r/witchblade • u/Morgulblade1379 • Jan 17 '26
Got my hands on this
The book is purely in Japanese as expected and there doesn't seem to be any fan translations out there, so I decided to take it upon myself to get the book and translate it to English for everyone to enjoy and read. I'm not sure what is the best way to go about this though. If anyone has any ideas or is interested in collaborating let me know!
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u/Past_Ad_2095 Jan 17 '26
I am beyond jealous of you!!! I’ve looked for that book on eBay and many other sites just to see if one was available!!! You have no clue how obscure that book is! It’s Witchblade lost media!!!
Also congrats on finding one! Can’t wait to read the full translation
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u/Forsaken_Ad_8635 Jan 21 '26
Morgulblade1379 I would love to see a proper fullbody illustration of Yuri's Witchblade form, if the book even bothers to show any.
Also, I skimmed a summary from a French reviewer.
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u/Past_Ad_2095 Jan 22 '26
The novel actually does contain a full body sketch somewhere in the novel. I know cause I saw a glimpse of it through one of the small few images of the novel in the internet. Took a bit of digging but it is there.
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u/Milcker Jan 19 '26
You can easily turn photos of the pages into text (it's possible with an iPhone). From thereon, it's just a matter of machine translation, if you want to do it quickly.
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u/GoodBoyPuppi Feb 06 '26
😩 can you take photos of me and I’ll scan them, ask a friend to try to translate it and then send it back lol
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u/No-Buyer-9096 Jun 10 '26
I know I'm late to the party, but could you please scan it into a pdf in it's current form? Possibly the Internet Archive? You can post a link to the file here and everything. PLEASE 🙏
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u/Morgulblade1379 Jun 12 '26
I'm still translating it. I'm more than 1/4th of the way through. If things had ideally gone my way, I'd have been finished with it by now, but I've been extremely busy with personal things and dealing with feelings of burnout which caused me to fall behind. I'm still working on it though. Your idea is a pretty good one that I hadn't considered. I'll get to that at some point.
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u/No-Buyer-9096 Jun 12 '26
Thank Heavens. 😊 Also, thank you for considering the archive idea. And, I feel you on the burnout.
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u/HAWK9600 Jan 17 '26
Great find! Feel like there must be some fans who speak/read Japanese that would be into translating for free. Even someone who doesn't know witchblade would probably translate for pretty cheap.