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I have acquired the Gunnm Light Novel and I am interested in scanning it and offering it up for fan translation if anyone is interested.

I have yet to see any evidence of this having been done beyond the illustrations inside.

I'll check this post and my inbox regularly for any interest.

Test machine translations using Google Translate

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 make sure the ChatGPT+ subscription doesn't have any hidden limits.


"Shiiiiing—"

The man ran, fleeing through the night illuminated by the moonlight. It was a dark road with no streetlights. A cable that had snapped from a wall dangled, and sparks from the frayed wires flared in white light, illuminating the darkness like an animation. The light flickered, and the man's crazed figure dashed through the shifting light and shadow.

The man was a half-cyborg, with part of his head and his left arm mechanized. He was gripping an old, worn machete, which gleamed faintly. Blackened blood clung thickly to the blade. This was a desolate, filthy part of town, far from the entertainment district of Kuzu Iron Town, and he was circling through the narrow gaps between the abandoned buildings, like a rat through pipes.

There is an option to also download the text of the translation for Google trans. I posted this only as a basic example of the raw results with no cleanup or grammatical editing.

However, there may some value in this to compare the two methods to balance between accuracy and grammatical cohesion. I personally favor more of a lean toward accuracy.

A scan taken from Ars Manga of the images from the Gunnm Light novel.

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So progress has been steady on the translation and soon a full pdf will be released!
Stay tuned!

Wow, this is so wierd. Anyways, my name is PercivalMolk, and I'm new to this platform!

So, I've seen you got your hands on a GUNNM Novel copy, and have been translating it. Turns out I have a copy too!

I don't know if you are still translating it, but I am, and have been making decent ammount of progress with it. I think my current translation is very solid. I'm currently on chapter 4 out of the 10 chapters the novel has.

Now that we are here, I was wondering if you would like us to discuss it or something, maybe even share our views on it or even share our translations. I've been trying to PV message you for a while, but I just can't figure out how to do it.

Anyways, that's all.

PercivalMolk20 wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 2:38 am Wow, this is so wierd. Anyways, my name is PercivalMolk, and I'm new to this platform!

So, I've seen you got your hands on a GUNNM Novel copy, and have been translating it. Turns out I have a copy too!

I don't know if you are still translating it, but I am, and have been making decent ammount of progress with it. I think my current translation is very solid. I'm currently on chapter 4 out of the 10 chapters the novel has.

Now that we are here, I was wondering if you would like us to discuss it or something, maybe even share our views on it or even share our translations. I've been trying to PV message you for a while, but I just can't figure out how to do it.

Anyways, that's all.

Sorry that I haven't been posting on this thread, been sidetracked with other things.
Anyway, we have a beta version I've been helping with jjaquinta.

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