Nariyuki Dungeon - Vol. 3 Ch. 20 - Dream Labyrinth <II> - Superficial Wisdom

[MangaDex]

 

[Le_Flemard]

Thank you for the tl @i.m.gibbon
This author stories might be on the nonsensical side, but they makes me remember the old days when GUNNM was new.
I feel manga like this might be fewer and fewer as generation passed, but I hope for a revival of truly new story like this.

 

[i.m.gibbon]

Thank you for the tl @i.m.gibbon
This author stories might be on the nonsensical side, but they makes me remember the old days when GUNNM was new.
I feel manga like this might be fewer and fewer as generation passed, but I hope for a revival of truly new story like this.

Agreed! They just don't make manga like this anymore...
There's still plenty of Ozanari to go, though! The other group is working on Naozari, there's TACTICS, Cloud Pangea, some other bonus chapters I have waiting to be scanned, and some folks have asked that I go and properly translate the chapters of Ozanari that were MTL'd. So there'll be plenty more to come for a fair few years yet!

 

[SomeGuy1]

Time for... Another sequel!

 

[totallytotally]

Thank you for the tl @i.m.gibbon
This author stories might be on the nonsensical side, but they makes me remember the old days when GUNNM was new.
I feel manga like this might be fewer and fewer as generation passed, but I hope for a revival of truly new story like this.

It's the general death of straightforward adventure manga. It's not a truly dead genre, but truckloads of weak copy/paste self insert isekai and powelevel shounen have taken too much of the marketshare. Safe and easy. Not to mention the broad switch to digital has really killed the kind of expressive linework that was so representative of the genre.

Really glad to have this here though, another dungeon conquered. Thanks i.m.gibbon/

 

[Gokudomatic]

Thank you so much for finishing that translation!

 

[sssr]

Thank you for the translation. It's too bad Motoo Koyama is effectively retired now. I just wish Moka could have kept her popularity like Ranma and Lum did.

With that said, I can sadly see why Nariyuki got cut. It just doesn't have the level of lore and worldbuilding and the interesting supporting characters that Ozanari did. I really miss Keaton and Esprit and the rest of the gang from Gondwana.

 

[i.m.gibbon]

Thank you for the translation. It's too bad Motoo Koyama is effectively retired now. I just wish Moka could have kept her popularity like Ranma and Lum did.

With that said, I can sadly see why Nariyuki got cut. It just doesn't have the level of lore and worldbuilding and the interesting supporting characters that Ozanari did. I really miss Keaton and Esprit and the rest of the gang from Gondwana.

Koyama is currently writing new chapters of G Shadow, a Gundam spinoff manga where the cast of the original show are set in feudal Japan! He wrote the original one-shot back in 1989, but recently was given the greenlight to continue the story! Checking his socials, it looks like Chapter 13 dropped last month.

And yeah, Moka's drift into obscurity is a sad one. Comic Nora went under right around when the anime boom was happening in the West, and so titles like Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Sorcerer Hunters, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop were cementing their global relevancy while Ozanari was suddenly out of a publisher.

By the time Koyama started up Naozari over in the pages of Comic Rush in 2004, six years had passed, and the franchise never really regained its cultural import. Where once it was THE original serialized western fantasy manga, predating anime & manga such as Berserk, Slayers, Lodoss War, etc, now it was just another adventure staring an elf in bikini armor, like so many others. Even then, it's a testament to the series' strength that Comic Rush ran with it for nearly a decade, Koyama only wrapping up Ozanari TACTICS in 2013.

Even its OVA was of cultural significance, showcasing some early work from Studio Ghibli as a support studio, being Telecom's attempt to break out of Western animation and back into the Japanese scene proper, and featuring a frankly stellar voice cast. But again, it never made it to Western shores for whatever reason, and so it never got the splash it deserved.

Interestingly, Koyama recently mentioned that Moka is going to be in a video game! Coming out sometime in the next month or so, he related that a friend had put Moka in as a guest in an RPG they were working on. He didn't say which RPG, so I'm keeping an eye on upcoming releases to see if I can spot her :3 Depending on what title it is, this might be the West's first official introduction to Moka and co in English!

And he still seems intent on continuing Ozanari somehow. He seems to have gotten at least some of the rights to the series back, as he's republished Ozanari and Nariyuki on Kindle with some new bonus illustrations and introductions, and managed to crowd-fund two chapters of a new story, Ozanari Dungeon Cloud Pangea, in which Moka and co get sent back to Pangea prior to the dragons breaking up the continent, before Covid struck and halted everything. So, here's hoping the future is bright for our favorite adventuring gang!

 

[sarusa]

Thanks for doing these series, I really enjoy reading about this dumbass (and her smarter friends). As discussed extensively above, just can't really get this kind of purity any more.

 

[RanmaChaos]

Wow, reading the comments, I had no idea there was so much Dungeon delving left. Or that it had such history to it.
Thank you I.M Gibbon for you doing this series 🙏 And of course, I very much look forward to any more Moka you would be willing to provide.

 

[RanmaChaos]

If you do end up doing TACTICS or the cloud one, can you upload an announcement chapter to this or one of the other Dungeon series? I don't scroll the lasted updates like I use too and don't want to miss more Moka and friends.
Wish we could follow the mangakas themselves like we follow their series.