Discussion History Manga / Bokurano

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies) and that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents for each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOtherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they have the novels, have read them, are translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs! They\\\'re probably behind the complete reshuffling of the story as well!

EDIT: Scans!

So.

[[http://i35.tinypic.com/2nqy8t5.jpg Volume 1]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/1q027l.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/2m45bwp.jpg Chapter 1: The Teacher]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/2a7bg2r.jpg Chapter 2: Kozue]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/213p6kx.jpg Chapter 3: Kako]]. [[http://i38.tinypic.com/1sk4r8.jpg Chapter 4: Tsubasa]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/2zg9sfn.jpg Maya gives Moji some bad ideas (Japanese-literate tropers will note the reference to the plank of Carneades).]]

[[http://i37.tinypic.com/2wbyqmt.jpg Volume 2]]. [[http://i34.tinypic.com/2ryriwm.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/535udw.jpg Chapter 5: Waku]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/21cz2ag.jpg Chizu tries to \\\"cheer Waku up\\\".]] [[http://i38.tinypic.com/5kfziw.jpg Chapter 6: Chizu]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/29nidk8.jpg Chapter 7: Kirie]].

[[http://i34.tinypic.com/4rdt7r.jpg Volume 3]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/9iwqir.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i35.tinypic.com/2evupg7.jpg Chapter 8: Kodama]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/mv3dw1.jpg Kodama won his fight, which is very bad news for Daichi and his siblings: Daichi ceases to exist before he can even end his sentence.]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/28jehxs.jpg Chapter 9: Mako]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/5ofl8m.jpg Mako visits her mother\\\'s tomb with Tatara (yes, her/Nakama\\\'s client from the manga).]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/69hte8.jpg Chapter 10: Anko]].

[[http://i35.tinypic.com/okmu5f.jpg Volume 4]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/5aes11.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i38.tinypic.com/auc9d2.jpg Chapter 11: Komo-Kana (1)]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/fut854.jpg Kana apologizes to her brother just before dying]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/14b3h3c.jpg Ushiro thinks it\\\'s just a bad joke and kicks her corpse (!!), but she\\\'s really dead, as she, not Komo, was the pilot.]] Chapter 12: Komo-Kana (2) (same illustration, so I didn\\\'t think a scan was necessary). [[http://i36.tinypic.com/6tlezc.jpg The last pages of the chapter, right before Komo kills the enemy pilot (Maki).]] [[http://i35.tinypic.com/24wd0yt.jpg Chapter 13: Maria]]. [[http://i35.tinypic.com/2cx8ao7.jpg Kana still being dead.]]

[[http://i33.tinypic.com/33trvva.jpg Volume 5]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/288ppar.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/sy9kj9.jpg Chapter 14: Kanji]]. [[http://i35.tinypic.com/bcvvo.jpg Kanji\\\'s dream: featuring slightly older Kanji, Waku and Kozue (sans wheelchair).]] [[http://i37.tinypic.com/34foc5e.jpg This picture can\\\'t have been taken in 2026, according to (older) Maki: one inconsistency among many, in that dream.]] [[http://i35.tinypic.com/2itijd1.jpg Chapter 15: Miku]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/2hf5kcw.jpg Maya muses that, if she hadn\\\'t been there for him, Ushiro might have had sex with his sister\\\'s corpse (she\\\'s still very much dead).]] [[http://i36.tinypic.com/xemuz8.jpg Moji becomes a pilot... \\\'\\\'or does he?\\\'\\\']] [[http://i38.tinypic.com/24xnwcn.jpg Maya/Miku and Tanaka, during the penultimate fight.]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/1e9c7o.jpg Epilogue: Ushiro]].

