Well, I was wonder why this game mechanic was absent from the manga. Turns out that it's a cheap way to cheat in battles.
I don't have any witty banter this time, probably because I'm going too fast. I'm trying to finish things up before New Years so this doesn't carry into next month. The particular scheduling method I'm using is doing a constant amount of pages everyday. In this case, it's about 30-35 pages a day. This method only really works for Pokemon Special, Mudazumo, and Ryuushika, since the chapters are small and easy. Other series have to be handled on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
In my ongoing attempt to monopolize all current manga from Kitoh, I have started translating Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka for Animexis. This manga is about psychic powers, and yes, people do actually die in this manga. Next chapter has the first fatality, if I'm not mistaken.
This battle was orgasmic, to say the least.
Finally, someone notices this! Jeez, not even the holders themselves noticed that they have a strong tendency to get into "final" battles.
Now we check on Solid Dia. That's some pro stealth right there.
Holy fuck, that was a lot of releases for Christmas. However, I celebrate the lesser-known Boxing Day, even though I don't live in any of the British Commonwealth nations.
I made lots of changes and some more that I've forgot. Here are the major ones:
Well, I'm finally done with the volume. I hope that I will get faster at redoing volumes, because I'm doing 1.5 next month (half of Noririn v2, and the entirety of Lying Mii-kun).
Surgeon General's warning: repeated exposure to Munna's dream eating has not been tested and may cause various health problems.
So I sat down today, and stared emptily at my "Scanlations" folder. I thought, "What was I going to translate today again? Oh yea, it's monthly Pokemon Special. I still haven't scanned it yet, huh. Here are the raws to this month's BW and last month's HGSS. I will not translate the HGSS chapter due to time constraints and lack of interest. Nevertheless, these raws are unfiltered 600 dpi A+++ WOULD BUY AGAIN-grade stuff, so someone else could do it.
The series is just so difficult to edit. Because of that, I will not redo all of the pages with tank raws when they come out.
The fifth and final chapter will be out on December 29th, but since the tank is out on January 7th, I'll wait till I get and scan the tank to translate chapter 5. I'll also redo the chapters with the tank raws, because this manga is quite easy to edit and clean, compared to harder ones like Mudazumo or 7o3x. Besides, there are two translation errors in chapter 3 that I would like to fix; one on the "doubt" thing and the other on the "mother" part.
It's on now!
Because I'm not so rich (despite what my excessive spending might imply), and I have never requested something like this, the starting cash bounty is $30. My naive assumption is that there are at least a few people willing to do it just to be able download free manga. If that assumption gets proven wrong, then I'll start raising the price.
This party's getting crazy!
As a testament to my efficiency with requests, here is the raw to the one-volume manga that Yamada!AD/TRAP/M6 requested 7 months ago. I received this 2 months ago from Mike, and just had it scanned and processed. I will translate this in January; on the bright side, it will be relevant to the anime adaptation of Hourou Musuko, which is drawn by the same artist, Shimura Takako. Since it's adaptation of a novel, Route 225 doesn't have LGBT issues that she's known for writing, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I've always liked how this series treats cheating as just another skill rather than a forbidden dark magic.
Finally, the chapter we've all been waiting for! Koizumi vs. Hitler starts with an awesome twist!
I like how Owada draws the various world leaders. Western political cartoonists can learn a thing or two from him.
These next two chapters will be on preparing for Koizumi vs. Hitler, because IT'S JUST THAT AWESOME.
Now that I have my rotary trimmer of cutting doom, I can proceed to scan...the entire magazine.
Well, that was fast.
While waiting for me to start on volume 37, you can read up on ye olde volumes, or better yet, help restore them.
Someone reminded me in the Mudazumo ch 33 dump thread that Owada had drawn a short oneshot about Saki author Kobayashi Ritz. I had downloaded it through Share, but I must have forgotten about it later. Since it's only 8 pages, here it is.
Since unprocessed raws aren't very useful for reading, raws will be processed before released for public from now on. Unprocessed raws are only given if you contact me (and have valid reasons).
Hell yea, finally back to Mudazumo. The first few chapters are relatively normal and even lethargic, but Koizumi vs. Hitler will be in this volume, so just wait a while.| December 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Slot 1 | Mudazumo Naki Kakikaku vol 5 (200 pages / 2 weeks = 100 pages / week) | Pokemon Special vol 37 (200 pages / 2 weeks = 100 pages / week) |
| Slot 2 | ||
| Slot 3 | Ryuushika Ryuushika vol 1 extras (60 pages / 4 weeks = 15 pages / week) | |
| Running Series | Lying Mii-kun and Broken Maa-chan ch 4 (36 pages / month = 9 pages / week) 7o3x ch 2 (36 pages / month = 9 pages / week) Pokemon Special BW (Shogaku Yonensei) ch 2 (20 pages / month = 5 pages / week) Ryuushika Ryuushika ch 15 (12 pages / month = 3 pages / week) Kaibutsu Oujo vol 13 scripts (30 pages / week) | |
| Total Average Workload | 171 pages / week | 171 pages / week |
Got delayed by /v/'s flavor of the month, 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. It's a point-and-click puzzle adventure game with the most anti-climatic yet awesome "final boss" puzzle ever.
Fractale's cast list and official English names came out, so "Krein" is now changed to "Clain" to conform with the anime's naming. When I was choosing names, I thought that "Krein" would fit the European atmosphere better than other candidates "Crain" and "Crane". On the bright side, I got "Phryne" right (because it's on Wikipedia), though I noticed that I misspelled that as "Phyrne" at least once.
I finally bring you the last chapter to Cyber Blue. What did you all think? I thought that these last few chapters salvaged the series as much as it could from the various problems it developed over volume 2 and 3. Of course, Tetsuo Hara's art was consistently great throughout the entire series.
And with this, we're finally caught up with the most recent Ryuushika Ryuushika; the next one will be up right before Christmas. I'll try to get volume 1 batch up by then so I can whitewash my terrible mistakes from the annals of hist-er, I mean, so you can enjoy the 60 or so extra pages.
Inari, Konkon, Koiiro wa ch 4 raw (IF)
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt ch 4 raw (IF)
Teizokurei MONOPHOBIA ch 4.7 raw (IF)
Those Who Chase Ageha ch 17 raw (IF)
The final battle. Enjoy.
Keeping the releases coming while I'm on a roll. One more chapter to go before I catch up!
Sadly, there was no ATATATATATATATA sound effect as Blue punched Galgo around, but with the power of Youtube, you can listen to this while reading the chapter.
Extra short chapter, but wallpaper-grade spreads nonetheless. I think I may have broken out of my very unprofessional streak of typo-ridden releases for this series, but you meddling, sharp-eyed readers keep finding more.
Alright, time to kick the pace up a notch. Now for the final battle you've all been waiting for.
Ken Akamatsu's J-Comi beta is now up, with all 14 volumes of Love Hina. It'll have more out-of-print manga in the future, so this a good sign.
Well, that concludes all of the Noririn chapters I have. It's around chapter 18 or 19 in Evening, but since no one scans it anymore, I can't catch up until volume 2 comes out sooner or later.
I finally got the latest Mudazumo. It's as crazy as the spoiler pics and summaries I've been reading, so I can't wait to finish these last five chapters of Cyber Blue, the last available chapter raw of Noririn, the next 50-page Fractale chapter, and the three Ryuushika chapters...Damn, it'll take a while. Feel free to spoil yourselves in the meanwhile.
Of course, everyone has a backstory, even the villain-turned-hero.
Going to school with a piece of bread in your mouth seems to be the defining characteristic of Japanese schools, as is football for America, or wizards for England (?).