Still not dead Part 3

I had a discussion with my editor earlier regarding my current status as a scanlator. I have no intention of retiring, it's just that lately my drive to get stuff done is hampered by fatigue from work. After this week the kids will finally be out of school, and I'll be able to use my remaining paid vacation days without any issue. If I have a few days to rest up, I can start to get back into the swing of things and hopefully back into a routine that allows me to continue scanlating even after school starts back up again.

Still not dead Part 2

My how time flies. I was checking Stu-hiro's blog today, only to discover that's he's just started his latest work! It's a samurai manga called Bakamatsu Alien. I've got a copy of the raw coming in the mail soon but I haven't discussed doing the series with Conan yet. The first chapter is a whopping 60 pages.

Here's a breakdown of our current status:

Yellow Pop: Only one chapter left, but I keep getting distracted by random crap. I have some free time this weekend, so I'm considering finally finishing it. Obviously though, I say a lot of things that don't always happen :P

Negative Twin Towers: I have all of the latest raws including some very nice tank scans thanks to Conan. It's basically been put on hold this whole time because we were planning on finishing Yellow Pop first but obviously that's taken much longer than we wanted.

Otaku no Musume-san: I have everything I need save for the omake pages from the final volume(I can't seem to find a raw of it anywhere). This is pretty low on my priority list though since we still haven't even started NTT yet, and the arrival of Stu-Hiro's newest series is pretty big news.

Other: There are 4 more random dojin I translated a long time ago but haven't had them edited yet. Conan and I are planning on releasing them some time after Yellow Pop is finished. Otaku no Triangle is probably next on my list in regards to doujinshi I want to translate. I have many others I want to do, but right now doujinshi in general is probably a ways off since I really need to start working on our regular projects.

Still not dead

Hey there. As you can see, I'm still not dead. If you haven't visited Conan's site yet, you should check it out and grab the latest chapter of Yellow Pop that we did. There's only one more left and I'm hoping to get it done soon. I also managed to get a copy of Stu-Hiro's latest dojin, Otaku no Triangle(it has no relation to Otaku no Musume-san whatsover). Sadly, I don't feel like destroying my only copy to make decent scans of it, so unless somebody knows where I can get scans of it, I'm going to make a cam raw of it. Work is going to return to normal for me soon, so I'm hoping to get some work done on stuff I've been putting off before my next vacation in three weeks.

Happy Birthday Kanau!

It's worth noting that since this year is a leap year, Kanau's actual birthday does occur. She turned 10 years old two months after the 71st Comic Market, so she should be 15 now(or 4 by Nicchi's logic). I myself turned 27 three days ago.

On an unrelated note, I finished translating Yellow Pop 9 several days ago, but Conan is busy taking care of his backlog of scripts from other translators. I've only barely started working on Yellow Pop 10. Work continues to keep me busy when I least expect it.

Stuff

No, I'm not dead. Just been distracted by work and tons of other crap in real life at the moment. Before the end of April I will finish the remaining two chapters of Yellow Pop followed by an original doujinshi I've been working on for Conan. After that I will attempt to resume work on regular translation stuff(i.e. Negative Twin Towers and older chapters of Otaku no Musume-san that have not been done by Nicchi yet).

I realize the release pages are now fairly outdated since the Megaupload fiasco, but I'm pretty sure there's still at least one working link for everything. At some point I will get around to re-uploading everything so that the OnM releases on that page are the newest versions.

Merry Christmas from Nicchi Scans

Merry Christmas everybody. Obviously there haven't been any releases lately as I've been pretty busy with work these days. My break just started though, and aside from a trip to Tokyo for Comiket, I'm going to have lots of free time to work on stuff I've been putting off. Look forward to seeing some new releases here after the year ends.

Upcoming Projects

Just as Conan announced earlier on his blog, we will be picking up the series Negative Twin Towers. I first want to finish the last two chapters of Yellow Pop before I begin translating this series, and I'm also kind of busy at the moment studying for the N1 Japanese Language Proficiency Test in December. I intend to have some chapters done before then, but the releases will probably come out slowly until after my exam is finished.

Most of the omake pages for Otaku no Musume-san are ready, but I'm going to wait until the last volume gets released in December so I can include the omake pages from that as well. As for re-translating the older chapters that haven't been done by Nicchi-scans before, I won't be doing those until I've at least translated a significant portion of Negative Twin Towers. So probably a couple of months from now at the very least.