[Yggdra Union Comic Anthology] 01: Tactics Meeting

[feral-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Download (9.08 MB, .rar archive with .png images)

Tactics Meeting
Original Title: 作戦会議
Author: Akatsuki Kaori
Spoilers?: None
Length: 8 pages
Summary: After encountering difficulties fighting the Undines, Yggdra and her commanders get together to debate what they should do to emerge victorious. Also, near wardrobe malfunctions and Milanor’s refusal to crossdress. Takes place during Chapter 2.

Creator's Notes: There’s just something charming about a girl on the battlefield, isn’t there? I like the improbable combination of earnest Yggdra and skirt-chasing Milanor.

Translator's Notes: I love Japanese puns, but they're the worst part of the language to translate. Luckily, the one in Tactics Meeting is about half-translatable into English, even though some of the finer points of the joke may be lost.

This particular short story plays off the many connotations of one word that can be properly translated as "experience" or "exposure" depending on the situation. Here I've gone with translating it as "exposure", as Milanor's misunderstanding tends in the direction of "exposed skin" after a while, and that's more important to the actual story.

Technically this is my second translation of the joke itself, as I wasn't satisfied with the original version. This one's better, I hope.

Please leave a comment if you're taking this. I don't plan to release the rest of the comic anthology anytime soon; this is as much to test the waters as it is to fix something that was driving me nuts about the old translation. I don't mind if you use these images for manga colorings, but please credit the images to me or krile depending on which page you're using, and the translation to me. Back when I did the full book, this took an ungodly amount of work.