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RareAcumen posted:I'm only a chapter in but this seems pretty good. The translation not being 1000% on point all the time is something I'm just kinda learning to live with whenever I'm reading something that ain't HELCK. I was thinking the art (or well, mostly the heroine's weird faces) was kinda familiar and turns out the main character in this is the daughter of the couple in one of the mangaka's previous works, Junai Tokkou Taichou!  Took me a while to realise since her art style's gotten a lot cleaner and neater looking compared to before.
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RareAcumen posted:Wow drat. Good thing the scans are of a high enough quality that he doesn't have to worry about that at least. Yeah the difference to teams working from paper books is pretty big  Is what a raw page scan looks like, washed in either grey or yellow and full of small defects in the paper stock and ink printing. The amount of work scanlators go through to get clean looking white pages can be a ton and even goes down to somebody who might need to redraw parts of the lineart for clarity. Some teams do way too much of the redrawing and post processing to get the page clean and it looks ugly though, i think. Rello doesn't have to worry about any of this.
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RareAcumen posted:Translations are just the words right? Because that's all I'm talking about. I read HELCK and I don't have a lot of 'Oh this could be worded better' or 'That sounds kinda off' throughout it. There's a lot of clunkiness in sentences that go across multiple bubbles that comes because Rello feels like he has to translate on a bubble by bubble basis, instead of breaking or restructuring sentences in ways that sound natural to English speakers. Sometimes you see this come up in single bubbles too, like (from the most recent chapter) "From the start, Helck takes no joy in fighting." This is also due to directly following the word order of the original sentence. Taking care with this stuff does a lot to make dialogue sound natural, instead of just functional. Admittedly it's pretty tricky with manga because of the aforementioned speech bubble format, which is often spaced/sized so that certain parts of sentences are emphasized more than others--often not the parts you would want if you structured the sentence so that it reads naturally in English! Again, making good decisions about that is pretty important and surprisingly tricky. There's also issues with character voice, mostly with regards to word choice. Rello takes more care with this than a lot of fan translators but it's still far from perfect. Especially the characters who are supposed to sound eloquent (Raphaed comes to mind) tend to lapse into casual/colloquial speech from time to time, or at other times go too far and speak like they're choosing words blindly from a thesaurus. For example, in a recent chapter, Raphaed said that he had come to "evict [Helck] from the front lines." Why not drive him from them? Is Raphaed landlord of Front Line Apartments? This is way less noticeable with characters like Vamirio or Helck himself because they speak bluntly and simply, so Rello probably isn't compelled to make them sound "smarter." Those two are my major gripes and I'll stop there. Sorry if I sound nitpicky; I'm a translator myself. Rello does pretty well for a speed fan translator but there's a lot of stuff he's missing as well.
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Horimiya's a super  and funny shoujo series  Actually, I'm not sure if I'd call it shoujo... Just slice of life + romance? krnhotwings fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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shounen romance, I think
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:shounen romance, I think yeah it's in a shonen magazine iirc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njNGDHbX0ss Stretching the limits of (give or take)
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OneDeadman posted:This is your reminder that Sakamoto's Bizzarro World Twin Handa-Kun is good. ...so is Angel Densetsu his inverse universe version?
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Renai Kaidan Sayoko-san   It's a slow burn sometimes but man, when it's good, it's good. I also enjoy how it's the girl for once who's the doofy awkward shut-in dork between the two.
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Mitsuboshi Colors  Three girls form a club to protect their town and solve mysteries, which translates to just playing games and annoying the local cop.
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D-d-d-double post! All Rounder Meguru    
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The Ancient Magus' Bride    PTSD girl and wolf-skulled-goat-horned half-man? I'm sold Catkin fucked around with this message at 01:35 on May 14, 2016 |
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Meguru is v good though it suffers a lot from being really loving hard to follow in fights, even when there's multiple panels to show a single move.
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Ancient magus bride is phenomenal and translated by our very own AnonSpore Hatsukoi zombie immediately made me think of ME ME ME with the objectification angle and also a bit of TWGOK
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Someone talk about Hatsukoi zombie in here because I'm not sure if it'll actually manage to stay good throughout the entire thing.
