I bought a digital copy of Die Zwillinge a few months back and ran it through Google Translate with some extra editing for clarity. Apologies in advance, even with my editing it's still unclear at parts and I do not wish to spend any more time working on it. It is readable, just a little hard to understand. Hopefully a proper JP > ENG translation could happen eventually.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ito3lX0N2IU4Q2Bqme0mOxuJRIp1jZ4jI9USCvNab68/edit?usp=sharing

>>11210
I'll like those scans since I'm unable to buy physical copies and digital copies do not exist. I'll try to do a document for those but since I will have to manually write and search for kanji it will probably take a few months of work which honestly I will do since I really want to read these.

>>11212
Sweet, awesome work!

I'll start scanning the text for you. I've now got Kalkgrün Augen and Schwarzer Wind.

I really appreciate the translation as I want to read these novels too.

I'm also keen make these novels into epubs, which I guess makes sense after they're fully scanned

Here's Kalkgrun Augen:

https://mega.nz/#!ubQQ0aLB!_Kdw6cZ_xd15WFhjhc-NLmv5LhYoTHqaMkhhDBvtIW8

This time I didn't do any post processing on the pages with text, only the images.

I'll do Schwarzer Wind tomorrow, and that will be all the offical RM novels scanned

>>11215
>>11216
I can't wait to labor over this for the next few months or so. I learned a lot from doing Zwillinge (which is why the quality is super bad at first) so these last 2 should come out a bit better.

Here's Schwarzer Wind:

https://mega.nz/#!PSAnmSzD!vwHD1sbn6ZTKiirFOXrtVJ4NspFJ-6SlIB3SLYOsXSs

If there are any pages which I've missed or aren't good enough, just let me know and I'll get another scan

>>10945

brb yelling at host

>>10946
should be fixed now

>>10940
can someone reupload these files??

>>10946

The FTP has been down for a while (I've been checking). Any way we can get it back up? Love to help if I can

>>11196

this link works
https://mega.nz/#!qBEC0aKR!scDfd58hZuOOIJT4JyYt7_Kqk6IHc0wZRzLlfTEnWBU

>>11161
Suigintou, if I could become more to her than just a power source. But it would be a gamble, because I would have made a grave mistake if I never grew on her...

Hinaichigo. She's just too cute.

>You won't ever get slapped by Shinku when you forgot that it is tea time
>You won't ever eat even a single egg omelette with Kanaria
>You won't ever get abducted by Hina

Why even live?

Fuck the cruel god that's keeping me apart from Souseiseki.

Alice is the only correct choice.

If we ever do see another anime I can see it happening in one of 2 ways:
One, the Japanese feel nostalgia for Rozen Maiden enough for a readaptation of the first manga. However, I do not feel that this is likely for a few more years.
Two, Rozen Maiden 0 is doing well enough for a studio to take interest in adapting it. The earliest I can see this outcome happening is roughly once volume 4 comes out, by then there should be enough story to adapt.
However, I wouldn't get my hopes up. The 2013 anime bombed so bad that I worry studios won't consider ever touching Rozen Maiden again.

thats a big OOF

>>11170
Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE a new Rozen Maiden anime, I just don't think it's likely unless a miracle happens.
If it's any comfort I've seen a lot of Japanese Twitter users talk about wanting another anime too.

well lets just hope that it happens in the future.

I just want a continuation of the 2004 series so I can see if Souseiseki and Hinaichigo get revived.

did Megu died?

This last bonus chapter was nice. it was strange seeing Kira and Shinku appearing at the same time.

>11192

I want a S3, but i can't see of where they can take the series.

They left S2 in a weird place. With the Alice game concluded, there's no more doll conflict. And with a happy Jun wanting to go to Africa to get rocks to make a new Rosa Mystica. If they pick up RM3 there an African setting won't suit rozen maiden well.

It would have been nice if they had ended RM2 with a bitter sweet ending, and left out the whole open ended african rocks thing. Having an unwound Jun with a useless doll would have been a nice touch. Having the reader wonder if he was imagining it the whole time due to severe social isolation would have more of a punch to it.

Rozen Maiden works well with an underlying physiological void that the themes are extracted from. Having RM3 start fresh, or a spin off, would mean they could take more creative liberties. They could have Jun making dolls of his own, and this could be the basis of the next series.

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>>11200
interesting views. i think they could expand a bit more on the metaphysical topics of the series. all this about n-fields, the laplace demon etc. these things have always been just taken as granted and that's it. well but it will take aeons, if it should ever happen. if at all, they will first make an anime of the rest, then some day an anime about 0, maybe then a continuation.

