I download scanlations so I can be as current as possible, then buy the official version when it comes out. And I agree, the official translations do tend to change things a lot. For example, they completely dropped all of the honorifics from OMG.
DC comics recently decided they wanted some of the manga market, and they are ruining Tenjou Tenge. Believe it or not, they are trying to make it into a kid's book as best they can. Ug.
Dark Horse does a decent job with OMG, but they still have a tendancy to "Americanize" it.
Larry
08-Mar-2005