Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications: Rough, work-in-progress reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets as they were being deciphered. It was stated that even obsessive Japanese fans had not gone that far. During the Aniplex USA Madoka Premiere, production staff was very surprised when overseas fans cracked the runes.The runes are an original art by Inu Curry.In the Magia Record Anime Official Guidebook Vol.1, Box Wood's name is translated in English.Witches that were given official translations are:.This was eventually provided for the English dub of the original series as well.When a Witch's name is displayed in runes, its name is also shown in English-styled runes. In the English dub of Magia Record Anime, Some Witch's name are translated in English.Gertrud, Charlotte and Oktavia's names typed in Japanese in some products and merchandises.You can find the full discussion (900 posts long!) in threads #21, #22 and #23 Official Translation Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on). a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. ![]() ![]() This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two. ![]() A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.Īfter some urging to use the Faust quotes as a Rosetta Stone, an anonymous found and posted a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. For example attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). Other candidate languages were: Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).Ī number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. With the release of Patch 2.4 Insight has been changed to work in Missile Weapons.Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification.Insight can be used in the following equipment: In order to create Insight you need to socket these Runes in the following order: Level 12-17 Meditation Aura When Equipped Runewords convert Armor or Weapons in Unique Equipment once the required amount of Runes is placed in the correct order, granting said item a fixed set of properties. Insight can be applied to Polearms, Staves, Bows, and Crossbows and is composed of 4 Runes. Level 12-17 Meditation Aura When Equipped ![]() Insight 4 Socket Polearms/ Staves/Missile Weapons
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