| I'm on like 26. |
| Same, I just finished reading, and they were 26 chapters in total, altought here on MAL it only shows 13?? |
| The organization of these chapters is so confusing. I'm looking at it on MangaHere, and the first six chapters are listed as "volumes" and contain multiple parts. "Vol 1" contains chapter 1, parts 1-2 of the story "Mermaid's Smile" "Vol 2" contains chapter 2, parts 1-2 of the story "Mermaid's Village" "Vol 3" ditches the "chapter" designation, and instead contains parts 1-4 of the story "Mermaid's Forest" "Vol 4" is where things get a little confusing, as the cover now says "Mermaid's Dream", but the chapters are shown as "chapter 1", "chapter 2, part 1", and "chapter 2, part 2" However, looking at Wikipedia, it seems that these volumes were published differently in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Saga#Volumes "Volume 5" on mangahere is "Mermaid's Promise", which consists of four parts. "Volume 6" on mangahere is "Mermaid's Scar", which consists of four parts. However, In Japan, "Mermaid's Dream", "Mermaid's Promise", and "Mermaid's Scar" were originally published as "Volume 2" of the Mermaid Saga. "Volume 7" on mangahere is the first one to be split up by chapter, and it contains parts 1-4 of the story "Mermaid's Gaze" "Volume 8" on mangahere consists of the story "Mermaid's Mask", which I believe i four parts long, but it seems like they cut out the title pages for the chapters. If you look on Mangahere at "Mermaid's Mask Issue 2" (posted as "Vol 8, ch 2") it seems like a page is missing in-between pg 144 and 146. I'm guessing that was some kind of title page (probably for part 3) that they omitted for no reason. Then "Volume 8" on Mangahere has "chapter 5", "chapter 6", and "chapter 8", which are literally just reprints of "Mermaid's Promise", "Mermaid's Scar", and part 1 of "Mermaid's Mask" In Japan, "Volume 3 of the Mermaid Saga had the stories "The Ash Princess", "Mermaid's Gaze", and "Mermaid's Mask", that means the English version on Mangahere is apparently missing one story from the third volume. In any case, when trying to figure out the number of chapters, it really depends on if you count each part as one chapter, or if you count each story as one chapter with multiple parts. So, let's recap. That's 9 stories, all consisting of multiple parts. Story 1, "Mermaid's Smile", 2 parts Story 2, "Mermaid's Village", 2 parts Story 3, "Mermaid's Forest", 4 parts Story 4, "Mermaid's Dream", 3 parts Story 5, "Mermaid's Promise", 4 parts Story 6, "Mermaid's Scar", 4 parts Story 7, "The Ash Princess", ??? parts Story 8, "Mermaid's Gaze", 4 parts Story 9, "Mermaid's Mask", 3 or 4 parts So, all 9 stories consist of at least 27 parts... however, Wikipedia states that the manga in japan consists of 16 "episodes". I'm not sure where that number comes from. If each story was released in 2 parts in Japan, it would be 18 "episodes"... so I'm not sure which stories only consist of one part or whatnot. Edit: okay, so forget all that. I found this website - http://www.schala.info/mermaid/ This helps with understanding how the English publication split chapters up, and also re-arranged things. Essentially, in short, the first English version by Viz (the same version available on MangaHere) published the stories "Dream's End", and "The Ash Princess (parts 1 & 2)" as a single 3-part story called "Mermaid's Dream", when in reality, according to the serialization dates, "Dream's End" is chapter 7 and "The Ash Princess" is Chapter 12 So, below is a chart of the chapters, in chronological order of their Japanese serialization dates in Shounen Sunday Magazine (according to that website I linked), and the corresponding English title. (note: dates are in Japanese format, YYYY-MM-DD) [*]Chapter 01, serialized 1984-08-10 - A Mermaid Never Smiles, Part 1 ("Ningyo wa Warawanai, zenpen" translated as "Mermaids Don't Smile, part one") [*]Chapter 02, serialized 1984-09-15 - A Mermaid Never Smiles, Part 2 ("Ningyo wa Warawanai, kouhen" translated as "Mermaids Don't Smile, part two") [*]Chapter 03, serialized 1985-09-?? - The Village of Fighting Fish, Part 1 ("Tougyo no Sato," translated as "Village of Fighting Fish") [*]Chapter 04, serialized 1985-10-?? - The Village of Fighting Fish, Part 2 ("Tougyo no Sato" translated as "Village of Fighting Fish") [*]Chapter 05, serialized 1987-05-13 - Mermaid Forest, issue #1 / Mermaid Forest, issue #2 ("Ningyo no Mori, zenpen" translated as "Mermaid's Forest, part one") [*]Chapter 06, serialized 1987-05-20 - Mermaid Forest, issue #3 / Mermaid Forest, issue #4 ("Ningyo no Mori, kouhen" translated as "Mermaid's Forest, part two") [*]Chapter 07, serialized 1988-05-18 - Mermaid's Dream, issue #1 ("Yume no Owari" translated as "The End of the Dream") [*]Chapter 08, serialized 1990-10-24 - Mermaid's Promise issue #1 / Mermaid's Promise issue #2 ("Yakusou no Ashita, zenpen" translated as "Promise of Tomorrow, part one") [*]Chapter 09, serialized 1990-??-?? - Mermaid's Promise issue #3 / Mermaid's Promise, issue #4 ("Yakusou no Ashita, kouhen" translated as "Promise of Tomorrow, part two") [*]Chapter 10, serialized 1992-01-22 - Mermaid's Scar, issue #1 / Mermaid's Scar, issue #2 ("Ningyo no Kizu, zenpen" translated as "Scar of the Mermaid, part one") [*]Chapter 11, serialized 1992-01-29 - Mermaid's Scar, issue #3 / Mermaid's Scar, issue #4 ("Ningyo no Kizu, kouhen" translated as "Scar of the Mermaid, part two") [*]Chapter 12, serialized 1992-06-15 - Mermaid's Dream, issue #2 / Mermaid's Dream, issue #3 ("Shari-hime" translated as "Bone Princess") [*]Chapter 13, serialized 1993-05-?? - Mermaid's Gaze, issue #1 / Mermaid's Gaze, issue #2 ("Yasha no Hitomi, zenpen" translated as "Demon's Eye, part one") [*]Chapter 14, serialized 1993-06-?? - Mermaid's Gaze, issue #3 / Mermaid's Gaze, issue #4 ("Yasha no Hitomi, kouhen" translated as "Demon's Eye, part two") [*]Chapter 15, serialized 1994-02-02 - Mermaid's Mask Issue #1 / first half of Mermaid's Mask Issue #2 ("Saigo no Kao, zenpen" translated as "Final Face, part one") [*]Chapter 16, serialized ????-???-?? - second half of Mermaid's Mask Issue #2 / Mermaid's Mask Issue #3 ("Saigo no Kao, kouhen" translated as "Final Face, part two") I hope this makes MangaProject's release of the manga a little easier to follow. The other option is to simply buy Viz's updated four-volume release of this series (which was published in 2004) is read in the original right-to-left format, and organizes the chapters properly. (There's no scans of this version available online anywhere, from what I've seen, though.) |
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| Yes it's 26 chapters btw lol like this guy have said after reading through this im surprised that after 500 yrs that he never apparently learned how to fight . |
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