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.
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