On this break with for the manga, with so little else to talk about, I thought I’d introduce an idea that’s been hanging over my mind for a long time: a rewritten script for the One Piece manga, compiled from the information in as many previous versions, both official and fanmade, as I can find, and filtered through my own authorial attempts to make character voice and tone consistent.

I want to make it clear up front that I’m not a translator and I’m not doing a translation. All I’m doing is compiling and revising what’s been done by others.

The foreword in the volume 1 doc goes into more detail.

Find the text for the full first volume of the manga in PDF form here:

I would have liked to have copied the text in directly (I know PDF embedding is not going to be friendly to every device) but WordPress strips all the spacing-related formatting from Word doc text unless I upgrade my plan and start playing around with plugins. I would consider that if it turns out there’s decent demand for this project and people are connecting with my style of writing.

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