Taruby’s Paradox

Ichinensei v05 ch29

Three chapters left. I think I’ll restrain the Ichinensei chapters so I can double-release them with Koi Neko from now on.

Koi Neko v04 ch31

Special thanks to bel for redrawing the art on the colour double-page. Two more chapters left before I have to wait for the next batch of scans from KamenWriter.

Current Status
Ichinensei ch30: 0/26
Koi Neko ch32: 0/24
Mika ni Harassment ch03: 1/42 (cleaned/redrew all of the pages, so I only need to typeset it.)
Neko de Gomen: 20/41
Neko Kissa ch11: 2/8
Wadatsumi ch05: 13/28

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@bel: Wow, that was fast. Thank you for your time. =)

@baka: It’s Sakurazaki (桜崎). If I wrote it as Sakurabashi (桜橋), I’ll have to fix it. Hopefully it isn’t like a previous error where I kept writing Arika Yumemiya’s first name as Akira (I was doing Mai-Otome and Gacha Gacha at the same time, and I kept mixing up Akira and Arika). Speaking of which, Okitsune-sama de Chu had a character called Sakurabashi Himeko. Well, in any case, thanks for letting me know about this, so I can fix it.

@Yuri-chan: Ah, OK. I don’t know what kind of policy I should take when a manga uses loan words in a way that is incorrect or extremely awkward. I’ll check to see what other people’s thoughts are on this. I’ll probably do something similar to the people scanlating Air Gear and put a note that it is indeed wrong, but leave it the way it is.

Though, on the topic of Engrish, my favourite is: “For something impoliteness is whether there is nothing?”

@Sandor: If you use a Japanese p2p service, you might be able to find the RAWs for Neko de Gomen! You can also check to see if someone already uploaded the RAWs online somewhere like jcafe.

As for doing a joint with ardneh or someone for Neko de Gomen. I currently don’t have the bandwidth to download or upload large .psd files, and typing up a script for every little minute piece of text would likely kill me. I didn’t check to confirm it myself, but if you want to know how ardneh release their chapters of Ushio to Tora quickly, you probably should look at the credit pages to see if they have a different editor for every chapter (this is how large groups like Snoopy Cool release their manga at incredible rates).

What’s even more disappointing is that I think I’m the only scanlator working on a series by Nagano Akane, whose most popular series is Fantasia which has an anime adaption. Despite being popular enough to have an anime adaption, no one has scanlated Fantasia. Worst of all, Nagano Akane is still doing manga nowadays, but all of her new works are rather boring seinen or adult manga that use office settings or idols, which probably increases the likelihood that no one will look up her older stuff based on the contents of her newer works.

@Calc-Yolatuh: I see. Your description of Needless’ dramedy reminds me Watanabe Michiaki’s “Violinist of Hameln”. Maybe I should check it out.

@Galen: Thanks for the heads up on Koi Neko’s 8th volume!

@Chase-san: Nyotaika is actually a seinen manga (青年), not an h-manga (成年).

Koi Neko v04 ch30

Sakurazaki Nao vs. Aizawa Ryouko

KamenWriter scanned this chapter and the next three differently, and asked me which ones I prefer working with last January. I couldn’t tell much of a difference between the quality of this chapter and the previous two, so I told KamenWriter to go with whichever one was the easiest to scan.

Though, speaking of Koi Neko. The next chapter has a huge advertisement on its colour 2-page spread. I kind of want to get rid of it, but it looks like it might be a little time-consuming. Perhaps someone might have enough free time to clean it for me?

EDIT: Bel already cleaned it. Thank you very much.

Included the monochrome pages that Kamenwriter scanned in case those can be of any use as a reference. Just need the text and advertisement over the moon fixed, and the page saved in .psd format.

Current editing status:
Ichinensei ch29 4/26
Koi Neko ch31: 1/24
Neko de Gomen! ch09: 12/41
Wadatsumi ch05: 2/28

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@Yuri-chan: Thank you very much for the correction. In Japanese, the name was written as ”レ・ブル・ペルル” (Re Buru Peruru). My French is pretty poor, so I only cross-checked it with google, and went with it. Though, it’s pretty typical for Japanese to dump foreign words into a word soup, like the Japanese TV show “Gout Temps Nouveau”, so maybe I should keep it the way it is? Speaking of which, I remember overlooking a mistake in Mai-Otome, until someone pointed it out, when Erstin was counting “Un Deux Trois”, and “Deux” was written as “Duex”.

