(L) Gantz

[H2-FumoGuu]

God, I love this manga!

up to 149:

Spoiler:

List of stuff that was awesome:
- the wheels!
- Kei teaming up with that old farting man = too good!
- Reika is hawt! and still alive!
- extend-o-sword!
- americans "America is safer than this"
- psychics killing the dinos

Kei is such a pimp. Kickin' dino ass without a suit as usual and getting the adoration of the ladies and the elderly.

Archaic is right that both the quality of EG's scan's and translation was kind of poor but whatever. I'm happy to just get to read it.

[vitellus314]

hmmm but where can i find chapters 131-132??

[vitellus314]

apart from mirc (#shocwave @rizon)...

[vitellus314]

ouf got them http://snoopy007.shackspace.com/GantZ/

[tanuki]

Originally Posted by Archaic

Fairly bad quality raws though. Chinese source too, which means twice translated. Going to ruin the translations without a doubt. I'll stick with the ones by Shocwave.

The 119-164 batch of raws I saw seemed ok overall...but they were fairly small compressed jpg files and would make a poor source if anyone attempted to reuse them for english subs.

[AzrielBlack]

On http://www.gotwoot.net ShocWave was considering stopping because the other dude has got so far ahead. He then reconsidered after reading a chapter the other guy did and has vowed to translate as much as he can this week to catch up. This is because of the poor quality of the translations and the picture quality sucked pretty bad.

I guess ill stick with ShocWave since hes been so fast with his releases ill stay loyal and read his quality translations.

[Spooky-Electric]

If only Hawks/Omanga were faster. They have the best translation and quality. I'll move on to Shocwave but still download Hawks/Omanga and replace the Shocwave ones as they become available.

[AzrielBlack]

Originally Posted by Spooky-Electric

If only Hawks/Omanga were faster. They have the best translation and quality. I'll move on to Shocwave but still download Hawks/Omanga and replace the Shocwave ones as they become available.

Yeah Hawks/Omanga where better translations but they are didnt release enough, i guess quality over quantity. But people want to read as much of this as they can. Yeah shocwave did start off poorly missing chunks of text and just puttin notes in saying it didnt matter what was being said but he has improved vastly and hes releasing quickly.

[tanuki]

Originally Posted by Archaic

Spoiler:

You're in for a shock then. There's a reason Gantz wanted a lot of people killed. He needed a lot of troops. Even if most of them do turn into cannon fodder. This next mission is nothing easy.

Spoiler:

I thought that was the reason behind the slaughter on the city streets as well, but then look at how few of the dead were transported to the Gantz room after that. In the end most of the deaths, in particular the women and kids killed, were pointless. While on one level Izumi might have rationalized killing all those people as a means to recruit new talent for the Gantz room, he made no attempt to be selective in picking people to kill who looked like they could do well in the games later. His real reason for the slaughter seemed more personal and selfish. Despite several attempts Izumi couldn't manuver Kei into a situation where he was willing to kill him, and Izumi didn't want to commit suicide. So Izumi decided to hide his identity and place himself in a position where the odds favored him fighting a losing battle, being killed, and then being sent back to the Gantz room.

[a_nevels666]

Originally Posted by soul_less

I have just started watching anime a little while ago and now I am starting on manga. I was wondering why do you talk about manga in terms of chapters and not volumes?
In addition, I was wondering how many volumes and chapters of Gantz are are out?

Because manga is first published in magazines (like Shounen Jump, for example) in chapters, then when 10 or so new chapters have been released, they are released as a volume...

Also fan-translations of manga release a chapter when it's done, they don't wait for an entire volume to be done.

Gantz has 165 chapters so far, but I'm not sure how many volumes are out.

[tanuki]

Originally Posted by AzrielBlack

Yeah Hawks/Omanga where better translations but they are didnt release enough, i guess quality over quantity. But people want to read as much of this as they can. Yeah shocwave did start off poorly missing chunks of text and just puttin notes in saying it didnt matter what was being said but he has improved vastly and hes releasing quickly.

The scans used by Hawks/Omanga are also distinctive in their high quality. Which can be nice because frequently in Gantz the images rather than character dialog are relied on to tell the story. For instance Ch 149 p8 to p16. Aside from the addition of sound effects, the story is carried by action in the images (with very little that requires translation).

[a_nevels666]

Originally Posted by tanuki

For instance Ch 149 p8 to p16. Aside from the addition of sound effects, the story is carried by action in the images (with very little that requires translation).

That goes for most of Gantz IMO. It's a very visual manga.

Which makes it very suitable for an anime adaptation...

[Yebyosh]

Originally Posted by tanuki

The 119-164 batch of raws I saw seemed ok overall...but they were fairly small compressed jpg files and would make a poor source if anyone attempted to reuse them for english subs.

