Up next...?

So I'm not sure if anyone is actually reading these posts at this point, but I figure it doesn't hurt to try posting about this here first.

Since the end of Artist Acro is coming up fast, I'm feeling around to see what I want to work on next. Really enjoying the scanlating hobby still, so I do want to continue in this space.

The two options I'm considering are (1) pick up a new series, or (2) join someone else's project as a cleaner/redrawer.

For both, I am looking for suggestions. I don't have a next series in mind like I did when I wrapped up BK and picked up AA, and I also have no idea how to go about finding groups to join in a manner that I'd feel comfortable with.

So, I'm asking you! Do you know of a dropped manga similar to BK/AA that you want to see finished? Do you want to pick up, or have picked up translating a title, but need a hand with CL/RD? Please let me know in the comments! :D

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For some guidelines on what I'm looking for, see the following:

(1) New manga - I'd like to work on another shounen or shoujo manga that:

• has a few chapters already scanlated in ENG so I can get a feel for the story/style and see if I'm interested
• features some kind of fantasy/action/strategy element, similar to my other works Artist Acro and Buster Keel
• was published a while back or is obscure enough for English licensing to be unlikely (I do not want to have to drop it if it gets licensed)

(2) Joining as a CL/RD - I've never worked with strangers on manga before, so I'm looking for a group that I can test the waters with. Ideally they could tolerate a casual commitment and/or have no scheduling requirements - I clean fast and enjoy doing it, but I don't work well under pressure. For this I'm sort of envisioning another solo scanlator looking to outsource CL/RD work, or maybe a more established group who wants to add another person to an existing team of cleaners.

• I can do CL/RD for both coloured manhwa and B/W manga
• I would be willing to clean SFX
• I do not use Photoshop but I can handle .psd files
• I will not work on titles with mature themes

If you or anyone you know of is looking for a cleaner/redrawer for their projects, please let me know in the comments, and/or have them reach out to me on Mangadex (username chesterfield).

 

All right, thanks for reading and hope you have a lovely day! 

- chesterfield

Artist Acro - Ch 73 (English)

And here we are! Volume 9! The finalest volume! The cover on MD that I stared at for hours being very confused...!

I've waxed poetic plenty enough on how I feel about getting to finish these series, so I'll refer you back to older posts if you missed my ramblings on that lol. Really looking forward to what this final volume has in store though, and this chapter is another exciting piece of the climax! So hope you enjoy Artist Acro Chapter 73, typeset in English!

> Also on the Artist Acro page.

Next chapter sneak peek: artist's renditions of what I look like when I get off work.

Artist Acro - Oneshot version & Vol 8 Omake (English)

 

Finally! I am done this oneshot!!! This'll be a long announcement post because I have a lot to ramble about, so bear with me (or don't, the chapter link is at the bottom lol).

A total of 51 pages including the omake stuff, I think this' the longest single release I've done since I started scanlating. Add on the fact that I was insanely busy with work and this is Artist Acro - which means a ton dialogue bubbles per page, and I'm honestly surprised I got this out in less than a month. It makes me think of Buster Keel, which had 40 pages per chapter, but being an action manga it had big dramatic action panels and lots of generic yelling for the text bubbles lol so those took seconds to translate & typeset. This oneshot was honestly 90% talking because they had to establish setting and character and stuff, which is understandable but was also hell to work on. If that wasn't enough, the style of writing itself was different from the main series, which added yet another layer of difficulty to the whole process T_T I did expect this oneshot to be different from the main series, but I didn't exactly foresee the problems it was gonna give me ^^;

Oh, and another thing that added onto the work was the fact that the pages in this oneshot were all quite poor quality - lots of fuzziness and jpeg artifacts and stuff, so I actually figured out the filtering stuff people do to clean that gunk up and applied it to every page. It made it look soooo much better - so crisp and clean, I can really see why scanlators do this lol. It was interesting to see how the omake pages (presumably drawn closer to the volume's actual release) were not as gunked up as the oneshot. But I still applied the filtering to those pages, and will probably do so going forward.

Anyways, with this, I'm done volume 8! Wahoooo!! One more volume to go, can you believe it. It's been a long journey to get to this point over these past three years and I'm really looking forward to closing up on another dropped title I was interested in finishing. Finishing not one but two titles is really going to establish this for me >:) Not sure yet what I'm going to do after Vol 9, but I'll probably post about that in the future when it gets closer.

In other news, my friend (alias Honey) who translates KR manhwa and has occasionally asked me to help clean some of her stuff, recently picked up a new manhwa (How to Gracefully Divorce a Dragon) and was interested in uploading the chaps to MD, so those have been uploaded under my (our) group over on Mangadex! I'm honestly just a bit hyped because I got to add her as a member and Hypothetical Scans doesn't feel like a fake group anymore lol. But the manhwa's great, it's a silly and fun romantic comedy that I'm enjoying a lot personally, and Honey's translations are top tier, so go check it out if that's your sort of thing ^_^

All right, I think I'm done...? Okay, here's the chapter page link to Artist Acro, Oneshot version & Vol 8 Omake, typeset in English!

> Also on the Artist Acro page.

 I'm so close to finishing the AA oneshot special but boy does it make me just want to run screaming into the woods

Why is it so LONG--