English Gothic and Lolita Bible

Kyuketsuki · Oct 13, 2007

Tokyopop, what the HELL have you done now?!

http://www.tokyopop.com/Robofish/contest/933103.html

I'm with a couple of people who commented saying it had damn well be the same as the original but translated. However seeing as how they're looking for these 14 year olds to send in their pictures in their Halloween costumes, I doubt it's going to be legitimate. ::hora::

Comments? Criticisms? ::gaku::

SchizoCherri · Oct 13, 2007

Kyuketsuki wrote:
Tokyopop, what the HELL have you done now?!

http://www.tokyopop.com/Robofish/contest/933103.html

I'm with a couple of people who commented saying it had damn well be the same as the original but translated. However seeing as how they're looking for these 14 year olds to send in their pictures in their Halloween costumes, I doubt it's going to be legitimate.

Comments? Criticisms?

Ditto.

I might seriously harm someone if it's not translated well, and especially if it only has Americans in it, cause I don't think we really have a Goth Loli culture.

However, I don't mind if there are some American Gothic Lolitas in it, just as long as they don't completely outweigh the Japanese material.

Kyuketsuki · Oct 13, 2007

Yeah, they asked for people's opinion via email, and man oh man, did they get mine... :lol:

Priss · Oct 13, 2007

I'm going to send in my Halloween costume.
I'm going to be a cowboy! Hopefully I make the cover.

Florescent Muffin · Oct 13, 2007

What a bad idea D<
Some things should just stay in Japan. This is one of those things.

Kyuketsuki · Oct 13, 2007

Priss wrote:
I'm going to send in my Halloween costume.
I'm going to be a cowboy! Hopefully I make the cover.

DO IT!!!!!! :lol:

Omg, in my email, I told them they were going to get crap submissions like people in their halloween costumes and stuff, so it would be SOOOO ironic if you did that!! :lol:

Jae · Oct 13, 2007

Priss wrote:
I'm going to send in my Halloween costume.
I'm going to be a cowboy! Hopefully I make the cover.

That's *fantastic*!! Are you going to have a hilariously oversized curly moustache, too??

Cerceaux · Oct 13, 2007

I'm scared. I think it'll be all right as long as they print it on nice paper and such. Be glad it's Tokyopop and not Viz :shock:

. Then it would have Naruto on the cover, and they'd change Mana's gender to female to avoid offending any 10 year olds and their mommies. But that halloween costume thing...how stupid. It would have been more appropriate ask for people's lolita photos. ::meev::

Like, duh...

navate · Oct 13, 2007

^From what I am reading they ARE asking for lolita photos (asking for the brands etc to be included in the description of the photos.)

The Halloween thing was Kyu's own words, since a lot of "lolita" in the West only dress up for conventions and Halloween. they're not asking for Halloween photos... but that's probably what they'll get. ::meev::

It would be nice to have the GLB translated, but I'm not so keen on them adding in western stuff to it. Not that I have any interest in reading it... but it's be better to make a copy of the original, not add in a bunch of stuff to make it more americanized.

SDjilliaRE · Oct 13, 2007

There's gonna be a crapload of wolitas.

"OMG I glued some lace to my t-shirt!!"

::gaku::

Jae · Oct 13, 2007

SDjilliaRE wrote:
"OMG I glued some lace to my t-shirt!!"

HAHAHAHA!! "OMGZ11!11! That iz SOOO KAWAII!!" ::kisaki::

Florescent Muffin · Oct 13, 2007

navate wrote:
a lot of "lolita" in the West only dress up for conventions and Halloween. .

Not me. I dress lolita three to four days out of the week, thanks.

Orchid · Oct 13, 2007

Attention all pots: the kettle's on hold for you on line two.

SDjilliaRE · Oct 13, 2007

msjae wrote:
SDjilliaRE wrote:

"OMG I glued some lace to my t-shirt!!"

Click to expand...

HAHAHAHA!! "OMGZ11!11! That iz SOOO KAWAII!!" ::kisaki::

"TOTALY~! SUPAR KAWAII NEKO LOLITA CHAN~~~~~!!!!!!111" ::batsu::

Florescent Muffin · Oct 13, 2007

SDjilliaRE wrote:
msjae wrote:

SDjilliaRE wrote:

"OMG I glued some lace to my t-shirt!!"

Click to expand...

HAHAHAHA!! "OMGZ11!11! That iz SOOO KAWAII!!" ::kisaki::

Click to expand...

"TOTALY~! SUPAR KAWAII NEKO LOLITA CHAN~~~~~!!!!!!111"

XD Unfortunately for me there are kids at my school who talk like that.

Jae · Oct 13, 2007

Florescent Muffin wrote:
SDjilliaRE wrote:

msjae wrote:

SDjilliaRE wrote:

"OMG I glued some lace to my t-shirt!!"

Click to expand...

HAHAHAHA!! "OMGZ11!11! That iz SOOO KAWAII!!" ::kisaki::

Click to expand...

"TOTALY~! SUPAR KAWAII NEKO LOLITA CHAN~~~~~!!!!!!111"

Click to expand...

XD Unfortunately for me there are kids at my school who talk like that.

If someone spoke to me like that...on purpose, they would have no kneecaps.

And I personally think GLB should stay in Japan. Just my opinion, though.

SDjilliaRE · Oct 13, 2007

^ Someone like that came up to me when I was made-up for a school dance, and asked if I was a boy or girl. I told her that I was both. xD

After that, she played "Ready, Steady, Go!!" for the dance. ::batsu::

@Muffin: Same here. And there's only 200 kids at my school.

PureElegance · Oct 13, 2007

SDjilliaRE wrote:
After that, she played "Ready, Steady, Go!!" for the dance.

LOL, that would be awesome if someone did that here. XD ( I dont know if you'd think that though)

About the EGLB thing...I donno, I wanna wait and see how it turns out before thinking how bad it'll be. ::kisaki::

@Priss: That would be funny XD

navate · Oct 13, 2007

Orchid wrote:
Attention all pots: the kettle's on hold for you on line two.

Orchid, have I ever told you about the special place in my heart you occupy?

flowersofnight · Oct 13, 2007

I don't see what the problem is. The point of GLB is to advertise gothic and lolita brands by showing pictures of models wearing the brand clothing, plus whatever additional features. How bad can they mess that up? At the core it's still going to be about people wearing brand clothing, right?

::cred::

"Advertising is the universal language!"

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