Raildex General Thread #01

[Anonymous No.]

General discussion of Raildex here, let's try to keep it civil, /jp/.

Raws of Index LN:

Volumes 1-19 + SS01&SS02: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5bc897e9ecf6112aab1eab3e9fa335ca2b5ca31d%2056678041
Volumes 20-22: http://www.mediafire.com/?711v7yiotkhph
NT volume 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?5ahwo63trk6cmey
NT volume 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?vq3nxedwl1pk3e5

Translated Index LN:
PDF downloads: http://www.mediafire.com/?z665bbki6v7h7
or you can read them on baka-tsuki:http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index

Index manga raws:
(megaupload)
Volumes 1-8:http://www.cover-land.net/index.php?page=dl&serie=toarumajutsu

Index manga translated:
Chapters 1-47+:http://www.mediafire.com/?l4nn8g94r384u

Railgun manga raws:
(megaupload)
Volumes 1-6:http://www.cover-land.net/index.php?page=dl&serie=railgun

Railgun manga translated:
[N.B. Translation for the first few volumes by hidoi, but I think they dropped it after it got licensed.]
Chapters 1-37+:http://www.mediafire.com/?yqn8ddjv302yy
Chapter 8:http://www.mediafire.com/?emct1qjyomt (missing from link above)
Volume 4+:http://www.mediafire.com/?socg6t9jgho05 (current translator's folder)

Only one more month till the Railgun VN. Anyone else excited? Anyone buying it for the figma?

[Anonymous No.]

Had no idea the Index light novels were fully translated. Guess I should read them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995760
Some of the translation (all of it?) is Chinese to English I think. The quality isn't that bad, but just a heads up.

[Anonymous No.]

I wanted to read the LNs, but the sheer retardedness of the translation didn't let me read past the first chapter.
Honestly, it's awful. Unreadable by any decent standard.

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

The virus is spreading.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995770
When did you try reading it? I loaded a few random pages and it looks perfectly fine to me. Attached an image as example. Lot's of editing and work has gone on over the past year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995780
It wasn't a long time ago.

>>7995767
Chinese to English, huh? Well, now I know for sure I won't be reading it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995770
All of the damned light novel translations are like that. They may as well be using machine translations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995796
>>7995812
I'm not sure if C > E is still true for the project. I took a look at some of the translators and they are doing Japanese to English. I just know at first they were Chinese to English. The main translator right now at least is Japanese to English.

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/anime/

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

So why isn't this on /a/?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995892
Because he wanted to talk about it here. Why do you ask stupid questions?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995898
For rhetoric.

[Anonymous No.]

I didn't know the novels were translated, thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

Reported.
Fuck off to >>>/a/

[Anonymous No.]

Kill yourself.　

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[Anonymous No.]

Don't have my picture, but light novels belong in /jp/.

Moot agreed, don't bother him about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7996740
>>7996738
If you guys don't like the thread, just hide it and move on. Seems pretty simple to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>Only one more month till the Railgun VN
Are you sure about that?

[Anonymous No.]

Not on my watch, faggots.

[Anonymous No.]

What the fuck? Suddenly 25+ translated novels to read.

Baka-tsuki: good at translations, bad at releases. I don't know anyone who knew these were available.

[Anonymous No.]

Index LN are retarded, really. They might seem to be OK at first glance, but after few days it's difficult not to rage really hard.

[Anonymous No.]

While I agree that this thread would be more suited on /a/, I find that /jp/ accepting flavor-of-the-season anime girl threads a bit of a double standard. They should both go and stay on /a/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7997546
That sounds like a problem on your end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7997546
You're just saying that because Kuroko dies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7997503
Well the official site still says November 23rd. Although, I wouldn't be THAT surprised if it got delayed, I doubt they will now considering the coverage they've given it the past couple weeks.

>>7997537
Yea, I was pretty surprised as well. I figured they had maybe half of it done or maybe 20 volumes, but was not expecting every one of them to be translated. The one translator they have is very fast.

