tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post605842692502544014..comments2024-02-03T13:09:38.313+00:00Comments on Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: Mirabilis in Japanese!Leo Hartashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14417174942647091006noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-40721431258582237632010-01-14T14:04:34.492+00:002010-01-14T14:04:34.492+00:00To start off, I naively thought it would just be a...To start off, I naively thought it would just be a question of mirror-flipping the pages. But that's not so easy with this episode, where everybody would suddenly be shaking hands and pointing guns with their left hands. And then there was the question of picking the right honorifics and pronouns, and the fact that Japanese tends to take up more space than English, and pretty soon we realized that Paul and Keiko had a major set of creative decisions to make. But it makes a big difference to have translators who are in tune with the material and who are equally conversant in both languages, so that they can catch every nuance. I just hope that they'll have the patience to undertake the whole 200 pages, should we ever get a Japanese publisher!Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-43048355645276533252010-01-14T11:33:05.698+00:002010-01-14T11:33:05.698+00:00Amazing - the Japanese text is very sympatico to t...Amazing - the Japanese text is very sympatico to the artwork. Love the eye image with the text flowing down. But the reading pattern is evidently very different judging by the panel re-jigging that's had to be done to accommodate the translation. <br /><br />Really fascinating and very enterprising of you guys too.Peter Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com