Sunday, January 08, 2006



January is one of those slow dour months innit? Unloved by even the most pleasant of souls. January also means I'm working to deadline. I'm doing a script rewrite on the first volume of Otogi Zoshi for Tokyopop. The story revolves around a little rich girl Hikaru disguising herself as a boy to fight bandits. Yes, it's Manga, and it's such an endearing, bitter sweet story I've taken something of a shine to it.

By script rewrite I mean taking the translated script and sorting it out, embellishing it, where it needs sorting. Injecting a more natural feel to the dialogue. E.g., changing a line such as "I am a lobster" to "I'm a lobster, you dig?"...

Anyway the biggest thing I've had to bend my brain over is reading the original volume right to left (not the other way, which folks around here have kind of grown used to). I am getting the hang of it, but initially it did feel like someone had gone and changed the laws of physics on me.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, Jim. It's Michael. Looks like I might actually be going to the NYcomicon in Feb. We'll have to party it up in every tavern in Manhattan!

Anyways, congrats on getting that re-write for Tokyopop...say....I wonder if they need an artist for that.....probably not...

Take it easy, man!
-M

Jim Alexander said...

Hey Mike

Happy New Year to ya. New York -yes, it's looking like I'll be there indeedy.

The rewrite is for something that's already been published in Japan. I'm just overseeing it's translation into Een-gleesh. How's Oban coming along?

Best, Jim

Anonymous said...

It's coming along pretty good. I'm up to page 8 of the pencils but Aaron told me to hold off on the rest until he can finally get the script approved by Paramount. I'll try to e-mail you some of the sketches of Oban tonight if you want.
^_^
-M

Jim Alexander said...

Oh, I'm always up for a looksee. Do you still have my home e-mail address?

Fingers crossed but I think it's unlikely Paramount won't have some comments. We'll just have to wait and see...

Anonymous said...

Yeah hopefully, they won't have too many changes to make. I have one of your e-mail addresses. I don't know if it's your 'home' one or not but once I get home, I'll take a look.
-M

Jim Alexander said...

Dat'll be the one.

Anonymous said...

Crap, dude! I forgot to e-mail you those samples last night. My bad. I'll get to it in the next couple of days. That's what I get when I start drinking as soon as I get home heh heh....

-M

Jim Alexander said...

I'll drink to that. hick.