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== Who writes the starting and ending captions for the chapters, as well as the side captions for the character covers? And why aren't they in the English releases? ==
* To clarify, many manga chapters begin and end with a brief note that explains the situation, but generally doesn't go beyond what the viewer can see. Often, the chapters that have a character portrait on the cover have a caption to the side about the character's personality or status at the moment, such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20191029124351/http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read/Naruto/369/437/2 this one] for Naruto, in the chapter where {{spoiler|Hinata intervenes to save Naruto and tells him she loves him}}. Oddly enough, these don't appear in the Englsh releases of manga and some scanlations, which makes me wonder whether they were inserted by the magazine as a way of briefly summarizing the situation, but were removed when the manga volumes and English Shonen Jump come with recaps at the beginning and a "Next Issue/Volume" at the end, or were done by the authors themselves and dropped for some reason.
* It's generally the mangaka's editor who puts these phrases/captions in, though I'm not sure why the English editors/companies take them out.
* These captions only appear in the actual magazine editions of the chapters, and are taken out when the chapters are collected in "tankoubon" or volumes. So whether they're there in an English translation - whether official or not - will depend on the source material. Official translations will be based on the tankoubons, since the English release will also be a "full-volume" release (at least in most cases. Not having read the English Shonen Jump, I don't know what the case is there). For scanlations, it will depend on what raws are available. The more popular series will probably use the magazine scans, although more obscure series will probably use the tankoubons, simply because they're generally easier to get hold of.
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* Never mind, [http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=65025#p65025 found the answer].
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