Doushite Watashi ga Bijutsuka ni!?

[daniel11111222]

To the typesetter: Please centre the text in the speech bubbles. Reduce the font size by up to 10-15 percent rather than putting a white outline on the text and having it overflow the speech bubbles. Replace the formal-looking sans serif fonts with more appropriate comic book-looking fonts. Hyphens belong at the end of a line, not the beginning of the next line (this rule tends to be broken for honorifics). It's perfectly acceptable to take your time getting it just right even if it takes a little longer to release.

 

[p106]

@daniel11111222

Hi, I do the typesetting myself. The conventions I use are intended to preserve the original feel of the work. I try to center the text in bubbles, but since they're not perfectly elliptical and I'm doing this by eye, it might be slightly off, I'm not too bothered about that though. A lot of websites downscale the pages (and they're already downscaled compared to physical resolution of the book) so I'd rather not make fonts any smaller just to fit them in bubbles. I'm using the fonts similar to those used in the original manga. The "comic book-looking fonts" are not "more appropriate" because I'm translating a yonkoma, not a Western-style comic book. There are often roman letters used in the original text and they're written in a font similar to the one I'm using. As you noticed, honorifics are intentionally preceded by a hyphen for better line width balance (since they're often on a separate line) and to make this hyphen distinct from a line-wrap hyphen. Hope that explains some of the choices I made for this project.

 

[daniel11111222]

@p106
Thanks for your explanation. It is good to see typesetting choices being made with this level of thought even if I may disagree with some of the particular choices, and I will rethink my stance on fonts due to what you've said.

 

[gouder]

I really like it, but I don't really see why it's award-winning. But then again I don't read too many 4komas, so I can't really judge

 

[BCS]

I read many 4-komas and I still have no idea.

 

[RustiK]

As a fellow translator, thanks for translating the dialects xD

 

[Madcat6204]

Based on the first chapter this series feels a lot like Comic Girls.

 

[p106]

I know, it's a lot like Comic Girls in that nobody pays attention to it when the manga is translated, then when it'll get an anime everyone's gonna be like "why did the manga stopped being translated".

Also the author of this manga actually drew some bonus comics for Comic Girls anime (there's 5 for each episode drawn by different mangaka):

 

[lenovoaxioo]

3 kittens long.

So now we have official loli measurements unit.

 

[guphla]

Real Comic Girl^tm

Thanks for the translations this is really cute.

 

[No1Kenkaku]

Hope someone picks this one up again.

 

[shousaku]

Is this gay ?

 

[HadesTranslation]

sad that this ended after three volumes. Is there any reason to it? Can't believe that a manga with a win and a nomination is axed so fast