To Aru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Discussion (Archives)

[Flere821]

Hmm, I really can't say how easy/hard translating Chinese version to English compared to Jap->Eng is, as I have nearly no experience in Japanese (most of what I learned back in high school is now forgotten, and I probably remember more Japanese from the anime I watch than from my school notes ^^; )

And out of curiosity, why do you people say 'moon runes' when talking about Kanji?

[cubicjack]

Originally Posted by I_am_Kami

Wow. I didn't think translation was hard either. I thought it was like translating Spanish to english. THANKS U TRANSLATORS.

Also, Baka-tsuki.
Can u guys , if u can, put up the short stories like kanzaki ss and railgun shorts. Dont translate them just put up novel illustrations please..

Spoiler for Railgun shorts:

Railgun shorts:



Uiharu short:



Loli Kihara short:

Spoiler for Kanzaki SS:

Never edited a Wiki page before, so not going to put them on BT.

[Miraluka]

Originally Posted by cubicjack

Spoiler for Railgun shorts:

Railgun shorts:



Uiharu short:



Loli Kihara short:

Spoiler for Kanzaki SS:

Never edited a Wiki page before, so not going to put them on BT.

Oh, better resolutions of some of them, don't worry Darklor will upload them.

Albeit, Kanzaki's SS is placed right after Angel Fall and Railgun's SS is right after Vol.6.

[sasuke706]

Originally Posted by Flere821

And out of curiosity, why do you people say 'moon runes' when talking about Kanji?

Mostly a 4chan thing, but if you need other Internet slang explained, Urban Dictionary does a good job at it.

[cubicjack]

Kanzaki SS part 3 summary:

Spoiler for kanzaki ss pt 3:

This time, Kanzaki's mission is to stop a magician from destroying a steel plant in Denmark and stopping its operation. That steel plant is one of Academy City's supporters. They don't want this to worsen the relationship between the science side and the magic side. The magician has already destroyed similar facilities in other places using the same method.

While investigating on how the magician is planning to destroy a steel plan that covers such a large area, they found a magic circle in the middle of an asphalt road, right under their feet. There is nothing important around where they are standing. Destruction to the asphalt road would not deal any damage to the steel plant's operation. It looks as if the culprit placed those runes in many places throughout the plant just to increase the effect. Then they see an explosion in the distance, destroying a part of the plant. Right after, the place where they were standing also exploded.

However, they were unharmed by the explosion, because Kanzaki found a way to limit the effects of the explosion after understanding the runes used in the magic circle.

They thought the only way to stop the destruction would be to destroy all the runes throughout the plant, but Kanzaki suggested that they could just stop the magician behind it. There was a suggestion that the magician is triggering all these explosions far away from the plant, but Kanzaki dismissed that possibility because there are no signs of magic that allow long range triggering, so the magician must be within the premises of this steel plant. She also realized that the magician placed the runes everywhere so the people pursuing him would think that there are no safe spots for him to hide. But in fact, since he is the one triggering these explosions, he can control where these safe spots are.

Kanzaki already knew where the magician is hiding, and sent a flying road sign at his hiding spot. The magician (whose name is レアシック, btw) ran away, and Kanzaki chased after him. Just as he was about the reach the next safe spot for the next wave of explosion, Kanzaki caught up and wrapped her wires around his arms, threatening to cuf them off if he doesn't surrender. However, the magician cut off his own arms using the wires by himself. After that, fire created from runes sprout out from where his arms were cut, acting like wings or thrusters.

He got away temporarily, and triggered another wave of explosion. However, nothing happened. It appears that the jeans shop owner found a link into the magic that the magician used and rigged the magic circles so that they don't explode. Then Kanzaki caught up to him again and attacked him with her wires. As a last struggle, the magician broke free using the fire coming out from his body, then tried to escape, but his condition didn't allow him to do so.

He said that he's doing this to protect the Earth. Kanzaki wondered why he needs to do this when this steel plant is run by regular people and is only producing regular household items and not weapons. He said that it's because the science side is "eroding away" the magic side with these plants. He said that the pollutants released from these plants lead to acid rain, which destroys the runes written on stones from a long time ago. Even though those runes might not have any magical meaning, they are valuable information to rune users such as himself. Kanzaki said to him that destroying the plants this way would only lead to innocent people dying, and will create pollution in another form. However, the magician explained that he couldn't care less about water pollution of other forms of pollution. All he want to do is to save those ancient rune writings.

After thinking for a moment that the magician actually wanted to stop the pollution to save the Earth and then being disappointed at the truth, Kanzaki knocked him out.

This part was pretty stupid, I'd say.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by cubicjack

Kanzaki SS part 3 summary:

Spoiler for kanzaki ss pt 3:

This time, Kanzaki's mission is to stop a magician from destroying a steel plant in Denmark and stopping its operation. That steel plant is one of Academy City's supporters. They don't want this to worsen the relationship between the science side and the magic side. The magician has already destroyed similar facilities in other places using the same method.

While investigating on how the magician is planning to destroy a steel plan that covers such a large area, they found a magic circle in the middle of an asphalt road, right under their feet. There is nothing important around where they are standing. Destruction to the asphalt road would not deal any damage to the steel plant's operation. It looks as if the culprit placed those runes in many places throughout the plant just to increase the effect. Then they see an explosion in the distance, destroying a part of the plant. Right after, the place where they were standing also exploded.

However, they were unharmed by the explosion, because Kanzaki found a way to limit the effects of the explosion after understanding the runes used in the magic circle.

