Ginga Densetsu Noah in Finnish

[Spirit Tree]

Ginga Densetsu Noah Finnish Volume #10 is out now!

[Digsu]

This volume had... unusually many typos in character names, when usually the amount is zero.



"Gohō Takeda, who trained me as a bearhound, was hospitalized. That's when I joined the stray dogs of the mountains..."


"Ben's [or "Beni's"] home was in Kyūshū."


"An army led by Hakuro came to our aid from Hōkkaido.", when it should be "Hakurō" and "Hokkaidō".

On the very next page, Hakurou's name is spelled correctly again.


"I'm Hakurō of Kitami!"

Then there's this weird bit of inconsistency concerning previous translations, where the harpoon bear is referred to as "punaturkkinen paholainen" ("red-furred devil"), which is a literal translation of "akage no mashou" (赤毛の魔性), which is what Gin originally called him here. But in Meteor Gin, "akage no mashou" was translated as "harppuunakarhu" ("harpoon bear").


"[They were] Fierce beasts, like Mosa, Madara, and the Red-furred Devil."

This isn't necessarily incorrect, but again, it is inconsistent with previous Finnish translations.

[Tora]

YIKES on so many wrongs!

[methpring]

I don't mostly like the word choises this new translator uses, but Gohee shouting "Perkele!" is so damn fitting!

[YamaDora]

I don't mostly like the word choises this new translator uses, but Gohee shouting "Perkele!" is so damn fitting!

Agreed! If there ever was a character in Ginga who would use that word, it would be him.

And I also don't like the word choices Taavi Suhonen uses in his translations. I know in Japanese swearing is very mild compared to some other languages, but also after +10 years of having the "damn/darn/shoot" level of profanity in the Finnish translation this sudden change just keeps throwing me off.

[AkaiTsuki]

I don't mostly like the word choises this new translator uses, but Gohee shouting "Perkele!" is so damn fitting!

Sounds kinda appropriate for a tipsy veteran hunter who has had back and forth with the same bear for almost a decade.

[Digsu]

It was announced on Sangatsu Manga's website earlier this month that the Finnish translation of GDN would continue "soon". The lack of updates regarding new volumes was due to Sangatsu Manga moving to another parent company, which naturally caused some corporate bureaucracy that had to be dealt with (including discussions with the Japanese publishing companies over the Finnish publishing rights of their series going from the old parent company to the new one, but apparently GDN is in the clear on that front by now).

[Jinto]

Anyone know why the next volume is taking this long to come out?

[Digsu]

Anyone know why the next volume is taking this long to come out?

I assume it has to do with the stuff I mentioned in the post right above yours.

[Digsu]

Apparently we might finally be getting some news about the future of the Finnish translation sometime soon-ish? Hopefully?

(blurred stuff related to other series because it's irrelevant to GDN)

Noah: The agent (ie. the middleman who handles relations between H-Town [new publisher of the Finnish translation] and the Japanese publisher) promised to finally get a move on. We're hoping for the best.

Comment taken from here.