Mastering the art of Drunken Posting.

[aruru]

Right now, my brain's all fuzzy and drunken-like - I can't even seem to focus my eyesight on any one place for very long before starting to feel a bit dizzy, and I'm typoing and having to go back and edit things like a maniac. Hell, I'm not even sure I made sense in like half of the replies I've left people today while catching up on the Friends lists.

I think it may be due to sleeping far too many hours last night. Then again, I also just realized that during the time I've been dealing with this cold, I've kept forgetting to take my Paxil and Risperdal like I should - maybe I'm just now experiencing withdrawal symptoms from unintentionally being off the meds for so many days? Bleah... anyway, I took the Paxil earlier, so hopefully I'll be back on that track soon.



Anyway, I was posting right now to squee about Tokyopop's lastest press release. Mainly it was to formalize their acquisition of the Fruits Basket manga (which sounds like nice enough news - I know quite a few pals who'll be thrilled about that), but among the other titles listed, they also formally announced the Get Backers manga as another one of their 2004 release titles.

HAPPY HAPPY! I've been kinda interested in finding out more about this series since I first read translated scans of it on the GB Manga Translation Project (and thought it seemed so magnificently cheesy that it had to be fun XD), plus watching a few episodes of the seemingly gayer anime that shinkuu kindly downloaded for me, but the pace of the manga translation project was INSANELY slow (not that I didn't appreciate the efforts, but still... ^^;;), and I already abuse Shinny's kindness enough as it is, so licensing = TEH AWESOME.

And of course, let's not forget the highly amusing wank this will no doubt bring on, as yet another case of the old!fans bitching about the influx of new!fans that WILL come in* and start doing stuff like repeating all the old questions and discussions that were already had (Because they should be psychic and know people have asked this shit before, not to mention that it's totally impossible for someone to bring in a new idea to an old discussion, or put a new spin on an old theory! :D) will likely develop. Oh, and of course, the opposite - new!fans bitching about how ALL of the old!fans (rather than just SOME) have their heads up their asses and are ALL a bunch of "close-minded dictators" and whatever.

Oh, and people whining about how their precious fandom has "gone mainstream" and how that's a crime, or bitching about how they'll now have to PAY for the manga (and no doubt the anime - I fully expect for it to be announced to come out as well soon enough). Oh! Oh! And the influx of badfic and Mary Sues/Marty Stus (Though I absolutely don't doubt that these ALL already exist somewhere in the fandom - I just mean there'll be more of them.). That should all be TEH FUNY indeed.

In short, I can't wait to potentially become a n00b "plebe" for a fandom yet again. Yay! >D


*[Hey, series with action + humor + pretty boys + HEVN's rocket-boobs (with mysteriously unfindable nipples, no matter how ridiculously low that neckline gets!) + overt showings of het pr0n (in the manga) + ambiguous gayness (seems like there's more of it in the anime, from what I've seen of both it and the manga) = many, many fans GUARANTEED!]

Comments

[llamabitchyo.livejournal.com]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Tokyopop's translation process has been slow and getting slower. (We won't go into how bad their Ini D translation is; we will try to be optimistic that someone else will be translating GB for them.) I also wonder how much they'll try to clean it up.

[aruru.livejournal.com]

Well, I already purchase a few Tokyopop titles (GTO and Petshop of Horrors, also finished purchasing Sorcerer Hunters a while back), and I don't feel that waiting bi-monthly for the releases I'm getting (I don't know if all the other ones are bi-monthly, but the ones I currently keep an eye on are.) is all that bad - there's a ton of other crap I'm waiting for at the same time (games, anime, etc.), and $10 I don't have to use in one month can be alloted to something else I want to get in that same particular month.

Plus if you want really slow, you should see the rate at which the Utena manga is being published (Granted, it's largely because of the fact that it's still being serialized in Animerica Extra and they need to sell the mag, but... ^_^;;). So patience isn't something I can't handle in regards to manga.

And hey, at least the release dates for each tankubon will be more or less consistent. I originally heard of the GB Translation Project like nearly half a year ago, and during the time I originally saw it to last checking up on it about a month back, they had only done like... two-three chapters? Now, I totally appreciate the effort of these guys, not only because they were never paid to do this, but because they were only a very small team of people (It struck me as though they were few even by fan-translating standards.), but all the same - one full volume that I can count on to appear on a bi-monthly(?) basis vs. a few chapters during an indeterminate amount of time... well, you know what'll win in my book. ^^;;


(We won't go into how bad their Ini D translation is; we will try to be optimistic that someone else will be translating GB for them.)

I don't collect IniD, so I have no idea how good or bad it is. GTO has had what seems to me like more than competent translation thus far, and the first volume of PSoH was also done pretty well, so maybe you guys wound up with a crappy team to handle that project, kinda like the Sailor Moon peeps did? (from what I've heard, at least) I honestly don't know, myself.


Anyway, in the end, I'm willing to take the bad along with the good in order to see the things I want to see come to the West. English manga releases are still pretty much a new thing, so the companies themselves have a lot to learn, and customer feedback is CRUCIAL for them at this point in time. So yeah, I totally appreciate that companies have taken the full plunge in this particular type of venture. *shrug*