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Writing: Shane McCarthy et al
Art: Guido Guidi et al
Translator: Nakazawa Shunsuke
Details: B5 size Heng Namisei, 500 pages, text 4C
Price listing: 3,800 yen + tax
Release Date: March 23, 2015
ISBN: 9784796875141
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
NuclearConvoy wrote:I know that it is incredibly unlikely, but I would be absolutely jazzed if this led to an eventual anime adaptation of the IDWverse Neo-G1 Transformers stuff.
Va'al wrote:Given all the negative reaction this news is getting, I think we're forgetting how big it actually is for IDW to be officially available in another language, especially with the Japanese readership!
Was AHM not as successful? Maybe. I liked it. I still do. Slow pacing? Sure. But as a one-volume read, to me, it works. And it sets the scene for everything that comes after it, Costa, Roberts, Barber, RID/MTMTE, Dark Cybertron, Drift, Scott, Windblade and Combiner Wars. It's a good place to start, without having to delve back into the -ations.
NuclearConvoy wrote:Va'al wrote:Given all the negative reaction this news is getting, I think we're forgetting how big it actually is for IDW to be officially available in another language, especially with the Japanese readership!
Was AHM not as successful? Maybe. I liked it. I still do. Slow pacing? Sure. But as a one-volume read, to me, it works. And it sets the scene for everything that comes after it, Costa, Roberts, Barber, RID/MTMTE, Dark Cybertron, Drift, Scott, Windblade and Combiner Wars. It's a good place to start, without having to delve back into the -ations.
But the -ations were great. And Stormbringer deserves translation as well.
Va'al wrote:NuclearConvoy wrote:Va'al wrote:Given all the negative reaction this news is getting, I think we're forgetting how big it actually is for IDW to be officially available in another language, especially with the Japanese readership!
Was AHM not as successful? Maybe. I liked it. I still do. Slow pacing? Sure. But as a one-volume read, to me, it works. And it sets the scene for everything that comes after it, Costa, Roberts, Barber, RID/MTMTE, Dark Cybertron, Drift, Scott, Windblade and Combiner Wars. It's a good place to start, without having to delve back into the -ations.
But the -ations were great. And Stormbringer deserves translation as well.
I am not saying they're not! I adore Stormbringer with a passion.
What I'm trying to say is that, for a coherent, continuing market of translation, the story might want to take precedence - with Combiner Wars currently about to take place, AHM is a good place to start. Heck, they could even skip the 2009-11 ongoing, and re-start from Death of Optimus Prime (maybe with a summary of sorts).
We'll see how it develops, of course. All I'm really trying to claim here is that I more or less agree with AHM as a starting point for a new readership.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Maybe Japan just has a taste for poorly-received American TF comics. The last G1-based comics they got translated into Japanese over there were the two Pat Lee-drawn Dreamwave G1 mini-series. (*shudders*)
Emerje wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Maybe Japan just has a taste for poorly-received American TF comics. The last G1-based comics they got translated into Japanese over there were the two Pat Lee-drawn Dreamwave G1 mini-series. (*shudders*)
Well it's Japan, if there's one thing they love it's stories on a slow boil. This will probably suit their tastes in story telling pretty well.
Remember what happened after they got those Dreamwave comics? EVERYTHING was Pat Lee insprired from reissue packaging to Revoltech figures. If history repeats itself with IDW we might be better off for it.
Emerje
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Va'al wrote:Given all the negative reaction this news is getting, I think we're forgetting how big it actually is for IDW to be officially available in another language, especially with the Japanese readership!
Was AHM not as successful? Maybe. I liked it. I still do. Slow pacing? Sure. But as a one-volume read, to me, it works. And it sets the scene for everything that comes after it, Costa, Roberts, Barber, RID/MTMTE, Dark Cybertron, Drift, Scott, Windblade and Combiner Wars. It's a good place to start, without having to delve back into the -ations.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
SG Roadbuster wrote:wait, why did the japanese begin with all hail Megatron? why not start with a better story, like Spotlight Shockwave or Infiltration?
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