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    Chapter 3 has served its audience extremely well, delivering the long-desired wish fulfillment upon the two characters of the love triangle who have been dying to be told he loves them as well as to the fans who have been waiting for this day longer than those two have. It’s almost as if we’re the ones stuck in Washu’s time-dilation machine!

    And rather wisely we see the other females in the house affected by his decision. It’s a fact of life that hearts will be broken when the axe is to fall and not everyone was going to come out of this with a wedding ring. Washu playfully pushes her involvement aside, still taking the time to bring it up as she does have some minor stake she would like to claim with him. Tenyo, while not romantically interested, has to come to terms with sharing heart-space with Ryoko and Ayeka. Mihoshi, god bless her, is hurt by the decision but comes to terms with it thanks to Washu and Noike’s reasonable assurances. I feel perhaps the last one was resolved too quickly even for Mihoshi’s ADHD standards though it was great to see it touched upon regardless.

    Nobuyuki’s reactions to the news were also something I have been waiting a long time for. After all…

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    Who wouldn’t want to have more of that? He’s a good man who just wants what’s best for his son. I doubt he thought he’d ever see him getting with two lovely ladies at the same time!

    Overall a very gleeful chapter with the looming weight of the trials that await Tenchi over his decision. Jurai – could his decision truly split the fleet apart? There is no way they will accept Ryoko as Queen after what she had done and they’re sure to not forget who Tenchi is and where he has come from. What about the enemies he will surely make? Grandpa is seeing to it that his grandson is truly ready for what he is asking for. What about the force destroying whole planets faster than Tokimi can piece the lego bricks back together?

    Well, what about it indeed? So we shall find out.

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    Characterization has improved here, which was a major weak point for Chapter 1 (which I have left uncommented on, let it be buried and not oft spoken of again) for me. There are still some instances of rushed dialog coming from a character that feels unnatural and unlike how said character would approach it but overall the sense of each character is much stronger. We also see them interacting in some more natural ways – Ryoko and Ayeka sticking together as the friends they are deep down, Washu and Katsuhito being able to talk as wise and aged equals and so on. Tenyo even comes off as the Sisterly figure she is supposed to be.

    What we have here is some good plot advancement while stressing some character relationships at times to show the bonds between them. The ending reveal of Tenchi’s dreams on destroying Jurai are fairly disturbing to him and thus to the readers as well. That’s far beyond anything he’s capable of doing of his own free will and it is eating him alive. We’ll have to see how further installments pan out.

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    Finally completed the last chapter of All New! last night, thus drawing my run of the manga to its close. What a trip that was. On the whole I feel like No Need for Tenchi! was stronger than All New Tenchi Muyo! even though both had their ups and downs.

    I preferred the villains introduced in NNFT more and felt like arcs just had way more room to breathe. Garyu, Yakage and Yume all had their time to shine as villains but Okuda dove into what made them be the way they were. Yakage and Yume’s endings as villains were heart-wrenching. Drama between characters also felt appropriately heavy. Ryoko’s explosive self-discovery and inability to handle what it all meant at the beginning of “The Quest for More Money” being a pretty good example of that. Tenchi’s reaction later on in that same issue as he thinks he may have lost her showed a side of him that we do not often see, if at all.

    ANTM had some good points but none of the arcs really gelled together. In a way, it’s sort of like a Space Dandy version of the Manga as opposed to NNFT’s Cowboy Bebop. A villain in ANTM was one and done, irrelevant as soon as you turned the page on their last panel. In NNFT, a villain’s actions would cross paths with someone else across the galaxy and in turn bite the gang in the ass, introduce new drama, or have some sort of affect that we as the reader could see and contemplate the gravity of actions. There was permanence in NNFT rather than taking a purely episodic approach. It wasn’t until the final issue of ANTM where Okuda crammed as much down in there as he could, but I think he was just as frustrated with all of the loops that Kajishima had thrown into the story and in his final hour he struggled to pull out of the series with a perfect ending.

