now...
WHEN WILL BE LO10 RELEASED?
WHEN????????!?!?!?!?!?!
i now it's too soon, just wanted to be the first one to post about vol. 10.
WHEN WILL BE LO10 RELEASED?
Moderator: crazyankan
WHEN WILL BE LO10 RELEASED?
Thank you about vol. 9
now...
WHEN WILL BE LO10 RELEASED?
WHEN????????!?!?!?!?!?!
i now it's too soon, just wanted to be the first one to post about vol. 10.
now...
WHEN WILL BE LO10 RELEASED?
WHEN????????!?!?!?!?!?!
i now it's too soon, just wanted to be the first one to post about vol. 10.
I'm happy the way they do it, it's better the volume release.
And it helps to keep the translation consistency.
Statistics don't lie:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?la ... d2=chapter
And it helps to keep the translation consistency.
Statistics don't lie:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?la ... d2=chapter
Here's a translation of the first chapter (v10c59). It gets a bit rough in spots, so please, go over it carefully. I don't exactly do this for a living.
PG 4
Ogeeehhh... Gyoooooooooohhhhh.... (sounds of dying in pain)
PG 5
panel 1
Nora: Phew...
CAPTION: Nola Defarge (changed to correct name)
panel 2
Here, you handle the rest.
panel 3
If you don't burn them all the way through, they'll get back up, so turn them to ash.
Also, keep an eye on the fire. Don't let it spread.
Okay.
panel 4
This is the 18th one... and I'm still not used to this.
Man, wish some of the men would come and help us out.
Can't be helped. We've got to do our best.
panel 5
Keep saying that and maybe one day I'll be as gutsy as Alita...
PG 6
panel 1
CAPTION: Alita, that twisted madman Desty Nova, and all of them headed off into space...(changed to Alita)
CAPTION: To solve the puzzle of this world and to bring back her friend... it's been about 3 months...
panel 2
CAPTION: However, one day, around two weeks after they left...
CAPTION: We found giant cocoons-like things with Novas' creations inside of them.
panel 3
CAPTION: Nova was the ringleader who'd turned Tiphares insane. Indirectly, the ruin of my parents. An extremely dangerous character. (changed to Tiphares)
CAPTION: We -- the whole assembly -- unanimously agreed to exterminate Nova.
panel 4
CAPTION: Specifically, to hunt down Nova's cocoons and immediately destroy them. There's no end in sight..
CAPTION: So far, we've learned from our campaign that that they will come back to life. We thought we'd settle on this process to end things prematurely.
PG 7
panel 1
CAPTION: It started when Nova died, and his body released "signal" molecules.
CAPTION: The atmosphere filled with restorer nanobots... His "stereotomy" nanobots caught the molecules' signal and began their work.
panel 2
CAPTION: "Stereotomy" made the reconstruction cocoons and inside of them,
started rebuilding Nova as he was before he had his memory chip inserted.
CAPTION: Because his memory, not to mention his clothes and glasses would simultaneously be reconstructed, he'd start to laugh. **real tough time translating this one**
panel 3
CAPTION: From when the "stereotomy" cocoons started incubating, it would take only 6 days for Nova to completely regenerate.
CAPTION: Our basic method of sterilizing the "stereotomy" cocoons couldn't afford to miss even one. **could be off**
Footnote:
Stereonomy -- Rule ??? (cannot find the kanji), a "cut stone rule." (???) Nora's group named it. Nanomachine behavior that remains a hypothesis for the lack of firsthand observation. ***VERY ROUGH TRANSLATION**
PG 8
panel 1
Pam: Nora! Big news!
panel 2
Pam: We got a signal from the people on the surface!
Pam: They're talking to us right now!
CAPTION: Pam Mahan
panel 3
Nora: The surface?
panel 4
Kaos: I understand that tiphares is currently undergoing a distressing state of affairs .(changed to Tiphares)
panel 5
Kaos: At a minimum, we guarantee you food supplies, so please do not worry about that.
CAPTION: Kaos
PG 9
panel 1
Marge: After all the things said about the surface dwellers' grudge against us, I'd been a bit afraid, but...
After hearing your words, I'm relieved, Mr. Kaos.
(missing caption fixed) CAPTION: Marge Mahan
panel 2
You're even friends with that Alita and Lou...
Small world.
panel 3
Nora: That's a surface dweller?
Kid: The surface dweller's not a cyborg, but he's still able to live...
panel 4
Nora: He's kinda cute...
panel 5
Connect the surface and Tiphares... Please shut down your protection and open up the line to the surface. (changed to Tiphares)
panel 7
Oh dear... but we don't know how to...
panel 8:
*sniff sniff*
panel 9:
Pam: Ah! I thought I smelled something delicious...!
Kids: You should eat some of this flan! It's great!
panel 10:
We got it from that man in glasses over there.
PG 10
panel 1
Kyahahahahaha!
panel 2
Thi-
This vulgar laugh-
panel 3
I-impossible!
panel 4
Whaat? You're not even extending me your thanks, Kaos?
Me me! I'm next!
PG 11
Flan is harmony!
How about it? You all want one?
PG 12
panel 1
Th... that! He'd already had six days to regenerate...?!
panel 2
-what are you eating!?
...but it's delicious!
panel 3
In the time it takes you to make one moves, I'll have regenerated ten times, if you remember correctly. Hm, do you think everyone's weird? **VERY BAD TRANSLATION... can't figure it out though***
I changed up the "stereotomy" program a little. Now it utilizes a "Decoy Nova" to take stock of the situation so that I can regenerate myself and continue on.
("Stereotomy" is such a nice name, I just had to use it.)
panel 4
I'll kill you!
panel 5
Stop!
Heh heh heh... flan is power!
PG 13
panel 1
Me... If you kill me, "Nova X," what will happen to those kids, et cetera who have eaten my flan...?
