Saiyuki Reload 6

[telophase]

Took a nice long bath while reading Saiyuki Reload 6, which was a Good Thing all around. I am totally in love with hapless dweeby Zakuro. He's never going to live down that rumor, is he? I'll have to reread to start focusing on the emotional undercurrents, because in my first read I'm always going too fast to pick up on subtext.

I do wonder what Sanzo's original line was that got translated as "Tweedledee and Tweedledick." Anything that seems overly idiomatic English I assume was due to a Japanese idom that didn't translate well, which makes me unbearably curious. *eyes greenapple2004*

Comments

[harukami]

Which chapter/page?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Act 23, Even a Worm 10, page 10 (counting from the first comic page - page 44 in the Tpop version. :D)

[harukami]

...Geh, that's the one act of EaW that I don't have. [headdesks] Oh well. Good luck finding it!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. :D Hang on - I've got the Japanese version of Reload 6 around ehre somewhere...

[harukami]

Oooh! :Db

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's in actual book form,* and my scanner isn't plugged in at the moment, so you'll have to get one photo of part of that page (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/telophase14/act23pg10.jpg), held open by my foot since my lens won't focus closer than four feet to an object. :)

Not that it matters because after I downlaoded the image from my camers, oyceter helpfully posted the line. :D

* You can thank me for straghtening out the licensing mess with Saiyuki Reload. One week after I finally gav eup and ordered the Japanese versions of 5 and 6, so I could at least look at the art, they announced it had all been taken care of and book 5 would be coming out soon. XP

[harukami]

AHHHH. XD Heh. Well. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

......OH THANK YOU THANK YOU. ♥ ♥. I AM VERY GLAD TO HEAR THAT. Even if their timing was bad for you. (...oh that's TOTALLY why you've got the book early, duh. XD)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I TOOK ONE FOR THE TEAM AND YOU BETTER ALL REMEMBER THAT!!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* And it's panel 2 after Goku and Gojyo ditch Hakkai and Sanzo to go have fun at the fair.

[oyceter]

Because I am insane extremely helpful, I checked, and Sanzo's only saying "Baka wa hanatte oke." I think it roughly translates to "Let's ditch the idiots."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And why did you have to post this thirty seconds AFTER I ripped the place apart to find my Japanese version, photograph it, and download it from the camera to the computer?

[oyceter]

Eh... because I am very helpful?

I ripped the place apart to find my Japanese version as well, if that helps! ;)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. :D I posted mine anyway, in a reply to harukami, because I wasn't about to let all that work go to waste. XD

[shei.livejournal.com]

My book is supposed to be dispatched today. *whimper*

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I didn't get mine yet, as I have no money. I do however have a $25.00 gift card for Barnes and Nobles and $9.00 in holiday rewards at Borders, so as soon as one of those stores gets it, it will be in my hot little hands.

[cicer.livejournal.com]

...Oh dear, Saiyiki Reload 6 is out already? Augh. I'll probably have to wait until next month to buy it then. I'm still a bit broke from Christmas, plus a couple other volumes of manga I've been craving aren't released until the end of the month and it'll be cheaper to buy all of them together. But I don't wanna wait! *whine whine emo my life is pain etc*

[octopedingenue]

My copy I ordered through work was backordered at the publisher, which I took cheerfully because yay bestselling Saiyuki yaaayyy!!