The Grim Future of this Blog!

I didn't have a release for last month. I'm not entirely sure, but looking at the sidebar, that seems to be the first time that has happened since I started this blog eight years ago. I'm sure there has been months without actual content, but I've at least made a post every month since the beginning. I did release something earlier this week, but never got around to posting it here—which leads us to the main motivation behind this update.

Maintaining this blog has unfortunately become a chore. I've felt this way for a while now, but I've kept updating it, maybe purely out of habit. With my limited time nowadays, I've come to the conclusion that this is one time sink I want to get rid of. Some of you might think it shouldn't take much time to make a post, and maybe I'm just slow and meticulous, but it does for me. The reality is that it includes a lot of small things that have to be done before you can hit the publish button, and it all adds up. Downloading the zip with the edited files, renaming files if needed, uploading the zip to gallery/DL sites, picking out and cropping a preview image, uploading that image, writing something for the release, adding all the links, updating other parts of the site like the release list, and so on.

If I'm to put a number to this process, I believe 20 minutes is a very conservative average estimate. Multiply that with 720 releases and you end up with 240 hours or 10 full days. By comparison, I've spent around 105 days watching anime, 30 days playing LoL, and although it's based on a very incomplete list, at least 30+ days on gaming in general only counting the two latest console generations. Of course, this is completely disregarding the time spend translating, editing, and QCing, which I'm sure is something I'd have to count in months instead of days by this point.

The thing is I enjoy doing all of the above, with the exception of maintaining the blog.

I think I'll still update the finished projects page, because I do enjoy keeping records of inane accomplishments—which is why I know I've accumulated 106 days and 13 hours watching anime. Also this doesn't mean I'm done with translations. As mentioned before, I still enjoy the translation process, and the only difference going forward is that I won't make a blog post when something is released. Right now I'm not sure what I want to do with this site, or even if I want to do anything at all. I've thought about just having the release list on here and remove all posts, or re-purposing it as an actual blog if I feel like sharing my thoughts on stuff. For now, it'll simply remain dormant.

Even though this isn't really a goodbye, I feel it would be amiss of me to not thank everyone who has visited this blog or has in any other way come into contact with me or my releases over the years. I honestly owe most of what I have today to the support I've received ever since I posted my first translation back in April of 2008, so thank you.

With that out of the way, I can now spend the rest of my weekend doing something I enjoy, like playing the Odin Sphere remake or watching the first episode of Orange. Maybe I'll even get around to translating something...

C89 Projects

Here’s a list of all the Comiket doujins I’m going to do and where they are in the process. New projects will be added when/if I find something else I want to do.

[Digital Lover] D.L. action 100 (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Digital Lover] D.L. action 101 (Granblue Fantasy) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Digital Lover] D.L. action 102 (THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[enuma elish] Healing Decision (THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Flicker10] Urakaze no Gohoubi (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Yamatogawa] Vanilla Essence Ch.09, batch, ~Three week hiatus, Release #700

09 - (Put) Hand It In Already

Here's the final chapter of the book! I haven't uploaded any individual chapters, so there's no DL links for this either. Instead, grab the batch for the entire book below.

Edited by AntiAgingAnon and scanned by viacheslavovich.

[Yamatogawa] Vanilla Essence Ch.1 - 9 (222 MB)

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Short Hiatus
I do want to go back and fill in the extra stuff, but that will have to wait a little longer. I'm going abroad for a few weeks, and I won't be back until the middle of November, so that will be when I can start working on it at the earliest.

I might still post some stuff that's currently getting edited, but despite this being a business trip, I'm sorta looking at it as a vacation from scanlations, so I'll most likely be fairly inactive. Likewise, I might not reply to mails, PMs, etc. until I get back.

#700 Releases
Finally, this is my 700th release. Yay.

C88 Projects

Here’s a list of all the Comiket doujins I’m going to do and where they are in the process. New projects will be added when/if I find something else I want to do.

[Digital Lover] D.L. action 96 (THE IDOLM@STER) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Digital Lover] D.L. action 97 (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[enuma elish] eggs (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Mugenkidou A] U.M.R! (Himouto! Umaru-chan) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[774 House] Attaka Uzumaki (Naruto) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Musashi-dou] Bismarck Mesu Milk [RAW]
Status: Script sent to editor.

[Service Heaven] Gakkou Flesh (Gakkou Gurashi!) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Takumi na Muchi] Nanairo (Nisekoi) [RAW]
Status: Script sent to editor.

[Senya Sabou] Futanari Onee-san x Otokonoko Cosplayer ♥ Mesu Ochi [RAW]
Status: Script sent to editor.

