4.1 - Follow-up on Blade of the Immortal

[telophase]

OK, I couldn't stand it any longer. I went into Photoshop and rearranged the panels on the second BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL example to see what I THINK (emphasis on that THINK!) the original panels looked like. [ edit ] There's confirmation in the comments that I got them right. I r so smrt!



First, the panels the way I think they looked like in Japan. Read from the far right over to the far left.




And now ... hey, there's a very definite path of action! You lose that nifty effect where the arrows lined up on both pages, but in return you get a very clear flow of action throughout the page:



Sweet!






Index to the Series

Comments

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

I have the un-flipped, unedited, but in Chinese, tankoubouns of blade of the immortal. So, give me a volume and page number, and I can tell you if you got it right XD (there are too many scenes of ambush and shocked eyes for penguin to go through, volume by volume...plus penguin has two finals back to back tomorrow)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Volume 13, pp. 26-27. I think. Dark Horse doesn't number the pages, and I'm not sure where page 1 would start. It's near the end of the chapter 'Autumen Frost Part 1', the first chapter in the book.

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

oh dear, volume 13 for my tanks include "Final Blood" "Vomit" and "Who is he?" parts only...

As it turned out, your page is something like page 86 of volume 10 for me >_<

But YES! you got the frames right :OOOOOOOOOOO

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD I r so smrt!

Man, you obviously have more of the story than I do right now. We've only got to "Crossroads." Dark Horse is putting them out as monthly cmics and only putting out collections when they've got enough, so it's SLOW and the suspense is DRIVING me INSANE. When they put out the collection that included all of the chapters where Whatsherface was getting tortured, it meant I spent well over a year without getting a Manji fix. I ought to jsut break down and subscribe to the comics, but since they're ahead of the collections, I'd end up missing a few chapters. Arg! Oh well, next one out in June.

Thank you!

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

oh...poor you...I have up to volume 17 *flaunts* And it says the truth of his immortality is going to be revealed in vol 18 XD *flaunts*

Penguin needs something to flaunt...telophase's analysis skills are kinda intimidating ;_;

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*whine*!!! *envy*

Sometime I think it'd just be quicker to learn Chinese or Japanese and read it than to wait for Dark Horse to trickle it out. XD

[emtigereyes.livejournal.com]

I think, once I've slept some more, I'll go through and read all these entries. I've been bad and only glanced them over in my tiredness. Looks like stuff I could benefit from, even if I don't plan on doing a manga.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

OMG HOW DARE U IGNORE MEEE!!! :)

I think the idea about all the lines leading the eye around is important, even when it's a pinup or a still picture - an artist once told me (And it might have been Brian Stelfreeze, but I don't remember) that when he did a picture, he was in complete control of the reader's eye, and he composed the picture to reveal things one-by-one as you looked around it. It might have been Brian when he was doing that Harley Quinn picture at AggieCon a few years back - it had Harley lounging in a pinup pose, but as you looked at it, you gradually realized that the patterns behind her were actually the Joker's legs.

[(Anonymous)]

I r so smrt!

erudite, even

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's a bastardized quotation from The Simpsons, where Homer chants "I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T. Uh, S-M-A-R-T!"

[(Anonymous)]

perhaps i should've said "eruditer than me"? :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD Couldn't quite tell what your tone of "voice" was there. :)

I once gave my dad a button that said "I AM ERUDITER THAN YOU" and he argued, in all sincerity, that it should be "I AM MORE ERUDITE THAN YOU" thus proving once more how the subtle implications of jokes often zipped right over his head.

[roark28.livejournal.com]

It's about 5 years after you posted this but I thought I'd comment anyway because I just re-read the manga and got caught up and fell in love all over again... but what you pointed out just makes me even more unhappy that Dark Horse has chosen to cut/paste the panels so they read left to right. Why....... =(

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Apparently Samura himself requested this, in preference to his art being flipped (at the time they started publishing it, nobody was publishing unflipped manga, so they're stuck with it).

[roark28.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah I think the cut and paste is preferable to the complete horizontal flip, I meant I didn't know why Dark Horse continues to do that now that it's common for manga to be published right to left. It seems like they would save a lot of work if they changed their policy and it would keep it more authentic... aside from being inconsistent (which I don't think anyone would hold against them) that seems like win/win. But then I like their translations so much it's hard to complain.

Lol I would love to read a Kakashi/Magatsu crossover ♥