Decades before Fukui penned his personal essay on Newtypes, there were a couple of other essays that graced the pages of G20 magazine. Longtime Gundam staffer Tadashi Nagase posits Tomino drawing from a wellspring of history to weave some more complex narratives for Newtype (which bolsters Fukui'...
2024-08-07 22:24:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know if this really adds anything to the Gundam fandom, but it's some more translated information nonetheless. The following is part of a series of articles published in the Summer 2021 issue of Great Mechanics G following the release of the film during the pandemic.
2024-08-05 21:51:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I do have to say I enjoy translating Rosemary's dialogue in this. She's such a fun character. Anywho, onto novels this week! Enjoy, and let me know if anything seems dorked up! Also, I should note, I'm not entirely sure why there seems to be a degradation in image quality despite the transition t...
2024-08-05 21:46:51 +0000 UTC View Post
As I wrap up another volume of Crossbone Ghost (later today, I hope!), another quick little dive into some of the quirkier Gundam lore that's out there, this time from Gundam's 20th Anniversary! Originally published in Volume.5 of G20's anniversary tribute magazine in June 1999, we get a look at ...
2024-08-03 20:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post
In addition to requests for some of the production stuff, here's some more of the hardcore science and mechanical aspects from the Gundam Film Comics! Next time around we'll talk about powered suits, atmospheric reentry, more Minovsky particle stuff, a different look at piloting a mobile suit, an...
2024-08-01 23:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Diving back into some more of the background material (ish?), but when Gundam Ace first kicked off, they had a bunch of killer background material for the show (like how the super detailed look of the Zaku monoeye shattering inadvertently kicked off not just the MSV line but background lore!). Wr...
2024-08-01 09:47:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Our first chapter kicks off during the events of the battle over the Olympus Cannon at the tail end of the original F90's manga adaptation.
PREVIOUS CHAPTER
2024-07-30 18:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The latest original chapter from the novelization!
2024-07-29 19:30:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back from my camping trip armed with translations! We'll kick this off with this month's Vanadis Heart! Another frustratingly short chapter... There is no Moon Gundam this month despite the previous issue saying there would be. Vol.13 yielded nothing new, but I'll get on the compilation volum...
2024-07-29 18:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Going to steamroll this one out to get it done (retranslating is done, it's just the damn Photoshop work that's taking forever). Hopefully folks enjoy this version a bit more than the word salad version that's currently out there (and just flat out wrong in a lot of places). Definitely shouldn't ...
2024-07-23 00:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post
And with this, the story is complete. Yup, it ends on a total cliffhanger. The next update to this will be mecha profiles and an interview from the original compilation volume (not present in the newer version, sadly). Also, there was some additional text that was present in the initial serializa...
2024-07-19 22:41:24 +0000 UTC View PostSorry, formatting this all over again took me some time. That and I was trying to figure out how to render some of the names in English for everyone since G Gundam is a nightmare with stuff like that sometimes (that's why I never tried with IBO names either). So, a little explanation:
初...
2024-07-19 18:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Doubling back to finish up some more projects that went untouched for quite a while, here is the complete version of the One of Seventy Two booklet that was released to celebrate the DOME-G showing of the mini film, part of which we saw in Gundam NT.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
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Previous Chapters:
[COMMISSION] SIDESTORY OF ZETA (Amuro) (Act-2)
[COMMISSION] SIDESTORY OF ZE...
Our next batch of three chapters is Gaia Gear! Sorry, I don't have the issue of Newtype with the first chapter of this volume, so chapters two and three will have to do for now. Joys of things being stolen from my car! I'm slowly working on trying to get past chapters scanned in, but for whatever...
2024-07-12 22:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, kicking off the final volume of the series with a trio of chapters for everyone! Mainly because this is the anniversary month (more is better!) and because I really want to wrap this up quickly. I should have this done by September since it's pretty much the movie from this point forward (t...
2024-07-10 21:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies about the delay. Still dealing with car crap and the loss of so much data.
Previous Chapters:
[RETRANSLATION] Silhouette Formula 91 (Ch.4)
2024-07-06 19:58:55 +0000 UTC
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Please let me know if this script format should be formatted a bit better.
2024-07-05 20:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post
From the back pages of the Gundam UC Testimonial Collection: What Was Inherited and What Will Be Entrusted book (and reprinted in the Gundam Universal Century Memorial pamphlet) comes the lengthy discourse on Newtype by the guy everyone loves to hate: Harutoshi Fukui.
ABOUT THE BOOK...
2024-07-03 17:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Previous Chapters:
[RETRANSLATION] Silhouette Formula 91 (Ch.3)
[RETRANSLATION] Silhouette Formula...
Continuing on with one more for today!
2024-06-29 17:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm sidestepping just a bit to work on a commission piece for someone for July!
This is a "what if" take on the main Zeta Gundam story. After the One Year War, Char Aznable, a Zeon captain, finds himself working for the Titans against his will. T...
2024-06-29 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been entirely too long wrapping up this project (2018?!), so I opted to just retranslate everything I did way back when. Much better version, to be honest. There's still a couple of the mecha pages that need redoing, but here's the complete story and character dump for everyone! Text-only ve...
2024-06-28 21:38:10 +0000 UTC View Post
While I didn't tackle Steel 7 (though that does need a better translation), this tongue-in-cheek retelling of the events of Steel 7 was just too good not to do. I had a little fun with this one. Rosemary embellished a smidge with her version of events, so I hopefully I was able to convey that wit...
2024-06-28 00:47:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We've finally got some new content this month! Well, last month I should say. Missed this installment. It's so sporadic in its serialization I thumbed right past it. Anywho, more Kill-em-All Tomino style escapades in this chapter!
Previous chapters:
2024-06-27 19:36:54 +0000 UTC
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[MONTHLY] VANADIS HEART (Prologue)
[MONTHLY] Vanadis Heart (Chapter.01)
2024-06-27 11:29:10 +0000 UTC
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Following hot on the heels of the F90FF manga series is a new serialization in Gundam Ace called Gundam F90 Cluster! There's a lot to unpack in this prologue, so I'll do a quick breakdown of things. There are a lot of references to events happening in various other manga. Those include: Silhouett...
2024-06-26 17:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Totally forgot to post this the other week. My apologies.
2024-06-24 23:44:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that the major Sentinel retranslation project has wrapped up, it's time to move onto the next somewhat "gritty" militaristic installment in the Gundam verse. When Bonds of the Battlefield came out, there was a variety show on TV Tokyo that showcased comedian Toshiyuki Itakura duking it out wi...
2024-06-20 21:55:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who have supported me in retranslating the very first project my (then) group tackled way back in 2003. I'll be honest, the novel wasn't done justice back then. But, given the times, we didn't put a lot of effort into proper research or finding b...
2024-06-19 17:17:14 +0000 UTC View Post