my sins

Wow when was the last time I did one of these...um back in April...maybe?...Anywho I felt like like doing an update to this project as I just finished translation on Viewtiful Comics #6, maybe I just wanted to ramble on in English for a bit and preferably (spoiler-free) about the Viewtiful Joe manga, because I love it.Here’s the current checklist chart for the translation. Big Thanks to the Twitter user CabbagePea as she found the issues I was missing. This couldn’t have been done without her hard work 💖 :What this chart doesn’t take into account is the editing of the pages. There’s 17 stories each with 4 pages each which makes for a “I really don’t want to know how many of those there are that’s an intimidating number”. Most pages it’s a simple case of crop, rotate, convert to greyscale, level, clean up gutters (man I hate gutters), clean up oddities and cover over the text ready for the localised script.Most issues have page 1/4 in colour and the other 3 in black and white (or purple depending on the mood the printer was in at V Jump HQ back in the day). Except for four issues (if you want to keep count it’s #5, and #14-16), in these issues the Page 1 is in Greyscale (purplescale in #5’s case). My assumption is it was made in colour and for some reason printed in greyscale, which is such as shame...So forcompleteness, I also colour these pages, remove text (to make the localisation easier). Here’s a WIP of #5 (that one took me like two weeks to do in full and I’m still not finished it):I just do all this in my free time in between other things. I love this comic and I want to see this project through to the end. I’d love nothing more than for Capcom to distribute it in order to share it with other Viewtiful Joe fans. There are already other fans all over the world that would love to translate this into their local language so I’m making sure I can give them the best English translation I can to make their lives easier.If there is any negativity (legal or otherwise) to come from Capcom or V Jump or whoever from this fan translation please get in touch, the negativity should only be addressed to me and me alone, I started this project way back in Dec 2015. I’d love nothing more than for this comic series to once again be recognised officially as it only had one run in the issues of V Jump, even if it means surrendering my work to Capcom, I’ll happily do it if it means me and my little Translation Team avoid legal issues. I’m not even asking for payment (goodness knows I’ve spend a lot of money trying to import these V Jumps), for me knowing that I was able to find and translate these forgotten comics - really I can’t put into words how much these comics mean to me, all I ask in return is to just let me finish this work (and maybe a credit).I’ve been in touch with Mr. Kikuchi (the artist and writer of this comic, he is a lovely gentleman), I never know what to say to him as my Japanese sentences are poor at best, but he hasn’t screamed at me in anger at any point so I guess that’s a good signNo, I’m not fluent in Japanese (I’ve never taken a class, my spoken Japanese is rocky at best, my listening is so-so and I’m terrified of making sentences from scratch), I learnt from a hiragana & katakana worksheet, didn’t know the difference between the two for like two years but I just wanted to know ...actually why there was Junior, why he was in a comic and why no one WAS TALKING ABOUT IT!! My original translation can be found over on my Tumblr -> maireadralph.tumblr.com/day/20… . Basically I translate using a Beginner’s Japanese Dictionary, the Apple Japanese to English Dictionary and Google Translate when I’m mega stuck (it’s trash though like really bad, but sometimes it helps when you get stuck on a sentence).Hmm I’ve sorta rambled on for a bit, haven’t I...? I suppose I should go and make dinner or something. Later!!