sunny skies

What's this? A chapter before midnight? Clearly the world is ending.

Important note: Since the next chapter (chapter 7) is pretty long, I am going to be splitting it into two parts. One will go up next week, and the other the week after that (hopefully, anyway). Sorry for the delay!

On with chapter 6!

( Chapter Six: Team )

A couple of notes here:

First, when Rin is thinking about the "snap" of his kick - I wasn't exactly sure how to translate this, but luckily my quality control guy/swim-picker figured out what Rin was talking about. Unfortunately, it's been a few years since he's swum seriously, so he couldn't remember if there was another, more specific term I should use. So to any swimmers out there (I know there's a few of you!), if you know a better way to phrase that, please tell me so I can change it! :)

Secondly, a wild Kou appears! But since the furigana for her name didn't indicate that she called herself Kou, I am assuming that she hasn't yet decided to change her name, and so I went with Gou for this chapter. (Just in case anyone was wondering.)

And of course, please point out any mistakes/typos/just plain weird stuff, as usual.

Translated from raws downloaded at this post.

A quick note, because I've gotten a couple of questions about it: I include a link at the bottom of every post with a link to the site where I downloaded the raws of the novel. If you scroll aaaalll the way down, it's the very last thing in each post! Please let me know if the link/download breaks, and I will upload it elsewhere myself.

With that out of the way, have another chapter to hold you over for the last couple of hours before we finally find out what happened to Rei and Makoto. (Don't worry, this chapter is happier than the last one.)

( Chapter Four: Relay )

I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Please let me know if I've missed any typos or other weirdness :)

Translated from raws downloaded at this post.

Since there's no episode this week, I wanted to make sure that I got this finished before Wednesday, so that you all could still get your Free! fix. I know it's not as good as an episode, but I hope it helps tide you over until next week!

( Chapter Two: Water )

As always, any and all errors or awkwardness are entirely my fault, and concrit is welcome! And thank you to everyone who commented/liked/reblogged/tagged/etc'd chapter one :) You're all awesome!

Translated from raws downloaded at this post.

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.