[Genocidou] ARCANA JUICE 7 (Arcana Heart) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Gerupin] Yoru no Gran Princess (Go! Princess PreCure) [RAW]
Status: Released!

[Mousou Deguchi] Fujiyama-san to (Fujiyama-san wa shishunki) [RAW]
Status: Released!

New project: [Drill Jill] Ikenai Sperm Bitch!!!

The third and final part to this series (Vol.1 and Vol.2) is now out, so time to finish this!

Update: The script for chapter 1 is more or less done, but I'm gonna wait a while so we can hopefully get a scan to work with instead of the the LQ digital version.

Update 2: Scan is on its way, so now we wait (and I translate).

[Kirintei] Confinement Paradise, Release #666

I got the urge to work on some proper yandere after the latest D.L. action doujin, and I didn't have to search long, because Kirintei had a new one out for C87.

I don't know much about IM, but Mayu being yandere seems to be canon, so guess it was pretty obvious choice for the artist. She buys Producer-san from the agency so he'll be her exclusive producer, and I think you can guess how where this goes from there. Let's just say she's keen on confirming how he feels about her.

Scanned by SXIndy27.

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Release #666

I thought about doing something different for release number 666, but it ended up being whatever was the next thing in the release queue. Well, guess yandere is a bit out there.

Funny coincident: I've probably already mentioned this somewhere else, but my first attempt at an h-translation was Kirintei's "Tsukasa Blog,", and I think it's pretty damn close to being exactly seven years ago—give or take a month. I was beaten to the punch that time and never got to finish my version, but I waited a while and gave translating another shot, went on to release some other stuff, and here we are now.

In case you're into yandere and have somehow managed to miss this classic, here's Tsukasa Blog (translated by FAKKU a long time ago):

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C87 Projects

Here’s a list of all the Comiket doujins I’m going to do and where they are in the process. New projects will be added when/if I find something else I want to do.

[Asaki Blog Branch Office] Fujiyama-san's Mating Season, Release #650

Here's a cute doujin based on a cute manga (which is probably based on a light novel or something, I dunno). The original is basically about a tall girl who starts dating her childhood friend, and they're all dokidoki and secretive about it.

In this doujin, the guy brings her to a secluded place and wants to take their relation to the next level with a kiss. Have fun and enjoy the word "embarrassing" being used a lot of times, even by hentai standards.

Edited by hihohahi.

DF | RG | EX | FU

PS: Finally finished the script for D.L. action 87, so that's being proofread.

PPS: 650th release, woo.

C86 Projects

Here’s a list of all the Comiket doujins I’m going to do and where they are in the process. New projects will be added when/if I find something else I want to do.

[Morimiya Masayuki] Hatuiki☆Syndrome Ch.06

06 - Eccentric Syndrome

This is why you should ask if your butt looks big when trying out clothes: to avoid the inconvenience of it getting stuck when taking a shortcut though an alleyways.

Edited by hihohahi.

Edit: Links updated with corrected resolution (matching the other chapters).

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This is a great panel

General update
With new posts being few and far between, I figured I'd go through what I'm currently working on.

♦ [A・L・L] SWEET SYRUP S will most likely be out in a few days. It's been edited, and I just have to look through it.
♦ Just a few pages left in DLa 88, but AAA won't be able to typeset this week, so ETA is next week. DLa 87 also popped up, so I'll get to that after 88.
♦ Finally, hihohahi offered to edit [Hyoco Road] Youkoso Chou Sendai Tokku, so I guess I'll do that anyway.

That should keep me busy for a while, but after that, I think I'll still look through some C86 stuff before going back to my book projects.

[Mame] Double S Size #4, batch, editor wanted

It's been a while since the previous chapter of this series. Just to clarify, I finished the script exactly two months ago, but we've been waiting for a scan since then. A decent scan showed up just last week (the tankoubon), so we're finally able to finish this!

This is the conclusion to Double S Size. Don't think I need to say any more.

Edited by Boggyb.

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Double S Size #1 – 4 (44.4 MB)

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[Mame] Milk Crown - Editor Wanted

As mentioned above, this chapter came from the newly released tankoubon, Milk Crown, rather than the Girls For M magazine. The tank is much less censored (bars instead of mosaic; compare chapter 3 and 4), and I'd like the reedit the entire book.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do that, so I'm hoping some skilled editor would be interested in helping me out. I have the Photoshop files for all the chapters I've translated, so that should save you some time when typesetting. I'd also like to redo the translation for the remaining ~30 pages I didn't do, just for the sake of consistency.

If you're interested, please get in touch with me (mail, comment, PM, etc.)!

