That was quick. After my last scanlation I started a conversation with Cryomancer, of Opentrain (opentrain.199xchan.org, hopefully his site will be back up soon). As a result I resolved to perform a scanlation by myself, without the need to rely on a translator. This is because I have a lot of free time, being on holidays for two weeks. I wanted to test how feasible the process is, and it seems pretty good. My only concern is possibly missing cultural references that only a native speaker could pick up on, but I think I did fairly well on this one, despite that.
I picked this comic for the crossover aspect, which I always love. It has Yoshi, the Blast Corps, and Dr. Light against Kamek as the villain and a runaway truck of Yoshi’s Cookies. Of course some details are a bit distorted: the cookies are generic rather than actual Yoshi’s Cookie cookies, Dr. Light is referred to as “Dr. Lightningbolt” (I blame Yoshi being ditzy), and the Blast Corps team featured appears to be some kind of B-team, with a female lead named Netty, and four similar-looking men, one of whom is apparently named Crusher—instead of Amber, Spike, Wesley, and Clark. They have mostly the same vehicles though.
Oh yes, this is fairly par for the course for the German Club Nintendo. It’s crazy, and that’s why we love it. The panel of the people going wacko on page 4 is especially amusing. My favourite part is (spoilers) the characters repeating a line the narration just said. Oh yes, and I have no idea how Netty already knows what “Bang Cookies” are.
Well just a little comic I suppose, but we’re closer to the dream of having all of Club Nintendo comics canon available in English. Special thanks to Supper Mario Broth, and Time Q of Super Mario Wiki, who had already done partial or rough translations. As usual, find the image gallery and .cbz download below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miloscat/sets/72157636196257794/