| I wanted to start reading this manga (online) and I was disappointed that despite its historical importance, it is only translated online from the American version that is printed in the Western reading direction (left to right). I find it strange that despite it being completely free and legal in Japanese on sukima.me , no one (fans) has done a translation that respects the right-to-left printing direction. It should be noted that in Spanish, my native language, the manga is published by a publisher respecting the original reading direction (I have not found it pirated online). |
Feli_Esmeralder said: I find it strange that despite it being completely free and legal in Japanese on sukima.me , no one (fans) has done a translation that respects the right-to-left printing direction. It's not that strange. As an officially licensed work, trying to translate it again goes against the copyright law, and thus may leads to legal pursuits. Over the years, a lot of translation teams already were shut down for such reasons. We are also talking about a very old Manga, which was one of the first ever Manga officially released in English. Most people have read it like that, and loved it, so there must be some kind of nostalgia for how it was presented to them for the first time. On top of that, sukima.me is still rather new, i think it was created around 2011, so many years after the Manga became popular in the West. The fanbase was already pretty much non-existent at that time. But actually, i believe it was indeed fan-translated in the original reading direction back then; MangaProject is tagged on MangaUpdates as having released translations for Volume 1 to 24 in 2006, and seems like they were the sources for the Italians scanlation. It has been lost since then, tho. |
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