GET HYPE. ZHANG FEI VS. MA CHAO. The duel of all duels, coming this volume! Also, it can be rather humorous to come across such romanticized depictions like the pic below in RotK after getting acquainted with the academic literature written about the Three Kingdoms period.
To quote the historian Rafe de Crespigny,
"Shu-Han was founded as a warlord enterprise in a provincial state, and it never became anything more." For those of you who're curious and don't mind spoilers to the story, this article (where the quote is from) offers a nice concise history on this period: https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/html/1885/42048/3KWJin.html
Such a beautiful poem, no doubt more beautiful in the original tale due to the conciseness of written-Chinese. There're many poems included in Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms but excluded in the manga. It's nice to see this one was kept in and I hope my translation hasn't butchered it.
Ahh, the feigned-retreat. Probably the most successful battle tactic in history.
I think Ma Chao is in his mid-30s while Zhang Fei's either in his mid-40s or pushing 50s at this point.
Sorry for the break but I'll get this volume wrapped up before doing the next Zero volume. Also, I've messed up the chapter title order in the table of contents page. I'll have it fixed for the volume-release.
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HOX THERE ARE TEARS IN MY EYES
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Xie xei, Hox-sifu
ReplyDeleteHox! I'm dying for more Ashita no Joe. T_T Please update it more. Carlos and Joe are finally fighting and the last update ended in the middle of it. I don't want to sound pushy or needy, but what's the status on the next chapter? I'll wait as long as it takes though. Please don't forget about it. =P Thanks for all of your hard work at translating these series for us. =)
ReplyDeleteI've already addressed the Joe status in my previous post. Please scroll below on the front page.
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ReplyDeleteThnx for this release. Can you give some information about the status of historie? Is it on a hiatus?
A new chapter of Historie comes out tommorow in 10th issue of Afternoon magazine. And new (8th) volume of Historie with finished drawings came out just a few days ago. Some raws appeared on the net but those are only ebook raws with very small image size.
DeleteI wonder how the other turn-coat generals felt when they walked past the monument to loyalty and heard the poets extolling Loucheng's fidelity? lol
ReplyDeleteThinks: "Who is Ma Chao? Which one is he?"
ReplyDeleteSees Ma Chao's helmet: "Oh, right! Ma Chao!"
Thank you for the scan. Really appreciate that.
ReplyDeleteOh, be careful, about the Ch. 224, it's not the right page for 180.
Thanks a lot, I fixed it now.
DeleteThank's for your information and i like yoe post ^___^
ReplyDeletei really love this manga.. looking forward for your next chapters and volumes translation..
ReplyDeleteHox, now that you have finished Tomorrow's Joe would you please resume work on Sangokushi?
ReplyDeleteP.S. Please update the Manga updates page.
Yes, yes, don't worry. I'll start working on it next week.
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