Also, I’m sure this isn’t the space for this but I’d love to read Harutoshi Fukui’s Gundam Unicorn, though licencing it would probably be as big as a hassle to translate it, taking Fukui’s writing style.

Like many, I’ve learnt of Yukikaze through anime which gained my interest on the novel. For years I’ve searched for a translator to fulfill my thirst but many turn down becuase the words far too hard for them. Therefore, I truely appreciate your hardwork, it’s must be really like what you said ‘new-frontier’.

I prey for the book good sale, so Good-luck and Unbroken Arrow and all volumes after will make it into our bookshelf.

Seriously, I spent so much time online ferreting out military info. and equipment specs that I half-jokingly wondered if the NSA was going to flag my IP.

/testing, testing/

As a fan, I demand accuracy too, and the translation of Yukikaze nails it. There’s no doubt the jargon of fighter pilots is like a foreign language to most people, and although the original must speak for itself through the translation, there was indeed a great effort to get it to sound right. I think Leyla was looking over the flight manual of an F-16 for pointers - good move!

Now that I’ve worked myself up about it, I think I’ll go read Yukikaze again! Check six!

I did like the Rei/Andy Lander storyline also (gotta admit that he could pass for Glenn Beck as well) as well as “All Systems Normal”. Again, it was wonderful to finally read the book that was the basis for one of the best anime I’ve seen.

Granted, there are elements from the book that do not appear in the anime, but I guess that can be chalked up to the differences in media. Happens pretty much every time a novel is adapted to a movie, TV show, anime, etc.

Here’s hoping to GOOD LUCK (and I guess UNBROKEN ARROW?) making it over here!

anyways, fantastic job to everyone involved.

Thanks so much. Working on Yukikaze was a new frontier for me as well, since this was the first novel I’ve ever been asked to translate. A lot of kudos should go right back to Leyla, since she did a great job of polishing my translation in the editing process. I think the thing which I found most surprising in the novel was how much humor there is in it. Rei comes off as a complete cypher in the anime because his character spends a lot of his time internal monologing to himself in the novel, none of which comes through in the animation. He’s actually fairly thoughtful and has a ver dry wit, which I always like. I think one of my favorite parts of the story is the bit with him and Andy Lander, which I jokingly referred to as “Rei Fukai and Rush Limbaugh Across the Eighth Dimension” when I handed the first draft in to Leyla. The whole bit with Lander and his conspiracy theories and the way they send Rei’s bullshit-o-meter off the scale was hilarious to me. Likewise, the bit in the first chapter with the android honor guard and the near-sighted general made me wish they’d gotten ANY of that into the anime.

Oh, and my favorite chapters in there? It’s a close tie between the one with Tomahawk John (who also showed up in the anime in what was my favorite episode) and (surprisingly) the chapter about Lt. Amata, the snow plow driver, mainly because the first half of that story is so evocative in describing how crappy life is for the ground personnel of the FAF in winter. I especially loved the bits describing the cold air whistling in through the bent crack in the door frame and the image of the snow plows lined up in the blizzard, amber lights turning in the darkness.

I really hope the book sells well, and not just for purely mercenary reasons. It’s a good book and deserves to be read by SF fans over here.