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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Kaibutsu Oujo ch 64 script

This is a two-chapter arc, though I think he originally intended to come back to this much later. In any case, I like the Lovecraft-esque nature of the monster.

Kaibutsu Oujo ch 64 script (MF)
Kaibutsu Oujo ch 64 script (PasteBin)

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Manga Saimoe

It just occurred to me while reading the 7o3x thread on 2ch that some characters from series that I translate are still in Manga Saimoe, which is in its second preliminary round. You can play the world's most fascinating tactical voting game with them if you so wish:
  • Mari Fukami (Group 5; August 30th) ({{深見真理@ナナマル サンバツ}})
  • Takao (Group 5; August 30th) ({{タカオ@蒼き鋼のアルペジオ}})
  • Yamato (Group 7; September 2nd) ({{ヤマト@蒼き鋼のアルペジオ}})
  • Hyuuga (Group 11; September 7th) ({{ヒュウガ@蒼き鋼のアルペジオ}})
  • and pretty much every girl in the Madoka franchise (just search for "魔法少女まどか")
The rules are identical to Anime Saimoe. You get a code from the link on this page. Then, you go to the voting board on 2ch, find the voting thread by searching for "第四回漫画最萌トーナメント" and going to the newest thread, and post something like this:

[[MS000-AAAAAAAA-AB]] <- insert valid code

{{深見真理@ナナマル サンバツ}} <- character codes; you can vote up to 30 during this round

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Auctions


As you all might know, Young Ace is the magazine in which the Eva manga is serialized. That means that it usually comes with some Eva collectibles. I'm not much of a figure guy, so I've opened one of them (and sold it to a friend who really wanted it). I figure that it might be time to sell them to people who want them more and use the money to fund my expensive manga importation.

I have a Mari figure, a Rei figure, and two of the same Asuka figures. I actually got three of those Asuka figures because of a mistake by the vendor, but the third one is the one that was sold. I haven't opened them and I'm terrible at photography, so have these photos from a julajp instead.

The Rei figure is being sold as a set with one of the Asuka figures to save on shipping.

Mari Figure
Rei & Asuka Set
Asuka Figure

Pokemon Special ch 425

Now he has unlimited ammo.

Pokemon Special ch 425 2400p (IF)
Pokemon Special ch 425 2400p (MU)
Pokemon Special ch 425 2400p (MF)
Pokemon Special ch 425 2400p (JS)

Pokemon Special ch 425 1200p (IF)
Pokemon Special ch 425 1200p (MU)
Pokemon Special ch 425 1200p (MF)
Pokemon Special ch 425 1200p (JS)

Pokemon Special ch 425 PSD source (IF)
Pokemon Special ch 425 PSD source (MU)
Pokemon Special ch 425 PSD source (MF)
Pokemon Special ch 425 PSD source (JS)

Monday, August 22, 2011

Online Manga Downloader 0.1.0

It's been about 6 months since I've last updated. I've been working hard all over those six months to redesign this; I totally didn't just pull this out of my ass today.

Anyways, the more I worked with the past versions, the more I realized that the scraper was a stupid idea. Well, it had its own merits, but it was slow, memory-hungry, and hard-to-maintain. I removed pretty much everything and made a new UI, which just takes in the URL to the viewer and the type of viewer. For example, if I want the first chapter of Ryuushika Ryuushika, I'd just give it "http://www.square-enix.com/jp/magazine/ganganonline/comic/ryushika/viewer/001/_SWF_Window.html".

There's a lot to improve on this UI (like telling the user when the download finishes), but it's fully functional. Feel free to tell me any comments, suggestions, and bugs. Source code is in another branch.

Online Manga Downloader 0.1.0 (MF)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space)

This series needs a bit of background. Hoshi Shin'ichi is a sci-fi writer famous for his really short fiction works. He produced hundreds of "short short stories" from the 1960s until his death in 1997. The short stories have been adapted to various short TV fillers and finally a manga series from 2001 to 2004. A week ago, the magazine Mystery Bonita announced that it was going to resume the series in November after 7 years of hiatus.