>>7997546
What exactly is your problem with them? I don't think there is anything particularly rage worthy about them, I mean the last volume kinda bugged me, but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7997546
They can't be that bad. They're like the best selling light novels. The numerous protagonists can get tiresome tough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7995826

The majority is J>E, and they replaced some of the extra shitty C>E with new J>E. The only problem now is that some retarded editor changed like 10 of them from past tense to present tense and those now read horribly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999398
Past tense to present tense?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7998167

The translator is from the /a/ Raildex General and translated from J>E. He and the other good translator tranlated about 90% of the novels in about half a year.

>>7999400

They were originally translated and written as past tense. Some editor changed the tense of them to present.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999409
That's impressive. Is he a neet or something? That is a ton of text. He should TL the Railgun VN too or something, he'd have it done in no time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999409

Also, OP has some redundancies in the post.

The /a/ Raildex General scanlates the Railgun manga, and it is released by Overload Scans. (They are also working on a VN and an RPG. Both of which have reasonable progress.)

The LN PDFs can all be found here (ant this link is updated whenever new PDFs are made), but you don't want to read the PDFs because those have the rough translations that weren't proofread, unlike the ones on Baka-Tsuki:
http://www.mediafire.com/lns

>>7999424

I don't think so. He just does it because he likes it. Some people have asked him to do the Horizon LN or help the Fate/Hollow Ataraxia translation in the downtime once he has all of the LN volumes translated and waits for the ones to be newly released, but he hasn't decided yet. What is awesome is that he completely translated the latest one, NT2, in under a week.

Noko sage for a thread that belongs on /a/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999432
>OP has some redundancies in the post.
Sorry. I only posted what I could find via googling, and I don't read the translations so I wasn't aware the PDFs are no good.

[Anonymous No.]

>Light novel
Worse than fanfics.

Evenn when there is going to be a VN, if it already has or will have an anime or manga it belongs in /a/.

[Sakura !RAILgUnr8s No.]

>>7999432
...Railgun RPG?

>>7999451
>if it already has or will have an anime or manga it belongs in /a/.
So you are basically saying VNs that have an anime or manga are not allowed on /jp/? What?

[Anonymous No.]

>Light novels
Do people actually read this trash?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999441

That's alright. They are still readable. Just not up to the quality of the baka-tsuki versions. New PDFs are going to be made once the Raildex General is done with cleaning, re-scanning, translating all of the images and the LNs are fully proofread and fixed. The related picture is an example of having it re-scanned, cleaned, and translated.

>>7999453

Raildex RPG. A pet project that started off as a joke but grew into an actual project.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999451
>>7999454

You say this when there are Touhou threads of all things here...

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999451
>>7999454

>Hating on light novels

Because they are so different from visual novels, right?

I mean, visual novels have several more copies of still frames! And dont forget those snapshot backgrounds! Truly, that sets them apart from Light Novels!

Only major difference is possible branching storyline and voices. Just because you have a shit imagination and have to have an image constantly in your face doesnt mean we all do.

That said, why isnt this on /a/?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999463

Fuck if I know. I am from /a/ and just came to look at the various threads here. Mostly because /a/ has been getting noticeably worse in the past few weeks. More than usual I might add. I am as baffled as you are as to why this is here and not on /a/. The /a/ Raildex General thread is resting on easymodo because there isn't much to talk about at the moment.

From what I can tell, it is a thread about the Railgun VN, which is /jp/ territory, but also included other information as topics like this tend to do.

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>>7999451
>Evenn when there is going to be a VN, if it already has or will have an anime or manga it belongs in /a/.
But that's wrong you idiot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999482
The /a/ raildex threads move far too fast for my liking. I like to take it easy in a thread for a week or two before it autosages, in true /jp/ fashion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999506

They are forced to move fast because /a/ now moves fast enough to kill threads that haven't been bumped for over an hour. Three hours when it is slow. There is also the added problem of the anime bringing in undesirables and trolls. I shudder to think what will happen if Funimation actually releases the BDs and it gets a western fanbase outside of 4chan. Last year and the year before it was normal to have a thread last form 4 days to a week.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ is kind of defensive when it comes to Raildex because of Saten and Kuroko spammers. As long as you dont shit up the front page with image dumps, we're cool.

I myself started to read them awhile ago, just got done with volume 16. I especially liked the part where Touma told that insufferable whore Index to clean his bathroom. After seeing towel girl in action.