Umm no... if you notice the scans that Jojo (for Chinese scanlates) uses, you will know they use large fairly high quality scans, so there are large high quality raw scans for Gantz out there.

Sidenote: It should be noted that the released tankoubons for Gantz are only up to Vol 12(or 13) at the moment. Vol 12 is roughly chapter 139 (off my head recollection). So anything beyond that is coming straight off the weeklies/monthlies cheap magazines and would be of slightly lower or equal quality than coming from the tankoubons (dependent on raw scanner capability).

[Spyderz]

forgive me if my translations were bad,im extremely new to manga translations
besides,i was pulled in by EG in such a short time
and yes,i translated via the chinese scans,so if there were any discrepancies between the jap scans and these,i dont really know
all i know is i did my best in translation and made sure the english text were 95%+ similar to the chinese text and rephrased to make the sentence sound right as possible
btw,i started off from 140-157

[AzrielBlack]

Originally Posted by Spyderz

forgive me if my translations were bad,im extremely new to manga translations
besides,i was pulled in by EG in such a short time
and yes,i translated via the chinese scans,so if there were any discrepancies between the jap scans and these,i dont really know
all i know is i did my best in translation and made sure the english text were 95%+ similar to the chinese text and rephrased to make the sentence sound right as possible
btw,i started off from 140-157

Would you mind putting a link to where we can find your work then? Its not your fault, your trying your best with what you have i guess? Damn i feel bad for saying the stuff i said now. : sorry.

[Spyderz]

nah nvm,since that would be my first and last proj
i only helped EG catch up with the latest chinese scans
now that they done it,most likely they dont need a chinese translator because they would switch to jap scans

but in a different point of view,that means i got more time to game on my uber rig

[tanuki]

Originally Posted by Yebyosh

Umm no... if you notice the scans that Jojo (for Chinese scanlates) uses, you will know they use large fairly high quality scans, so there are large high quality raw scans for Gantz out there.

Sidenote: It should be noted that the released tankoubons for Gantz are only up to Vol 12(or 13) at the moment. Vol 12 is roughly chapter 139 (off my head recollection). So anything beyond that is coming straight off the weeklies/monthlies cheap magazines and would be of slightly lower or equal quality than coming from the tankoubons (dependent on raw scanner capability).

Should have clarified this a bit in my earlier post. Was just looking the differences between the Jojo raws off digitalpanic, and some of the raws released in the batch torrents by k-o. Just seemed like the k-o jpg's might have had the compression a little bit aggresive to shrink the file sizes down for easier distribution.

[Silent Otaku]

Spoiler:

I think it's great that people are scanalting so fast (weeklies). Even on the lesser qualites ones, hey Im not paying for anything so it's all good. I do like the creativeness and quality of The Hawks. But if i was that hyped about quality, I think I would just buy the tankoubons myself . Anways i have some questions
1. Does anyone know whatever happend to Kishimoto during the time she was kicked out by Kei and the return
2. Is there any signs that she will make a reapperance. Since she's not dead, RIght?
3. Are there any signs of this ending anytime soon

I kinda want to see Kishimoto come back and fight along side Kei. Kei is great as the protagonist in this series, and I think they would make a good pair even though he is addicted to ecchiness, ahs a grilfriend and he kicked her out. I never really like Katou's character, but he did make some progress. Not to sound cruel (altought I can't help it reading Gantz) but I hope they don't bring him back.

[R-S-W-E]

Originally Posted by Silent Otaku

Spoiler:

I think it's great that people are scanalting so fast (weeklies). Even on the lesser qualites ones, hey Im not paying for anything so it's all good. I do like the creativeness and quality of The Hawks. But if i was that hyped about quality, I think I would just buy the tankoubons myself . Anways i have some questions
1. Does anyone know whatever happend to Kishimoto during the time she was kicked out by Kei and the return
2. Is there any signs that she will make a reapperance. Since she's not dead, RIght?
3. Are there any signs of this ending anytime soon

I kinda want to see Kishimoto come back and fight along side Kei. Kei is great as the protagonist in this series, and I think they would make a good pair even though he is addicted to ecchiness, ahs a grilfriend and he kicked her out. I never really like Katou's character, but he did make some progress. Not to sound cruel (altought I can't help it reading Gantz) but I hope they don't bring him back.

to answer your questions:
1. i don't think there's hints how Kishimoto live on her own after she got kick out by Kei, all we know is that she somehow manage to live by herself for a few days till been "recall" by Gantz.
2. don't think so...her role in the manga is pretty much over (maybe some cover pic of her in bikini or something ) but who knows -- the manga is really hard to predict what will happen next
3. by "this" you mean the manga? NO, the crazyness is just started!!!!

[soul_less]

thanks a bunch