Yep, I was introduced to the series through the anime, and then I started reading the manga and it was sort of like, WTF? And yeah, the translation never was very good, which probably helped to kill my interest in it. I'll put up with a LOT in scanslations, but if I'm paying money for it, I kinda want it to sound good ...
It also happened to be a period where I was getting sort of disillusioned with manga anyway. This was a couple of years ago, and I was spending a LOT of money on manga and starting to feel a little overwhelmed by the 40-volume series that seem to wander around without much of a point to them. (Curse me and my shonen-fighting-manga addiction, anyway!) I think I kinda needed a break from it. Of course, now that I'm interested again, all the series I was buying back then are some 15 volumes farther along ...
I think right now, YGO and Saiyuki Reload are the only ones I'm buying regularly. Everything else, either I've lost interest in, or there are so many volumes to catch up on that I look at the GN section in Barnes & Noble and my checking account starts to cry ...
Oh, and I did finally finish reading your Saiyuki fic!
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It also happened to be a period where I was getting sort of disillusioned with manga anyway. This was a couple of years ago, and I was spending a LOT of money on manga and starting to feel a little overwhelmed by the 40-volume series that seem to wander around without much of a point to them. (Curse me and my shonen-fighting-manga addiction, anyway!) I think I kinda needed a break from it. Of course, now that I'm interested again, all the series I was buying back then are some 15 volumes farther along ...
I think right now, YGO and Saiyuki Reload are the only ones I'm buying regularly. Everything else, either I've lost interest in, or there are so many volumes to catch up on that I look at the GN section in Barnes & Noble and my checking account starts to cry ...
Oh, and I did finally finish reading your Saiyuki fic!