New Gundam SEED side story "Gundam SEED Vs Astray"

[Point Blank Sniper]

oh yeah, that dude, never came to mind since he's like some minor character in those random fairytales. i guess that's where gina's new look comes from.
seriously, gina needs to die already...and stay dead before he comes up with ummm.... errrr.... mirage frame tentacle form with a kraken mode and he himself sports a gorgon hairdo...while retaining his current third eye and bloodshot skin XP
and if lily dies from this, a chapter released in an instruction booklet, i will be pissed, and i will make a monkey king astray to strangle mr. triclops and doggy astray.
seriously, the more i look at this brute mode and its bubble gum colours, the more i'm disliking it, and gina's creepiness is making things worse.

[iron2000]

Browsed the lastest DHM at Kinokuniya today.
The issue with Brute mode brutally killing Blue Frame.
Thats the color pages.

For the none color page and novel part.
There a one page pic of Lowe, Ergnes and some other characters which i forgot.
A shadow of the finished Red Frame Kai (has the Delta Astray triangle style) is casted on them.

At the next page (start of novel) from the word on the black stripe it says that Ergnes has come down to deliver something to Lowe for Red Frame. (Voiture Lumiere?)

Didn't read in to it but the novel itself seems to be about Elijah vs Vair.
At the end it shows that the Mirage Frame Second Issue is complete in a hangar, i think.
(Maybe the fight have yet to start and the scene in the color page is just Gina's delusion? Descend into madness, pride and revenge)

[iron2000]

tokita made this big post on his blog about red frame kai
http://tokita.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2010-01-27
not sure what he is saying but he seems to mention delta alot and at the end he says something like agnes took delta astray back to mars and he is not scheduled to return =(
then there's random stuff about him getting a free vent saviour kit then he mentions madigan and raigo gundam(wtf?)
the rest of it seems to be advertisement for the mg kit.
if someone can read his rambling, is there anything we dont already know?

A really really rough interpretation:

P1:
Tactical Arms 2L can somehow use Voiture Lumiere!

P2:
From it shape it can be comprehend that it is something trasplanted from Ergnes' machine, Turn Delta.
A hand-me-down equipment for Junk Guild(laughs)
[so is this a joke or not? i'm not sure but Ergnes did deliver something]

P3:
Tactical Arms 2L with its "Delta form", "V form" and "Arrow form" is a great power for Red Frame Kai.
Flight form and sword form makes it even more handy.
Thus it is seen that Lowe has perhaps experimented here and there for the sake of the new equipment for his Red...I suppose(^^;).[?]
Blue Second's gatling gun and beam tonfa would be perfect for welding and cutting jobs?

P4:
Orb's prototype MS "Gundam Astray" which Junk Guild's Lowe looks after and obtained by luck has the basic equipment of beam rifle, beam saber and shield which are not useful for jobs, (but usefull in those secret battles) this "All-in-one work tool"-ish equipment [the Tactical Arms?] is defintely useful?
Its becoming the "True Red Frame" to Lowe?
And, appearing on site with 2 huge japanese swords mounted, what is the Junk Guild thinking(^^;) [?]

P5:
Furthermore the arm that is equipped with this Tactical Arms 2L would
(Allow me to make an unreasonable proposal [?])
become a huge work arm "Work form".
With 2 it would become like the power loader in "Alien"
The strong may challenge this idea with 2 kits (laughs) (just joking(^^;))

P6:
Turn Delta is broken down (to confiscate the above equipment (laughs))
Ergnes' immerse "can't stand it!" really fits don't you think so(^^;)
Surely Lowe is building a new MS..?..but theres no plans yet...
Delta Astray was wasted and Nahe bought it back to Mars in the Acidalium,
by any means at the present theres no plans for him to use Delta Astray again (an agreement of me and Chiba-san).
Elijah has obtained Van Saviour
(A present from Vair? (laughs))
Elijah custom Zaku Warrior is left in excess (needs repair!)
[some joking statement on Madigan's collection]
Raigou Gundam, it would be good is its not destroyed(^^;).

P7:
With this and that, have fun speculating (laughs), VS Astray!
[a thank you and please continue to support-ish sentence I think]

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Can't really make out why Gina attacks Lily but I can read that the attack shown is called "Brute Force Attack" by the defeated(?) Lily.
The attack seem to give no chance for Nebula to teleport.

[Point Blank Sniper]

thanks for the translations =)
so agnes delivers voiture lumiere to lowe and for the time being, puts himself out of action for good. meaning turn delta won't be in the story.
he hints that vent savior is a gift to elijah because his zaku gets beaten by madigan...
then he just throws out the name raigo gundam for the sake of causing fan speculation? (especially when he knows we know random stuff he mentions in his blog come true months later. i.e. artemie XD)
and lily gets her butt kicked but is she survie?

i hope gina isn't just dreaming about killing blue frame because i want to see more upgrades =) although i don't like how bandai is milking everything XD

[asianmeatbunboy]

Nice, thanks for translating!

[Sixshot]

Thanks for the translation. Now all that's left is to find out what's happened to Outframe D. Plus, how did Lily get beaten so bad?

[Blue Knight]

I think the fact that Mirage Frame 2nd is stated to be monstrously fast had a lot to do with it. Its speed is so high that even Gina, who is a Coordinator, had to undergo further enhancements to his body in order to be able to pilot it.

[Point Blank Sniper]

boxart sneak peek from tokita

i think it's blue frame and nebula blitz at the top

[Blue Knight]

Huh...That's interesting.
Look closely at the configuration of the backpack in that boxart pic. Does it look familiar to anyone else?

[ydawg314]

what was so good about the delta astray?

[Point Blank Sniper]

Huh...That's interesting.
Look closely at the configuration of the backpack in that boxart pic. Does it look familiar to anyone else?

well they have been showing pics in the magazines and there's that whole translation of tokita's blog post that iron2000 did...it shouldn't be much of a surprise...XD

what was so good about the delta astray?

that's the turn delta and it uses wings of light generated by the triangle thing. there are also beam sabres mounted under its forearmes. that's all i know.

[Takashi]

iron2000 thanks a lot!!!! The second best present  for me after I found that forum is back to life)
As for all this events i missed:
- hope that gai is alive...Maybe the third version of BF will be brought back to life with some speed upgrades
- Turn Delta mod for RF looks sweet...now I deffinetly getting it
- Didn't expect MF to be so powerfull...thought psychos are always look strong

P.S. Glad to see everyone again))

[Point Blank Sniper]

i'm liking the new feet(even though they are nearly identical to blue frame's), in fact i didn't like the old ones because they looked too flat and wide
i didn't notice red frame kai has the same upgraded torso with the sensors like blue frame...just how much of it isn't recycled? XD

more pics of the actual kit here http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&SHOP_ID=1&KIND=0&PRODUCT_ID=4543112619341

[Kaien]

does the energy cannon mounted on shoulders look a bit same?

[asianmeatbunboy]

Yes it does!