I'll wait for the Onibus.

>>202911

Onibus: The Magic School Bus' demonic Japanese cousin.

Google image searching for Onibus (鬼バス) gives me this.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/オニバス
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euryale_ferox

Only two volumes behind?

Here's your Onibus.

>>202930
I like that you can see the ball Yotsuba gave Torako sitting on her dashboard. Yay for secret continuity.

>>202944
I'd give Torako some balls to put on her dashboard.

>>202946
Those belong on the onanibus

>>202914
Those are some meaty legs Reimu is having.
Almost Fuuka quality.

I just received my copy of vol.7. It's pretty nice. They took the black and white pictures of cows that were under the dust jacket in the Japanese edition and printed them on the inside cover flaps. Here's a few scans.
They went with "Miss Stake".

How she got her nickname.

Last one.

>>203146

GOD.

F***ING

DAMMIT.

They COULD NOT have stuck with the original font?!

That scene and panel just lost all of its visceral, emphatic emotion now.

DAMMIT, F***!

>>203146
New Order?

>>203144

> They went with "Miss Stake".

Can we sue them now? Imprison them? Take away their Internet connection?

>>203152
/azu/ has a good lawyer?

I'm glad they kept 'Miss stake'. I was really worried about that. That little *note under that panel, I wish they wouldn't add that, at least ones that long, but whatever. That's what white out is for.

I wish they would use Sprocket's scans (with his pressmen, of course). I'm more used to those and they have nice flow.

Tokyopop is doing that, right now:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-02/tokyopop-ceo-considers-using-fan-translators

>>203154
My inner cynic didn't notice anything in there about Tokyopop PAYING the fan translators.

>>203155
Pay? They stole the fan translations for Magic Knight Rayearth when they were first starting out as Mixx. All they said when they were caught was, "Our bad."

What I find funny is that they changed translation of "Please stake good care of me" to "Please to miss you"

I mean if they wanted to go the weaboo route why not translate literally. Not really rage worthy, doesn't even warrant a twitch of the eyebrow but I do wonder.

On the subject of the font change for the legendary "NO", it's a shame but it really could be worse. Yotsuba could be eating jellydonuts.

Anyways, these should be out in stores by the 8th, yes?

>>203144
That's kind of awesome.
I really do wonder if my translation had anything to do with that decision, or if they just coincidentally came up with the same idea. I remember spending quite a bit of time pondering how to translate that joke though.

But like >>203157 said, it kind of doesn't make as much sense if her misspoken greeting doesn't include the word "stake" somewhere. Maybe they did that old high school term paper trick of directly quoting only the good parts of sentences from the source material, and arbitrarily rewording others so it's not as obvious you plagiaraized.

And for people who didn't like "Please stake good care of me" because they thought no person would be able to differentiate it from "Please take good care of me" due to the close proximity of the "s" sounds, that could be worked around by having her say "I hope you stake good care of me."

>>203154
I have pressmen? Woo-hoo!

>>203154

The best...

>>203169
Osaka's a man?
(Or maybe she's vc:the man.)

>>203169

>>THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST

>>203149

Seconded

>>203156

Is that true? Who was the original translator of Rayearth Tokyopop took their translation from?

>>204606
Rika Takahashi. She did a really good fan translation of Rayearth, so Tokyopop, or Mixx as it was called back then, hired her to translate the series for their magazine. She did a few issues, but when she wasn't paid, she left. They hired a "new translator" whose translations were suspiciously similar to Rika's fan translations.

>>204607
Would you happen to know of they published any of Yuu Watase's stuff? Apparently, someone else came out and talked about the same thing that happened years back; their scanlation work actually being published without consent or agreement.

The anime industry is fucking crazy like that, man. I believe it was Bang Zoom studios who had their students do "practice sessions" on anime just so they didn't have to pay them, then they gave the recording tracks to the publishers.
So much damn politics in such a tiny industry.

>>204607

I saw this same assertion here:

http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Tokyopop

...but there were no citations given. If Tokyopop admitted they did it at one point, I wonder if there's any record of that--a con report, a magazine article. I know a person who's translated manga for Viz, Del Rey, and Dark Horse, and she says they definitely pay her, so I don't think such shady practices are universal.

The thing about stealing fan translations is, the person who did the original translation really doesn't have a legal leg to stand on, since fan translations are technically against the law without acquiring the proper distribution licenses.

>>204609
I saw that link too when I was looking for any news articles about it. I couldn't find any good ones, unfortunately. Nor could I find the old CLAMP Mailing List threads where this was discussed back when it happened.

>>204610

I don't think it is illegal to merely translate something without authorization--the issue seems to be publishing a translation (whether as a scan or actual book) without getting permission from the Japanese rights holder to do so.

>>204612
Is the translation itself a protected work then? I remember reading something about this recently, but I can't remember what exactly I read.
Even if it's a translation that's distributed illegally, does the translation itself have any creative rights protection?

>>204614
I thought you college boys knew your shit?
You might want give this a listen to refresh your memory.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2009-12-03

>>204619
Maybe if they majored in copyright law.

I didn't.

And sorry, I'm not up to listening to an hour long podcast on the anime industry.

>>204621
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4_tleYBTB8#t=04m15s

Copyright is for rich people and suckers.

It kind of depends. In Japan they don't usually get upset over doujinshi, which in America would be called a copyright violation. The part that does really bother them is when people don't buy the original product the doujinshi is based off of. And I think that's fair. I don't see why people who make anime and manga should have to give away their work for free, when everyone else expects to get paid at their job.