Forum - View topicNEWS: What's Michael? Manga Gets English Collection in January
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Swissman
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I'm pretty sure I bought the first volume of What's Michael? in English somewhere around 1991-92 as a birthday present for my mother – she's a cat fanatic. I don't know if the publisher was Dark Horse, though. It could have been an English translation from Kodansha, meant for japanese readers who want to learn English. |
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zawa113
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The hype is real on this one! This is THE best cat manga I have ever read (and me and a friend did a whole panel on cat manga, this was the only one we ranked as full 5/5 for catness). I really hope this manga finally gets the love it deserves this time around and isn't overlooked in a pretty saturated market. Honestly? I'll be double dipping on this one. It's worth it! I also hope they keep the old translation, by Dana Lewis and the late great Toren Smith (there were a few typos regarding cat behavior, "Flehmen's Response" was definitely translated literally, but that'd be one of the only changes I'd make). @Swissman Eclipse comics published a few volumes as well (but with a different page count to Dark Horse's, so you couldn't even mix and match properly). And they did publish them around 1990, so that was probably the version you picked up a copy of. |
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Sailor Sedna
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I'm interested in checking this out, cats and anime/manga usually go together well like chocolate and marshmallows.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I never read this manga before but after having enjoyed My Roommate is a Cat earlier this year, I definitely have to check out more cat anime and manga.
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Redlinks
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I still have all my old volumes of What's Michael that I bought as a child in the 90s. I really hope we'll finally get to read this in right to left format. This is great news and I hope we get the whole manga released in English.
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Theodore Relic
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The now-defunct publisher Eclipse published two collections around that time. I think they may have been localized by the (sadly) late writer Toren Smith. I remember having the first volume, but I first started reading them when they were used as Japanese-language teaching tools in the old Mangajin magazine. Being a cat lover they never failed to get a chuckle from me! Very happy to see this collection coming out! |
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Theodore Relic
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The now-defunct publisher Eclipse published two collections around that time. I think they may have been localized by the (sadly) late writer Toren Smith. I remember having the first volume, but I first started reading them when they were used as Japanese-language teaching tools in the old Mangajin magazine. Being a cat lover they never failed to get a chuckle from me! Very happy to see this collection coming out! |
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1dbad
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I'll be buying this as soon as it comes out.
And while we're re-releasing Kobayashi mangas, could we could get one for Club 9? I managed to find a used volume for pretty cheap and really enjoyed it. I've been wanting to read more but it's hard to find the volumes for a good price. And to make matters even more complicated, Dark Horse only released 3 out of 5 volumes. The last two volumes worth of chapters did get a release in Super Manga Blast magazine, but trying to hunt down each individual issue would take forever. |
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