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NEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, September 18-24

DJStarstryker wrote:

I'm pretty happy to see shoujo on top of the list. It always feels like shounen dominates way too much in the US. But then again, since Sailor V had never come out here before and Sailor Moon was not only out of print for years but the new version is unflipped and everything... it's no wonder it's up there.

For the most part, it almost always has been women dominating the manga sales whereas men dominate anime sales. Though there has recently been more of a shift (in Japan) to where female-targeted shows are now selling quite well.

Do you seriously expect them to ditch the names that have been engraved in the fandom for years? And I hope you aren't complaining that they don't use the Japanese names for the actual Pokemon. Viz doesn't want to get in any trouble, so they make some simple edits that don't hurt the story or action and are approved by the parent Japanese company.

Do you seriously expect them to ditch the names that have been engraved in the fandom for years? And I hope you aren't complaining that they don't use the Japanese names for the actual Pokemon. Viz doesn't want to get in any trouble, so they make some simple edits that don't hurt the story or action and are approved by the parent Japanese company.

Normally I don't care about different names in different regions, but if people are seriously going to claim that Squirtle is blasphemy than that's silly. Pokemon names are usually based on puns, so when you translate the game you have to make new puns.

This is no different from what they did with the Ace Attorney series.

TitanXL wrote:

The describes the English version of Pokemon in general, really. Never liked Viz's censoring/changes of the manga... I just stick to other means of reading them.

The edits they did in Pokemon adventures were so small and minor that they made 0 impact on the comic. I know, I hate censorship as well but it was really in the best interest so that parents wouldn't find Poke balls coming out of bras and complain, just like what happened to Dragonball years ago.

baadaku12345 wrote:

The edits they did in Pokemon adventures were so small and minor that they made 0 impact on the comic. I know, I hate censorship as well but it was really in the best interest so that parents wouldn't find Poke balls coming out of bras and complain, just like what happened to Dragonball years ago.

I can't really stand the edited names and script most of all. And I don't really care if parents here so over protective we have to edit simple things like boobs or whatever.. that's their problem and it shouldn't be forced on anyone else.

So you would prefer that the intentions are missed so you can claim purity? No one is impressed by your love of Japan.

I'm pretty sure the English Pokemon names are used for the simple fact that they are the official English names. Pokemon USA and Nintendo initially came up with them for the games, and all companies are required to use them, which is understandable. It would be confusing for the names in the manga to be different from the Games/CCG/TV Show! Plus the general American fanbase overwhelmingly uses the English names.

It's very hard to find the Japanese version of the anime too (aside from the banned episodes).

99.9% of people in America (as well as other countries around the world, and not just English-speaking ones) know Ash as Ash and ONLY as Ash!

Don't be sheltered from other cultures and pretend they don't exist, it's bad form and kind of xenophobic.

But wouldn't those who read Red Hood & the Outlaws be a completely different kind of audience from those who would read Sailor Moon?

Again, the Sailor Moon fandom and Pokemon fandom are very different. The Pokemon fandom generally doesn't care as much about the Japanese version. They know about it, but they generally don't watch it. They're not weaboos.