China virus is currently the hot topic in the world as WHO (A useless entity) has declared it a pandemic.

I’d like to talk about it a little as a South Korean.

In South Korea, the china virus isn’t a big deal and I can tell you why the infection rate has already flattened out.

For Koreans, wearing a face mask has been norm for several years. It is due to “micro dust” in heavy urban environment. It’s basically pollution + dust that get into your lungs and cause issues as you age.

Health officials have been raising awareness for micro dust for over a decade and it is norm for us to wear a medical mask when going out.

Therefore, when china virus hit the nation, spread was low. Most of people who were infected by the virus belong to a cult in a region called Daegu. Outside of that cult, almost no one has got it. Even if others carry the virus, it seems almost none show any serious symptoms.
There have been few who seemed healthy die from it but their number is low enough to call oddity.

As of April 2nd, those who are infected with corona virus are foreigners who have come aboard. S.Korea has never shut its air routes because it’d kill our economy. As the virus seems to affect elderly (and to an extend smokers) more than anyone else, it is perhaps better to let the economy keep going instead of putting heavy burden on working population by shutting everything down.

So, I agree with our government’s stance on not shutting everything down.

As long as you wear a mask, the risk of infection is very low. When Korean government told us to wear masks, we were already wearing’em.

I also believe Korean diet has a part in this as fermented food (kimchi) has proven effective against flu-like illness. SARS was an example.

I also believe culture has a part in this as well. Skin contact between Koreans is culturally minimal. We don’t shake hands or hug others. A kiss on cheek is almost never done even among married couples.

Japan’s anime industry has been doing remakes for a while now.

And, for the record, I am generally not against remakes because I do favor full 1080p over 480p and less. And Japanese anime industry generally know what they are doing.

Now, having said that, let’s talk about Legend of galactic heroes remake.

In the remake, virtually everything has changed. Character designs were completely changed. Plot was shortened, omitting minor events.
There have been good changes and, of course, bad changes. I hear its fan base is rather split, mainly on the shortened plot.

I can see why they’ve chosen to shorten the story. Attention span of today’s generation appears to be a lot shorter, and their aim for the remake is rake in money. Making it boring isn’t the best way to do it, I suppose.
However, it is Legend of galactic heroes. A legendary series on its own that deserves a place in the history of anime.

What I really wanted to see was them acting outside of the box and break the stupid 12 episode per season rule. I did not expect them to port everything but at the least I wanted them to break the 12 episode limit.
Legend of galactic heroes deserved a special treatment but the remake didn’t get that.

I do like the 1080p resolution and I can accept the character redesigns. I mean styles & trends change. A remake is generally aimed at a younger generation who find something too old fashioned to accept. Thus, I am willing to accept those changes.

What I do not accept is anime industry’s reluctance to break the 12 episode per season rule. They could have done 15 episodes in the first season for an example. They could have done 14 episodes in season 2.

But, no, they chose to adhere to a strict 12 episode per season and, thus, severely cut the story down.

That I do not like to see.

➤ Grand Blue: I smiled a lot while watching this and I am someone who smiles seldom.

➤ Hai to Gensou no Grimgar: Among a lot of recent “guild life” anime, this was the best I’ve seen or at least the most realistic.

➤ Konosoba: Another “guild life” anime. An overall comical, and enjoyable, anime. Though, that invisible underwear is a unique concept.

➤ Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (Love is hard for Otaku): This one barely made the cut on the list. Though I felt it was overall an enjoyable series.

↲ Goblin slayer: This anime is not on the list. But I will mention one thing about this anime. This is the only anime I’ve seen where the main character goes into berserk logically. No super powers or whatsoever, he berserks logically.

Hello, people. I haven’t posted a thing for about half a year.

And I am not here to talk about scanlation. I am done with that stuff. I want to talk about anime adaptation of Piano no Mori.

It’s a manga series which I’ve been following since year 2000 and having realized that there have been an anime adaptation only recently, I downloaded the two seasons (total 24 episodes) and watched it.

Not sure how I’d rate it. But it wasn’t good. Piano no Mori as manga was an excellent series. Personally, I’ve never felt that Piano no Mori was a good series for anime because it deals with a highly subjective subject: music.

And I felt that, if it were to be made into anime, the music part should largely be ignored and instead focus on Kai’s relationships and his ordeals.

The anime chose to focus on music instead and I think that’s why I didn’t like it because I have absolutely no idea how to grade classical piano.

Very large part of the anime talks about how the music is wonderful and whatnot and there I was, twisting my head thinking what in the world they were talking about…

It simply did not connect.

I’ve packed up the entire webtoon and it can be found at the old project page.

With that project done, I no longer have any active project on my plate. This is pretty much it for my scanlation venture.
There are hundreds of good webtoons still out there, completely untranslated but I no longer have the desire to work on them.
There won’t likely be any further releases/updates now.

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Next update will be the last episode for Kumiho.

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