User:Chokladkakan

About me
This is my user page, and my name is Jakob. I am a One Piece enthusiast (and manga in general, mind you). I speak Swedish, Norwegian, English and I am learning French. In general I want my manga Swedish though, because that's how it all began. When I was eight years old, I happened to come by the first Dragon Ball book, which swiftly sucked me in. Since then I haven't stopped reading those wonderful comics.

Due to the order of manga publication in Sweden, I started reading One Piece when Dragon Ball was leaning towards its end. And then the story repeated.

I got sucked in. Again. And I haven't stopped.

My manga fascination reached its pinnacle three years ago, when during the summer I started working as a part-time employee for manga division, Manga Media, at Bonnier Carlsen, Sweden's largest publishing house. Over there I did what the people behind scanlations do, basically: I got the raw image files, one per page, along with a large Word-document containing the translated manuscript from a translator. One then commences to clean all the original text away, to then mount the image files in a printing template, after which you go through it, fitting text into every appropriate space.

It was a great year and a half, working for them, and I got to learn a lot about the business, the (Swedish) fans and the crazy Japanese, and I got a lot of books too!