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Hi, I'm a new member and I also just started Watching Katanagatari. I wanted to read the books, and in my quest to obtain a PDF or eBook in english, I cam across the whole series in Japanese with covers and insert art. Now, I don't speak Japanese, but I was hoping there would be other people who want to read Katanagatari, but couldn't find the raws. Anywho, if their is an interested Translator, please post. If there is already a Katanagatari thread, please tell me so I can go find it. Hope to hear from people soon!
-Sir Zaphael
P.S. I have all 12 volumes, but the actual pages are .gif and the insert art/cover are pdf, if that makes any difference.

I would also like to read the novels now that the anime is finished.

Baka-Tsuki has all the Monogatari series. I'd like to see Katanagatari among them. The anime is great and i want to read the LN.

Katanagatari has nothing to do with the Monogatari series.

Kitiara wrote:Baka-Tsuki has all the Monogatari series. I'd like to see Katanagatari among them. The anime is great and i want to read the LN.

this is katanagatari, not katanamonogatari

I would love to see an English translation of Katanagatari. I was a huge fan of the series when it was animated, and I'd even like to offer to help out should this become a project. My Japanese is mediocre at best, which is why I can't just do it by myself. However, my English is excellent, and if I had some help with even just general rough translations, I could take the rest from there. I previously worked on Kenji, a martial arts manga from the 80s. Like OP, I have the raws, but they are scanned as gif, which makes it a bit more difficult to look up kanji. I can work on OCR-ing them to make it easier if it helps. I have plenty of time over the next six months, at the very least, to get started.

If this can happen, please let me know. If I can help make it happen, I will.

Thanks!
- Toomin

If you know this much Japanese you could try it yourself... and ask occasionally for help here when you meet a problem...

Also translating is a good training to get better in Japanese...

Well that's just it. My Japanese is not very good at all, at least with reading. My professor in college put a lot more emphasis on speaking and conversation, so I did not learn many kanji. As a result, I would need to look a lot of this up as I go, since there are no furigana. In addition, because the raws are scanned in as png files, I can't easily highlight them and copy-paste to get the reading or meaning.

I plan on doing this project anyway, even if I can't find anyone to help out with rough translations, but it will be very very slow.

Toomin wrote:In addition, because the raws are scanned in as png files, I can't easily highlight them and copy-paste to get the reading or meaning.

Use japanese OCR (just google it)

Slow, I wouldnt really see that as a problem...

arczyx wrote:Use japanese OCR (just google it)

Thanks, I'll add it to my list. I have three different OCR programs. They each pick up different things with varying quality, so I'm able to get most of the kanji as I go. I started today, and it took a few hours to do the first page. Haha, half a year per book isn't so bad, right?

Please.. I would really like to read this light novel..

I really hope someone picks this up in a near future. It's a great anime, and the novel is a work of NisiOisin, so it should be great too. It's even weird it hasn't been translated yet.