KH2 Vol 4 Chapter 2: Waiting for You
Chapter 2: Waiting for You
Written by: Kanemaki Tomoco
Original Plan: Nomura Tetsuya and Nojima Kazushige
Illustration: Amano Shiro
Translations: gold_panner
Copyrighted by Disney, Square Enix and Touchstone Pictures. No profits are gained from these unofficial fan translations.
Thanks to fellow fan-translator final-ace for providing the copy of this novel.
( lights will guide you home )
So many shippy things in this, right ;__; the plot really is coming together now. I really do like this sort of tight, interwoven stuff much better than translating Sora traipsing through the Disney worlds... as fun as they are to play and experience, it's a bit repetitive to translate haha. But then on the other hand, I am almost scared to do the next chapter, I know what's going to happen ;____;
Re: little girl, actually it would sound better if it were just 'girl'. When I see the 'ko' in 'onna no ko' I immediately jump to child, but it guess it doesn't have to mean that young.
Oh wow, I hope it was worth it after such a wait :3 The novels can be pretty threadbare. But then again this chapter still gave me so many feels ahgh
And mannn! I felt so much for Riku. DiZ was a fucking crappy ally.
But then, I wish he'd at least said goodbye to Axel. I suppose it was Axel's fault Kairi got kidnapped so he'd be mad, but still. Axel's really in the same position Riku himself was in. I'd hope Riku would recognise that on some level.
Was that the part where in your timeline you said Riku told Axel who AtW was? He just seemed to know somehow :x
Well, I think it's about anyone with a strong heart. That's what DiZ seemed to be saying anyway, and I see it as Namine connected the dots to see in their specific case it was probably Sora's strong heart. I've forgotten how many DDD spoilers you know, but there may be something in that which could support it being anyone. Not that I'm convinced the plot for DDD was thought out when these novels were written, but this heart stuff does seem to be pretty foreshadowed...
Thank you for catching that fragmented sentence! It's actually like that in Japanese, they often use a fragment to set the scene before putting dialogue, and sometimes I don't work it in properly 8D Hopefully my edit sounds better!
Actually, Sora was using a more formal word in this, in the sort of joking way people do sometimes. It seemed to me like he was trying to make it sound like a mission lol. I didn't capitalise it because it's just written normally as a Japanese phrase and not given any marker as a title, but if it's always like that in English then I will adapt it so :3
How's this?
“Priority change: let's give the Usual Spot a miss and head over there,” said Sora.
Thank you for the advice <3 I don't mind about 'nitpickng', when I am dumb enough to pull all-nighters I sort of need them ;A;/
What REALLY gets me about that Axel/Nami scene is that it is the same phrase he says to Roxas just before he fades away in the Remembrance scene too, the 'mata na' ;~; It's like he knows he's dying, she knows, but right til the last he holds onto the hope that it won't be forever FUCK
And yessss and he's talking about Riku and HPO give eachother MEANINGFUL GLANCES cause they know 'shinyuu' is code word for 'totally in love with' I mean come onnnn this series
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...You're making me ship Aku/Riku oh no. I've never read anything for it outside of harukami's ot6-verse, but ahh lol. I wonder if Riku feels guilty about any of it at all. The fact that Axel is here and dying is because Riku stole his friend. Riku shoulders too much guilt as is so I hope not. But ahhhh mannnn lol
Ohh I see! I have read all her stuff, I just have a terrible memory. And I get mixed up. That's one reason why I like doing entire chapters instead of just the interesting scenes... I get muddled lol
Yeah, DiZ's speech to Riku at the end :3 Ahhhhhh
Thank you~ <3
Oh that reminds me, I better find that translation cause I can just use that for the next chapter. Oh man ;_____;
AND YES AHH
ME TOO
i pre-ordered at eb games, i better go check when i can pick it up!!
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Yes! Ahh that fic had a big influence on my shipping and even my writing, not that I write much. And yeah. Do you mean when he gave Kairi the ring? I thought that was a bit weird but I just decided to dwell on it lolll. And yeah I kept waiting for Riku/Roku to happen :< Riku and Roxas feels aside, after Roxas 'shared what he had' with Sora it would have been cool to have Sora do the same back. Aghhhhhh Axel and Riku are the worst cause they give me the most sad feels and then when their feels collide lkrgjnrgt kinda glad they didnt play it up in canon it might have killed me
Yeah me too 8D I understood it myself, I thiiiink lol, but it's always much better to see the official stuff. Same with the secret ending of BBS. I love the symbolic loveliness of the Japanese speech to pieces but the English one makes it much more clear-cut what it was supposed to mean for the future of the series. Plus those DDD cutscenes were a pain in the ass to do, working off crappy livestream recordings that kept cutting off the part where the subs were or had crap sound so I couldn't hear a thing (or had some robot thing talking whyyy).
I think there's only one small difference, in that Roxas says the 'Sora will find the answer' line twice. Other than that the dialogue is exactly the same, it just has the thoughts and actions stuff to pad it out! After all, Nomura did say something like he took the FM+ scene from the novel in the first place, so it would make sense.
Aghh the Europeans already have it too!!! For once Australia doesn't get the European release date and it's actually WORSE /cry cry
...But we do get it before US... yeah... I promise to keep tagging spoilers :P
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