Ideally, I would have scanned more, but I didn\\\'t want to bother (... \\\'\\\'too much\\\'\\\') the friend who helped me out with those. \\\'Should be enough to compare with my summaries above, and with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 Amanda\\\'s completely different list of chapters]]. And like I said above, Kana definitely died. She wasn\\\'t [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano \\\"spared from her fate\\\"]]. But it\\\'s amusing to see [[http://community.livejournal.com/bokurano_ooc/38003.html uninstall_earth\\\'s attempt at justifying the covers]]... And Japanese-literate tropers can also have fun comparing [[http://i38.tinypic.com/217slt.jpg the first pages of chapter 1]] to [[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q5d3Zo753nUJ:taka-waku.livejournal.com/1408.html Amanda\\\'s chapter 1]] (as cached by Google, as I can\\\'t be bothered to add Amanda as a \\\"friend\\\", really).

Bonus track: [[http://i33.tinypic.com/16bkjsm.jpg two pages about the novel series]], from the \\\'\\\'Bokurano Official Book\\\'\\\'. Some explanations about the cast (how Nakama became Ano Mako / Mako, for example), but nothing about that supposed \\\"other series of novels\\\", strangely enough. You\\\'d think they\\\'d want to clarify things a bit regarding that: they have the exact same covers, after all! And papy.co.jp listed the wrong table of contents, too! And they also got it wrong when they quoted the first pages of volumes 1 and 2! How confusing and misleading! Amanda should really tell them about all that, so they could \\\"correct their mistakes\\\"...

Now, the parody booklet.

[[http://i36.tinypic.com/28vfwy1.jpg The original page]] and [[http://i33.tinypic.com/2zjg75u.jpg Amanda\\\'s \\\"translation\\\"]]. I went over that one a couple of times already in previous messages.

[[http://i33.tinypic.com/2e5te2w.jpg The original \\\"Fujiko Fujio\\\" gag]] and [[http://i36.tinypic.com/2ahy29s.jpg what Amanda turned it into, being only able to understand the letters \\\"A\\\" and \\\"F\\\"]]. On the opposite page, \\\"ball wa tomodachi\\\" / \\\"the ball is my friend\\\", an obvious reference to \\\'\\\'Captain Tsubasa\\\'\\\' and an \\\'\\\'elementary\\\'\\\' Japanese sentence, [[http://i33.tinypic.com/mt73tf.jpg also proved to be far too complex for Amanda\\\'s translation skills]].

I don\\\'t know if she missed the \\\"5\\\" in [[http://i33.tinypic.com/fxgjex.jpg \\\"5 nen go?\\\" / \\\"5 years later?\\\"]] or simply couldn\\\'t come up with a sentence with a \\\"5\\\" in it, but [[http://i38.tinypic.com/1acsh.jpg here\\\'s what she went with]]. Of course, she couldn\\\'t translate Waku\\\'s line either, so she just made something up about Chizu\\\'s story having been meant for Nakama. Because misleading people with BS \\\"author\\\'s notes\\\" is so much fun. Japanese-literate tropers are welcome to theorize about how she managed to come up with [[http://i35.tinypic.com/17fv9c.jpg that]], for the opposite page.

Of course, the \\\'\\\'whole\\\'\\\' translation is completely bogus. Those were just some examples.

Incidentally, I think it\\\'s cute how [[http://community.livejournal.com/bokurano_ooc/46834.html Amanda (as \\\"takashi_waku\\\") and Dragon Ninja Ari (as \\\"brthrs_watchdog\\\") criticize Viz for editing some pages of the manga in the English version]]. I mean, I don\\\'t like that kind of stuff either, but at least, I know why they\\\'re doing it: naked kids. Why did Amanda and Dragon Ninja Ari [[http://i34.tinypic.com/2nu58bb.jpg crop]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/vwz9s6.jpg a page of that booklet]] though? \\\'Beats me. Amanda couldn\\\'t think of some joke to put there? They didn\\\'t like the Kodama/Komo pairing? It really is a mystery. At the end, you\\\'ll also note how \\\"chinmari\\\" became, once translated into English, \\\"Oniichan!\\\" The mystery never ends.

As for the epilogue... Well, there\\\'s not much to say. Only four sentences, after all. And none of them were correctly translated. [[http://community.livejournal.com/bokurano_ooc/24969.html At all.]]

