High Speed! Art + Character Page Translations

Finally getting some translations up! I'm currently working on translating High Speed!, the light novel upon which the anime Free! Iwatobi Swim Club is based.

I've had these translated for a couple of days, but I didn't want to post them until I had something more substantial to go along with them. Fortunately, chapter one is all translated, and it should be going up in an hour or two, once I've had a chance to run it by my quality-control guy :)

Until then, I hope you enjoy these. (Warning: post has several large-ish images. Slower computers beware!)

( Title page, insert art, and character pages from 'High Speed!' by Ohji Kouji )

Translated from raws downloaded at this post.

High Speed! Chapter One

Here it is, as promised! I know there's a couple of people doing summaries, but this is just a straight-up translation. I figured, since I have a lot of time on my hands right now (and I want to get better at Japanese), why not go all the way?

Without further ado, High Speed! by Ohji Kouji.

( Chapter One: Swim )

Chapter two is about twice as long this one, and I translate sort of slowly, so I was thinking of splitting it up into parts so that I could get it posted a bit faster. If anyone has an opinion either way on that, let me know!

Please also tell me if there's anything that sounds awkward or that is incorrect in my translation, because I admit I'm not exactly fluent in Japanese, and I'm always trying to improve! Concrit is welcome. :)

Translated from raws downloaded at this post.