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Frozen Teardrop is a Gundam Wing sequel light novel series that concluded at 13 volumes + an artbook containing an epilogue chapter and full-color versions of all the official illustrations. It is not officially available in English, but a handful of fans have, mostly independently of each other, taken a stab at translating parts of it to English. These are unofficial, amateur translations. Obviously they were all made with love and care, but please take what they say with a grain of salt. No good will come from arguing too hard about anything that's not an official release. In other words, please don't start wank here or because of something you found here.

Please take the chapters/sections I myself have contributed with a full salt shaker. I took scans or photographs of pages of the books, ran them through OCR software to convert the text in the images into copy-pastable text on a webpage, and then ran that text through Google Translate. The weaknesses in this method start at the OCR software. It has a small but not non-existent margin of error when recognizing characters, mostly when used on unclear images. It also doesn't always handle Roman characters in Japanese text, numbers, or punctuation well; oftentimes the website I used flat out refused to read periods. And it tended to spit short sentences or sentence fragments left alone in their own rows out in random places. I fixed all of that to the best of my ability and my patience, but suffice it to say that the raw text was not 100% flawless to start with. And the less said about Google Translate the better. Beyond character names + obvious him/her pronoun mix-ups and canon terminology, I made only very VERY minor 'cosmetic' edits to Google Translate's results. I understand only the barest amount of Japanese and as such, can't usually tell whether I'm making a garbled sentence better or worse. (Also, I'm lazy.)

Let me repeat that before anybody starts complaining about how much my "translations" suck: I KNOW THEY DO. THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST GOOGLE TRANSLATIONS.

Still. Google Translate is better than NOTHING.

List of contributors:

t = tranendal (i.e. me, i.e. Google Translate)
io = inchoate-oeuvre
m = mirei-22/mireisoul
z = zeonic-scanlations
km = kaijyuu-m
k = kokoronomelody
p = psythia

corpus-yaoi used to have a few early chapters up too, but she locked everything down at some point, so they're not listed here.

If you know of or are sitting on any other Frozen Teardrop translations, no matter how fragmentary, your contributions would be most welcome. If you wanna do the OCR and shit with me, even better! Join the comm and post it here if you want. The more the merrier.


In the actual novels, the chapters are not actually numbered. I added "Chapter 0" through "Chapter 36" myself because this was driving me up the wall. It's just for convenience and the good of my blood pressure. Chapter and volume titles are as unofficial as anything else. I cobbled them together from what was listed on wikipedia, and more Google Translate for what wasn't. Please ignore the discrepancies between inchoate-oeuvre's chapter titling and mine. It works out, I promise. (Or at least I couldn't find any way that made MORE sense. These titles are a bleeping nightmare.)

This concludes our PSA. Please do not hesitate to leave a comment if you have any further questions, or for any other reason. :)

( Volume & Chapter List + Available Translations )