Full Metal Panic Novel Discussion

[FeistyDreams]

Her name is Tenko, actually. It's 一条　点子 (Ichijou Tenko) (She provides the hiragana reading for her name in the information section.)

Her art really is amazing. Over on another forum, we sent her a message asking about her doujinshi, sadly she couldn't get it sent to us, but her reply was so nice! She even sent a drawing back to the person who sent the message!

Gotta love her, honestly, she's so kind and wonderful and so very dedicated!!

[selilychidori]

Originally Posted by FeistyDreams

Her name is Tenko, actually. It's 一条　点子 (Ichijou Tenko) (She provides the hiragana reading for her name in the information section.)

Her art really is amazing. Over on another forum, we sent her a message asking about her doujinshi, sadly she couldn't get it sent to us, but her reply was so nice! She even sent a drawing back to the person who sent the message!

Gotta love her, honestly, she's so kind and wonderful and so very dedicated!!

So the artist is a girl. figures,..^^....her art is so sweet...

[sy tao]

ME TOO.. pm me please, please...i don't have any idea about other short stories other than the ones MisterV has translated..


poor me. . .

[MutsuriLurker]

Originally Posted by sy tao

ME TOO.. pm me please, please...i don't have any idea about other short stories other than the ones MisterV has translated..


poor me. . .

Acrually, we were only talking about links for the ones Mister V translated, I don't have anything else yet ;D

[solothurn]

Btw, re: that scene about Sousuke saying Alto is "beautiful" in ACE:R, it was after Mao's potty-mouth-drill-sergeant-from-hell training, where Sousuke explains that he was describing Alto's way of moving about, saying that he moves with absolute efficiency and there's no waste in movement. Then Alto's past as a Kabuki performer is exposed.

Figures.

[MutsuriLurker]

Originally Posted by selilychidori

theres a funny one with Tsubaki and Sousuke eating pocky..that still confuses me lol...

This one, right ?



It's a joke based on "Mayonaka no raiders" (another short story full of win that needs to be translated. I have only two things to say : Grace, and KILLTHEMALL!), where Tsubaki says that Sousuke's taking advantage of Kaname's kindness.

Now, how to translate it.... hmmmmmm....

Tsubaki : "Sagara, you're taking way too much advantage of Chidori's kindness."
Sousuke : *there's a pun, kindness (koui) and 'favours' (koui) have the same prononciation " Chidori's favours ?" .... " You noticed ?..."
Tsubaki : " I wouldn't be telling you this if I hadn't noticed." This guy's weirding me out.

Edit, to clear things up : Here Sousuke understand "favours" this way :

Favours : sexual intimacy, esp. as permitted by a woman.

;D

Originally Posted by solothurn

Btw, re: that scene about Sousuke saying Alto is "beautiful" in ACE:R, it was after Mao's potty-mouth-drill-sergeant-from-hell training, where Sousuke explains that he was describing Alto's way of moving about, saying that he moves with absolute efficiency and there's no waste in movement. Then Alto's past as a Kabuki performer is exposed.

Figures.

Thks Captain, for clearing that up !

[jerkette]

Originally Posted by MutsuriLurker

*pm-ed you a link ^^*

Uhhmm.. Can you PM it to me too, pretty please??? THANKS!

[tommole]

I was just wondering where i could get all of the short stories to download, read all of the full novels so decided id quite like to see what the short stories are like. Thanks =)

[MutsuriLurker]

Originally Posted by tommole

I was just wondering where i could get all of the short stories to download, read all of the full novels so decided id quite like to see what the short stories are like. Thanks =)

Check the beginning of this thread, snoop around @ Mister V's and @ Feisty's. Remember to say thank you to these wonderful people for their awesum-possum work ;D
Have fun, there's much to read.

Originally Posted by jerkette

Uhhmm.. Can you PM it to me too, pretty please??? THANKS!

Pm'd away

[killersaint]

THANK YOU EVERYONE INVOLVED from someone who's been negligent in her posts but not in her downloads...

i wish i could fly to where you are and give you all hugs! and i wish i could fanart a thanks, but my scanner's still down... (. .) {...)

...sorry-thankyou!


and here's hoping we get some sort of an epilogue or alt-POV story that explains just how the HELL a nuke was handwaved by the world goverments without too many questions (among other things...).

and also, bright hopes for a shiny new season~!

[selilychidori]

Originally Posted by MutsuriLurker

This one, right ?



It's a joke based on "Mayonaka no raiders" (another short story full of win that needs to be translated. I have only two things to say : Grace, and KILLTHEMALL!), where Tsubaki says that Sousuke's taking advantage of Kaname's kindness.

Now, how to translate it.... hmmmmmm....

Tsubaki : "Sagara, you're taking way too much advantage of Chidori's kindness."
Sousuke : *there's a pun, kindness (koui) and 'favours' (koui) have the same prononciation " Chidori's favours ?" .... " You noticed ?..."
Tsubaki : " I wouldn't be telling you this if I hadn't noticed." This guy's weirding me out.





Thks Captain, for clearing that up !

omg thank you! Mutsuri ^-^...i been wondering about that for a while..o.O..
I love tsubaki XD..its the opposite of Sousuke, outragously trying to show he is strong and manly and a perfect protector...when he's not.
He's kinda a fail of Sousuke lol...

