Pokémon RéBURST (Big Image Warning)
So a little while ago I was wondering what I might do to keep my Chinese from going totally to crap while I'm not either in China or taking classes. Because it's most natural for me to bolt anything I want to practice onto something pokémon-related, I thought, why not
In the end I picked Pokémon ReBURST on the grounds that a) I could actually find scans in Chinese, b) I could not find complete scans in English (on the first page of my lazy Googling), and c) the main character has the best hat in all of manga ever:
Seriously, how can you resist those ear flaps? That's right, you can't. You can't.
To give a brief and relatively non-spoilery summary for people not familiar with the series, the manga centers around Ryouga, a young man who's just leaving on his pokémon journey. He's going in search of Arcades, a mysterious figure who has some connection to his father, who hasn't been heard from for several years. Along the way, he teams up with Miruto, a young woman who investigates criminal organizations that target pokémon, to challenge a mysterious group that harnesses the power of pokémon in disturbing new ways. Oh, and some people in this region are able to combine their powers with those of pokémon to become pokémon-human hybrids through a technique called "bursting." There's that too, I suppose.
In any case, I figured I'd put complete chapters up on my site once I finish with them, but in the meantime I thought it would be fun to post the pages as I go, like a running comic. So, I should have about one page for you every Tuesday/Thursday. I'll keep an index of what I've done in the second post; alternatively you can see all the pages I've posted in my Photobucket album. And, if you're interested and/or would love to see all the gaffes I'm making as I'm trying to translate these, here is the source (in Chinese, duh) I'm using for the images.
I'm still getting the hang of typesetting and convincing image editors to do what I actually want, so I apologize for presentational crappiness at the outset. It should improve! And if there's anything about it you hate with a passion, let me know; I'll probably try to fix it. That said, I hope you enjoy!
So a little while ago I was wondering what I might do to keep my Chinese from going totally to crap while I'm not either in China or taking classes. Because it's most natural for me to bolt anything I want to practice onto something pokémon-related, I thought, why not
In the end I picked Pokémon ReBURST on the grounds that a) I could actually find scans in Chinese, b) I could not find complete scans in English (on the first page of my lazy Googling), and c) the main character has the best hat in all of manga ever:
Seriously, how can you resist those ear flaps? That's right, you can't. You can't.
To give a brief and relatively non-spoilery summary for people not familiar with the series, the manga centers around Ryouga, a young man who's just leaving on his pokémon journey. He's going in search of Arcades, a mysterious figure who has some connection to his father, who hasn't been heard from for several years. Along the way, he teams up with Miruto, a young woman who investigates criminal organizations that target pokémon, to challenge a mysterious group that harnesses the power of pokémon in disturbing new ways. Oh, and some people in this region are able to combine their powers with those of pokémon to become pokémon-human hybrids through a technique called "bursting." There's that too, I suppose.
In any case, I figured I'd put complete chapters up on my site once I finish with them, but in the meantime I thought it would be fun to post the pages as I go, like a running comic. So, I should have about one page for you every Tuesday/Thursday. I'll keep an index of what I've done in the second post; alternatively you can see all the pages I've posted in my Photobucket album. And, if you're interested and/or would love to see all the gaffes I'm making as I'm trying to translate these, here is the source (in Chinese, duh) I'm using for the images.
I'm still getting the hang of typesetting and convincing image editors to do what I actually want, so I apologize for presentational crappiness at the outset. It should improve! And if there's anything about it you hate with a passion, let me know; I'll probably try to fix it. That said, I hope you enjoy!
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