.from the city/to the sky.

HOLY. MOTHER. EFFING. CHRIST.
AN UPDATE.
This time 'round, once again translated by my friend Hayato since I was so busy. Much thanks to him! Thanks also to Bobalunatic for the orginal raws, though I went and used my own copy since my computer stopped hating me and allowed me to get my own copy. Ignore the ugly gray space on the first and last page; I'll fix that up later.
Per usual, don't steal, claim as your own, yadayadayada. Enjoy. :)
-EDIT-
Pages 22 and 23 fixed. Accidentally left a speech bubble blank.














 





 


 

 

 

 




 

 

 

CHAPTER FIVE THIS WEEKEND, THE REST DURING THE WEEK
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
COLLEGE!
FINACIAL AID!
FAFSA!
SCHOLARSHIP ESSAYS!
BAAAAALLLLLLSS!
GIVE ME BACK MY FREE TIME, YOU BASTARDS!
-CRIIIIEEEEEEES-
AND THAN CHAPTER EIGHT WHENEVER THE F*CK I HAVE THE TIME TO GET AROUND TO IT
DON'T EXPECT ANY TIME SOON
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I got accepteeeeeedddd!
It's a private school that I had like, no chance of NOT getting into, so it's not that huge a deal, but still--
College!

Holidays were busy. I'm tired.
My friend who was translating chapter 7 said he won't have it done until around the start of next month. Chapter 5 and 1 are finished, but I wasn't able to finish 6 quite yet.
I would say... End of this week, start of next month? And then it'll be completely caught up, just in time for chapter 8.

I got Odin Sphere and the new Zelda game for Christmas, so if it's any later than what I said, it'll be because of that, no doubt, lol.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. FINALS ARE FINALLY OVER. WHEEEEEEEE. Here's some speed sketches I did. (Don't recognize the girl in the middle? You will next week when I upload chapters 1, 5-7.) ... WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

FINALS.
If I fail my math final, there is a chance I shall not graduate.
WISH ME LUCK, FOR I HEAD TO BATTLE!

(Special update for the Kuzunoha manga next week [chapter 1], with chapters 5, 6, and 7 to be uploaded by the end of the month.)

...and here's the complete version of chapter 4. Once again, thanks to Bobalunatic for the raw scans and my dad for helping to deciphere WHAT THE FRACK FUTSUNUSHI WAS SAYING AT TIMES. Old-style speaking bastard... -grumblegrumble-
-EDIT-
(I screwed up on a line in page 14. I fixed it now, but what I orginally wrote was incorrect. He was saying YATSU, not YASHI, in Japanese (Yatsu is an informal way of saying "you"), but I accidentally read it wrong. It's all fixed now. ;___; MY BAD.)
































...Kyyyaaaaaah. Raidou is so damn cute. NAGI IS SO DAMN CUTE. They're both so damn cute!
...Ahem. Anyways. Chapter 4, complete. I hope you enjoyed it! Also, even though there are no watermarks this time around, please, give credit where credit is due! kayplzandthxbai.

I've already made up my mind to go as Riza Hawkeye from FMA for the next Fanime (though my first choice was Lan Fan, but I'll cosplay her when I finish her SPOILER automail arm /SPOILER), but...
PETITE COSPLAYER IS PETITE.
There's a chance I'll look like a kid-version of her, if not for some handy high-heeled boots. I usually strive to look for characters I resemble, but... I really want to cosplay Riza. ;______;

Anyways, if you could cosplay as anybody, who would it be?

EDIT:
I was indecisive as frack, but was finally convinced to try cosplaying as Ran Fan, who fits me much better, I feel. I'm currently making her spoiler! automail arm /spoiler. WISH ME LUCK.

I'm on hiatus to catch up with schoolwork and such, so don't expect a scanlation soon. I'm sorry. :/ I know I had previously expressed my desire to upload at least chapters 4 and 5 last month, but I got sick for a bit and had a mass of schoolwork to catch up on, and so on. So I've decided that I'll probably stop until Winter Break (late December), and than I'll jump in full force. I'll try and get a friend to help me, as well, so I'll hopefully be able to crank out the three chapters I've yet to do.