Time for an announcement!

In less than one months time, I'll be celebrating the six year anniversary of this blog. I simply started doing this back in April 2008 as a way to rid myself of the boredom that came from doing nothing but watch anime all day for months (I was essentially a NEET at that time, waiting for the new semester), and never thought it would lead to anything.

However, during the last couple months, I've been given the chance to be involved in something very exciting, and today we're finally able to make it public. Rather than me repeating what has already been said, I suggest you head over to FAKKU and read the announcement there:

I'll be working very closely with the FAKKU crew on this project; I'll be involved in most of the major decisions concerning the releases. Of course, my main role will be as a translator, and all of the three so-far announced books will be translated by me.

What does this mean for the future of this blog and my work here? For starters, I'd like to finish my current projects (books and other series). Melody has already been completely translated by other groups, so I will be dropping that book after the next chapter (5), but other than that, I intend to finish the remaining book projects.

Of course, it'll be hard to keep up my one-release-ever-2-3-days release pace; if I spend all day translating, I probably wanna do something else in my spare time. I can't say how long it'll take, but I want to finish what I've started.

Once that is done, I'll probably focus on doujins, and do one whenever I get the chance. For now, all I can say is that I want to continue to work on Digital Lover's D.L. action series--I can easily handle one doujin every other month.

If you're familiar with what I do, you probably know that two other artists that lie close to my heart are Dr.P and Drill Jill. A new Dr.P book and the conclusion to the Sperm-star series are probably the only times when I'll go back to working on a book again.

The timing is a tad bit unfortunate, since I'm going to be out of town this weekend (I already am, actually). I'll try to answer any questions when I get back home.

Actually, there will be a Reddit AMA later on this week, so it's probably better if you save your questions for that--unless they're about this blog.

[Pannacotta] Eternal Love, [Morimiya Masayuki] Hatuiki☆Syndrome Ch.01

[Pannacotta] Eternal Love

This is a C83 doujin, so I assume it's a prequel to this one (from C84).

This time, Mari joins in on the action. Although, in the story, it's more like Asuka is the one joining in. Unlike in the (presumed) sequel, Shinji's dick doesn't make her go gaga here, and she's much less friendly overall in this one.

Once again, scanned by Kalevala, commissioned by HNTI, and edited by hihohahi.

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[Morimiya Masayuki] Hatuiki☆Syndrome Ch.01

While at it, here's a new tank I'll be picking up together with hihohahi!

I've had my eyes on this artist since last summer, so I was all over this book when it got scanned the other day. Much like this one, this chapter is just four pages long, and it's more of a teaser of what's to come. Again, like with the Amatarou chapter, chapter 2 is already at the proofreader, so look forward to more of this yandere in the near future—three whole chapters more, actually!

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PS: I didn't even realize how appropriate it was to release this now.

~Happy Easter~

[Amatarou] Melody Ch.01

01 - Tragic Heroine Syndrome

What do you know, an Amatarou tank where all of the chapters haven't already been translated by the time of release! Edited by AntiAgingAnon.

This is more of a teaser, since it's just four 4koma strips and a color short about a cruel master taking advantage of his servant (or is he?).

Chapter 2 is being proofread at the moment, so that should be ready pretty soon.

Scanned By Lord of Evil, commissioned By Hentaicore.net.

DF | RG | EX | FU

More cô gái đầu?
In other news, Gokujo might be coming back. Stay tuned.

Torrent: #001-600

[Drill Jill] Spermaniax Ch.08, release #600

08 – She’s a Violence Heroine – Chapter 16

Here's the concluding chapter of the second volume! Actually, there's one more chapter to go, but this is the chapter that settles the events of this volume. The last chapter is more of a bonus, and with a short setup for volume three.

This also happens to be my favorite chapter (so far)! Just like chapter two, it starts off as yuri between Kei and Chimomo, but then Asagi joins in eventually, which makes it a... threesome? I guess? Read it and decide for yourself.

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Probably shouldn't tell a yandere with super powers that you hate her

Again, this is not the last chapter from this book! There's still one left!

Release #600

Woo. New torrent coming up in a day or so.

[Dr.P] Momoiro Daydream

Yay, a scan of Dr.P's latest book has finally showed up! I've already translated chapter 1, so that's coming up sometime in the future.

New project: [Amatarou] Melody

Short announcement: AntiAgingAnon and I plan on doing this after TiTiKEi.

RAW

Inquiry regarding [Homunculus] Renai Sample

Homunculus' new tankoubon, Renai Sample, got scanned the other day--by several people to boot: V1, V2 (meanwhile, still no Dr.P ;_;, but that's not the point here). AntiAgingAnon is up for reediting it, with me filling in missing parts of the translation.