They thought the only way to stop the destruction would be to destroy all the runes throughout the plant, but Kanzaki suggested that they could just stop the magician behind it. There was a suggestion that the magician is triggering all these explosions far away from the plant, but Kanzaki dismissed that possibility because there are no signs of magic that allow long range triggering, so the magician must be within the premises of this steel plant. She also realized that the magician placed the runes everywhere so the people pursuing him would think that there are no safe spots for him to hide. But in fact, since he is the one triggering these explosions, he can control where these safe spots are.

Kanzaki already knew where the magician is hiding, and sent a flying road sign at his hiding spot. The magician (whose name is レアシック, btw) ran away, and Kanzaki chased after him. Just as he was about the reach the next safe spot for the next wave of explosion, Kanzaki caught up and wrapped her wires around his arms, threatening to cuf them off if he doesn't surrender. However, the magician cut off his own arms using the wires by himself. After that, fire created from runes sprout out from where his arms were cut, acting like wings or thrusters.

He got away temporarily, and triggered another wave of explosion. However, nothing happened. It appears that the jeans shop owner found a link into the magic that the magician used and rigged the magic circles so that they don't explode. Then Kanzaki caught up to him again and attacked him with her wires. As a last struggle, the magician broke free using the fire coming out from his body, then tried to escape, but his condition didn't allow him to do so.

He said that he's doing this to protect the Earth. Kanzaki wondered why he needs to do this when this steel plant is run by regular people and is only producing regular household items and not weapons. He said that it's because the science side is "eroding away" the magic side with these plants. He said that the pollutants released from these plants lead to acid rain, which destroys the runes written on stones from a long time ago. Even though those runes might not have any magical meaning, they are valuable information to rune users such as himself. Kanzaki said to him that destroying the plants this way would only lead to innocent people dying, and will create pollution in another form. However, the magician explained that he couldn't care less about water pollution of other forms of pollution. All he want to do is to save those ancient rune writings.

After thinking for a moment that the magician actually wanted to stop the pollution to save the Earth and then being disappointed at the truth, Kanzaki knocked him out.

This part was pretty stupid, I'd say.

Lol mad archaeologist

[MeisterBabylon]

I'm pretty sure he's dead not long after. Imagine the bleeding and internal injuries...

[I_am_Kami]

thanks for the uploads. Its just that im tryin to find some bad ass pics of kanzaki and styil that i saw on an amv.

[Suzuku]

Originally Posted by Flere821

Hmm, I really can't say how easy/hard translating Chinese version to English compared to Jap->Eng is, as I have nearly no experience in Japanese (most of what I learned back in high school is now forgotten, and I probably remember more Japanese from the anime I watch than from my school notes ^^; )

And out of curiosity, why do you people say 'moon runes' when talking about Kanji?

It's very confusing due to the vast differences in sentence structure and grammar between the languages. There are times when I'm reading something in Japanese and just have absolutely no way to phrase it in coherent English.

Also, thanks for the Railgun and Kanzaki uploads. Hopefully someone is kind enough to do a full trans one day.

[Hell_ping]

^I think you got the wrong thread, Wilfri

[outerelf]

I can't tell if that Obama picture is real or photoshopped... But I guess if the One Piece pages aren't photoshopped it's good to know that the creator of One Pice likes To Aru Majutsu No Index as well.

[Kyouka]

touma is confirmed dead?

[Suzuku]

No, as no one could find his body after he fell into the Arctic Ocean.

[pikachuwei]

hey iirc the novel said something about teh consequences if star of bethlehem fell on russia

thus touma moved it to the arctic circle.

wat wer the consequences again?

[Suzuku]

A mass number of casualties, obviously. Moving it to the Arctic would result in less of them. Although I think you're really referring to Gabriel sucking up all of the water in the Arctic, which would speed up speed up global warming or something like that. Also, it said if Gabriel exploded from taking in too much Earthly water, it would cause a large part of the Earth to be wiped out and knock the Earth off of its axis. Basically, no matter what the world would have been destroyed.

[pikachuwei]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

A mass number of casualties, obviously. Moving it to the Arctic would result in less of them. Although I think you're really referring to Gabriel sucking up all of the water in the Arctic, which would speed up speed up global warming or something like that. Also, it said if Gabriel exploded from taking in too much Earthly water, it would cause a large part of the Earth to be wiped out and knock the Earth off of its axis. Basically, no matter what the world would have been destroyed.

i thought it was that the mere prescence of gabriel was creating so much telesma it threatened to knock earth out of orbit :x

and i dont really see how sucking up all the water in teh arctic would speed up global warming.

how big is the star of bethlehem? any concrete numbers

[Suzuku]

No, it's the amount of telesma it would release if it blew up. It would knock the Earth out of it's orbit and take off a good chunk of the Earth as well.

It's the rate at which Gabriel is melting it IIRC. It will cause the water level to rise. I was wrong about it involving global warming, but the effects are the same.

The SoB is 40km IIRC.

Also, I thought someone was going to upload the Kanzaki and Railgun SS images to BT?

[I_am_Kami]

Originally Posted by Suzuku

No, it's the amount of telesma it would release if it blew up. It would knock the Earth out of it's orbit and take off a good chunk of the Earth as well.

It's the rate at which Gabriel is melting it IIRC. It will cause the water level to rise. I was wrong about it involving global warming, but the effects are the same.

The SoB is 40km IIRC.

Also, I thought someone was going to upload the Kanzaki and Railgun SS images to BT?

i thought the same.

[Nightengale]

What exactly did Acqua say to the 3rd princess?

[tsunade666]

time to explain about the whole destruction of the thanks to gabriel. (still hard to post through psp) the whole angle afair before that the star of Bethlehem falling down from 10 000 meters up in the sky with a structure bigger than 40 kilometers in length which is also full of magical artifacts. what do you think would happen if it fall in russia. now imagine that to fall their and don`t expect for the atmosphere or air to disentegrate or make it even smaller because even no holy right to support it or