Frustrations with translations
I don't want to hash out and already hashed-out topic, I don't know if I am, but here we go.
I'm living in Japan right now, and my only source of SDK is Book Off (a wonderful half-off manga /music store where you can read as long as you please!). And I have to say that I enjoy reading the original Japanese much more than I do the English translations. I would say that my Japanese abilities are about intermediate, and I can make basic sense of what I'm reading, but I have to get out my dictionary and crack down if I totally want to understand it. But I am fine with that.
Of what I have read of the Engligh translations, I see that they are really unfaithful, and with the series being tossed around so much, I can't really trust it, and resign myself to slaving over the Japanese (even if it is unbelievably frustrating sometimes). Yarg, maybe I should try doing my own translations...ha...ha?
I realize that probably most here don't understand Japanese very well or not at all, so this comment won't be of much interest to them, but I was just wondering, for those who have seen the original Japanese manga, what is your opinion?
I'm living in Japan right now, and my only source of SDK is Book Off (a wonderful half-off manga /music store where you can read as long as you please!). And I have to say that I enjoy reading the original Japanese much more than I do the English translations. I would say that my Japanese abilities are about intermediate, and I can make basic sense of what I'm reading, but I have to get out my dictionary and crack down if I totally want to understand it. But I am fine with that.
Of what I have read of the Engligh translations, I see that they are really unfaithful, and with the series being tossed around so much, I can't really trust it, and resign myself to slaving over the Japanese (even if it is unbelievably frustrating sometimes). Yarg, maybe I should try doing my own translations...ha...ha?
I realize that probably most here don't understand Japanese very well or not at all, so this comment won't be of much interest to them, but I was just wondering, for those who have seen the original Japanese manga, what is your opinion?