[TRANSLATION] Scenes from the Code Geass novels

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This 'master' post will link to various posts I make with snippets from the already officially-translated first-season novels. (There are also novelizations of R2 and a few additional novels, one about Kallen (called Crimson Path), one about the Knights of the Round, and two novels focused on the student council characters by a different author. I own all of these, and it is my ambition to at least translate the R2, Crimson Path, and Knights of the Round novels.)

I don't want to undersell how unusual or cool it is that Bandai Entertainment even published translations of any of the series' light novels. You don't normally see that, and I hope more companies put the kind of effort that BE did into the first season of CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion — dubbed audio dramas, packed-in translated issues of various manga adaptations, and light novels available to buy separately. All very cool.

That said... 元のバージョンの方がいいと思う。The official translation is rushed in places, and in other places... seemingly censored. The links below will include the original Japanese, so that you can compare my work to it (and draw your own conclusions). Okay, it was a noble idea, including all of the original Japanese text here, but having now translated like 13 pages' worth, it is increasingly infeasible. If you have any questions about particular lines, hmu and I will happily retrieve them for you!

• R1
  • Stage -0- Entrance
    • Table of Contents / Characters
    • Interval
    • Stage-0:1-Previous Night
      • Young Lelouch finds Suzaku in the rain
      • Young Lelouch and Suzaku talk about strength
    • Interval
    • Stage-0:1-Entrance
    • Promise
    • Afterword
    • Commentary — Jun Fukuyama
  • Stage -1- Shadow (spanning Stage 8-11)
    • Interval
    • Stage-1:1-Mask
    • Stage-1:1-Shade
    • Stage-1- >> -2-
      • Young Lelouch and Suzaku discuss their futures
    • Afterword
    • Commentary — Gorou Taniguchi
  • Stage -2- Knight (spanning Stage 12-17, but with a lot skipped over — e.g., all of the Mao events are told only in hindsight)
  • Stage -3- Sword (spanning Stage 18-20)
  • Stage -4- Zero (spanning Stage 21-25)
    • Interval
    • Stage-4:1-Exception
    • Interval
    • Stage-4:2-Collapse
    • Sunset
    • Stage-4:3-Zero
    • Alone
    • Afterword
    • Commentary — Yukana
• R2
  • Turn 1 (spanning Turn ??)
  • Turn 2 (spanning Turn ??)
  • Turn 3 (spanning Turn ??)
  • Turn 4 (spanning mid-Turn 20-25)
    • Interval
    • Turn-4:1-World
    • Interval
    • Turn-4:2-Truth
    • Interval
    • Turn-4:3-Darkness
      • Nunnally Contacts Suzaku During the Battle of Mt. Fuji
    • Two Months Later
    • Epilogue
    • Afterword
• Side Stories
  • Crimson Path (mostly Stage 1 & Stage 9)
  • Knights of the Round (mostly between R1 and R2, with a long flashback chapter to Marianne's tenure as a Round)

Comments

Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much for translating these! I could never get into the light novels precisely because of the choppy language so I am immensely grateful to you for doing this. Good luck to you - I hope you are able to complete as much as you want to! Thanks again x

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♥ You're very welcome!

Thanks You!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for translating these novels. I never thought that anyone would translate the novels for r2 and Crimson Path which dictates Kallen's story. I really want to see the story from Kallen's perspective, since it would be amazing to see things from her point of view.

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Kallen's novel might take a while, just because it's focused on the very early parts of R1 (when I bought it, I hoped it was more of a 'tweener novel, between R1 and R2), and because I've got a lot of stuff to go through. But hey! I translated the opening of it a few minutes ago because someone on Tumblr made me think of it, so. You never know. :)