Merry Christmas!

...in the case of Thumblogger...

Thanks JukanX and Oliver for your concern and taking the time to post. Well, Oliver. So far, it sucks! (LOL!)

For those of you too young to know about hentai and my hentai blog, close your eyes! Don't read! It'll rot your brain!

Ahem. And for those of us who are aware of hentai (and thus whose brains are beyond help, such as mine :P), it seems some mofo hacked into Thumblogger and erased a bunch o' stuff. Thumblogger has taken steps to have the files recovered, but it's obviously gonna take a while. I estimate a couple weeks at least, personally... knowing what little I know of recovering files and how they're going about doing it. And it's uncertain if all can be recovered.

Right now, Thumblogger has restored a previous archive from July (I guess, they haven't made any archives after that? :? ); and so, AFAIK, all of Thumblogger's blogs have gone back in time around June/July. I was going to post a rant about it there on my hentai blog, but I'm a bit apprehensive to do so for some reason. Thus I'm posting news about it here.

As tragic (in the world of internets) this is, I'm not too worried. Worst case scenario: I have to start from scratch... or start from June, to be exact. Having experienced numerous hacks and crashes in the past, one just picks himself up, dusts himself off, and starts all over again... and plans on doing things differently! :P

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, y'all!

Koe de Oshigoto - Chapter 3

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Aaaagh! Another holiday season, and another season of frustrating last minute projects at my real job. (*sigh* maybe it's time to revise my resume!) But enough of my holiday work gripes...

Today I present to you Chapter 3 of Koe de Oshigoto. This chapter should have been called "I did it all for the nuki"... but I digress. The Japanese story that brings the Japanese adult gaming industry to a 16-year old girl. It ain't porn by Japanese standards, but it's pretty damn close to it!

In this chapter, Kanna is introduced to her first AV and Ero-ge. Enjoy!

• WEB GALLERY and DIRECT DOWNLOAD Via MangaHelpers
• FILE SHARE Via MediaFire
• TORRENT Via DeadFrog
• TORRENT Via Pirate Bay

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

• Acro-ray: Glad you liked the latest installment of Muv-Luv Unlimited. I'm hoping to get chapter 14 out before Christmas... but we'll see how that goes. :/
  

Muv-Luv Unlimited, Chapter 13

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With numerous projects going on, I've been behind struggling trying to get Muv-Luv Unlimited back to a regular routine schedule. With this chapter, I feel I've made some progress! Probably, 'coz I'm getting a little faster at translating!

In this chapter, Takeru and company get to see their mechas for the first time!

As usual, links will be posted when available!

• WEB GALLERY and DIRECT DOWNLOAD via MangaHelpers
• TORRENT via Deadfrog
• TORRENT via Pirate Bay
• FILE SHARE via MediaFire

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

• The Magnificent Steiner: Glad you liked Koe De Oshigoto so far. Chapter 3 should be out in a couple of weeks, hopefully! ^_^;;
• W.Gacia: Thanks for reading Koe De Oshigoto! The series is brand new, so I don't know how long it will last. So far, I have the Raw files for up to Chapter 5. I haven't checked to see if it goes beyond that, yet. ^_^;;
  

Koe de Oshigoto - Chapter 2

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Chapter 2 done, finally! Yaaay!!

Xiagox (I should've guessed his nick from his email, duh!) and I got the 2nd draft of Chapter 2 done quicker than expected... primarily 'coz I did the re-editing myself to save both of us time. Luckily, I knew which fonts he was using!

Xiagox edits stuff for Hentai Enishi (Warning: Adults Only! if you can't guess from the name of the site) and volunteered to edit this chapter. Much thanks and credit to his excellent edits!

I was hoping to have Chapter 3 done as well, but the timing didn't work out that way.

Anyhow, I present to you Chapter 2 of Koe de Oshigoto! In this chapter, Kanna sees things she perhaps shouldn't have!

Enjoy!

• WEB GALLERY and DIRECT DOWNLOAD via MangaHelpers
• FILE SHARE via MediaFire
• TORRENT via Deadfrog

Project Updates

The editor for Chapter 2 of Koe de Oshigoto finished the editing tasks. Now I'm in the middle of QCing it.

