Alita's unknown light novel? (The Useless Skill)

[kamugin]

Many, many moons ago, much before this forum existence, I found these images below on a website. I lost the link and probably that site didn't exist anymore. I remeber it mentioned that these pages are from an Alita's graphic novel, a gaiden perhaps, but these aren't among the material Ripper and others translated until now nor I've found futher information about it. Is there such graphic novel? If there is, I suggest that the people involved in GLO scanlation do this one too... Onegai mina san! ^_^

[Sergio Nova]

No graphic novel at all. It is a novel, simply. Unless I am mistaken, the title is The Useless Skill. As far as I know, it exists only in Japanese, that is, it has never been translated anywhere on this planet.

[kamugin]

No graphic novel at all. It is a novel, simply. Unless I am mistaken, the title is The Useless Skill. As far as I know, it exists only in Japanese, that is, it has never been translated anywhere on this planet.

A light novel you say? A book with plain text and just a few illustrated pages? Nevertheless it's time to have it translated, don't you think? =)

[Sergio Nova]

A light novel you say? A book with plain text and just a few illustrated pages? Nevertheless it's time to have it translated, don't you think? =)

"Light novel" sounds to me as something in shojo style. I prefer to consider this book a novel, simply.

As to have it translated, we would, first of all, depend on our translators availability.

[kamugin]

I've found more information about the novel here: http://www.reimeika.ca/marco/gfaq.html

_Gunnm_ by Kishiro Yukito and Kawamura Yasuhisa
published by Jump Books
copyright 1997
ISBN4 - 08 - 703059 - 8
780 yen

It looks like this was originally published in "Jump Novel" vol. 10 (3/30/'96) and vol. 11 (8/18/'96)

Anybody interested in translating this?

More information from thbbpt@yahoo.com:

First, intro of new character, a female mercenary whose trademark weapon is a superheated blade that swings out from her calf, and she kicks/slashes people with it. her personality is sort of cruel and anarchistic. Ido finds Gally. It gives more detail of the emotions involved. Gally tries to follow Ido to find out why he goes out at night. she gets stopped by a group of prostitutes because she has the arms of one of their missing. turns out theres a serial killer and they think its her . but when they attack her she defends herself and she relizes that occurrences gave her a glimpse into her past. at that time she meets the female, named Calco. Then she decides to become a hunter warrior, Calso helps her. Then right away they bump into a big cy-thug who Gally bumped into the other night. Calco thinks its a good way for Gally to start her new career, and she also secratly invites Ido to come. Gally wins the fight. The prositute sent to invite Ido is killed by the serial killer in the meantime. then when calco gets home she is attacked by the serial killer, and loses cuz she used up her energy cartridge taking care of the thug's peons. ack okok so then gally sees this crazy old guy who has this mannequin he thinks is is daughter. hes blind. gally tries to talk sense into him. when he relizes its not his daughter talking, he gets angry, then he changes bodies (to the 'mannequin's') and the fight and she wins, i think thats about it. not fabulous but not bad.

[kamugin]

"Light novel" sounds to me as something in shojo style. I prefer to consider this book a novel, simply.

As to have it translated, we would, first of all, depend on our translators availability.

You're mistaken. "Light novel" is a general term to describe these books. They are available for any kind of fiction, not shoujo only.

I know about the scarce of translators, so I suggested it as a future project, not to be done right now.