Aji's Quest

[Bill Spight]

Yep, I am getting paid. Aji is being published by BadukTV, and they have also hired me to help vet the English translations of some kid's go books. ^^

Congratulations! Great news!

[Inkwolf]

Thanks!

[GoRo]

Yes, wonderful news. And thank you for the Tesuji explanation. This is just one more example of why I am more than fond of Aji's Quest: everything has a background in your experience, be it the game and its fascination or teaching experience.
I remember well that you wrote that you gained fresh motivation from reading again some of Hikaru's stories.

How about the colouring: did you do it yourself or did you just give permission for it?

Cheers,
Rainer

[Inkwolf]

I just gave permission, and am very grateful that they never thought to ask me to do the work. XD

Seriously, though, if a page took me one hour to draw, it often took 2 hours or more to figure out shading patterns, shadows and things to make it look interesting. The thought of adding color decisions into that would have added SO much more time to the work. My decision to make it black and white was only partly based on the thought that I could make a more affordable printed copy, and partly on the knowledge that the workload and tedium of coloring the pages would probably have slowed me down to the point where I would never have finished.

[GoRo]

This book was heart-touching: "Go As Communication" by Yasuda Yasutoshi 9p.
It was recommended to me months ago, but only recently I bought it and read it today.
Anyone who teaches Go to children or elderly and disabled persons could gain profit from this book, for sure.
I was reminded of Aji's Quest, page 137 when I read in Yasuda's book on page 51:

I asked what he did at the Go club. It turned out that Mr. Thoma had explained the tactics that Japanese Go professionals use and talked about very difficult things. He tried to make the children better players and had thus taught them Go tactics very strictly. No wonder the children had walked away!

Colette has caught the dilemma with paper, pencil and humor on that very page 137.

Cheers,
Rainer

[Inkwolf]

Someone just asked permission to translate Aji to Turkish. Yay for another language!

[gogeo]

Polish version is now up to page 125. I think we will finish it as planned this winter.

I try to bother baduk.tv to get some colored pages - even few of them (like kind of bonus) will draw more attention from kids

Cheers
gogeo

[gogeo]

Kolor...

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[gogeo]

So polish translation is finialy done - there are still many small mistakes and bugs - but whatever it is done
Thanks to everyone and especially for Inkwolf for drawing and sharing.
Many thanks for everyone in translation team - without your work this will be not possible
I hope we can meet somewhere and share good time ...

GoGeo

[GoRo]

Kolor...

http://baduk.netmarble.net/News/Webtoon ... 2014&best=

Thanks a lot for the link. I must say I am overwhelmed and completely happy with what they did. Colette has been creating a little world and presented it in beautiful pictures and with a funny story. Loving Go, I immediately fell in love with this little world when it came to life in autumn 2012.
Now it seems as if Colette had a Korean sister who had the patience to put in more details, colors and extra pictures, but everything just in the same mood as the original version.

It's a pity I cannot read the extended version as I am unable to decipher Hangul(?).
I would be glad, though, to participate in a project which will present the extended version in German.

Congratulations to Dariusz (gogeo) and his team for having finished the Polish translation before Christmas. I really enjoy how people are enthusiastic over Aji.

Many thanks again and again to Colette!

Cheers and Merry Christmas
Rainer

[Inkwolf]

Congratulations on finishing the Polish version! So exciting that Aji is being read all over the world. ^^

[GoRo]

Are there any little stories to tell about how children or maybe teachers reacted to Aji's Quest?
From time to time I hear someone say (or get a message) that those three eaglets are especially cute.
One girl liked master Tenuki most because he's so mysterious and funny and wise.
Some praised the clams etc. but even today I remember the very beginning which instantly glued me to this lovely story:
Aji has been playing Go for a whole month...and he still sucks at it!

For all of you who like to see Aji and his friends talking German: see the 8 PDF-booklets on http://www.rwro.de

Cheers, and greetings to InkWolf,
Rainer
(GoChild GoRo with 2753770 points)

[Ian Butler]

Is the website down where Aji's Quest is hosted?

[jlt]

Try here: https://www.deviantart.com/inkwolf/art/ ... -305999467

(click on "prev" to go to the next page).


Edit: this link works better. https://www.deviantart.com/newest/?q=aji%27s+quest

Edit: pages seem a bit out of order.

[Inkwolf]

Yeah, sorry about that. Last week my site suddenly disappeared. I thought maybe Earthlink had discontinued the old personal webspaces and hadn't bothered to tell me, but just before I planned to contact support, a page went up saying the webpage was being 'migrated' by which I assume they mean they are moving everything to new servers. No idea how long that will take, but as far as I know, the page will be back eventually.

Thanks JLT for linking the DeviantArt! A lot of it is also posted at http://tigersmouth.org