Scans/text via /m/. Finished the Mizushima section last night, working on Kuroda’s right now but that might take a bit. There are a few rought spots in this one; I need to go back over it. [EDIT] Just realized the text is incomplete at least for Mizushima’s interview, there are at least three other questions but one of them is partially cut off–I’ll dig around some for the rest of it.

Mizushima Interview

––Finally, please tell us something about the movie that’s currently in production.[1]
  It seems like J.J. Abrams did a fantastic job on the Star Trek movie, I feel like I’d like to get a hold of that light-hearted feeling myself. I think it turned out so well because it had exciting elements that even casual fans could enjoy and was full of references and whatnot to delight Trekies as well. I don’t know if we’ll be taking the same course of action, but I think it’ll be enjoyable as a movie on in it’s own right. Although 00 seems to be heading toward the end, [I wouldn't] say that this will close the book on this world–there might still be some surprising and unfinished things left. …You know, that might really piss everyone off.

––You must be really worried about that (lol)
  When I start to think that [going] beyond the story was pointless, it’s missing the point[2]. On the other hand, you could say that it’s another opportunity. There are times that I’d like to put in everything, but you can’t fit it all in a movie. If I tried to put just a little of it in, it would feel superfluous and I don’t want that. Though that isn’t to say that it’s not possible to tell a complete [story] with a movie. With movies, you can depict certain kinds of conclusions perfectly. At the current stage, it’s looking to be about two hours long and I’m already incredibly tired. There are a lot of battle scenes and whatnot (lol). Well, by that I mean I think it’ll turn out to be a film that fulfills the expectations of those who are eagerly anticipating it.

––There are troublesome parts in the content, but?[3]
  Well, because we were always going on about “the dialogues to come,” that’s one area that we absolutely couldn’t not address. Because, things that haven’t been done in Gundam yet always end up getting done eventually. You have to come up with images no one has seen before. But, it should be easy for the people who make Gundam after this. Because everything’s been done already (lol).

Notes:
[1]- idk why the interview opens with 最後に, Kuroda’s does too so maybe I’m interpreting this wrong
[2]- pretty sure I’m not really getting the implications of 外す right, but that was the best I could figure from my dictionaries
[3]- not so sure about this phrasing

#005 “Katharon”
Doctor Terishira watches over the battle between the Federation and Katharon.
Before his eyes, his twin* Sulu struck down enemy MSs one by one. {*lit. “same type/pattern” it sounds horrible in English so I’m going w/ twin}

Meanwhile, Leif was securing Brun’s cooperation and heading to the Gundam he had summoned.
Leif vaguely understands that he has to remove the limiter on [Brun's?] special Innovade abilities. {not so sure about this sentence}
That is, the limiter put on [Innovades] so that they can live in human society.

The scene returns to Katharon. Lars attacks them while they’re resting after dealing with the first wave of the fight with the Federation.
Lars aims and shoots only at the Innovades.
“Pretend humans have no right to live,” Lars declares
And Terishia objects, “Is there such thing as a life without merit!”
Terishira shields Brad, an Innovade, from a bullet with his body.
Sulu rushes over to Terishira, whose life was saved by a bulletproof vest.
“Same face…”
Terishira hastily lies, “My sister! I’m your older brother!”
Moved, Sulu embraces him.

At that time, Leif finally reaches the Gundam he saw in his dream, “1 Gundam.”
“What are you going to do with such a dangerous thing?”
Hixar Fermi appeared.
Leif explained that he was on a mission.
“Won’t you tell me about that mission? Beside Pain.”
Hixar [said and] turned his gun on Leif.
To be continued next issue.

Digest version:

- Nothing new or interesting in Gundam Ace except this month’s 00I which was pretty lame.
- 00N’s prologue appeared in Dengeki Hobby this month, apparently it just explained the format–00N has no main character or overarching plot and it’s not following a timeline or organizational scheme beyond “events in the 00 world.”
- MG GN-X announced
- Movie trailer with new stuff confirmed for the New Year’s event
- 00V War Chronicles started in Hobby Japan this month; it’s set after the series
- From 00V War Chronicles we learn that:
—two GN drives have been lost
—CB’s financial situation is not good
—As a result of ^ they’ve refit the 00 temporarily while they work on new Gundams
—Also, there was mention of a certian project going on at Jupiter, no details

[EDIT] Clarified some stuff about 00V War Chronicles.

Yoinked from /m/:

Oh man! Sunrise must HATE Setsuna because they left him off the cover! HOW RACIST OF THEM!

When asked what the most difficult thing about learning the language, most people studying Japanese will probably say kanji––that was generally my answer too, at least until recently. Half way through my fourth year of study, it’s really starting to sink in just how troublesome the “simple” grammar can be. Er, okay I give up on trying to make this sound like a moderately more formal post. Anyway, I’m still shit with kanji and vocabulary, but the nice thing about kanji and vocabulary is that, on the whole, they’re really fucking easy to look up. Quirks of the grammar on the other hand, not so much. These are largely translation related frustrations as I’m in a translation class now, but I didn’t really notice a lot of this stuff until I had to translate it. Some things are more this-is-easy-in-Japanese-but-doesn’t-English-well, others are more of the this-causes-serious-issues-in-comprehension variety. (inb4 I make ignorant and egregious errors because I’m a shit student)

I’m gonna ship Regene with Desu and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Also, drawing without layers is hard ;A;

[EDIT] Just had a horrible thought. Anew didn’t shoot Feldt because of her “unconscious aversion to harming members of the same sex,” yet she took Milena hostage. CLEARLY this means the Milena is actually a trap.