As a warning, updates probably will not be very regular--but I will be doing it, so don't worry about that. :)
I may update a few pages every week or so if I have the time, but otherwise I'll be doing the 30-page dump, per usual.
Thank you for all the kind comments regarding my translating of the manga, as well. :) I appreciate them a lot.

You may be wondering, "GEEZ, what's the holdup, 'Blade?!"
To which my reply would be: "MURAMASA THE DEMON BLADE, THAT'S WHAT."
;____;
Sorry. I got Muramasa: The Demon Blade for my birthday and have been competely obbessesed/fangirling over it, so I kind of just forgot the existance of this mysterious 4th chapter I'm supposed to be working on... But now that I've beat the game for the most part (got Momohime to the highest level, forged every sword, got the final and true (?) ending to her story), I think I'll go back to translating.

Should have it out around the middle of the month, I think, before I start working on Chapter 5 (which will probably be out soon, if it's not out already). Just a bit longer! Okay? :D 
Thank you for being patient!

So I was watching Kamen Rider Double when I found something amazing in it.
The two main characters are detectives in the city.
One wears a fedora, with another one hung in the office passed on by his boss.
The name of the boss?
Narumi.
The name of the agency?
Narumi Detective Agency.
I kid you not. Watch the first ten minutes of the first episode.
I lol'd. Now I can't stop imagining the main character as Narumi (and they do share almost similar personalities, from what I've seen in the first ten minutes).
Somebody with Kamen Rider must be a DSRK fan and wanted that little joke in there, methinks.

So, here it is. Third chapter, done and done. Yaaaay.
Credit due where credit is needed: Bobalunatic for the lovely scans and my friend Hayato for doing the rough translation for me 'cause of how swamped I've been lately. Some of the pages are not watermarked because I did not want to smack it on the manga art itself, alrighty? Don't steal, give credit where credit is due, yadayadayada enjoy.































Translation notes:
...will be added later. OH GODS I'M SO TIRED. It's so late right now... D:
...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

With the extreme help of some lovely internet allies, I acquired the means to continue scanlating, and with another friend's help, I have translated all the pages (I've been swamped with school, so he pretty much gave me direct rough translations--for this chapter, I'm pretty much just doing editting and so on), I'll be finished with the pages by tomorrow.
Thank you everyone, and I hope you enjoy it! I'll be starting up chapter 4 soon.

EDIT:
I may be a bit late due to FAMILY DRAGGING ME OFF FOR HOUR LONG CAR RIDE SOMEWHERE THAT'S HOT AS HELL NO DOUBT, but I'll have it here either late tonight or early morning tomorrow. D:
Please, have patience!

CRAP.
So my dad's computer broke down, and that's the one I had been storing my translations in. I memorized the translations for the first few pages, but that still puts me back a bit, because for some weird-ass reason, the site I use for translating FUCKING HATES MY GUTS and refuses to work properly.
IT'S NOT JISHO'S FAULT.
IT'S (possibly) FAMITSU'S.
There's something running in their script which is preventing me from copying the images of the manga and pasting them, which, in the meantime, causes the rest of my computer's entire copy-and-paste function to break down. Is this the case for all of you guys?
If so, it could mean I will be forced to stop translating the rest of the manga... permenately.
If any of you can somehow get screenshots of the full manga page-- i.e, full screen the image and than screenshot it and actually be able to paste it--, send it to me and I can do my scanlations. If not, for the time being, scanlations will be unable to continue. I will start posting the translations, possibly, but that seems rather LAME.

...and I'm still behind on translating chapter 3. I'm working on it now, though, so don't worry. If I hurry it up, I can probably go and finish both 3 & 4 before 5 comes out (I'm starting to think it's a monthly post, so I think I have plenty of time).

...But, because of that darned chapter 4, I am now a giggling mess. Goddamn. Raidou and Nagi are so damn cute in this chapter, hence why I feel I have an obligation to hurry my ass up and translate them.

