My Friend, the Pope (in-training) translation, LSK fanfic doujinshi "Second Life"

[lucathia]

SilverManjusaka updated the Chinese translation of My Friend, the Pope (in-training) with chapter 2! You can read it below.

♥ 我的好友——（實習）教皇陛下

I really need to update this fic. :'D;

Recent stuff I bought! Well, not so recent anymore, but I finally got around to taking pics~. LSK fanfic doujinshi "Second Life", Key of the Sunken Moon artbook, several Japanese manga, and LSK V3 (new version).

There's this really popular crossover fanfic between Legend of Sun Knight and Unique Legend called "Second Life." There's even fanfics of this fanfic about! I bought the first 5 volumes. They're super thick. (So so epic. I wish I could write like this). You can find the fanfic over here. The basic premise is that Grisia and all the others died and reincarnated in the Unique Legend world. The first part of the story has them finding each other, while later parts of the story incorporate more of the Unique Legend world.


Here's the back of the side story volume.


Sample inside title page. Really nice printing! Full size images! If only I can get my books printed like this. :3;;


The first volume has character designs for all twelve of them~~. Grisia is of the angel tribe and Lesus just the opposite. |D;;


As you can see, the inside is filled with text. This is a very long story! It's not like the text is super big or spread out~~


One of the other volumes even has a colored character intro!


This is from a different volume~~


A map. *____* (As I've said, very, very, very epic!)


All of the volumes of Second Life stacked together~.


Guess what. This fanfic is even longer than all eight volumes of LSK put together. Isn't that crazy?? Here they are, side-by-side, for comparison. On the left is Second Life and on the right is the official LSK. The volumes of Second Life are slightly wider and taller, and they are thicker too. The story isn't even complete yet.

Man, this makes me want to print more books. :3;;; But it took me three years to finish Bittersweet... OTL

Recent manga I bought!

Detective Conan Visual Book (so many characters! really nice guide with all the movie posters too)
Kimi to Boku official anime fanbook (I'm not too fond of the anime art, otherwise I'd have bought this earlier)
Kyou kanoko v1 (I love Nakaji Yuki's works~. Very lighthearted usually, and heartwarming)
Sora no Oto (Awww, it's only a one volume series from Tsukuba Sakura, but I'll take it! I hope she draws more. It's a cute but short story)
Oresama Teacher v19 (I'm actually quite behind with the story, but gasp! From what I read of the back, it sounds like we'll finally learn more about Hayasaka's background? Maybe even his first name! hahah)
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun anthology (So so happy this got an anime. Now it's a lot more well known. Can I hope for an anime of Oresama Teacher next?)
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun fanbook
Akatsuki no Yona v15 (Kusanagi Mizuho's works~~ <33 I'm really happy this is getting animated, and the anime is doing an awesome job! Like with Oresama Teacher and Gekkan Shoujo... I wonder if NG Life, another one of Kusanagi-sensei's works, will ever have a chance... Then again, NG Life is already a completed series.)
Bokura no Kiseki v10 (Reincarnation stories~~)
Aruosumente v4 (The art is super pretty)
Kamigami no Asobi anime anthology (This is a lot of fun)


Bought a random box for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and got a Mikorin. I like all the characters, but I was reaaally hoping for a Sakura!



I bought an artbook for Key of the Sunken Moon from a convention in Taiwan along with the new V3 of LSK. (I had a proxy buy everything for me~) I haven't actually read very far with Sunken Moon, but the artbook is reaaaally pretty! I also bought these character cards. They even came with a card holder. How convenient. :D The artbook came in a box~~


Here's a sample page from the artbook.


Another sample page. You'll see on the left that the artbook package also came with some decorative tape~


Have another sample page. Lots of pretty artwork! (Please collect all the LSK art in an artbook. I would so buy that. I don't know if there's enough art around though)


Sunken Moon seems to have quite a lot of art~~


The artbook even included a full colored comic!