    Okuda’s art though, it must be said, is some of my favorite in the whole series. His characters are filled with lush detail and personal characteristics that only really work in the manga medium due to not needing to be animated. His takes on the characters we all know and love were some of their best looks, his original characters had a certain look to them that almost felt like they stuck out too much from the main cast but still won me over in the end. It is a shame he only ever drew about 5 panels total with Kiyone in them, I would have loved seeing her in his style more often!

    I’m happy with considering Okuda’s manga my “OVA” ending. Powerful writing (mostly in NNFT), gorgeous art, I was turning pages fairly rapidly and despite having reached the other side of the several thousand page manga I feel like I could use some more. Any Tenchi fan would do good to read these as soon as possible. Thanks for giving the series 12 years of dedication, Okuda.

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    Two things!

    Firstly, we’ve hit a milestone in work already! The first block of 20 files has been completely machine translated and currently awaits clarity editing work. Book one’s got 11 blocks to cut through so we’re really just getting started but it’s an important footstep taken nonetheless.

    Secondly, this Saturday (the 8th) I will be beginning our public outreach to the fandom who don’t come by the forums. We’re gonna need as many hands sharing and spreading the word as possible. I’ll make another post here when the campaign is live on our Twitter. After the tweet is live, we’ll need all the retweets and shares we can get. Point your tumblrs to that tweet, link it on your facebook, spread that mess like wildfire. Visibility is important, who knows when it will finally cross the eyes of someone who can help us out in a way others can’t?

    Hoping for the best so we can get these novels translated as quickly and accurately as possible!

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    Crazed wrote:

    Nil, if you put that there, would that make it the “you can (not) escape key”?

    hahaha yes, I love it.

    I think I have to do it now.

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    I need this for my Leopold keyboard… soawesome1

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    EDIT: For $5? A little pricey for a keycap but god damn man, this is too good. Needs an “Instrumentality” backspace key.

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    Aw, that’s unfortunate to hear. It’d be so great to meet her. Not only as a fan of Ryoko, but as a fellow writer.
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    julia wrote:

    I might be able to help. My school/schoolwork takes first priority for me, also since I have such weak Japanese skills (I know the kanas, only a small handful of kanji, random phrases and words, so I heavily rely on my books and various websites to look stuff up), I don’t know how much help I would be. I did manage to get the translation for -If-(but that was also just a sentence lol), so if you guys will provide me with the materials I can basically do the same thing, work at my own pace and do everything with my books and then maybe compare when we all get our stuff done. You guys get things done more quickly with the machines, I might just be in the way… I’ve also never done translations of big bodies of text (I sometimes translate comic pages for myself for practice) so this would also be new for me ^^;

    Schoolwork comes first, always!

    Speed will ramp up the further we go along and the more members we amass so it may become a bit overwhelming for you depending on how much momentum we can build. Though as I said earlier I’d be more than willing to dump off the Machine Translations of the pages I did and you could refine whatever I came up with based on the actual pages for practice!

    On that note, I want to start getting the word out beyond the borders of the forum itself. For this reason I’ve created a Twitter account that I will be posting progress to from time to time. This week I’d like to start a retweet campaign through the fandom to draw as many eyes to the project as humanly possible. We’ll need as much Tenchiforum twitter love as we can get. Perhaps the Tenchiforum tumblr/facebook can do a shoutout to the twitter account and forum thread once we start the campaign?

    Organization. Something we’ll need to work on is collaborating, claiming who will take what blocks and what steps must be taken before a page is considered “done”. The simplest solution I’ve come up with so far is a private google docs spreadsheet made for each book. Page blocks will be divided and clearly labeled as claimed by a specific member, who will then update each page’s cell with a status. Something along the lines of “Incomplete” for a fully untranslated page, “Machine” for a fully machine-translated page and “Localized” for when the contents of that page have been converted into smooth, fluent English. Not set in stone though, things will possibly change over the next week or two.

    Friend of mine suggested we try fishing for some folks from Baka-Tsuki, think it’d be worth going over there for?

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    Oh man yeah, I love what they did with the shading on her hair. Lot different from how it looks on the show but really gives it that custom tattoo vibe.
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    I’m pretty sure Blighttown is laggy as hell no matter what you do, don’t even know what sort of stuff From may have fucked up there to make it run so badly.
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