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It's a long one!! (Does this mean I'm venting?)
It's such a nice day outside...which is good, b/c I can use some cheering up. I'm not quite ready yet to talk about it here, but I probably will in a few days. In the meantime, I'm arranging to buy $200 worth of anime and manga artbooks to comfort myself. It's healthier than gorging on ice cream, ne?
So, my last post was all about Temp. Speaking of which, I have a Temp title update.
Remember how I was supposed to have the script a week ago, so I emailed Temp editor and asked about it last Friday? I heard from him on Monday and he said script was coming soon, so he was hoping to keep the May 25th deadline. I told him I really need to keep that 5th week we are currently losing, so please extend to June 1st. I thought for sure Temp vol25 would be given to someone else (this is the 2nd time I've waited in fear for this very reason) but he okayed preserving that 5th week. X_x Is it not too important to meet his own deadlines, or does he like my lettering so much that he things being late on his end is worth it? *has big eyes* Or is it simply easier to give me the time I need instead of finding someone else to do it faster? >< Of course, vol 25 being incredibly huge in the scheme of Temp title I am very glad to have this 2nd miracle. Now if only I can have the script so I can get started on it!!! *looks with pleading eyes up at the manga no kami* Haven't I sacrificed enough of my life for you? Why must you test me so? I want to show my respect and honor for you by making a magnificent and rapturous Temp vol 25, the book that changs everything! The book that makes the fan's jaws the floor! But to give proof of my devotion, I must have that scriiiiiiipt!!!!! >< (All right, so I'm exaggerating. But not by much.)
And now, for babbling concerning Claymore.
I'm progressing through vol 10 at 5 pages a day. Clay vol 10 begins with a horridly complicated fight scene that lasts for two chapters. 4 Awakened Beings vs 25 Claymore women. Wheeeeeee! X_x Lots and lots of orange and pink pages. But the middle of the book is dialogue and quiet-heavy for Clay, so yay. The end picks up a bit more, but not nearly as bad as the first 70 pages. Because of the prevalence of pages from hell and their slightly more angelic cousins, I'm really bouncing around in the storyline. I letter three easy pages and two hard pages a day, going every other to prevent burnout. Since the easy pages are so few at the beginning, I'm much farther along in the book with them (page 78) than I am with the difficult ones (page 56.) So forget following the storyline. Continuity goes out the window when I'm working like this!! But hey, this is why I have my volume key sheets, so I can jump around from page to page and not miss one and know where I stand in regards to the whole volume.
Three points of interest with Clay vol 10: 1. The hand-drawn FX are showing up much more frequently. I've already had six of them in what I've done of the first two chapters, when three is usually how many I'll find in an entire volume. Hmmm. 2. They've added a new FX font to the original version: we have the "vanilla" font, the "fringe" font, the "convex fringe" font, and now....the "half" font. So named b/c the edges of the katakana letters are half-flat, half fringed. So I'm having to create a 4th FX alphabet in the same style to match. :P And 3. The original has a new youma font as well. This one is the typical "evil dialogue" font you find in many many manga volumes. I've selected an English font that is creepily similar. No explanation why this one particular Awakened Being doesn't speak in the Awakend Being font or the usual youma font, he just does. And I follow suit. Wheee again!
The anime began in Japan this month!! I've downloaded the first three eps so far. Haven't watched 'em yet. I wonder what this will do to the manga volume sales. Not that I'm ever told stuff like that, but I wonder anyway. On a related side note, apparently some "scanlation" group has started scanning in Viz's licensed manga release and posting them for download. I don't know where or who, my IRL scanlation friend (who has refused to work on scanlations of both Clay and Skip several times O= ) said she heard someone was doing it. I wonder if the "scanlators" bother to include the credits page in their "version". LIke when someone scanned the Shojo Beat preview pages of Skip Beat last year and said it could be posted wherever anyone wanted, as long as they gave the scanner credit.
I was poking around on the Barnes and Noble web site to see when the next vols of the various manga series that I follow were coming out when I checked on Clay v7. Yes, it's out. No, no freebies for me from Viz on vol 7, either. (I missed out on vol 6 to...*sniffle*) Anyway, I mention this b/c some bozo left a review revelealing two major plot spoilers for vol 7 and saying "I only read Claymore for the sword fights. " *blink blink* Way to miss the point of the series. Clay is awesome for the CHARACTERS and the STORYLINE. Humph. Thank you for reducing it to pointless violence. Perhaps when he matures a bit he'll appreciate the finer aspects of the title. (Kudos to him for helping to drive away the "I want a solid well-developed story" readers. Aho!) Now, I don't mind someone who only reads Clay for the fight scenes (the manga no kami KNOW I slave away to make them look good) but he could at least throw the more intellectually-inclined a slight ray of hope. Even a simple, "The story is nice, too." I'm tempted to leave a review praising on why *I* love the series. As a civilian, of course.
