Tezuka in translation

by **David** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:34 pm

Curious question here - which languages have the greatest amount
of Tezuka translated manga?

For example, top 5 or 6 languages for Tezuka other than Japanese of course.

David

by **strobe_z** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:47 pm

A guess... but the top two I think are Chinese and French.

by **putrocca** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:03 pm

Chinese is definitely the top. I think there may be as much or more out in Korean as there is in French, but French definitely has the most of any European language. English is probably next, then Italian.

by **David** » Tue May 09, 2006 1:04 am

thanks - so probably looks like...

1 Chinese
2 Korean
3 French
4 English
5 Italian

Interesting - Does Italian have just a little less than in English?
What might be the 6th language to add to the list?

David

by **strobe_z** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:22 am

Available in Korea:

BlackJack
Astro Boy
Jungle Emperor Leo
Phoenix
Number 7
Song For Apollo
Ambassador Magma
Microid S
Norman
Ayako
Eulogy For Kirihito
Don Dracula
My Son-Goku
Vampires
Buddha
Princess Knight
Princess Knight (original version)

by **David** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:35 am

wow! I had no idea.
So we are saying there are even more in Chinese.

David

by **David** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:35 am

Can anybody produce a list of French translations?

David

by **strobe_z** » Tue May 09, 2006 5:36 am

Available in French... not all in print

Astro Boy
Jungle Emperor Leo
BlackJack
Ayako
Kirihito
MW
Vampires
Princess Knight
Unico
Tree of the Sun
Rainbow Parakeet
Three-Eyed One
Crater
Barbara
Buddha
Phoenix
3 Adolfs

Coming Soon...
I.L.
Dororo
Don Dracula
Twin Knight
Prince Norman

Am I forgetting anything?

by **putrocca** » Tue May 09, 2006 1:25 pm

Also in French:

Prince Norman
Osamu Tezuka Manga Biography

For Chinese, check out the loooooong list on TezukaInEnglish:

I think there may be 100+ titles in Chinese... haven't counted.

by **strobe_z** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:59 pm

Out of curiosity... is there any manga released in Italian or Spanish which ISN'T released in French?

by **putrocca** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:15 pm

In Italian all four volumes of the Osamu Tezuka Manga Biography are out, while I believe the last one isn't out in French yet.

In addition, the Italian release of Black Jack copies the Shounen Champion edition instead of the Akita Bunkouban edition which the French copies, so it has the issues in a different order. This means that the curretly complete 25 volume Italian edition contains a number of issues which haven't been released in French yet, but most of them will be as the French release continues.

There are, I think, a handful of BJ issues which are out in Italian and won't be in the French release - they're listed in the big Black Jack info spreadsheet I'm hoping to post soon.

That's all I know of that Italy has that France doesn't. It got a number of things sooner, but France has them now.

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