[Cover] Del Rey's Soryuden the Novel: Book One

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Just noticed that Amazon.com posted the cover to Del Rey's Soryuden the Novel. Book One will be out April 28th.

And a scans roundup:
Some more HQ scans of the Mutuality artbook have shown up at moe.

An HQ scan of the xxxHolic-Tsubasa Newtype article was posted back here by yamisakura38.

And just recently, the HQ scans of the Kobato anime Newtype article was posted by saa-chan at her website.

Comments

[marine-maiden.livejournal.com]

Ara~~ Thanks for the news! XDDD

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Del Rey Souryuuden what?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

del rey licensed the soryuden novels a while back; the clamp-illustrated ones. i think there are 13 books...i wonder if the sales will be large enough for them to actually release them all. i've seen various artbook scans, but i have no idea what the story is about. :)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I'm translating the manga...which I didn't know existed...for BWYS at the moment. It's amusing, I'll say that much.

OH FOR 90S CLAMP WHEN ALL THE MEN HAD PERFECT TRIANGLE TORSOS

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

manga? haha, i didn't know that existed, too. is that the one-volume version? i looked on amazon and saw the white with 4 guys cover (創竜伝原画集) and figured that that might be the manga.

the 13 volume novels is 創竜伝. it spans from 1993 to 2007, so the artwork features the lovely triangle torsos and then progresses to the elongated limbs.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the head of BWYS, was like "will you translate Souryuuden?" and since I'm in it for the translation practice rather than anything else, I was like, "Sure!" and then I opened it up and saw that it was CLAMP. Which is great because their manga are easy to translate by and large, they have a very limited vocabulary (it's great how they marry the emotionalism of shoujo with the non-talking and action of shonen. i read shonen that is way more talky than CLAMP).

I think the manga's unfinished, I just translated what I was told is the third and final chapter and it ends on a cliffhanger.

[firedryad.livejournal.com]

(Chara from BWYS here)

D: it ends in a cliffhanger? Noooo.

The manga is supposed to be finished-- I guess... maybe after you read the one-volume manga, you're supposed to go back to reading the books or something?

Cover is this (http://bwys.org/projects/volumecovers/soryuden.jpg) for anyone who was wondering.


We'll release the first chapter over this holdiay season. I'm thinking Christmas, probably. Will post it in CLAMP NOW if I do.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yup, it ends with Hajime looking sexy and dangerous (inasmuch as he can) and worried about Owaru.

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I wonder if the novel will continue past its second volume.