From: kuo@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chih-Ping Kuo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Orion #2, Nausicaa#3.1
Date: 8 Jan 1993 18:34:47 -0800
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first, I pick up both issue at Nikaku, and I am not happy, because I 
would rather buy the English product at non-anime specific store so
that those stores would see them as a profitable products to carry, 
not to mention that the local comic store carry them at 10% off
plus a free plastic cover, but since they don't have them in stock
I prefer not to wait....

anyway, first, my impression of Nausicaa 3.1,

well, like Larry stated, they got a new kind of cover paper, thinner, 
slicker, cheaper, kind of rob off the aura of old, mystic, and atmosphere
of the original Nausicaa, I definitely don't like that.

the papers they use for the manga itself are about the same as the 
original part I and II Nausicaa, with is a plus, (they are even better 
than the Japanese's Nausicaa), those paper are so much better than the
shiny, reflective glossy paper Eclipse and Dark Horse prefer, obviously
none of them are using NewType's printshop, where screentones simply
looks that much better.

not much complaint about the touch-up, about the same quality as before.

and the translations, well, Studio Proteus is not doing it, and just 
like I was afraid, the feeling of "King's English" is gone, of course, 
they try to imitate it in some case and just seems hopeless out of place,
now don't get me wrong, if I never read the studio proteus's version
before, this new version is not that bad, plain simple American English, 
but the feeling is like reading a novel writting in two parts by two 
different author, the style in writting is obvious.

I suspect that Viz don't bring Nausicaa back until now is because Viz
and Studio Proteus both hold the right to the American Nausicaa, and 
since they have a falling out it take them until now to solve the 
right issue, oh well, w/o some insider info we will never know.

anybody know if Viz's part III will cover up to the end of book #5, or to 
the last chapter on Animage?

on ward to Orion #2, not much to say there except the translation, 
I still have some nit-pick about some of the words they use, 
(why not use 'launch' instead of 'eject'?, and some of the specific
name shall be translated by meaning instead of sounds, hey, why Dark Horse
publishing don't want to translate kuroma into Dark Horse is beyond me! :)
and to all major character's speech, I think the translation got the 
meaning across very good, just not SusanO's tones, he is not speaking
in normal modern Japanese, a Shakespeare style speech might be more
appropriate, oh well, I know it was a tough job before they started, 
so I won't pick on them that much.

Oh, BTW, you can tell the flow of the action panels is really screw up in
the transpose English version if you have the original to compare to, 
the flow is simply not there.

I will give both issue's transfer effort a "B".

PS no matter what they say, they screw up most of the parts about Guku, 
could be done much better! 

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Ping Kuo			"There is not enough darkness in all    
kuo@sumax.seattleu.edu		 the world to put out the light of  
standard disclaimer applied   	 one small candle."