Here's the card holder. I put all the cards in there~.



Sunken Moon was just a side purchase. |D;; I had my proxy go to the convention to buy the new LSK V3 so I could have the poster that came with it! If you bought it at the convention, this volume came with a poster of Neo and Aldrizzt, which you can currently see in my header for LJ. I didn't take a picture of the poster, but it's quite pretty~. I really should hang it up.


Two cards that came with the volume~.


Here's the insert illustration! The poster is the same image~.


The cover of these new versions is removable and transparent. Very cool.


Each volume features 2 character introductions. Elmairy is one of them for this volume! (I feel the perspective is a little weird)

Here's what we're given about him:
Elmairy Leaf
Title: Leaf Knight
Association: Church of the God of Light
Appearance: Blue eyes, green hair, warm smile
Height: 175cm
Quotes: "Okay. No problem."
Fake personality: A good guy.


The other character we're given is Awaitsun! I was wondering who we would get! (Two rapiers. *___*)

So now, we have a full bio for Awaitsun

Awaitsun
Title: Silent Eagle
Association: Cathedral of the Shadow God
Appearance: So handsome that men will want to kill him and then dismember him
Height: 180cm
Quotes: "Thank you very much, Sun Knight."
Fake personality: Cold and heartless leader of the dark knights. Treats everyone other than himself as the enemy.

(Everyone is tall, haha)


Blurry pic, but here's a cute pic we have before the table of contents.


Sample inside page. Each page has the same border. Quite pretty!


Novel versions of Ann and Mike!! :DDDD (Leaf, we finally get to see your gf~~~)


Sun's first meeting with Awaitsun.


Neo and Aldrizzt make their appearance. Sun is shocked. XD


The sad Leaf scene. ;____;


Judgment asking Sun what color the bird is, ahhhhhhhh.

Can't wait to see what illustrations we'll get for v4! JU has been plurking the colored pull out illustration. It looks very involved, with at least Sun, Judgment, Ice, and Blaze on it. |D;; (maybe even more characters?)

Comments

thank you for the pictures~

[(Anonymous)]

squeal! Look at all that gorgeous art! hmm ann is pretty cute. Poor sun is pushed into a little a tight box (his meeting with awaitsun) xD ooo If only I could read chinese! I really want to read that fanfic! Is anyone translating it into english? O: And judgement! His face when he asks sun about the bird is just like "dont you freaking try to lie to me " loool

Re: thank you for the pictures~

[lucathia]

Ann is quite cute. I thought she might look a bit older~. Meanwhile, this Mike looks... less dazzling than the manhua version? XD; He looks more down-to-earth~~. Like a good earth knight.

Epic fanfic is epic. It's currently 271 chapters long and still ongoing! :3;;;; I don't know if anyone is translating it. I don't think so? It's even longer than LSK. XD;

Re: thank you for the pictures~

[(Anonymous)]

yes hes very...like an average handsome? haha xD ann must use a lot of expensive beauty products to look that age! 271 chapters!! omigosh i think i'll read it with google translate and hope for the best >W

Re: thank you for the pictures~

[lucathia]

http://pinkcorpse.org/viewthread.php?tid=29399&page=1&authorid=27772

Here's a link where you'll only see the author's posts~

[(Anonymous)]

That's one fanfic of epic proportions! Yu Wo must be very happy she managed to spawn such a wonderful new universe! (That artwork looks really nice too... T^T Such talented people in this world.)

Whoa... So many art books! Please don't let them become homes for spiders and dust! (First thing I did this break was watch Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. I watched it until nearly two in the morning, when I got yelled at by my mother. Everyone is so lovable... Except for Maeno-san the Tanuki Editor.)

Whoa... V3's remake looks so good! Thank you, JU! (I nearly started screaming in horror at the picture of Leaf's revival. Sorry, JU. A little too good there.)

