Right. So what I'm getting at here is: translation is messy, go with what works.

Hard to argue the correct S/Z spelling of Jerusalem in the first place, since in Hebrew it's "Yerushalayim."

I think it was spelled Zalem (ザレム), but given that the whole gag is that it's splitting up the word "Jerusalem," I can't imagine them translating it as Zalem. Although who knows.

Sorry if all that was super-obvious to everyone else - I'm a little slow, thought I'd toss it out there in case anyone else is as dumb as I am.

Sorry, you're right - lord, need to re-read the originals.

And for the record, in English, Tiphares/Ketheres Elyion are much better names than Jeru and Salem. The latter is just a shitty split-up of Jerusalem, not to mention the fact that Salem is the name of a famous town in the American northeast where witches were burnt to death several hundred years ago ...

Would like to point out that the burnt out ruins they visit in the rain in the middle of the chapter is the ruins of the Heng (the massive train-gun that Tiphares/Jeru shot down and then sent AR11 to destroy).

This chapter does take place 11 months prior to where we are in the story now.

The old ...

Oh, and if you want me to post any of your images on the Japanese Yukitopia forums and/or translate and pass some note to the Kishiros, PM and let me know. I think they'd get a kick out of it.

Coming along well. If you end up changing your mind about this being a hobbyist thing and apply anywhere for CG jobs, PM me first.

I have almost the entirety of Viz's individual-comic run of BAA (not collected in graphic novels -- the individual issues).

Also have several of the Japanese tankobon, and several Ultra Jump collections (from right before she started fighting Anomaly).

Plus a couple other things. The poseable ...

He also said that there is no correlation between the TV series Dark Angel and his Battle Angel project, thus ending years of idle speculation on my part.

I asked James Cameron about Battle Angel, point blank, on Tuesday. He came to my work for a Q&A (I work at DreamWorks Animation).

He said he dearly loved the Alita character, still wants to do it, and Motorball is in the drafts he has right now.

That said, he didn't know what movie he was doing ...

To be clear: I should've said it was not popular, as opposed to unpopular. There is a distinction. People don't actively dislike it, but they don't actively like it either.

Gunnm is published in the Ultra Jump anthology, which is a monthly magazine that mostly aims at an older male audience. Some ...

Hi there. I'm the former translator that was quoted a couple posts ago.

A couple things:

1) Avatar and BAA have nothing to do with each other. I work professionally as a computer graphics artist, and was offered a job on Avatar (and the Hobbit), which I turned down. I know a lot of people who have ...

Quick, spot-translation of general vibe:

- Toji realizes his ambitions of a Karate Planet were frivolous and empty, comes to see Earth as beautiful.
- ZOTT is being delayed to repair damages, and Mbadi is up to something. I think.
- Sechs figures out that the secret to be moving while being still ...

Look, I'm sorry about disappearing, and my life being in total upheaval, but basically... I've sort of fallen out of love with BAA. I just don't want to spend a ton of time translating something I don't think is that good anymore.

I mean, look at what the last couple months have brought us:
- Giant ...

Here's what's going on, near as I can figure out without looking a bunch of words up...

SPOILERS

Mbadi's troops are looking for Alita and the Fata Morgana. Can't find it. He starts to wonder if they had other people helping them (the Namnam robots).

Zazie is happy to have a minute in the ...

Whenever it's most amusing to do so.

So far, Alita's fate hasn't been touched on, and it's been around 4 issues, I think. It's mostly been Zekka/Sechs/Toji shenanigans.

Wasn't very weird, I didn't think.

The weird thing was a Berserker, just like Zapan earlier.

Any specialty shop or big manga shop would probably be fine.

Sorry, no raw out, except in stores. And, well, I got no scanner, so all I can do is tell you what happens. Hah!

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TITLE: A Block semifinal

Starts off with lots of ships out in space listening to a Jovian (I think) broadcast, which, interestingly enough, is written in barcodes.

Anyways ...

Tsutomu Kishiro emphasizes it will be EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to obtain one of these. You'd need to preorder at a specialty shop in Tokyo. Only 3000 will be made.

And he says the body design is a special-made one for the figurine, and bears no connection to the comic.

Not on sale, even pre-order, yet. They say it'll happen sometime this fall.

It, I think, is included with a special edition of several Gunnm Gaiden stories, including Bashaku Ondo.

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It's implied that Nova took her brain when he rebuilt her, so she's been chipped since the beginning of the Last Order reboot. The art may be showing images to the contrary, but that's what's suggested in the text. Plus, the first time we see Nova, he's holding the P Box, and Nova X says ...