"Transformers: The Manga" Vol 01 coming from Viz later this year

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Chris McFeely, Jul 4, 2019.

  1. Grand Slam

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    For those that have a Kobo eReader or app, code ZJ55VV takes 25% off the already reduced price of these, bringing each volume to $9.82.
     
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    Perspective is all kinds of messed up on Megatron on the cover. eeeesh! As an artist myself, makes me cringe a little that that wasn't caught by the editor before finalizing the art and publishing. oh well...
     
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    They really did did Laster as Raster and still thought to change the faction names to their western variants?

    That’s a pretty petty thing don’t get me wrong but man, I care about preservation of the craft in that sorta way. Idk, just something I needed to get off my chest.
     
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    I loved both books. Really made all the loose connections for me in g1 make sense. Like where the whole scramble corps came from and stuff. Hoping I will find this at Barnes and noble idk, really excited
     
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    And they called him Deszaras!
     
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    Could’ve been worse. They could’ve named him “Rasta”. All hail the Pot Bot.
     
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    We could’ve memed that at least haha.
     
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    Delivery scheduled for my birthday from Amazon... Hope it sticks.
     
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    That bonus gallery is really my main reason for getting these volumes. So lovely to have those promotional images in a tidy volume on good thick paper stock.

    Man, I can't stand any of those old flipped Manga's. Really ruins the art the story sequence doesn't flow right. I'm glad that modern manga read properly.
     
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    It's called "localization". Just doing a 1:1 translation doesn't always work; sometimes they have to change stuff for it to make sense for a western audience.

    The argument of "preservation" or that it's "not respecting the work" is such B.S.
     
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    Yeah localization is actually quite important. The absolute very best localization I’ve ever encountered was the Steins: Gate series for PS Vita. That was the first time I had considered just how important it is to ‘localize’ the work for a difference audience.
     
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    Still though, they’re preserving by having the characters names pronounced as they would be in Japanese. That’s what’s weirder to me. They’re not even localising it fully. That was also extremely in the moment lol. I’ve put that long past me by now, that is the changing of Cybertrons to Autobots and etc. But Raster staying as Raster and not Laster? That’s pretty lazy, and goes directly against localising the text.
     
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    If it helps, BOTH versions of the name are silly and equally meaningless in english. :eek: 
     
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    Eh, sure. Just putting out my thoughts.
     
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    Anyone know if the three volumes are it for this magazine reprint/translation?
    As in there is nothing more?
     
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    Three volumes is it, yes - they cover all the manga released during the original run of G1 in Japan.

    There's other, later Transformers manga, of course, but this series was specifically translating a recent Japanese book that reprinted just these manga (it was split into three for Viz's Western release). Maybe if Japan gets its own new collections of later manga, Viz will translate those too, but this is it for now.
     
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