I have raws of the manga up through chapter 72. The translations only go to chapter 52 (which just came out). Anyway, something happens in chapter 62 (in volume 12) about which I am intensely curious, and I need some help from someone who can read Japanese.

Here's the background:

Somehow, Vivio has found a new transformation. Instead of her "Adult Mode" in which her jacket is white, the new one (with a dark jacket) is her "Sankt Kaiser" mode, which we originally saw in StrikerS when she was in the throne room of the Cradle. It took everything Nanoha had to defeat her in that form, and Raising Heart was badly damaged in the fight.

After they found Fried's book in the library and read it, Einhart has been moping around big time. She's doing a lot of crying, and she's keeping to herself, and it's just not very good. Vivio challenges her to another fight, which would be their third. Einhart won the first two (near the beginning of the series) but this time it's different. Vivio uses her Sankt Kaiser mode and gives Einhart a pretty royal beating. They also talk about some things; Vivio talks about the fact that she was created to be the pilot of the cradle, and talks about how Nanoha was able to free her from that fate. And at the end Vivio knocks Einhart cold. When she wakes up, she smiles for the very first time in the series, and then there are teary hugs all around. I'm interested in that fight, too, but that's not my question at this time.

Later, the first time Nove is with Vivio and Einhart isn't around, Nove chews her out. It's as angry as we ever see Nove get. What I want to know is what Nove is so angry about. Here are the six pages in which this happens:

Page 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151

Could someone who can read it tell me what Nove is saying?

UPDATE: That third fight, and Einhart's defeat, seems to have been a life-changing event for Einhart. After that she smiles quite a lot; I conjecture that it began the process of freeing her from Klaus's memories.

UPDATE: What's been driving Einhart all this time was the memory of Klaus not being able to save Olivie from becoming the pilot of the Cradle and being consumed by it. I wonder if what changes her is the knowledge that Vivio actually was saved from the Cradle, along with the knowledge that the Cradle has been destroyed? Einhart didn't do it, but if Vivio is a proxy for Olivie in Einhart's mind, then she knows that someone succeeded, and now Einhart herself doesn't have to. Not being able to read it, that's my wild assed guess.

UPDATE: Just to make clear: I'm not begging for a literal translation; just a summary, two or three sentences, would be fine.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 10:19 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
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