@bubu: I think a recap episode is supposed to be one where the watchers are presented with a summary of what happened in the story up to the point of the recap episode. What the mangaka is describing is basically airing an entire episode that people already watched in the timeslot for the next episode since the next episode wasn’t finished on time. Like if you tuned in to watch episode four of an anime, but they air episode three instead thus giving the watcher a strange sense of déjà vu, since anime normally doesn’t re-air. Perhaps I’ll just translate the term “Ochiru” as “fall” or “drop”…

@Sandor: Neko de Gomen has way more text than Ichinensei… though, after I overcome the next several rather boring and long Neko de Gomen chapters (there’s 2 in the second volume, I didn’t count how many there were in the third volume), and reach the point where I can actually do the interesting ones (i.e. the vampire arc, hanami episode, and the baby dinosaur who is being hunted by muscle men in speedos who are equipped with high-powered rifles arc), I’ll probably release chapters at a much more consistent rate (similar to how I was drat slow with Okitsune-sama de Chu until I reached the part Koko and Himeko were introduced).

@Calc-Yolatuh: I haven’t read Needless yet, but what do you mean by hidden parcel?

Ichinensei ni Nacchattara v05 ch28

Accidentally finished this chapter faster than I probably should have. Only four more chapters left, and a five month long waiting period before it’s July. Doubt I’ll be able to constrain myself to releasing Ichinensei at one chapter a month. n_n;;

Current editing status:
Koi Neko ch30: 10/24
Neko de Gomen! ch09: 6/41
Wadatsumi ch05: 2/28

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@Hailene: You’re welcome. If you happen to spot any errors, please feel free to let me know.

@Indighost: Ah, thanks for the input. You just reminded me that I still haven’t finished the script for Dynasty Scans concerning Bakuretsu Tenshi’s 2nd omake story involving the the author’s career as an animator. Just about every page in that 15 page story has a little verbose entry explaining some term concerning the anime industry (which I’m pretty clueless about). Currently stuck on a term for when production for an anime’s episode falls behind schedule so much that the television networks are forced to air a previous episode for that anime in the other episode’s time slot. In Japanese, Minoru, the mangaka, used the term “落ちる” (Ochiru) to describe this. Unfortunately, I can’t translate that term as “dropped” because dropped has its own implication and meaning different from the one Minoru is describing.

@Overboost: Looking at my own copy of Okawari Naporitan, it looks like it might be a semi-difficult book to scan undebound without a loss of data in the gutter. I think the only undebound manga I worked on is “Neko de Gomen!”. Nekogome’s recompiled books had a large margin from the gutter to the actual page content, so there was very little lost when it was scanned (only had to clean the gutter shadow in each page). In any case, thank you, and good luck.

A Dog’s World

“Are you satisfied, Jon?”

Current editing status:
Koi Neko: 2/24
Ichinensei ch28: 4/26
Neko de Gomen!: 3/41

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@commodorejohn: OK, thank you for your input.

@Hailene: Actually, Greed Packet is up to its third volume (though, I haven’t read my copy yet). I haven’t dropped it. Rather I’m still waiting for the scans for the second chapter. Hopefully, Spiritovod, the scanner, finds time to scan the rest of it. He’s probably busy with real life, and his other projects (He was scanning for several other groups).

@yby: The only problem with rapid succession is that it will intensify the waiting period for the 6th volume of Ichinensei. Which will likely cause a number of users asking if I dropped Ichinensei similar to when I was waiting for the 5th volume. I kind of want to avoid a repeat of that as much as possible. Though, if I remember correctly, dayrains or someone (david?) did suggest that I add more information concerning release dates for that series. Perhaps I should put an empty box where volume six is going to be in the Ichinensei project page with a speculative date, and a link to the publisher’s website.

Fortunately, Ichinensei is ridiculously easy in comparison to my other projects, so it’s possible that even if I rotate releases, Ichinensei’s chapters are still going to come out relatively fast (I feel I can do 8 pages of Ichinensei for every 3-4 pages of Koi Neko or Wadatsumi).

@Kay: OK, thank you for your input.

@Kamino Neko: OK, thank you for your input. The slowness with Koi Neko has been mostly due to me preparing all four of the next chapters at the same time (rotating/cropping/cleaning) before typesetting.

