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Episode I - Manga Comic.

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Have any of you guys read the Japanese comic version of Episode I?

I’m not sure if it’s even called ‘The Phantom Menace’ (all I remember is seeing the title Star Wars: EPISODE I). I found two issues of it at my local library, and it seems that in its cartooney-ness, the movie works a lot better. And I believe the script was used verbatim, and Jar Jar still seemed less annoying and more like a Mexican compadré. It was written in English, but the author had a Japanese name.

Has anyone seen this stuff before? And if so, do you know if he did EPs II and III as well?

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I had heard something on the OS a while back about those versions, but never bothered to look at them. The manga's were created for the enitre prequel trilogy.
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There is manga for the original trilogy too. I found some at a comic store while I was on the coast. I just didn't have enough money at the time to get them. And they were flopped (reversed from right to left to left to right), so that kind of irked me because, well, manga is supposed to go from right to left.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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The Star Wars Manga were imported and reprinted by Dark Horse comics a few years ago. I sold my set on Ebay a while back.

I had the complete OT (4 issues for each film) and TPM (2 issues.) TPM was neat because the covers, when put together, would give you the exact location of the Well of The...er, I mean they formed a really cool picture.

'Star Wars' was cartoony, as was ESB. 'Jedi' was awesome, mostly because it was hyper violent. When Luke ignited his sabre on the sand skift, he went apeshit! The Weequay guys were literally sliced in half, and this was all illustrated in that wonderfully exaggerated manga style.

TPM pretty much followed the plot of the film, and wasn't quite as good as the OT, but a good read nonetheless.

There is a torrent of these floating around, and to my knowledge no manga of AOTC or ROTS was released, either here or in Japan.

Here's a few examples...Ben Kenobi is off the hook because he looks like a Kurosawa character...







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Yeah, those are the ones I saw. I never saw one for Return, though, just for Star Wars and Empire.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Wow, I'm liking this.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Oh yeah, Gaffer - they rock. 'Things From Another World' is a good online source, and Amazon sometimes have them in stock. Your local comics shop might have 'em too.
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the cover art for the OT mangas were done by Adam Warren (Dirty Pair,Gen 13,etc...) probably the best US "manga-like" autor.

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I have posted about it a few months ago. It was released here in Brazil, where manga is quite popular, but I didn't buy any.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Btw, the katakana for those mangas translate as:

FANTOMU MENASU

JIIDAI NO (kanji for return), meaning "Return of the" JIIDAI...

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Thanks for reminding me I have a huge katakana test tomorrow!

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Thanks for reminding me I have a huge katakana test tomorrow!


Soo desu ka? Ganbatte kudasai!

Katakana is not that hard. Wait until you have to face kanji tests.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Hai. Arigatoo gozaimasu.

Well, it's hard when you don't really know it yet. I've fallen behind in that class. I failed my hiragana test because I forgot it was the date that it was on. I've just now mastered hiragana, and since I spent all my time doing that, I haven't learned much katakana yet. On the bright side, my dialogue and vocab (in romaji anyway) are pretty good. ^_^

And, actually, our first kanji lesson will be tomorrow right after the test.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I'm a sophomore in college, actually. And I know ric is in his twenties.

They never offered Japanese in my high school.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I'm 23.

Well, the first kanji you'll learn will probably be "ichi", "ni" and "san" - or "yama"

Don't read romanji! Or else you won't be able to read hiragana or katakana skillfully, and will be reading like "uh.... to.... temo... ta... kai... desu..."

They DID offer japanese on my highschool, mostly because my highschool was founded by priests to bring japanese descendents into catholicism, until the 50s it accepted only japanese kids, and until 1960, only boys. It was VERY optional, few people knew it even existed, and I didn't take back then, I wish I did.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I'm 23.

Well, the first kanji you'll learn will probably be "ichi", "ni" and "san" - or "yama"

Don't read romanji! Or else you won't be able to read hiragana or katakana skillfully, and will be reading like "uh.... to.... temo... ta... kai... desu..."

They DID offer japanese on my highschool, mostly because my highschool was founded by priests to bring japanese descendents into catholicism, until the 50s it accepted only japanese kids, and until 1960, only boys. It was VERY optional, few people knew it even existed, and I didn't take back then, I wish I did.


Yep. You're very right. We learned 1-10... er ichi-juu today.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Too bad you'll probably never use those number kanjis again, because they use the arabic numbers more often nowadays.

Well, for months they sometimes do, ichigatsu and stuff, but...
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Wow, you're right. I totally forgot about that. Too bad, since the kanji for ichi is probably the easiest kanji I'm ever going to learn.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Too bad you'll probably never use those number kanjis again, because they use the arabic numbers more often nowadays.

Well, for months they sometimes do, ichigatsu and stuff, but...


I know, it's confusing watching Japanese TV, seeing the arabic numbers, and still hearing them say it in Japanese. I'm like, 'hey, that's not 'ichi', that's 'one'!'

But many of them have been brought up on it, so it's completely normal for them.
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I know, it's confusing watching Japanese TV, seeing the arabic numbers, and still hearing them say it in Japanese. I'm like, 'hey, that's not 'ichi', that's 'one'!'


The same way, I should say "Hey, that's not 'one', that's 'um'!"

Wow, we did it again, gone completely out of the topic. We just did a pizza stone. You see, like the expression "jumping the shark", I use "pizza stone" to refer to ocasions when we go waaay off topic, which is a common practice here... That comes from a discussion about pizza stones I had on a totally unrelated thread.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Oh well, it was kinda my fault anyway, and I started the thread. And I don't mind. So, we're cool.

But to bring it back on topic, does anyone know where one can find the OT comics of these?
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Well, actually, it wasn't your fault. I'm the one who first mentioned my katakana test (which I think I did pretty well on, by the way), which is what got us started on this tangent. Don't blame yourself. There was nothing you could have done. You'd have been killed too. And the katakana would now be in the hands of the... Yeah, I'm an idiot.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.