Hey, we're not "et cetera."
panel 2
..guh...
How cowardly...!!
panel 3
Flan is law!!
If you guarantee me my continued existence... I intend to add to your danger. You have no direction and no spirit. ***BAD TRANSLATION***
panel 4
You mustn't believe that man!
panel 5
If you're imprisoned by the past, you're cut off from the future.
From the the circumstances at hand, I've concluded that... ketheres and LADDER are behind these hostilities.(changed to ketheres)
PG 14
panel 1
If they, Tiphares' enemies, come back to regain power, would you be able to oppose them?
panel 2
Flan is destiny!
Indeed, there may be no one on Earth besides me able to negotiate with them!
panel 3
Guh...
panel 6
Certainly...
Well, let's hear your thoughts.
panel 7
Heh heh heh... We are stepping into a brave new era at this very moment.
PG 15
To our independence from Tiphares!(changed to tiphares)
And to flan as our staple food!
PG 4
Ogeeehhh... Gyoooooooooohhhhh.... (sounds of dying in pain)
PG 5
panel 1
Nora: Phew...
CAPTION: Nola Defarge (changed to correct name)
panel 2
Here, you handle the rest.
panel 3
If you don't burn them all the way through, they'll get back up, so turn them to ash.
Also, keep an eye on the fire. Don't let it spread.
Okay.
panel 4
This is the 18th one... and I'm still not used to this.
Man, wish some of the men would come and help us out.
Can't be helped. We've got to do our best.
panel 5
Keep saying that and maybe one day I'll be as gutsy as Alita...
PG 6
panel 1
CAPTION: Alita, that twisted madman Desty Nova, and all of them headed off into space...(changed to Alita)
CAPTION: To solve the puzzle of this world and to bring back her friend... it's been about 3 months...
panel 2
CAPTION: However, one day, around two weeks after they left...
CAPTION: We found giant cocoons-like things with Novas' creations inside of them.
panel 3
CAPTION: Nova was the ringleader who'd turned Tiphares insane. Indirectly, the ruin of my parents. An extremely dangerous character. (changed to Tiphares)
CAPTION: We -- the whole assembly -- unanimously agreed to exterminate Nova.
panel 4
CAPTION: Specifically, to hunt down Nova's cocoons and immediately destroy them. There's no end in sight..
CAPTION: So far, we've learned from our campaign that that they will come back to life. We thought we'd settle on this process to end things prematurely.
PG 7
panel 1
CAPTION: It started when Nova died, and his body released "signal" molecules.
CAPTION: The atmosphere filled with restorer nanobots... His "stereotomy" nanobots caught the molecules' signal and began their work.
panel 2
CAPTION: "Stereotomy" made the reconstruction cocoons and inside of them,
started rebuilding Nova as he was before he had his memory chip inserted.
CAPTION: Because his memory, not to mention his clothes and glasses would simultaneously be reconstructed, he'd start to laugh. **real tough time translating this one**
panel 3
CAPTION: From when the "stereotomy" cocoons started incubating, it would take only 6 days for Nova to completely regenerate.
CAPTION: Our basic method of sterilizing the "stereotomy" cocoons couldn't afford to miss even one. **could be off**
Footnote:
Stereonomy -- Rule ??? (cannot find the kanji), a "cut stone rule." (???) Nora's group named it. Nanomachine behavior that remains a hypothesis for the lack of firsthand observation. ***VERY ROUGH TRANSLATION**
PG 8
panel 1
Pam: Nora! Big news!
panel 2
Pam: We got a signal from the people on the surface!
Pam: They're talking to us right now!
CAPTION: Pam Mahan
panel 3
Nora: The surface?
panel 4
Kaos: I understand that tiphares is currently undergoing a distressing state of affairs .(changed to Tiphares)
panel 5
Kaos: At a minimum, we guarantee you food supplies, so please do not worry about that.
CAPTION: Kaos
PG 9
panel 1
Marge: After all the things said about the surface dwellers' grudge against us, I'd been a bit afraid, but...
After hearing your words, I'm relieved, Mr. Kaos.
(missing caption fixed) CAPTION: Marge Mahan
panel 2
You're even friends with that Alita and Lou...
Small world.
panel 3
Nora: That's a surface dweller?
Kid: The surface dweller's not a cyborg, but he's still able to live...
panel 4
Nora: He's kinda cute...
panel 5
Connect the surface and Tiphares... Please shut down your protection and open up the line to the surface. (changed to Tiphares)
panel 7
Oh dear... but we don't know how to...
panel 8:
*sniff sniff*
panel 9:
Pam: Ah! I thought I smelled something delicious...!
Kids: You should eat some of this flan! It's great!
panel 10:
We got it from that man in glasses over there.
PG 10
panel 1
Kyahahahahaha!
panel 2
Thi-
This vulgar laugh-
panel 3
I-impossible!
panel 4
Whaat? You're not even extending me your thanks, Kaos?
Me me! I'm next!
PG 11
Flan is harmony!
How about it? You all want one?
PG 12
panel 1
Th... that! He'd already had six days to regenerate...?!
panel 2
-what are you eating!?
...but it's delicious!
panel 3
In the time it takes you to make one moves, I'll have regenerated ten times, if you remember correctly. Hm, do you think everyone's weird? **VERY BAD TRANSLATION... can't figure it out though***
I changed up the "stereotomy" program a little. Now it utilizes a "Decoy Nova" to take stock of the situation so that I can regenerate myself and continue on.
("Stereotomy" is such a nice name, I just had to use it.)
panel 4
I'll kill you!
panel 5
Stop!
Heh heh heh... flan is power!
PG 13
panel 1
Me... If you kill me, "Nova X," what will happen to those kids, et cetera who have eaten my flan...?
