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- From: sazan@hounix.org (Kevin Winkler)
- Subject: Re: The "Big Four" officially becomes the Big Four Plus One
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.135816.19392@hounix.org>
- Organization: Houston UNIX Users Group (HOUNIX), Houston, TX
- References: <734@oscar.UUCP> <1992Dec25.052055.12121@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec25.053521.12410@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 13:58:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.053521.12410@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan) writes:
- >
- >Well, now that your sufficiently confused by the subject header...
- >
- >Devil Hunter Yohko (Mamono Hunter Yohko) is officially "OUT" from A.D.
- >Vision (ie I have it in my grubby little fingers), adding a new company
- >name to the field. We shall see how AD Vision expands to become a member
- >of the "Big Five" 8-).
- >
- >Random quick comments regarding "Yohko":
- >
- > Man, I knew there was quite a bit of hokey dialogue in the original
- > but not THIS much. Quite a bit of idiomatic "translation" of lines
-
- Well, we try our best with it. When we sat down for the ruff translation,
- we had someone who was japanese and one who understood the language to high
- extent. Mind you, after this stage, it got rewritten a bit, so I don't
- really remember what got chnged.
- >
- > Titles are a bit small and thin for my taste. (or my eyes 8-/)
-
- I'll pass this on. I admit they are just a wee bit small. I'll past this
- on to the higher ups. Hope to see if they will go to a larger font.
- >
- > AD Vision has started with the clamshell boxes, hopefully they'll
- > stick with them. The tapes themselves are the exact type as the
- > AnimEigo blue tapes.
-
- Well, this was something that was decided on while we were still doing
- the translation. We were going to do a differnet color tape, but they are a bit more costly.
- >
- > Only real "type" that I was pretty sure of was Naoko Matsui being
- > spelled as Maoko.
-
- I'm not quite sure about this one. I'll have to ask the others.
- >
- > Curious, I hadn't realized that Mamono Hunter Yohko was produced
- > by MADHOUSE.
- >
- Yeap, certain was:-).
- >
- >
- >Also, they are also producing A.D. Visions Magazine, the first issue which
- >is free when sending in the little response card in the tape. (was solicited
- >for the comic stores in March, the tape that is, but once Capitol City and
- >Diamond get all the orders in, they should get the tape out as soon as they
- >come in to them. )
- >
- Yeap, the magazine plans to have update on titles, info columns, some
- manga/comics drwan by fans in this country, and hopefully, if I remember right,
- we will even answer mail from people.
-
- Thanks for giving us your opion Ryan, we appreciate it. I'll get it
- off to them.
-
- Kevin Winkler
- A.D. Vision Representitive
- >
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