Translated MOTHER 2 Manga

Ahh, I love those mangas… I know you’ve translated some in the past ‘Mato, so you’re not going completely insane. Was it a starmen project from days long gone?

I do have quite a few of these mangas still. Would people want me to make scans for translating? And what would be the best way to scan them that wouldn’t wreck the pages?

Weird…but nice translation!

Satsy: Yeah, if you could scan yours somehow, that’d be great. I have a few more but don’t really have the time to scan them all. To scan the ones that I did, I just did the regular “press real hard” thing. I imagine the best way would be to disassemble the books and scan the pages one by one, but no way am I gonna do that 😛

‘Mato: Hmm, whereas I’m not looking to be a collector, which is also why all my figures are out of the box (and why Mini Mr.Saturn followed me to the con sporting a pair of googly eyes). But any idea what the best method of taking apart would be? ‘Cause I have none. 😛

I’m not really sure either. Maybe there’s info about it online somewhere.

‘Mato: Well if there is its not as easy to find as I’d have thought it’d be. If you do hear anything be sure to let me know. 😐

(If anyone else has any ideas either that’d be great).

Well, I do remember reading this back in the day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning#Destructive_scanning

All I know is, I’ve never tried it, nor would I even have the heart to do that to my precious MOTHER merchandise.
I commend you for considering it, Satsy, but you also have to remember, it doesn’t mean everyone would be hopping at the chance to translate them. You could end up destroying your manga books just so that everyone could look at the pretty pictures and not understand any of it.

CrouchingMouse:

I haven’t gone back to check the original language version yet, but as far as I can tell, your translation is great. Good work! The Ness’s dad/phone one is the best one. 😀
The thing about this kind of manga, though, is that I tend to shy away from it, because a knowledge of the culture (and an EXTENSIVE one at that, one I haven’t even really been able to touch upon myself) would also be required to really “get” some of these jokes, but that’s 4-koma for you.

Keinsu: I don’t mind if people don’t translate it — I like the pretty pictures, too! 😛 And a lot of the mangas I have are still easy to buy, and at least one much cheaper than back-in-the-day (oh that immense bidding war, I think between Buzz Buzz and Luna). And besides, even if nobody else can translate them, it’d be fun for me to crack a shot at it again — its been a few years.

Thanks for the nice comments, guys =) And thanks to Tomato for putting these up! They’ve been great practice.

Satsy: I’d love it if you put up some of your scans for translating! I usually have no idea where to look for raws.

Kenisu: I know what you mean. Even with some of these easier ones, there was a LOT of stuff I had to look up to get what they were trying to say. I always feel pretty accomplished when I figure out the joke, though. XD

Bwah, I just caught a mistake: “180 Minutes” should be “180 Seconds”. Whoops =(

(The start of my work is on a tumblr now http://mothermangascans.tumblr.com/ set to private so say earthbound at it and you’ll see the meager one sliver of manga I’ve scanned so far)

Man, I wish I could translate Japanese.
Usually, the process for me is like:

1) Translate words
2) Hit word I don’t know and look at possible words that might fit
3) Translate words after word that I don’t know (if I hit another word I don’t know, go to step 2 again)
4) Look at more words since I might know it based off of context
5) Reorder words into a proper English sentence

Exciting. No one wanted to know, but I said it anyway.