Hey, we're not "et cetera."
panel 2
..guh...
How cowardly...!!
panel 3
Flan is law!!
If you guarantee me my continued existence... I intend to add to your danger. You have no direction and no spirit. ***BAD TRANSLATION***
panel 4
You mustn't believe that man!
panel 5
If you're imprisoned by the past, you're cut off from the future.
From the the circumstances at hand, I've concluded that... ketheres and LADDER are behind these hostilities.(changed to ketheres)
PG 14
panel 1
If they, Tiphares' enemies, come back to regain power, would you be able to oppose them?
panel 2
Flan is destiny!
Indeed, there may be no one on Earth besides me able to negotiate with them!
panel 3
Guh...
panel 6
Certainly...
Well, let's hear your thoughts.
panel 7
Heh heh heh... We are stepping into a brave new era at this very moment.
PG 15
To our independence from Tiphares!(changed to tiphares)
And to flan as our staple food!
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Next chapter, v10c60:
(holy hell this took awhile to translate... still may be rough in a couple places, this tripped up both me and my friends quite a bit, esp. regarding phantom Caerulia's motives. Still a little wonky on some of her last lines, and Alita's bit about taking responsibility with her arms, but it should make some amount of sense)
PG 1
panel 1
Welcome to the 5th day of the 10th ZOTT Tournament, as we're approaching the climax!!
CAPTION: Space City Ketheres / Onion Frame
panel 2
Well then, let's review the matches up until now!
CAPTION: Chairman: Combat TV / J. Gelrambo
SIDE TEXT: Where are we in the tournament?!
PG 2
First, the A block, first round, first match: The Space Angels versus Guntroll!
The match's winners will go down in ZOTT history; captained by Alita, it's the Space Angels!
PG 3
panel 1
Second match: Starship Cult versus Keats! (don't know how this has been translated)
The winners: Starship Cult!
panel 2
Third match: Heavy Road versus the Wild Guns!
A one-second kill! Victory goes to the Wild Guns!
panel 3
Fourth match: Metal Hearts versus Saturn's Gaudies!
Saturn's Gaudies win!
panel 4
B Block, first round, first match: Space Squadron Scavengers versus Jameel Vovinzu!
Scavengers win!
PG 4
panel 1
Second match: Mean Machine versus Space Karate Allies!
Did you know that two of the members of the Space Karate Allies, led by Tohji, were beaten by Alita on Leviathan 1?
In order to remain in the tournament, he quickly invited Ultra Electromagnetic Karate members, to fill the two slots.
panel 2
This team had been awarded first prize in the previous Karate matches, but...
panel 3
...they ran into ZOTT's "deathmatch!"
PG 5
Eventually, their general Tohji managed to single-handedly beat his five opponents one at a time.
Bitterly, the Space Karate Allies progressed past their second match, against Koma.
PG 6
panel 1
Match 3, Geogigas versus Viramania!
Geogigas won hands down!
panel 2
Match 4, Anomaly versus the Venusian Lucifers!
Complete victory for Anomaly!
panel 3
On the 3rd day of the ZOTT tourney, the A block second round, first match: Space Angels versus Starship Cult.
Victory by time-out, the Space Angels!
Moreover, because of a fire in the audience, there was a one hour break. Because of that, the match spilled over to the next day!
Yeah... I actually burst into flames...
CAPTION: Commentary: Fighting Techniques Researcher / H. Hopper
PG 7
panel 1
Second match, Wild Guns versus the Venusian Gaudies! The Gaudies surrender, giving the victory to the Wild Guns!
panel 2
B block, first match: Space Scavenger Squad versus the Space Karate Allies! Without any backup, Tohji entered the fray solo.
panel 3
But even combined into one giant robot, the Scavengers were demolished by his Ultra Electromagnet Piercing Combo!!
PG 8
panel 1
The second match, Geogigas versus Anomaly!
A giant explosion rocked the arena! The remaining... Anomaly!
panel 2
And now! The chosen victors of A Block! The third match: Space Angels versus Wild Guns!
panel 3
Until now, all of the Wild Guns' enemies have been taken out in one shot, leaving them with one vacant slot in their team.
panel 4
Their opponents', the Space Angels' Elf and Zwolf, have lost their will to fight and are refusing to go out there.
I don't want to~!
No~~!
Ehehe, then stay with -me-...
As Alita has not been seen since second day of the tournament, the lone combatant is Sechs!
panel 5
Everyone has anticipated the Space Angels' handicap!
...however! Please look at this!
PG 11
panel 1
As long as this rifle's in my hand, I can still play around with you...
Sucks, but I'm going to kill you with this rental.
CAPTION: Space Angels Main Body | Sechs
panel 2
No, no... given ZOTT's restrictions on ammunition quantity, stealing and using an enemy's firearm is an excellent strategy.
Thanks to you, I've suffered the loss of my team.
Quite regrettable.
CAPTION: Wild Guns General | Gilroy
panel 3
But this is checkmate.
panel 4
You haven't been counting how many bullets you have left, have you?
Guh-!
Bullseye!
PG 12
panel 1
Hah... regrettable. But you did your best, eh?
Hahaha!
panel 2
Shit-! Could his bullet pierce-?!
Is this guy bluffing?!
panel 3
Up until this point, I've only used 6 rounds out of the 524-odd I brought with me.
I'm saving the rest for the finals and the semifinals.
So I have a suggestion.
panel 4
Why don't you try punching me around here?
Punching you?
panel 5
Because I don't like to waste bullets... If you surrender...
...then the rest of my foes will fall as they come to me.
panel 6
Oops! Hold still, please.
panel 7
Your body may be plenty sturdy, but 10 armor piercing bullets into your pupil and your head will go flying.
You so much as blink, and I'll pull the trigger.
PG 13
panel 1
No way! I have a better idea.