Just in case someone decides to stealth-edit something: [[http://i44.tinypic.com/2mrzl35.jpg page 1]] -> \\\"Bokurano ~ One Year\\\'s Passing ~\\\" and \\\"One Year Later\\\", [[http://i43.tinypic.com/bedel1.jpg page 3]] -> \\\"A face I was happy to see.\\\", [[http://i41.tinypic.com/24yxw94.jpg page 4]] -> \\\"A planet on which children are children.\\\", [[http://i44.tinypic.com/2mzsl3.jpg page 6]] -> \\\"The end of the very long battle.\\\"

But she\\\'s \\\'\\\'totally\\\'\\\' translating a series of Japanese novels, you guys! And it\\\'s that \\\'\\\'other\\\'\\\' series of novels nobody\\\'s ever heard of. \\\'\\\'Naturally\\\'\\\'.

Hopefully, this will be the final nail in the coffin of those hoaxes, but if some Japanese-literate tropers want to comment on the whole affair...?

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies) and that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents for each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOtherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they have the novels, have read them, are translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs! They\\\'re probably behind the complete reshuffling of the story as well!

EDIT: Scans!

So.

[[http://i35.tinypic.com/2nqy8t5.jpg Volume 1]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/1q027l.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/2m45bwp.jpg Chapter 1: The Teacher]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/2a7bg2r.jpg Chapter 2: Kozue]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/213p6kx.jpg Chapter 3: Kako]]. [[http://i38.tinypic.com/1sk4r8.jpg Chapter 4: Tsubasa]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/2zg9sfn.jpg Maya gives Moji some bad ideas (Japanese-literate tropers will note the reference to the plank of Carneades).]]

[[http://i37.tinypic.com/2wbyqmt.jpg Volume 2]]. [[http://i34.tinypic.com/2ryriwm.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/535udw.jpg Chapter 5: Waku]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/21cz2ag.jpg Chizu tries to \\\"cheer Waku up\\\".]] [[http://i38.tinypic.com/5kfziw.jpg Chapter 6: Chizu]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/29nidk8.jpg Chapter 7: Kirie]].

[[http://i34.tinypic.com/4rdt7r.jpg Volume 3]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/9iwqir.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i35.tinypic.com/2evupg7.jpg Chapter 8: Kodama]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/mv3dw1.jpg Kodama won his fight, which is very bad news for Daichi and his siblings: Daichi ceases to exist before he can even end his sentence.]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/28jehxs.jpg Chapter 9: Mako]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/5ofl8m.jpg Mako visits her mother\\\'s tomb with Tatara (yes, her/Nakama\\\'s client from the manga).]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/69hte8.jpg Chapter 10: Anko]].

[[http://i35.tinypic.com/okmu5f.jpg Volume 4]]. [[http://i33.tinypic.com/5aes11.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i38.tinypic.com/auc9d2.jpg Chapter 11: Komo-Kana (1)]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/fut854.jpg Kana apologizes to her brother just before dying]]. [[http://i36.tinypic.com/14b3h3c.jpg Ushiro thinks it\\\'s just a bad joke and kicks her corpse (!!), but she\\\'s really dead, as she, not Komo, was the pilot.]] Chapter 12: Komo-Kana (2) (same illustration, so I didn\\\'t think a scan was necessary). [[http://i36.tinypic.com/6tlezc.jpg The last pages of the chapter, right before Komo kills the enemy pilot (Maki).]] [[http://i35.tinypic.com/24wd0yt.jpg Chapter 13: Maria]]. [[http://i35.tinypic.com/2cx8ao7.jpg Kana still being dead.]]

[[http://i33.tinypic.com/33trvva.jpg Volume 5]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/288ppar.jpg Table of contents]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/sy9kj9.jpg Chapter 14: Kanji]]. [[http://i35.tinypic.com/bcvvo.jpg Kanji\\\'s dream: featuring slightly older Kanji, Waku and Kozue (sans wheelchair).]] [[http://i37.tinypic.com/34foc5e.jpg This picture can\\\'t have been taken in 2026, according to (older) Maki: one inconsistency among many, in that dream.]] [[http://i35.tinypic.com/2itijd1.jpg Chapter 15: Miku]]. [[http://i37.tinypic.com/2hf5kcw.jpg Maya muses that, if she hadn\\\'t been there for him, Ushiro might have had sex with his sister\\\'s corpse (she\\\'s still very much dead).]] [[http://i36.tinypic.com/xemuz8.jpg Moji becomes a pilot... \\\'\\\'or does he?\\\'\\\']] [[http://i38.tinypic.com/24xnwcn.jpg Maya/Miku and Tanaka, during the penultimate fight.]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/1e9c7o.jpg Epilogue: Ushiro]].