The editor took quite a bit of liberties with the script, which is not bad (at least he stayed in context), but he left out what I consider to be key points in the dialog or conversation, which is not good (a bad habit of many a scanslator when they try to "shortcut" on things for the sake of "balloon" space).

Anyhow, when I'm done QCing, I will either send it back to him so he can re-edit, or I will re-edit it myself before sending it back to him.

As for chapter 3, I'm in the middle of translating and editing that one myself. With any luck both chapters will be released at the same time!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

• sin and loki: Thanks for posting a comment. I hope this blog post answers your question. :)
• anonymous: No, this isn't an Ero-manga story. It's released in Japan in the periodical, Comic Gum, which, from my estimate, is geared towards teens 16 and older. If you're familiar with the ratings system for movies here in the United States, Koe de Oshigoto would be rated R: No one under 16 admitted without an accompanying adult. The subject is adult material: After all, in part, it deals with the hentai PC game industry in Japan. Although there are no graphic scenes of sex, there is graphic, foul language (albeit, censored) and sexual situations, usually imagined by protagonist, that you can find in almost any R-rated movie.
  

Muv-Luv Unlimited, Chapter 12

Lots to cover today. So I'm posting first before I put up any links. Please bear with me.

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I was actually hoping to post this on Wednesday, but numerous things came up. But, thank God it's Friday! (Although, in other parts of the world, it's already Saturday... but I digress...)

In this chapter, it's Takeru and babes on the beach. Can you say "fan service"? If I had more time and energy, I would have liked to color the full page featuring Meiya and company. But, such is life...

As usual links will be posted as soon as possible.

LINKS:

• Torrent via Deadfrog
• Torrent via Pirate Bay
  
• File Share via MediaFire
• Web Gallery and Direct Download via MangaHelpers
  

Koe de Oshigoto - Chapter 1

Well, it's finally done! Thanks to Conan of 4Dawgz (warning: adult content) for editing it rather quick. He did not bother with the SFXs, and I told him not to worry about it. I probably wouldn't have bothered much with the SFXs, either, due to all the other stuff I'm doing. But, I'll leave that for you, the viewing audience, to decide. If you want/need the SFXs translated in some fashion, please kindly let Conan or me know!

Anyhow, I have the file available via MediaFire. I think it'll be quicker than torrenting it.

Enjoy!

Web Gallery and Direct Download via MangaHelpers

Zip File via MediaFire

Torrent via Deadfrog

ACKNOWLEGEMENTS:

• C_K: Thanks C_K for the link to Chapter 5!
• Anonymous(es?) and Rei: Thanks for visiting and posting your inquiries, comments and responses.

New Project: Koe de Oshigoto!

Thanks to Prim and his friends, Walker and ish, I have the raw scans (and very good scans, too, at first glance, if I may say!) of the first 4 chapters of this new Konno Azure serial, "Koe de Oshigoto" (Works with the voice). Prim is hoping I would have it as a project of mine, of course... and I told him I'd probably post a rant about it this weekend... So I'm a bit early... Surprise! Also, thanks to Prim, you can find out more about the serial here. Manga Updates also has a listing here .

It seems fun and interesting enough that I wouldn't mind the undertaking it for free . But with the other projects I have lined up, it may be a few weeks or so before I could tackle both translating and editing it solo. Hence, my call out to any available editors out there.

If you're an available editor, or have some editing experience, or just someone who's damn good at Photoshop, and have an earnest interest in this project, email me. Send me a link (or links) of some of the previous work you've done. If you haven't done any editing, but have Photoshop and an earnest interest to learn... ... ...I may have to put together a test or something... or you can {ahem} "borrow" {*hint*} one from another group (LOL!)... or better still, take some tips from DontHurt! Anyhow, to reiterate, email me if your interested in editing this manga/series. Thanks!

UPDATE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 11:47PM.

I've got 2 volunteers! Each one will be doing a chapter. Now all I need to do is work on the script! (LOL!)

