Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 2: Interlude 3: Revival For No Reason

I'm all done with Link, so that means Hariyama-san is now my main project, with some work on Tales of the Rays on the side o/

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Interlude 2: Revival for No Reason

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 2: THE DON'T OF THE DEAD

hahaha it's been two years

the big untranslatable thing in this story is use of the word 温い, meaning lukewarm or tepid. it's used throughout the story to refer to body heat (neither hot nor cold), attitudes (indecisiveness or half-heartedness), or unsatisfactory results. unfortunately there's no good word in English that captures all these meanings.

Hariyama-san, Center of the World 2
THE DON'T OF THE DEAD
Genre: Zombie

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 2: Interlude 2: Invincible Loser

...I don't really have a good excuse for this. 8D;; hopefully the next story will do a better job of keeping my interest.

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Interlude 2: Invincible Loser

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 2: The Tragedy of #37564

Sorry for the wait. The follow-up to this is fairly short and should be up in December.

This story draws on the long tradition of tokusatsu and sentai. I'm not really familiar with them, so there are general notes about names, honorifics, and terms at the end.

The Tragedy of #37564

Genre: Small-Time Combatman

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 2: Interlude 1: Imposter

short update this time. the next story is pretty long and will probably take a bit. o/

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Interlude 1: Imposter

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 2: Urban Legend 2 ~Taxi Elegy~

happy March! this time around it's a horror story. do note that this particular story comes with a warning for graphic/disturbing content. I can't go into detail without spoiling, but... well... Narita.

the next interlude ties into this story and is fairly short; I hope to have it done sometime this month.

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Urban Legend 2 ~Taxi Elegy~

Genre: Urban Legend 2

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 2: Color Pages

have some color pages! it's been forever since I last watched the news so my newscaster slang is probably off, oops.

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Afterwords

And that's it for this volume!

Next up are couple side stories from the Tales of mobile games, then the second volume of Hariyama-san. Sometime in the near future, I 'll want to give both this novel and Persona x Detective a pretty thorough editing/accuracy check, but... it'll be pretty time-consuming and not at all enjoyable, so we'll see.

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Afterwords

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Center of the Miracles [3/3]

I have no excuse except lazy.  afterwords will be posted tomorrow after I give them a quick readthrough.

I also added the footnotes to the last update of this story because I realized I forgot them, h-haha.

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Hariyama-san, Center of the Miracles (Genre: "Medley")
3/3

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Center of the Miracles [2/3]

I'm so sorry for the wait on this.  Here, have a 26,000-word segment to make up for it.  The last bit of this story is like four pages long; I'll probably post it a bit later or at the same time as the afterwords.

I changed around a bit of the terminology I've been using to read a bit more naturally, though I also fixed it in past chapters to be consistent.  Shouldn't be anything too noticeable.

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Hariyama-san, Center of the Miracles (Genre: "Medley")
2/3

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Center of the Miracles [1/3]

oh wow it's been so long since I started this.  I am so lazy.  I'm sorry.

I hope to Actually Have This Chapter finished sometime this month -- there's not too much left to translate, but I've got a ton of stuff on my plate, especially kicking my stupid NaNo into shape.  sigh.

anyway, have the first... like two... pages of this chapter.

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Hariyama-san, Center of the Miracles (Genre: "Medley")
1/3

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Dear Sir Hero of Light

This story was an exercise in "creative romanizing", shall we call it.  The harder ones are listed at the end, in case anyone has any input on how they should be written or if there's any reference I missed.  On the other hand, I really enjoyed the formatting for one particular scene.

The last story in the book is 137 pages, or almost twice as long as this.  It won't be done until July at the earliest.

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Dear Sir Hero of Light (Genre "legendary hero")

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Magic Girl Number 893

Sorry for the long wait on this; I wanted to finish up Detective Naoto first.  Notes are at the end this time because I am Indecisive and also because there's one note about the title that's a story spoiler.

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Magic Girl Number 893 (Genre "young witch")

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Axe Man Comedy

And suddenly all is explained. Two main things to note with this chapter: the perspective switches are Narita's, and due to the way Japanese is structured, there's one scene where it's unclear where it goes from first- to third-person. The other is that I really don't know how to translate yakuza slang and speech styles. Oh well. ._.;

I'll be doing NaNoWriMo again this year, so I'll be banning myself from translating in November. I considered being extremely productive and trying to get a chapter of Persona x Detective out before the end of October, but it turns out I no longer have the time (between work and class) or dedication (between Pokemon and also Pokemon) to manage that. Expect December updates for that, GakuPuri, and probably Hariyama-san again.

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Urban Legend (Genre "urban legend")
B Side: "Axe Man Comedy"

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: Axe Man Tragedy

Did I say a week? I meant two days. I definitely did not translate ten pages of this yesterday. Really.  There is another part to this story, but that's for next update.

I've given up on comparing to the original Japanese because razy. ☆ If anything comes across as really weird or if you've taken a look at the original raws and it turns out I missed something, do let me know~


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Urban Legend (Genre "urban legend")
A Side: "Axe Man Tragedy"

Hariyama-san, Center of the World, volume 1: color pages

The new project I was talking about, due to being a sucker for Narita. OTL I've been tossing around the idea of translating some of his works for some time and I finally feel like Naoto has given me enough levels for me to give it a try. (I must be masochistic or something.)

Hariyama-san, Center of the World (or Sekai no Chuushin, Hariyama-san) is a series of connected short stories by Narita Ryohgo, the author of Durarara!! and Baccano!. They're basically strange or supernatural events that are seemingly unrelated, except that every one of them involves the title character, Shinkichi Hariyama, as a minor character in some capacity.  The last story in each volume ties all the previous stories together.  It doesn't take place in the Naritaverse (consisting of Durarara!!, Baccano!, Vamp!, and Etsusa Bridge), but it seemed interesting and it isn't currently being worked on, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

I do plan to translate all three volumes, though they're not a priority right now, since I really should finish Naoto first.  Corrections and the like are always appreciated, since it's not like I'm great at this, lol.


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Color pages