Je ne suis pas celle que vous croyez

Ok, so I have no idea when or if DF is ever going to release their version of Mamura’s oneshot that I’ve translated ages ago so I’ve teamed up with @banira-san and @te-al-latte (mad props to the both of them!) to bring HnR fans a rough-ish translated version of the oneshot. ENJOY!

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HELLO! HNR and sakaguchi kentaro lovers unite, 

We finally got the scans of the interview thanks to All Winks and Charlotte! Even buried under all this uni work, J managed to squeeze translating this. This interview was extremely cute, and like always please support Yamamori Mika by purchasing this magazine (and her volumes of HnR)! You get an insight into who Sakaguchi Kentaro is, what kind of character he is etc.

So please enjoy! We surely did.

(BTW we translated this from right to left!)

[Hirunaka no Ryuusei] SPECIAL EDITION

Mamura’s model was Men’s Non-No’s Sakaguchi Kentaro!

Sakaguchi Kentaro is an exclusive Shiogao* ikemen MEN’S NON-NO model who is now breaking out in popularity. Mamura’s model who has been hidden has now been revealed! So we got him to cosplay as Mamura.  It’s just as if he’s jumped out of the manga <3

*Shiogao: Literally “Salt Face”. Describes the typical handsome Japanese face. Japan uses words to describe faces. For example, you can have a Shoyugao (“Soy sauce face”).

Speech Bubble on top of the 2 little drawings of Yukichi and Suzume: *Sakaguchi-kun’s favourite pieces of illustration are these!!*

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“I will follow you to hell if you ask me to.” - Riza Hawkeye to Roy Mustang, Fullmetal Alchemist

Damn, look at this!

Dialogue:

I don't mean to be too personal, however, Thank you very much for joining us at our wedding today. I hope you enjoy yourself. - Sajou Rihito

Thank you for coming to our wedding! I hope the weather will be nice... we'll see! But even if it does rain, "After rain comes sunshine.*" Or something like that. I hope you enjoy yourself today. - Kusakabe Hikaru

"Wanna practice the kiss?" "I don't think it's necessary." "Yeah, you're right. We kiss all the time, anyways." "I didn't mean that..." (They practiced in the end)

aka my achievements of the past 3 years.

(Last update: May 2018)

IMPORTANT: Yana recently deleted both of her blogs. Luckily, her d-6th blog had been completely archived before it got deleted, but there’s no proper archive of her tuna.be blog. Due to this reason, some of the links in my translations are not working anymore :(

If you don’t know where to start reading, here are some tips: The posts in bold are the ones that got over 1000 notes and the ones in italic are my faves that I 100% recommend reading! :)

Have fun reading Yana’s posts<3

Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler:

Foreshadowing (maybe 2CT)

Kuroshitsuji #100 (cover illustration of ch. 100)

Tanks and étagères

What if Kuroshitsuji were made into a live action movie in Hollywood?*

Green-eyed characters*

Yana’s commentary on the school arc/cricket games part 1*

Yana’s commentary on the cricket games part 2*

Yana’s commentary on the cricket games part 3*

White Day 2014 part 1 / 2*

White Day 2014 part 2 / 2*

Yana’s comment on morality/justice in Kuroshitsuji* (ch83)

Birthdays*

The collar types*

Yana Toboso’s Japanese-style parody of Kuroshitsuji*

Yana’s comment on the new Kuroshitsuji movie (BotA)*

Yana and her editor’s tweets about the “Demon 6″ special chapter*

Editor K’s comment on the relationship between Sebastian and Ciel

Yana’s comment on Kuroshitsuji’s genre*

Yana’s comment on the official English edition of Kuroshitsuji*

Genderbend Kuroshitsuji characters*

White Day messages 2016*

Interview with editor K 1/3 (Jack the Ripper arc, Grell, Madam Red, etc)*

Interview with editor K 2/3 (Lycoris musical, musical!Sebastian, etc)*

Interview with editor K 3/3 (costume design, Campania, Blue Sect arc)*

The originally planned ending of Kuroshitsuji*

Yana’s involvement in Book of Circus*

Circus arc, Musical (2017), GFantasy*

“Twin Tails” Day 2017

The most handsome character in Kuroshitsuji: Sebastian VS Undertaker

Sebastian & Ciel’s conversation in ch87

Black Label Popup Store (Ciel & Bitter Rabbit)

Santa Claus parody (vol.26 back cover)

Yana’s comment on anime Black Butler Season 2 (2010)