A nice idea, if I say so myself.
panel 2
Oh...?
Let's hear it.
panel 3
Let's swap guns.
Just don't leave any bullets. I'll return them right back into your skull!
panel 4
Hahaha!
Looks like a breakdown in negotiations!
panel 5
Heh heh heh.
PG 15
Here's your armor-piercing gun back!
Space Angels advance to the semifinals!
Both Sechs and B Block's Tohji continue on, having managed to beat 5 foes single-handedly!
PG 16
CAPTION: Space Station Jeru
CAPTION: Inside Melchizedek | Cyberspace | Camelot
PG 17
Alita
PG 18
panel 3
Ghost!
That's the first word out of your mouth?!
panel 4
I'm an imaginary personality simulated by Merlin.
And yet, I'm 99% Vilma... as Caerulia's spokesman, I don't care what you think about me.
PG 19
panel 1
So you understand now?
The way this world came about?
panel 2
I do.
What painful memories...
panel 3
I.. before, when it was the Scrapyard and Zalem... I thought Jeru had made this sadistical doctrine in order to torture people.
So if I was able to find the root of this doctine with my fists, I thought I'd be able to learn the answers... somehow or other...
PG 20
panel 1
But I was wrong.
It's not that simple!
panel 2
I know now that the people of Zalem and Jeru... even those raised by Melchizedek... I know their hopes and dreams...
Their fervent desires...!
panel 3
Yes.
When you tally up history's follies...
Every era and every era's people have their triumphs and their melancholies.
PG 21
panel 1
As keeper of the Fata Morgana...
panel 2
I've seen the cycle of humanity's life and death over a long time.
panel 3
And I've been searching.
For a person to entrust the Fata Morgana to.
panel 5
Explain to me...
Why Alita?
CAPTION: Ping Wu
PG 22
panel 1
Because I'm so cute!
No.
panel 2
Well, because I'm strong!
Yeah, RIGHT.
panel 3
If I had to put it in one word, it'd be "uneasy."
You've never become familiar with the outside world, always uneasy wherever you are. I'm doing this because I feel like you show promise.
panel 4
Uh... um...
(small: Is that a compliment?)
panel 5
Soo, in short... because she's an awkward outsider?
(small: Gah!)
panel 6
A culture of conformity; in other words, the depletion of possibilities. A pathetic hotbed of evolutionary dead-ends.
You're a first-rate warrior and a moderate nonconformist... Alita, you never lost your outsider nature; that's what she's telling you, isn't it.
CAPTION: Port-a-Nova
PG 23
panel 1
Feh... I laid out my reasoning in what I said. What is this turning into...
I believe two things: the judgement of a sword, and my instincts.
panel 3
I leave the fate of the human race to you.
PG 24
panel 1
When it's necessary, unleash it.
The Last Order.
PG 25
panel 1
No.
panel 3
No?
panel 4
Well, if you don't need it, give it to me! Gimme gimme!
No, me! me!
panel 5
Listen until I'm finished talking!
panel 6
Caerulia, you said that I am a great person.
But you overestimate me.
PG 26
If I face someone in reach of my short arms and legs, I won't lose to them.
But...
...I can also take responsibility with these arms.
PG 27
panel 1
I just want to help my friends.
The fate of humanity, and all that.. I don't know anything about!
panel 2
So, the Fata Morgana...
panel 3
...I'll keep it.
Until the day I can return it to you.
PG 28
panel 1
Huh. This is your way of living, huh.
If you think about it, Arthur and I remained at our own stations, holding on to our responsibilities. Maybe that's why we lost... (???)
panel 2
I leave it to you.
panel 3
Go.
Your friend is waiting.
PG 29
RIGHT TEXT: That's as far as you go!
BOTTOM LEFT: Have they failed in their infiltration mission?!
(holy hell this took awhile to translate... still may be rough in a couple places, this tripped up both me and my friends quite a bit, esp. regarding phantom Caerulia's motives. Still a little wonky on some of her last lines, and Alita's bit about taking responsibility with her arms, but it should make some amount of sense)
PG 1
panel 1
Welcome to the 5th day of the 10th ZOTT Tournament, as we're approaching the climax!!
CAPTION: Space City Ketheres / Onion Frame
panel 2
Well then, let's review the matches up until now!
CAPTION: Chairman: Combat TV / J. Gelrambo
SIDE TEXT: Where are we in the tournament?!
PG 2
First, the A block, first round, first match: The Space Angels versus Guntroll!
The match's winners will go down in ZOTT history; captained by Alita, it's the Space Angels!
PG 3
panel 1
Second match: Starship Cult versus Keats! (don't know how this has been translated)
The winners: Starship Cult!
panel 2
Third match: Heavy Road versus the Wild Guns!
A one-second kill! Victory goes to the Wild Guns!
panel 3
Fourth match: Metal Hearts versus Saturn's Gaudies!
Saturn's Gaudies win!
panel 4
B Block, first round, first match: Space Squadron Scavengers versus Jameel Vovinzu!
Scavengers win!
PG 4
panel 1
Second match: Mean Machine versus Space Karate Allies!
Did you know that two of the members of the Space Karate Allies, led by Tohji, were beaten by Alita on Leviathan 1?
In order to remain in the tournament, he quickly invited Ultra Electromagnetic Karate members, to fill the two slots.
panel 2
This team had been awarded first prize in the previous Karate matches, but...
panel 3
...they ran into ZOTT's "deathmatch!"
PG 5
Eventually, their general Tohji managed to single-handedly beat his five opponents one at a time.
Bitterly, the Space Karate Allies progressed past their second match, against Koma.
PG 6
panel 1
Match 3, Geogigas versus Viramania!
Geogigas won hands down!
panel 2
Match 4, Anomaly versus the Venusian Lucifers!
