I second this question.

I dunno. I remember a couple pages had been translated and someone posted them, and some other person said they had a translator person, but they hadn't gotten back to us yet...

Who knows, but now that I'm caught up on the Rozen Maiden manga, I wants it nao. ; ; I'd do it myself, but I suck and Rozen Maiden is seinen... damn you, moonspeak!

http://www.iichan.ru/rm/res/5936.html
Russian, lol.

>>3
Page two of tale 2. I can post the scripts that I translated once I get home from work.

>>6
Why the hell is it translated to Russian before English!?
>>8
That'd be awesome~ And, uh... better editing than I could be arsed to do on that page, but get a better font. Srsly. :|

Last edited 08/06/18(Wed)01:57.

Oh man, I want the translation soooo bad ><

>>17
We all do, Mister Anonymous, we all do.

>>8
...DO IT FAGGOT. (When you can, that is. :>)

>>26
DOH
rite.

pp.05-06

bubble 1, panel 1:
In all, there are seven Rozen Maiden dolls.

box 2:
The first doll, Suigintou;
The second doll, Kanaria;

box 3:
The third doll, Suiseiseki;
The fourth doll, Souseiseki;

box 4:
The fifth doll, Shinku;
The sixth doll, Hinaichigo;

box 5, panel 2:
The final, seventh doll, Kirakishou... she, however, is a suspicious one.

thought bubble 6:
yu... I guess I won't read. (this must be a japanese figure of speech or something)

sfx:
(beep)

box 7, panel 3:
The dolls fight each other in the "Alice Game"

box 8, panel 3:
and struggle to possess fragments of each other's souls, called "Rosa Mystica".

p.10

bubble 1, panel 1:
WHAT THE--

bubble 2, panel 1:
WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH...

bubble 3, panel 2:
-aahh!...

sfx, panel 2:
(**don't know what this means)

bubble 4, panel 3:
what... eh?

bubble 5, panel 3:
it was a dream?

bubble 6, panel 4:
out of town?

bubble 7, panel 4:
how far?

pp.07

box 1, panel 1:
Only one of them can win and become Alice, supreme among all girls.

box 2:
In order to fight, the dolls need the power of human beings as mediums.

box 3, panels 2-3:
By winding her, I... became Shinku's master.

box 4, panel 4:
Follow me so far?

bubble 5, panel 4:
Not really... (あんまり... )

bubble 6, panel 5:
(quote) ...seriously though, (coming out of the flow) (proper place to die / the point of death) (no sooner than) (however)

( ...って流れでマジレスしちゃってるけど)

bubble 7, panel 5:
(my past) (blank email) (quote)... (prank-doer) (also) (painful)

(過去の僕からメールって... イタズラにしても痛すぎだろ)

Someone had a much better translation of these last two bubbles before the thread was wiped; my japanese grammar is pretty nonexistent :/

FYI: I'll be posting some transcriptions of tale 2 here:
http://pastebin.ca/1051643
this will be useful for ppl who try to do a full translation of the story... I might as well stick to this because so far my japanese translation skills are shit ;)

Noko+Weeaboo joint effort STATUS: (Anyone else is free to help, though, be it in IRC or on the forum here~...kinda need it, since I sorta suck <.<;)
Page 1: Who cares what it says, it has a pretty picture
2: complete, need to redo page editing because the font noko used blows
3: Nothin'.
4: Transcribed, waiting to be translated/edited...
5-6: Done!
7: Fixing translation, needs editing.
8: Transcribed, doing translation/editing...
9: Nothing.
10: Done!
11-28: lolNothing
29: Done because there's no text on this page
30-32: lolNothing again
33: Who cares what it says, it's an advertisement

Blame noko for it being out of order. This might take a while, depending. We'll see... how is my edit for page 10, though? I took a couple liberties, but er... noko borked up a line or two, but that's okay, because he is my kanji-whore. :>

Last edited 08/06/20(Fri)10:28.

(I'm not so good at translations myself, I needs halp, but here's my shitty rough draft)

あの頃からやり直せたら。。。
Back in those days I could start over again...

まさかな。。。
This can't be right...

（は、）
(sound effect...)

