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| Uranus stroking her sword with a "come hither" look. |
There was nothing about this volume that made me scream into the cold, pitiless night, and nothing that made me dance a merry jig on my balcony. There were a lot of grammatical errors and typos, which freaks me out, but if I chew enough Prozac, I get by.
Remember how Tokyopop translated Ptilol's name as Petite Roll? Shh, I know, it's painful to remember. Well, Flanagan didn't repeat that error. I remember before this reprint even started, people were worried about what would happen to some of these wacky names in the Infinity story arc. We can now breathe a sigh of relief, because all the names have been properly translated.
On a totally unrelated note, and just because I have to follow every bit of praise with a complaint:
What is with Flanagan and the phrasal verb "put out"? His obsession is not unique to this volume; he's used it before to say things like "why doesn't the Legendary Silver Crystal put out light?" (Wiseman in volume 4). One feature of English is that it has a bajillion words. I think it's the duty of a translator, writer, or anybody manipulating language to use them. Why not use "bloom" instead of "put out a bud"? Why not "giving off" or "producing" for what Luna's saying? Why not "grown", "sold", "distributed", or whatever for the last panel? It's just lame, clunky, and boring to fall back on the same words so much.
Now that I've put that out there, let's go into the details of this volume.