Complete victory for Anomaly!
panel 3
On the 3rd day of the ZOTT tourney, the A block second round, first match: Space Angels versus Starship Cult.
Victory by time-out, the Space Angels!
Moreover, because of a fire in the audience, there was a one hour break. Because of that, the match spilled over to the next day!
Yeah... I actually burst into flames...
CAPTION: Commentary: Fighting Techniques Researcher / H. Hopper
PG 7
panel 1
Second match, Wild Guns versus the Venusian Gaudies! The Gaudies surrender, giving the victory to the Wild Guns!
panel 2
B block, first match: Space Scavenger Squad versus the Space Karate Allies! Without any backup, Tohji entered the fray solo.
panel 3
But even combined into one giant robot, the Scavengers were demolished by his Ultra Electromagnet Piercing Combo!!
PG 8
panel 1
The second match, Geogigas versus Anomaly!
A giant explosion rocked the arena! The remaining... Anomaly!
panel 2
And now! The chosen victors of A Block! The third match: Space Angels versus Wild Guns!
panel 3
Until now, all of the Wild Guns' enemies have been taken out in one shot, leaving them with one vacant slot in their team.
panel 4
Their opponents', the Space Angels' Elf and Zwolf, have lost their will to fight and are refusing to go out there.
I don't want to~!
No~~!
Ehehe, then stay with -me-...
As Alita has not been seen since second day of the tournament, the lone combatant is Sechs!
panel 5
Everyone has anticipated the Space Angels' handicap!
...however! Please look at this!
PG 11
panel 1
As long as this rifle's in my hand, I can still play around with you...
Sucks, but I'm going to kill you with this rental.
CAPTION: Space Angels Main Body | Sechs
panel 2
No, no... given ZOTT's restrictions on ammunition quantity, stealing and using an enemy's firearm is an excellent strategy.
Thanks to you, I've suffered the loss of my team.
Quite regrettable.
CAPTION: Wild Guns General | Gilroy
panel 3
But this is checkmate.
panel 4
You haven't been counting how many bullets you have left, have you?
Guh-!
Bullseye!
PG 12
panel 1
Hah... regrettable. But you did your best, eh?
Hahaha!
panel 2
Shit-! Could his bullet pierce-?!
Is this guy bluffing?!
panel 3
Up until this point, I've only used 6 rounds out of the 524-odd I brought with me.
I'm saving the rest for the finals and the semifinals.
So I have a suggestion.
panel 4
Why don't you try punching me around here?
Punching you?
panel 5
Because I don't like to waste bullets... If you surrender...
...then the rest of my foes will fall as they come to me.
panel 6
Oops! Hold still, please.
panel 7
Your body may be plenty sturdy, but 10 armor piercing bullets into your pupil and your head will go flying.
You so much as blink, and I'll pull the trigger.
PG 13
panel 1
No way! I have a better idea.
A nice idea, if I say so myself.
panel 2
Oh...?
Let's hear it.
panel 3
Let's swap guns.
Just don't leave any bullets. I'll return them right back into your skull!
panel 4
Hahaha!
Looks like a breakdown in negotiations!
panel 5
Heh heh heh.
PG 15
Here's your armor-piercing gun back!
Space Angels advance to the semifinals!
Both Sechs and B Block's Tohji continue on, having managed to beat 5 foes single-handedly!
PG 16
CAPTION: Space Station Jeru
CAPTION: Inside Melchizedek | Cyberspace | Camelot
PG 17
Alita
PG 18
panel 3
Ghost!
That's the first word out of your mouth?!
panel 4
I'm an imaginary personality simulated by Merlin.
And yet, I'm 99% Vilma... as Caerulia's spokesman, I don't care what you think about me.
PG 19
panel 1
So you understand now?
The way this world came about?
panel 2
I do.
What painful memories...
panel 3
I.. before, when it was the Scrapyard and Zalem... I thought Jeru had made this sadistical doctrine in order to torture people.
So if I was able to find the root of this doctine with my fists, I thought I'd be able to learn the answers... somehow or other...
PG 20
panel 1
But I was wrong.
It's not that simple!
panel 2
I know now that the people of Zalem and Jeru... even those raised by Melchizedek... I know their hopes and dreams...
Their fervent desires...!
panel 3
Yes.
When you tally up history's follies...
Every era and every era's people have their triumphs and their melancholies.
PG 21
panel 1
As keeper of the Fata Morgana...
panel 2
I've seen the cycle of humanity's life and death over a long time.
panel 3
And I've been searching.
For a person to entrust the Fata Morgana to.
panel 5
Explain to me...
Why Alita?
CAPTION: Ping Wu
PG 22
panel 1
Because I'm so cute!
No.
panel 2
Well, because I'm strong!
Yeah, RIGHT.
panel 3
If I had to put it in one word, it'd be "uneasy."
You've never become familiar with the outside world, always uneasy wherever you are. I'm doing this because I feel like you show promise.
panel 4
Uh... um...
(small: Is that a compliment?)
panel 5
Soo, in short... because she's an awkward outsider?
(small: Gah!)
panel 6
A culture of conformity; in other words, the depletion of possibilities. A pathetic hotbed of evolutionary dead-ends.
You're a first-rate warrior and a moderate nonconformist... Alita, you never lost your outsider nature; that's what she's telling you, isn't it.
CAPTION: Port-a-Nova
PG 23
panel 1
Feh... I laid out my reasoning in what I said. What is this turning into...
I believe two things: the judgement of a sword, and my instincts.
panel 3
I leave the fate of the human race to you.
PG 24
panel 1
When it's necessary, unleash it.
The Last Order.
PG 25
panel 1
No.
panel 3
No?
panel 4
Well, if you don't need it, give it to me! Gimme gimme!
