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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.
Artist Acro - Ch 72 (English)
I'mmmmmm back!! With chapter 72 of AA complete! Time to get a look into the background fight!
Next up will be the original Artist Acro oneshot, which I expect will take a while to edit since it's a whopping 48 pages. I may also include the vol 8 omake & end note with it since it's a short one this time. And then, we'll be on to the final volume, volume 9! I'm pretty hyped ^_^
With that out of the way, hope you enjoy Artist Acro Chapter 72, typeset in English!
> Also on the Artist Acro page.
Notice~
I'm headed out for a few weeks and not sure what my internet service is gonna be like, so if it goes dead here for a while then that'd be why.
I've pulled the rest of Artist Acro volume 8 in any case, so at least I should be able to keep scanlating even while offline!
Have a great holiday season and a lovely new year ^_^
Artist Acro - Ch 71 (English)
The confrontation begins! I'm so hyped!
> Artist Acro Chapter 71, typeset in English
> Also on the Artist Acro page.
Artist Acro - Ch 70 (English)
Chapter 70! Managed to get this one done a bit quicker - it's another shorter one coming in at 16 pages. Things are heating up again which is real exciting to see! ^_^
> Artist Acro Chapter 70, typeset in English
> Also on the Artist Acro page.
Artist Acro - Ch 69 (English)
Okay Chapter 69 finally done! Kinda wild how it can take me anywhere between 4 days and 21 to finish a single chapter. I basically didn't touch this chap after pulling and cleaning the raws for a week, and then once I started editing it I (a) realized it was a whopping 26 pages, and (b) realized Vru talks a lot in it. Which is unfortunate because his speaking style is hell to translate. There's this one panel that I just stared at blankly for 20 minutes, no exaggeration, because I could not figure out what it was supposed to say.
Ended up making up something adjacent in meaning to whatever the JP in that panel's bubbles said (as I did for a lot of his lines, hopefully to a lesser extent), but I hope it doesn't detract too much from the overall reading. He's supposed to be a bit of an eccentric anyway, so I'm sure my fumbled translation fits in somewhat with his character at least :P
Anyway, as I mentioned this one's a doozy, both in length and contents (absolute emotional roller coaster for me) so hope you have fun cracking at it!
> Artist Acro Chapter 69, typeset in English
> Also on the Artist Acro page.
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