Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Page 140 of the Super Robot Encyclopedia

Today's update is kind of random.


Page 140: Hades Project Zeorymer, an obscure series from the late 80s, brought into the spotlight after two Super Robot Wars games it was featured in. There, Zeorymer was very powerful, had an ominous song, as well as original mecha designs. Apparently, it's based on an adult manga, which led to the cutting out of some of the hotter scenes. I chose this page mainly because I liked the series a lot back when I watched it. It should be notable that this is the first time I used the book itself for the translation, and it was much much quicker than usual. ^_^

I'd like some feedback on the white font I used to cover the shadow. Was it OK? Is it readable? I'm curious because it wasn't there in the original.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

I've bought the Super Robot Encyclopedia

In the meantime, I've found the book on Play-Asia. Here are some pics of it:


The book is larger than expected, and the illustrations are indeed very rich. According to the cover, there are some 296 pages in it, so I'm impatient to get back to working on it, now that I don't depend on the scans anymore. From now on, translations will take less, because the text is crystal clear in the book itself. Lovely!