No, me! me!
panel 5
Listen until I'm finished talking!
panel 6
Caerulia, you said that I am a great person.
But you overestimate me.
PG 26
If I face someone in reach of my short arms and legs, I won't lose to them.
But...
...I can also take responsibility with these arms.
PG 27
panel 1
I just want to help my friends.
The fate of humanity, and all that.. I don't know anything about!
panel 2
So, the Fata Morgana...
panel 3
...I'll keep it.
Until the day I can return it to you.
PG 28
panel 1
Huh. This is your way of living, huh.
If you think about it, Arthur and I remained at our own stations, holding on to our responsibilities. Maybe that's why we lost... (???)
panel 2
I leave it to you.
panel 3
Go.
Your friend is waiting.
PG 29
RIGHT TEXT: That's as far as you go!
BOTTOM LEFT: Have they failed in their infiltration mission?!
Hoooly shit the next chapter is tripping me up from the word go.
So, couple questions:
Is there anyone named "Dachi" in Gunnm? Someone Ping would know? Possibly deceased?
Also, what's the transliterated name of Ping's lady friend? Gara?
(sigh... Kishiro just had to get cute and make some weird mangaka analogy that doesn't really make any sense)
So, couple questions:
Is there anyone named "Dachi" in Gunnm? Someone Ping would know? Possibly deceased?
Also, what's the transliterated name of Ping's lady friend? Gara?
(sigh... Kishiro just had to get cute and make some weird mangaka analogy that doesn't really make any sense)
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This chapter gave me a headache and a half. Luckily, I think the next couple should be a bit easier. So here's the rough script for v10c61.
PG 1 (cover, with Ping's swiss army hand)
LEFT TEXT: Aga Mbadi? Fuck off!
PG 2
panel 1
Even I had ideals in the past.
panel 2
I really believed I could change the world.
PG 3
panel 1
Age 21: I stole some Methuselah Tech from a lab on Venus and spread it all over the net.
I thought I was the shit when the terraforming wars ended. I was like, "I ended a war."
panel 2
I honestly believed that the world was on the right path.
I thought that all the worlds' evils went away along with the war.
panel 3
But I was in a different place then; Captain Mbadi was still my hero.
You strained your body and fought hard. I respected you.
panel 4
...before long, my dream fell apart.
And I became disillusioned.
PG 4
(??? -- translating practically every line on the page gave me a headache)
panel 1
The deceased, said... "The net is like a manga artist without a deadline."
Without a deadline, your work is never over. Like a manga artist.
Every bill you put off paying comes back to haunt you.
panel 2
Before I knew it, the world got the way it is now.
panel 3
My relationship was stretched to the breaking point.
The end result was my spectacular failure.
PG 5
panel 1
Over the span of 100 years, I searched my soul in the Robot Country.
I came to a reckoning.
panel 2
I can't do a goddamn thing right!
panel 3
The world can fuck off and humanity can go to hell.
That's right. I'm filth.
Completely useless.
And yet...
PG 6
panel 2
-I- am the appropriate successor to the Fata Morgana.
Come now, hand it to me!
CAPTION: Aga Mbadi (Trinidad)
PG 7
panel 1
Shit-! He found us! What now, Ping?!
Don't panic. I thought this might happen.
CAPTION: Ping Wu (Weasel)
panel 2
It's my turn now! Is everything ready, Cale?
panel 3
Yeah, boss! I'm sick of waiting!
panel 4
Expand Battle Avatar "Galeed"! [ed. note: as far as I can tell, this is from Genesis 31:47, regarding a pillar they build. In hebrew it means witness heap, and is spelled גריד]
PG 9
panel 1
The master holds me back! (???)
Take Alita back, just like we planned.
panel 2
Roger.
Ping!
panel 3
Don't turn all serious on me!
panel 6
So this is the great "Weasel."
I will kill you where you stand, then hunt down your friends, take the Fata Morgana from them, and destroy them.
panel 7
Heh.
You don't always get what you want, you bastard.
PG 10
panel 2
Back in my real body...!
panel 3
Can you hear me, Alita?
Nova...
I am unlocking 35 successive divisions in the Incubator, so hurry!
Gotcha.
panel 4
Is Ping alright?
In this Solar System, only he could engage Trinidand in a realtime computer battle.
I think they're on equal footing.
PG 11
Lou! Just a bit further...
...I'm almost there!
PG 12
O great Weasel, before I crush you, I'd like to ask a question.
To what extent do you comprehend Melchizedek's true nature?
PG 13
panel 1
Melchizedek... a quantum future scenario simulator. I initially assumed it was merely the controller for the Orbital Ring.
However, its true nature...
panel 2
...is that it is a central quantum server, serving as the framework to link together all mankinds' brains. Grid computing.
That is Melchizedek's current form.
FOOTNOTE: Not translated, but... I mean, come on, you know what grid computing is, right?
PG 14
panel 1
Indeed.
panel 2
The incubator and the brain chips were originally made for research.
But during the research process, they learned that living things' brains exchange information at the molecular level by means of quantum teleportation.
panel 3
Long ago, it was known by various vague terms, such as "Unconscious Assembly." Melchizedek came about in order to handle this inexhaustible resource through engineering.
In short, now Melchizedek is the very heart of mankind.
panel 4
To oppose Melchizedek in tryinging to destroy is an act of treason against your own species, o venerable Weasel.
panel 6
Up yours, asshole!
Quantum teleportation: (???)[to translate later]
PG 15
panel 1
It's a -thing-. (???)
You abuse Unanimous to manage the peoples' thoughts, thus manipulating Melchizedek into making whatever predictions are convenient for you. Aren't you just manufacturing reality, asshole?!
panel 2
To ensure participation in the last great war, it was necessary to manufacture predictions.
So... if you know that much, then it's impossible to make use of you.
panel 3
My bad!
