Thread:Old McDonald/@comment-96.59.70.72-20151128190027

Judging from your significant contributions to translating and clarifying aspects of TG, I assume you're near or at native fluency. As such, what do you think of Ishida's Japanese? Does he have a more sophisticated grasp of syntactical structure/variation, vocabulary, and idioms than the average Japanese adult male? I wonder because it's difficult to gauge solely as a reader of English translations and because he still seems quite young. Does his prose veer towards that of senior mangaka like Togashi or that of (more or less) same-aged peers like Isayama? (I realize, of course, that both Togashi and Isayama are shonen authors and are necessarily more limited in writing, but they were the only two I could name off the top of my head.)

Thank you for everything you do around here. Truly, you have the patience of a saint.  