[OS] Extra Chapter 2




Another week, another translation. Seeing as I'm on vacation now and can't really work on long text stories, I don't plan any more Sugary Days releases for this week or the next one. Since I can't work on Sugary Days right now, I guess we'll have to do with manga releases for now. So, it's about time we release a Hopeful Chant manga chapter! (especially since we don't really have anything else that could be released until I'm back home).

Although Extra Chapter 1 from volume 3 of the Ordinal Scale manga featured a slight glimpse of the Ordinal Scale prologue story of Hopeful Chant, Extra Chapter 2 is where the manga adaptation begins in earnest. This chapter adapts the entirety of part 3 of Hopeful Chant and covers part 1 of the story in a flashback (but the manga specifically chooses to focus on Nautilus and Yuna, so Kirito's deban and worldbuilding details get scrapped entirely). There were a few changes to the original story here and there (mostly just extra lines of dialogue or turning narration exposition into a dialogue/flashback), but nothing significant. And seeing as I was the translator of the original Hopeful Chant as well, I took this chance to revise the dialogue of the original translation while working on the manga adaptation. Might need to get around to cleaning up the narration as well someday.

Technically, Extra Chapter 3 was originally released right after Extra Chapter 2 and only then followed by chapter 15 (since the manga artist realised he had to finish up the main story quick at that point). However, in the tankoubon version, Ex3 got moved to the very end of the volume, while the final Extra Chapter 4 didn't even make it into the tankoubon and was released separately on Comic Walker. To avoid unnecessary confusion (seeing as volume 5 ends with an original scene of Tetsuhiro coming to see Eiji at the hospital after SAO to fill in for the lack of an Ex4 in the volume), we will be following the tankoubon's chapter order and releasing chapters 15-17 before continuing the translation of the Hopeful Chant adaptation.

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 Scans
Translation: Gsimenas
Redrawing, typesetting: Nguyên Milk and Mttblue2


Extra Chapter 2



Chapter 15
Extra Chapter 3

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