Yurigaoka Fan Club is proud to present our English fansub of the stage play "Assault Lily: The Singular Ability."
Synopsis:
With the Heorot Saints on expedition, even a top legion like Hronesness can feel the strain. Huge are attacking Odaiba Girls’ High in increasing numbers, with more and more irregulars found among them every day. When faced with a major Cave, Hronesness must accept help from the Saints, but this only proves that there’s more behind the mounting Huge threat against the Garden than originally thought.
A Gigant-type Huge that survived an old battle stands across a bridge from a Lily who once made an impossible choice. Though a year has passed since the Odaiba Counteroffensive, it seems GEHENA wishes to recreate that past… or more specifically, make Haru relive the trauma of that day. Desperation closes in as the Gigant’s unique powers wear down Hronesness and their Saints allies, and that’s not even the worst of what they must face.
A promise once broken, a promise that must be kept, and a promise of what’s to come. Find out what it is that makes a Lily Singular in the first of the Odaiba stage plays.
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You will need the Blu-ray disc of the stage play to watch these subtitles. You can buy it from Pius's online shop.
Before watching, install all of the fonts in the Assault Lily TSA Font Pack for the best experience.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily - The Singular Ability.ass" is the recommended subtitle file.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily - The Singular Ability [No Names+FX].ass" is an alternate subtitle file that does not have character names above the dialogue, nor the fancy karaoke effects. This file may work better for watching on low-spec devices.
No PDFs this time, but consider reading Assault Lily Wunder to learn the full story of the Odaiba Counteroffensive.
Por não chegar a ter 100 palavras, estarei postando apenas apenas no tumblr !!
— Ran?! — A voz da Kazuha soou um tico mais alta que o normal, estridente. O corar que desabrochou em tom vermelho nas suas bochechas só não era mais bonito que a ponta de suas orelhas, que estava da mesma cor. Vendo a reação da outra, a Sasaki soltou uma risadinha feliz.
— Kazuha~ — Ela respondeu, alongando a última sílaba do nome alheio.
Era maravilhoso ver que a líder perdia toda a compostura só porque recebeu um beijinho seu; precisava fazer isso mais vezes.
really would love to read fic where misuzu is alive and come backs to yurigaoka and goes a little unhinged over yuyu trying to heal over her "death" and her relationship with riri
Yurigaoka Fan Club is proud to present our English fansub of the stage play "Assault Lily: League of Gardens."
Synopsis:
Fifty years ago, mysterious creatures known as the "Huge" suddenly appeared all over the world, posing an existential threat to humanity. To defend against these menaces, soldiers in the form of teenage girls known as "Lilies" use the energy of magie within their bodies to power weapons called "Counter Huge ARMS", or CHARMs.
After being saved by a Lily two years ago while evacuating from a Huge attack, Hitotsuyanagi Riri vowed to become a Lily herself. She enrolls in the prestigious academy of Yurigaoka, a training ground for Lilies, in order to be reunited with Shirai Yuyu — the Lily who rescued her. Much to her confusion, however, the person she thought to be cheerful turns out to be quite antisocial and prefers to fight alone. Even so, Riri still wants to get close to Yuyu and is willing to do anything she can to reach that goal.
With Yuyu and the other Lilies by her side, Riri's journey to becoming one of them has just bloomed!
Download the subtitle files and other extras here
You will need the Blu-ray disc of the stage play to watch these subtitles. It is no longer available for purchase from Bushiroad, so you will have to look for a copy elsewhere.
Before watching, install all of the fonts in the Assault Lily LoG Font Pack for the best experience.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily - League of Gardens.ass" is the recommended subtitle file.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily - League of Gardens [No Names+FX].ass" is an alternate subtitle file that does not have character names above the dialogue, nor the fancy karaoke effects. This file may work better for watching on low-spec devices.
No PDFs this time, but consider reading Assault Lily: League of Gardens -full bloom- to see a different take on the play's story in manga format.
Assault Lily New Chapter 2: Blumendämmerung / The Ringing Depths
Yurigaoka Fan Club is proud to present our English fansub of the stage play "Assault Lily New Chapter 2: Blumendämmerung / The Ringing Depths."
Synopsis:
Despite Sanngrithr and the Survey Team's best efforts, the threat of a death zone still looms over Oshima.
