The first anime has a dub. I dont think they ever did any of the OVAs though. It's a very popular series so assumedly it'll eventually have some sort of dub. Dubs NEVER start close to the Japanese version though.
Posts made by kewl0210
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RE: Hunter x Hunter II
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RE: Berserk
It's really amazing how he can focus on one work for so long. It's really been one ongoing story that's all tied together but keeps evolving. And he always finds new things to work in to keep it fresh and original and get people coming back, wanting more.
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RE: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
I didn't mean "I'm not sure if he's going to go" I meant "If you're gonna be going, you'd might as well let us know what it was like". As in a polite way of saying "Since you're going to go".
As to Dumhuvud's question:
! It was recently revealed that they are the same universe. The Steel Ball run took place and Jojolion takes place in modern day. The major characters are descendants of Norisuke Higashikata and Johnny Joestar.
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RE: Toriko
Here's a reminder, guys:
Toriko: However, there's said to be hundreds or thousands of types of poison in the natural world.
It's honestly impossible to make "antibodies" to combat them all…
I've got about 70 types, but...
Toriko: The number of "antibodies" Coco has is roughly 500...!!
That's outstanding even among Bishokuya!!
Komatsu: Fi...
500...
Coco: It just so happens that my body
can tolerate more poison than a normal human can...
But because I put many poisons inside my body in too short a time, they mixed inside my body...
creating new poisons inside me...
So now I'm a "Poison Man"...
Huhu... It's an quite an unrefined existence.
So there aren't many beasts in the natural world that attack me...
Even cockroaches....
Toriko: Many scientists and IGO medical teams and such
have chased after Coco to try and refine new antitoxins from his blood...
Komatsu: ......Eh?
Toriko: There are even some who've tried to have Coco himself isolated as a top class "dangerous creature"...
Toriko: He has a lot of bad memories.
Him leaving his work as a Bishokuya probably also has to do with escaping ties to those...He also can see different kinds of electromagnetic waves outside of visible light. He did appear a few other times, fighting against Gido and in a couple short one-offs. Anyhow I think he's a really interesting character that I hope gets fleshed out more.
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RE: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Yeah, I heard about that. It looks really cool. Let us know what it's like, if you're going.
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RE: Toriko
Coco has a different backstory. He's the "most poisonous man in the world". He was abandoned by society and hunted by people who tried to experiment on his body, remember? It's short but it's given when Coco is first introduced. I think a few more details were given. They'll probably eventually elaborate on it when they get to the backstories.
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RE: Toriko
He does have an interesting character and backstory, too. He acts cool and dignified without seeming like a jerk. He's also smart, as seen in the Gourmet Tasting arc.
But how could you resist him?
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RE: Toriko
There's an incredibly large amount of CocoXToriko yaoi images on pixiv and the like. They're called Toricoco colloquially.
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RE: Toriko
Komatsu has known about some things, but he's never an expert. If you keep track of it a bit.
And I still say you guys think WAAAY too far into things. Two males can have a connected relationship without being gay, and it annoys me how everyone acts like you can't. -
RE: Toriko
We released the volume scanlation of volume 1 I finally finished:
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RE: Gintama Discussion
Just ignore that. I can't seem to delete it. I'll figure it out later.
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RE: Toriko
The guy who looks like Toriko could have some connection to Toriko's past. That might be interesting. But his eyebrows, eyelashes, and a lot of things are different. The appearance of Chiyo probably means something interesting.
The crossovers are filler episodes, which is probably why people don't like them much.
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Just stick it in here:
http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.php
Or any sort of thing like that.
My opening didn't coordinate my pieces well enough, leading to his pieces being more dynamic than mine. And I never managed to find a way to make up for it. But there were some tricky tactics in the midgame and he found the best move every time. -
RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Spoony beats me in chess.
https://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/196151283839807488
1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. d4 e6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Qc2 c6 8. Bd3 g6 9. O-O-O Kg7 10. Ne5 c5 11. Rhe1 xd4 12. exd4 xc4 13. Bxc4 Nxe5 14. dxe5 Nd5 15. Bxe7 Qxe7 16. Bxd5 exd5 17. Nxd5 Qg5+ 18. f4 Qg4 19. h3 Qg3 20. Qc3 Qh4 21. e6+ Kh6 22. e7 Rg8 23. e8=QB Be6 24. g4 g5 25. Rxe6+ fxe6 26. Qf6+ Rg6 27. Qff8+ Rg7 Qxe6#That was fun. And I killed 6 hours I probably should've spent sleeping.
