Found: Chinese Version of VK Noir Trap
Yeaaaaah! Big success today (well for me anyway). Not sure how many of you are excited about the Vampire Knight: The Noir Trap novel but I've been searching forever for it! Considering the novel came out in Japan back in 08, I feel the chances of it being released in English is very slim. So today, instead of studying like I should -_-, I tried searching for it online. I tried English, I even tried typing it in Google using Japanese (I don't even know Japanese) and that didn't work. Then for some bizarre reason, I thought of Chinese and minor success, I've found it in chunks scattered throughout a forum thread. :D
At first, I felt like this:
Then after the exhilaration wore off, I felt like this:
So right now, I've got over around 60 pages of Chinese to go through one word at a time. I haven't read anything Chinese in years now and Chapter 71 was my first attempt at translating anything in my entire life. And even those few pages of one-liners took me six hours. So is there anyone around here who's chinese is better and can actually do a decent job of it in a timely fashion?
If not, I'll give my best shot but no guarantees...
P.S. Is anybody actually interested in this? Because otherwise, there's no point in me translating and spamming people's "friends pages" with updates...
P.P.S. On the slight off chance people might be interested, is everybody okay with me taking some artistic license with the translation? Some of the paragraphs make no sense and direct word-by-word translation gives you a disjointed feeling like you get whenever you use Google Translate. I figured an elegant read like the one Koneko1991 provided for the first novel is better a direct translation that is awkward to read (and makes me look bad at translating!).
Example (paragraph describing Ruka):
My take: With pale white skin, a slender slim figure, she resembled a perfect pretty doll. With long curling hair cascading down her back, she looked like a beautiful graceful lady. After all, she was one of the most beautiful girl of the Night Class - Ruka Souen.
Word-by-word translation: White skin, slim figure, like a perfect pretty doll, then add her long back of curly hair, she is such a graceful girl. She is night class one of the best beauties - Ruka Souen.
See, makes no sense.
Anyway, let me know what you think. ^^
At first, I felt like this:
Then after the exhilaration wore off, I felt like this:
So right now, I've got over around 60 pages of Chinese to go through one word at a time. I haven't read anything Chinese in years now and Chapter 71 was my first attempt at translating anything in my entire life. And even those few pages of one-liners took me six hours. So is there anyone around here who's chinese is better and can actually do a decent job of it in a timely fashion?
If not, I'll give my best shot but no guarantees...
P.S. Is anybody actually interested in this? Because otherwise, there's no point in me translating and spamming people's "friends pages" with updates...
P.P.S. On the slight off chance people might be interested, is everybody okay with me taking some artistic license with the translation? Some of the paragraphs make no sense and direct word-by-word translation gives you a disjointed feeling like you get whenever you use Google Translate. I figured an elegant read like the one Koneko1991 provided for the first novel is better a direct translation that is awkward to read (and makes me look bad at translating!).
Example (paragraph describing Ruka):
My take: With pale white skin, a slender slim figure, she resembled a perfect pretty doll. With long curling hair cascading down her back, she looked like a beautiful graceful lady. After all, she was one of the most beautiful girl of the Night Class - Ruka Souen.
Word-by-word translation: White skin, slim figure, like a perfect pretty doll, then add her long back of curly hair, she is such a graceful girl. She is night class one of the best beauties - Ruka Souen.
See, makes no sense.
Anyway, let me know what you think. ^^