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I'm GLAD that [redacted] has a public catalog of what they are currently managing of their authors (both in physical and digital), but at the fucking same time, it's not everything (and I dunno about other publishers, though :/, I hope they kinda DO, but I'm uncertain). The digital editions are more explicit in what they DO contain, though, so they have been useful.

Wikipedia also exists, but they are not consistent on who and who have more complete info about them or their works. I luckily have stuff like tribute? smth-else books of a couple of authors that contain more info about where their one-shots/short stories where published (up until specific years, though), but the magazines per se do not have a proper archive to look for (and the more they went defunct, the worst).

Anthologies, for example! I know for a fact that serialized stuff do contain a "collected from [magazine] no. X, year Y" somewhere in the book itself, but that's pretty much it, lmao. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources (nor the space) at the time to get them. But the older these are, they become unavailable. Many of those short stories do get eventually reprinted... elsewhere, but the other stories do not, and so and so. And many of these also get lost in the kerfuffle.

It's a fun little thing... but also a nightmare, because you are also like "my dude, my sib in Christ or whatever religion you partake into, just because one of these stories is the highlight title of a collection reprinted in a bunko edition, THAT doesn't mean it's the same collection all in and out, lmao".

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.