Gundam Wing World Map - Translation

This is a fan-translation of the map of Gundam Wing from the About Gundam Wing's website. Let me start by saying that I don't know Japanese and referred to everything with a dictionary (or in the case of names, the Gundam Wikia), so there may be a better way to say some things. My method mostly revolved around looking at a world map, then comparing its Japanese equivalent to the GW map. It mostly worked, except for a couple of instances like...

Afghanistan: THIS IS THE MAP'S ERROR, NOT mine. アフガニスタン is the original spot, which translates into Afghanistan. Imagine my surprise (and aggravation) when I tried Kazakhstan first! Ugh! So, Afghanistan is actually located in the bottom left corner of that box, while in my opinion, Kazakhstan is the most likely location for the actual spot on the map. However, to keep with the original Japanese, I've left it as Afghanistan.

Sea Transit: This also gave me some problems. The original is 船便, which translates something like Surface Mail/Shipping Service. Aside from being lengthy, it works okay for Quatre and Trowa, but not so much for Wufei, who attaches Shenlong to the hull of an aircraft carrier that he sneaks aboard. I'm hoping the connotation is something like they all got on a boat and traveled across the ocean, because I used that for something short and generic, which is how Sea Transit came to be used.

Aside from translation, this project also gave me a chance to learn and practice photoshop skills, which is always a plus.




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