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RE: Toriko
They're releasing them in those "Jump Remix" things in Japan. They've done it with Jojo and a couple other things. They're just a limited edition version re-release from what I understand.
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RE: Toriko
Komatsu DID sort of get a backstory. In the chapter with Ootake, he talked about how he had two dear friends who wanted to be great chefs and their dreams and such. One such friend we haven't heard about yet, while Ootake got kidnapped by the Bishokukai. Also about his knives and his training with them. He's a fairly normal guy, he may not have much more of a backstory. Komatsu, in large part is the audience proxy. He doesn't know what stuff is so other people can explain it. But I feel that once they get through the training arcs they'll explain more of the larger story. But in order to expand the story they need to have more of these sorts of cliffhangers and foreshadowing.
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RE: Toriko
We got this all done. It took a little longer than normal because it's wordy as fuck and took me all day even working nonstop to translate and typset.
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RE: VIZ Media Takes Down Mangastream
Well, I think the idea is they're assuming Viz and those guys go after sites with the largest amounts of traffic. And this way they could do high quality scanlations of some of these series without having that risk of being one of those sites or having their scanlations on those sites. Because nobody would be stealing their scans and making mirrors without permission, the aggregator sites would use the first versions that come out done by Mangazone or whomever, because those tend to get the most hits. And they could avoid their stuff being archived that way. Really, I dunno if Viz would go through with legal action or not this way, I don't know much about that ever actually happening. That is, assuming this isn't some sorta weird joke.
Also it still seems like kind of a waste of time to me. I would just use my resources to do other series that are being ignored or aren't licensed rather than being group number 80,000 to scanlate Naruto. If not, do high quality volume scanlations rather than purposefully admitting you're over-scanning something. It comes down to they either just REALLY REALLY wanna scanlate those series and don't know any other way how (join/form another group), or they just want more hits on their site.
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RE: Attack on Titan: Why Genocide Is Sometimes Kind of Okay
It's kinda like what they did with MPD Psycho. And like a while bunch of other stuff.
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RE: Toriko
The interview in Hettapi Manga Kenkyuujou R is actually really GOOD and Shimabukuro and the other authors actually talked about their creative process.
I'm gonna try to work on that sometime in the near future. I scanned it, but it's got tons of text. The entire manga is only one book and is a little less than 200 pages. The characters made by Murata Yuusuke (of Eyeshield 21) interviews Shimabukuro, Togashi, and the authors of Neuro and Ichigo 100%. -
RE: Toriko
It sounded like a really crappy interview. I saw screencaps of it. The questions were bad and the answers seemed pretty formulaic and obvious. Nothing interesting in it.
My group's still working on this special, it's long, it's the length of 2 episodes plus One Piece has no OP. And yeah, there's a scene where they stick in Zebra who just for no reason uses an Otodama AAAAALLL the way from Honey Prison. I guess they're implying that the island they're on is close to Honey Prison somehow, and for some odd reason Zebra gives a fuck.And if you're not watching the anime, as always, I highly recommend it. It's doing avery good job doing everything in the manga thorouglhy now with very little filler. It's like I said, most anime based on long-running manga will do the beginning really fast to try to gain readers.
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RE: Toriko
There's no malware on the site. No idea why you're getting that, but there isn't any. I checked.
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RE: Berserk
Berserk is one of VERY few manga that get a good job done on them by official adaptation. However, that's by Dark Horse, not Viz. Hopefully Viz's versions are good. Though we'll have fansubs anyhow.
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RE: Gintama Discussion
I've always felt that what gave Gintama its charm is that when serious stuff happens, you really care about it because it's infrequent. These are the same guys who are always joking around and ridiculous things are happening with. It's not like you're just getting introduced to a character, they're ones you know and love in lots of different situations. So there's more meaning and impact to when they act serious. It's like in that arc early on when Gin loses his memories and no one can really give an example of why they like the old him so much and he feels worthless, but they know he's really important to them so they keep trying to help him.
