Good night!

This is a moment I've been delaying for a while. I haven't been much in love with scanlation lately, and more into some other projects. And now, that I've finished proofreading Megaman's New Adventures, I feel I can give it a rest officially.

So, this blog will be put to sleep. I say that because, unlike other blogs that I've had, this is one that might ressurect in the future, with a different proposal.

Anyway, this was a good experience, and I hope you enjoyed it as well. Later, gator!

Change of heart

Remember when I said, in the last post, that you should expect a lot of posts etc.? Well, I realized that a lot of those things would be a waste of time. In fact, I think I'm getting tired of scanlation... so let's get this over with!

I'm putting all not really important stuff aside. I'll just mess a little with the structure of the blog, host some Enxame stuff, and finish proofreading for Opentrain, and then the REAL work!

One year!

A week ago, day 2, Anthropro turned one year old, and I totally forgot about it. SHAME ON ME!

All this time, and all I did was Samsara and three chapters of Holy Avenger. SHAME ON ME!

Anyway, let's keep it going, slowly, but somewhat steadily.

The Indian, the Indian and the sort of Indian

Portuguese Mistake


When the Portuguese came
In a heavy rain
He dressed the Indian.
Pity!
If it had been a sunny morning
The Indian would have stripped
The Portuguese.

-Oswald de Andrade (translation by Régis Bonvicino and Douglas Messerli)

***

The important thing is not to forget that, in the final analysis, our students must gain dominion over the foreign language for their own good and to become more able to face the new challenges the world puts in their paths. It is they that have to dominate the English language, never letting the English language dominate them.

-Kanavillil Rajagopalan (my translation)

***

You gave me language, and my profit on't
Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!

-Caliban, from William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Logo

This is what I had in mind:

This was made by my über freund, mein kreks kaiser, Alemão:

Actually, that's me eating brains. Yes, I started "anthropophagating" more than a year ago, and only now I'm showing results, yes.

He also made the logo you can see on the upper right corner.

Why Anthropophagous?

I mean, could pick a harder name?

But it's full of symbolism. It's a reference to the 1928 Anthropophagous Manifesto. According to Wikipedia:

"Its argument is that Brazil's history of 'cannibalizing' other cultures is its greatest strength, while playing on the modernists' primitivist interest in cannibalism as an alleged tribal rite. Cannibalism becomes a way for Brazil to assert itself against European post-colonial cultural domination. The Manifesto's iconic line is 'Tupi or not Tupi: that is the question.' The line is simultaneously a celebration of the Tupi, who practiced certain forms of ritual cannibalism (as detailed in the 16th century writings of André Thévet, Hans Staden, and Jean de Léry), and a metaphorical instance of cannibalism: it eats Shakespeare."

Here you can find the complete Manifesto in English.

Among other names that I can't remember, I also thought of Palmtrees, a reference to the Quilombo of Palmares, but I liked Anthropophagous better.

Just moved

I didn't get along with Google sites, so I came back to good'ole Blogspot.

Plus, I used the opportunity to pick an easier to type address (the previous one was https://sites.google.com/site/anthropophagousproject/). Too bad Anth and Anthro were already taken.

So here's the plan: more scanlation during this week, and then I'll have to stop for a while, but I'll keep posting interesting stuff.

Samsara

Finally! After, like, two years of postponing, I give you Project Anthropophagous' very first scanlation!

Script: Guilherme de Almeida Prado

Art: Hector Gómez Alisio

Samsara is a great sci-fi one-shot with european style and intricate script, published in 1990!

I'm afraid to tell you more than that and spoil your fun.

Enjoy!

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