Tuesday, December 17, 2019
On my way to the counselor, but...
My driver side window got stuck in the down position but thankfully something thawed and I got it back up!
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
1994 Lum / UY manga vs 2019 Urusei Yatsura manga
Viz is trying again to publish Takahashi's premiere manga Urusei Yatsura again, this time unflipped and with a new lettering job and translation.
Viz has tried many times to bring the series to English readers for years, but it has never been a successful seller. Admittedly, maybe those attempts (Lum, The Return of Lum, etc) suffered from a bad translation to outright made up text to fit the illustrations.
Hopefully the fan response is favorable this time and more want this series on their bookshelf.
Let's take a look at the 2 books and they can't be more different.
The 1994 book is called a "Pefect Collection," but after reading through the new book, I wonder how Viz could claim this because it's missing 2 stories! Both books are the same until after Oyuki. The 2019 book has a story called 'Eros' after that, then picks up again until it runs into 'Still Waters Run Deep.' I'm wondering what sort of censorship was at play. The 1994 book has 3 more stories. And regardless of these differences, with the 2019 book being thicker, they have about the same amount of content.
The 1994 black and white printing is crisp and on good paper, whereas the 2019 book seems a bit too dark. And you'd think by now we'd get the color pages like the Japanese wideban got.
The lettering in 1994 looks sloppy, so thankfully by 2019, the process has improved, as well as translating. Including notes about the content has thankfully become the norm. In that way, manga is culturally educational.
And by coincidence, both books have very similar pricetags.
Urusei Yatsura ran for 34 tankoubon, so if Viz does 2 per, I expect 17 books in all.
I have the first monthly $3 Lum comic book when manga was published in 32 page chunks, as well as all Return of Lum issues. It will be interesting to see just how far Viz got back then.
Viz has tried many times to bring the series to English readers for years, but it has never been a successful seller. Admittedly, maybe those attempts (Lum, The Return of Lum, etc) suffered from a bad translation to outright made up text to fit the illustrations.
Hopefully the fan response is favorable this time and more want this series on their bookshelf.
Let's take a look at the 2 books and they can't be more different.
The 1994 book is called a "Pefect Collection," but after reading through the new book, I wonder how Viz could claim this because it's missing 2 stories! Both books are the same until after Oyuki. The 2019 book has a story called 'Eros' after that, then picks up again until it runs into 'Still Waters Run Deep.' I'm wondering what sort of censorship was at play. The 1994 book has 3 more stories. And regardless of these differences, with the 2019 book being thicker, they have about the same amount of content.
The 1994 black and white printing is crisp and on good paper, whereas the 2019 book seems a bit too dark. And you'd think by now we'd get the color pages like the Japanese wideban got.
The lettering in 1994 looks sloppy, so thankfully by 2019, the process has improved, as well as translating. Including notes about the content has thankfully become the norm. In that way, manga is culturally educational.
And by coincidence, both books have very similar pricetags.
Urusei Yatsura ran for 34 tankoubon, so if Viz does 2 per, I expect 17 books in all.
I have the first monthly $3 Lum comic book when manga was published in 32 page chunks, as well as all Return of Lum issues. It will be interesting to see just how far Viz got back then.
