Eclipse Hunter

[lucathia]

What I managed to buy of Eclipse Hunter~. I received these in April! They're all second hand because these were only sold in conventions back in 2007-2009 or so. The novels had book covers on them. I haven't taken them off in these photos, so the covers are a little hard to see in the pics.


Illustrations were by Ya Sha.


V1 and V2. Volume 2 is very thin! Yu Wo says in the back of V2 that it's her very first time writing an epilogue/afterword/author's notes!


V3.


V4 and V5.


Miscellaneous booklets that came with buying each volume at the conventions. My collection isn't very complete since I bought them from various people. The gray one is the "I don't love you" side story featuring An Te Qi, and one of the others is the side story about Ah Ye's girlfriend, Xiao Ai.


Some sample pages from inside the random booklets.


Character design page for An Te Qi!


Ah Ye and his girlfriend!


This was from a booklet with rough drafts.


Ezart, Bai Lian Xing, Eli, and Eloise.


Eli and Elian.


Bai Lian Yue and Bai Lian Xing.


Ah Ye asking after Eli's hand, and somehow they all end up at the amusement park. It's cute.


Ah Yan and Bai Lian Yue.


A Ri Xiang Yan x Bai Lian Yue doujinshi by J.U.


Sample inside page.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't remember, was PR going to translate eclipse hunter or should I just read it on Odd Squad Novels?

[lucathia]

Your best bet for now is to read it on Odd Squad. Since it's already mostly translated there, PR doesn't see a pressing need to pick it up as a project unless we run out of things to translate. I am possibly considering Bai Lian Yue's side story though, since it's a side story that spans both Eclipse Hunter and No Hero.

[yakushino.livejournal.com]

huh? Ah Ye has a girlfriend? o.o

[lucathia]

He had a video game he was playing, the sort where you raise a character. He treated Xiao Ai (the game character) as a girlfriend in Eclipse Hunter.

Pictures!

[(Anonymous)]

Woah! Were the Eclipse Hunter volumes with actual pictures on front only sold at the convention? I tried looking for it before but could only buy the one with no picture on front. <3 Ah Ye

Re: Pictures!

[lucathia]

Yeah, this version, the version with pictures on the cover, was only sold at the conventions. Self-published! Later on, the series was re-released on the mass market with plain covers.

I think it was because Yu Wo had promised readers that the earlier edition would be exclusive to the conventions. I heard that the plan at the beginning was that EH wouldn't be released on the mass market, but I'm not too sure of the particulars there.

I bought the mass market version first, but I wanted the ones with the illustrated covers more. So, I hunted this version down too~