Buster Keel Chapter 32 (English)

Uhmm... so Chapter 32 is done. I don't know how... it kinda just happened.....

Maybe too quickly? There were a couple of mistakes that needed to be corrected in this one so I don't doubt that there're more I haven't caught. Oh well, I'll correct them as they're found.

Also downloaded like seven new fonts trying to find a good one to use for a different effect.

I can tell I'm kinda eager to move on to the more exciting chapters. We get some interesting things in ol' 32, but I think there's even better stuff going forward.

So look forward to that!

Here's Buster Keel! Chapter 32, typeset in English.

Also on the Translating Stuff page.

I am a nerd

Part of my scanlating process involves downloading the raw en masse from a cloud storage, which unfortunately names all the images unhelpful things like "IMG140240.png".

For the past four chapters, I've been clicking on an image... clicking it again to put it in rename mode... typing in a better name... repeat.........

And yeah it gets really tedious when there's 50 images to rename. So I automated it with a Python script (renamer.py). Took maybe, one second? to run ten lines of code and rename all the files for Ch 32. 🙃

The other annoying bit in the pre-processing is cropping the screenshots of the raws down to just the page. I did this all manually as well, in GIMP. Rectangle select tool... zoom in to the top left corner... line cursor up with upper left of page... click and drag while zooming out, then zoom in to the bottom right corner... line cursor up with lower right of page... release... Image>Crop to Selection.........

Again, very tedious and annoying. Then I wrote cropper.py, first using GIMP to identify the pixel coordinates of the extremes of my images, and input them into a library crop function. Run, and maybe a minute later (image processing always takes way longer) all the images were cropped perfectly for Ch 32. 🙃

I know that I'm lazy. But I still don't know how to feel about this... why am I programming when scanlating... why am I thinking about automating everything I do with scripts.......

Buster Keel Chapter 31 (English)

It's done! That was the fastest chapter edit ever. Finished within 72 hours. I guess that's what happens when you spend a month and a half ignoring your project.

It was surprising how much of the keyboard shortcuts were ingrained into my muscle memory, too, which definitely helped.

Anyway, this' Chapter 31, the last chapter in Volume 8! I have all the remaining volumes, so next up will be Volume 9. I'm amazed at myself for actually committing and scanlating a whole volume-full of four chapters.

There's a couple of extras at the end of this chapter, and I also translated the author's afterword. The first extra I sort-of cleaned, but was too lazy to insert all the labels, so, uh, have fun looking at the pictures.

The tournament's finally drawing to a close (though the arc is nowhere near over) and things are finally getting interesting! To be fair, this chapter grew on me, I didn't really understand it that well the first time around. Typical. Hyped for that next chapter!

Stay tuned for volume 9! (Or don't, who knows when I'll get around to it lol).

Here's my scanlation of Buster Keel! Chapter 31, hope you enjoy!

Also on the Translating Stuff page.

BK Ch 31 is coming!

I'm still working on scanlating Buster Keel, I swear the project's not dead!

Finally got some time to myself and edited thirty-six pages in two days. *Pats self on back*. *Conks self in head for taking so long to get around to it in the first place*.

The full chapter should be up sometime tomorrow or the day after. Uh, at least sometime this week, let's not set the bar too high.

And lol, turns out these chapters are actually being found and read (oh god oh no)?? Thanks for leaving the pleasant comment, random visitor! Do know it helped motivate this recent burst of editing.