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RE: Gintama Discussion
Finished this chapter.
http://hiwamatanoboru.com/2012/03/30/gintama-394-release/
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RE: Toriko
I don't. I think it looks really stupid…
I might read it, but someone else can scanlate that if they want.
We released chapter 181 a few hours ago, by the way, to anyone who didn't see.
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RE: Kaiji
So this has kinda become one big Fukumoto works thread, I guess.
I think Hox has been translating the chapters as they came out in Shounen Magazine, and then waited until the volume came out because he can't really clean.This arc's pretty interesting.
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RE: Hunter x Hunter II
I still completely disagree on the omage thing, I think you're reading way too far into it.
Anyhow, this is what volume 30 looks like for those that haven't seen it:
There'll probably be a big version in a few days.
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RE: Hunter x Hunter II
I wouldn't say it's "trying to be reminiscent of pokemon" so much as those sorts of ideas of adventure and discovery are kind of universal. The idea of "we don't know that much about what this big world is" and slowly learning about it is pretty commonly used as well. It depends on how it's executed, and like you said, HXH does it very serious and mature and logical.
I can think of plenty of other manga that have had tournaments in them. Like, half of every shounen manga ever…
Those things are the vessels for writing a certain kind of story. They're like the "sitcom of a blowhard husband and sassy wife" that started with the Honeymooners and got copied about 500 thousand times. It's very basic structure, not trying to be "reminiscent of this". What makes a story is what comes AFTER its basic premise. Especially the "seek out the unknown" idea has been around since the Illiad and the Odyssy. Or even earlier.Also, like Vast said, it would make more sense to write it as "Kanaria" or "Canaria" or something similar.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
I've discussed this on mangahelpers a lot, but here's the reasoning,
HXH sells around a millon copies of each volume while on the Oricon (Meaning in the short-term, in a few weeks) putting it on-par with Naruto. And making it one of the best selling manga in all of Japan. Volume 1 has had over 100 printings. The issues in Jump may not be as popular with casual readers because they don't read week-to-week because it stops showing up in the issues. It is an extremely popular manga though. Among the otaku-ish type, it's even more popular than One Piece. -
RE: Hunter x Hunter II
Doesn't matter much. It's a big city, and it's really just foreshadowing, not changing the backstory. Kanaria isn't really an important character (Why the hell the name "Canary" keeps getting used is beyond me) but it's nice to see them putting in elements that add to the story rather than take away from it. Like the silhouette of Alluka. Though there wasn't a silhouette of Killua's unnamed Great Grandfather (Father of Zeno, son of Maha) that all we've seen of is a little doodle shown when talking about the Zoldycke's during the ant arc. This guy:
http://images.wikia.com/hunterxhunter/images/0/0a/Zoldyck_family_tree.jpgSecond from the top there.
Plus there are other members of their family that may be alive. However, there IS one silhouette in that picture that we haven't seen:
http://images.wikia.com/hunterxhunter/images/d/d4/Zoldyck_Family.PNGThe 5th from the right. I think people've speculated it's Killua's grandmother? That's what the wikia says anyway. Does anyone recognize that?
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RE: Toriko
Finished this:
http://hiwamatanoboru.com/2012/03/22/toriko-180-gintama-393-release/
Stuff is happening. Of all the characters that've shown up, we've still yet to see the guy who was in silhouette on the Mors Mountain Range.
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RE: Gintama Discussion
This week's chapter, as well, is the best chapter ever:
http://hiwamatanoboru.com/2012/03/22/toriko-180-gintama-393-release/I hope you all remember the Tendou Sect.
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RE: Baccano!
I recently started reading the Light Novels. There are 2-3 insane people who just do light novel translations. It's really crazy how those guys can get so much done, it's a LOOOOT of thinking and typing to do, and almost all the ones that are out are done.
This site either has or links to all of them:
http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=BaccanoVolumes 3 and I think 8 are still being done, though that Untuned Strings guy does them for long stints at a time.
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RE: Toriko
No, I didn't. Somebody used our translations without permission.