As the two teams regroup and rearm, they're joined by Amano Soraha leading her legion, Alfheimr, as well as genius Arsenal Mashima Moyu and Sanngrithr's two reserve members, Nagasaka Maho and Tetsukawa Toa. But even with all the extra firepower, Chihiro and the Flowers of the End remain a threat, as does GEHENA and whatever they have planned. Moreover, a new threat has emerged in the form of a mysterious humanoid Huge named Rusalka, who is nothing like the Juggernaut that the Survey Team put down. Speaking of—it may not be as dead as they think…
Their bodies and magie are exhausted from the constant fighting, their emotions are frayed from desperation, and they're frightened that they may not even live to see tomorrow. Even so, the Lilies stand their ground to fight for their world. It may well take a miracle or two to save the day, but it's always darkest before the dawn, and Misaka's rare skill could be the key to victory.
Download the subtitle files and other extras here
You will need the Blu-ray disc of the stage play to watch these subtitles. You can buy it from Pius's online shop.
Before watching, install all of the fonts in the Assault Lily New Chapter 2 Font Pack for the best experience.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily New Chapter 2 - Blumendammerung - The Ringing Depths.ass" is the recommended subtitle file.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily New Chapter 2 - Blumendammerung - The Ringing Depths [No Names+FX].ass" is an alternate subtitle file that does not have character names above the dialogue, nor the fancy karaoke effects. This file may work better for watching on low-spec devices.
"Assault Lily Setting Materials featuring Legion Sanngrithr (Expanded).pdf" is a full English translation of an informational booklet released by acus (the creators of Assault Lily) around the same time as the first New Chapter play. It can be read either before or after watching the plays, but we do recommend that you read it for the best experience.
The expanded version of the PDF includes profiles of Nagasaka Maho and Tetsukawa Toa at the end. It is otherwise the same as the PDF that we distributed with our fansub of New Chapter 1.
“Assault Lily Setting Materials featuring the Flowers of the End.pdf” is a full English translation of an informational booklet released by acus (the creators of Assault Lily) around the same time as New Chapter 2. Unlike the other Assault Lily Setting Materials, this one is loaded with spoilers. Read it after watching the stage play.
"Translation Notes.pdf" includes notes on our fansub translation and on some elements of the Assault Lily setting that the play itself doesn't explain. Read it after watching the stage play.
Assault Lily New Chapter: At the Seeds' Frontier / When the Bugle Blooms
Yurigaoka Fan Club is proud to present our English fansub of the stage play "Assault Lily New Chapter: At the Seeds' Frontier / When the Bugle Blooms."
Synopsis:
Yurigaoka Girls' Academy is preparing to take back Koshu from the Huge when four new Nests suddenly appear in the waters near Izu Oshima. The Garden dispatches Legions Alfheimr and Sanngrithr to remove the immediate threat. Tasked with the double duty of performing reconnaissance, Sanngrithr are the first to land on Oshima. On that island, Kondo Misaka—the captain of Legion Sanngrithr—encounters someone from her past that she thought she would never meet again.
Izu Oshima is under the jurisdiction of the Gardens in Tokyo, and they suspect that the sudden appearance of these Nests is related to the unusual outbreaks of Huge that have happened in the city. The Inter-Garden Conduct Board sends the "Oshima Nest Survey Team", composed of selected Lilies from a variety of Gardens, to respond to the situation. But in addition to helping destroy the Nests, the Survey Team has a secret mission: that of investigating GEHENA's defunct laboratories on the island.
Sanngrithr and the Survey Team find themselves fighting side by side on Izu Oshima, neither of them realizing that this battle is just the opening act of a much greater conflict…
Download the subtitle files and other extras here
You will need the Blu-ray disc of the stage play to watch these subtitles. You can buy it from Pius's online shop.
Before watching, install all of the fonts in the Assault Lily New Chapter Font Pack for the best experience.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily New Chapter - At the Seeds' Frontier - When the Bugle Blooms.ass" is the recommended subtitle file.
"[Yurigaoka] Assault Lily New Chapter - At the Seeds' Frontier - When the Bugle Blooms [No Names+FX].ass" is an alternate subtitle file that does not have character names above the dialogue, nor the fancy karaoke effects. This file may work better for watching on low-spec devices.