Wow, I'm sounding like a complete bitch today, aren't I? Sorry, but I'm not in a very perky mood. ><
Here's a fun Clay note: the retouch in Clay is always horrid (except for those few blessed plain white background IMPACT pages which I so love) but thankfully the mangaka loves his random black specks. If something doesn't align perfectly, 9 times out of 10 I can disguise it with a strategically placed speck. With vol 10, however, I'm given a 2nd camouflage tool!! All of this fighting is taking place way up in the "frozen North". Which means....*fanfare* SNOW!!! Yes!!! So now I can use white specks to hide things, too. *is evil* >:D
And an amusing Clay anecdote: I had juuuust finished a rather nasty FX on page 78, so I zoomed out to check the larger picture, when I saw it. An entire 2-inch high FX kana at the bottom of the panel I had forgotten to include in my English FX. I shouted several words I normally never use and set about to correcting my mistake. Thankfully a repeat of this particular FX's final letter ("ka-whok", so the K) looks fine and didn't leave too much to retouch. I hate it when I miss a widely-spaced FX kana like this. Thankfully it doesn't happen very often, maybe once every three books. >< And I was lucky that this instance was relatively easy to fix. D=
Three points of interest with Clay vol 10: 1. The hand-drawn FX are showing up much more frequently. I've already had six of them in what I've done of the first two chapters, when three is usually how many I'll find in an entire volume. Hmmm. 2. They've added a new FX font to the original version: we have the "vanilla" font, the "fringe" font, the "convex fringe" font, and now....the "half" font. So named b/c the edges of the katakana letters are half-flat, half fringed. So I'm having to create a 4th FX alphabet in the same style to match. :P And 3. The original has a new youma font as well. This one is the typical "evil dialogue" font you find in many many manga volumes. I've selected an English font that is creepily similar. No explanation why this one particular Awakened Being doesn't speak in the Awakend Being font or the usual youma font, he just does. And I follow suit. Wheee again!
The anime began in Japan this month!! I've downloaded the first three eps so far. Haven't watched 'em yet. I wonder what this will do to the manga volume sales. Not that I'm ever told stuff like that, but I wonder anyway. On a related side note, apparently some "scanlation" group has started scanning in Viz's licensed manga release and posting them for download. I don't know where or who, my IRL scanlation friend (who has refused to work on scanlations of both Clay and Skip several times O= ) said she heard someone was doing it. I wonder if the "scanlators" bother to include the credits page in their "version". LIke when someone scanned the Shojo Beat preview pages of Skip Beat last year and said it could be posted wherever anyone wanted, as long as they gave the scanner credit.
I was poking around on the Barnes and Noble web site to see when the next vols of the various manga series that I follow were coming out when I checked on Clay v7. Yes, it's out. No, no freebies for me from Viz on vol 7, either. (I missed out on vol 6 to...*sniffle*) Anyway, I mention this b/c some bozo left a review revelealing two major plot spoilers for vol 7 and saying "I only read Claymore for the sword fights. " *blink blink* Way to miss the point of the series. Clay is awesome for the CHARACTERS and the STORYLINE. Humph. Thank you for reducing it to pointless violence. Perhaps when he matures a bit he'll appreciate the finer aspects of the title. (Kudos to him for helping to drive away the "I want a solid well-developed story" readers. Aho!) Now, I don't mind someone who only reads Clay for the fight scenes (the manga no kami KNOW I slave away to make them look good) but he could at least throw the more intellectually-inclined a slight ray of hope. Even a simple, "The story is nice, too." I'm tempted to leave a review praising on why *I* love the series. As a civilian, of course.
Wow, I'm sounding like a complete bitch today, aren't I? Sorry, but I'm not in a very perky mood. ><
Here's a fun Clay note: the retouch in Clay is always horrid (except for those few blessed plain white background IMPACT pages which I so love) but thankfully the mangaka loves his random black specks. If something doesn't align perfectly, 9 times out of 10 I can disguise it with a strategically placed speck. With vol 10, however, I'm given a 2nd camouflage tool!! All of this fighting is taking place way up in the "frozen North". Which means....*fanfare* SNOW!!! Yes!!! So now I can use white specks to hide things, too. *is evil* >:D
And an amusing Clay anecdote: I had juuuust finished a rather nasty FX on page 78, so I zoomed out to check the larger picture, when I saw it. An entire 2-inch high FX kana at the bottom of the panel I had forgotten to include in my English FX. I shouted several words I normally never use and set about to correcting my mistake. Thankfully a repeat of this particular FX's final letter ("ka-whok", so the K) looks fine and didn't leave too much to retouch. I hate it when I miss a widely-spaced FX kana like this. Thankfully it doesn't happen very often, maybe once every three books. >< And I was lucky that this instance was relatively easy to fix. D=
On the fanfic front, I finished my promised beta of Star-chan's first chapter of her TGQ fic "5 Things that Didn't Happen that Night." It's my first beta, so I was very nervous. But Star-chan said I did a good job, so yay!! ^^V I think before I take a crack at her chapter two I shall begin my TQG contest fic. Gotta get started, since I have to write in snippets.
BTW, this is my other new icon, also taken from fanficrants. This time with permission! Someone was ranting about this particular misspelling, and someone else whipped up an icon. Teeheehee!