As you'll find, the shorts vary quite a bit. I want to say that his style reminds me of Rod Serling's, but only certain chapters, such as "Fate" and "Wonderful Life" share the Twilight Zone feel. Here's the TV adaptation of "Wonderful Life":



This chapter, "The Gate to Space," is fairly different from that. Personally, I think it's my favorite, and not (just) due to its artist. That's why I chose to translate this chapter first. The stories are all unrelated, so order doesn't matter anyways.

My pacing for this series will be fairly slow in these two months, because I don't want to go back on the schedule that I posted, but I'll definitely finish all 18 chapters in this year. I'd be up for a joint project if some other group wants to do one.

My raws are currently unavailable because I'm manually scanning this, but I think I've seen this volume or the other one get uploaded onto Share early this year.

Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) 2400p (IF)
Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) 2400p (MU)
Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) 2400p (MF)

Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) 1200p (IF)
Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) 1200p (MU)
Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) 1200p (MF)

Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) PSD source (IF)
Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) PSD source (MU)
Comic Hoshi Shin'ichi ch 11 (The Gate to Space) PSD source (MF)

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 (The Lion's Kindred 1)

Besides the whole "resurrecting a completed series thing," this is slightly complicated because I've already released a chapter 49, which was changed to chapter 48 in the volume. Anyways, I'm following the volume chapter numbers, which makes this chapter 49. The magazine calls this chapter 50, but fuck them.

Anyways, the new arc is called "The Lion's Kindred." Now without Koizumi, Japan is low on "mahjong power," so they find a few random people to fill in the gap. I seriously hope that it'll tie in with the political world more, though. I'm slightly disturbed by the use of original characters for this manga.

Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 2400p (IF)
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 2400p (MU)
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 2400p (MF)

Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 1200p (IF)
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 1200p (MU)
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 1200p (MF)

Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 PSD source (IF)
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ch 49 PSD source (MU)

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Young Ace 2011-09 raws

Dead Master in the BRS manga is...umm, interesting.

JPEG compression has been changed from a 10 ("Maximum") to 8 ("High"), which almost halves the size for insignificant quality change. I don't really need to give a table of contents, but here it is anyways.
  1. Page 31 - Kamiigusa Animators
  2. Page 71 - Blood Lad
  3. Page 105 - O/A
  4. Page 131 - Gunbuster
  5. Page 163 - Last Exile 2
  6. Page 229 - 7o3x
  7. Page 255 - Mogitate Idol Ningen
  8. Page 273 - Gunners
  9. Page 309 - Maka Maka
  10. Page 327 - JA
  11. Page 367 - Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu
  12. Page 377 - Isuca
  13. Page 409 - Moe-han!
  14. Page 427 - Daisuki desu!! Mahou Tenshi Cosmos
  15. Page 477 - BRS
  16. Page 519 - Tony Takezaki's Evangelion
  17. Page 527 - Sugar Dark
  18. Page 565 - Inari, Kon kon, Koi iroha
  19. Page 601 - Echo/Zeon
  20. Page 627 - Fate/Zero
  21. Page 663 - Mouhitsu Hallucination
  22. Page 691 - Akuma no Ikenie
  23. Page 721 - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
  24. Page 757 - Another
  25. Page 789 - Todenka Shounen Tanteidan
  26. Page 837 - Bonten no Moribito
  27. Page 883 - MPD Psycho
  28. Page 915 - Teizokurei MONOPHOBIA
Young Ace 2011-09 (IF)
Young Ace 2011-09 (MU)

August and September Schedules


I'm pretty sure that this schedule is too optimistic and will be off by a week or two.

Update: Oops, PS volume 39 only goes up to chapter 430.

Donations

I've received $135 over the past few weeks. I want to thank everyone who donated very much. Together with the cancellation of good! Afternoon and Kindai Mahjong, I think the next year or two will be very stable.

I just changed the donation system slightly. Previously, I had a goal system, but I think that that suggests that I want donators to cover all costs, which is not what I want. Therefore, I got rid of it.

Auctions

Soon.

Pokemon Special BW

I just realized that our current "contract" has a problem: what if I forget to update everyone? For example, did you know that the current balance is -$6.48? I didn't either, until I did the math this morning. Anyways, I'm putting a new clause (just because I can, but it isn't bad for you anyways): "The deadline is seven days after I release the scanlated chapter that broke the -$20.00 limit." That means that the current deadline is seven days after I release chapter 11, should there be no donations before then. Fair enough?

Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka ch 9

This chapter and the next were kinda underwhelming, save for the last page in chapter 10. At least shit will hit the fan in the next chapters...I hope.

Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka ch 9 (IF)
Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka ch 9 (MU)
Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka ch 9 (MF)

Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka ch 9 PSD source (IF)
Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka ch 9 PSD source (MU)
Nanika Mochigatte Masu ka ch 9 PSD source (MF)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Random Raws: good! Afternoon #17, Kindai Mahjong 2011-08-01 & 2011-08-15, Pokemon Special BW ch 9

I'm ending good! Afternoon importation because the Chinese group agreed to share their Nanika raws. To be honest, I don't like the manga in this magazine that much, and I can download the manga that I do like (except for Nanika and Demon 72) from Share. Anyways, if I ever do have to import more issues, I'll make sure to scan them.

good! Afternoon #17 raw (IF)
good! Afternoon #17 raw (MU)

I'll probably stop importing this after September, because it's just not worth it. I'll import certain issues if the wait is unbearable, but this new Mudazumo arc is just starting, so I'll save my money for later.

Akagi is in 2011-08-01 (but not the other issue) if you're interested in that. They're still on Namek, though.

Kindai Mahjong 2011-08-01 raw (IF)
Kindai Mahjong 2011-08-01 raw (MU)

Kindai Mahjong 2011-08-15 raw (IF)
Kindai Mahjong 2011-08-15 raw (MU)

Finally, the chapter that won't get scanlated (by me) until late September (or early October if my schedule keeps slipping). You know, as a scanlator, I feel like Tantalus. The farther I reach, the farther away the fruit goes.

Pokemon Special BW ch 9 raw (IF)
Pokemon Special BW ch 9 raw (MU)

Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 22

I guess this is where the cover for volume 3 came from.

Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 22 (IF)

Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 22 (MU)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 22 (MF)

Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 22 PSD source (IF)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 22 PSD source (MU)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 22 PSD source (MF)

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Young Ace 2011-08 raws

The Last Exile 2 chapter is pretty much exactly the same as the first episode (sans the first scene, but it wasn't important) if you missed it.
  1. Page 31 - Gunners
  2. Page 77 - Blood Lad
  3. Page 111 - Maka Maka
  4. Page 131 - Last Exile 2
  5. Page 205 - Nagato Yuki-chan's Disappearance
  6. Page 231 - O/A
  7. Page 271 - BRS
  8. Page 322 - Tony Takezaki's Evangelion
  9. Page 331 - Another
  10. Page 369 - Mouhitsu Hallucination
  11. Page 395 - 7o3x
  12. Page 431 - Echo/Zeon
  13. Page 463 - MPD Psycho
  14. Page 497 - Gunbuster
  15. Page 531 - Bonten no Moribito
  16. Page 573 - JA
  17. Page 619 - Akuma no Ikenie
  18. Page 645 - Mogitate Idol Ningen
  19. Page 663 - Fate/Zero
  20. Page 695 - Daisuki desu!!! Mahou Tenshi Cosmos
  21. Page 741 - Moe-han!
  22. Page 759 - Inari, Kon kon, Koi iroha
  23. Page 797 - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
  24. Page 821 - Sugar Dark
  25. Page 855 - Koaka Head
  26. Page 885 - Teizokurei MONOPHOBIA
  27. Page 923 - Zettai Shoujo Seiiki Amnesian
  28. Page 961 - Manzai Gang
Part 1 = cover to page 495
Part 2 = page 496 to back cover

Young Ace 2011-08 part 1 (IF)
Young Ace 2011-08 part 1 (MU)

Young Ace 2011-08 part 2 (IF)
Young Ace 2011-08 part 2 (MU)

Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 20

I'd laugh if they actually made and sold that.

Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 20 (IF)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 20 (MU)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 20 (MF)

Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 20 PSD source (IF)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 20 PSD source (MU)
Arpeggio of Blue Steel ch 20 PSD source (MF)