{"id":30752,"date":"2013-03-07T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=30752"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:45:57","slug":"manga-translation-pioneer-toren-smith-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/manga-translation-pioneer-toren-smith-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga Translation Pioneer Toren Smith Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toren_Smith-225x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toren_Smith-225x300.png\" alt=\"Toren_Smith\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30753\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writer James Hudnall has <a href=\"http:\/\/thehud.com\/2013\/03\/rip-toren-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed word<\/a> that 51-year-old Canadian manga translation pioneer Toren V. Smith passed away on Tuesday, March 5. Smith founded the Studio Proteus manga translating company in 1986, eventually producing English translations of manga titles including Kamui Gaiden, Nausica&auml; of the Valley of Wind, Ah! Megami-sama, and What&#8217;s Michael? Smith wrote the original American Dirty Pair comic book series, based on Haruka Takachiho&#8217;s original sci-fi novels. In 2004, already anticipating the inevitable American anime &#038; manga market crash that would later begin in late 2007, Smith sold Studio Proteus to Dark Horse Comics and shifted his focus primarily to involvement in the manga industry in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><i>The global manga &#038; anime community has lost a visionary without whom anime &#038; manga would not have ever become as popular &#038; successful in America.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer James Hudnall has revealed word that 51-year-old Canadian manga translation pioneer Toren V. Smith passed away on Tuesday, March 5. Smith founded the Studio Proteus manga translating company in 1986, eventually producing English translations of manga titles including Kamui Gaiden, Nausica&auml; of the Valley of Wind, Ah! Megami-sama, and What&#8217;s Michael? Smith wrote the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30754,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752\/revisions\/30754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}