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RareAcumen posted:Someone talk about Hatsukoi zombie in here because I'm not sure if it'll actually manage to stay good throughout the entire thing. He hasn't kissed his childhood friend who wasn't his first love yet. That's all that really matters. Also he looks way better when his hair is wet and not a bad afro. chumbler fucked around with this message at 04:47 on May 14, 2016 |
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chumbler posted:He hasn't kissed his childhood friend who wasn't his first love yet. That's all that really matters. Is that all that it's about? I only looked at the cover, to be honest.
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RareAcumen posted:Is that all that it's about? I only looked at the cover, to be honest. It's about a dude and his childhood friend who have the power to see "first love zombies" - the psychic manifestations of a man's first crush, which behave differently depending on the situation (e.g.: still in love with that person, not in love with that person anymore, jealous, etc.). They have no clue where they got their power from and it's often very annoying, so the series is about them helping men with their love woes while at the same time trying to figure what the gently caress's up with this poo poo and how to get rid of it. It's not deep by any meaning of the word, but it's fun 
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Mikl posted:It's about a dude and his childhood friend who have the power to see "first love zombies" - the psychic manifestations of a man's first crush, which behave differently depending on the situation (e.g.: still in love with that person, not in love with that person anymore, jealous, etc.). They have no clue where they got their power from and it's often very annoying, so the series is about them helping men with their love woes while at the same time trying to figure what the gently caress's up with this poo poo and how to get rid of it. Seems like the zombies are mostly an excuse to draw chicks in fetish outfits.
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Mikl posted:It's about a dude and his childhood friend who have the power to see "first love zombies" - the psychic manifestations of a man's first crush, which behave differently depending on the situation (e.g.: still in love with that person, not in love with that person anymore, jealous, etc.). They have no clue where they got their power from and it's often very annoying, so the series is about them helping men with their love woes while at the same time trying to figure what the gently caress's up with this poo poo and how to get rid of it. Hmmm. I guess I'll have to give it a shot. Pavlov posted:Seems like the zombies are mostly an excuse to draw chicks in fetish outfits. This isn't giving me a lot of confidence though. I get enough of that from Food Wars.
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Pavlov posted:Seems like the zombies are mostly an excuse to draw chicks in fetish outfits. That too. But it's mostly played for laugh, since most of the times the MC goes "GAH I did NOT need to see that, my poor eyes!"
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Which is why I said it gives me a ME ME ME vibe, because the main girl is skeeved out at the mc's imagined version of her, and how many of the love zombie versions of most girls in the series have way more pronounced figures than their counterparts in reality. I think it's got more of a message than just "hey lookit dem titties", but we'll have to see where it goes from here. A bunch of new chapters have come out recently, so apparently there's a fair amount of untranslated chapters left.
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Captain Invictus posted:Which is why I said it gives me a ME ME ME vibe, because the main girl is skeeved out at the mc's imagined version of her, and how many of the love zombie versions of most girls in the series have way more pronounced figures than their counterparts in reality. I think it's got more of a message than just "hey lookit dem titties", but we'll have to see where it goes from here. A bunch of new chapters have come out recently, so apparently there's a fair amount of untranslated chapters left. If the main girl wins rather than volleyball girl I'm gonna be mad.
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I don't read the manga but I'm never opposed to joining good mad pile now and then.
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Featured in this thread befre, probably multiple times, but since it's the topic of conversation again in the Seinen thread... Dorohedoro 
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Is Dorohedoro over yet? I remember it was a volume or two away from being done last time I read it.
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I feel like Dorohedoro has been a volume or two away from completion for several years now.
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The author extended it because they couldn't fit everything in yet.
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dogsicle posted:it really should've ended by now. this dragged out ending has already impacted my enjoyment of the series as a whole.
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so I take it Ancient Magus Bride is worth looking past the whole creepy slave bride of a goat being...aspect...? not trying to judge, just asking
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TheFallenEvincar posted:so I take it Ancient Magus Bride is worth looking past the whole creepy slave bride of a goat being...aspect...? Yeah, it's real good. Give it a shot.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:so I take it Ancient Magus Bride is worth looking past the whole creepy slave bride of a goat being...aspect...? That really comes into play in the first chapter. One of the first things Elias says to Chise is (paraphrased) "your free to leave and do whatever you want if you wish so, but if you stay I'll make you my apprentice".
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