Manga Translation Projects
This is where you can find manga translation projects I’m doing. Click on the title to go to each work’s project page, where you can find more detailed information and links to download my translations (as I complete them):
“The Vampires” (バンパイヤ) by Osamu Tezuka 手塚治虫 .
****INACTIVE – click above for details****
Year of Publication: 1966-7 (main story, Shounen Sunday run), 1968-9 (Shounen Book run, unfinished.)
Genre: horror/shounen/adventure/comedy
original run: Weekly Shounen Sunday (first 3 volumes: main story) and Monthly Shounen Book (volume 4: sequel/side stories). Shounen Book was cancelled, so the 2nd part of Vampires remains unfinished.
Rating: PG (violence, extortion, murder)
Republisher: multiple reprints have been made by different companies; I am using the 1988 Sunday Comics Akita Shoten version (4 volume set). Details on all the reprints (and pictures of their covers) can be found here.
Astro Boy Pocket Biography: John Lennon アトムポケット人物間：ジョン・レノン (Yes, it’s a manga about
John Lennon).
This is a little oddity I picked up in Japan, a MANGA about John Lennon’s life introduced by Astro Boy! It’s for children, so it’s definitely a slightly more candy-coated version of his life, but it’s quite well done.
Author: Jun Watabe (pictures)/Yuiko Asano (story)
Year of Publication: 2001
Genre: biography
series: Astro Boy Pocket Biography
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Rating: G
Age of Adventure (冒険狂時代）by Osamu Tezuka 手塚治虫
TEXT-ONLY translation – use it to read along with the actual manga
May 25, 2009 at 5:15 pm
OMFG! i love john lennon! tell me where to get the english version!