@dayrains: I didn’t notice the old house in the background until you pointed it out.

Nacchattara v05 ch27-27.5

I decided to do both chapter 27 and 27.5, and put them inside the same file. It’s nice being able to work on this series with high quality RAWs. n_n

Neko Kissa v01 ch10

Milk versus Artifact Spirit!

Anyway, I don’t know whether I should do Ichinensei’s chapters in rapid succession like I did for v04, or if I should mix up its releases with my other projects. I’m leaning toward the latter, since I received a lot of comments wondering if I dropped Ichinensei due to the long waiting period before the 5th volume was being distributed. Ichinensei’s 6th volume should be released around June-August.

Currently, I finished the translations for Koi Neko’s next four chapters, a translation for Wadatsumi’s 5th chapter, a translation for Neko de Gomen!’s 9th chapter, and a translation for Kimama ni UpDown’s 5th chapter. I took a break from editing Mika ni Harassment’s 2nd chapter to finish Ichinensei’s 27th chapter, so I’ll be focusing on finishing that chapter now.

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@Ris: Ah, my e-mail is currently hiding at the bottom of each of the project pages. To answer your question: I haven’t read Mai-HiME EXA, so I doubt I’ll work on it. I did try to look it up, but I was unable to find much information on it or the mangaka, so the entire thing is a mystery to me. In any case, keep up the good work on your own projects.

@Overboost: Ah, thank you very much for the offer~! I actually would like to work on Okawari Naporitan, especially with HQ debound RAWs (hence the reason I didn’t do anything in regards to it when I found out it wasn’t a one-shot).

@Calc-Yolatuh: I haven’t read Gorio. Though, I did look it up and read a few chapters. My initial impression is Angel Densetsu (One of my top 10 manga series), but with better art and less insanely hilarious misunderstandings.

For me, Infinite Blade’s humour value lies in the absurd way Ken+ draws some of his characters. Like one is a medic sadist who takes a perverse pleasure from cutting up little girls before medically stitching them up (she has a goofy cat-like grin when she does this). I don’t remember there being much intentional humour; like I don’t know if I’m supposed to laugh at the plethora of ultra-nerdy descriptions for the various locations, races, and technologies found in the manga.

@dayrains: I haven’t seen that series, but that’s mostly because I don’t really watch anime for the reason that it is so bloody expensive. I prefer not to pirate things that I have little to no chance of willingly purchasing due to pricing or DRM (The last thing I bought was used copies of Haibane Renmei). Though, I am interested in the anime adaption for “Wagaya no O-Inari-sama” and the upcoming anime adaption for “Asobi ni Iku yo”. Just waiting for the Japanese animation industry to crash, so they might start selling seasons in reasonably priced box sets (4000-5000 yen would be nice) rather than 2-episode DVDs for 5000-7000 yen.

@Poxky: There’s news for Ichinensei in this update~! =D

@Fiddler: Thank you very much for the RAWs for Ichinensei’s 5th volume. I appreciate it immensely.

Koi Neko v04 ch29

Onsen~!

Mika ni Harassment ch01

The first part of Suihei’s third work that was serialised in the same magazine as Kasumi Otoko no Ko. I made good progress on the second chapter, so hopefully I’ll be able to release that in due time.

Neko Kissa v01 ch09

Jenny is back…

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@Sandor: If you look carefully at the lower right corner on page 001 of Umi-chan’s friends, you’ll see a suspicious stain on the blocks.

@Anonymous: Unfortunately, I haven’t received any word from the scanner, Spiritovod, concerning the scans of the further chapters of Greed Packet Unlimited yet. Possibly because Spiritovod is busy with real life (Spiritovod was also scanning for several other groups as well). Though, I didn’t know there was a Korean scanlation for this series. I did see a Chinese scanlation that’s up to the third chapter that had watermarks.

I was thinking of doing a 2.0 version of the first chapter of Greed Packet Unlimited. Basically, I was thinking of including the hi-res monochrome pages that Spiritovod scanned for pages 003-006, and adding a translation for page 054. Back when I finished the chapter, I was too burned to do either of those things. Speaking of which, the 3rd volume of Greed Packet Unlimited was released like a week or two ago. I updated the project page with the cover and ISBN to reflect this.

@Chase-san: Well, out of those two series that you suggested, do you have the tankoubon RAWs (not magazine) for Okawari Naporitan? I remember doing a script for the first chapter back when I thought it was going to be a one-shot.

