Been working on a couple of things for a while, so I decided to share them with /m/

>Mobile Suit Gundam (Tomino novelization from 1979): https://www.mediafire.com/file/0okjjd28or6hl9b/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_-_Yoshiyuki_Tomino.epub/file

Sourced and formatted to .epub from a fresh OCR of the 2004 Stone Bridge Press omnibus edition uploaded to the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/mobilesuitgundam0000tomi_d6n5).
Unlike the first edition, this one uses the standard names: "Zaku" instead of "Zak", "Char" rather than "Sha", etc. I did my best to retain the styling of the print edition, but it's likely there are some OCR artifacts, like missed italics or possessives.


>For the Barrel (a "reinterpretation" of the Tomino novels published by Newtype Magazine in the early 2000s. Text by Gichi Ohtsuka, character designs by Shigeto Koyama and mecha design by Junji Ohkubo): https://www.mediafire.com/file/nhvdrzqa1s3fqgv/For_The_Barrel.epub/file

Sourced and formatted to .epub from the translation by "TheIdeon" at https://gunbusternovels.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/for-the-barrel/
While it retains everything translated to the website, messy formatting and all plus picture footnotes and other annotations, it does not include any images out of practical concerns. Editing the whole thing is beyond my abilities, and adding the scans as attachments would inflate the file size considerably and lose a lot of resolution. Complete scan of the relevant Newtype pages is here: https://imgur.com/a/barrel-TewsF0g
Furthermore, the "World's End Barrel" extra material (published in the supplement Newtype.com: "WEB", get it?), which detail some of the characters and the setting, are moved to the end as their own section. Scans here: https://imgur.com/a/ZMQpm6q
"Body" text in serif. Other notes in sans serif.

And before anyone says anything, let's get this out of the way right now.

>>23293771 (OP)
Thanks anon, now I am motivated to finally read it.

>>23293775
You need to read this stuff in the context of the book instead of just constantly taking it out of context for "lol pubes".

>>23293998
>instead of just constantly taking it out of context for "lol pubes".
Each and every time the Tomino novelization is mentioned, someone will inevitably bring up the pubes thing. It's a stupid meme.

>>23293771 (OP)
Why are you using the shit 2004 version when the 2012 is correct? It even has further updated names.

>>23294029
>Why are you using the shit 2004 version when the 2012 is correct?
Because, in case you didn't read the post, I found it on the Internet Archive. I'm not in the mood to import, destroy, scan and do this entire thing all over again just for a few updated names. It's the same translation dating back to 1990: you can check yourself.

>It even has further updated names.
I don't know what other names they could've updated in 2012, since every familiar character is written correctly in this one.

>>23293775
>but since Waves were now working and fighting in space,
What the hell is 'Waves' in this context, just a name for pilots?

>>23294068
Female military personnel. It's a term from WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAVES

>>23293775
That's genious and i'm actually gonna read the book now.

>>23293771 (OP)
OP here. Did a minor update on the first file: some of the aforementioned missing italics.
Original link still works fine: https://www.mediafire.com/file/0okjjd28or6hl9b/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_-_Yoshiyuki_Tomino.epub/file

Christ these are the shittiest formatted epubs imaginable. Leave well enough along with PDFs, thanks.

>>23294147
I use Atlantis Word Processor to easily convert document files to epub. If you know of a better tool to do the job, let me know. And no, Calibre is dogshit; I've had it mangle even the most basic RTF file.
Sometimes I do some cleanup with Sigil, but they looked fine on my computer, so I saw no need. Here's a screenshot as a preview of sorts.

You'd have to be more specific as to what is so wrong about them that you come with "the shittiest formatted epubs imaginable". You want more margins? Fancy file formatting? What for? You can adjust all of that shit on your Kindle.

Bump.

>>23293771 (OP)
Very cool, thank you!

Do you have these in the original Japanese? Please...

>>23294167
Shit page breaks, paragraph formation, clearly isn't proofread for shit because there's a ton of p/b/d issues, still has major character name issues, etc.

I suggest heavy QC if you're trying to do something for the fandom.