While Sousuke is the dense introvert protector..XD...\
am guessing this 'favor' is somewhere perverted? XD....
whats with the pocky..o.o..lol

omg theres so many short stories i never heard of! ><...which one is that one! Mayonaka no raiders...
*goes to find the shortstory list ..v-v*

[solothurn]

@Mutsuri:

*salutes* No prob. SRW/ACE games are always a gold mine of character interactions between series. While ACE:R has somewhat a bit few golden ones, (Bonta-kun causing almost every female pilot present to swoon and Lelouch considerably impressed with Tessa) the more traditional SRW games had more. (Heero and Sousuke's fruit juice scene comes to mind, lol)

[meeiwen]

Originally Posted by MutsuriLurker

This one, right ?



It's a joke based on "Mayonaka no raiders" (another short story full of win that needs to be translated. I have only two things to say : Grace, and KILLTHEMALL!), where Tsubaki says that Sousuke's taking advantage of Kaname's kindness.

Now, how to translate it.... hmmmmmm....

Tsubaki : "Sagara, you're taking way too much advantage of Chidori's kindness."
Sousuke : *there's a pun, kindness (koui) and 'favours' (koui) have the same prononciation " Chidori's favours ?" .... " You noticed ?..."
Tsubaki : " I wouldn't be telling you this if I hadn't noticed." This guy's weirding me out.





Thks Captain, for clearing that up !

Hmm.. I'm not fully getting what the "favour" thing means. I'm curious. But Sousuke's reaction is funny! Thanks Mutsuki, you've been helping us a lot!

Also thanks to solothurn for explaining about the Alto scene. And to Selily for the fanart!

[MutsuriLurker]

Originally Posted by meeiwen

Hmm.. I'm not fully getting what the "favour" thing means. I'm curious.

Hmmm. Favour ain't so great... Might go with something like "affection" instead. Sorry, English is not my first language, French is. In French "faveur" has some heavy intimate subtext in it, I thought it was the same for English, should have checked, stupid mistake, blah blah blah. ;D

But koui is a bit tricky anyway, it ranges from "favour" to "affection"
As Selily said, "favour/affection" has some... intimate subtext here. I think. I'm not so good at subtext, tho :c

ETA : ok, checked. I got my lazy arse in gear and opened my dictionary. It says :

Usually, favours. sexual intimacy, esp. as permitted by a woman.

But it's like... the tenth meaning or so. But I meant it this way :3

Originally Posted by selilychidori

whats with the pocky..o.o..lol

If I remember well, it might not be pocky. Just chopsticks. They were eating sukiyaki at the time. Or was it shabu-shabu ? Some kind of nabe (food simmering in a common pot, people pick bits of food), anyway. Sousuke asked Kurz for intructions to proceed in "nabe-eating". Kurz was helpful as ever and said:
"Listen pal, Nabe-eating is a kind of warfare. You have to get the best bits (meat) first before other people eat them up ! It's eat or be eaten, mate !"
Sousuke took his advice a wee bit too... literally.
Chaos/hilarity ensued.

I love Kurz and his silly hair to bits.

[sy tao]

the more i want to read other FMP shortstories...



the anticipation rises friends!!

[meeiwen]

Originally Posted by MutsuriLurker

Hmmm. Favour ain't so great... Might go with something like "affection" instead. Sorry, English is not my first language, French is. In French "faveur" has some heavy intimate subtext in it, I thought it was the same for English, should have checked, stupid mistake, blah blah blah. ;D

But koui is a bit tricky anyway, it ranges from "favour" to "affection"
As Selily said, "favour/affection" has some... intimate subtext here. I think. I'm not so good at subtext, tho :c

ETA : ok, checked. I got my lazy arse in gear and opened my dictionary. It says :


But it's like... the tenth meaning or so. But I meant it this way :3

Ah I see.. Now I really find their conversation funny. hahahahahaha!!! Thanks again Mutsuki!

[psicomenace]

Thanks for the PM MutsuriLurker and thanks to MisterV.

[Jehuty77]

I'm really happy with the ending of the series, I'm gonna collect the story translations and update my first post(on page 1 of this thread) in the next few days, if anyone has direct links pm them to me

[MutsuriLurker]

Originally Posted by MutsuriLurker

Okay, just got b*tchslapped by BF (native Japanese speaker) for translating thiiiiiiings way too much into left field.
The gist of it is actually much simpler. So simple I actually overlooked it : "Nah, it can't be that simple" and went rooting for other, more twisted meanings of "koui".

Correct translation (this time for sure) :

Issei : You're taking advantage of Chidori's kindness.
Sousuke : Chidori's love/affection ?
Sousuke : You think so ? (i.e., you think she's in love with me ?)
Sousuke : I thought I was just being overconfident...
Issei : I wouldn't be telling you this if I hadn't noticed.
Issei :This guy's weirding me out.

Mea Culpa, I stand corrected :/

[selilychidori]

Originally Posted by MutsuriLurker

Okay, just got b*tchslapped by BF (native Japanese speaker) for translating thiiiiiiings way too much into left field.
The gist of it is actually much simpler. So simple I actually overlooked it : "Nah, it can't be that simple" and went rooting for other, more twisted meanings of "koui".

Correct translation (this time for sure) :

Issei : You're taking advantage of Chidori's kindness.
Sousuke : Chidori's love/affection ?
Sousuke : You think so ? (i.e., you think she's in love with me ?)
Sousuke : I thought I was just being overconfident...
Issei : I wouldn't be telling you this if I hadn't noticed.
Issei :This guy's weirding me out.

Mea Culpa, I stand corrected :/

now..it makes more sence..o.o..I showed your translation to someone whos a big fan of FMP and even he said "I dont get it?"...

But this one makes alot more sence!

Hey, I rather have this, mistakes and all, then nothing..^^ no need to be sorry..
am still grateful! ;-;...