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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Actually, I will readily admit that I was originally introduced to YKK by the very capable English scanlation that is available to those who know where to look. Since then, of course, I've gone and purchased nearly the entire series in the original Japanese, and re-read them.

I may open up a can of worms by suggesting that fansubs/scanlations are sometimes justified - but, at least in this case, the scanlation served as an appetizer that made me insatiably interested in owning the original. Ideally, that's the way things ought to work... which is also why I disapprove of DVD-ripped fansubs - there has to be a perceptible difference in video quality, to give people an incentive to purchase the real thing.

Of course, with mangas, it is the sheer tactile pleasure of sitting with a bound volume in your hands that is the quality difference which incites one to purchase.

- abunai

and for this, I was reprimanded and got my messages erased

tho i do admit posting the links was a mistake. :\

Well, except if you can read... "Thaiwanese" ??

Damn... I can't find a Taiwanese to English translator. -_-

barbapapa wrote:

Well, except if you can read... "Thaiwanese" ??

msi435 wrote:

Damn... I can't find a Taiwanese to English translator. -_-

OT: The language is Chinese; just like Americans don't speak "American" and Australians don't speak "Australian." Taiwanses is more a dialect than a language; it has no written form -- at least neither official nor unified, for there are many different versions created by missionaries, scholars, and political fanatics, with either Chinese characters, romanized letters, or mixtures of both. A big mess, I'd say.

What's the differenve between "Aqua" and "Aria". ANN encyclopedia looks like it's describing the same thing?

Also, there was decent buzz on Aria when it was still being made. ADV #%^@ing up their manga does not signify it was not sucessful.

ADV is one of the worst managed manga companies ever. If Aria is "uncessful" and suspended — I would chalk it up to ADV screwing up marketing, scheduling, production, licensing or whatever it is they do rather than Aria not being understood by westerners.

I personally find Aria to be fantastic but I could see a niche market of young females interesting in this book much like Fruits Basket.

Taiwanese is more a dialect than a language; it has no written form -- at least neither official nor unified, for there are many different versions created by missionaries, scholars, and political fanatics, with either Chinese characters, romanized letters, or mixtures of both. A big mess, I'd say.

If Aria is "uncessful" and suspended — I would chalk it up to ADV screwing up marketing, scheduling, production, licensing or whatever it is they do rather than Aria not being understood by westerners.

I personally find Aria to be fantastic but I could see a niche market of young females interesting in this book much like Fruits Basket.

I asked why the DVD needed two Mandarin dubs and he gave me the explaination you just did. ^^;

I don't think I'm ever going to master this language! I think I'll get good enough to communicate with people in Beijing (that's the accent he has) and that's about it.

OT: The language is Chinese; just like Americans don't speak "American"

Neither do I. Right now my Taiwanese is worse than my Japanese.

hagakure|returns wrote:

I think you mean your chinese is worse than your japanese, since you said the language is chinese and not taiwanese in your earlier post.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I've stated that Taiwanese can hardly be a language for its lacking of written form. So, in your opinion, what's my native language?

Surely you haven't read my personal profile and my old posts, plus you have no knowledge about the language and dialect usage in East Asia.

Next time, don't try to teach others something you are totally ignorant with. EVER.

But you can say you speak taiwanese though, which is a variant of Min-nan. I'm not teaching you anything, you just took things the wrong way.

And how am I ignorant about taiwanese when I am Taiwanese myself and my city of Montery Park is filled with Taiwanese and chinese people.

The nominees for the Seiun Award have been announced and guess who's one of them.

If these articles are correct, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou will be competing against Busô Renkin, Karakuri Circus, Yôsei-koku no Kishi, and Death Note for the Comic category.

While being nominated alone is already an honor, winning the award would really be neat since the recognition could boost the chances of the manga getting a proper and official translation.