Also, did you even ask TheIdeon? Pretty sure he wouldn't appreciate shit

>>23295772
https://djtguide.neocities.org/cor#novels
Also, learn to 4chan. Also, also, lurk more.

>>23295802
I didn't learn Japanese from 4chan THOUGH, how would I have known about these /jp/ resources HOWEVER
thank you ALBEIT

>>23295792
>Shit page breaks
I had to do major manual line breaks in For The Barrel because the formatting on the original website is a goddamn unreadable mess. TheIdeon just did a raw translation of the magazines, with some formatting, but very little that could be transplanted as an ebook.
The Tomino novels look fine. Be specific as to where the issues are, and I will correct them.

>paragraph formation
>clearly isn't proofread for shit because there's a ton of p/b/d issues
I was clear in the OP that the OCR process had issues. I use actual OCRing software, not shitty AI tools.

>still has major character name issues
Which names have issues? Again, BE SPECIFIC. I had to correct a shitton of OCR name errors like "Kick Dorn" or "Chiwav", but the names of all major characters are fine. Also, Challia has two ls and Kycilia has one.

>>23295802
Do you have another link to the SEED novel scans, by any chance? The Mega folder was empty.

>>23295772
>>23295802
>>23295805
Here are some more raw Tomino novelizations:
https://archive.org/details/yoshiyuki-tomino-novels

>hooray! they have high-streamer!
>booo! it's the 2002 edition with the moeshit Chiaki Kumori art, rather than the awesome illustrations by Yukinobu Hoshino

>>23295839
I don't know why I never thought to check archive.org. Could it be because I'm retarded? Thank you, my lord

>>23295828
https://pastebin.com/w0gRFM0c
GLHF, do your own digging.

>>23295891
>May 31st, 2012
Half of the links for raws and such have died. I know that, since I've been checking for quite a while.

bump

>>23293771 (OP)
OP here with major updates on the novelization's epub. Did a thorough check against the ancient ebook copies of the first edition dating back to 2003. I also added the first edition's introduction as a historical note.
Original link still works fine: https://www.mediafire.com/file/0okjjd28or6hl9b/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_-_Yoshiyuki_Tomino.epub/file

Names are all correct and paragraphs are formed correctly. If >>23295792 wants to keep complaining, or anyone else has observations, please let me know if I missed anything.

>>23302452

Thank you for finally getting us an easy link to the novels with the corrected romanizations.

Bump.

(print book compared to digitalized edition).

Is there the version of 0079 novels with illustrations drawn by same artist did Beltorchika's children and Hathaway?

>>23303477
>drawn by same artist did Beltorchika's children and Hathaway
Haruhiho Mikimoto, character designer for 0080 and SDF Macross.

And he only did covers, not inner illustrations.

>>23303485
So who did inner illustrations? I think 79 novels (those in pic), BC and HF all are drawn in same style

>>23303491
Now this is interesting: Mikimoto made, indeed, inner illustrations for the 1987 Japanese reprint:
>Part 10: Kusko Al
Apparently, he also did art for the Zeta novelizations.

However, neither of the English releases have included them (rights issues?). The 2004 Stone Bridge translation that I converted only come with the old settei art from the TV series drawn by Okawara or Yas.
I wonder if any of the digital Japanese releases have included them, but I can't find them digitalized anywhere, except for the odd picture on Yahoo Auctions. And buying old books in Japan to mutilate them sounds both expensive and extreme.

>>23303524
I think you can buy digital releases with Mikimoto's illustrations on Book Walker jp

And another releases with different artist I found on djt

>>23303582
Thanks to Anon, I managed to find some of Mikimoto's novel illustrations on BookWalker.
I'd probably have to buy the e-books (or find a rip somewhere)) to get the rest.

>>23293998
>>23294015
I've read the book. It's still asinine even in context.

Man I feel robbed buying the official English translation and having no illustrations at all.

Mikimoto character illustrations for Volume 2.
Note the inclusion of Kusko Al and Challia Bull.