"Assault Lily Setting Materials featuring Legion Sanngrithr.pdf" is a full English translation of an informational booklet released by acus (the creators of Assault Lily) around the same time as this stage play. It can be read either before or after watching it, but we do recommend that you read it for the best experience.
"Translation Notes.pdf" includes notes on our fansub translation and on some elements of the Assault Lily setting that the play itself doesn't explain. Read it after watching the stage play.
In 2005, Obanazawa Kenei (the original creator of Assault Lily, which officially launched much later in 2013) posted a description of a setting that he called "Private!¹ Yurigaoka Girls' Academy" on his blog. Later, he put up an expanded write-up on the website of a model dealing partnership he was a member of. This is an English translation of the expanded write-up.
In translating it, I tried to be as literal as possible while also conveying the rather casual tone that most of the original writing has.
I translated this because I think it's genuinely interesting to see how some of these ideas continued into Assault Lily, while others were changed or discarded. I have assumed that Obanazawa doesn't mind people reading this because it's still online and he has mentioned it in interviews about Assault Lily, but if he ever indicates that he no longer wants it to be public, I'll delete this post.
¹ Private as in "Yurigaoka is a private school", not as in "Obanazawa didn't want anyone to see this."
Yurigaoka Girls' Academy — Setting
In the 23rd century, because of various changes in the planet's environment, living things have also rapidly mutated and evolved.
Some of them have turned into monsters that prey upon humans.
Developed countries have invented new weapons to oppose these monsters, and it's the responsibility of all of humanity to use these weapons.
This is so that every single person has the means to defend themselves.
Teenagers are the best at learning how to become warriors, and to train them in advanced fighting techniques, the high school curriculum now includes combat as a subject of study.
Japan is no exception to the state the world is in, and the Ministry of Education oversees the new curriculum. It's been 30 years since that happened. The story begins in 2230, when the belief that humanity can't survive without fighting has spread throughout society.
Yurigaoka Private Girls' Academy… a missionary school for girls that moved to Ikuta² after the new education requirements were implemented.
It's an elite high school that's recognized for teaching its students everything from advanced tactics and strategy to one-on-one fighting, training in the use of the latest weapons, and more.
Atop a low hill stands its beautiful cathedral, and its gate rises towards the heavens.
A garden in which the chosen maidens gather… that's what Yurigaoka Girls' Academy is.
The setting of Private! Yurigaoka Girls' Academy
Well, it's the year 2200, and all sorts of creatures on the planet have evolved, in a bad way.
So you see, humanity isn't at the top of the food chain any longer.
Uh-oh, lizards got all big, so there's dragons and stuff now.
Other wacky creatures (you know, monsters! The real gross kinds! Ones with tentacles and stuff!) are spreading all over the place.
That means that by the time people are high schoolers, they've gotta be stronger than anyone believed possible! They'll already be drilling like soldiers! Because that's how strong humanity is, y'know?
Everyone on the planet is a warrior, that's what this is like!
But there hasn't been a world war or some kind of disaster that destroyed the Earth, so civilization is still moving right along.
There was a lot of inequality in the world once, but when the monsters showed up, they wiped all that away.
So things aren't like that any longer.
Anyway! Civilization's progressing in all sorts of ways.
Humans aren't Night Heads³ anymore, for the most part.
Almost everyone can use over half of their brainpower now.
And among those hidden powers, people have plenty of abilities that are a lot like magic and superpowers.
So now, with these powers they've gotten that completely ignore the laws of nature, humanity is fumbling for a way to try and remove themselves from the food chain once again.
Even in this world, Yurigaoka Girls' Academy is amazing.
Guns of all sorts, swords, hand-to-hand fighting—their graduates have all found a way of fighting to call their own, and are throwing themselves into the battle to protect humanity.
Yurigaoka's Unique Educational Systems
1: The Schutzengel System
This is a system where an older student becomes the Schutzengel (meaning guardian angel) to one of her juniors.
It's a system dating from the time when Yurigaoka was a Christian school.
Well, this part is just like it is in "Someone-sama is Watching"⁴, hee hee.
This is a parody, after all, so please excuse the silliness.
Anyway, the three school years are known as Erzengels (archangels, 3rd-year students), Schutzengels (guardian angels, 2nd-year students), and stray sheep⁵ (1st-year students), with students from each year taking care of the younger ones. This is a big deal for the party system, which I'll talk about later, and other things too.
