Hahaha *rolling on the floor*...can't breathe...the omakes are too...funny....*wiping off tears* Horray for Arakawa-sensei! XDDD
Thank you so much for scanning ans translating these!!! All worship the great translators!! =)))

Do not worry Arakawa-sensei, we will always luv your old geezers.
Here is a pic I found that contains (almost) every single girl character in Full Metal Alchemist.

The coverslip/ranting thingy from Vol. 5

OMG I love Arakawa-senei's sense of humor! Lmao and i can't breath! Thanks again for the great translations!

LOL Arakawa-sensei's sense of humor is great, if you couldn't already tell. Somehow, I can't picture a lady like her writing these things(has seen a pic of her before).

it is not Nameless, it's "Breko"...

Yay it's the female characters!

I know that it reads Breko in the japanese one, but it just occured to me as a bit odd, so I went and hunted down a chinese version of the omake. It said 無名子, so that's why I said Nameless. Maybe it should be nameless child or random passerby?

It's a Japanese word play that unfortunately we won't likely understand. Girls in Japan's past usually have their name with 'ko' (meaning 'child') at the back. The code names of the others in Mustang's gang are based closely off the first two characters of their names (except Riza who took Elizabeth). But where is there a girl's name with 'Bure'/'Br' at the front? So they simply tacked on the 'ko'

Is there a meaning to 'bureko'? Perhaps there is cause the Japanese katakana 'Bureko' also means this (see following link)
Japanese link
[spoiler]Pleco![/spoiler]
Whether whoever drew the yonkoma intended it to be so, we won't likely know.

I had thought about "ko" being used as with girls' names, but I couldn't really figure out what "Bure" was. I also considered it being Blair but it sounded a bit off.

The main problem with translating this yonkoma lies with finding the appropriate english equivalent for the meaning. Maybe I should have just used "Miss Breda"?

u know what, I would just put "Brelly" =P or "Brenie" cuz that's likely girl name's ending spelling ^^

Someone suggested "Bredette" once. I think it accurately depicts the utter lameness of the name. XD

Also, I believe Falman's name was "Veronica," but I can't remember exactly. (EDIT: It was "Vanessa." :D;;;) EDIT AGAIN: WTF obviously I can't read because that's exactly what you had put down. I suck. *slits wrists* *not really* *has a horrible sense of humor and should be shot*

"Bredette" would work pretty well. Its lame enough to warrant such an expression on Breda's face. I'll go edit and attach the new version now.

To Umeko:
I had actually put down something else as Falman's name earlier. I edited it when it finally dawned on me that it should be Vanessa. (I suck at translating names.)

Ahh, I see. I don't feel as much like an idiot now. :D

After toying about in Photoshop, finally managed to clean up and translate the spine from vol. 6. Also managed to hunt down and translate the spine of vol. 8 as well.

Vol. 5 and vol. 7 should be coming soon. Found the scan, but can't read what's on it But I'll figure a way to clean them up, unless someone has clean scans?

To Umeko:
Hahaha...sorry about that.

I could do clean scans if you want. Or if it would be easier, here's what they say (in Japanese, I don't want to take away the fun of translating them if you don't want me to XD). Not sure if you're having troubles with volume five or seven or both, so... yeah.

5.
うちの息子たちがいつもご送惑を

7.
デビルズネストの皆さんとか。
逝きすぎ。

Coverslip/ranting from vol. 7 and vol. 8.

To Umeko:
Thanks for the text, they'll be done soon.

I love you all people for providing all this material.

Thank you very much!
Arigatou gozaimasu!
Viele Danke!
Muito obrigado!
Muchas gracias!

And of course:
Moltes gràcies!

PS: Yes, this is actually av and sig testing, but the thanksgiving is true ;

Shirokage: I already translated the vol. 06 spine l0l. nah, it's fine. people can have 2 different versions haha.

Oh yeah, and about 'Bureko' would it be inconvenient to just put a note on the bottom of what it means? I mean, I think it kinda loses the joke when translated. of course, there's the ever obvious/stupid "Bre-girly" haha. Though I am partial to just putting a translater's note on the side l0l

To Hakai-kun:
Sorry about that...I'm starting to lose track of what has been translated and what's not. I'll need to draw up a list before I'm completely lost...

The thing with a translator's note is I have no more space to put it. And people who haven't done any japanese won't really get it anyway.





Edit:
Spine from vol. 7 and vol. 9, along with ranting from vol. 9 as well.

shirokage: Yeah... I'm starting to lose track too... ^^; Anyway, I wanted to ask you about your spin scans. How are you doing it? Are you scanning it yourself? They're a little hard to see. When I scanned the volume 6 spine, it came out funny the first time. But when I rescanned it I scanned it at 100% size and played with the lighting, etc. in photoshop a little. If you can send me the full-size [100% scale?] scan I can adjust the lighting and what not. or you can

Please don't take offense. I was just offering a little... friendly advice?

