LOL!!
When I first heard of "Pocket Travelers" the first thing that popped into my mind was like, What? A pocket edition of Lucky Star -- like a tiny manga book??
It's different from canon Lucky Star alright; whimsical, but faithfully enough Lucky Star to enjoy the same characters like the manga! I don't know whether the artist and writer are actual KyotoAnimation contributors, but kudos to them for a good read!!
Thanks also to the great guys who scanlated this story for zero peso! Thanks a trillion you all! But -- you know what would be so cool? If these manga and doujinshi stories were dubbed with separate audio files -- maybe even with special sound / music effects to spice up your read! So cool!!!
Chapter 1 Spoiler:
I don't know whether it was missed in translation or a script oversight, but the punchline for the gag about Tsukasa's "stuffed bear" was lost since it wasn't mentioned that it was really a cell phone charm from the get-go. I found that out somewhere else!
Does rain have any mystical significance in Japanese culture like for transformations?
From what anime/mange do Konata's figures come from?
Wonder if Konata also has Barbie whose wardrobe Tsukasa might like too?
Lol! I was kinda hoping Konata, as poor stunned Yu-chan was crashing down, would've yelled "TIMBER!!!!!"
Chapter 2 input:
Grabbed it last night Xeperu, thanks for the good read!!
Seeing Konata standing in Yu-chan's cupped hands soo cute! I wanna Kona doll!!
The arcade game scene with Konata and Kagami acting out as Yu-chan's hands on the sly is just precious, and I dunno, but why does it ring of an (old?) anime I can't remember?
Love the scene when Patty and Hiyori catch a terminally angst Tsukasa laid out in the UFO Catcher dump chute! (and our coward queen trying to get scarce!)
Too bad Konata has to worry about getting crushed by her dad (and maybe more in the very worst way!) instead of getting help from him!
Now my peeves! (hey, I can nit-pick if I'm a fan, right??)...
Chapter 2 Spoiler For The Rest of This Post!
Maybe it's me, but the artwork looks a little less refined this go around. Okay, but not up to last time. A change of artist?
I love shopping like the next girl but even I had a little trouble with the girls being more concerned with cruising the mall than patching up their condition! Also, unless it's my Swiss-cheese American mindset, there are too many gaps in artwork missing what's going on, like how'd the girls got caught and dumped in the UFO Catcher machine and how the heck Tsukasa ended up in the dump chute before Kona did. Would've been nice if Konata's original dialog said "Oh-Oh! My leg's caught in the grabber with the bear" to explain her getting hauled up and away. I'm sure a panel could've been divvied up enough to show slices of such action.
All this said and done, the really cute "Behind The Scenes At S3" panel made me wonder; asides scanlation and typesetting, have your talents ever given a thought of also creating your own parallel rewrite or redraw of a scene to go with the originals but taking a more logical or sensible dialog than the original translation? For example, in the last panel of CH2_04, instead of Miyuki saying "This is very troubling," she can say; "Well, I do seem to recall Kona-chan mentioning a curse with the figures..." And in CH2_05 she continues; "Maybe there's something to that myth..." and in CH2_06 Konata comments in the last panels, "You're right. See, I was searching for the bouquet that would've completed these figures and satisfied their mystic spirits instead of incurring their wrath, but I couldn't find it." Kagami; "Gee, maybe you just never bought it, ever thought of that, Sherlock?" Miyuki: "Then the solution's obvious!" Konata: "Yea, we go shopping for another!!!' and yada yada...
Sorry for going off all windy like this, but I just had to add my two yen!
Dee
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