2: The party system
At Yurigaoka Private Girls' Academy, there's a system where three people will join up into a party. Of course, the girls in a party together have a super-strong bond!
Students can form whatever parties they like, as long as at least one member is a senior. Fighting monsters isn't so easy that three inexperienced girls from the same school year could get together and do it, after all.
3: Sororities⁶
Sororities are a bit like social clubs, but it's not like everyone has to join one.
They're like any other club or after-school activity.
There are a whole bunch of sororities at Yurigaoka, but five of them are officially recognized by the school, and these five all have their own requirements to join.
Being a strong fighter or a good student, that sort of thing.
Sororities are an opposing force to the Student Council, which has immense power, and the fact is that it's their presence that allows the school to operate in a democratic manner.
The leaders of sororities are called "Masters", and each of them has inherited one of the several special deposited⁷ weapons that are called Gears.
Yurigaoka's Curriculum
Year One
Yurigaoka uses a credit system, and the first year is used to determine the aptitude of new students.
Basic fighting skills, handling and practical use of their main weapons, simulation games, mock battles and so forth are all used to choose the best warriors among them.
The available electives are equipment training (with missile launchers, bombs, communication gear and so forth.)
The most important thing is for students to find a fighting style they're good at.
They're also trained to fight in the parties they'll be in later.
Normally, during this year, every student will find a Schutzengel who she'll call "Onee-sama." Second-year students also believe that to become a proper student, they need to choose a stray sheep to guide, so they'll be looking for a younger girl who they like during this time.
But those who enter into an oath with one another also usually join the same party, so it's not solely about liking or disliking each other personally.
Year Two
It's well known that Yurigaoka is strict with allowing only those who have earned it to graduate, and advancing to the next school year is equally challenging.
To progress to their second year, students must have mastered the Deposition⁷ Synchro-System.
The Deposition Synchro-System, which allows someone to instantly materialize various weapons, serves as proof that one is a senior Yurigaoka student. (This is a rip-off of Gavan.)⁸
The students will continue advancing the skills they learned during their first year, as they begin fighting real battles as parties.
Second-year students also study, as a required subject, the Deck Battle System that uses Sealed Card Decks. By collecting cards, each of which has a special technique with unusually potent offensive ability sealed within it, they'll get highly effective attacks they can use while fighting monsters, although there's a limit to the number of times they can be used. (This is a rip-off of Kamen Rider Ryuki and Blade.)⁸
Notably, the reason that the 13 special weapons used to protect the school are considered special is that because they can take cards that are unusually powerful and effective.
These 13 special weapons, called "Gears", belong to the leaders of the student council and the masters of the sororities, and are passed down to others through various means.
Year Three
All the third-year students of Yurigaoka, with their amazing powers, hold the future of Japan in their hands. They've gotten even more accurate and proficient with the Deposition Synchro-System they learned in year one, and the Deck Battle System they learned in year two. They can now elevate party battles to new heights.
Third-year students don't need to use wild strategies. They can just charge right in and overwhelm the enemy.
That's the true mark of a third-year.
As many important positions in the school as possible are held by third-years, like the three student council presidents (the Yellow Lily, White Lily, and Red Lily, hee hee.)⁴ If you hear a girl say without hesitation that she'll take on a thousand enemies, you know she's a senior Yuri girl.
Later On
Graduates from Yurigaoka Private Girls' Academy can proceed straight to Yurigaoka Girls' College.
The college's clubs also attract strong fighters who aren't students there.
Weapons and That Sort of Thing
It's not part of the curriculum, but Yuri girls are expected to take many credits' worth of electives during their three years at the school.
Depending on their decisions and how motivated they are, they can earn a lot of credits doing this.
The electives include weapons training and live combat courses.
Oh, and also, the weapons should be the futuristic sort, but the near future.
The reason is that I don't know a thing about weapons, hee hee!
The only gun I know about is the P-90 from Gunslinger Girl! The only thing I know about warships is some are called Aegis warships! That's why! So keep in mind this is fantasy, in a lot of senses of the word!
Someone lend me their brain here! Weapons! I know nothing about them!
The Location
Well, Yurigaoka Girls' Academy is near Ikuta Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line (but this story takes place in 2200, remember? Don't try to find it!)
Not Mukogaoka Yuen! Ikuta!
The school's on a small hill, where there used to be an experimental facility⁹ used by the old Japanese Army.
