Friending meme!

[ohariko.livejournal.com]

I realized today I need more friends to discuss and fan girl over the wonderful fandom of Gayass! Meet new friends, cosplayers in your area with similar interest. Comment below with your responses. Simple... ne?

Name or Alias:
Location:
Age:
Favorite Code Geass Character:
Least Code Geass Favorite Character:
Favorite Code Geass Pairings:
Brittania or Nippon?:

Do you go to conventions?
What conventions do you have planned this year?
Do you cosplay? If so, anyone from Code Geass?
Do you roleplay? And if so, who and where?
What other anime do you watch?
What manga do you read?
Favorite tv shows and movies:
Anything else we should know about you?

Comments

[faye-naruse.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of how I was using Manga-Updates to find Nico Nico videos XD

There are only two bookstores where I live and one of them is tiny (the rest are at least a 3-minute drive away). The other is a Waldenbooks, but the manga section is too small for me D: I still appreciate that they carry manga at all though<333 In a very rough estimate, they've made a couple thousand bucks off me XD

If I lived alone, I would definitely be tempted to buy off Amazon. But as it is, I must wait D':

It's pretty sad that scanlations are sometimes better than the published volumes. I sorta like Viz. I haven't heard much about the accuracy of their translations, but they seem fine to me (not that I would really know). The censorship, lack of honorifics, and flopped manga (from a while back) sometimes get to me, but they've licensed a lot of great series. And I find myself really enjoying their anthologies. I used be all over Shonen Jump, but more recently I've subscribed to Shojo Beat ^_^;; (but for the past two months it's come late!)

I actually have more of a thing against Tokyopop ^_^;; They have some of the best licenses out there, but the translations seem kinda off or just plain inconsistent sometimes. I think they've been getting better though<3

*also easily amused* ;D

Yes, of course~ ^o^

[penombrelilas.livejournal.com]

Heh, the only bookstores carrying manga are a 15-minute train ride away from where I live. Since I'm too lazy busy to drive there every time a new manga comes out I buy them off amazon. It's cheaper too |D And my mom doesn't mind since I pay for everything from my own bank account xD

Yup, it's really sad. I mean a translator's or editor's note at the side of a page is not too confusing for the reader. I have a couple of Viz publications I quite like. Zombie Powder and Bleach; but I've heard about the omgwtfbbq censorship and wrong choice of language in mangas like Naruto or Prince of Tennis. Or I've found some whacky translations in Ouran.

Well, we don't get Shounen Jump anthologies here. Or anything other than weird German ones and I can't stand those translations, they make me itch.

I just noticed the only TokyoPop stuff I have are four Trinity Blood novels. And I don't like the translation. It's boring, has no flavor and makes me wonder whether the original Japanese sounds as lame. I mean, I love that series, but the translation is killing my enjoyment. But I'm putting up with it, because who else would translate the novels? xD

Yay!