FASA Licensed Japanese Novels Earthdawn
I came across 2 ED novels written in Japanese. I am told these were published under licesne from FASA in Japan, and figured I would review them here as best I could.
I hope that somebody who speaks Japanese will help me- translations of the posted texts could reveal info about the publisher, and some information about the story. Send me anything you know!
The two books seem parts one and two of a story, with chapters 1-4 in the first book, and 5-7 (plus an un-numberd chapter) in the second.
They have very nice art on the dust sleaves, plus each has a color foldout inside the cover. The foldouts have line art on the inside with what I assume is info related to the ED game or story and a front image that would replace the frontplate in an american book (not posted- the dust jackets are nicer, and these pictures had no Japanese text).
Worth noting is that thier drawings are rather difrent from FASA art- the T'skrang has a flat face (like a cute UFO alien), and the orc seems to have 4 breasts.

Book 1, chapters 1-4
front cover and spine (430 x 350 27kb low quality jpg)

 Jacket exterior, 1318 x 876 (150dpi) good quality jpg (246KB)- cover and back of dust jacket
Jacket interior flaps, 866 x 810 (150dpi) good quality jpg (108KB)- author notes and book description (?)
Foldout back art, 1596 x 864 (150dpi) good quality jpg (483KB)- story character illustration, with what seem to be full ED character stats for (all 4rth cirlce ?) Obsidiman wizard (?), male Windling Thief (?), femael T'skrang Swordmaster (?), female Orc Beastmaster (?), male Human Nethermancer (?).
Stats, races, and likely disciplines seem to match architypes in the main ED rulebook.

Book 2, chapters 5-7 plus
front cover and spine (430 x 350 27kb low quality jpg)

 Jacket exterior, 1292 x 870 (150 dpi) good quality jpg (232KB)- cover and back of dust jacket
Jacket interior flaps, 852 x 830 (150 dpi) good quality jpg (108KB)- author notes and book description (?)
Foldout back art, 878 x 1616 (150 dpi) good quality jpg (490KB)- synopsis of book 1 (first 4 chapters), I think - well worth translating!

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last updated...February 8, 1999