Zero no Tsukaima Novels Discussion Thread

[Darknemo2000]

Well if you don't mind could you send me first before updating to have a quick check up to see if words or sentences are missing. Chinese raws can be sometimes misleading after all.

[Matt122005]

As I remember, Momogam has registered on the wiki for Ch. 5, his name was next to it yersterday night. Go look.

-Matt

[Darknemo2000]

Momogan returned? Now THATS great news considering his quality and speed.

[yezhanquan]

I PMed Matt my first draft. I think I'll send you the second.

[Matt122005]

You did? Cause I never recieved a PM from you like that. lol

Might need to re-send it.

-Matt

[yezhanquan]

It's ok. I've put up my draft at home base.

[Matt122005]

but, what is the percentage of completion so far? how much in percent wise has been translated.

-Matt

ps. translation looks awesome. keep up the work.

[yezhanquan]

Originally Posted by Matt122005

but, what is the percentage of completion so far? how much in percent wise has been translated.

-Matt

ps. translation looks awesome. keep up the work.

I have no idea. I just did about 25-30%, I believe. The moment I realised that 1 page = 1 chapter, I seriously freaked out. Then, I slowly did a sentence at a time.

If this standard is ok, then, I'll proceed with the rest of the chapter.

I have to thank Matt for introducing me to the novels. Now, THIS is what ZnT should be about.

[Darknemo2000]

yezhanquan, I have corrected (only a few) chinese raws sentence skips - chinese raws tend to skip some sentences from the original from time to time, and as for your translation as such I haven't made any real corrections regarding this so it means it is a good translations (I had to correct almost every sentences of our last chinese translator). So yep, a good job.

I have sent you a copy of corrections through pm. All corrections marked in red.

[Matt122005]

Um, well, Dark, that is partly due to me, I edited his translation, I fixed his grammar to past tense, instead of present.

"Louise is always been a good dancer"

"Louise WAS always a good dancer"

That kind of editing.

-Matt

[Darknemo2000]

I know, I always fix that as well (present to past tense). I am talking about sentence skips meaning that whole sentence is missed those kind of corrections.

[TakeruKazuya]

hey, just wanna ask.. in one of the novels, i saw henrietta got slapped by louise. erm.. cn anyone enlighten me as to what happened?

[Darknemo2000]

Basically Henrietta, using magic pretended to be Louise, and tried to snatch away Saito but Louise saw it, got angry and slapped the queen.

yezhanquan, I have a question, I saw you uploaded chapter 1 of volume7 but you havent added the skipped sentences from original, why?

I mean those sentences are in Japanese original and even if chinese raws do not have them you should add them, shouldn't you?

[crystalalien87]

Originally Posted by Darknemo2000

Basically Henrietta, using magic pretended to be Louise, and tried to snatch away Saito but Louise saw it, got angry and slapped the queen.

Oh man i want to see that in the show...

[yezhanquan]

Originally Posted by Darknemo2000

Basically Henrietta, using magic pretended to be Louise, and tried to snatch away Saito but Louise saw it, got angry and slapped the queen.

yezhanquan, I have a question, I saw you uploaded chapter 1 of volume7 but you havent added the skipped sentences from original, why?

I mean those sentences are in Japanese original and even if chinese raws do not have them you should add them, shouldn't you?

Oh sorry. Was busy with the new toy known as Musou Orochi. It makes Dynasty Warriors 5 look like an amusement park in terms of difficulty. Got carried away.

Also, I need help on one tiny part. It's where Louise recalled how Siesta tried to seduce Saito by exposing "herself". I cannot seem to come up with a good description for the "exposure". I did get the part where Louise wanted to imitate it, even if it meant putting aside her pride.

[seaghyn16]

So....is it alright if I ask how the effort on Chapter 5 is going? I also was wondering if it's similar to the anime from it's title.

Spoiler for Anime Season Two and Volume 6 Chapter 5:

Is chapter 5 the whole thing with the underground library, where they are looking for records of who destroyed agnes's village?

If so I was just wondering....

Also, I was wondering maybe...when chapter 6 might be translated??? ^_^

This series is so cool.....

[Darknemo2000]

seaghyn16, as I understand the question concerning when the chapter 6 will be finished is adressed to me as i am translator of it... And the answer is - I do not know...

We don't work following some strict schedule, nor one can tell how long does the chapter takes to translate as various chapters are various in size and various in themes (and themes are also important as the scenes involving the charakters you like will come faster, while chapters involving characters that you do not, like Agnes, will come slower). Well chapter 6 is big enough and has Agnes so it won't be too soon.

Besides I had few health problems recently that also brought some disturbance in my translating tempo lately.

[seiji_kun]

The left hand of God is Gandálfr, the ferocious shield of the lord. His left hand wields a large sword and right hand wields a long spear: protect me with endless vigilance.

So my question is if he already found the long spear? And if, what is it special features? Like Derf can speak / absorb magic.

[gabbytay]

Originally Posted by seiji_kun

The left hand of God is Gandálfr, the ferocious shield of the lord. His left hand wields a large sword and right hand wields a long spear: protect me with endless vigilance.

So my question is if he already found the long spear? And if, what is it special features? Like Derf can speak / absorb magic.

The spear is a German Tiger tank

[Toreno]

Originally Posted by gabbytay

The spear is a German Tiger tank

Uhm, no, he really wields a spear in the novels. Dunno about its special abilities though (if it has any).