Editing Talk:Golden Time (section)

== Things to do: ==

Retranslate summary: All I could figure out from it was that this was a romantic comedy. 

Translate first chapter.

([[User:Saganatsu|Saganatsu]])

At the moment is it just created as a teaser project - continuation is unknown... --[[User:Darklor|Darklor]] 01:40, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I hope someone picks it up. it's always good to have a variety of stories. --[[User:Saganatsu|Saganatsu]] 05:54, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

The problem is simple: I've still got over two hundred pages of Spinoff 2 to do. --[[User:Rpapo|Rpapo]] 10:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I've slightly redone the synopsis.  It would be possible to simply post the translated contents of the Japanese Wiki page, which gives a more detailed plot synopsis and a cast of characters.  The only problem with that is that there is a very important spoiler there.  Not having read the whole story, I cannot say whether that spoiler is critical, but I can certain say it is important! --[[User:Rpapo|Rpapo]] 10:08, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

My apologies if I was insulting or presumptuous in the least, I was thinking along the lines: "this is what needs to be done to qualify as a full project", not "you: go and do these things". --[[User:Saganatsu|Saganatsu]] 17:42, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 
Don't worry about it.  I was surprised when I saw that one of my earliest attempts at translating the publisher's promotional statement was posted as the story synopsis (I didn't create the web page).  I corrected it, but it really needs something a little longer and more detailed.  The Japanese Wiki page contains the following:

:College is the stage upon which the protagonist, private university freshman Tada Banri, and a cast of supporting characters are interwoven to form a romantic comedy.  Banri, due to the after-effects of an accidental fall from a bridge shortly after high school graduation, has lost all his memories from before then.  On top of that, at the time of the accident, Banri's soul had escaped from his body, and the “Spirit of Tada Banri” came into being, carrying his memories from before graduation, though you could say those were written from a male perspective.

And this:

:Tada Banri, a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo, found himself completely lost after the opening ceremony, trying to find his way to the freshman orientation.  At that moment, he ran into another lost freshman from the same school, Yanagisawa Mitsuo, and they hit it off at once.  Somehow arriving at their intended goal just on time, there appeared in front of the two a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses.  The girl then whacked Mitsuo across the face with the bouquet and handed the flowers over to him.  “Freshman, congratulations”, was all she said, and then she left.  The stylish, well dressed, perfect woman that had swung at Mitsuo was his childhood friend, Kaga Kouko.  As children they had promised to marry each other one day, fulfilling their dreams.  In order to escape from her, Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this well known private college, but now she showed up in the freshman orientation hall.  She too had taken the law school entrance examination, catching up with him there.

It is the whole thing about "Banri's Spirit" that gives the story its special twist... or should.  I have not read the five chapters between the prologue and the epilogue, just the beginning and the end.

The end of the story goes like this: 

:My name is Tada Banri.

:I’ve died, an eighteen year old boy.

:Unnoticed by anyone, without anybody knowing, I’ve always watched after Tada Banri’s affairs.  I see everybody’s affairs.

:I’m sitting in the first seat behind, taking it easy, legs stretched out.  Today the sunlight is really strong, and the classroom is warm, making everybody sleepy.  Staring at the boring back of Banri’s head, I find my eyes are closing by themselves.  I’m getting awfully sleepy.

Banri's spirit speaks of being Banri, yet speaks of the physical Banri as being a separate person.  I can only imagine what this must do the story dialog as it progresses, especially because at the beginning the reader has no idea what is going on.

--[[User:Rpapo|Rpapo]] 18:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)