Thread:124.149.164.235/@comment-39607753-20190602225954/@comment-124.149.164.235-20190603085021

Hi. There are a lot of reasons for the dearth of quality of the wiki.

Your observation of there not being enough fans in America is pretty astute. I myself am not an American fan. My contributions are very limited and I wanted to list as many of the reasons/obstacles as to why my hands are tied down:

1. I learned through the Lastman fanmade reddit (my least favourite website) that there are actually two english dubs produced for the animated prequel series. One of these was made as a *1kickstarter promise and from my personal observations and anecdotal evidence it seems to be of lesser quality in voice acting and the adaptation of the script. You may see some fans call the demons Kinglets/Roilets on some places on the internet but the kickstarter funded dub was the one that translated the name as "Wren" robbing the clever theme of bastard feudalism of any integrity.

The better quality Mondo Media dub is available on an app called VRV which is owned by the people who started up Crunchyroll. (I remember even 3 years ago from one of the people who worked on the animated series making an announcement on tumblr about how the series was going to be streamed for a brief period of time on the VRV website but I was told that it is not available where I am (subtitled I presume because the Mondo dub was released later)). Egregiously the VRV app is only available to people in the United States and this seems like a very silly decision, wouldn't they want to make more money?

*1 This dub can be purchased online on the French version of Amazon, anecdotal evidence tells me that the english subtitles maintained the integrity of the script but I can't provide any concrete evidence for it.

2. This leads me to my second point. Because of the difficulty of obtaining anything Lastman through legal means, my first introduction was through websites that streamed animation. This made me hesitant to provide both screen captions of content from the show and to add more information, because if the fan-subtitled version got some details wrong during the translation it would be scandalous. I wouldn't be able to provide quality without having quality and as you mention yourself '''"A wiki takes more than just a few people to edit it." '''I not only do not have the time and energy to contribute to the wiki but also it would seem like the behaviour of an egotistic and attention hungry person to be the lone contributor to a large project, wouldn't you agree?

Tangent: These are my major problems I could think of, mostly centred around availability and stigma. So far I have purchased 3 out of 6 of the Lastman volumes. Infuriatingly the publishers have not bothered to try and translate volumes 7 onward to 11, even though Yves Bigerel/Balak has completed all of his storyboards and I assume volume 12 is now being drawn by Bastien Vives and Michael Sanlavile, thus bringing the Lastman saga to a conclusion.

This is another extension of the difficulty to obtain Lastman anything for the english speaker. I have seen on Amazon volumes 7 and later being sold and translated in Spanish and Italian and perhaps other languages too. What surprised me the most was how a reddit user who embarked on a fan-translation project of volume 7 and later into english (I think he is currently on volume 8) observed that Balak tacitly cheered his efforts on in a deleted tweet.

But I am uncertain if Balaks endorsement and lenience would be as equally warm for people like me who have a harder time supporting the official releases. Especially when some of these official releases have two variations of drastic quality.

2nd Tangent: When somebody on twitter pointed out the difference between the kickstarter funded dub and its liberal changes to the script, Balak was just as shocked as the average fan and revealed he wasn't informed of these decisions. Ludicrous how even one of the 3 creators doesn't have full control over his own intellectual property.