2006-02-14, 11:53 | Link #81 | |
I refuse to die dammit!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: UK
Age: 47
|
Quote:
|
|
2006-02-14, 14:28 | Link #82 | |
Translator, Producer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Age: 44
|
Quote:
Perhaps it has something to do with Maki being adopted too... Adoption = Real parents out there somewhere = plot twists. But now I'm stretching it.
__________________
|
|
2006-02-15, 20:11 | Link #83 | |
Team the box!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Badside
|
Quote:
I hope I've forgoten about it by the time Darkhorse gets around to finish that series. |
|
2006-02-16, 11:09 | Link #84 | |
I refuse to die dammit!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: UK
Age: 47
|
Quote:
|
|
2006-02-25, 02:58 | Link #86 | |
Translator, Producer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Age: 44
|
Quote:
As I posted in the Narutaru thread, super manga blast just ended, and from what I could glean off of dark horse's forums, its future is uncertain (with a leaning towards disappearing).
__________________
|
|
2006-03-01, 11:39 | Link #88 | |
I refuse to die dammit!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: UK
Age: 47
|
Quote:
Spoiler:
Last edited by tsurumaru; 2006-03-02 at 06:34. |
|
2006-03-06, 13:49 | Link #90 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004
Age: 39
|
As this series is not licensed (as far as I know) all 28 chapters can be downloaded here
http://souhaku.ufpag.com/index.php?m...age&PAGE_id=34 |
2006-03-18, 04:06 | Link #93 | |
Translator, Producer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Age: 44
|
Quote:
anything beyond that has not been published in english in book form (and frankly, probably won't be... dark horse has all but dropped it). All there exist are back issues of Super manga blast, which ended in the middle of chapter 42, "Mother Russia", at page 72 in the japanese volume 9. Whether any more will be released in any form is pure speculation. And, because I know you'll ask, no, there are not any scanlations available.
__________________
|
|
2006-03-18, 09:58 | Link #94 | |
I refuse to die dammit!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: UK
Age: 47
|
Quote:
On a thread related note looking forward to their release of Bokurano 28! |
|
2006-03-18, 20:21 | Link #97 | |
Translator, Producer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Age: 44
|
Quote:
As a response, yes, I do still have scans of the tokubans too, and I'd be willing to provide them to someone who needs them.
__________________
|
|
2006-03-18, 20:51 | Link #98 | |||
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
Quote:
Quote:
On the other hand, if you just want to help people find out what happens next, text summaries or text scripts will work just fine, don't you think? Quote:
|
|||
2006-03-19, 01:59 | Link #99 | |
Translator, Producer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Age: 44
|
Quote:
Maybe your point is more this: "Since Dark Horses version didn't succeed, Kitoh's works aren't good enough to be published in english, and you shouldn't promote them." I am very confident that 90% of the reason narutaru didn't succeed is because Dark Horse screwed it up, in a couple different ways. 1. The time between volumes was more than a year in some cases. <- Instant death. Even fruits basket would have failed miserably if published this way. 2. It was serialized in a magazine which was only carried in comic book stores. 3. It was a studio Proteus project that was transferred to another division after Toren smith split off from Dark Horse... basically killing any interest Dark horse had in the project. 4. They completely missed opportunities to cross promote the manga with the anime series. Essentially, Narutaru failed to sell well because it was marketed poorly if at all, had censoring issues, and was being released at a pace slower than the original japanese publication. These issues have little to do with the work itself. I know some people are turned off by Kitoh's art style, but that is not what killed Narutaru. Dark Horse thought they were licensing an action filled kids manga with a mysterious twist many years ago, and when it turned out that it was a dark mind-bending socio-psycological treatese, they had no clue what to do with it.
__________________
|
|
2006-03-20, 18:58 | Link #100 |
Team the box!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Badside
|
I'm in the rare camp of: I have the Japanese Tokubons but my Japanese is so poor (not non existent) that translating it myself would take so long it would take the fun out of the story.
I'd be content with a text translation if no one wants to scanlate a series with a US license. I waited patiently, without resorting to the summaries, so I could get the full story (minus edits and censoring) and they let me down. |
Tags |
mecha, seinen |
|
|