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Post by Saucer on Mar 5, 2005 20:33:01 GMT -5
Not sure who CMX is, some no-name manga publisher I guess. Anyway, they apparently did a most brutal hack job on their english release of the Tenjou Tenge manga. See this article for all the gory details. It's not as if editing is anything new to english republishings of manga. Outlanders had a couple of panels "redrawn." Ghost in the Shell had a couple pages removed entirely. But, what CMX did to Tenjou Tenge is simply unforgivable. |
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Post by Pucci on Mar 6, 2005 12:32:43 GMT -5
All I gotta say is WHAT THE FSCK!!!
that is criminal!
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Post by Pucci on Mar 31, 2005 0:16:14 GMT -5
the title is Tenjho Tenge on the book ....  I saw it on the shelf...I'll peruse and comment on my findings a bit later.... |
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Post by Saucer on Apr 1, 2005 23:35:27 GMT -5
Guess what else? CMX is DC Comics. -___________-; They also are publishing a manga called Madara. I have a copy here I'm borrowing but I haven't perused it yet. Though it's stated that it's an "authentic manga... but umm.. the originally publisher was experimenting with 'western style printing' so the pages read left to right..... ^^; " Yeah right, sure they do........ -_-; Go print another 800 Spiderman comics or something.
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Post by Coolrush on Apr 6, 2005 20:57:02 GMT -5
That sucks too because I didnt even know it was out until I saw it at Anime Planet and saw that it was nuetered.. That saddened me greatly.
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Post by Saucer on Apr 8, 2005 18:52:26 GMT -5
God forbid, in a male-oriented manga, they actually show some sex on top of all that gratuitous violence. Let's establish some values here! ::goosesteps::
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Post by Saucer on Jun 7, 2005 22:52:58 GMT -5
Excuse me while I flog this horse again (which is far from dead, as far as I'm concerned). I am amused that CMX claims that "all our editions are pure manga, straight from the land of the rising sun - 100% the way the original Japanese creators intended their work to be read." This comes straight out of their publication of Madara (which, BTW isn't really that great a manga. how about licensing some better titles?). But I bet you won't find that same blurb published in Tenjou Tenge! Graphic violence with a Mature rating is OK, but a little T&A is not? Oh and let's not have any facetious remarks about "foreigners" either! Even though something as widely read as the english edition of Shonen Jump doesn't go to any lengths to mask such dialog. Right smack in the middle of Shaman King some flipped out yakuza guy calls two members of the Patch Tribe "foreign devils." Not once, but twice!
I know I can just download and read scanlations, which makes this whole situation even funnier. Congratulations CMX, even if I had considered purchasing your products I sure as hell aren't going to now!
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Post by Coolrush on Jun 8, 2005 5:24:33 GMT -5
The only thing Im getting from them is GALS! because I love Kotobuki Ran too much to kick her because of the Tengo Tenje massacre
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