#im biased towards the alternate version but thats my preference!

[moonpaw]

I'm still new to OP (only began watching the anime around a year ago) and have been considering making your edited versions of the manga my first actual read-through of it. Would you recommend that, do you think, or are the changes you're making better suited for folks rereading the manga?

Also if it is suitable for first time reads / if you wouldn't mind someone's first foray into the manga being your edits, would you recommend the alternate versions you made, or...? (I'm clueless and looking for a bit of direction because I think the project is cool but most of the discussion has been written for and by people already familiar with the text) (I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts if it's not too much of a bother thank u)

I'm trying to make it for both re-reads and first timers! East Blue-Alabasta are a little rough around the edges in my opinion, so i've been slowly.... once again.... going through it... (only started doing this very recently so its nowhere near done, but its only like, small little changes and clean up, nothing too ground shattering)

Personally I'm pretty proud of how Skypiea turned out, there was a lot of work to be done with the whole kami/god thing and Eneru/Enel's name. I really want to make it enjoyable for as many people as possible, and names matter to me, dang it! That's why I made a separate download for the Eneru enjoyers out there if they don't vibe with the edited Enel

I'm not sure if i actually mentioned this, but I've been cleaning up the jpeg artifacts and making the grey scale shading just a BIT smoother! Which... may not be really noticeable... but I really like how it looks

sadly, I don't think tumblr helps to get that across quality-wise, but other than it looking a bit smoother, it just helps to make edits less noticeable because the artifacts would cluster around the text ever so slightly

The main difference with the alternate version is that honorifics are implemented, and when one of the main characters (cough Sanji cough) uses them a lot, I would personally prefer to see them because they're apart of his character (not to mention Vivi's! She's so polite!) And the fact that Sanji is the only one who Nami adds a -kun to! I love little details like that!

So between the Standard and Alternate is just depends on if you like having honorifics or not! Oh and if you want Gum-Gum or Gomu-Gomu... I'm a gum-gum hater but I know people prefer that more, so I left it alone in the Standard version

So that's you're answer! It all depends on your preference! That is the goal with this project :]

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