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>>7999459
>New PDFs are going to be made once the Raildex General is done with cleaning, re-scanning, translating all of the images and the LNs are fully proofread and fixed.
I hope this thread stays around long enough so I can learn when that finishes without having to visit /a/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999530

Certainly, things become great when the TouMAN shows up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999530

The /a/ Raildex General purged the threads of imagedumpers, shippers, and powerlevel-obsessed people. Because of that, the discussions there have been without those things at the consequence of all Raildex threads outside of it being trolled into oblivion and called autistic.

Just wait for 17-22. That is pretty much universally agreed to be where it is best so far.

>>7999542

It might take a few months. The image-related process is going smoothly albeit slow due to the effort put into it. The LNs being fixed is another matter because of the damage done being irreversible because of the previous versions with past-tense being deleted from the Baka-Tsuki archive and the main editor being very busy, so that is unknown as to when it will be done. Another small problem is that the people with high-quality scanners don't own the physical volumes and the people (like me) who own the physical volumes don't have access to high-quality scanners. All I have access to is industry-grade 3D printers because my university is an engineering school and lets you use the 3D printers as long as you pay for the materials used.

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/a/

[Anonymous No.]

What volume did the anime ended?
Too lazy to read it from the start.

[Anonymous No.]

Has Accelerator finally learned how to win against Touma yet ?

Has the powerlevel stopped climbing yet ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999647
It ended after volume 13, so start reading from 14.

>>7999661
There isn't really much in the way of 'powerlevel climbing' in Index. I mean, Accelerator is stronger than he was in the start, but Touma has pretty much been the same since the beginning, and Hamazura doesn't have any powers.

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>>7999647

It adapted 2/3 of SS1. So start on volume 14. However, the anime left out most of the characterization, thoughts, action in the fights, exposition on magic and ESPer powers, politics, key plot point parts, and censored much of the content that wouldn't fit a JCStaff show. Not to mention the anime raped volumes 2 and 4 to the point that the Deep Blood arc had half of the content of the LN version and the Angel Fall arc was nearly completely rewritten. So I suggest reading the LN before you go on, but volume 14 is what you want if you are too lazy to reread them. Volume 14 hasn't been raped in terms of tenses, but 15 and 16 were.

>>7999661

As of NT2, he is tsundere for Touma and they are pretty much teamed up alongside Shiage under the leadership of Leivinia Birdway. Besides Accelerator and Etzali, there has never been a powerlevel climb and almost every character has gotten weaker over time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999678
I mean, has Accelerator finally discovered he could just fly away and drop a giant rock on Touma ? Has the hierarchy of power levels stopped climbing (aka do we know who is the strongest yet) ?

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>>7999694
Please don't expect any kind of logic in Index.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999694

The hierarchy has been really high from the beginning. What with Index, Aureolus, Accelerator, and Gabriel being introduced in the first 4 volumes. But it is pretty much set with AIWASS being the highest, followed by Aleister Crowley, and Touma with his arm cut off. According to the LNs, 2ch discussions, and charts made by 2ch.

Accelerator isn't written logically, because that would pretty much remove all tension in any situation and have it easily solvable. Similar to why Gilgamesh always makes stupid decisions in TypeMoon material.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999730
I don't think Accelerator really cares about getting at Touma now anyway does he?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7999737

Nope. He has been obsessing over him as a "hero" ever since about volume 15 and is now sided with him in NT2. He admires the fact that he can live a double life of fighting people and normal life, but is annoyed at Touma for attracting so many women and not acting serious. Shiage on the other hand is a complete bro and is inspired by Touma's harem. This is of course after they see Touma get extremely drunk to gain courage to talk to the girls who think that he is dead, somehow encounter 10 of them in rapid succession (including Awaki, who he only met once, and a catgirl who looks and acts like Nekoko (which is hilarious when you remember the artist for Index, Haimura, was the artist for Yume Miru Kusuri)), troll them, and bring them all home to his apartment.

Plus he pretty much got over that when they fought again in WW3.

[Sakura !RAILgUnr8s No.]

>>7999759
I did not really like NT2 particularly for those reasons. I hope the author does not do something like that again.

[Anonymous No.]

Why can't this be done on >>>/a/