>>23305192
Wait so Amuro friends still are 15 in novel? I thought he was older

>>23303524
Apparently, Sonorama has artwork that's different from Mikimoto's. Zeonic posted one and is hoarding the rest like all the other shit he does. Maybe someone can blow him to get him to release both versions

>>23303461
Why are you italicizing things that don't need to be italicized? A Baoa Qu shouldn't be.

>>23306551
Anon, you're looking at it backwards. The original Schodt translation (right, picture of the scanned book) has place names like "A Baoa Qu" or "Luna II" in italics.
I took the liberty to correct all of that in the digital version (left, epub file), both out of ease of reading (unlike ships, place names aren't written in italics; quotations at best, and only the first time) and because the OCR software mangles italics, especially with unfamiliar words.

>>23306549
>Apparently, Sonorama has artwork that's different from Mikimoto's.
No need to ask Zeonic for jack shit. They are in the Mega with the JP epubs:
https://mega.nz/#F!jpBGABQJ!7FIVpgA7G2BpAdc6ZiUPOw

>>23308072
Those are some of the shittiest scans imaginable. I'll stick to asking him. At least we'll get better quality copies

>>23308249
See if you can get the Mikimoto art, while you're at it.

Anyone know of scans of any Tomino interview compendiums?

>>23308587
There's a bunch of translated excerpts on Mark Simmons' website: https://gundamunofficial.com/

>>23309071
Thank you, but I'm looking for whole, untranslated interviews
There was a book published in the late 90s, the 富野由悠季インタビュー集, I was hoping someone would've scanned something like that

>>23309117
Just fucking buy it. Don't give us that shit that you don't have the means to.

>>23309132
Spending money isn't really a thing I do.

>>23309192
Well the fuck off. If you can't track it down from simple Google searches like the rest of us, then take your begging ass elsewhere.

>>23309891
*then

>>23305629
It's unspecified by he's legally allowed to drink/drive/fuck and has spent at least a year or two in cadet school. In no way is he only 15.

>>23310800
>It's unspecified
literally says 15歳 in the bio next to amuro's illustration in >>23305192

>has spent at least a year or two in cadet school
char himself didn't even spent that long in Zeon military academy,

>he's legally allowed to drink/drive/fuck
I think that's just rules being lax in wartime due to a combination of large amount of adults being drafted away into the war, few people to strictly check up on them, and younger teenagers being forced to fill in for what used to be adult roles due to all the manpower shortages

>>23310899
That's a fuck up by Kadokawa. They were basing it off his anime age. He's 20 by 0080 in the novels.

>>23310922
When Kusko is sizing up Amuro, it's even says that he's "not yet twenty" in the text. You don't say that when someone is 15...

>>23310922
>>23310928
This, Tomino famously split the difference between Amuro's anime and novel ages for Zeta

>>23310922
>He's 20 by 0080 in the novels.
Ctrl+F not found

If anything, the novel says Sayla just turned 20, which is an age-up from the original series where she was just 17. Amuro's age is never mentioned in the novel dialogue properly, only that it's mentioned that Sayla is a year or two older than him, so he's 18 or 19.

>>23310943
In words, Anon. In words.
Also, the dialogue is Kuzko speculating on Amuro's age, not a definitive number.

>>23305629
ESLs GTFO.

>>23310945
Already found that, filed it under
>Amuro's age is never mentioned in the novel dialogue properly

The comparison to Sayla's known age give a more exact range of 18 or 19 for Amuro at the time, and that description comes after the book already declared the year being 0080, so Amuro is not even 20 years old by 0080.

>>23310956
Looking at the JPN Wiki, they peg him at 20, so I'm going to side with them. They know their own language after all and are spot on with their Wiki postings unlike the ESL side that has shit.

Plus, the comparison to Sayla's age is only a guess. You can speculate that someone is one or two years younger than you, but actually be closer in age, which is the case here.

Either way, Kadokawa is just wrong.

>>23310931
Uh, no.

Posted in context to today's episode.

>>23310985
Just post the Japanese version of the same text passage then

>>23312588
May the odds ever be in your favor, lazy ass.