Muv-Luv Unlimited, Chapter 11

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I present to you chapter 11 of Muv-Luv Unlimited. This one has a bit more drama than the last two chapters, but thankfully Ayamine lightens up the tone a bit. Not to mention, the last page had a nice profile of Sakaki , that I couldn't help but color it! In fact, I like it so much, I even made a wallpaper out of it!... sans text of course.

Anyhow, as you can see from the previews, Shirogane dies and goes to heaven... ...JUST KIDDING!

As usual, I'll post links when available:

• Web Gallery and Direct Download @ MangaHelpers
• Torrent @ Akiba Online
• Torrent @ Fapis
• Torrent @ Pirate Bay
  
• File share @ MediaFire

New Project: Inukami, Volume 4

Hope y'all had a Happy 4th!

This is a joint project with Miyuna, an editor who does or has done work for Dynasty Scans and other groups. Miyuna is editing, I'm translating.

This project came about in a somewhat unusual way. Miyuna, aka chiharu-chan, had done me the honors of posting my translated chapters of Muv-Luv Unlimited to MangaFox, which is now my main web-gallery for the non-hentai fare. I was so touched by her actions (after all, I was able to discover MangaFox thanks to her!), that when she asked if I would consider translating volume 4, I couldn't say no.

I was apprehensive about working on the scripts, since Inukami is licensed in the US already; I really don't want to be sued over anything. Also, in the past, I was never keen on translating for other people, primarily 'coz I'm still learning; so I'm not that fast and my confidence level still isn't that high. Besides that, I've never written out a script for others, so I wasn't too sure how to approach it. But, I thought, well I'm only writing the script and not seeking monetary gain for this... what the heck! And after hammering out three chapters at about 5 to 10 pages a day, all my concerns seemed moot. Writing a script for Miyuna was definitely an interesting challenge and a new learning experience for me; now that I have a certain approach to writing out scripts, I may be able to expand and translate for other editors! Hopefully, I won't confuse her too much!

Since I'm not doing the editing, I was actually able to have the scripts for chapter 16 to 18 ready rather quick. A lot quicker than I initially thought, in fact! I'm not sure when Miyuna will start editing, but I'm sure when she has some spare time, she'll get on it! Hope you look forward to it!

Acknowledgements:
To silv and AcroRay: Sorry for the late response. Glad you liked the chapters! :) Thanks for your patience and for visiting my blog!

Muv-Luv Unlimited, Chapters 09-10

It was quite a wait, but finally... I present to you chapters 9 and 10 of Muv-Luv Unlimited, Volume 2.
The combat assessment exam continues, and Takeru has his hands... umm... full!

As usual, I'll post links when they become available.

• TORRENT AT PIRATE BAY
  
• FILE SHARE AT MEDIAFIRE
  
• WEB-GALLERY and DIRECT DOWNLOAD AT MANGAHELPERS
• CHAPTER 09
• CHAPTER 10
  

Honorable Mention: CityManga

"I do not like them, Sham I Scam. I do not like green PHISH and SPAM!"

... but thanks to a couple of Anonymous posts, I took notice of CityManga!

CityManga is a free manga download site that features a bunch of translated mangas, including some of the stuff I released... Kinda like a cross between MangaUpdates and Stop Tazmo , except CityManga also caters (WARNING!) hentai stuff. There are numerous other sites that also have downloads of my scanslations, but thus far, CityManga has no visible ads glaring at you. (They are associated with adecn.com, so I guess they are counting clicks.) And as far I can tell, they host all the downloads onsite; no Rapidshare, MediaFire, Badongo, MegaUpload, etc., which is mighty cool of them, IMHO!

Now if only the person(s) responsible for CityManga would host the rest of my scanslations, I'd be more than happy to forward all my direct download links to them! (If that's you Anonymous, please let yourself be known! Email me or PM me or something! And please don't forget to list my blog on my Group Profile!) After all, it seems like a win-win situation to me: They host my files for manga fans to download, I provide links to their site... Kinda like how my web-galleries are provided by MangaFox!

