Artist Acro - Ch 14 (English)

Chapter 14, made it!! Check out that excessively cool cover page - why was this necessary lol. It also made for a really difficult time cleaning and typesetting it... ugh. Basically every chapter cover page in this series is just text directly on the art, making for an uneven distribution of effort onto the first pages.

The scanlating drive is starting to cool down a bit, so I may not be able to muster the motivation to make weekly updates - but no plans whatsoever to drop it. Just need to go with the ebb and flow of my fickle attentions.

Here's Artist Acro Chapter 14, typeset in English!

Also on the Artist Acro page.

Artist Acro - Ch 13 (English)

 

Chap 13 of Artist Acro up~ missed my weekend upload target due to health problems OTL but these tiny little chapters made it easy to catch up yesterday. Ever wanted to know how a spiky-headed kid with supernatural powers can outsmart a group of creepy buff dudes also with supernatural powers who are out to get his corpse?? Read on to find out!

Also thought it was worth noting that I've partially given up on these bizarre and pervasive SFX, and will revert to only adding SFX notes for the ones I can make a decent stab at getting correct. Just substitute in your own imaginary sounds when you see those Japanese scribbles :)

> Artist Acro Chapter 13, typeset in English.

> Also on the Artist Acro page.

Buster Keel now uploaded

As of today I have uploaded my chapters of Buster Keel to Mangadex, finishing it off there! I picked up where Alexanpt left off after they graciously suggested I upload my work. Given that I didn't know a lick of Japanese just over a year ago and now I've completed Buster Keel on a high-profile site, it certainly does feel surreal. The comments and expanded viewership are really nice to see too ^_^ 

Though I've hurled myself over the mental hurdle of uploading to Mangadex, I will not be uploading future work there by default since it's proven to be kind of a pain. I would be open to (batch) uploading to other sites on request though, if there happens to be any interest in these overlooked titles.

With that done, time to delve headfirst back into the usual binge-scanlating business~

Artist Acro - Ch 12 (English)

 

Chapter 12 is done! Made a typo on the last post saying that one was ch 12, but this one is the actual one. Whoops, no harm done though. Another short one this time, clocking in at 18 pages, in which we find out more about the latest baddie on Acro's tail. I also changed the chapter title from what I put in the table of contents 'cause I really screwed that one up (or rather, Google Translate did).

Hope y'enjoy Artist Acro Chapter 12, typeset in English!

Also on the Artist Acro page.

Artist Acro - Ch 11 (English)

 

Chapter 11 of Artist Acro, stat! The clash between Acro and the Art Association begins to intensify in this chapter, with the introduction of a team of new baddies. This one's only 18 pages (including double-spreads as two), so it's a quick read (why are they so short ._.). It also means I didn't need to panic two days ago that I hadn't been working on AA, it just took one evening to edit... :o

I think I'm already tired of sticking to an upload schedule lol, so it's probably going to be abandoned shortly. Either I really don't like Sundays, or the idea of a schedule is that debilitating - I haven't figured it out yet.

Anyways, ignore me, hope you enjoy Artist Acro Chapter 11, typeset in English.

Also on the Artist Acro page.

 Panel redraw and colour I did of Mizukiri Blue from Ch 41 of Buster Keel. The water effect was seriously so well done, hats off to Sakamoto-sensei. Could this dude have gotten any more badass.

Artist Acro - Ch 9 & 10 (English)

 

  

Here're the next 2 chaps of Artist Acro! They're reaallly short so this won't be the last time I finish 2 chaps before Sunday (which is the day I'm trying to schedule updates for). 

I'm having a load of fun with this series, so hope y'also enjoy Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 of Artist Acro, typeset in English!

Also on the Artist Acro page.

Artist Acro - Ch 8 (English)

 

Chapter 8 of Artist Acro! Another fun little one (they're all fun and little), until I realized I forgot to clean the chapter title off the cover page (see above). That was... not fun and not little.