Ideally, I would have scanned more, but I didn\\\'t want to bother (... \\\'\\\'too much\\\'\\\') the friend who helped me out with those. \\\'Should be enough to compare with my summaries above, and with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 Amanda\\\'s completely different list of chapters]]. And like I said above, Kana definitely died. She wasn\\\'t [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano \\\"spared from her fate\\\"]]. But it\\\'s amusing to see [[http://community.livejournal.com/bokurano_ooc/38003.html uninstall_earth\\\'s attempt at justifying the covers]]... And Japanese-literate tropers can also have fun comparing [[http://i38.tinypic.com/217slt.jpg the first pages of chapter 1]] to [[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q5d3Zo753nUJ:taka-waku.livejournal.com/1408.html Amanda\\\'s chapter 1]] (as cached by Google, as I can\\\'t be bothered to add Amanda as a \\\"friend\\\", really).

Bonus track: [[http://i33.tinypic.com/16bkjsm.jpg two pages about the novel series]], from the \\\'\\\'Bokurano Official Book\\\'\\\'. Some explanations about the cast (how Nakama became Ano Mako / Mako, for example), but nothing about that supposed \\\"other series of novels\\\", strangely enough. You\\\'d think they\\\'d want to clarify things a bit regarding that: they have the exact same covers, after all! And papy.co.jp listed the wrong table of contents, too! And they also got it wrong when they quoted the first pages of volumes 1 and 2! How confusing and misleading! Amanda should really tell them about all that, so they could \\\"correct their mistakes\\\"...

Now, the parody booklet.

[[http://i36.tinypic.com/28vfwy1.jpg The original page]] and [[http://i33.tinypic.com/2zjg75u.jpg Amanda\\\'s \\\"translation\\\"]]. I went over that one a couple of times already in previous messages.

[[http://i33.tinypic.com/2e5te2w.jpg The original \\\"Fujiko Fujio\\\" gag]] and [[http://i36.tinypic.com/2ahy29s.jpg what Amanda turned it into, being only able to understand the letters \\\"A\\\" and \\\"F\\\"]]. On the opposite page, \\\"ball wa tomodachi\\\" / \\\"the ball is my friend\\\", an obvious reference to \\\'\\\'Captain Tsubasa\\\'\\\' and an \\\'\\\'elementary\\\'\\\' Japanese sentence, [[http://i33.tinypic.com/mt73tf.jpg also proved to be far too complex for Amanda\\\'s translation skills]].

I don\\\'t know if she missed the \\\"5\\\" in [[http://i33.tinypic.com/fxgjex.jpg \\\"5 nen go?\\\" / \\\"5 years later?\\\"]] or simply couldn\\\'t come up with a sentence with a \\\"5\\\" in it, but [[http://i38.tinypic.com/1acsh.jpg here\\\'s what she went with]]. Of course, she couldn\\\'t translate Waku\\\'s line either, so she just made something up about Chizu\\\'s story having been meant for Nakama. Because misleading people with BS \\\"author\\\'s notes\\\" is so much fun. Japanese-literate tropers are welcome to theorize about how she managed to come up with [[http://i35.tinypic.com/17fv9c.jpg that]], for the opposite page.

Of course, the \\\'\\\'whole\\\'\\\' translation is completely bogus. Those were just some examples.

