New Project: Naki no Ryuu

Denji here. You may know me as the translator of The New Kurosawa for FKMTkrazy. Well, I'm here to give the highly neglected Mahjongkrazy branch even more love, because I've started translating the hotly-anticipated Naki no Ryuu. The title means "The Crying Dragon," but it's also a pun, since the word "naki" means "to call a tile" (don't believe that MAL description that says it means ron, it doesn't).

Download Chapter 1

A big thanks to Penchan for volunteering to clean and typeset the series. He's done a very good job with the horrid public scans that are out there.

A special thanks to my best friend Celysus as well, who was the one that convinced me to start this project. At the beginning of 2014 I started translating things for the first time, and told him that I'd translate anything he wanted. He said Naki no Ryuu, so I dived in. However, I wasn't good enough at the time, and I could barely understand it. I tried going through and revising my scripts on and off for quite a while, slowly correcting things that I had newly learned. Finally, when Penchan contacted me about the project a couple weeks ago, I made a last revision where I finally felt confident that I understood everything.

Anyways, after the jump I'll talk a bit about the story. I don't have much to say, but from time to time I might make some notes.



 Let's start with the chapter names. I'll be explaining the meaning of every single one of them because they're exceedingly cryptic, and I actually went ahead and translated them all just so I don't have any headaches later.

The first four chapters are references to the Four Symbols of Chinese astrology. The Azure Dragon represents the cardinal direction east and the season of spring. You may have seen it in Asian media under the name "Seiryuu" or "Qing Long."

This chapter is hardly a good indicator of what's to come, and what makes this series so good. I want everyone to know that the awkward sexual imagery stops in chapter 2, and things really start getting good the moment the sex goes away (lol).