Naruto Official Character/Plot dossier!

[Kiel]

Guess what I just bought in Chinatown!

In Japan, Jump Comics has released three official fan books documenting Naruto characters and their exploits through the manga. These are complete with statistics, names of character's parents and relatives, family trees, maps...oh those glorious maps, and much more!

I just bought the third one today, which cronicles the fourth and fifth seasons of the Naruto anime (end of Chuunin exam arc, Finding Tsunade arc, and Chasing Sasuke arc).

It's so freakin awesome! I am now a total knowledge geek!

Ah, but the kicker is the entire thing is in Japanese.

I can read it...but understanding what I read is a little trickier.

I'll be posting scans of the more interesting bits as I find them ^^

[Tranquility]

That sounds cool.

[Kiel]

It is...but it's crazy hard to translate...lots of Katakana which I don't recognise.

But I've learned the names of several characters who since hadn't had any names...

[SeraphMazrakiel]

Ooh, sounds awesome.

Post some up. As a former student of Japanese, I can read katakana pretty easily. XD

[Kiel]

Oooh, that's cool.

I'll scan some pages as soon as possible.

[Kiri]

Ooh, sounds neat!! I can't wait to see. ^__^

*and glomps Kiel*

[Kiel]

Aaaah!

*glomped*

[Tensei Kaori]

That's AWESOME! I wish I had books like that!

[Kiri]

^___^ <3

[Kiel]

It's getting progressively harder and harder to translate.

There's a lot of sentence structure that I don't understand, simply because it's so dense.

Most of the things I've gotten out of it are little sayings the characters have, and bits from the manga. The actual descriptions and things remain untouched...due to incomprehensableness...yeah.

[Tensei Kaori]

Maybe you could scan some of the more difficult pages so others who are interested can try to translate them? I know there are several people on the boards that know at least a little bit of Japanese, and at least one who can speak and read more than "just a little bit".

[Kiel]

Oooh, that'd be cool.

I'll see what I can do.