GXP Novel 18 releasing 6/20

[Ryo-Okay]

https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/321812000012/

[BobSchlotkin]

Holy crap!

I didn't think he'd ever get around to writing this!

I don't see it available for pre-order, yet!

Thanks for the good news!

BoB

[BobSchlotkin]

How about that!

I'm always happy to be proved wrong on statements like the pre-order availability.

I just placed my order on Amazon.jp

BoB

[Dr.Soviet]

its about time

[Ryo-Okay]

its about time

Volume 18 is releasing exactly 7 years after volume 17. Saying it's about time is an understatement.

[Valmer]

he defiantly took his time just glad its coming out just got to wait for it to be translated by you

[Harls]

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[BobSchlotkin]

Does anyone know who did the wonderful translations and graphics work on the color pages in vols 1-17?

Since I suck pretty bad at graphics mods (see the butcher job I did on Paradise War!), I'd love to offload the color photos to someone competent.

BoB

[Eff Efferson]

Wasn't it ricin?

[BobSchlotkin]

GXP 18 was delivered this morning.

It is just as I hoped and feared.
Hoped because it's 398 pages long. Gonna be lots of good stuff in here.
Feared because it's 398 pages long. Scanning is gonna take a bit and OCR is gonna take a bit longer.

Fortunately, Google is a lot better at OCR these days. I scan at 400 DPI so it usually does a decent job.
Unfortunately, I still have to verify the whole thing.

I'll keep you updated on my progress a couple of times a week.

BoB

[Dr.Soviet]

The red haired women is Dr.Clay's mom

[Eff Efferson]

400 pages... Remember the commentaries in the first couple books where hes like well I had to split it into more novels because it would be too thick? He's just doesn't even give a hoot anymore lol. The next on will come out in 2035 and be as thick as an Anne rice novel

[BobSchlotkin]

Alrighty,
I've completed scanning and some light processing.
I'll be OCRing tomorrow and translation begins Monday.

BoB

[BobSchlotkin]

OCR is complete and Eff has a full copy of the raws to begin translating.

I'm up to page 53.

BoB.

[Eff Efferson]

I'm going to post summaries here:

Summary chapter 10: the story finally shifts back to seina on barium(abarrium/ averiam/barium???)  seina fills up some magic crystals for Nana and barigaru taked him out to dinner when nayuta alerts seina that a pirate ship has entered the atmosphere. Barigaru tells him there not coming over this way because the alarm, that jovial made to protect the city isn't going off and they're likely going to the magic less continent. Seina worries about a fight between him and pirates getting out of hand and destroying the planet.

Summary chapter 11: barigaru and seina arrive at a Well  hidden restaurant resembling a Japanese one with kimono wearing waitresses something touches his face as he teleports into a further in part of the establishment he notices it's a magic spider web like structure that keeps people from noticably passing each other they're taken to a private Japanese style room whereas woman is waiting seina laughs because she has solly doodles all oer her face but  seina realizes a spell was cast on his vision and dissipates revealing the scary but petty jovial real face brigaru tells seina this is why he brought him here.


Chapter 12: barigaru leaves them alone jovial tells seina if he ever wants out of his debt just let her know.japanese food arrives seina considers that the places logo seems like a recognisable Japanese kanji and that either someone here must have had astral memories of Japan or been from the jurains that know of it. The foods taste reminds seina of home and Jovia speaks to seina in Japanese alarming him seina asks how so how did you get here?  Were you summoned? Or do you just have astral feedback? " No... I was reincarnated into another world by those bastards." They both clear things up for each other and she explains she was participating at the summer comiket alone because her usual friend ifrom a famous land owning family wouldn't come with for the sake of his public image. And she bought too much smut doujinshi by not paying for the delivery fees so she had to carry them all  while painstakingly reading them on the train when she got off to switch trains at her home town she was so hot tired and hungry she passed out and her doinins scattered and then she wakes up in a white space with an impossible haired (changes color) medical worker she asks if she's dead an is assignd a number the nurse sits by a figure called reverend who explains is an individual who hasn't lot their individuality even without their body and has godlike powers and tells them when they died they were liberated from their name so they can't tell them, they ask hem ro help them because distortions are happening in the universe and if unresolved it will hurt reality. The entity asks if they could like to help by being reincarnated somewhere else. Jovial mentions she wants cheat powers they explain why that won't happen, shesinistant they agree to give a small cheat I think... Then there's 20 pages of Jovia describing the gross process and feeling of her dying and the spirit trying to give a cheat power only for her to be like no actually if it feels this bad.  The spirit then explains forcibly downloading an entire skill set into someone's spirit would basicly totally mess up a person like that and gives her some smut to read as a condolence and she decides to just reincarnate with adult memories which she now realizes are a major cheat themselves. She explains that why like seina she was able to also communicate with the magic essence system when she got the cold and so she's used it to be op in magic and that she knew seina was here and weird from the moment he got here butnever imagine he'd be from Japan. And she reveals her intention to use seina to get back home. Seina says it's impossible it's not allowed. Jovial tightens her death grip and insists that is seina is and they are from the same place so close together its meant to be and if they are husband and wife they will have to! Seina resists and reveals his romantic situation to her to throw her off but it fails! She accepts and breaks him down! But he she puts in on the back burner to bring up seinas current predicament.  Seina brings up her daughter and says well if you come with me what will he do.  She reveals she can use spirit thread teleportation and her daughter can live on her own and. Just visit whenever by teleporting nayuta finally interjects and says seina you should just marry her it's safer to make an ally of her then let someone else get her and she will likely be approved and besides airi an washu would  happily use her as lab rat. Seina gives in and agrees to marry her. Hes let out with a wedding present souvenir by the waitresses. Barigaru leaves to go home with him and apologizes  but explains she has connection that will benefit him. Seina is used to it. Its revealed that raska from seinas pit hunting days is jovias daughter and can help get her off his back if he needs it. Seina thinks it comparable to how airi has a serious kid with minaho to offset her personality. Seina decides to contact zinv when he  gets back