Also, as far as I’m aware, the author of Asuka Hybrid, Ken+, only has one other series called Infinite Blade. Infinite Blade is pretty much an ultra-violent guro fest where cute little girls get their bodies torn apart by sadists kind of like Elfen Lied. It also has lesbians. I’m pretty much unable to read Asuka Hybrid without imagining one of the characters experiencing a fate similar to the kobold girl from Infinite Blade (her body was broken apart much like how one eats a ginger bread cookie starting with the limbs).

@Sandor: Sorry about the spam bot invasion. Usually they only invade older blog entries (though the previous one was back in December, so I guess that makes it an old entry). Though the one that was annoying you only had four unique IP addresses, so it was relatively easy getting rid of it. If the bots become a serious problem in the future where blacklisting fails to get rid of them, I’ll be sure to implement a capcha like you suggested.

Okawari Naporitan is a crazy story in the same vein as Boukun Tyrano-san. I would describe it as a parody of other genderbending mangas. Basically, the main character’s family is under a curse where they’ll spontaneously change to the opposite sex on their 14th birthday because their ancestor was some okama with GID (Gender-identity disorder), who kept visiting some temple over a hundred times. The transformation is only temporary, so long as the person doesn’t kiss anyone for one day. Though, the main character’s little sister decides that she would rather have an older sister, so she tells everyone at the main character’s school about how the curse works… the way the mangaka draws his male characters is like a pissed-off gorilla with its fangs bared.

Koi Neko v04 ch28

Special thanks to KamenWriter for scanning this chapter (and the future chapters). I’m looking forward to the 29th chapter because it’ll be the first Koi Neko chapter where I get to use the colour pages from the magazine scans. Yay!

Unfortunately, I was unable to finish any of the Mika ni Harassment chapters for this update. So, to give the false impression that there’s more, I added three of the oneshots I did in the past under the One Shot menu entry.

Macchi: Narikiri Anko-chan
Takamura Masaya: Tsuttsukumon!
Kumeta Kouji: Umi-chan’s Friends

Finally, I changed the file host for all of the hentai scanlations to mediafire. Let me know if there is any problem.

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@MrEngenious: Ah, thank you for the advice.

@kokodin: Yes, I intend to work on Ichinensei’s 5th volume as soon as the RAWs for the tankoubon (not the magazine scans) appear online. I don’t have a good estimate when this will happen. It seem the scanner generally takes like 1-4 months to scan it.

@Calc-Yolatuh: Koi Neko’s paper quality is relatively good in my opinion. Well, the tones on page 005 did turn out a little weird (which was the source of my doubts about cleaning this manga in the earlier post). The rest of the pages seemed to turn out much better than the scans I had for the first 3 volumes.

@dayrains: Ah, by main page, do you mean the project page for Ichinensei? I usually update the project pages whenever the cover for the newest volume appears in one of the online shopping sites (or when I receive my copy and verify the chapter count). Though, I only include the ISBN number, which makes me wonder if I should add more information like links to online shops that stock it (BK1, Mangaoh, Amazon.co.jp, 7netshopping, etc.).

@Em: Actually, I was thinking of doing Soukai Kessen a couple years ago, but chose to work on Ichinensei ni Nacchattara instead. I would have to finish a couple of my ongoing projects before I can think about doing another one. Which reminds me, I went to look up some of Nanto’s other works since Soukai Kessen was the first manga I read by this author, and found out Nanto also did some adult manga. One manga in particular had a one star review by someone who mistook it as a typical hentai manga before becoming outraged that it was a BL manga. This review was part of the reason I thought about working on Soukai Kessen. =)

@vended: Thank you for the link. I’ll read over it to see if it interests me.

@DeltaBladeX: Thanks for informing me about the demise of savefile’s domain. I switched to mediafire. Hopefully that will work much better than savefile. Let me know if there are any problems.

@Galen: Ah, didn’t realise Chii-chan’s Menu Hanjoki was different from the previous yonkoma version. Interesting.

Koi Neko v03 ch27

Mikadzuki-kun Daisuki~! XD

Well, that’s it for the third volume. Fortunately, KamenWriter is kindly scanning volumes 04-06. Though, my release rate for this series will slow down due to me experimenting with various ways to clean the pages. Hopefully I’ll figure out a way to clean them without having to resort to either over-leveling and restoring the weakened tones with the history brush, or having to use the dodge, burn, brush and polygonal lasso tool for every nook and cranny. This makes me wonder how the Japanese scanners cleaned the previous volumes. Although, the first two volumes did have quite a lot of dirt to clean if I remember correctly.