Yana’s comment on the latest chapters

ch126 (language of flowers)

ch127 (Agni’s death)

ch129 (art improvement)

ch129 (rough sketch vs finished version)

ch129 (real Ciel)

ch130 (our Ciel & Snake)

ch132

ch133

ch134 (+ list of people who died in the Phantomhive manor)

ch134 (Vincent’s mole)

ch135

ch136

ch136 (our Ciel’s situation)

ch137 (Ciel’s ”I’ll make a covenant with you!”)

ch139 

Yana Toboso:

Yana Toboso’s message to Kuroshitsuji fans (100th chapter commemoration)

Yana and her deceased family

Yana’s message to the 3.11 earthquake victims

Yana’s comment on Cocoa Fujiwara’s death

Yana and her editor*

Kuroshitsuji collaboration shoes*

Yana’s comment on the last episode of Book of Circus*

Yana’s comment on the Book of Circus ED*

Yana Toboso - random blog post translations*

Why Yana doesn’t want to appear in public*

Yana’s last comment 2015*

Gifts from abroad (Yana’s birthday 2016)*

How Yana came up with the S4 lyrics*

Yana’s hilarious typo

Yana’s drawing process (video)

Yana’s birthday 2017

Yana’s message to the BotA visitors: ver. Ciel & Elizabeth

Yana’s message to the BotA visitors: ver. Snake

Yana’s chronic disease: The Sebastian schizophrenia

Yana fangirling about Kuroko No Basuke OP (2013)

Yana’s tweets about the BotA party

Kiss

Yana’s comment on Terashima Takuma’s marriage (Snake’s VA)

Important PSA from Yana

Yana went to the Black Label Popup Store in Osaka!

Yana’s comment on same-sex love in mangas

Yana’s best drawing mistake

Yana’s comment on the sales of vol.26

Yana about the ending of the manga

Yana’s pancake saga 2018

Yana’s assistants 

Yana’s ex-assistant from Thailand

Yana’s comments on ‘Black Panther’

Yana’s comments on Xenogears 

Sebastian Michaelis:

Which Sebastian do you like? (demon-mode VS butler-mode)

Beauty and the Beast (”Is Sebastian kind?”)

Transporting style variations: Sebastian & Ciel

Sebastian and shame

Sebastian then and now (2006→2012)*

How to draw Sebastian*

Sebastian’s ‘cool’ moments*

Sebastian’s behaviour*

The taste of a soul*

Sebastian’s favourite type*

Yana’s comment on Sebastian’s true nature*

Sebastian, the ‘elite trash’*

The “Cutest Sebastian Ever” (Yana’s “Puella Magi Madoka Magica” parody + comment on chapter 54)*

Sebastian 30 facial expressions challenge part1*

Sebastian 30 facial expressions challenge part2*

Sebastian 30 facial expressions challenge part3*

Halloween: Sebasitan on a leash

Sebastian, the gambler (vol.24 back cover parody)

Sebastian & Ciel watching the Book of the Atlantic movie

Sebastian’s view of humans

Sebastian, the perverted gourmet butler

Yana’s comment on how Sebastian sees our Ciel

Hilarious caption

Sebastian and Ciel - then and now (’#Let’s meet at the witches’ Sabbath’) 

Sebastian - draft version VS finished version

Sebastian’s real age

Ciel and the Phantomhive household:

Yana’s comment on Ciel and Sebastian*

Yana’s comment on Ciel and Sebastian (ch.63)*

Ciel and Joker*

Ciel and Sebastian’s comments on COCOROBO collaboration*

Vincent Phantomhive

Vincent and Sebastian

Vincent and Diederich

Vincent’s popularity

Finnian and Snake

The cook and his master*

Super handsome Finny and six pack Mey-Rin*

The Phantomhives are making wishes on a star*

Baldroy*

Snake

Ciel in ch.35+36 (Circus arc)*

Ciel’s birthday 2008-2011*

Ciel’s birthday 2012-2015*

Ciel’s birthday 2016,  part2 (Baron Kelvin appreciation post)

Ciel and PARM (ice cream) collaboration

Ciel’s birthday 2017

Lizzy and the Midfords:

Elizabeth Midford*

Yana’s comment on Lizzy’s popularity

Edward/Lizzy translation

Ciel and Lizzy: Kabedon!

