GemaGema Anniversary ~gema~

 

Today, with the first release for this blog, we have the first Gema-Gema or GemaGema.

This is a 4Koma manga that was originally launched on the "FROM GAMERS" magazine on 1998, made by Koge-Donbo (now Koge-Donbo*), debuting the Di Gi Charat characters that became the mascots of the Broccoli company "GAMERS" stores. The 4Koma ran on the magazine until it  ceased publications on 2019.

As you can expect normally from Di Gi Charat, the 4Koma it's comedy driven with everyday life things twisted up with the peculiar characters cast alongside references to the magazines content or related to them sometimes.

As a little thing on some of my free time I have decided to translate this 4Komas to commemorate the 24th Anniversary of Di Gi Charat this year. Not sure how often I'll update this, but I'll try to do them all, however I'll admit the hand written Kanjis give me a bit of a headache to undestand them at times.

If you think it'll be interesting to see the evolution of the 4Koma and the characters among the years, give these a look. 

Some later media incluiding the original Di Gi Charat (Wonderful) and Di Gi Charat Nyo animes makes reference to some things that appeared on these 4Komas. Incluiding this very first one, with an scene of episode 15 "PARTY NIGHT" of the original 1999 anime referencing this first chapter in one of the scenes of the song.

Don't mess up with Gema?

To note about this specific detail. I plan to include the ~gema~, ~nyo~, etc; when used on the original if there's enough space to include them. However, this one doesn't have any ~gema~'s... Well, curiously enough both Gema and Dejiko didn't use these on their very first appearances.

Sadly I only have the Broccoli website versions of these, so if you have access to better quality RAWs of any of these or the magazines and would like to help me with those better RAWs, please contact me.

See you later.

Read Gema-Gema Ch. No1: Mega / Drive

Should be on sites like Dex too sooner or later.