Koi Neko v03 Ch26
Wadatsumi v01 Ch04

KamenWriter scanned some of the upcoming Koi Neko chapters and sent them to me. So once I’m done with chapter 27, I’ll be working with KamenWriter’s scans. n_n

Progress:
Koi Neko Ch27 (2/24 pages complete)

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@Sandor: Yes, I already know about the magazine scanlation for Ichinensei’s 27th chapter if it’s the one that used the script that stix hosted at mangahelpers. Although, stix has shown disinterest in translating any of the further chapters. Also, I think stix is busy competing with a group called Wanchan or something over Kämpfer.

@dayrains: Gaiden wouldn’t be the right word for it since those three chapters are from Koi Neko’s original run in a magazine called Comic Mega Freak. Unfortunately, that magazine met a quick demise and all of the serials that ran in it were discontinued. So, Mashima Etsuya decided to redo the whole scenario when Koi Neko was restarted in Monthly Sunday GX. Actually, there’s a couple chapters where the ‘old’ Nao appears in a dream sequence. At first I thought the entire thing was just a joke. Though, the seventh volume seems to suggest that Nao has a sister from the same litter or something.

@commodorejohn: OK, I’ll see if I can find a copy of Ghost Busters the next time I visit a rental shop.

@Anon: I think someone suggested “Sekai no Hate de Aimashou” to stix. I forget if he was interested in it. I don’t really have much of an opinion on the manga at the moment, either. Although, I did preorder the 2nd volume that is due to be released on the 18th of December.

Neko de Gomen! v02 ch08

Ghost Buster parody chapter. Weirdly enough, I only have extremely vague memories of the Ghost Buster movie (haven’t seen it since I was very young). I wonder if it has aged well. Speaking of the “Neko de Gomen!” chapters being based off movies from the 80s-90s, I still haven’t figured out what movie chapter nine, “Youkai Festival” (妖怪フェスティバル), is named after. I don’t think it’s based off the Youkai triology since those were from the late sixties…

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@KamenWriter: I see, thanks for the update.

@nubcakes: Koi Neko has some harem characteristics, particularly the catfights between Miyabi and Nao. Although, Mashima Etsuya actually did a literal harem manga called Hiyomama. Basically, it’s about a high school kid called Masato who lives alone (his father travels abroad and his mother is dead). One day, Masato is approached by some young foreign girl called Maria who looks to be a middle school student, and Maria asks Masato if he would talk with her privately. During their private conversation, Masato falls in love with Maria and tells her he loves her. Maria says she’s happy because she was worried that Masato wouldn’t like her, and reveals that she’s his new step-mother (obviously Masato’s father is a lolicon). Masato’s father doesn’t stop there. Later, two more of his wives come to Japan (Hilda, the nazi mom who smuggled a gun through Japanese customs, and Lala, an idiot savant who is a respected genius in academic circles to everyone’s disbelief), though they mistake Maria for their child (Masato sounded like a girl’s name to them). Finally, the mangaka trolls everyone by making it seem like Masato’s father is coming to Japan in the final chapter, but instead wife #4 shows up alone (she’s even younger than Maria). o_o;;

@Calc-Yolatuh: That is a mouthful. Mm, I think the harem aspect in Koi Neko might dissolve later when the other characters are paired up with their own respective love interests (like Miyabi is really in love with someone else).

@Himegami: Are you talking about the Mai-Otome Zwei manga adaption by Chako, or the other one-shots in the Mai-Otome Zwei Comicbook anthology? I have no plans to scanlate the manga adaption by Chako since it is based off the anime-version of Mai-Otome (which I have not seen), and the other stories in the Zwei Comicbook aren’t very interesting (except maybe Chako’s story, but that’s only 8-pages long).

@Anonymous: Thank you for pointing out that error. For some weird reason, the pages were displayed using an encoding that was not ANSI. I saved the .html in Unicode big endian. Refresh the page and let me know if the text is still scrambled. As for your question, I might do the other Mika ni Harassment short stories before Christmas (usually I do finish a bunch of manga I have laying around that time of the year).