We figure if it was any of our business, they would have told us. We actually have no idea what happened between us not getting to retranslate the original series and us getting to translate the sequel. Tadah!īut this is supposed to be about Fruits Basket another. Lo and behold, a few months later, one of our Kodansha editors asked us to translate Sailor Moon. We consoled ourselves by telling ourselves it wasn't meant to be, and it just meant there was something better in store for us.

We're changing that,' anyway.)), so there were no hard feelings toward anyone, but we were sad about it. Our understanding is that there were legal issues, probably with TokyoPop owning our translation or something (we would have done a new one from scratch, without even looking at the old ones (because those files are hidden deep, deep in old emails, in an account that might not even exist anymore, and the hard copies we have are lost in all our boxes, and would have been changed by English adaptation writers to the point where we would have been like, 'No. Not gonna lie, that was a pretty sad day, when we found out we couldn't do any of them for Yen Press. And did you know! that TokyoPop was close enough to getting the rights to Twinkle Stars that they had already asked us to translate it? Oh man. And they thought it would be better to have consistency with all the other things they licensed from Natsuki Takaya, so we didn't get to translate Twinkle Stars or Liselotte, either. We immediately emailed our boss and asked if we could translate it! I don't suppose anyone would license rescue the series and let us fix our shoddy work.' And then! Yen Press did license it! What! We panicked. Oh my goodness, this series, you guys! I can still hardly believe we're translating it! As some of you may know, we did the original translation of Fruits Basket for TokyoPop waaaay back in the day, and then Fruits Basket another started up, and we translated it for funsies and we thought back on our old Fruits Basket translations and thought, 'Man, we were so inexperienced then. Every series Natsuki Takaya has done since then also has all the human drama that Fruits Basket did, but people are all, 'It's not as good as Fruits Basket.' They just want more auto-relatable characters.īut we actually enjoyed this book, so let's talk about it! Spoilers ahead! This is where I once again want to state my theory that Fruits Basket mostly grabbed everybody's attention for the gimmick. Oh my goodness, is it actually time for our Fruits Basket another review? It seems like everyone's already reviewed this book and hated it by now.

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