Forum - View topicNEWS: Yen Press to Reissue Azumanga in New English Edition
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mulrich
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Well, in ADV's defence, Osaka speaks Oosaka-ben, which is quite different from standard Japanese. Not that that makes it any better. As for Yukari-sensei, she IS an English teacher, not a Spanish teacher. The reason for the sudden switch was that the translator was booted, and a new one took over. The old translator apparently thought it weird to have a teacher teaching English as a foreign language in an English-language book, so he turned her into a Spanish teacher instead. This is also the case in the English dub for the anime. Regarding the notes, no notes were even present until the translator switch. In any case, this news has caught my interest. I wanna know more. |
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fighterholic
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If that's the case why is this article on ANN then? |
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doctordoom85
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Thanks bleuster for mentioning that "English/Spanish teacher" mix-up. I've yet to buy the original omnibus (bought the anime boxset a few months ago, and loved this series!
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mulrich
Posts: 139 Location: Denmark |
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Well, ADV actually fixed the English/Spanish teacher thing in the omnibus. They also changed most mentions of x amount of dollars back to the original amounts of yen. It still lacks notes for the first two volumes worth of manga, though. |
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doctordoom85
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Well then, I guess I'll just buy whichever one turns out to be cheaper (unless YP adds the notes that were missing, in which case I'll go with YP). |
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Richard J.
 Posts: 3367 Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis. |
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I'm beginning to think maybe Yen Press has just plain taken over the big names from ADV's list of manga (if not their entire orphaned line) what with Yotsuba& and now Azumanga. Perhaps the'll go for the trifecta at least and give us more Gunslinger Girl? God knows ADV isn't going to do squat with their manga any time soon. |
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Sven Viking
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The first two single volumes didn't /have/ any notes. Last two were handled a lot better, imho. |
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FMPhoenixHawk
 Posts: 66 Location: Formerly MI, now IN. |
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I have the Omnibus edition of the manga and the thinpack set of the series, so I won't be getting this, unless it has a lot of extras. And even then, it will be iffy.
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Axe-336
 Posts: 143 Location: Springfield, VA |
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I sure hope so. The southern accent works so much better than the Brooklyn. |
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GATSU
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Waste of licensing money, especially since you can still get that book in most stores. If Yen wants to "save"any old ADV manga series, I'd rather it be Cromartie High. Anyway, this just proves Azumanga wasn't that profitable, if ADV was willing to let it go so easily, since they held on to it longer than Yotsuba, which is probably even less successful than it. But testor will tell me otherwise.
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Tiamats Reviews
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Yen Press have confirmed that the edition they're releasing is NOT the 10th Anniversary version, and when asked about Gunslinger Girl said they wanted to wait till it was more concrete before commenting. Which gave me the impression they were interested in the series.
Full info in the follow up Q&A on my site: http://www.tiamatsreviews.com/?p=1719 |
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Tiamats Reviews
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Actually Yen Picked up Yotsuba first, and then later Azumanga, which they picked up after a load of requests. So you know what to do if you want them to pick up other titles, get off your butt and drop them a line. Let them know people are interested and they'll respond. |
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GATSU
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I just did e-mail 'em. [I think...] But I doubt anyone was requesting Azumanga, since they can buy it in bulk in stores already, and anyone who's a fan already owns it.
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