Stuff’s out already apparently, I haven’t been checking 2ch though so this is all repost from /m/. I’ll dig around 2ch after I finish my Japanese homework. Preview stuff for SE2 it looks like.

[EDIT] Kouryakukan is in the process of updating, I’ll get to it when they’re done. In other news, smiley days reported that there’s a special 00 event being held on New Year’s Eve, called 「Gundam 00 Festival “a trailer for the trailblazer”」I would assume this means movie trailer.

[EDIT] k, so I have 15 minutes until I need to head out to class so just some bits of stuff from kouryakukan:

- Regene and Revive are on either side of Tieria in the capsules in the NT spread. (figured it was worth mentioning since it’s hard to see in the shot we have of that page)
- SE 2 is covering episodes 1-13
- Mucha Buri Mission this month involves CB performing Cinderella for a school festival. Feldt is Cinderella, Setsuna is the prince Setsuna was going to be the prince but was replaced by Lyle because he’s too short {derp, this is what I get for not reading the whole thing}, H/Allelujah and Milena are the sisters, Tieria is the evil step mother, Saji is the carriage attendant, Haro is the pumpkin, etc. LET THE FELDT/SETSUNA RAGE BEGIN ANEW!
- One of Tieria’s lines made me lol: “Even though I said I’d never wear women’s clothes again…. I guess I don’t have a choice…”
-  Both NT and Animage list some new cuts, but kouryakukan neglected to write any specifics/hasn’t gotten to it yet

[EDIT]

kouryakukan put up their Animedia summary, it’s miniscule. Here’s the only vaguely new bit:

“According to Iketani P’s comments, the movie news flash included with the first Special Edition is sprinkled with keywords from the movie, and so on.
News flashes for Special Editions 2 and 3 are being compiled.”

Pretty derp imo, unless Iketani said other shit about the trailer and kouryakukan just didn’t feel like mentioning it. Though it’s nice to see confirmation that we will be getting trailers with SE2&3. SE2 is due out around xmas btw.

[EDIT] Short version of the interesting/new stuff as far as I’m concerned:

- Wang’s lost all her money by some point after ep 17.
- Marina’s song got on the radio because a soldier happened to hear it, decided to record it and sent it to a radio station.
- Lyle is a massive faggot and saw Anew’s gold eyes multiple times and noticed that they always got attacked a few hours after it happened, but he still NEVER SAID ANYTHING TO HIS COMRADES.
- When Revive is captured, Hiling decides that, once they’re done unifying the world, she’ll ask Ribbons to build a useless facility near the North Pole and have Revive demoted to a position there. (I would pay to see the scene of her imagining this in the SE)
- Anew didn’t shoot Feldt because Anew’s a female model and has an unconscious aversion to harming members of the same sex.
- Tieria honed combat, MS development and general battleship operation skills during the timeskip (hence why he’s a competent pilot for Ptolemy among other things)
- Nena gets sliced in half by the Regenant’s claws.
- Susano-o’s swords, Shiranui and Unryuu, were built with some components from Masurao’s beam sabres named Howard and Daryl {corrected because I’m not up on my gunpla box info}

[EDIT] Shot of the illustration advertising the final volume from 2ch via /m/:

Mmm, delicious Ribbons.

[EDIT] Speaking of Ribbons, oh god wat:

No I don’t know what it’s from, just saw it on one of the 2ch image upload sites. I’m scared.

From kouryakukan, updating as I go:

00 S2 Novel 4 Summary

{some bits of this are more paraphrased than directly translated; I’m only noting parts where I’m skipping sections/heavily abbreviating it}

It covers up until Setsuna and Bushido’s final battle.
The episode with Lyle and Anew has been drastically revised.
Nena’s death scene was made more gory.

{Info about the cover and illustrations, we’ve seen the front cover, back cover is Cheridum, the pinup is of Gadessa, Garazzo and Gadess and the backside of it is Lyle and Anew again}
Since it went on sale after the series ended, there isn’t much in the way of spoilers but there are many new episodes.
Mainly with respect to the emotional component.

[SCANS - MIRROR]

Considering the new Alejanrdo/Ribbons scenes in the SE, I decided to scan my Ribbons doujin. It’s like 80 pages so it took fucking forever to scan. There was a short fanfic section at the end; I skipped it because I was tired of scanning things.

ITD: Ribbons angsts about Alejandro (who is decidedly less gay in this doujin than he is in cannon now) not paying enough attention to him. Then he tries to get it on with a servant to get back at Alejandro (or something like that, idk I haven’t actually read the whole thing yet), but gets cold feet half way through. Alejandro walks in and is pissed then he and Ribbons make up and sex.

And on a related note, I had a paper due today, so I didn’t have time to get the doujin sales post up this weekend–it’ll be up soon-ish though (if/when we find a raw for the SE that might eat up my free time for a bit so idk when I’ll get around to it exactly, but soon).