Contact
If you wish to get in touch with me, Xcomp, regarding this site to say thanks, give suggestions or anything else, please send an e-mail to xcompREMOVE@THIStiscali.co.uk.
Do not send any emails asking me where to download the movie or any other kinds of media because I will just ignore them.
Mistakes and Corrections
While I have taken the utmost care in translating the stories, there will probably be some mistakes since my goal was to get them done as as quickly as possible. I really didn't expect myself to be the only one translating them in the first place! Thus you'll find the chosen wording doesn't read as smoothly as a traditional English novel would.
So for those of you who know Japanese and wish to notify me of any mistakes in my translations, please e-mail me with the original Japanese text followed by an explanation of why it is wrong. I will read over your message and consider making amendments should I feel it is neccessary. You will be given credit if changes are made.
Do feel free to drop by my blog at Xcomp.wordpress.com! ^_^
Using the Translations
You are free to use my translations as long as you provide a link back to this site. That way, you can give credit to me as well as let your readers know about the original translations should you decide to modify the contents (e.g., for clarity purposes). If you can, please let me know where you will be hosting them via email so that I have a general idea of what people are doing with them. Although very few, it saddens me to find sites with plagiarism of my work using Copyscape. It gives me less reason to do any more translations.
The Beginning
At first, like many others, I constantly checked the official Japanese FFVII:AC website in anticipation of the best CGI movie yet and also, to see the FFVII characters in their real life-like forms. Then one day, I saw the first chapter of the On the Way to a Smile novel being published on the site and after reading through it, the point of perspective it used caught my interest.
In most epic stories where disaster breaks out, the reader is made to focus only on the heroes that save the day and, very little attention is paid towards the average people and areas that were affected by it. However, in On the Way to a Smile's first story Case of Denzel, we see how the happy life of one young ordinary boy was completely shattered during the "accident" that occurred at the beginning of Final Fantasy VII. Not only that, we also see how the disaster has affected many others too through his perspective, amplifying the overall impact on the story.
While most stories also end with the heroes saving the day and "living happily ever after", the second story Case of Tifa sees us returning to the heroes as they try to get back to their normal, everyday lives. Of course, it's not that easy and we see them go through all sorts of problems that you yourself can experience in real life, making the characters and the Final Fantasy VII world even more believable. And that was when I decided to translate the novels and other Final Fantasy VII related material, forming this site.
All text and translations are done by Xcomp and is in no way affiliated with Square-Enix.
