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Tyro · 12-30-2007

To be fair, they actually aren't needed in the Dragonball section as much as they are in the other mentioned sections. Dragonball has been released in a variety of languages, completely released here in North America by Viz, AKA an official English translation (and this being an English message board) for as low as $6.95 out of a book store or far lower prices from places like Amazon.com. I'm not saying it's required that you buy the volumes, but just mentioning that it is quite easy to get a hold of the official translations for a cheap price if one really wanted to.

This certainly isn't like the case with Naruto, where a new chapter is released every week thus making fan translations from well-known sites the "official" translations for that time.

And while I'm speaking on fan translations. Naruto has very accurate translations. It's translators go from Japanese to English. All of the old Dranet translations (which I believe are simply on other sites now, but the same old material) went from Japanese to Spanish to English thus losing some, if not a lot of the original dialog. I can think of quite a few instances where this happened. (And their horrible quality along with being backwards annoyed me to no end.)

Oh, ANB, your signature stretches my page. I don't know if it's outside the allowed space, but could you reduce the size?

12-30-2007	#15 (permalink)
Tyro (19) Mastered Super Saiyan Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Somerset, Kentucky Posts: 1,043 Rep Power: 7	Re: MFG Policy Updates To be fair, they actually aren't needed in the Dragonball section as much as they are in the other mentioned sections. Dragonball has been released in a variety of languages, completely released here in North America by Viz, AKA an official English translation (and this being an English message board) for as low as $6.95 out of a book store or far lower prices from places like Amazon.com. I'm not saying it's required that you buy the volumes, but just mentioning that it is quite easy to get a hold of the official translations for a cheap price if one really wanted to. This certainly isn't like the case with Naruto, where a new chapter is released every week thus making fan translations from well-known sites the "official" translations for that time. And while I'm speaking on fan translations. Naruto has very accurate translations. It's translators go from Japanese to English. All of the old Dranet translations (which I believe are simply on other sites now, but the same old material) went from Japanese to Spanish to English thus losing some, if not a lot of the original dialog. I can think of quite a few instances where this happened. (And their horrible quality along with being backwards annoyed me to no end.) Oh, ANB, your signature stretches my page. I don't know if it's outside the allowed space, but could you reduce the size? Last edited by Tyro; 12-30-2007 at 06:44 PM.