Manga Marathon - Amatsuki
Jun. 10th, 2015 03:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiggy007Went to my cousin house for her wedding last week, we arrived 2 days earlier to "help out". Unlike the old days there were really nothing much to help out in the modern wedding, so I ends up laying around in the house reading manga.
I chose to read Amatsuki since the recent chapter has been intense and it looks like the ending is near so I might as well revisit the old chapters.
Marathon Amatsuki felt awesome, this manga definitely fell on the heavier/complicated side of manga plot normal distribution, just look at how many translation notes there are to the meaning behind sentences, terms, historical figures and stuff (kudos to Sanada the translator). Since I read it once and when I read it again I can connect the dots much easier and I pretty much have better understanding to the storyline now. It feels very much like watching matrix trilogy the second time, where you go "ahh, that how it is" even though at the first time you wish Neo just take the blue pill (LOL).
Amatsuki has been release with additional booklet for sometimes and the scanlation did some of that too and honestly for me the story in the booklet is as much important as the rest of the story. It can be left out but you'll get better understanding to the plot if you read. This is my pet peeves when it comes to special/limited ed. booklet and it kinda sad. I bought Amatsuki special booklet 100 chapter commemoration of auction, it's about Brayuroku maybe i'll scan it and give it to eg to scanlate.
BTW Ward magazine is discontinued, so sad I followed several stories in there. Some of the series will be online serialization and some will be release in Zero-sums. Haigakura another Takayama Shinobu series that has been serialized in Ward will be published in Zero-sums so now I wonder if this will be alternating with Amatsuki or they will be release togerher? Zero-sums is monthly magazine while Ward was bimonthly magazine so there is possibility of it to be alternate but it also means Amatsuki progress will be cut to half. So now I'm just waiting for them to announce the content of Zero-sums for July (since last Ward release in May).
I chose to read Amatsuki since the recent chapter has been intense and it looks like the ending is near so I might as well revisit the old chapters.
Marathon Amatsuki felt awesome, this manga definitely fell on the heavier/complicated side of manga plot normal distribution, just look at how many translation notes there are to the meaning behind sentences, terms, historical figures and stuff (kudos to Sanada the translator). Since I read it once and when I read it again I can connect the dots much easier and I pretty much have better understanding to the storyline now. It feels very much like watching matrix trilogy the second time, where you go "ahh, that how it is" even though at the first time you wish Neo just take the blue pill (LOL).
Amatsuki has been release with additional booklet for sometimes and the scanlation did some of that too and honestly for me the story in the booklet is as much important as the rest of the story. It can be left out but you'll get better understanding to the plot if you read. This is my pet peeves when it comes to special/limited ed. booklet and it kinda sad. I bought Amatsuki special booklet 100 chapter commemoration of auction, it's about Brayuroku maybe i'll scan it and give it to eg to scanlate.
BTW Ward magazine is discontinued, so sad I followed several stories in there. Some of the series will be online serialization and some will be release in Zero-sums. Haigakura another Takayama Shinobu series that has been serialized in Ward will be published in Zero-sums so now I wonder if this will be alternating with Amatsuki or they will be release togerher? Zero-sums is monthly magazine while Ward was bimonthly magazine so there is possibility of it to be alternate but it also means Amatsuki progress will be cut to half. So now I'm just waiting for them to announce the content of Zero-sums for July (since last Ward release in May).
