Forum - View topicA Falling Star
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dormcat
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 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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There are not many non-Japanese comics that I'm interested in, and even fewer that I'd recommend to Westerners. A Falling Star is a Taiwanese manga (or manhua if you insist) about a young Jewish singer in Poland under German occupation during WW2. Free sample of chapter one can be found here: http://www.hemidemi.com/event/info/7
I want to see if I could obtain permission from the author to translate the sample file into English, and henceforth German- and Polish-speaking ANNers can translate it to those languages as well. The art and story of chapter one are both above average, but I've got a little complaint on the character background settings: both Waffen-SS officers (Obersturmbannführer) are aristocrats, which is unlikely. Traditionally, they would join Wehrmacht (preferably Heer or Kriegsmarine, not Luftwaffe under Göring) instead. |
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Aromatic Grass
 Posts: 2424 Location: Raleigh, NC |
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I checked out the link and sampler, and I agree that the artwork is very nice. The overall story sounds very unusual for a manga. However, I love the slice-of-life genre. (I've been wanting to read Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou that you and abunai often recommend.) Too bad I couldn't read the dialogue. I could make out what was going on for the most part. Thanks for the recommendation; I always like hidden treasures. Good luck getting permission for a translation, I would be happy to read it!
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population_tire
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i wonder if there will be an anime
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Good news update: I've obtained the permission.
 Texts should be translated in a day, but photoshopping, editing, reviewing and picture-hosting might take a week or more. German, Polish, and maybe Hebrew translator wanted (I'm sure there's a person who can handle the first two  ).
That would be quite difficult. First, Taiwan has no independent animation industry at all -- ironically, for decades Taiwan has been a center of outsourced in-between animation, similar to South Korea and China today, and many excellent animators were born here (e.g. designer of Garfield the movie). All government-funded projects and grants are focused on 3-D animation. Moreover, with Japanese manga and anime filling the market I wouldn't have much faith on a historical drama domestically written and produced if I were an investor, especially given the fact that very few people here have heard of Auschwitz. 
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Aromatic Grass
Posts: 2424 Location: Raleigh, NC |
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That's good! I tried to translate what I could from the site with this translator that came with my new Mac, but it works just like any computerized translator. The sentences, if you could call them that, didn't make any sense. (Yes, I was using Chinese.)
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Kagemusha
 Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
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Cool beans. I like to think of myself as a connoisseur of world comics, but aside from a couple of odd examples (Norwegian, Finnish, Malaysian and some other Euro stuff) my reading is generally limited to American, Japanese and French titles. There was a very minor Hong Kong-wave in the late Eighties, around the same time manga started coming out in the US, but that died out and today the only titles available today are wuxia-type stories. Always nice to read more world comics.
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Treetastic
 Posts: 164 Location: Canada |
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It looks interesting. I wish I could understand more of what is going on... lovely artwork though, and the premise sounds enticing.
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