そねはそうと。。。
Well, it seems that way...
なんで島田なんて
Why "Shimada?"
表札出してたんだよ
(something about the house's nameplate...dasu has a wide variety of meanings and I'm too stupid

to put two and two together, though it doesn't exactly help translating these out of order)

それは単に前の住人のままってだけで。。。
"That's was only because of the (house's) former owner/resident" ... something
個人情報軒先になんてぶらさげてられるかよ
[personal information][house's front][such as][were hanging/dangling][?]

個人情報って。。。　表札だろ
"Personal information"...it's just a doorplate

なんか小さいな　お前禾釆の僕ってこんあかよ
Small things like that your (something of mine) like this?

か。。。かわいくない。。。
no idea :D
昔の僕つてこんなだつけ？
The old me said something like this, I think?

大雑把に説 明するぞ
[rough/sketchy]ni[theory] [brightness/clarity]verb ender...forceful ending particle

>>62
niiiiiiice work.
I just realized the translation I posted for bubble 5 on this page was wrong; I posted a correction on the wiped thread, but I guess I didn't save it on my local copy. The real translation should be "it was a drea-- a nightmare?"

>>1

>こにちはみなさん。

みんなさんですよ。

>>63

>それは単に前の住人のままってだけで。。。
>"That's was only because of the (house's) former owner/resident" ... something
>個人情報軒先になんてぶらさげてられるかよ
>[personal information][house's front][such as][were hanging/dangling][?]

"That's only because the house's former resident had his personal information hanging in front."

Perhaps?

>か。。。かわいくない。。。

(Something) in the neighborhood.

Kawai anybody? Or, it could be Kakawai with a pause. But I'm pretty sure that's not a word.

One i there, so don't bother.

>>65
Where does it say "nightmare?"
>>66
Actually, I've seen Japanese people type it(みんなさん, that is) both ways, but whether it's actually correct or just a typo, I don't know.

But, um, my translations suck. Even more so now because rikaichan(which had a better dictionary than my paper one) is defunct after I upgraded to Firefox 3. sighs I wish I had money to pay someone better to do the translation... picture related.

Last edited 08/06/21(Sat)08:23.

あの頃からやり直せたら・・・
If I restarted from that time...
まさかな
but it's impossible.
それはそうと・・・ なんで島田なんて表札出してんだよ
well, why do you put "Shimada" on your doorplate?
それは単に前の住人のままってだけで・・・
[quoted]
"That's was only because of the former resident..."
個人情報 軒先(nokisaki)になんてぶらさげてられるかよ
Who want to hang a personal information on the front?
個人情報って・・・　表札だろ
[quoted]
"Personal information"...it's just a doorplate.
・・・なんか小さいな お前 未来の僕ってこんなかよ
...You're so soft. I wonder me in the future is like him.
か・・・かわいくない・・・昔の僕ってこんなだっけ？
He...is just annoying... I wonder me in the past was like him?
大雑把に説明するぞ
Now I'll explain them roughly.

my clumsy translation.

>>66
○みな
○皆（みな）
○みんな (casual)
○みなさん
○皆（みな）さん
×みんなさん

>>70
I can work with clumsy since English is my forte. Keep going! :)

Everyone else: Do you approve of this page? y/n?

Also, page 5-6.

>>76
but very few people use it.

>>77
OK, except that the double quotation marks around "that was only because..." are not necessary.

Last edited 08/06/23(Mon)00:12.

>>78
thought bubble, panel 2:
I can't read (the kanji "雪華綺晶")

>>78
Suiseiseki is the 3rd, you know.

>>77
If you look at the translation in >>70, that part is being quoted(the part before って), although it confuses me now that I look back at it why it is.
>>81
Ohh, that makes much more sense. Neither noko nor I could quite understand that part before. Thanks.
>>82
Shit, you're right. :x

EDIT: Fixed page 5-6.

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>>77
Someone pointed this out to me...

"Why do you put Shimada on your doorplate?" Does this look strange to anyone else? Wouldn't it be "Why did you put"? Since it has to be in the past tense, as he's not doing the action now. (Unless he has some electronic doorplate that he has to input every time, or if he has multiple doorplates, but then doorplate would need to be plural)

>>85
Oh, I didn't think about it so literally, but I will change it... lol.

