New Legends Vol 09: Dark Amber and Bluebolt!

 

Dark Amber Leo Prime and Bluebolt Manga translation is complete!  Man this one has some cool artwork of Unicron!  It's essentially a Unicron Vs Unicron set up in this one, now that Earthspark Unicron has arrived on scene.  This is a good fun manga, and I had a lot of joy trying to express rage.

Read this baby left to right.  and read my random ramblings at the end of the post. (Randlings?)

**I noticed some of them have duplicated page numbers, but the reading order here is correct.**

There ya go.

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Randlings:

• Page 5; APparently Uni-Galvatron can't hear real-Galvatron inside him.
• Page 6; Lio COnvoy expressing his regrets over the past and it's at this point that Blue Bolt gains his/her New white eyebrows.  A gift from Lio Convoy perhaps?
• page 7; Dark Amber having a bit of Fun with Magnus and showing he's a normal dude. In the Japanese, he uses a very casual "thanks" あんがとな！, so cheers works nicely.
• Page 8;  You can kind of tell that Dark Amber is getting a bit irritated with Unicron's shenanigans, as his language starts getting a lot more aggressive.
• Page 9;  I kinda like the hand comment. ha haha
• Page 10; A quick flick and Dark Amber is sent crashing down to a planet.
• Page 11; Galvatron refers to his team as Destrons.  I assume this is because he wasn't around when Lio Convoy announced that everyon were Maximals.  So far, no-one has called themselves Maximals (as we saw in Lio Convoy's manga).
• Page 12;  I'm glad to see the Fallen alive again and getting some spine.  
• Page 13; Menasor takes a hit, poor guy.  Bluebolt talks about civilisations being on the planet below, which I thought was a bit odd before, as the planet looks a lot like a revived Gaia, which as far as we know, only had nature and stuff going on. Then I realised that this planet hasn't been named yet. So there ya go.  BTW, I really like the way the big Phoom came out on that page.
• Page 14; I like that the Destrons are surprised by Dark Amber eating an entire island.
• Page 15; Blue Bolt providing Dark Amber with back up is cool.  You notice that as Dark Amber tries to make his way to BB, he is kind of floundering.  Well, going back to Nemesis Star Convoy's comic, he can't easily fly through space and has to swim (doggy paddle) his way along.  I assumed his used his back mounted guns as propulsion for when he pushed Unicron's hand off the planet.
• Page 16: Glavatron and Megastorm working together is cool!  And we see the start of Amber's real rage.
• Page 17;  A tricky page here.  Amber calls Unicron キサマ which is an rude "you," or a "Damn you."  And I don't feel that Transformers really use damn, except when they can't open Matrixes.  I felt a particularly pissed off looking "you" would get the message across nicely.  Poor magnus, lying around on the floor like that...
• Page 18;  Keep in mind that Dark Amber is also a Unicron, which is why him opening the matrix is quite a risk.  For that last panel, I hope you hear the music.
• Page 19; Unicron messes up by telling Amber that he can bring people back.  Amber was told he could, but was unsure if he could actually do it.  But I think after being absorbed by Galva-Cron, eating an island and slapping Unicron in the face, he's pretty sure he's got Unicron's powers.  Which means, anything Unicron can do, Dark Amber can do too. Or so he believes.  AS a result, Dark Amber just has to work out how to do it!  

Yay, bring Untite back!

And there we go.  Dark AMber is followed by Go Prime, whose first 8 pages are on my to do list. So there ya go.

Oh and a quick question, When they release these things in two parts, would you prefer them posted here as a whole, or kept separated?  Dark Amber here, I finished the first bit a while ago, but waited for the second half to come.  About the only difference is in the speed the first half becomes available.

Personally, for the sake of the flow, I'd like to keep them together.  But if enough people want the first bit ASAP, I can just slap them up when it's done.