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RE: Toriko
I am kinda doing it at the same time as the other stuff. Volume 1 is scanned and cleaned, I just need to polish the translations and typset it. All of which takes a long time and I'd have to not do a whole bunch of other stuff to do. Realize, I also am running a fansub in which I'm translating Toriko and Bakuman, and doing weekly Gintama and Toriko manga. Plus checking the Gintama anime for Rumbel, translating HXH which I'm done with, and doing some side projects which are mostly done (Enigma and Kokou no Hito). Though, this is on top of school which takes a lot of time, plus like, having a social life. Also I need to finish the 2nd Gash movie and about 5 volumes of Doubutsu no Kuni to catch up with. Plus, when I'm bored I'll work on side projects which I enjoy doing for fun, and at some point I want to scan/scanlate Takeshi and Ring, as well.
Usually the anime takes a few days because it's coordinated between several people to do the various jobs, and often people get busy, don't show up until a day late, the raw comes late, or some other problem occurs. And most people can only work at one time of day, so if one person isn't there, then we don't have any chance of catching up. Also, the signs and attacks need to be hardcoded to keep the video from slowing down, so someone needs to typset those before the encode which takes like 10 hours.
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RE: As the God of Death Dictates
Seeing as I'm buying Bessatsu Shounen Magazine anyhow to read Doubutsu no Kuni, I guess I'll check this out. The premise sounds interesting, anyhow.
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RE: Gintama Discussion
Fucking read more things:
http://hiwamatanoboru.com/2012/03/16/gintama-392-release/Ok, I think I can take a break from this now…
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RE: Gintama Discussion
The anime is ending/going on hiatus again in like 2 weeks, I believe. Also they always skip around. And we're doing the chapters as they come out in Jump, so they can't "catch up".
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RE: Gintama Discussion
Here, I finally finished this…
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RE: Hunter x Hunter II
@RobbyBevard:
You act as if those things are mutually exclusive.
And Togashi works for… a WEEKLY MANGA MAGAZINE. If he can't hack it, switch to a monthly, take one week out of every four off, write a novel instead, retire, or just admit he needs an assistant or two so he wouldn't burn out so quickly, and can then manage to do the same job every other one of his peers is able to do, without being given inexplicable special treatment.
So its going to end with them meeting the personification of Togashi living in the manga, literally deus ex machina write out plot obstacles, and then end on an incredibly lame and sour note back where it began?
So, by that standard, if he was in a monthly magazine and got the same amount of content out a year, then it would be ok? It would be the exact same thing.
Dude, TONS of manga are like this. It isn't an uncommon thing for manga to go on hiatuses. Often without announcement of when(or even if) they'll be back. Many manga run only every other week or every 4th week in a weekly magazine, as well. Are they somehow at fault or does it make the manga bad because of that? I really don't think so, I wholeheartedly disagree. You're holding it up to a weird standard of "because it's in this magazine he doesn't have any choice". Where it doesn't actually make the series any worse. It's a demand for instant gratification and appeal to the majority (everyone else does it, so he has to, too). And compared to a monthly manga (any monthly manga, even one that comes out every issue) he's done a lot more total pages this year than they do for an average year.
Here's a brief list of manga which go on hiatuses, have gone on hiatuses, have irregular release rates, etc:
Black Lagoon: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1447
Vagabond: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=387 (Been on hiatus for over a year and a half)
Saint Young Men: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=19610
Hayate no Gotoku: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=778
Liar Game: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=3296
Shamo: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=325 (Went on hiatus for 5 years, changed publishers.)
Kaijyuu no Kodomo: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7511
Garouden: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2159
Akagi: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=10132
Historie: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=3548 (Goes on hiatuses, some chapters have only like 9-10 pages even though it's a monthly manga)
Tobaku Haouden Zero: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=17390 (Went on hiatus for about 2 and a half years)
Arakawa Under the Brdige: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7227
Tokkou no Shima: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=24898
Air Gear: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=491
Gunnm Last Order: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2158 (Author said it was going on hiatus and may never come back, and eventually changed magazines and publishers after 6 months.)
Real: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=142 (Comes out with about one volume a year for 11 years.)
