Well, our cleaner/typesetter for the Ordinal Scale manga has finally finished with his exam hell, so we can get back to releasing OS chapters again. And just in time to commemorate Professor Shigemura's birthday (and me getting my uni diploma) with a release!
This chapter covers the battle against Waheela the Black Wolf (the 28th Floor Boss), Eiji inviting Kirito to a duel at the stadium, and Kazuto getting kendo lessons from Suguha (1:24:16-1:26:40 from the movie).
The manga skipped the filler riding scene to the battle against Waheela, but in turn expanded the boss battle itself: both the venue and the boss get explicitly named in the manga; Yui appears to share information on the boss; we get slightly longer background player lines and we get Kirito's monologues on his strategy and what he's feeling. For some reason, instead of focusing on Kirito's HP bar when he gets spiked, the manga instead chose to focus on the curvy lines which apparently depict the player's mental state. More focus on the fact that it's the mental state that's important, rather than the player's HP, I guess? Subjective changes include what I believe is a better drawing of Waheela and a more pissed looking YUNA. The manga is also more generous with its rewards for the battle, giving Kirito 10,000 points instead of just a measly 37 that the movie had given him (you would assume that the movie was trying to show how much Kirito increased his rank... but 47->9 should be 38 ranks, rather than 37). For some reason, the manga changed Eiji's line from Eiji remarking about Kirito learning how to fight in the game to a remark about Kirito getting used to his real body. The manga Eiji also decided to be more considerate and include when the concert will be taking place in his message. Finally, the dojo scene with Kazuto and Suguha got expanded a bit, with Kazuto already suspecting that something was amiss with how Eiji had been able to predict his moves. Next time, we're getting the showdown between Kirito and Eiji at the stadium.
On a side note, this chapter also had another Asuna diary entry that the movie subs didn't bother translating. So, enjoy the little extra.
Finally, a standard thank you to all of those who contributed to the SAO Scans project for helping us get the raws.
-Gsimenas
Credits
Raws: SAO ScansTranslation: Gsimenas
Redrawing, typesetting: Nguyên Milk and Mttblue2
Thanks for the translated 😍
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