And I was feeling so good in the middle of your little speech. Too bad, o great master! (???)
panel 4
Eh?
FOOTNOTE: Unanimous... you know what this is, it was explained awhile back... to translate later
PG 16
panel 2
This is the triple quantum code "Ice cube"!
Doesn't matter how superhuman you are, o great master, you can't break it.
panel 3
Guh-! Ah-! A-!
PG 17
panel 1
[Cale] Yessss! Boss! We irreversibly compacted Trinidad into 3 bytes!
No, wait... that was too easy.
panel 2
That was a decoy!
Cale! Deploy the defense barrie-
panel 3
Too slow!
panel 4
I alone define reality.
Only I, Trinidad!
PG 18
Mortal Eclipse! [ed.note: literally translates to "Absolute corrosion," but uses the kanji for "eclipse"... also, first word could be mortar, or motar, or mohtar... unlikely it's motor]
PG 19
panel 1
AUGH~!
panel 2
Once this electronic brain [computer] corrosion starts, it cannot be stopped.
By the time the corrosion reaches your brain, o venerable Weasel, your death has been decided. (needs smoothing over)
panel 3
Boss... looks like this is it.
panel 4
Cale!
panel 5
You challenged me while recklessly grieving. (??? goddamn lack of pronouns)
DIE.
panel 6
Don't count your chickens before they hatch!
My upper-right arm demolition volt charge is still functioning! (???)
PG 20
panel 1
Gahhh~!
panel 3
What the-!
You amputated your own arm with a fuse explosive, just to stop the encroaching corruption...
I see. A hundred years ago, you prolonged your life with the same method...
PG 21
panel 1
Hahh... hahh... shit.. this fucking hurts...
But... that's also just your assumption-!
panel 2
Soon your stoicism will turn to despair, and you will beg for your life.
LEFT: Mortal Eclipse
panel 3
An License! [ed. note: literally translates to "Bootleg" or "Pirated edition", and is perhaps thus best translated as "unlicensed"]
PG 22
panel 2
He copied my attack data!
panel 3
Muh...
Your special move's copy protection sucks, o great Trinidad!
PG 23
panel 1
Heh heh...
So what's it going to be? Die, or run off like a chicken?
panel 2
Sad to say, I'm not in the mood to play with you.
panel 3
The Mortal Eclipse is useless against me.
panel 4
Shit... cold-blooded...
Upper-right leg volt charge...!
panel 5
Ah... gah...
So far, I have fought and killed many criminals...
PG 24
panel 1
But I cannot understand you.
What one belief could possibly drive you this far?!
panel 2
Well... I'm a completely hopeless person...
But...
If it's for them...
This fucked-up, shitty world... [ed. note: I love this swear word, kusottare... literally means "explosive diarrhea"]
PG 25
panel 1
...I might be able to open an air hole. [ventilator]
panel 3
Lou...
PG 26-27
Who-?
PG 28
panel 1
Air hole.. you bet your entire life just for this small glimmer of hope?
You threw away eternal life for the sake of that unreliable, unconstructive thing?
panel 2
You'd never understand, not even in a thousand years...
You're born in the morning and die in the evening. Try to understand a lowly worm's request.
panel 3
Alita is in the Incubator even now. My work here is done.
But I will not die alone!
PG 29
panel 1
Let's irreversibly compact ourselves into an archive file together! (holy shit does this need smoothing over)
panel 3
Chief.
panel 4
Permission to charge?
panel 5
Granted.
PG 31
panel 2
Farewell, Weasel.
This is the last of the resistance.
PG 1 (cover, with Ping's swiss army hand)
LEFT TEXT: Aga Mbadi? Fuck off!
PG 2
panel 1
Even I had ideals in the past.
panel 2
I really believed I could change the world.
PG 3
panel 1
Age 21: I stole some Methuselah Tech from a lab on Venus and spread it all over the net.
I thought I was the shit when the terraforming wars ended. I was like, "I ended a war."
panel 2
I honestly believed that the world was on the right path.
I thought that all the worlds' evils went away along with the war.
panel 3
But I was in a different place then; Captain Mbadi was still my hero.
You strained your body and fought hard. I respected you.
panel 4
...before long, my dream fell apart.
And I became disillusioned.
PG 4
(??? -- translating practically every line on the page gave me a headache)
panel 1
The deceased, said... "The net is like a manga artist without a deadline."
Without a deadline, your work is never over. Like a manga artist.
Every bill you put off paying comes back to haunt you.
panel 2
Before I knew it, the world got the way it is now.
panel 3
My relationship was stretched to the breaking point.
The end result was my spectacular failure.
PG 5
panel 1
Over the span of 100 years, I searched my soul in the Robot Country.
I came to a reckoning.
panel 2
I can't do a goddamn thing right!
panel 3
The world can fuck off and humanity can go to hell.
That's right. I'm filth.
Completely useless.
And yet...
PG 6
panel 2
-I- am the appropriate successor to the Fata Morgana.
Come now, hand it to me!
CAPTION: Aga Mbadi (Trinidad)
PG 7
panel 1
Shit-! He found us! What now, Ping?!
Don't panic. I thought this might happen.
CAPTION: Ping Wu (Weasel)
panel 2
It's my turn now! Is everything ready, Cale?
panel 3
Yeah, boss! I'm sick of waiting!
panel 4
Expand Battle Avatar "Galeed"! [ed. note: as far as I can tell, this is from Genesis 31:47, regarding a pillar they build. In hebrew it means witness heap, and is spelled גריד]
PG 9
panel 1
The master holds me back! (???)
Take Alita back, just like we planned.
panel 2
Roger.
Ping!
panel 3
Don't turn all serious on me!
panel 6
So this is the great "Weasel."
I will kill you where you stand, then hunt down your friends, take the Fata Morgana from them, and destroy them.
panel 7
Heh.
