General Anime/Manga/Otaku Thread

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Finally finished Part 4 of Jojo. Diamond is Unbreakable.

Currently, it's hard to rate them so far. I enjoyed 3 very much, but 4 really had something going for it as well. I'd say it'd go something like

3 > 4 = 2 > 1, but even then I feel as if 4 is better than 2, not equal to it.

Still, I've got tons more to read. I'm already 20 chapters into Part 5.

It's good to hear you are enjoying the series. But now... are you reading the colored scans or the good ole black and white?

Q: wait, there are colored sc-

A: Yes, they do exist. You see, back on 2012 Shueshiea released digital colored versions of the manga under the label of JOJO-D. A group know as "JoJo's Colored Adventure" group decided to pick up said digital releases and adapt them to the English language, using the translations from the previous white and black scans (with permission of course). By the time I'm making this post, parts 1,3,4 and 6 are Completely translated (they are currently working on Part 7)

The team at "JoJo's Colored Adventure" also teamed up with a group of fan translators to offer a new, re-translated part 5 scans since the current ones suffer from poor tranlation (characters have no personality, etc), because it's a translation of a Chinese version. It went Japanese -> Chinese -> English. Every time you translate something, SOME stuff gets lost in translation. It's inevitable. So when you do it twice, it gets exponentially worse.

Example 1

Example 2 (SPOILERS)

Hope that helps!