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2003 Astroboy manga - English-ified and online (kinda)

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Postby The Tawashi Bus Hat » 14 years ago

****See post #2 for Chapter 1 download.****

SO, started working on the 2003 Astro Boy manga.

Let me delve a bit into the process I'm going through with this:

First of all, I am unable to scan my books. This is because A.) My scanner is one of those copy/fax/printer ones that you have to put the paper down the tray to scan, so I'd have to rip out the pages to scan them...which I won't do...
...and B.) The English (Australian) version has no inside margins. Therefore, half the text would be illegible anyway...

SO, I acquired some Chinese scans (That have the inside margins - yay!) and are currently manually inserting the English text.

Annoying? You bet it is.

Is it worth it? I'd like to think so.

Anyway, I am currently about half-way through the first chapter and wanted to give you all a sampling of it to whet your whistles.

Hope you can all read it okay.

COVER:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/coalar_drake/cover1.jpg
TITLE PAGE:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/coalar_drake/1.jpg
BIOS & FIRST PAGE:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/coalar_drake/2-2.jpg
SECOND PAGE:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/coalar_drake/3.jpg
THIRD PAGE:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/coalar_drake/4.jpg
FOURTH PAGE:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/coalar_drake/5.jpg
FIFTH PAGE:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/coalar_drake/6.jpg


PS - When inserting text, I may make a few grammatical changes. I don't know what Chuang-Yi's deal is, but they word some things very oddly...so, I will make some things more understandable.

When I finish a chapter, I will put it up for download. When I finish a volume, I'll put it all in a zip file for download.

If I'm slow, please bear with me, photoshop has not been friendly recently...

Anyway, enjoy.

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Chapter one complete!

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Postby The Tawashi Bus Hat » 14 years ago

Finished chapter one before I hit the hay.

Zip file - 7.14 MB
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5oqzo2ygzyo

I'll probably try to finish the rest of the volume before I post anymore.
This is very tiresome... But, at least I don't have to translate it!!

(Although, Chuang Yi may want to fire some editors - I found two places where they emptied two text bubbles and I had to make up something to put in them...just in this chapter!!! <can you guess which ones they were?> Also, civilization was misspelled in the manga, lol. )

NOTE: The manga never mentioned Magnemite by name, so I did wherever I could. Take that!!!

...'nite. ZZZzzz...
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Postby Faram45 » 14 years ago

My Comic.

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Postby Faram45 » 14 years ago

My Comic.

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Postby Alittleacorn » 14 years ago

I have all 3 volumes *_* And it is really pretty. I like it more than the anime or even the original mangas...o_o



N-NU Tezuka I didn't mean it I'm sorry- AAAAH *is trampled by endless pig chibis*

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Postby Laughing Dragon » 14 years ago

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Postby The Tawashi Bus Hat » 14 years ago

"Faram45" wrote:I think im reading wrong but do i have the read from right to left like Japanese comics?
And when O Shay showed Astro the fish why was he speechless?

Yeah, you read it like Japanese comics.

As for the goldfish part, I didn't even delete what was already in the speech bubbles because it was the same in the English version. Just the "..." bit, so I guess he was just really upset...

...heck, if someone shoved a dead goldfish in my face, I probably wouldn't say anything, either.

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Postby The Tawashi Bus Hat » 14 years ago

"Laughing Dragon" wrote:Wow, beautiful art! I wish the movie comic adaptation had looked so good! Great work! Thanks!

No prob. Still diligently working on the rest! *goofs off again*

Akira Himekawa are a fantastic team. I really envy their artistic abilities...if you haven't already, you should check out their Legend of Zelda mangas. (At least they are no strangers to adapting great works, huyuk!)

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Postby jeffbert » 14 years ago

I want you to pause in posting new images, while the mods discuss this. Because there is a licensed English version, I hesitate to let this continue.

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Postby The Tawashi Bus Hat » 14 years ago