H-Here we are! My second scanlating chapter!!!Oh man. This seriously took so much effort. After getting seduced by the appearance of SFX-cleaned pages, I couldn't resist cleaning Every. Single. Page after that. All 44 of them.
(I'd like to say, except I chickened out on cleaning page 11 on grounds of "the sfx looks good, it's part of the art." 😂)
Anyway, it was like there was no end! I'd clean one page, redraw, typeset, and then there'd be the next, and the next, and the next, and the next... Forty-four pages. Yikes. Looking back on it, it's kind of amazing I did this all myself in one month. Some pages were really easy, some pages were absolute torture. But I just kept going, I had so much steam. Each page was a new adventure through wiping out SFX, crying over redraws, and debating over typesetting, and I wanted to see what the next page had in store for me.
I was even excited to work on this if I hadn't been doing it for a few hours. I'm literally passionate about cleaning manga, and I never knew. Where can I get a job doing this???
The quality isn't professional, but it's not trash either, if I may say so myself. I learned so much about how to use GIMP in the past month in order to accomplish this, and I'm 100% proud of the results.
The thing is, I also learned that this takes up way too much time, and unsustainably so. Being a shounen fight manga and all, there are just "speeds" (what I call those groups of lines in the background that indicate movement or are used for effect) literally everywhere and I have to redraw every single one of those lines that are covered by SFX.
I'll probably go insane trying to clean every chapter, so this' gonna be my golden moment (yes, it's early to be going downhill from here...) and future chapters are going to be simply typeset, with sidenotes for the SFX sounds. I'd really like to catch up to the amount I have translated (up to Ch. 33 as of!!)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy my golden moment - Buster Keel! Chapter 29! In which we get more badass/dumbass/heart-of-gold Keel, and some action from Blue & Ravi!! Also a very bad adult role model 😓
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