With some excellent scans from DarkStarBeacon, I'm finally reaching a finish on this translation project. As a teaser, here's an AI summary of the novel.

I tried this too and found it quite annoying that it would only go from image -> image, rather than image -> text.

Below is what I got with ChatGPT's image -> text translation. It's the best I've seen so far. They only let you do two pages on the free settings though. I'm reading up the docs to ...

That would be awesome!

Do you prefer single page scan or double?

Whichever works best for you. Usually I do some post processing to cut off irrelevant bits, and increase the contrast (scan_raw vs scan_clean). So if you do double pages I can split them up as part of that process. So whatever ...

Things have come a long way in 4 years. Here's what I got for raw machine translation of the first page the last time I tried:

"Ki Hiiri"
The man ran away running the night the moonlight was illuminating.
Alley of darkness without street lights. Squarre of a crap that dropped occasionally into ...

Sorry, been away for a bit. Yeesh, four years? Wow.
Anyway, I've been playing around and it looks like ChatGTP is a lot better at translating this stuff than what I had been doing before.
I just wanted to check in first and see if anyone else has translated this light novel? If not, I'll start up ...

Thanks! I've got the translation. I'll look at editing it in the next day or two.

As for Illustrations 9 and 10, those appear to come from pages 6 and 7 of the book. The equivalent raw scan in my project is:
https://github.com/jjaquinta/BattleAngelAlita/blob/master/GunDreams/scans_raw/p006-007.png ...

First pass of Chapter 1 complete. It doesn't flow as smoothly as I would like. But I'll go back and do another pass when more chapters are done.

Your paid translations are way better than the machine translations of my scan. But that's not a small amount of money needed to translate the rest of the ...

I've made a start of it here .
It's a bit tough going. It's all in the present tense, which is probably faithful to the original, but most novels in English use the past tense, so I'm switching to that. I can see that the word order and some of the phrasing is close to the original Japanese, which ...

Wow. That's a surprisingly good translation of chapter one. Must better than what I got with mine.
Is it a computer translation? If so, which software.
If it's human, well, I guess that's what you are paying for.

I've (self) published several novels. I even started a fan novelization of the manga ...

How do the scans compare to the ones in my repo? Those are 2,550px × 3,510px, but not the cleanest. Have you tried OCR on any of them?

I bought it too, with the express desire to do a fan translation of it. My process was this:

* Scan the pages of the book
* Clean up the scan of each page
* Do an OCR of each page
* Do a machine translation of each page
* Do an edited version of the machine translation

I got some of the way ...

If you want to see proper, expert level of shield wielding, you must hand it over to Captain America. There's none better than him to show how it's done. :D

Yes, some of those fights scenes did capture it pretty good. Kind of gets to the "think of it as two swords". The shield is as active a ...

Well, since we're all obsessing about the final panel...
The closest to fighting I've ever done was for several years doing medieval combat. Mostly I fought sword and shield. There's a lot more to using a shield than people think. Certainly the movies get it wrong, where it's just this static thing ...

My daughter and I watched this the other night. She spends a lot of time drawing so she loved it.
We turned on subtitles, and then found another setting to translate them. It was much better than expected. Most of it was pretty easy to follow, until he used technical words for something. Then it got ...

I'd also love to know something about the ACTUAL Gally and Figure 4. I kinda imagine they will eventually pop up at some point with a bunch of kids like Shumira and her husband.


Isn't that what fan fiction is for? :cheesygrin:

I started doing a prose version of the manga a while back. But no ...

Short, yes, but did you see the headline:

The Yoko of the past and the Alita of the future. The final chapter of the "Gunnm" Saga where their stories connect!!!

That could herald the end of this arc.

For a moment I wondered if the notebook had something to do with the Treasure of Mars. This ...

I'm kind of seeing the story like a fractal. At each juncture there is a branching pattern. New characters, plot elements, and so on. The narrative follows one of the branches, and then it branches again. It's a little hard to follow, reading once or twice a month. I'll have to catch up and read a ...

I posted about my daughter noticing it in an earlier thread.
Since then we went back and watched the Anime and her brain is in there too. So it has the same "error".
For the OVA, I would say it was made before the "Secret of Triphares" was published and Kishiro didn't want to tip his hand.
For the ...

My eagle eyed daughter noted that, in the movie, when we see Chiren prepped to "Go to Zalem", that the dismembered organs include a brain. I guess Cameron didn't read as far as "The Secret of Triphares".

Does anyone ever do fan drawn manga for abandoned (or slow) ones? I've seen rip-off/humor/satirical ones professionally done.

Hmm, but what do we know about queen Limira?

What about her bear? All the tropes point to Limira being wise and beneficent. It would be poor writing to go back on that without foreshadowing. However, does she really believe the bear "is her father" or is it an affectation? If I were an evil ...

Well, there is no doubt that I have thought a lot about this. I had my own ambitions to novelize Battle Angel Alita, and even posted the first sample chapter here somewhere. But I was never able to make the right contacts to find out who owned the rights. Plus my currently stalled efforts to fan ...

By the way, I loved the Indian movie Bahubali


BAAAAAHUUUUUUBAAAAAALIIIIIII!

That was a freaking awesome movie! The kids and I have watched it at least a half dozen times or so. Even my wife liked it. :-)

I highly recommend it to people as a good lesson in cultural expectations. It's a high ...

Now when you see Chinese film there's no restraint in their kicks and punches they are trained martial artist so the action feels extremely authentic,


You are smart to use words like better and feels authentic rather than realistic . The closest I've got to realistic fighting (in so far as you ...

I'm reading through it at the moment. I'm planning on doing a review when I finish. So far I'm finding it very difficult. I've been a huge apologist for the movie, but the novel I'm really not liking.

Gut wrenching bang-head-against-wall moment from last night's reading: after a tussle between Hugo ...