Mission Accomplished
Editor Dan Moore, crew of Fangamer, my fellow Earthbound fans: Major combat operations in the official MOTHER 2 novelization have ended. In the battle against the Japanese language, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing this novel.
In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for peace in a world dominated by Japanese-only gaming merchandise. Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment — yet it is you, the loyal readers of this novelization blog, who have helped me achieve it. Your patience — your willingness to face dangerously long periods of time between updates — made this day possible. Because of you, our nation has one more piece of history. Because of you, the tyrant has fallen, and Earthbound: The Novel is in English.
Excerpts will continue to be posted while editing is underway. I’m setting a very rough timeline of final touches to be complete by around February, during which time I’ll also be discussing and brainstorming with others possible methods of distribution.
In the meantime, enjoy the rest of the updates, and please participate in the illustration project! I’ll do my best to keep providing the excerpts to illustrate, so you guys do your best to send in awesome novel-centric fanart!
Let me be the first to say CONGRATULATIONS!! It must be great to feel that you’re almost done the whole thing!
Wow…I didn’t even have a clue there was a novelization of the game and it’s done now that I find out. Good news for me I guess…. anyway congrats on translating it! Hope to see it published soon.
I must say, it took less time than the Mother 3 translation. Good work guys.
Ah yes, the joys of text-only translation without graphics and nightmarish programming to deal with. Unfortunately mine is not interactive, and less awesome.
I can’t wait to read this! Thanks so much for all of your work.
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I would be thrilled to submit some art for your project, or at least for you to look at.
I’ve been reading posts about this project and it seems awesome.
I love the gamees.
I’m not sure what you are looking for, but here is something I made for Starmen.net about Mother 3:
http://joshkautz.com/flint.jpg
I sincerely hope everything is going well!
Oh, so the novel will be published in US? I am all the time looking at this site and reading the posts from long ago, and I really really want to get the novel!!! But I am not from US or Japan! Do you think I can get it from Amazon? I am from Hong Kong actually, and the novel is the thing a wanted most in my life at the moment. Is it really impossible for me to get it…?
I’m proud of this fanbase.