Please be patient. I'll have scanlations up soon. <3

...really have no idea what to write for my AP English essay. Crud. It's due Friday. Snaaap.
Posting just to say expect at least the first couple pages of the next DSRKvsLM online manga chapter up here soon, and because I felt that my avatar perfectly expresses my somewhat lacking-in-enthusiasm mood.
(and yaaay, I can't wait to try playing the female-version of Persona 3. <3 Excited about that, at least.)

...
....
-fetalposition-
I just wanna order a mug and a few patches... but noooo. I have to have a Japanese address to do that... and here I am, sizzling away in this retardedly hot/late summer in America, while Japan enjoys beautiful summer sales from Atlus D. Baaalls.
Is there ANY shop that delivers to America stuff from Atlus D Shop?
...
...
-fetalpositionpart2-
...I'm so bummed out now. I'm silly like that.

Shin Megami Tensei
Devil Summoner: Someday...
A tale of beginnings


( Read more... )SO YEAH. Just a quick write I did for fun. Kuzunoha Raidou probably won't show up, since this story is just meant to show how another Devil Summoner gets her start, but... I don't know. I'm tired. This probably sucks since I wasn't really putting much effort into it, but hopefully it's decent. I might continue it eventually. </div>

So here we are. And I expect no bitching about the click-twice-to-view format, because I'm too tired to set it up properally AND you should just be pleased with having translations, lol. I'll fix it later, once I have everything sorted out with my damn photobucket account. I have editor notes at the bottom, so if something confuses you, check there. Read right to left, as always.

































Notes:
The title: I've seen it translated as "The Lonely Visitant", but that's not quite correct. "KODOKUNO" is more like "Lone, solitary, isolated"--it's different than the actual feeling of loneliness. As for MAREBITO, while it can sound like "infrequent visitor", marebito, in cultural context and myths, refers to a being from another world who sometimes grants a person's desire or wishes. I kept it as marebito for this reason, but it may change, depending on if I find something better to translate it as.
Gouto's speech: Gouto has an outdated speech pattern, and usually switches between very formal to somewhat blunt and to the point. When he refers to Tae, he seldom says her name--he literally calls her either, "That woman", "Woman," or "Newspaper Reporter Woman".
Viscount: Think of Baron, Count, Duke, ect. It's a formal title of aristocracy.
Red-Room Case: In case you didn't gather, it's what they dubbed the recent murders. It probably has something to do with how the rooms are completely bloodsoaked.
Manticore's speech: The same as Gouto, though actually even worse, Manticore in the Japanese verision uses incredibly old kanji and terms.
Spirited Away: In other words, a term used for people suddenly vanishing. Gouto is explaining that the manticore was refered to when someone else disappeared, but in reality, it's the manticore itself that vanishes.
"You've made yourself deaf": Think of it as "you've blinded yourself"; in other words, Manticore is taunting Raidou by saying Raidou is so paranoid that he's shooting everything he hears a noise coming from. The literal term Manticore used was "You've sealed your hearing", but he said so in a very out-dated way. The "as well" part probably refers to Raidou losing the ability to use his sword arm from Manticore's previous attack.

...And there you have it! I hope you enjoyed the second chapter. I'll start working on the third chapter, but with school coming up, it will def. take more than a week to translate. And again, thanks to my dad who helped me with some terms I couldn't quite translate into English and for helping me find out what the hell the Manticore was saying at times--trust me, even my father had to look up some of the outdated terms and kanji Manticore used!

Thanks for reading!

Minor edit: Four of the images weren't loading, but I fixed that. If you encounter any more problems with getting to the image, let me know.

I think the title says it all. I worked a little quicker than I thought I would, so I've finished translating everything and I'm now just doing the type-facing and such... Well, I would be, at least, if photoshop wasn't acting like such a little bastard to me right now. So keep an eye out for tomorrow (aka Saturday) night, most likely, since I'll be busy during the day.