>>23310985
>>23312588
Quick Japanese lesson: to say that someone is "X-years old", you do "X-sai": i-ssai, ni-sai, san-sai, etc. Grammar rules aside, all numbers follow that same formula, with one exception: 20 years old, which is "hatachi".
https://jisho.org/search/はたち

>>23313152
I don't have it so I can't post it

>>23314008
Here: >>23308072

>>23314020
Thank you, I'll need a couple of minutes to search for it

>>23313870
First, NTA.
He's fucking 20. Before you try lecturing, try being fluent in the language first. Your clear lack of comprehension is woefully on display here.

>>23310985
>Plus, the comparison to Sayla's age is only a guess.
It's the narrator. Are you accusing the narrator of the book being wrong and choosing to side with a wiki for the book that can be edited by fucking anyone?

>>23314050
Japanese wiki is a more accurate than anything the ESL community could ever produce. So yes, if the wiki says he's 20 I'm going to assume they'll understand the source material versus a shit ENG version people keep clinging to.

>Chapman Jirom was, however, an admiral with considerable personal ambition. He had been given a chance to win the favor and trust of the Supreme Commander, and he knew that if he succeeded his future would be bright. If the war could be concluded on favorable terms, he would probably be treated like one of the Zabi family. In fact, without Dozle and Kycilia Zabi around to interfere, he would probably be given a position in power second only to the Supreme Commander himself.
>At the same time, Chapman was a fairly rational man, fully aware of what could happen to him if he linked himself too closely to Gihren’s fate. Gihren had, after all, just decided to sacrifice one of his most trusted men, not to mention thousands of his troops and his own sister. But if he, Chapman, worked fast now to help Gihren eradicate potential future problems such as Dozle and Kycilia, he was convinced he could avoid Randolph’s impending fate. Going along with Gihren, he quickly concluded, was a gamble, but it would be worth it.

Okay I checked jp version, pretty much the same

まだ乳くささの残った少年が率直に使いすぎる言葉にクスコ・アルは戸惑った。二十歳になるかならぬかの少年が少尉であることに、ただ者ではなかろうと予測はしていた。それが、こうもあどけなく母の事を言えるのだろうか? 脆い少年と思える。が、果たしてそうなのだろうか?

>>23314289
The last time I checked JPN wiki, they took info from SRW about character's age and put it in wiki. I checked several official databooks, said character's age was all listed as 不明

>>23317533
>二十歳
>不明
So, what gives, then? 15? 20? "Unknown"?

>>23320465
No not Amuro, I mean other character

二十歳になるかならぬか literally means "whether he will become 20 or not". Kusko has the impression Amuro is not yet 20 or he just turned 20 very recently. I would do a mental gymnastics and write his age as around "18-20" on JPN wiki if I can instead of definitive label

>>23317533
Not for the novel section they didn't. Nice try tough.

>>23306551
They probably aren't treating them like a place, but like a ship/station instead.

I’m very surprised it’s 0080, Lalah is fucking dead and it’s still 1/3 through the story.

Bump because morons lurk on this board.

>>23293775
when I read this all I could think about was the smell

>>23293771 (OP)
have a bump

>>23322763
yeah, novel is drastically changed things from the show, way more than I had expected.

>>23322763
yeah, novel drastically changed things from the show, way more than I had expected.

>>23295844
to be fair the archive doesnt give free books as liberally ever since they got sued by publishers during covid. everything goes through their online library service now. i was just about to check anna's archive for gundam novels before I spotted this thread

>>23334096
Blame soiboi Chuck Wendig for that.

