Now, it may come as a surprise, but I don't think I'm ever going to buy Reborn manga ever again @_@
KOROYO?! What the hell?! It's
Kokuyo, you fools! It was written in roman letters - on the character pages!! I didn't know that the translations were that bad OxO I think that I seriously prefer the fan-translated scanlations to the "official" translations...
Anywho. Today I went shopping~<333 I picked up 7 new manga and one book, and since I've read most of them already, I have comments. (specifically about translations, and I doubt that I'mma buy the manga once I read the scanlations cuz it's so much worse...)
This is what I bought:
Kyo Kara Maoh! volume 1
D.Gray-Man volume 10
NANA volumes 1 & 2
Love*Com volume 1
Reborn! volumes 7 & 8
The Book Theif by Markus Zusak
Now, I love and adore NANA and have read til the most-recent (or 2nd most recent) chapter, scanlated. I decided that I wanted to buy it... so I did. I open it up, right, and I find that the first page is pretty much the same as the scanlations, which makes me sigh in relief. But then, people start talking. NANA (Komatsu, that is. Hachi) starts speaking and I'm like... "what!?"
"dude," "man," Random nicknames and calling people by their first name. ;_; Either my heart broke, my eyes bled, or a little bit of both. It was the same in the second volume.
In Reborn!, though...! No, "Gokudera-kun" or "Yamamoto" or "Kurokawa." Tsuna calls them all "Hayato," and "Takeshi" and "Hana." I was prepared for corny things like the "Dethperation Shot," as much as I hate it... I was also prepared for "Chiavarone" and not "Cavallone." Instead of "Kokuyo," as mentioned above, they called it "Koroyo" and everything was just plain
weird and made me want to cry. (but I have them and that's the important thing, right? Right??)
I read D.Gray-Man and it wasn't too bad. Nothing really to complain about, 'xept I could only get number 10. And that Allen isn't in 10 very much... but hey. That's okay. I still got it, it was good, and I can always read the rest online or offline..<33 Plus, I read the first volume translated in the manga, so it doesn't make such a big difference as it does starting off reading the scanlations.
Hmm... I haven't really read Kyo Kara Maoh! yet, but I flipped through. Heehee... Yuri's string bikini<33 I always laughed at that part of the anime.
As for Love*Com, I like it. I've meant to go through and read it a few times but I never did... and now that there was a 40% off sale in Waldenbooks (because it closed today TT^TT) I decided to take a chance and buy it. I wish that I'd bought number 2, though. I guess I'll just have to track it down like all the rest lol.
Other manga that I've finished reading within this last week:
W-Juliet
Girl Got Game
*The Wallflower.
*Nabari no Ou
Now I've gotta find room for my new manga lol. I could barely fit my old manga in my room and now I've got 7 more!? God, I'm hopeless. But I love reading ;_; I'll find the space eventually.
It sucks, though... I went looking for a Japanese dictionary or a book or something to help me learn and there was nothing. I found "Italian for Dummies" though. Didn't buy it lol. I didn't have enough money left to buy anything... I even had to put back another book that I wanted (Eragon and Eldest in one book? Hell yeah.) so I could pay!
Yawnnnn. I'm tired now, so I think I'mma go to sleepies. <3333
(Seriously, I don't think I'm ever going to buy NANA or REBORN! manga again. The translations were eye-bleeding-material. Scanlations, please. [Though, it'd be awesome to print out the scanlations lol. Maybe they should be the ones working for these companies?] But I still got my Mukuro!volume of Reborn!, so I'm happy~)
I think I'll go looking for Love*Com tomorrow..ish? That was the only new manga that I got, and I won't be able to get anymore... Damn. I can't believe I spent 47 dollars on books even WITH a 40% off sale...