heads up for anyone who downloads that cleaned file: apparently CDisplay sorts these files differently than Windows does, so they'll display out of order if you use it. sorry 'bout that.

>I'll have a look through it tonight or tomorrow, and if I see mogura I'll ask her to see if she can find any mistakes

What, I never make mistakes, although I do often miss bubbles/panels/entire pages, as anybody who worked with me in scanlating can attest to.

Fixed the mystery umbrella box as well (it was ビニールガサ/vinyl umbrellas)
てゆーか細かっ！俺そんな細部気にしないよ普通。


I have to agree that this translation note system is pretty neat; adding individual notes was a hassle at first, but it's no more time-consuming than labelling page/panel/speaker/whatever in a .txt, and it saves me from having to flip between/adjust my text editor and image viewer.

I made another pass through and made some edits for consistency and such. I also notice that these remaining issues:

* Needs a good translation for "定食はじめました" on http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl?image=http%3a%2f%2fshii%2eoppresstheweak%2ecom%2fhr%2fsrc%2f1139758990383%2epng

* Needs a translation of Pochiyama's sign on http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl?image=http%3a%2f%2fshii%2eoppresstheweak%2ecom%2fhr%2fsrc%2f1139780171848%2epng. I made a wild guess at "貸与" but I might be way off on that.

* Needs the afterword translated. I'm far too lazy to do it. Go go Neuroretardant!

wow, that was fast.

I'm having to be a bit creative with editing in some of Pochiyama's signs. I think I'm gonna leave the huge one on page 8 as is (subtitling what it means below) because a lot of the effect of the joke would be lost if I fudged with the huge brush/dripping paint. For some of the other signs, they're so thin that I have to write a lot of the text in vertically. On the plus side, that does mean that it looks more like the original Japanese.

took care of 定食はじめました and the afterword (someone else already did the other one)

I'm typing this while in bed with sinus pains so it probably won't get top marks for clarity or coherence but whatever.

I tried cleaning up a few awkward sentences in the afterword, with varying success. The first paragraph is kind of weird, but I didn't quite follow the original Japanese so I don't know exactly what to do about it. In the end, it's not all that important, I guess.

Oh, Bagels, for the handwriting on the signs (and the little comments outside of bubbles), I warmly recommend using the Mikachan font (Mikachan-P or Mikachan-PB to be precise). It's a very relaxed-looking handwriting font. It can look even better at 110% or 120% width.

I'll give the Mikachan font a whirl as I go about my second sweep of the scans. I've got everything edited in by now, with a few sound fx exceptions:

http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl?image=http%3a%2f%2fshii%2eoppresstheweak%2ecom%2fhr%2fsrc%2f1139758990383%2epng
Untranslated sfx in several panels
http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl?image=http%3a%2f%2fshii%2eoppresstheweak%2ecom%2fhr%2fsrc%2f1139733197093%2epng
Untranslated sfx in upper-left panel (perhaps "flip"?)
http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl?image=http%3A%2F%2Fshii.oppresstheweak.com%2Fhr%2Fsrc%2F1139785270440.png
Untranslated sfx in lower-right panel ("clamp"?)

I translated a few, and put in romaji for the rest, which I don't quite get. You can compare with http://www.oop-ack.com/manga/soundfx.html if you want, but it might not help much.

After looking through that, I think I like a lot of the sketchwork even better than the final colored/CGed versions. Thanks much!

Those scenario collections are kind of interesting... I also like the sketches, but I don't think they're better than the colored versions. They're not worse, either, though. They're just different. I like the sketches, but I also like (love) the way ABe can color.

Forgot the link: http://www.hikari.org.nz/stuff/otaku/ABe_portfolio/

Holy shit that's a great picture

Holy wow...that isn't what happens after the day of flight is it? Love that holy warrior look.

I like the leopard.

Interestingly, it seems gofa is currently selling this under ABe's section:

http://cart02.lolipop.jp/LA08128945/?mode=ITEM2&p_id=PR00100335894

Not sure if they ship internationally however. It would be nice to say I own both A and B.

...Heh. Wow. That's a picture that I'd pretty much given up on seeing properly. Shame about the no-high-res-pics, but I respect the scanner's wish to compromise like this. Hopefully if Robots and the re-released Lain artbook do well we might see more ABe stuff across the pond anyhow...

That is the coolest Haibane pic ever.

I'd fill this thread up, but the FW drive I was keeping everything on stopped working :(

CLICK OF DEATH

> I'd fill this thread up, but the FW drive I was keeping everything on stopped working :(

Why don't you download your own torrent then?

My torrent has no NieA in it; I got the artbook and some other stuff from another torrent a while ago. Someone else in the area (e-area?) probably has it.
I'm pretty sure I can rescue the drive itself; the broken part seems to be in the FireWire bridge.

Seconded; We need more Niea_7 WPs ^_^

Like this ;)

I actually have a couple... hmmm.. that surprised me!