Man i do wanna come back to fun tumblr times but i wish i could have xkit on android or sonething. With my health its a struggle doing all the extra steps and getting on my laptop
Some friendly dms reminded me I haven't said much here in a while
Ive been struggling with health for years now and I finally found out at least one of my biggest issues.
Tldr; I have an MTHFR mutation. It's fucked my body's absorption of some vitamins and has put me at risk of bloodclots. I'm getting a treatment plan set up as of a few weeks ago.
Title: 神取の野望 (Kandori's Ambition)
Written by: 南原 順 (Jun Nanbara)
Illustrations by: 金子一馬 (Kazuma Kaneko)
Publisher: Victor Books/Victor Novels (Label)
Summary: This novel serves 'prequel' to the events of Megami Ibunroku Persona, focusing primarily on Kandori and his course of action throughout SEBEC but there are other characters featured and mentioned such as Reiji Kido and Maki Sonomura.
Google Drive link
(Included in the folder are: The translation PDF, scans of the cover and the illustrations inside the novel in 600dpi resolution, and credit pages present in the novel)
Personal Note: Finally at long last, the Kandori novel translation is finally done!
I've used a personal copy for the scans and translation, but still massive thanks to fadetoblack1058 for having uploaded the raw version of the novel!
I'm sorry to be so slow uploading things sometimes >_< I started the translation around the start of last month and only finished now @_@ on top of that, I haven't been scanning doujinshi or materials enough...I had to get a new PC for that because my old one couldn't keep up and I've been very busy kljsdfh either way,
In comparison to the P2 novels, this one features a bit more OCs for the story, so the focus at times ends up focusing on them a bit more than necessary orz
I have a bit of mixed feelings on the novel personally, but I nonetheless recommend reading it to get a new insight and perspective regarding these characters!
Doujinshi - [U.S.O (Tankinu Nagase/Shinshu Ueda)] Megami Ibunroku Persona/ Persona 2 dj assortment [RAW]
Titles: (Megami Ibunroku Persona) 阿頼耶DEGO (Alaya de Go), リバース (Reverse) , ゴーバッド (Go Bad)
(Persona 2) BIG BAD BINGO, CARRY THAT WEIGHT!
Artist: タンキーヌ・ナガセ (Tankinu Nagase) [Shinshu Ueda's penname for doujinshi)
Circle: U.S.O (For Megami Ibunroku doujinshi)
ESTMA (For P2EP doujinshi)
Google Drive link
Personal Notes: I always wanted to upload these doujinshi, but I usually refrain from posting pure raws because I want the translations too…Unfortunately, I cannot defeat my archenemesis </3 japanese handwriting, and Nagase/Shinshu's handwriting is very……..messy x_x. For some of these, I still want to try my hand at translating eventually, but it'll definitely take a while. I love translating little artist notes and there's a lot of those in every doujinshi so if I can't translate something absolutely fully I end up giving up orz.
In any case, yes. These are doujinshi made by Shinshu Ueda under the name of Tankinu Nagase in their doujin circle U.S.O.
There are 5 doujinshi attached, 3 for Megami Ibunroku Persona and 2 for Persona 2.
270823 Edit: リバース has now been fully translated! The gdrive has been updated to reflect that. Please thank @falsekaiba for the typesetting and translation! Really well made 🙏 it will also be found in Mangadex as well.
Under the cut are some small explanations for the others, but I'll go straight for the P2EP doujin for introduction, as I actually translated
bits of that one.
Title: CARRY THAT WEIGHT! - Eternal Punishment focus (PG, small bits of Kandori mixed in with a Post-EP story)
Original printing date: 2000/08/12
This is the only doujinshi of Tankinu that was published under a different circle than their usual "U.S.O.", called "ESTMA".
I have never found any other doujinshi of them under this label, and if there were any, they might be lost to time.
The first page warns about the book containing spoilers for the ending of EP, so it's advised to proceed with caution. After that,
all the way up to page 7 there's small gag bits with Kandori, and an obligatory Naoya illustration (they really seems to like him so much ww).
From page 8 to 23 is the actual story of the doujin, "Phantom Pain". FORTUNATELY, it was all written in computer text (not handwritten) and I thought it was such a good story, that I took the time to actually translate it at least.
The pictures attached to this post are the translation of those pages. There might be some errors in some of the handwritten parts, but I hope I did well.
TL Notes: アンプ (Amplifier / Ampli), The change in fonts is supposed to represent that Eikichi is talking in english there in the original japanese (but that's hard to showcase to an english translation duh), I keep honorifics like Senpai and Aniki as-is.
I was surprised to know that these doujinshi were never talked about (nor were they ever scanned), but now they exist for all to see.
Now, for the rest of the doujinshi.
Title: Reverse/リバース - Naoya and Kandori (+misc) (PG, a bit of a general all-genre doujinshi mixing doodles for other games and a second half focusing on BAROQUE)
Original printing date: 1997/12/28. 2nd reprint 1999/12/24.
Has a small gag story called "Dead man's questions" about Kandori in a strange flashy outfit.
English Translated (Google Drive)
Title: Alaya de Go/ 阿頼耶DEGO - Shadow Naoya/Naoya (BL, not explicit but Naoya has (implied) sex with his shadow)
Original printing date: 1997/12/28. 2nd reprint 1998/08/14. 3rd reprint 1999/05/03
Naoya is called "Isurugi Tatsuya" (岩動 達弥) in this doujinshi.
Title: Go bad/ゴーバッド - Naoya/Hidehiko (BL, Naoya kisses Hidehiko. Seems to have crossover bits from BAROQUE, another ATLUS game Ueda/Nagase did doujinshi for)
Original printing date: 1998/12/29. 2nd reprint 1999/05/03.
Despite the cover being Naoya with a skirt, there's no crossdressing involved.
Title: BIG BAD BINGO - Innocent Sin focus (PG, done with collaboration with another artist which is Superunknown Corp's sho太郎/沢田翔)
Original printing date: 1999/08/??
This doujin physically has Superunknown's side be printed downwards, so you have to flip the doujinshi to read their part which is pretty nice.
Unfortunately this is the only one of U.S.O. doujinshi without an specific day of printing, just vague August 1999.
And that's pretty much what I can say for now, at least until when I get to translating some of these (and the folder will be updated accordingly when so)
Sorry, but I don't allow reposts of these scans unless it's with permission (specially not twitter gimmick accounts that are 'daily character accs', etc). However, if you want to translate these you can do that anytime even without my permission! As long as you credit me for the raws (and @ me while you're at it because I want to know...). You can also edit, crop, use them for avatars and whatnot, whatever you want, just that I specifically don't want the whole doujinshi reposted itself without my credit. Just that, sorry for what inconveniences it causes www
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