Konketsuji said:
Are you talking about DH or some other edition?
Nope, like Aaz said I meant the italian version of Berserk.
Warning: the following text, images, etc, is not a joke. Everything is real.
First of all Konketsuji, I must specify that in Italy we have FOUR edition of Berserk, but let's proceed with order.
The first one was based on the horrible former spanish edition, with childish cover color, heavy censorship and so on:
Basically a volume is the half part of a normal volume.
Since in the spanish edition, there were mispelled names, the italian version inherited them:
- Ga
tsu
- Grifis
- Ca
ska
- Pak
And so on.
Later even with the detachment from the former Spanish edition, other names still remain misspelled:
- Sh
ilat
- Sh
ilke
- Lasquash
Some years later Panini released the second version, the Berserk Collection:
In this version they corrected some censored panel or they cleaned some pages, but one thing that didn't change between the two editions is the mirrored story. I mean they used the western reading mirroring in the whole manga; so we have that everyone is left handed, Griffith at the hill of swords touches his heart on the right side of his chest and so on.
So leaving aside the bad quality of paper/inking, the mirrored panels, misspelled names, now we arrive at the translation issue.
Basically the translation is good, but in some points (unfortunately the PIVOTAL moments) it sucks.
As Aaz will remember, I have already put under discussion some pivotal speeches like the one of Void (ah by the way his name in the Italian version is Boid):
http://www.skullknight.net/forum/index.php?topic=9538.0
Someone that read the episode 83, and then the Italian speech of Void at the occultation ceremony would be pretty confused and will think that Void is contradicting himself.
Or another example at the volume 24:
Instead of saying "the fifth angel incarnate" she's saying "the fifth
APOSTLE incarnate".
Anyway the weird thing is that even though the story is mirrored, the first page of an episode is STILL on the right perspective:
and a page after:
Guts come back left handed and so on. One more horrible thing is the black bar with the episode title that sometimes COVERS half panel:
Ok, after that, Panini RELEASED THE ULTIMATE version of the BERSERK MAXIMUM:
The first thing that comes in your mind is...but WTF of cover color choice!!
COME ON!! Fluorescent childish color!
However here, the reading is eastern. So farewell mirrored thing. But this maximum shit has enlarged panels with a loss of quality. The paper is shitty as well. A volume has more or less 15 episodes, so it equal to a volume and 1/2.
And finally we arrive at the BLACK edition..
It's the Collection edition..but the color cover it's just black..ad for this GREAT ENHANCEMENT it costs 5 euro. (one more euro of the ordinary collection).
This black shit is EQUAL to the collection.
Check it out!
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Although from the link you provided it looks like to be perfectly exact it would have to be written Кэнтаро: or Кэнтарō (but they also say that rule is hardly ever followed).
Anyway, Zondark sounds better.