175cm? Leaf's still really tall! 日向夜 still seems to be the shortest Yu Wo male protagonist I've met so far. (*stretches* 15 more cm to go to get to 170cm. Maybe I'll get a late growth spurt? ='D)

By the way, nice carpet color. It's a nice neutral color that doesn't detract from the subjects of the pictures. (It also looks fluffy... Can I sleep on your carpet?)

[lucathia]

Truly epic! And yess, the art is really pretty too. I think there are two different artists. (Maybe three) I really love how the covers match!

Why are you already dooming the artbooks to collecting dust? DDD: They shall have a nice place on my (overflowing) bookshelves, okay? Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is great. :) Except for Maeno-san, yeah. (But the tanuki are kind of cute in a strange way. They're quite amusing)

The saaaad Leaf scene. ;_____;

These knights are tall! How tall is Ah Ye? He isn't a knight, so no need to compete with the 180cm people. :'D;; I shall send good thoughts in hopes that you will get your late growth spurt. :3

Ahahaha~~, the lighting is terrible in these photos even though I tried to take them during daylight, so it's actually kind of hard to tell what the color of the carpet is? It's actually a shade of pink~~. Pink would be happy.

[(Anonymous)]

o.o! It's pink in some pictures, but for me, most of your carpet looks beige. ='D

Dust is O.K.! Spiders are not... If I found a spider living in my books, I probably would never go near that bookshelf again. (Q.Q lucathia-jiejie, judging by the conventions you attend... You probably live in a place with earthquake hazards! Please be careful and don't sit too close to your bookcase. Or at least, don't buy too many hardcover books.)

Ah Ye is a tiny... 172cm! But I have a feeling Yu Wo just wanted him short enough to fit under Ri XiangYan's chin. (And his brother is 187 cm. He's taller than Earth by 1 cm!)

? How do the Twelve Holy Knights manage to figure out which kids are going to be in the 180's when the kids are only 8 to 12 years old...?

[lucathia]

Poor carpet. Your lovely color has been obscured by poor lighting.

You would not like my house then. :'D Spiders love it very much. Yes yes, earthquake zone here. My room is full of bookshelves so it's quite dangerous, but thankfully there's some room between the bed and the bookshelves so hopefully I won't be squashed.

Cute Ah Ye~. I won't feel like a super short person next to him. Whoa, Ah Yan is tall!

Haha, it'd be funny if the heights turned out way off mark. But I don't think there's a height requirement. 39th gen has at least one shorter knight. (Yessss cutie) But having tall knights must really help them attract followers. Look how imposing they are~

Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[100thangel.livejournal.com]

I could say a lot of things right now but I'll keep it down to two. First, thanks for all the pics! You're so lucky to be able to purchase that kind of stuff. Second, ...do you think you and PR can translate that series? It'll definitely take a few years but I'm sure everyone would really appreciate seeing more of Sun and co. (No pressure though and don't feel down if the answer's no)

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[lucathia]

Do you mean the fanfic? It's so long! It would be nice if someone ever translates it. It's like this whole other series with Grisia as the main character~, though knowing Unique Legend would be helpful. But gosh. Longer than even LSK!

If I ever translate fanfics... There's too many haha. There's this Metal & Sun body swap fic I read recently. So so fun. *__*

PR goes through many steps with each chapter. I don't think we'd use as involved a process for translating fic.

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[100thangel.livejournal.com]

WHERE IS THAT Metal & Sun BODY SWAP FIC?! (METAL~!) I don't care what language it's in- Google translate is all I need!

I'd be happy if you just shared the idea with the rest of PR. It would be a dream come true to see a continuation-not-so-continuation of LSK after the 39th gen has been translated.

PS. Happy Thanksgiving, hope it's better than the one I'm going through.

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[lucathia]

I'll dig out the link when I'm home~~

Aw I hope the rest ends up better. I'm enjoying good food and spending money. It's awesome. Finally playing these dusty video games I haven't had time for.

