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>> Anonymous
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Viva Battle Vixens!
>> Anonymous
I enjoyed the first series, but the second one >.> Too annoying. I thought I could finish it just for Ryomou, but had to stop afer maybe three episodes. Its just sucked imo. Still watched the OVAs though, lol

Is the manga any good? I was thinking about looking into it.
>> Anonymous
>>560311

Manga's decent, but tokyopop's "battle vixens" translation and non-understanding of its ROT3K context, ruined most of the dialogue and plot, and completely destroyed the characters.

There's an anon somewhere around here who's been retranslating it and posting his progress. These are his links, and not mine:

Ikkitousen Volume 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?nsm3zsy3x3g
Ikkitousen Volume 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?yvvd51vrlcv
Ikkitousen Volume 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?d2tby1ym5dt
Ikkitousen Volume 4 - http://www.mediafire.com/?gxvmysbx1tg
>> Anonymous
>>560344
How did it destroy them exactly? Especially curious about Kanu....
>> Anonymous
>>560401

By having absolutely no respect for personalities, speech mannerisms, etc when rewriting their dialogue. That said, Kanyuu didn't get too far off course, except for talking like most of the characters were made to(both blandly, and sprinkled with unneccesary guttertrash speech to "spice it up".)

A much better example is Chouun, who's very calm and polite-spoken, but sounds more or less like everyone else in tokyopop's version.
>> Anonymous
>>560423
So they butchered both girls' way of talking? I figured Kanu to be calm and polite-spoken too. I guess my main question is: HOW LESBO IS KANU IN ACTUALITY!? ...same question for Chou-un.
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>>560430
I'm not too lazy to d/l the 'redone' Ikkitousen mangas, I just want to know what I'm in for with my favorite character.
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>>560430

Considerably, in Kannyu's case. Seemingly not at all in Chouun's case. There's even a "special" chapter that came out the end of last year celebrating Kannyu's birthday, that gives another look at their weird relationship with eachother.

We also see that Kanyuu is a school idol, and has a tiny lockerbox jammed with enough gifts to fill the underside of a shopping mall christmas tree.
>> Anonymous
>>560452
..... how do I keep fixating on the lesbians!?!? Fucking-A. ::grumbles::
>> Anonymous
>>560401
It totally walks all over the original dialogue.

There's one instance where a character shifts from a heartfelt speech halfway through in order to make an extended boner joke. It might be okay if it was funny, but all of the jokes that the translation tries to cram in never are. Instead, we get stupid puns while the actual dialogue winds up on the cutting room floor.

The fluctuating accents are also pretty bad, with characters like Koukin sounding fine and proper one moment, only to slide into the thickest Brooklyn accent I've ever seen.

It's shit.
>> Anonymous
>>560454

Well, you can comfort yourself in that case knowing it's only for Ryuubi. She neither shows interest in, nor likely would show interest in, any girls other than her oath-sister.
>> Anonymous
>>560463
There's just one little problem with that: I can't stand Ryuubi. I have no idea why anyone would want her so bad.
>> Anonymous
>>560480

Tastes are tastes. Your delicious spicy food is my vomit on a plate.

The Kannyu-Ryuubi choice was a little strange though, since Chouhi's their oath-sister too, and she doesn't act that way. More "natural" would've been Chouun. In the actual ROT3K story, they were attracted(as friends) to eachother at first meeting, and cried every time they had to be seperated.
>> Anonymous
>>560494
Tastes are tastes, and Kanu's taste sucks. Much like Natsuki's taste, Michiru's taste, etc.

I saw some Deviantart of Kanu and Chou-un fucking and being the parents of Rider. It was both horrifying and a bit funny.
>> Anonymous
Apparently this also means the "Isle of Lesbos" joke is bunk....
>> Anonymous
>>561118

From vol7? Yeah, that was made-up bullshit.
>> Anonymous
>>560452

what the hell is this from
>> Anonymous
>>561153

>There's even a "special" chapter that came out the end of last year celebrating Kannyu's birthday

Lern 2 reed.
>> Anonymous
>>561151
Ah. Guess it should have said something like "Oh, Kan-san, look what I found! A place where we can go and really belong, the Isle of Lesbos!" ::rolls eyes::
>> Anonymous
>>561161

Or it, yknow, could've stuck to Ryuubi's rambling, and not thrown in a "LOL LESBIANS" joke to be kewl.

Might want to get that eye-rolling looked at, btw. Copying the guy in Scary Movie 2 isn't a good life decision.
>> Anonymous
>>561168
That might have been funny if I could remember who the hell you meant. I haven't seen that movie in years.
>> Anonymous
>>561185

Don't worry. Being easily forgettable is a feeling you're well familiar with, I'm sure, so I won't hold it against you.
>> Anonymous
>>561205
Wow, a real fucking comedian here. So tell me, is this how you get off?
>> Anonymous
>>561228

I really don't appreciate being tossed setups for "yo momma" jokes. Seriously, those are way last decade. Gimmie something I can work with or GTFO.
>> Anonymous
>>561244
That's not even worthy of a real response.