New Beast Wars Comic hardcovers coming to China?

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Gamerlingual, Apr 21, 2018.

  1. SHIELD Agent 47

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    TCJJ is right. The Weibo post is written entirely in the Chinese language, not the Japanese language. Moreover, I don’t think most Japanese publishers have direct operations overseas, and vice versa.

    To elaborate, Chinese call their written script “hànzì” (汉子/漢字) while Japanese refer to these as “kanji” (漢字). China uses “simplified characters” (简体字 jiǎntǐzì), Taiwan and Hong Kong use “traditional characters” (繁體字 fántǐzì), and Japan uses “new character form” (新字体 shinjitai). Some shinjitai are like jiǎntǐzì, some are like fántǐzì, and some are unique to the shinjitai set.

    But you can easily distinguish Japanese text from Chinese text because Japanese mixes logographic kanji with phonetic kana.

    Also, due to a long historical rivalry between China and Japan, I advise the use of culturally-appropriate terminology, even if you are writing/speaking a different language like English. As TCJJ points out, some Chinese will take offense to their writing being called “kanji”. Vice versa with the Japanese.
     
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    I'd like them in an English hardcover. I can't recall one being done. You could also throw in the Dreamwave Summer Special, just for funsies. But not the IDW BW Profiles series. Forget that.
     
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    Was the English version that bad?
     
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