Current Translation Projects - 8/ 20/04
Okay. Total revamp here.
Anime and manga has seen insane growth in the past handful
of years, the number
of commercially licenced and distributed titles increasing by factors of ten.
Translations are getting better and better, too.
This is a wonderful thing. A really wonderful thing.
However, it also kinda
leaves me floating. Trigun and Saiyuuki have been released, both at paces
faster
than I've managed. The titles I had been thinking of picking up (Bleach,
Get
Backers, Saikano) have also been released. Heck just about EVERY title
I like
is now adorning shelves in Borders and Waldens.
So now what do I do? I'd love to continue on with
Trigun and re-start Saiyuuki,
but doing too many licensed titles is really disrepsectful to the companies
who
own them.
So here's the plan. I'll finish out Trigun 3 and
Tri-Max 1, then do the last
chapter of Saiyuuki 1. That will be the last I will publicly post of either.
I've been waffling over doing a novel, like Kino's Travels or Twelve Kingdoms,
but I'm still not sure. They likely won't be bought any time soon, but
they are
also really long and I'm really slow. ^.^ ; Less mainstream works
by Minekura are
tempting me (Stigma, Bus Gamer), but they're beautiful and poetic works and
I
don't know if I could do them justice.
However, there is one manga I'd love to do that seems
to have slipped through
the cracks of American licencing; FMA.
Yup. As far as I know, the Full Metal Alchemist
manga has NOT YET been bought.
Emphasis on "not yet". By this time next year, vol. 1 will probably
be sitting
on a shelf in Barnes&Nobles.
But *right now*, it's not. So it's fair game. Hah.
Don't know how soon I'll get a chapter posted, but it should happen sometime.