Go For It, Gundam!

Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:58 am

NewtypeS3 wrote:Speaking of TP translation oddities, I'm actually working on completely re-translating the Wing Manga - fixing many of their annoying errors, some of them fixed just by working on the RAWs. Not to mention getting help from people who know Japanese for those 4Koma that were horribly slaughtered.

That's all well and good (seeing as how TP's version sucks), but since the Wing manga is still being released in America by TOKYOPOP, there shouldn't be any further discussion of this particular point.

turkishproverb · Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:41 am

I like the one (Not sure if it's avalable in english) Where Trowa steals Garroad Ran's (From Gundam X) identity.

Wingnut · Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:32 am

turkishproverb wrote:I like the one (Not sure if it's avalable in english) Where Trowa steals Garroad Ran's (From Gundam X) identity.

Also by him now being Garrod, you could say he stole Tiffa too.
Then there's the one where WuFei in Altron shouts at Earth to show him true justice and then the clouds spin and spiral around to form the word justice, much to WuFei's shock.

Recon 5 · Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:13 am

Ya. That was a good one, although I didn't get it a first.

Another good one is in the G- UNIT strips where they show what happened to the other two G- UNIT Pilots after the Griepe made off with their spare parts...

It kind of made sense, though.

G-Slayer · Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:07 pm

turkishproverb wrote:
I like the one (Not sure if it's avalable in english) Where Trowa steals Garroad Ran's (From Gundam X) identity.
Also by him now being Garrod, you could say he stole Tiffa too.
Then there's the one where WuFei in Altron shouts at Earth to show him true justice and then the clouds spin and spiral around to form the word justice, much to WuFei's shock.

Wufei's 4-Koma and Trowa and Garrod's are availble in Last Outpost.

Now that the first question I posted is answered, see if you get this one:

Which Gundam character would make a good waiter?

ExhileVoid · Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:54 pm

Trieze, since it accutally rhymes with "Trays."

I also liked the "Not Good" strips like when Odin and Lucille kept spelling "Gundam" wrong on the Geminass's head and they had to cross out all the misspelled weird words like "Gandom" or "Gondamu" which in the end they could never get Gundam right.

Tokita also made other series references like calling the Aesculapius the "Z'gok Gundam" or refering to Griepe's third transformation mode as its "Guardian" or "Gerwalk Mode" from Robotech and Macross.

G-Slayer · Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:16 pm

I thought of something just now: hasn't any 4-Koma been made for Turn A Gundam, or any manga for that matter?

NewtypeS3 · Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:26 pm

Well, I'd assume it was done for Tokita's X manga - but I don't know about Turn-A.

Hyakushiki · Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:29 pm

G-Slayer wrote:I thought of something just now: hasn't any 4-Koma been made for Turn A Gundam, or any manga for that matter?

I have at least one.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t212 ... 9738-1.jpg

Recon 5 · Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:51 pm

Well, if there are no others, a good reason would be explained in the last strip. Other later characters like Usso and Seabook say that their turns have finally come but Tomino (or is it Tokita?) snuffs out those hopes by saying that he has no ideas left for new strips.

NewtypeS3 · Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:28 pm

Hyakushiki wrote: I have at least one.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t212 ... 9738-1.jpg

Sure, there are those - but those are also Super Robot Wars based, not specific for the show.

G-Slayer · Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:44 pm

Well, if there are no others, a good reason would be explained in the last strip. Other later characters like Usso and Seabook say that their turns have finally come but Tomino (or is it Tokita?) snuffs out those hopes by saying that he has no ideas left for new strips.

Is this for real, or is it just joke from a strip?