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REVIEW: Blade of the Immortal GN 22




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here-and-faraway



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:36 pm Reply with quote
This was my gateway drug into manga many a year ago. For whatever reason, I stopped reading it a few years ago. Maybe I should pick it back up. It sounds like there is a good story, at least up until 21 and that another good one is potentially starting...
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Raja



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:58 pm Reply with quote
So why, pray tell, do they continue to do the cut&paste method of changing reading direction when almost all continuing manga series these days just prints right-to-left? I'm honestly curious.
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darkhunter



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:24 am Reply with quote
Raja wrote:
So why, pray tell, do they continue to do the cut&paste method of changing reading direction when almost all continuing manga series these days just prints right-to-left? I'm honestly curious.


1) there's already 21 volume done this style, no point in changing it and pissing everyone off.

2) there's a lot of comic fan that read this manga and don't care for other manga
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Generic #757858



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:36 am Reply with quote
Also, Samura himself supposedly requested that they handle the English editions like that.
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vashfanatic



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:51 am Reply with quote
Generic #757858 wrote:
Also, Samura himself supposedly requested that they handle the English editions like that.

That was because this series began back in the days where everything was flipped. Samura wanted his drawings to remain as close to the original as possible, so he opted for the cut-and-paste approach. I have to say, I understand wanting to rearrange something into a Western reading order - it's hard for me to convince people that it's actually quite easy to get used to reading right-to-left, and I know it keeps a lot of people from ever reading manga they'd otherwise love.

This is definitely an intermission, a feeling only enhanced by the fact that it stops at chapter marked "part one," without giving part two. While I understand wanting to keep even volume size given the consistent price ($20 for "Badger Hole" was a ripoff) and that switching to the Japanese chapter-to-volume rate as they do now accomplishes that, at times like this I long for the days when they'd alter the size to get an entire storyline in a single volume, ala "Dreamsong" and "Beasts."

Oh, and I thought the fake girls game ad was hilarious in a very black humor sort of way. Wink
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