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[100thangel.livejournal.com]

My oven broke last night and the only way we could cook was to use my brother's kitchen. I was there last night baking pies until 11 and then I had to wake up at 5am to go back and start the turkey. My brother was working till three so I played with his cat until everything else needed to be prepared. Then I had to drive back home, pick up my other brothers and dad, and drive back. I'm running on 5 hours of sleep and I can't even sleep when I get home because I need to drive my (older but license-less) friends around for Black Friday... but it's not all bad. This is kinda what I'm in school for.

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[lucathia]

Wow, super hectic. *pats* (oh, you have a lot of siblings!) Nice of you to be driving everyone. Are you looking to buying anything yourself?

We'll be going out for hotpot~~

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[100thangel.livejournal.com]

I have 3 brothers- 10, 8, and 6 yrs older so a family of six.

I usually don't buy anything, just look at all the discount prices... I also carry everyone's bags while they run around like lunatics. It's fun to watch.

A hotpot sounds like nice. It snowed last night for us so it's perfect weather for a hot meal.

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[lucathia]

Ahhh, so you're driving your older brothers around? They're not driving?

Haha, it's much more convenient to buy things online now, but I like to take a look at the crowds.

Hot pot was yummy. :)

Here's a link to the Metal & Sun bodyswap (more like soul swap?) fic! It's 25 parts long. Near the end, there's a 3 part Storm & Sun swap. (I was grinning a ton reading this fic. It's a lot of fun, and Adair was featured pretty prominently in the beginning too~~). Scroll all the way down for the prologue.

Re: Orange lantern on a bungee cord

[100thangel.livejournal.com]

My family loves drinking... also there's limited parking at my brother's pace.

I bought something from Bare Minerals... it was 28$ and I don't think I'm ever going to actually use it. I don't like putting make-up and things on my face. It's a waste of time.

Thanks so much for the link. Glad it's long. Now I just need to find time to actually read it- a new term just started for me.

waahh pretty~

[(Anonymous)]

Awesome goods~~~
Ann looks so young and cute! Perfect match for Elmairy. Though, those are some huge axes on your back. I wouldn't want to get you mad.

God of War.....what's with your hair? hahahaha *rolls*

Silent Eagle looks much more like what I expected than in the manhua. Much more shuai~ However he still has a bit of that midriff exposure problem that Supreme Dragon has - perfect spot for poking!

I love the crossover fic Second Life too! I read only 205 chapters so far. I don't know how the fic author does it - she writes soo much sooo fast... I didn't sleep much for a few things reading the first 100 some chapters - it was that addictive! I would love to see a translation of it. My chinese isn't that good but I would totally help out as much as I can. I haven't even read Unique Legend beyond 6th volume so I may already have read a lot of spoilers from this fic. The reincarnated chars are utterly bada**.

*ears perk up* A Sun - Metal body swap fic? Where where? I would love to read that~

Re: waahh pretty~

[lucathia]

A very cute couple, they are~~

Mike is fluffy like a sheep. XD

(Pffft, go poke Awaitsun, go go~~~)

I haven't read Unique Legend past volume 1, haha. Most of what I know is from the fic! I don't remember where I read up to with the fic. I think the third arc? I plan on rereading from the start now that I have physical copies~~

I'll toss a link here later! Metal and Sun's bickering is awesome.

Re: waahh pretty~

[lucathia]

Here's a link to the Metal & Sun bodyswap fic~~. Scroll all the way down for the prologue!

Cool buys

[(Anonymous)]

Whoa so many cool purchases!
Argh I wish my chinese was better :/

So what is the lsk doujinhsi about?
Is it a universe swap of some sort? The art seems very fantastical

Re: Cool buys

[lucathia]

Grisia and the others find themselves in the Unique Legend world. The last thing they remember from their previous world is dying. It's really cool seeing Grisia and the others find their way about the UL world. UL is mostly modern.

Re: Cool buys

[(Anonymous)]

Seems really interesting!
Sigh I seriously wish my chinese was better for that...
Oh well, some day!