>>11200
I used to really want a conclusion to the main manga, but as you've said, it left off on a strange place. The most they could answer with it is if Jun succeeds in making Shinku a new Rosa Mystica. Although, I suppose, they could also get into what the humans did after the game ended and what exactly the dolls are doing now that the game is over. Overall, it had a good run and I can at least imagine what ended up happening. If the bonus chapter is to be interpreted this way, then it seems Jun did make Shinku a new Rosa Mystica after all.

However, and I won't get into it much due to translations being behind so I do not want to spoil much for anyone, but I think between the manga continuities I would rather RM0 get a new manga. RM0 is apparently a prequel but so many of the details contradict what happens later on in the main manga. I would like if Peach-Pit could at least better connect it to the timeline, new manga or not, because as it stands right now, you can skip reading RM0 and miss out on literally nothing relevant to the manga later on.

>an African setting won't suit rozen maiden well

I disagree. We've already had some fairly strange settings happen: 1920's Japan (Rozen Maiden 0), 1890's Britain (Rot-Schwarz lightnovel, although this is an estimation), and late 1500's Holy Roman Empire (Zwillinge lightnovel, an estimation as well). Peach-Pit could totally do a modern day African setting and still have it be the introverted Rozen Maiden that we know if they wanted to.

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>>11202
I bought the two novels, though i don't speak moon speak. I hope to scan them and translate them.

lol that is creepy

haha this is amazing

>no Desu panties

missed an opportunity for a sale guys, ya blew it

>>11193

>the right half of the bra is red, the other is green

They'd never do it for the meme but I'm imagining it nonetheless. Desutiddies.

>>11193
>>11194

>i'll never get to wear official Suiseiseki underwear

>>3127
danke.

ancient shit

It definitely adds a lot to the story from the few tidbits of what I have seen. Since it has multiple endings that can answer a few what-ifs, like if NW!Jun accepted Kira's offer or Jun somehow entered Suigintou's dream again. Unfortunately there is no translations out there as of rn. But if you know Japanese I would say it is worth it.

Just came here to post this too. I'm so surprised. I can't wait to see how the Suigintou figure turns out!

I can already tell that the Suigintou figure is going to sell like hotcakes even in the chance that the prototype/finished product looks a little off. I've never heard of this company before so I hope they do both characters good and hopefully make new figs for the other dolls too

About damn time.

Yeah I was also really bothered about Megu dying at the end. Like the other poster, I think Suigintou was going to help Megu. Feels like Suigintou never got the happy ending she deserved with a master who cared about her. Suigintou getting revived after she promised to be with Megu in death also seemed a little cruel.

I'm hoping we'd get a continuation that would show us how Suigintou copes in the long run (she'll likely be fine I suppose), but I guess it will be a while before we see anything like that since we've got RM Zero now which is a prequel.

I think that the indication of labia (again like the other poster said, it's not their vagina) is pretty normal. Some real life dolls have that indication, just like some male dolls will have a slight bulge indicated on the front. I think even kids' barbie dolls have that.

Glad you liked the manga, hope you enjoy your stay here desu

>>11176

>Suigintou getting revived after she promised to be with Megu in death also seemed a little cruel

That's actually a really interesting point that I've never seen brought up in discussions about Megu and Suigintou's relationship. Granted, none of them consented to being revived, but yeah I could see Suigintou having issue with it.

>it will be a while before we see anything like that since we've got RM Zero now which is a prequel.

I think everyone was expecting a prequel when it was announced because of the 0 in the title but views have changed since. We found out that the 0 in the title was actually in reference to a previously unknown character. There's also been a lot of strange tidbits that do not work if this story is a prequel such as Souseiseki being familiar with the name Yuibishi, Suigintou's personality not being like the ice queen she was in the first manga, and this whole "find Shinku" plotpoint feeling awfully similar to the set-up at the end of the second manga among other oddities. It's not officially confirmed what it is, so I think it's likely to be another stealth sequel.

Honestly, I am actually glad Megu died. I would prefer that over whatever ass-pull they would have to cure her. Like I'm sorry Suigintou, but replacing a human heart with a stone, no matter how magical, is not a good idea please take a biology class. And having Jun do stuff to cure her would have feel like being in bad taste.
BUT, having Suigintou do the finishing blow to her was a bit much. Having them live together and enjoy what little life Megu had left, would have been much nicer. Our little crow of a doll is kinda just becoming PP's despair cushion to keep the other dolls from being sad unfortunately.

As for the labia, eh, Rozen is a master doll maker it would be weirder if he didn't include it. At least the only time we see it is on headless bodies so it doesn't feel like an attempt to sexualize or give fan-service.

OOF

Damn i thought this manga was gonna get all freaky at some point but i guess i was wrong....RIP Lol