Zero no Tsukaima Novels Discussion Thread

[siber222000]

i heard in novel saito actually

Spoiler:

dies when he fight 70000 soldiers, after his death, soldiers retreat because they were scared of saito's rage (?). green fairy then comes and resurrect saito with magic. saito wakes up and find his gandalfr rune is gone. then he notices his contract with louise was gone... then he gets special sword training from that girl solder who seeked revenged against colbert and blah... is this true?

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by siber222000

i heard in novel saito actually

Spoiler:

dies when he fight 70000 soldiers, after his death, soldiers retreat because they were scared of saito's rage (?). green fairy then comes and resurrect saito with magic. saito wakes up and find his gandalfr rune is gone. then he notices his contract with louise was gone... then he gets special sword training from that girl solder who seeked revenged against colbert and blah... is this true?

No way, not even in the right order.
First of all

Spoiler:

As far as I remember, Saito didn't die from fighting the soldiers. Derflinger used his ability/magic and forced Saito to run away and was found by the elf.

[Vertiful]

Originally Posted by siber222000

i heard in novel saito actually

Spoiler:

dies when he fight 70000 soldiers, after his death, soldiers retreat because they were scared of saito's rage (?). green fairy then comes and resurrect saito with magic. saito wakes up and find his gandalfr rune is gone. then he notices his contract with louise was gone... then he gets special sword training from that girl solder who seeked revenged against colbert and blah... is this true?

Spoiler for book 7&8:

Technically Saito did not die but his heart stopped beating. The magic in his rune decided that Saito was dead so the contract was broken. In the nick of time Tif, the half-elf, was able to save Saito using an elven artifact.
As for the 70,000 army, they were delayed mostly because of the confusion. It took a long time to calm that many people down. (a day to be exact)
The special trainning did happen.

[AuditionEX]

I've heard that on Volume 8
Louise takes every single pain when her and Saito are being apart, believe that they're not be able to meet again. believe that Saito is dead and she almost commit suicide.

Any further details bout what are those pains and the solution to regain her happiness at the end of the volume?

[siber222000]

now i'm interested about this novel... u guys think it's worth reading it? *cause i can buy korean versions* or should i wait another year or so for 3rd season?

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by Vertiful

Spoiler for book 7&8:

Technically Saito did not die but his heart stopped beating. The magic in his rune decided that Saito was dead so the contract was broken. In the nick of time Tif, the half-elf, was able to save Saito using an elven artifact.

Really...
*makes a note*
I guess the information I read was wrong...
I should hurry up and finish the rest of the novels myself...

[Vertiful]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

Really...
*makes a note*
I guess the information I read was wrong...
I should hurry up and finish the rest of the novels myself...

you really should. the volume 8 of ZnT was voted the 8th best light novel in Japan in 2007

[Matt122005]

So volume 8 is REALLY good? Wow, I can't wait when I get the chance to read it.

-Matt

[Onizuka-GTO]

Originally Posted by Matt122005

So volume 8 is REALLY good? Wow, I can't wait when I get the chance to read it.

-Matt

*books 2012 down as the best year ever*

yup. I can't wait!

Gonna be so fun when we get it!

[Darknemo2000]

And anime completely skipped volume 8, since there was no real parting between Saito and Louise in anime, Saito gone for one night and then comes back while in novels it was much longer persiod.

I guess anime director though that 1 minute should be enough to show Louises pain

Spoiler for Novels:

that almost lead to her suicide in novels

and growing up as a character and building some interesting friendship with Siesta and Saito was not worth of an focus at all just like Tiffania.

I guess anime will skip on through most of Tabitha's arc as well considering that it is serious and has character development and would go in full detail of volume 12 which was probably the dumbest and filled with fanservice of all of ZnT volumes.

[Sterling01]

Originally Posted by Onizuka-GTO

*books 2012 down as the best year ever*

yup. I can't wait!

Gonna be so fun when we get it!

Sorry to burst your bubble but there's a chance that Seven Seas will only do the first four novels. Since they base their decision of whether or not to continue translating a series on sales

@Darknemo2000: Oh how I love your rants... they're very interesting to read. They make me feel as if I'm still browsing that Evangelion image board

[Matt122005]

Hmm, well, I guessed that. That's why there's the Baka-Tsuki group, although their moving slowly. I want to read all the way up to volume 13. That would be cool. And I understand volume 12 is very funny and very comical?

-Matt

[minhtam1638]

Originally Posted by Matt122005

Hmm, well, I guessed that. That's why there's the Baka-Tsuki group, although their moving slowly. I want to read all the way up to volume 13. That would be cool. And I understand volume 12 is very funny and very comical?

-Matt

If I'm right, Baka-Tsuki is focusing on the Clannad game at this moment...

[Matt122005]

Well, Baka-Tsuki is a group of different people. So techincally ALL the project could go on at once if we had enough translators. I mean, I have the raws for volumes 1-13 in chinese (simplified). But as I do not read chinese, this puts me at a serious dissadvantage, I also don't read Japanese.

Anyone care to help? I wish...........

-Matt

[Strike Chaos]

here's a chinese translator for you
http://njstar.com/njstar/chinese/download.php

oh! and i've noticed your work a Baka-tsuki, pretty good.

[Matt122005]

Thanks for the comment, but that link isn't for a translator, it's a dictionary word processor. And that's not what I need. I just wish there was a machine translator like ATLAS for chinese. Unless someone knows a website that has the japanese text raws, then I can use ATLAS.

-Matt

[Mariner231]

You know, you can torrent the RAWs in from Vol 1-12 from isohunt.com

The dowload will take from 3 hours to 2 days.

If you download and translate it, can you send it to me?

[Matt122005]

Dude, I have the raws. They are online, volumes 1-13. Volumes 1-3 have been translated into english already by Baka-Tsuki group. Were currently translating the fourth, slowly. We need serious help to boost the speed.

-Matt

[Darknemo2000]

Well chinese raws are not excatly the most reliable source as chinese translators took quite a few liberties while translating. Like skipping sentences or even pharagraphs changing words so that the meaning of the sentence changes too and has little to do with an original meaning.

So if one uses machine translator like ATLAS it is always better to use japanese raws than chinese ones.

[Forge_55b]

If anyone has any segments that need to be translated I can read Korean so please feel free to send em over or gimme a link to where i could find them. Thanks