Yeah, that place! You think the neighbors know about it?
By the way, the only trains on the Odakyu line nowadays are those "Romancecar" express trains¹⁰. What's with that?
Gears
These are the 13 special weapons.
Not only are their fundamental abilities an order of magnitude better, they have special card readers which can read advanced decks called High Rankers' Decks.
They're the latest weapons used to protect the school, and can only be used by people whom they themselves deem worthy. It's impossible for anyone else to use them.
Those who can use the Gears also become able to use High Rankers' Decks.
The case holding the decks has a thin LCD display that can be used like a touch-sensitive PDA. By entering the right password, you can use super special techniques!
The passwords are things like 555, 333 and 000. (This is a rip-off too.)⁸
Yurigaoka Girls' Academy Character Illustrations
I've chosen not to repost Obanazawa's illustrations here because I don't like reposting illustrations that belong to people and not corporations. But you can see them on the original website.
These are characters that I, Obanazawa Kenei, drew.
My scanner is broken, so I took and uploaded these with my mobile phone's camera!
It's crazy, I know! But even if they weren't photos they wouldn't be great!
1: Ruri and Miki¹¹
On the left is the model for this kit. She's a new student who just entered Yurigaoka by passing the high school entrance exam.
Yurigaoka has a junior high school, high school and university, so it's pretty tough to enter midway through.
But fortunately! Ruri has a gentle, yet sometimes strict onee-sama to guide her! (Yeah, yeah…)
On the right is her onee-sama, Miki, a second-year at Yurigaoka. Miki is one of the student council presidents. She's a remarkable person who will soon be one of the pillars supporting Yurigaoka! Oh, and she's rich enough that it'll blow your mind!
Text on the first image
My scanner's busted as usual, so I took this on my phone.
On the left is the main character, Ruri. I imagine her voice as Saito Chiwa's!
On the right is the girl who becomes her onee-sama, Miki. I imagine her voice as Hitomi Nabatame's!
My drawings don't have a pattern to them, huh? I can't tell them apart myself!
2: The Commander of the Tricolor Lilies! Shigure Hisae
Yurigaoka's student council has three presidents, and one of them is her, Shigure Hisae.
She's a straight-laced person who seems like she's similar to a samurai, but she's one of the most capable student council presidents of all time.
She's especially skilled with swords and uses the Gear "Mistilteinn."
So, this girl, before I get too into things, I want to say she's based on Signum¹²! It's fine, isn't it? I just can't say "Laevateinn!" Oh, and watch out for the tentacles, hee hee!
Footnotes
² Ikuta is a train station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture on the Odakyu Odawara line. It's two stops before Yurigaoka (the station called that, not the Garden, which in current canon isn't even in Kawasaki.)
³ "Night Head" refers to the 70% of their brain that most humans (supposedly) don't use. Those who can use more of their brain have psychic powers. The term comes from a 1992 Japanese television series of the same name.
⁴ This is a reference to Maria-sama ga Miteru.
⁵ Obanazawa wrote this as "stray sheep" in English, otherwise I'd have translated it as "lost lambs."
⁶ I haven't talked about them on this blog before, but this concept survives in Assault Lily as the "Labyrinth Sorority", a clandestine society that acts as a check on the power of Yurigaoka's student council. They operate an unofficial legion, LG Ginnungagap, whose members are registered with the school as freelance Lilies and sortie together.
⁷ Deposition (in Japanese, 蒸着, jouchaku) is a reference to the tokusatsu show Space Sheriff Gavan, where the titular sheriff yells "Deposition!" to have his spaceship encase him in Granium particles that form into his combat suit. In physics, deposition is when a solid surface is coated by individual molecules of another substance (metal plating is one type of deposition.)
⁸ Just to be clear: Obanazawa actually wrote these things here himself. They're not some kind of editorial by me, the translator (the only things I added were these footnotes and the sentences all in italic.)
⁹ This seems to be referring to the Noborito Research Institute, which is now a museum.
¹⁰ I think this is Obanazawa complaining about the real world, not anything related to the setting… Can't be sure though.
¹¹ Ruri's name is almost definitely Ruri, but I'm less sure about Miki. It's not as likely, but the kanji in her name could be pronounced Mitsuki or Miyuki instead. It's impossible to tell from what's written here.
¹² From Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's.
