If you were on Twitter this week, you may have seen folks talking about Titan Comic's Kamen Rider Kuuga for all the wrong reasons. Gizmodo's James Whitlock summarized the controversy succinctly, noting that fans were upset by "a consistent pattern of errors and awkward phrasing in the English translation of the manga. From clunky syntax
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