Ciel and Lizzy2

Yana’s comment on Campania arc and Lizzy’s ‘selfishness’*

Lizzy’s birthday & Ciel’s height, Lizzy’s birthday part2

Yana’s comment on the Midfords’ cast in the movie

Yana’s comment on Frances’ hair colour

Alexis’s VA’s hilarious comment on Lizzy

Yana’s twitter posts about Lizzy in ch57,58*/BotA movie

Frances and Alexis

Frances and Edward

Vincent and Frances

Edward’s outfits

Lizzy and Frances

Grim reapers:

Undertaker, the most handsome character in Kuroshitsuji

Grell’s main squeeze

Portable William T. Spears*

Grell - a “uniquely Japanese” character*

Twitter post 28/01/2017 -Grell-

Other characters:

Difference between Alois and Ciel

Drocell, Lau, Ran-Mao translations*

Doll (and Ciel)*

Ran-Mao’s height

Bluer and Redmond

Ran-Mao and Ciel

Rachel and Angelina

Musical:

Young master Yukito (Yukito Nishii / Ciel Phantomhive)*

A Letter From A Grim Reaper (Takuya Nagaoka / William T. Spears)*

Yana’s comment on Lycoris 2015*

Yana’s comment on Sebastian in the 2015 musical*

Grey’s ad-lib in the 2014 musical

Live action movie:

Some of Yana’s comments on the live action movie*

Yana’s comment on Hiro Mizushima

Drama CD:

Kuroshitsuji Drama CD “That Butler, Fighting” - English translation (complete)

“Nijishitsuji2” scanlations in cooperation with frederickabblerline:

‘A Dawning Idol’ (Ciel & Sebastian)

‘Elastic’ (Vincent & Undertaker)

Other translation-related posts:

Recap of Yana’s twitter 2017

Translation issues in Kuroshitsuji (mistranslations, inaccurate/questionable translations, etc)

[FMA Chronicle] Don’t Forget

When FMA ended in Japan, they asked fans to send messages to the characters. Arakawa choose some and made various illustrations for each group of characters (you can find the pictures on the Internet in better quality).

Here’s the links to my translations of the fans’ messages:

>> Brave men of Armestris Army

>> Wayfarers from Xing

>> The Honorable Warriors

>> Homonculus

>> Sworn Comrades

>> Edward & Alphonse

Btw, if you want more pictures of the French version of the databook, here’s some links:

https://lesblablasdetachan.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/fullmetal-alchemist-chronicle-de-hiromu-arakawa/ https://songedunenuitdete.com/2020/12/21/fullmetal-alchemist-chronicle-de-hiromu-arakawa/ https://www.generationbd.com/manga/5831-chronique-manga-fullmetal-alchemist-perfect-hs.html

EDIT:

So in case people are curious about what is in FMA Chronicle, @fma-facts and @intoxicatedeuphoria have translated a lot of information already.

Here’s the summary of the book (Arakawa added notes on some characters/elements too)

All FMA covers of Shonen Gangan

Fans comments on Team Mustang, Lin’s team, Elric brothers, Scar/Olivier’s team/Kimblee, Homonculus/Father, Winry/May/Hohenheim/Pinako

Characters profiles (see the tumblrs I linked above)

Important words (we already now most of them lol)

Interview of Arakawa followed by cross interviews with other mangakas and VAs (including Soul Eater’s and Jojo’s authors)

4 koma theaters and other bonuses (can be found in english on the internet)

Book in figure Red and Blue (can be found in english on the internet)

Various illustrations (a lot can be found on the internet)

Prototype (can be found in english on the internet)

[FMA Chronicle] Don’t forget - Brave men of Armestris army

Because they are like a family and fought together, a bound has been created between superior and subordinates.

However, we can still see the colonel’s popularity. I would like Ed to give him back his 520 cenz as quick as possible

(Arakawa)

(Messages sent by fans to characters. Those in bold are bigger than the others on the pages. Please notify me if you find a mistake or bad spelling!)

ROY MUSTANG

“Woaw! You are so cool!”

“The Flame Alchemist, the hottest man who pretends to be coolheaded!!”

“To you, who are useless: I like you a lot!” (Note: “Impuissant” → lit “powerless”/”helpless”, I prefer “useless”)

“This womanizer really is too funny! He is cool!”

“His order “don’t die” was cool”

“Meeting Roy made me the happiest person”

“Colonel, you are so talented!”

“We want a serie on the Flame Alchemist!”

“Roy! Please change the world with your burning ambitions!”

“Goal: president!“ (“Objectif président” → lit “Objective president” in the sense “Aim to be president”)

MAES HUGUES

“His death was so sad. It was the first time I cried reading a manga!” (“C’est la première fois que j’ai pleuré pour un manga” → lit “It is the first time I cried for a manga”)

“When I grow up, I will be a doting father like him!” (“Plus tard, je serai un papa poule comme lui” → lit “Later, I will be a doting father like him”)

“He understood love was PRIMORDIAL”

“Even if he is an ordinary [man/character], I love his humanity”

“We can only respect such a good father!” “Your smile made me smile too” “I want to become a man as strong as Hugues” “I wanted to see a future with you!” “We won’t forget your smiling face” “A man who shaked the life of many”

RIZA HAWKEYE

“Marry the colonel!”