This one's got more weird SFX and mysterious lines! I'd rather be wrong about what I'm translating than write really awkward-sounding lines, so I'm being pretty liberal on the localization/paraphrasing here (and yeah they still sound pretty awkward most of the time...). If I bend something that gets referred to later, well, retcon? Already did that with this chap's title OTZ. 

As for SFX, I'm low-key considering just writing the literal sound the SFX is making instead of guessing what the author's trying to go for, since most of the time I just. Can't. So I'm offloading the work onto the reader hahahaha... :')

Anyway, fun times ahead and no time like the present! So here's Chapter 8 of Artist Acro, typeset in English.

Also on the Artist Acro page.

Artist Acro - Ch 7 (English)

 

All right, new title, let's go!

...I guess I'm going to do weekly updates again or something? With BK off my plate I was thinking about giving myself a break and laying off the translating and editing for a bit, but... hahahaha that didn't happen. I was too excited, and am even more so now after going through the first couple chapters :D

So some stuff I'd like to rant about because this space is my virtual vomit board - 

• Holy hell these chapters are SHORT. Even with all the volume-start character intros, synopses and title pages, this chapter only contained 24 pages. That's half what a typical BK chapter was. I always knew BK chapters were hella long, but it's kind of a shock how short these ones are. The short length means they end really weirdly, so just a headsup to not get too blindsided by that.

• Aaaand... even though they're short, these chapters are not that easy to scanlate. It's kind of amazing how difficult it is to switch to another series - the style is incredibly different, creating kind of a new learning curve to get over. The writing style is quite different making the translating a lot harder, there's a gazillion weird SFX, the bubbles are really long and narrow ugh-- I'm kind of disappointed with how badly this first chapter turned out, but I'm hoping it'll get better as I get used to Sakurai-sensei's style. Another heads up not to get blindsided by the trash quality! :')

• Finally, I've decided to write short blurbs of my thoughts at the end of each chapter. I really wanted to do this for BK, but the most natural place to put it (in posts) would be spoilery, and like... who cares about my thoughts?? Well too bad I ain't holdin' back no more as it kind of defeats the purpose of this brain dump blog, so look forward to my post-chapter thoughts! But don't actually. 

Okay, all that's off my chest now! Without further ado, here's my first delve into Artist Acro by Sakurai Ato, Chapter 7, typseset in English.

Also on the Artist Acro page.

Buster Keel - Ch 47 (English)

Here we are folks, Chapter 47 of Buster Keel, the final chapter!!! Scanlated by yours truly!!! Holy Gamoly I did it. Bear with me if you're reading this, this post is gonna be more of a text wall than usual. I got things to say!

I do want to ramble a bit about the process (as I tend to do in each post) - this one was a HUGE PAIN, and not even just because of funky bubbles or crazy redraws (though there was some of that of course), but I went all-out with the volume-end stuff. I fully edited Ravi's map, translated four paragraphs of text in the bonus, translated the super-long afterword AND THEN, wrote two extra walls of text to explain said afterword. Also on one specific page I decided instead of captioning the Japanese on a sign I would edit it out, and it was curved so I spent maybe a good hour just trying to figure out how the hell paths in GIMP work and how to make text curve pleasingly. I'll know I succeeded if it's totally unnoticeable :')

But yeah basically this chapter took extra long not just because of the extra volume-end content, but also because I made some decisions to add to my own work load... :D

Anyway, that's it! I did what I set out to do, and not only read this awesome series to the end on my own, but also edited and posted it so y'all can read it too if ya read English! It's been a bit over a year since I started and I'm stoked as hell that it came out like this. My Japanese has improved loads and I found a hobby that I really enjoy. So thanks to all you internet anons who enjoyed this series enough to track it down to my back-alley Blogger site, seeing your views and getting your comments really drove me to work hard on this series and improve! Despite all the anxiety about having people look at my work, it has been super nice that it happened and I'm glad some of you joined me for the ride. Keep on enjoying manga, and don't forget to support the authors' hard work!

Thanks again for reading and hope you will enjoy Buster Keel! Chapter 47 (Final Chapter), typeset in English!

Also on the Buster Keel page.