28th April 2021 Update:
Official English translation is available via Yen Press. 20th June 2013 Update:
The site has now been taken down but you may still read the translations and the rest of the site content in PDF here....
Can't get enough of the FFXIII story? Well, "Final Fantasy XIII Episode Zero - Promise", a set of novellas that take place before the events of the main game, has been freely available for reading online for some time now. Only chapter one of the story "Encounter" came on a bonus drama CD with the 5 disc, First Press Limited Edition of the...
If you'd like to read the novels yourself, you might be glad to know that the first two volumes of the four book series is now available in English as a single book, "The Beast Player" published by Pushkin Children. The remaining two books are due to be published by Henry Holt an...
I bought the original two volumes of the Beast Player Erin novels thinking that was it finished but, looks like the author released another two just last month to round off the story - The Quest Arc and The Final Arc. This suggests we could see a season two of the show since the current 50 episode series is only looking to encompass the first...
Final Fantasy VII On the Way to a Smile (Hardback) I've already translated the first two stories "Episode Denzel" and "Episode Tifa" about 4 years ago so that's a good chunk of the book done. Time flies eh? It's sad to see my work's been very much been plagiarised around all the...
Decided to put in an order for the Beast Player Erin and FFVII On the Way to a Smile novels since I couldn't get them while I was in HK but, it looks like I'm going to have to wait a while because Square-Enix is currently out of print so I will probably get a second batch copy like I did with Makoto Shinkai's 5cm novel. Oh well, at least HMV Japan...
Never knew they released this on the same day as the Blu-ray release of FFVII Advent Children Complete until Amazon JP's automated service recommended it to me today... They just had to do it after I bought all the other books that contained the stories separately. They really know how to squeeze money out of their fans. Anyway, this 263...