Berserk: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=88 DN Angel: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=361
D. Gray Man: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=95
Nana: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=655
Ubel Blatt: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2291So, are ALL these manga inferior because they don't keep a regular schedule? Do they not deserve to exist because of one reason or another that the authors don't keep a regular schedule? I didn't even list the hundreds of irregularly scheduled manga that aren't on hiatuses. These are just ones I could find offhand that have frequent hiatuses or went on a long multi-month/year hiatuses (The reason mostly is that it isn't a big deal, and people don't categorize manga by "goes on hiatuses" and "doesn't go on hiatuses"). And there are TONS more, I just can't find one unifying resource. The majority of these also happen to either be ones actively on hiatus or having went on hiatus or come back in the last 6 months. And I read most of these and I think they're VERY good manga, and it just honestly makes me sick to hear people saying "I'm dropping this because it's going on hiatus" if they genuinely like the manga. It's common and it's a necessary evil, and it doesn't make the manga worse. You're basing it off some personal thing having to do with the author that has NOTHING to do with the series based on rumors that he's just lazy and doesn't want to do it all year round, or you just don't want to have to wait after reading it for so long, or whatever other reason one might have. HXH is one of the longest running mangas around and Togashi's been doing serial manga for nearly 25 years now.
Sorry if this sounds obnoxious, but it seriously annoys me how immature people a lot of people are about this in this thread.
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RE: Hunter x Hunter II
So did anyone translate this yet, or should I do it…
I mean, I'll do it anyway, but it seems like all the fans are just people who whine about hiatuses. Would you rather have a crappy manga that meanders and draws stuff on, or a good manga that stops for a few months. I mean, usually how every other... thing except weekly manga works, is that it comes out in seasons. Or long itterations. Or some such thing. -
RE: Berserk
Mostly that's because the art in Gantz is done using CG modeling software that then has parts drawn onto it. So it tends to look not drawn normally. Like not everything is part of the same universe., and a lot of stuff blurs together. It comes off as he's trying to put as much detail and stuff into the scene to make it more "action movie-ish". Which, in manga often doesn't work out too well.
I far prefer the way it's done in Berserk, which is kind of the opposite. There's tons and tons of stuff in a lot of images, but it always looks attractive to the eye and not artificial. Like the scenes with all the merrows or the ones with the creatures inside the Sea God.
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RE: Gintama Discussion
Well it's not so much "discuss" as "fling insults at him", but sort of.
Usually his mistakes are because he totally misunderstood the sentence, but he has good characterizations and humor sytles in his translations. If he goes too far to where he's changing the idea completely I tone it back, or else if he gets it wrong I totally rewrite it. A lot of the time it's hard to tell if he misunderstood it or he just did a REAAALLY liberal translation. But I've done over a hundred TLCs at this point so usually I just assume he couldn't understand it, and try to include any good phrasing that he may have had. So I'm not consulting him and asking "is this okay" because it's a lot of work for him to re-go over it and it takes a lot of time and it makes the whole ordeal harder for the both of us. It can take like 10 hours to TLC a chapter most of the time, for me. And it takes him a good long time to translate it originally, too. -
RE: Gintama Discussion
I reworded that last sentence and put up a fixed version. Rufi's version isn't right either, but it's supposed to be saying that the five of them are the five fingers.
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RE: Toriko
Like I've mentioned, Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi was a lot like this. That Dodurian Bomb chapter really reminded me of some of his stuff. Basically Takeshi was an adventure manga but incredibly stupid things would happen, coupled with important serious things.
Ah, I should really get to scanlating that…
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RE: Toriko
Ok, I finished this. They eat things and do stuff.
http://hiwamatanoboru.com/2012/03/07/toriko-179-release/Anyhow, I'm gonna go sleep for a while and then study for two midterms I have tomorrow.
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RE: Hunter x Hunter II
It said at the end "Next issue, a new chapter starts" as in this is the "send off" to the Ant Arc. Were A3C's scans that bad that they didn't even translate that?
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RE: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
That happened because, like I said, they were shitty translations FROM Chinese translations. So almost all the names are wrong and Morioh got changed to that, I guess based on the Chinese pronunciation.
Be thankful somebody's redoing them, at least. They're not going at any sort of fast pace though.