However, if anyone else is planning on doing this, please contact me (leave a comment here, send an email, PM on e-hentai, etc.). We're happy to let you do it, but please let us know so we can spend our time elsewhere.

Update: We're working on it.

[Charlie Nishinaka] Choice! Vol.3 Ch.08, batch

08 – Narikiri #19

After many months, here's finally the last chapter of this book!

Once again, Shiori lends a hand to a club in trouble. This time, it's a group of students who want to revive the calligraphy club, and in order to do that, they need a good showing at the upcoming culture festival. That also goes for Kensuke (who I'll refer to by first name, since the author keeps changing his last name for some reason), so he needs to stay behind for some private lessons with Shiori.

I wonder if writing calligraphy on a girl is a thing. It should be a thing.

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What now...?
Small rant regarding my projects; i.e., where I do both the translation and editing.

One big reason as to why it has taken me ~3 months to release this last chapter is me focusing on Comiket doujins over tankoubons for about half a year now. I apologize to those of you waiting for this and new Drill Jill chapters, but hopefully you've enjoyed at least some of the other stuff I've been putting out. While we're currently in the middle of C85, the next one is pretty far off (since they take place in August and December), so I'll probably get a lot more tankoubon work done in the upcoming months.

For now, I won't start on any new (solo) project, and I'll focus entirely--tankoubon-wise, since I still have a lot of C85 doujins I wanna do--on completing the last three chapters of Spermaniax, so I'll have that out of the way when the third and final book is released.

Another reason to why this has taken so long is that I'm just not very motivated to work on this at the moment. I love Charlie Nishinaka, and it's really typesetting and cleaning the bad scans that bums me out. For that reason, I probably won't start on Vol.04 right after Spermaniax, and instead, I'll do at least one other book in-between.

I'm going to finish the Narikiri/Choice series, but it won't be the next thing I finish. The only exception to this would be if some experience editor would offer to do the editing, in which case I'd have no problem providing a translation.

Choice! Vol.3 Ch.01 - 08 (59 MB)

C85 Projects

It wasn't long ago I finally got through my C84 backlog, but C85 is already just around the corner! Winter Comiket will take took place between December 29 and 31.

Here’s a list of all the Comiket doujins I’m going to do and where they are in the process. New projects will be added when/if I find something else I want to do.

(C85) [Digital Lover (Nakajima Yuka)] D.L. action 82 (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Digital Lover (Nakajima Yuka)] D.L. action 83 (Sword Art Online) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Mushashi-dou (Musashino Sekai)] Futa Pache (Touhou Project) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Yuugengaisha Mach Spin (Drill Jill)] Chenge!! 6 (Getter Robo) [RAW]
Status: Released so far: #1, #2, #3, #4.

(C85) [Takumi na Muchi (Takumi na Muchi)] Kyou mo Onodera-san (Nisekoi) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Tamokuteki Hall (Moketa)] Hanamizuki [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Gerupin (Minazuki Juuzou)] ONTFK (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Gasshuukoku Nekometaru (Nekometaru)] WTK (Touhou Project) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [enuma elish (Yukimi)] Valhallagatari 2 (Bakemonogatari) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Kikurage-ya (Kikurage)] Takao Plug In! (Arpeggio of Blue Steel) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Sweet Taste (Amakuchi)] Mahou no Juujin Foxy Rena 5 [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Rico-ba (Rico)] Anata no Tonari de [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Sakurai Dai Energy (Sakurai Energy)] Koi suru Otome no Miryoku wa Mune dake janai. (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Mochiya (Karochii)] Koi Suru Shimakaze-chan To Hentai Teitoku 2 (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Senya Sabou (alpha-Alf Layla)] Mami to Ofuro ni Haittara naze ka Mat to Lotion ga dete kuru no Desu (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Volutes (Kurogane Ken)] portable (Non Non Biyori) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Tataraba (Tsurugi Hagane)] MMO ni Okeru Rare Soubitte Ero Soubi no Koto da yo ne! (Log Horizon) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Koi no Danmenzu (Iroito)] Zenryoku Kyoushuu Seyo (Kantai Collection) [RAW]
Status: Released!

(C85) [Kemono Ekaki no Kousoku 2 (Sindoll)] Re: Temptation [RAW]
We'll be using Super Shanko's RAW for this (different from the one above).
Status: Released!

(C85) [Mimicry.z (Aka Satanan)] Compliant Escalation (Yuushibu) [RAW]
Status: Released!

+ Anything else from this list and sequels to previous translations.