Anyhow, check 'em out!

New File Share Host

Because Rapidshare deleted ALL my Muv-Luv files, Rapidshare is no more. One theory I have regarding this is that Rapidshare is punishing me for not signing up for a Premium Membership. :/

In any case, I'm slowly moving manga files to MediaFire and updating my blog(s). Instead of updating each individual link, I'm ridding all of the links leading to Rapidshare, so now I have a just one link on the menu to my Manga Folder. Unfortunately, I only have Momoya Show-Neko's "Summer Vacation" uploaded, but I hope to have the other files uploaded this weekend. Hopefully, in the long run, MediaFire will be much kinder host than Rapidshare. ^_^;;

I had plans on using Badongo as well just as a mirror, but I decided to hold off and see how things go with MediaFire.

Other Personal News: Yesterday, I installed a new router. My old router died after, unbeknownst to me, suffering a slow death. All this time, I thought my internet was just slow or quirky, but in retrospect, it seems my router was just gasping to hang on as long as possible! No wonder I was having so much trouble uploading and downloading files! Now that I have a new router installed, things are getting back to normal, and I can concentrate on getting Chapter 9 (hopefully 10... we'll see...) of Muv-Luv Unlimited done.

Project Updates and More

Blocked by Rapidshare!: Thanks to Kalimutan for giving me heads up on this. Like the pic says, Rapidshare is cracking down on illegal content. Hopefully, they'll eventually leave my stuff alone, but this does mean I need to speed up plans in uploading to other sites, like MediaFire, MegaUpload, Badongo, and such. All torrents are still working and there are many seeders (including myself) still available. So if you missed out on Rapidshare, please try the torrent... otherwise, it'll be a wait before I can upload to other sites. :(

Muv-Luv Unlimited Volume 2: I'm currently still in the middle of translating/editing chapter 9 (and 10)... the first chapter(s) in MLU volume 2. I've been busy tending to other projects, not to mention the occasional sidetracks like being lazy and life's unexpectancies in general, but I hope to be able to complete it by next week. Many thanks for your patience! ^_^;;

Delayed Response: Hey Sabin, sorry for the late response. :( I found out about ImageVenue when I Googled for image hosts back when my problem with HideBehind occurred. I started using it more so on the recommendations of another fellow. I appreciate the additional recommendation, 'tho! :) ImageVenue looks pretty stable!

Manga Fox

I found a suitable manga fan site/image host!

As I said on my last post, I was looking for a new image host, preferably one that has a web gallery. The web gallery thing is just to give manga fans another method of viewing my scanlations, versus downloading files. When I was, again, checking out my blog stat's, someone's web search for Muv-Luv Unlimited lead me to Manga Fox.

Manga Fox is a non-hentai, on-line viewer of many available scanlated mangas out there, including my scanlation of Muv-Luv Unlimited! (In fact, my personal thanks to chiharu-chan for taking the time to post my scanlation on Manga Fox! I am very grateful!). I hope to have my blog posts updated to include the links to each Muv-Luv Unlimited chapter, but in the meantime, those interested can view it online by clicking here.

Check 'em out!

Searching For An Image Host...

The guys behind Hidebehind.com decided to go all commercial and now charge for hosting images. I don't blame 'em for wanting to make a buck, but it did put me in an awkward spot: Hidebehind replaced my images with a PRON gif, so even this blog started showing scenes of PRON! The result: All my links to Hidebehind are now gone. Before all this happened, I really liked Hidebehind since I could upload hentai and non-hentai stuff and tag them appropriately. But now......

I have the hentai stuff somewhat resolved, but I still have to contend with my non-hentai stuff. Right now, all my posts for Muv-Luv Unlimited are left "image-less"! I've been trying out different hosts, including a couple who seem to have died after just a couple of days of signing up! I'll probably resort to Blogspot for some of the images for now, but it would be nice to have a more stable, non-hentai host where I can post a whole gallery.

Anyhow, I hope some of you have some good suggestions for some good, non-hentai image hosts. Thanks in advance for those who do!