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So here is chapter 19.Took forever since I never had the will to do much during winter.Chapter 20 is still in the translation phase.

And of course,I’m recruiting translators!!

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Random stuff

I never really buy anime much since nothing good ever gets licensed but I bought this over spring break.

I thought it was a good way to support NIS America on their venture into the anime distributing business.The subtitles kinda suck so I usually watch it without subs.But it does have a nice package at least.I got the money from my side job at school though.

The art book comes with some nice artwork including some 4koma.The descriptions sound awkward sometimes too, just like the subtitles.Apparently,it’s selling quite well.it’s sold out almost everywhere and they have to do a reprint.I can’t blame them.Kotori-chan is so beast.

This is worth $50

So….I’ve been gone for the past 3 months because college work turned out to be more than I could handle.Senior year is a bitch.It appears I’ll be heading to San Diego and Davis in spring for some more “work”.I can’t say I’m too excited since I just don’t want to embarrass myself while I’m there.

I’ve begun translating Nicoichi chapter 19.I’ll try to get 20 done too before spring break ends.I’m quite rusty since I haven’t read or used much Japanese in a while.So I need some time to turn the scripts into something readable.

As for Minami-ke,I’m putting that on hold until I can get more of the above mentioned out.

Also,with the situation in Japan recently,it just brings the mood down.I’ve helped in whatever small way I could.

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My traps can’t be this cute

This past fall was horrible.I spend thanksgiving writing a 100 page report instead of having fun and I still got an A- in a class.F*ck.Anyway,chapter 19 is still with the cleaner.And nobody of competence offered to help me translate this past 2-3 months. I still have a couple of other groups to translate something for so….

Anyway,I found some more nice trap photos while I was away.The top one is one of the more tasteful ones.I’ve always wondered about my fascination with traps.The feeling is more a sense of admiration than anything else.A “pure love” maybe?Lol.Mr James Blunt here expresses my thoughts to a certain extent.I didn’t jump off a cliff into icy waters in the end.

Honestly,I wouldn’t even be doing this if it wasn’t because of a certain someone called David,who generously donated to my project to give back to the industry.Out of guilt,I felt that I should be pulling my weight too and at least scanlate something.I decided to buy Love Hina for my friend as an early birthday present.Of course,the set is new with the e-mail order confirmation below.I’ll put a special donor page as promised once I take some pictures of the thing.

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News/Announcement:

About this chapter

I put a long TN in that chapter.Sorry for being such a jerk.But I felt guilty about putting out such an unfunny line when I could have done something about it at the cost of compromising the actual meaning.But I generally refrain from improvising if it just cannot capture the author’s intended message anyway.I fail.

About future releases

Next,the next chapter of Nicoichi is unknown because I have been lucky enough to get enrolled into a college class I was so desperately craving for to graduate.Which means more work.I have also been lucky enough to be considered to join Tau Beta Pi,one of the oldest Engineering Honor Societies in the US in my college.I have to do a fair amount of bullshit for the next few months to become an actual member.Because I’m so desperate to join,I’ll probably put future releases on a much lower priority than I had actually planned.UNLESS,some kind soul come along to help me translate manga.So….

Looking for Japanese Translators! See Recruitment page at the top for more details!

You may be angry with me now but this real life trap photo will distract you long enough to forget about why you were so angry,just like Touma did

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Dunno when the next release is,school starts on monday-ish and I’m supposed to be doing spring cleaning(6 months late).And I can’t say that watching all 47 episodes of Nana in the last few days helped me release this faster.In fact,it left me quite sad indeed.Shoujo/Josei always makes me sad.But this one was particularly depressing.

On the other hand,I remembered being much happier watching Lovely Complex.After digging up one of the old songs from there,I remembered Hey Say 7,the pretty boy band that I never really liked just because they were more popular than me.Strangely,I only had 1 song that I liked from them.I think I would have been a bigger fan of them had I never known that they weren’t an all boy group.My first reaction to them was,”Hey,there’s a pretty girl in there!”…..oh wait,these fangirls are saying it’s a guy….Fack!

Also,recruiting Japanese translators,visit the recruitment page for more details!!

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Next up is Nicoichi chapter 17 I think.I’m also thinking of getting a new series scanlated.I doubt I’ll release it under this group though,but we’ll see.And because of that you might see a delay in the next chapter?I’m shooting for at least chapter 18 to be done by the end of the month.

I’m feeling pretty placid at the moment,must be because of all the ramen I ate just now for lunch.

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EDIT: BTW,does someone have a tankunbon raw of volume 6 in Japanese? (no chinese raw and no magazine raws please,they suck).

Durr I was side tracked with other projects I’ve been doing so this was probably delayed a few days because of that =D.As with the last release I put in a tribute to Satoshi-sensei just so that all the current active projects have at least 1 mention of him.I also want to apologize to Solin for not giving due credit to him for helping me transcribe chapter 15.

ホントに申し訳ないです。なんか忘れちゃたですけど。

I’ll be working on Minami-ke next I guess,just to alternate between the two.On an unrelated note,I looked up Japanese dubbed Disney movies for fun and apparently they redubed the songs too.While a vast majority had lost the original meaning,this one from Hercules was F**in good and pretty accurate/faithful for a dub.This along with another one from Beauty and the Beast when they introduce Belle was good.I can’t say much for the rest of Disney’s JP dubbed stuff though.The Adventures of the Gummi Bears JP opening was so corny,I almost barfed.

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Someone suggested I start with some new Minami-ke chapters while I was slowly taking my time to do the older ones.So here it is.Anyway,I put in a little tribute to 今 敏先生. I’m still a little bummed by his death even after getting over the initial shock.

I was reminded about this song from 千年女優 or Millennium Actress when I was trying to remember the last time he made me cry.

Source: ANN