Incidentally, I think it\\\'s cute how [[http://community.livejournal.com/bokurano_ooc/46834.html Amanda (as \\\"takashi_waku\\\") and Dragon Ninja Ari (as \\\"brthrs_watchdog\\\") criticize Viz for editing some pages of the manga in the English version]]. I mean, I don\\\'t like that kind of stuff either, but at least, I know why they\\\'re doing it: naked kids. Why did Amanda and Dragon Ninja Ari [[http://i34.tinypic.com/2nu58bb.jpg crop]] [[http://i33.tinypic.com/vwz9s6.jpg a page of that booklet]] though? \\\'Beats me. Amanda couldn\\\'t think of some joke to put there? They didn\\\'t like the Kodama/Komo pairing? It really is a mystery.

As for the epilogue... Well, there\\\'s not much to say. Only four sentences, after all. And none of them were correctly translated. [[http://community.livejournal.com/bokurano_ooc/24969.html At all.]]

Just in case someone decides to stealth-edit something: [[http://i44.tinypic.com/2mrzl35.jpg page 1]] -> \\\"Bokurano ~ One Year\\\'s Passing ~\\\" and \\\"One Year Later\\\", [[http://i43.tinypic.com/bedel1.jpg page 3]] -> \\\"A face I was happy to see.\\\", [[http://i41.tinypic.com/24yxw94.jpg page 4]] -> \\\"A planet on which children are children.\\\", [[http://i44.tinypic.com/2mzsl3.jpg page 6]] -> \\\"The end of the very long battle.\\\"

But she\\\'s \\\'\\\'totally\\\'\\\' translating a series of Japanese novels, you guys! And it\\\'s that \\\'\\\'other\\\'\\\' series of novels nobody\\\'s ever heard of. \\\'\\\'Naturally\\\'\\\'.

Hopefully, this will be the final nail in the coffin of those hoaxes, but if some Japanese-literate tropers want to comment on the whole affair...?

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies) and that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents for each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOtherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they have the novels, have read them, are translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs! They\\\'re probably behind the complete reshuffling of the story as well!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies) and that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents for each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOtherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs! They\\\'re probably behind the complete reshuffling of the story as well!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies) and that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents for each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOtherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents for each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOtherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents of each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOtherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents of each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatOTherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]]. Hell, papy.co.jp even lists the table of contents of each volume, and of course the chapters fit with my summary above, \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' with Amanda\\\'s fanfiction ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bokurano:_Ours&diff=323831631&oldid=322348592 her attempt to \\\"correct\\\" the table of contents]] on ThatoTherWiki).

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebook shop that lets you download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]].

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebookshop that allows to download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]].

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain why Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebookshop that allows to download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]].

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain how Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phones all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.

The \\\'\\\'Bokurano\\\'\\\' ebooks that are available on papy.co.jp (indeed an ebookshop that allows to download novels to your cell phone for a fee... that happens to be something I explained to Ari myself three weeks ago, before that livejournal with the translation was locked to \\\"non-friends\\\", so it\\\'s nice to see her make use of that info!) are these: [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123860/ volume 1]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123861/ volume 2]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123862/ volume 3]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-123863/ volume 4]], [[http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-128197/ volume 5]], and they\\\'re naturally \\\'\\\'the exact same books\\\'\\\' that I own (as hardcopies), or that could be ordered on, say, Kinokuniya: [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510087.html volume 1]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510206.html volume 2]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510265.html volume 3]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510419.html volume 4]], [[http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4094510753.html volume 5]].

So after that ridiculous \\\"the illustrations have nothing to do with the story!\\\" (which, I guess, would be the only way to explain how Kana is shown to be dead twice in those illustrations despite the fact [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustBugsMe/Bokurano she\\\'s supposedly \\\"spared from her fate\\\" according to Amanda and co]]), they now apparently expect people to buy the idea that they had the novels, had read them, were translating them / helping with the translation... and just now realized they had that series on their cell phone all along! I guess we should also surmise that the gibberish \\\"Japanese\\\" that was quoted by uninstall_earth was the result of a freakish bug. Same thing for the illustrations, I guess, since they\\\'ve been talking about them despite the fact they\\\'re not included in the ebook version, as explained on papy.co.jp (\\\"この作品は廉価版です。廉価版にイラストは収録されておりません。ご了承ください。\\\"). Pesky bugs!

Anyway, I should have those scans before the end of the week.