“I salute this lieutenant who supported the colonel TO THE END!”

“You always were behind the one who looked at the future”

“It was wonderful to always see her standing next to the colonel!”

“I like her since junior high. I would like to get close to her age”

HEYMANS BREDA

“His involvement in the second part was great!”

“His manliness and consideration were great!”

“If someone limited the chaos in this fight, it is you!”

“Hang on, Bureko!” (no idea what “bureko” is. EDIT: It seems it could be short for “Breda-kun”: ブレダ  -> “Bureda” written in Japanese + “-kun” which used to adress a male friend (in this case at least))

“He is smart! I also like his friendship with Havoc!!” (“C’est une vraie tête” → He is smart)

VATO FALMAN

“I love little darlings with firm flesh!”

“His brain was useful many times” (“Son cerveau lui a été utile maintes fois” → “His brain was usefull to him many times”)

“I burst into tears before this man’s tears”

“An unknown hero. Bravo to him”

JEAN HAVOC

“I will be his wife”

“He is the first person I found handsome with a cigarette at mouth”

“Long live those who are helpful! A model subordinate!”

“I love you, you who doesn’t give up on his comrades”

“He moved forward with this hardware store opened for 80 years”

KAIN FUERY

“He has evolved and came back: I love him!”

“The kindest man”

“You are so kind! And it is a strength!”

“His consideration for his comrades really moved me”

“Black Hayatte wouldn’t have been here without Fuery. Thank you!”

ALEX LOUIS ARMSTRONG

“A strong man with a gentle heart! Long live the muscles!” (“Vive les muscles” → “Vive les” is used in a lot of expressions like “Long live the king”, “Long live France/Vive la France” but also “Here’s to the bride and groom!”, here it’s like “Hooray to the muscles!”)

“Thank you for crying for all the others”

“He is not afraid of anything. I would like to be like him”

“We will always have a part of the major in our muscles!”

TIMELINE OF SAJOU RIHITO

A bespectacled honor student with black hair. Shortsighted in both eyes. Upturned, angular eyes. Best subjects are mathematics and physics. Worst subject is music. Doesn’t particularly like or dislike any food. If he had to pick, he would say he likes squid.

Born on October 28 as the first-born to a father from Kyoto and a mother from Yokohama. He was named by his paternal grandfather, a Christian and former university professor who currently resides in New Zealand. Since his cousin Ritsuko already has the family nickname of “Ricchan”, his family nickname is “Hii-chan”.

His eyesight has deteriorated since his last year of kindergarten, so he’s been wearing glasses from then on. Opts for wearing shorts in elementary school. Takes penmanship, abacus, and piano lessons. Hates piano lessons to the point of crying and quits after the second lesson.

Has his first love in his first year of elementary school. The object of his affections is a sixth grader boy at his local youth organisation. Rarely catches a cold. Is on the school library student council for all six years of elementary school. Starts going to cram school from third grade.

Is confessed to by a girl from his class during the sixth graders’ graduation school trip. He rejects her, making her cry. From the next day on, all the girls in his class start giving him the cold shoulder.

Wears a gakuran in middle school. Joins the literary club, but since most of the members are girls, he quickly becomes a no-show.

Takes a fall while biking to school in seventh grade, breaking his right hand. He hasn’t been good with bicycles ever since. Takes the train to the prep school a little distance away from his middle school.

His father works abroad, so he goes to stay with him for about 1-2 weeks during long term breaks. However, since he is shy and not very good at English, from summer vacation of 8th grade onwards, he chooses to remain home alone in Japan. Despite this, he cannot cook at all.

Encounters a molester on the train, making his original aversion to public transport worsen.

Is again on the school library’s student council for all three years of middle school. Collapses on the train on the day of his high school entrance exams due to severe train sickness. Fails the exams for all the schools he wants.

Gets accepted into Toufu First High School with a perfect score on all subjects. No one from his middle school goes there.

Doukyuusei 10th Anniversary “10 Years Later” Kusakabe x Sajou Love Letter Set (Translation)

(First released as a kuji prize in 2018 as part of the Doukyuusei series’s 10th Anniversary)

Text version under the cut!

Sorano Aoto looking at Hara Manabu looking at Sajō Rihito marrying Kusakabe Hikaru

Megumi knows almost nothing about his father, his early memories are of being abandoned. His only family is Tsumiki as far as he’s concerned. It’s clear he doesn’t regard himself as a Zenin, or Toji’s son. He doesn’t even recognize Toji when they meet again briefly. However, though Megumi’s not even aware of it there’s a lot of story parallels between father and son. Toji serves as a cautionary tale of what Megumi could become if he does not grow up and learn to handle his emotions properly. MORE UNDER THE CUT.