R/WeeklyShonenJump: Welcome to the Weekly Shonen Jump subreddit! So Blue Box volume 1 is about to be released in Japan very soon and due to the buzz and huge popularity so far, do you think the sales of volume 1 will exceed volume 1 of The Elusive Samurai which sold an outstanding number of 32k copies for the first week and 35k in the second week (67k+ in total). As a leading national publisher, Shueisha has continued to release one popular magazine after another. The comic magazine “Weekly Shonen Jump” (first published in 1968) in particular is very popular, not only in Japan, but also overseas. Many manga are translated into various languages and published in over 40 countries and regions.
Pretty Face was a Japanese Manga by Yasuhiro Kano, and ran for 52 chapters in Shonen Jump, a weekly comic magazine in Japan. It was wildly popular amongst a small cult of fans and was widely thought to be on its' way to being a favorite for Japanese Jump readers. Unfortunately, the series ended prematurely.
It was too good to last.
Seeing no urgency on the part of publishers to print this title in the US, many American fans of manga pitched in on translations and scanning the pages for internet users to enjoy. I liked it so much that I decided to see if I could improve on the original translation and reformat for easier left to right reading. In Japan, books and comics are formatted right to left. I also replaced the Japanese sound effects and retouched some of the graphics.
Well, I could only keep it up for a few installments, before I realized it was going to suck a whole year of my life if I kept doing it. Fortunately, the whole comic was published by Viz in 2007, in six books. It includes many extras and notes by the author. I encourage you to get them. You can read what I did, but they're just tasters of the full story.
