Not as fast as we were for Happy World, eh? Well, our translator is doing it for free this time and Needless is a lot harder to edit, so you’ll have to live with it.

This is where the manga diverges from the anime proper. Enjoy what Madhouse didn’t animate!

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I bet you didn’t expect us to do anything ever again.

We’re scanlating this starting from where the anime diverged.

Recruiting typesetters (must be fast) and possibly additional translators, though we actually have a dedicated (and free) one this time.

/msg Moogy on rizon or IRCHighway if you are an applicant for the typesetter position or if you wish to translate for some unknown reason.

Note: Our staff is the same as Ayako’s staff for the anime, so all terms/etc. will be consistent with their release.

Also I forgot to put it it in the TT comment but our channel is #pewpew@irchighway as usual.

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Here’s a new release for you guys: [TLWiki]​_COMIC​_Megastore​_Sumaga​_Feature [CBFDC04E].​rar

It’s only ostensibly related to pew pew, and it’s porn, but hey, whatever. I figured this post could use some sort of content.

Anyway, for a status update.

The translator for Cocoon either ditched us or disappeared. Zannen deshita.

Don’t expect any more releases from us, ever. We have no translators. There may be an NNS-pew release at some point, but selkirk is really lazy and probably forgot about Someday’s Dreamers anyway.

Below is the list of manga I would like to scanlate:

• Cocoon
• H2O ~FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND~
• Magician’s Academy (perhaps better known as Macademi Wasshoi!)

I am also interested in scanlating a variety of josou eromanga.

If anyone ever reads this and is interested in translating any of the above, please contact me at moogy0@gmail.com.

This will very likely be the last thing ever posted on this blog. Laters.

Might as well go ahead and make it official. We’re picking up Cocoon, a four-volume manga by Kenjirou Takeshita (the mangaka of Happy World!) which was originally serialized in Comic Blade Masamune, a shounen magazine published by Mag Garden. Cocoon was actually dropped from serialization after volume three, but Takeshita saw fit to release the rest of the series as a doujin. Pretty nice, right?

As for what it’s about… it’s set in a semi-dystopian society. Our protagonist, Kai Anber, is a slave of some sort who, together with a mysterious insect-esque girl, Mayu, escapes from his situation. They meet up with a group of crazy “mercenaries” after that, and then some cool stuff happens.

If you want a bit of a sample, here’s a spread from volume 2 that I think is pretty neat.

Anyway, in all likelihood, we will not be commissioning translations for Cocoon, as it’s just a bit of a fun project for us. As such, the release schedule will likely be rather random unless we acquire more translators; additionally, each chapter in volume 1 is around 50 pages, so don’t expect more than one a week.

By the way, we’re also interested in scanlating the manga adaptation of H2O ~FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND~, a seinen manga by Kira Inugami which is serialized in Comp Ace. Unusually for a seinen manga, it has furigana. It also has very, very nice art (Inugami is the original game artist and character designer) and seems to be a quite competent adaptation of the original, as it has the same writing staff as the game as well. Kefit and I are pretty big fans of H2O, so we’d be very interested in picking this up if we can find an interested translator.

By the way, try to spread the word about Happy World! and Kenjirou Takeshita if you enjoyed the series. Takeshita is pretty much completely unknown in the western world, and I think it would be great if there were more English-speakers aware of his works out there. Of course, the fact that Happy World! is his only series with even a single chapter scanlated kind of precludes this, but that’s another reason why we’re picking up Cocoon.

Anyway, that’s all for now. Take it easy, yo.

Many people have asked us if we can pick up long-languishing manga series xxx. The answer is simple: no. Happy World is really quite a special series, and I would like to take the time now to give a brief overview of just how we got to where we are today.

The end of our summer project, and the end of an excellent manga.

If you are a (free) Japanese to English translator who would be willing to translate other manga by Kenjirou Takeshita, please contact us via IRC or email me at moogy0@gmail.com. If you are a translator who wants to do some other series, talk to us and we’ll see what we can do.

I’ve written up a post summarizing my feelings about HW and our work on it. Click past the break (or just scroll down) if you want to read it. Otherwise, please enjoy the ending.

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I woke up and heard that we had translations for 70-72, so I immediately started TSing 70. Here it is, two hours later, and I’m about to die of hunger, but I finished the damn thing.

I’m sure you’ve all heard of the expression “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Now, I’m not quite sure if that’s true or not, but Takeshita seems to take it to heart in this chapter, which made my job a lot easier. There’s still quite a bit of text, though!

If Focht can manage it, I would like to release both 71 and 72 tomorrow. Or hell, whenever he finishes them. There’s no reason to delay releases now! Only two more chapters!

I had to use NyaaTorrents because DaTorrents is down, so the torrent might be funky. Dunno. DDL works as usual.

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Once again, I’m releasing HW as the first thing I do upon waking up.

And thus the final, most important conflict of the series begins. It’s all been building up to this.

Only three chapters remain. I really don’t know when we’re going to get the translations for them, I’m afraid, so consider this a preemptive apology if there is any sort of delay between this chapter and seventy or between any of the remaining chapters. This makes me feel like shit, since I promised a chapter a day, but it appears that circumstances may not permit that. Feel free to insult me in any way you please if we do have some delays.

KEFIT EDIT: We just got translations for ch70-72. Delays from here on out, if any, should be minimal.

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Hello everyone. I literally just woke up, so what better time to release HW?

Here’s our last backstory chapter. Well… it’s not so much a backstory chapter as a chapter that happens to contain some backstory. Anyway, the four (!) remaining chapters are nothing but plot from here on out. This chapter is quite nice, though, I must say…

This is our thirtieth release of Happy World!. It’s hard to believe that we’ve come this far. Thanks for all of your support!

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My internet is being very funky right now. Fortunately I uploaded this chapter last night before I went to bed.

Here we have the first chapter of volume 11, the final volume of Happy World. Unfortunately, it ends on yet another cliffhanger. There really isn’t much relief until the end from this point, I’m sorry to say.

There are only five chapters left. They’re all pretty long, though, especially 72…

Oh, and I TSed it again this time around. I think I’m getting better, at least in terms of speed.

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