>>23293771 (OP)
For anyone interested in Tomino novels, here's a rough breakdown for the Gundam side of things:
>Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
The "Novel Trilogy" is the obvious one, which is Tomino's expanded and more specific concept for the series, which is completely different from the TV anime on purpose. It's his attempt at a more hard SF and mature idea of Gundam.
Adjacent to the TV anime is "Secret Rendezvous", a 130~ page complete story about the intersecting relationships of Amuro, Lalah, Char, and Sayla, primarily focused on Amuro and Lalah's titular "Secret Rendezvous".
>Mobile Suit Z Gundam
Tied into this is Tomino's five volume Z Gundam novel. It is completely unrelated to the Gundam Trilogy and more another take on Z Gundam.
>Char's Counterattack
Hi-Streamer and Beltorchika's Children are slightly different takes on the film narrative, with the majority of their value moreso being derived from Tomino's own commentary (so, don't read the Beltorchika's Children manga. Come on, you're an adult, you can read a sub-200 page novella).
Hathaway's Flash and Gaia Gear are also connected to this phase of Gundam despite timeline placements.
Hathaway's Flash is a "coda" to CCA, essentially being a 3 volume epilogue to the events portrayed in the Beltorchika's Children novel.
Gaia Gear is a "coda" to the character of Char Aznable as a whole, through the 'memory clone' Affranchi Char.
>F91
The F91 novel makes the work more... "digestible". Recommended just for that.
Related but not really is the entirety of Crossbone, which has influence from original Tomino materials but is not written by him.
>VIctory
The V Gundam novel. Obviously. Only thing here not translated.

Pretty much all Tomino works beyond Gundam are untranslated. A taste-
>WIngs of Rean (6 volumes)
>Aura Battler Chronicles (11 Volumes)
>Garzey's Wing (5 volumes)
>Space Runaway Ideon (3 Volumes)
>Haran Banjo Series (4 Volumes)
And his completely original work "The King's Heart" is something of interest.

>>23334690
Where do I find the F91 and GG novels translated?

>>23334697
Zeonic has them fully TL'd on his patreon if I recall.

Anyone has the Beltorchika's Children light novel in Japanese?

>>23335963
Find in here >>23295802

>>23336031
I downloaded it but it's only Char's counterattack, uploaded it on ttsu to check it.

>>23295802
Great resource retard, love all the empty mega folders

>>23336050
>turned out it's one volume of high streamer
aw shit, I guess you have to ask Zeonic or someone else give it because I'm retarded

>>23336058
Does anyone have a chinese link or something for the other ebooks?

>>23334690
You've clearly never read F91's novel. It's a joke, worse than the film.

All novels are zeonics gay website on the right. All PDFs. Assclown needs to make ebooks fast. PDFs are shit

This is getting bumped in order for people to understand that this is from the novel, taken almost verbatim.

>>23334690
i didn't know Gaia Gear was translated
thanks anon

>>23345808
Gaia Gear, Hathaway's Flash, Beltorchika's Children, F91, and Hi-Streamer have all been translated by Zeonic, who has some behind a patreon paywall (namely Gaia Gear).
The Z Gundam novels and Secret Rendezvouz got translated by GunbusterNovels, who is working on non-Gundam Tomino novels right now (I think Garzey's Wing is among their projects?)

Speaking of obscure titles, has anyone got scans of Cyber Newtype Story: Another Z Gundam Story (強化人間物語 ANOTHER Z GUNDAM STORY)? It’s the prequel to MAD WANG, and I’ve been searching high and low for it.
Might have to get it off Mandarake at this rate.

>>23348898
I think Zeonic has done a full scanlation of it some time ago

>>23345808
>>23346926
4 out of 5 volumes of Gaia Gear are publicly released. F91 is on patreon for now and rest are public.

>>23293771 (OP)
Thanks OP

>>23341505
There's chinese zeta novel on anna's archive. That's all I know

>>23355213
Is that even an actual translation? The chinese are known for passing fanfics as the real deal.

>>23359404
I don't know, I can't read chink and I haven't read zeta novel yet. They have illustrations from official novels so I assume it's legit translation...

>>23293771 (OP)
There exist a few Code Geass novels translated, about 5 or 6 to my knowledge, each found in the usual places. Given you seem rather proficient at this, perhaps you might entertain the thought in converting that relic into epubs for sake of posterity.
Thanks for this.
I'll take on the order of editing the whole of For the Barrel. Seems like it'll take sometime.

>>23361307
Why not offer to do that for the Ideon first before you assume anything needs doing?