OMG you guys rock! I go away for a couple of weeks to study for exams and when I come back there are half a dozen omakes waiting for me ;_; thankyou!

Dont you love how the spines have whoever dies? Bit morbid though O.o, Lust is next I guess. LOL at Ross going "wait a minute!" and floating off to heaven.

Hakai-kun : Don't worry, no offence taken. I didn't scan them as I don't have the actual book. It was from a chinese torrent that I downloaded. The scans were actually even worse than this to begin with. I already had to fix them in photoshop just to get them to the way that they are now.

I could scan them all in myself if you're interested in redoing them with cleaner scans.

I've got a question for you guys! A friend passed me a bunch of FMA icons and I found one I thought was pretty funny, but we don't know where the original images came from (she also doesn't remember where she got this icon since she goes to a lot of sites, so we can't ask the person who created it. *sigh*).

I'm assuming it is one of the omake, since it looks like it is from the manga, but I could be wrong.



Any ideas?

Yeah, it's from an omake. Volume four, maybe...? I can't remember, and I'm too lazy to walk the five feet to my bookshelf to check. XDDD

Yep, it's from vol. 4.

To Umeko :
Clean scans will be good.

To Umeko: Yep, if you get clean scans [or at least bigger scans] I could try help as well XD

Roy and his facial hair issue l0l

4th volume? *sigh* So unfair. I have volumes 1 and 3, and 7-10 should get to me within the week. Wouldn't you know it I wouldn't have that one?

I did come across a fanart of Hawkeye drawing cat(?) whiskers on Mustang with a marker while the guys are in the background laughing. I'm assuming that was based on this. So now I am even more interested in what was going on!

I'd be in your debt if anyone can post a scanned translation of it! *big grin* And thank you very much Shirokage and hakai-kun for offering to translate! *hugs* I would certainly offer to scan myself, but volume 4 isn't in stock to order yet where I usually buy. *sigh*

preypacer: I think this is the one you wanted.. right? ^^;

oh, just for disclaimer's sake, I didn't translate this. I just had it.

*laughs* That was great! Thank you hakai-kun! *hugs* This certainly brightened my day!

*grin* Sometimes Riza can be so helpful it's cruel! Roy looks more depressed in this than he did in the icon. *chuckle*

hakai-kun san, I really like your sig. Ed looks SO KAWAII in the military uniform. I'm so obsessed with Ed being in a military uniform. (cause he looks kawaii)

More omake. This is from the scans that Murasaki posted up earlier in the thread. The others will be coming soon (once I get round to cleaning them).

I quite do not get the Rose one, but the Roy one is HILARIOUS!!!

The ranting from vol. 10

If anybody has a clean scan of the spine for vol. 10, please post it up. I want to translate that as well. I can't find it anywhere.

Is this a good enough scan? (It doesn't really have anything to translate, though... XD)

Great scan, but at you said, there's nothing to translate. The only word is Maria Ross's scream as she falls.




Edit:
The translation for the second omake of vol. 9.

The omake are great! Thank you so much!

Just a question regarding the translation of the 4koma from the Perfect Guide: do you people mind if I don't translate the names of whoever drew the panel? (coz I can't read them)

*reads topic*

Ling. Period. If he kicked any more ass the universe would implode.

Personally, I think that'd be fine... because some people have the oddest reading of their kanji ^^; l0l

Hakai-kun, you just brought up a problem that I hadn't even thought about before: I can't read the names, but even if I can I wouldn't know the spelling of them in English!

Ok, since the names are now out of the way, time to get cracking.

hey... eds bieng mmean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


thanks for the translation !

Somebody posted scans of 'Hagaren Rangers' on fm_alchemist. Somebody please translate it.

I'll try to get to that as well, its just that there is so much work from school...

Pure gold!

Thanks a million!

Are there only these 2 pages tho'?

Hagaren Rangers...it's kinda freaky, I want to know what Roy saids!!

EDIT: Someone on that site translated and edited the words into the first page!! Yay!
http://img11.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fma2xh.png

Not a very good translation, I must admit ^^; But... I tried. I felt bad because Shirokage-san was doing the translations all alone...

edit: second thoughts... decided to take it off.... decided the translation was really bad enough to not even be worth sharing sorry...

Can anyone translated this:

[img]http://notashrimp.com/novels/images/novel3d.jpg[/img]

http://notashrimp.com/novels/pages/novel1d.htm
http://notashrimp.com/novels/pages/novel2e.htm

anyone?

Hakai-kun: Your translation can't be that bad. You did a pretty good job on the ranting back then. Why did you take it off?

Here is the first two pages from Perfect Guide 4koma. More will be coming soon. (Well, that's kind of a lie, very busy recently. I WILL get to them sometime though, I promise.)