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Like, I have been reading a LOT of manga translated into Spanish, and I know several of these are either local made, bought translations from Spain (heck, I even own imported editions from Spain, Sweetness and Lightning, FOR EXAMPLE, is from Planeta Cómic, hence it remains European Spanish for all I care) or Argentina that have been "slightly edited to a neutral Spanish" (while sometimes retaining some words like "aluvión" that we don't really use here... looking at you, first few Magilumiere volumes)... so in this specific first volume, it strikes me a bit weird the choices...? I think. Heck, not the first time I have complaints with a local TL though (Dunmeshi -which was translated by a mexican translator- using a couple of colloquial phrases that, SURE we do use, but in context, ESPECIALLY in the world of Dunmeshi, do not make sense whatsoever, esp. related to Catholicism).

I understand the choices based in tone (Kuga talks with respect to Goshiki, hence the "Miss"), but... duuuunnnno! and I can't really compare because I really don't buy a lot of Kamite series (I only have Magic Knight Rayearth and Sekirara ni Kiss) but I'm starting to change that in specific cases... to my wallet expenses, because they are worse with retroactive price changes), yet I know Panini's stuff sometimes gets the honorifics out, sometimes they don't (depends a lot, truly).

Buuuut, I also feel the dialogues here and there in Galaxy Next Door feel slightly weird? Like they were put in different dialogue bubbles or smth? And, look, I know the Spanish imports do not save themselves, I was reading Warau Oni ni wa Fuku Kitaru vol 2 (I don't know how it was localized in English), and Tomodomo, somehow? fumbled TWO specific bubbles w/o dialogue (Kamite also has made mistakes like these, their recent volume of Igarashi-kun and Nakahara-kun also had something similar, although they promised that latter reprints would correct this mistake... and since NO ONE buys this in the store I frequent, I don't think they have been re-stocked there with these reprints :/)

Are they probably rushing these volumes to get them out, perhaps? Like, the usual complaint I DO have with Kamite is that they take a LOT of time to release their series, which, I mean, it's something akin to "quality over quantity", and they SEEM to be correcting this lack of constant releases starting from this year onwards... but, like... you know... (Kamite has a constant in quality, their printing is slightly better than Panini... but this volume in specific also contains the same kind of printing mistakes they have like moire, or the paper... like, sometimes you see what's printed behind a page... but I kind of wonder if this is more or an issue with the paper available everywhere? ESPECIALLY these days with how the prices of everything has been exploding in inflation and the like due to a lot of internal and external stuff going around in the past year alone ._.)

Just that. I dunno.

I read a fan tl before (and it was a recent rereading as well), so I DO have a certain context* of what the charas are talking about in certain panels... plus the few words I have probably caught up in any multimedia visual and audio material I have been listening constantly in the past decade. I need to polish again my hiragana reading, though, lol.

*I say this bluntly though - the fan tls out there are not exactly the best, and comparing the actual pages and the scans, I can absolutely tell.

For example, a whole half page has some dialogue in spaces they shouldn't be there; the first few chapters a new TL group took over, years later, you can also tell they have ESL and some moments do feel quite awkward in context... they DID improve with time, but given the author's actual handwriting being used in certain panels that is unrecognizable at times (it is I, the one which handwriting is also the worst at times, so I get it), many of those remained untranslated - didn't help the visual quality of the actual scans, either.