You don't always get what you want, you bastard.
PG 10
panel 2
Back in my real body...!
panel 3
Can you hear me, Alita?
Nova...
I am unlocking 35 successive divisions in the Incubator, so hurry!
Gotcha.
panel 4
Is Ping alright?
In this Solar System, only he could engage Trinidand in a realtime computer battle.
I think they're on equal footing.
PG 11
Lou! Just a bit further...
...I'm almost there!
PG 12
O great Weasel, before I crush you, I'd like to ask a question.
To what extent do you comprehend Melchizedek's true nature?
PG 13
panel 1
Melchizedek... a quantum future scenario simulator. I initially assumed it was merely the controller for the Orbital Ring.
However, its true nature...
panel 2
...is that it is a central quantum server, serving as the framework to link together all mankinds' brains. Grid computing.
That is Melchizedek's current form.
FOOTNOTE: Not translated, but... I mean, come on, you know what grid computing is, right?
PG 14
panel 1
Indeed.
panel 2
The incubator and the brain chips were originally made for research.
But during the research process, they learned that living things' brains exchange information at the molecular level by means of quantum teleportation.
panel 3
Long ago, it was known by various vague terms, such as "Unconscious Assembly." Melchizedek came about in order to handle this inexhaustible resource through engineering.
In short, now Melchizedek is the very heart of mankind.
panel 4
To oppose Melchizedek in tryinging to destroy is an act of treason against your own species, o venerable Weasel.
panel 6
Up yours, asshole!
Quantum teleportation: (???)[to translate later]
PG 15
panel 1
It's a -thing-. (???)
You abuse Unanimous to manage the peoples' thoughts, thus manipulating Melchizedek into making whatever predictions are convenient for you. Aren't you just manufacturing reality, asshole?!
panel 2
To ensure participation in the last great war, it was necessary to manufacture predictions.
So... if you know that much, then it's impossible to make use of you.
panel 3
My bad!
And I was feeling so good in the middle of your little speech. Too bad, o great master! (???)
panel 4
Eh?
FOOTNOTE: Unanimous... you know what this is, it was explained awhile back... to translate later
PG 16
panel 2
This is the triple quantum code "Ice cube"!
Doesn't matter how superhuman you are, o great master, you can't break it.
panel 3
Guh-! Ah-! A-!
PG 17
panel 1
[Cale] Yessss! Boss! We irreversibly compacted Trinidad into 3 bytes!
No, wait... that was too easy.
panel 2
That was a decoy!
Cale! Deploy the defense barrie-
panel 3
Too slow!
panel 4
I alone define reality.
Only I, Trinidad!
PG 18
Mortal Eclipse! [ed.note: literally translates to "Absolute corrosion," but uses the kanji for "eclipse"... also, first word could be mortar, or motar, or mohtar... unlikely it's motor]
PG 19
panel 1
AUGH~!
panel 2
Once this electronic brain [computer] corrosion starts, it cannot be stopped.
By the time the corrosion reaches your brain, o venerable Weasel, your death has been decided. (needs smoothing over)
panel 3
Boss... looks like this is it.
panel 4
Cale!
panel 5
You challenged me while recklessly grieving. (??? goddamn lack of pronouns)
DIE.
panel 6
Don't count your chickens before they hatch!
My upper-right arm demolition volt charge is still functioning! (???)
PG 20
panel 1
Gahhh~!
panel 3
What the-!
You amputated your own arm with a fuse explosive, just to stop the encroaching corruption...
I see. A hundred years ago, you prolonged your life with the same method...
PG 21
panel 1
Hahh... hahh... shit.. this fucking hurts...
But... that's also just your assumption-!
panel 2
Soon your stoicism will turn to despair, and you will beg for your life.
LEFT: Mortal Eclipse
panel 3
An License! [ed. note: literally translates to "Bootleg" or "Pirated edition", and is perhaps thus best translated as "unlicensed"]
PG 22
panel 2
He copied my attack data!
panel 3
Muh...
Your special move's copy protection sucks, o great Trinidad!
PG 23
panel 1
Heh heh...
So what's it going to be? Die, or run off like a chicken?
panel 2
Sad to say, I'm not in the mood to play with you.
panel 3
The Mortal Eclipse is useless against me.
panel 4
Shit... cold-blooded...
Upper-right leg volt charge...!
panel 5
Ah... gah...
So far, I have fought and killed many criminals...
PG 24
panel 1
But I cannot understand you.
What one belief could possibly drive you this far?!
panel 2
Well... I'm a completely hopeless person...
But...
If it's for them...
This fucked-up, shitty world... [ed. note: I love this swear word, kusottare... literally means "explosive diarrhea"]
PG 25
panel 1
...I might be able to open an air hole. [ventilator]
panel 3
Lou...
PG 26-27
Who-?
PG 28
panel 1
Air hole.. you bet your entire life just for this small glimmer of hope?
You threw away eternal life for the sake of that unreliable, unconstructive thing?
panel 2
You'd never understand, not even in a thousand years...
You're born in the morning and die in the evening. Try to understand a lowly worm's request.
panel 3
Alita is in the Incubator even now. My work here is done.
But I will not die alone!
PG 29
panel 1
Let's irreversibly compact ourselves into an archive file together! (holy shit does this need smoothing over)
panel 3
Chief.
panel 4
Permission to charge?
panel 5
Granted.
PG 31
panel 2
Farewell, Weasel.
This is the last of the resistance.
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oh please tell me you're gonna start releasing chapter by chaptercrazyankan wrote:and now he has started on phase 62 =)
reading the script and the pages side by side is so much ... uncomfortable
and if i start putting text inside the frames myself, you know, like a "trashlation" ... i don't know what will happen maybe the whole multiverse will collapse lol