cultural difference: From the way the dialog was written, I can only guess Zero Degrees is from England, Australia, or New Zealand... but that's only a guess. Still, Zero degrees did an excellent job in the translation and I'd say I left about 80 to 90% of his translation intact!

For those of you who actually read my INFO notes (let alone this page!... And I humbly thank you for doing so!), Misoka Nagatsuki did have a postscript to the story that I did not translate... only because it had a lot of hand written text which was discouraging for me to decipher. Since it's the author's postscript and an aside from the main story, I didn't deem it that important to tackle; but, one of these days (months? years?), I'll pick up the gumption to work on it!

LINKS

• CHAPTERS 1-5
• CHAPTERS 6-7 (END)