Also,

if you are the kind reader who sent me the Lancelot & Guren scans, and you'd like more specific credit, please drop me a PM here! I thought you were the same kind reader who sent me scans of some of the art books and offered to scan the light novels back in 2019, but I can't find any emails or anything that contain the scans... :(

Translation F.A.Q.

I've been getting a few questions more than once, and isn't that what F.A.Q.s are for?

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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Miraculous Anniversary (Untitled Picture Drama)

What It Is: The Picture Drama included with the Miraculous Anniversary bluray special. I've fansubbed it and uploaded it repeatedly, but Bandai Entertainment keeps claiming it and getting it taken down again, so. Here's just my translation for it, with an attempt to describe what's going on.
Timeline: This fits... somewhat uneasily within R1. By necessity, it takes place before Stage 17 ("Knight"), but also... somehow... instead of it? (Rivalz reacts to Milly's engagement in both as if he's never heard of it before.) Frankly, a lot of the post-series Picture Dramas (allegedly taking place during R1, but scripted long after it) have problems like this.

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...okay, yes, technically, but tbh what I got out of Google Translate was more natural (it’s getting better all the time).

ホテルの向かいの店で見たスーツを試着したい。

^ this is a lot more casual, mind you. To match the ‘politeness’ of the original sentence, you’d want ホテルの向かいのお店で見たスーツを試着したいです. But substantially the same, no?

Breaking down the differences:

* 私は is almost always unnecessary, and the single biggest thing that Japanese learners (at least, those whose native language is English) can do to sound more native is to learn to omit it from our sentences. My first-ever Japanese teacher told us to think of 私は not as “I” but as “as for me...”; this gives you a much better sense of how awkward it is to start every sentence with. It really emphasizes that you’re the person taking the action, as opposed to someone else — which makes sense sometimes (say, if everyone had just been talking about Jill’s plans for the day, and you wanted to change the subject), but it’s not the most neutral way to state the thing, and I think it fails to really illustrate the difference between English and Japanese grammar.

* The にある here is... well, it makes the sentence sound more like it’s saying, “across from the hotel, there is a store”. You’ll hear it more when people are giving directions. That’s not what this sentence is doing, of course; the fact that the store is across from the hotel is a more incidental detail. Thus, ホテルの向かい店 is more natural.

* 着てみたい is... fine. (Literally it means “I want to try wearing/putting on <something>”.) But 試着 is a very common する verb. (試着室 is ‘fitting room’.)

Now, I don’t know, maybe the person who put this together was really trying to provide every single part of the English sentence in the Japanese counterpart. But even then I think I would have done

I want to try on a suit I saw in a shop across the street from the hotel.

（私、）ホテルの向かいの店で見たスーツを試着したい。