Got the first volume of Studio Udon’s translation of Masaomi Kanzaki’s manga!
Brand new cover from the artist, looks really good even though I miss his Chun-Li with the double set of bangs on her face heh! Ah she still has the double set in the interior though which is what counts. :lovin:
There’s color images of the first four covers that were issued back when the story was translated here years ago as seperate comics. On the back you can see an image of the cover of the original manga volume too, double Chun-Li bangs! :lovin:
Every character’s bio is in the first few pages! There is also very indepth descriptions of the island of Shad, the tournament and Masaomi Kanzaki takes you through how he came up with Gouken’s design, the same one Capcom uses and adapted from him!
There is also a relationship chart for all of the characters. The arrow that Chun-Li has that points to Ryu says “Loves” yippee! Ryu’s arrow that points to Chun-Li says “A little shy around!” Oh and in the forward Masaomi Kanzaki says, “Dammit, Ryu and Chun-Li!! Get a room!!” ME HAPPY! For those of you that are anti Ryu and Chun-Li fret not, on the relationship chart it says, “These are character relations set forth by the Street Fighter II manga, and may differ from the relationships within the actual game.” D’OH!
On top of that they show you Ryu and Ken’s fight in the Street Fighter Alpha manga so you get a little preview of that book. And they show you a few pages of the Korean comic Udon is going to translate, Dorothy of Oz. :tup:
Only read the first few chapters so far and it reads a lot better than the older translation. Mike Bison (Balrog in the US) no longer comes off as an old man which makes more sense since he and Ryu are only a few years apart.
More reading ahead of me. Great book, check it out if you can!
Finished reading the volume. They got up to the part where Ryu was about to fight Sagat for the first time. Man that’s about half of the run that came out before in English and there’s two more volumes to go! Yikes they must of left a lot of stuff out back when those 8 issues came out…
Read the Dorothy Of OZ preview included in the volume. It’s like a big eyed anime fighting game version of Wizard of Oz lol good choice by Udon for something to translate. Looking forward to the first volume of that! :tup:
Aw…I LIKED how Balrog seemed to be a hustler/ex-boxer in his mid-40’s-late 50’s. I grew up in the projects, and actually MET brothers like that at the local pool hall/domino house, so the erroneous portrayal was pretty damn realistic for me.
WTF’S going on!? Amazon.com says it was released way back in june. I called Barnes and Nobles to see if they got it in this week and they said the same, also that they had no copies at the store, but they could re-order it for me. Eh?
Everyone’s still giving me the same shit, even the bookstores in the local malls: “It was released in June, and we don’t have any copies in stock.” WTF is this shit?!
Similar situation with me, but Barnes & Noble finally got it in for me a few days ago, so keep trying Rhio2k is all I can say. Kinda surprised in that I thought they were going to bring me Sakura Ganbaru #2 and Udon’s Art of Capcom first, but anyway. Rhio2k Ganbaru!:tup:
Is the publish date different from the actual date the book is shipped to distributors?
I called Barnes & Noble, and the guy on the phone said that NONE of their stores have recieved it cuz of some new shit they’re doing. So while all the Clamp and Sailor Moon crap clog the store shelves, people have to special-order the manly shit. Nice work, dumb-asses.
I called Borders last weekend, and a store near me said they had 2 copies supposedly coming in this week…I have to call them in an hour to see what became of said copies.
Edit: They haven’t come in. They’re “on order”…but they take longer than 7 days. You know what? Fuck this book. All I care about is the Ryu Final anyway.
The Borders by me has it, I saw some copies there Friday. Strange.
Bookstores and comic shops recieve books on different days. It’s why they get Naruto and Shonen Jump before comic shops do most of the time.
Again try comic book shops in your area or online comic book retailers. I don’t really keep track of what books come in to bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders get every week so I can’t say. Midtown comics has it, just put Street Fighter II in the search engine - http://www.midtowncomics.com/ or you can try Diamond, or by now you can probably find it on Ebay.
Well, yeah. But where do you live? Cali or someplace in the north? I’m over here in Florida, where we either don’t get shit, or we get it dead last. We’re like the damn UK of continental America. I’m not gonna order this online cuz I have an asshole here who goes throuhg everyone’s mail, and doesn’t bother to give people their shit when they get it.
And wasn’t the release date for Sakura Ganbaru vol 2 supposed to be Oct 15? What happened?
I’m in New York. Sakura Ganbaru 2 is late, don’t know what’s up with that. Udon put out their Art of Capcom book this past week and this week they are putting out two Korean comics they are translating.
Oh and in the forward Masaomi Kanzaki says, “Dammit, Ryu and Chun-Li!! Get a room!!” ME HAPPY! For those of you that are anti Ryu and Chun-Li fret not, on the relationship chart it says, “These are character relations set forth by the Street Fighter II manga, and may differ from the relationships within the actual game.” D’OH! 