...zomg fix'd

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>>76
What the is it now
みなさん
or
みんなさん

the dictionairies say both is correct.

>>87

1. "Shimada" is the name of the former resident.
2. Jun left the doorplate unchanged because he didn't want his name public.
3. That's why the doorplate says Shimada, not Sakurada. And that's why the 14-year-old Jun disappointedly called his future self "小さい" (small-minded/petty/puny/not ambitious).

>>90
Ohh. Thanks for clearing that up! Fixed again. But this is why I ask for feedback anyway, because I tend to miss things...

Tale 2 has been translated into Italian as well.
http://www.rozenmaiden.it/sito/download/scans/ita/Rozen_Maiden_cap2.rar
http://rozenmaiden.forumfree.net/

Last edited 08/06/24(Tue)23:25.

I convinced Epsilonium to translate, and she delivered.

http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34096

Okay, using whatshername's translation(the link in the above post) I have begun the final J->E version... posting so people can quality-check for me.

Page 2(I am doing page 1, but I'm saving that for last because I'm lazy)

Oh, and would anyone recommend me a good font for the original Jun? I'd like to use two different ones to help readability(one for Bizarro Jun and a different one for Jun).

AND I SAVED THE PSD'S THIS TIME, HOORAY ME

Last edited 08/07/14(Mon)12:19.

And I'll continue later...

>>128
Use Wingdings for the original Jun.

>>137
Har har, very funny. -_-

For original Jun, a more formal-looking text might be good (like what Linkiboy used, example of the two fonts shown in the image).
But then, I don't know. I'm no graphics expert.

Other than that, it looks really good so far. Thanks for taking the effort to do it.

Last edited 08/07/15(Tue)15:48.

Oh, and...

>>140
fuuuuuck I lol'd

>>131
"These dolls need power from a human to fight [box break] from each of their masters"

I think you should omit "from a human", doesn't really seem to flow.

But great job. English Rozen Maiden translations have been slow ): and theres Tale 4 already and 3 hasn't even been roughly translated.

>>140
oh u
>>142
Thanks. I thought that part sounded a bit awkward. I wasn't sure how to include all the information in the same sentence...or something.

Oh, and I would've edited my post for this, but lulz, XML error.
>>139
The problem with that is the original font I used is all caps, so next to that other font, it looks like shouting to me.

Fixed page 7, continuing onto page 8...

9

10

11 If you can think of a better way to translate "お疲れ様でーす," do tell. For now, I left it in moonspeak with a translator's note.

12

>>148

>お　出たな契約
>Oh, you were out of the contract.

Wrong. >>120 is correct.

>>151
"お疲れ様です" is just a common greeting used when you meet someone you work with. And its abbreviated form is "おっつー".

>>153
It doesn't really make sense to me, though...and I know what "otsukaresama deshita" means and when it's used. I'm just asking if there's a good way to translate it to English.

>>151

Just put something non-committal like "Aren't you hard at work?"

Leave the note, but change it to fit the fact that it's not a direct translation.

>>154
In this case, お疲れ様です is equivalent to hello. It is no more than a salutation at meeting.

>>164

お疲れ様です is what you would say to someone who is doing something such as work. 疲れて is to be tired or exhausted, it's like saying "good work", even though a literal translation would be "that's tiring". It's similar to ご苦労様です but without the same inference of a burden to someone.

By the way "おつ" or even "02" is only really used on the internets. It's not a bonafide "abbreviated form". It's up the same alley as "ur" for "you're".

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>>185

I'm talking about the contemporary usage.

ttp://cyberkidsclinic.blog51.f★c2.com/blog-entry-201.html
ttp://blog.g★oo.ne.jp/yamazaki_hajime/e/9f48117f55b5ee0bd8f5616e8edc5bcc
ttp://news.ameba.jp/special/2008/01/10632.html

As you can see, at present, in practice, it is just a greeting.

>By the way "おつ" or even "02" is only really used on the internets.

"おっつー" is in common use. It's very informal, though.

>It's not a bonafide "abbreviated form". It's up the same alley as "ur" for "you're".

True.