Thank you, Fan Art and Chapter 16 がはじまった。

C

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Firstly, from both Jackie and I, thank you EVERYONE for all your support. It really cheered us up and we feel much better now. Good NEWS too. Lets move away from the bad stuff.

Chapter 16 has officially started.

As you can see in the progress bar on the top of this post, we have already made some progress. That’s what a progress bar is for. However, regarding the recent bad news, there is something different we will be doing this time, so please, proceed to read.

Chapter 16 download link will not be publicly released. The online reader however, will be free for all to view. Chapter 17’s download link will also be released, but not chapter 16. I know that some of you do like to download the chapters, so it’s not impossible to get it. There will be an apply for download form released when chapter 16 is, so you will need to personally apply for permission to download the file. We will then screen and check that you are worthy to wield the powerful link. Intense. If you are a regular and often comment on the site and have supplied your email in the past you should have nothing to worry about.

Now for the FUN part.

Fan Art.

YES

WE HAVE SOME.

and we are still welcoming more. 

First up we got a little something from BANANA, who I think was trying to help me along in my evil plan to coerce art out of people. Banana, it’s wonderful. Jackie laughed out loud when she saw it. Really, good on you for sending in even sticks ❤

 BEHOLD

Thanks Banana.

Now, all of you have someone else to thank, and that’s VIOLET-SKYA, she has rescued you from my unrelenting terrible fan art after this post. She has done an incredible piece of work which we will feature with chapter 16 in the credits and add both her and Banana’s stuff to the fan-art page on this website. Thank you so much and I am sure everyone will enjoy this.

BEHOLD

Thanks Violet Skya

Now…. finally… that bad news post sort of stopped me from posting some TERRIBLE art I had drawn. So I am going to post it here anyway, hopefully scaring the rest of you into submitting. I swear this is the worst of the lot. And anyway, I was holding back alright! You seemed to be enjoying my terrible fan-art too much… so lets see how you enjoy THIS! This deals with some more random characters, so I thought I’d give you a little reminder of who they are. So…remember when Shitou was called into the principals office to talk with Kaoru’s dad?

 

Hopefully that’s the last you’ll see of my hideous fan-art, thanks to Violet and Banana. Everyone else, please send in more, because it’s badass when you do. (Oh god listen to me I’m sounding so soppy and cheesy, what happened to me someone help me.)

Bad news

It saddens me to say that for once we are bringing you a post on an unfortunate note. The next post I made was supposed to bring a light hearted situation in the form of more terrible fan-art, but that will have to wait until Jackie and I cheer up a bit from this misfortune. 

Some of you may have noticed we had a really rude comment posted recently, and if you didn’t see, you may be the lucky one. Jackie and I remained unphased by this insulting an accusing flame, but, as I had dreaded, and had an inkling that this would happen. (Since there is no proof to link the flaming person to what happened I can not say for certain it was them, by the coincidence makes it highly likely)

Now for what actually happened- You all, loyal, and friendly readers, come to our blog to read chapters early and leave encouraging comments and make us happy, however someone disrespected this, and downloaded all of the chapters we have not posted on the manga readers such as mangafox yet, and uploaded those chapters themselves. This person was not affiliated with us, and I found it very insulting and disrespectful in how we clearly have a policy of releasing chapters on our website here in advance, to you honest people.

This upset both of us, and it makes me wary of trust. I do not want to deprive you guys, who have been so kind to us, because of this one person, but now that this person has made themselves apparent, I am not sure how to stop them from uploading our chapters in the future. I’ve seen scanlator websites have passwords for chapter releases, but I don’t want this to be the case, as it is unfair on the rest of you. If you have any suggestions we welcome them. Hopefully Jackie and I will be able to think about what we will do about it before our next post.

If that person is reading this, what I have to say to you is that you should be ashamed of your disrespect, especially as we disagree with your opinions on this matter and it does not give you a right to do this. But at least you credited us… I suppose. (Jackie also has something to say to you in her half, which I suggest you read since she is much nicer than I am)

I hope I can give you a post continuing with the silly fan art later on, but until then we want to reflect on this. Thank you everyone for your time, and please read Jackie’s section.

-C

Jackie

Jackie: Hi all. It’s been a long time since I’ve written a post. I wasn’t meaning to make my first appearance so depressing, but… sorry. I don’t think I can do funny and happy at the moment.

There are lots of occasions where you realize only after it happens to you, that – while you could understand on a mental and logical level – you could never truly understand the hurt, or joy of something until it happens to you.

Unfortunately, this one’s the former. It’s funny because while it is not our work, it IS our work. So something that is both not ours, and ours was taken without permission and it’s an odd kind of feeling.

When something you’ve worked on for hours and hours is taken from you without your permission, it’s just this messy ball of frustration, anger, and hurt that wells up in your chest and lodges itself there. I didn’t understand why scanlation groups would threaten to end a project if people continued to upload their work to aggregate sites without permission. Now I do.

It’s so tempting to try and punish the one person who hurt you by taking it out on everyone, banning everyone as if to say to the one person “see what you’ve done. You’re the one who’s taken this from them”. But I then I remember all your kind comments and your jokes and support and cheerfulness. And that thought dies.

It’s disheartening though. So this is a shameless plea for some comfort and cookies I guess.

Two more comments before I finish my budging in on Cae’s post.

1. We received a strongly worded concern a day ago that our ending credit page that we uploaded to the aggregate sites (like Mangafox) was very offensive. It was not meant to be. It was meant to be in humor, but I wanted to check. Those of you who read it, were you offended? If you were, I’m very sorry. I promise it was just meant as humor and was not intended to offend.

2. The person who uploaded our latest chapters onto the aggregate sites without seeking our permission first, did credit us when they uploaded. So if you are reading this, thank you for that. But please, please talk to us before you upload our chapters.

-Jackie

 

Also, after all this sombre stuff, is some good news in that we have started chapter 16, an official post should be coming later as well

 

Tut, tut. Still no art </3

Still no fan-art. So here is more from me you don’t want to see.

(see previous post if you are confused)

Involving that guy you all hate at the end of chapter 15 that Jackie has named ‘boxer guy’ and told me she reeeaaallly didn’t want to see this boat.

17k Views and Call to Fan Art

Yesterday/Today we had a new record visitors to the website, we had heaps of comments, with 274  visitors/people and over 17,000 views(each individual page counts as one). THAT’S AMAZING.

I attribute it to my genius of putting up chapter twelve on the manga readers and my fearsome prowess of telling people to comment or else.

While our stats are still going strong, I wanted to do a call to arms before it died down, calling you all to submit in some fan-art.

Some of you may have noticed, there has been one amazing fanart by MP since I made this blog, and as amazing as it was, I wish more people would submit.

And you don’t have to be amazing.

 

I WANT YOUR ‘CRAP’ ART

(And your good art too) BUT also crap art.

I don’t care how bad you draw. I don’t care if you give me a stickman (As long as you put love into it)

I Want your fanart.

Stop being a chicken.

Besides, you can’t get worse than me.

If you have seen some of my awful pictures in the gallery you would know.

 

But because of this I had an evil plan.

Now, I’m new to this ‘Ship’ thing that all the fangirls are going on about. I only recently discovered that it didn’t mean illegally cargo shipping human goods across the ocean on a boat… or something.

So, my dear fans.
If nobody submits fanart, then I am going to continuously draw terrible fan-art that looks horrible and also involves ‘ships’ you would NEVER want to see. EVER. Jackie told me she would cry if she saw some of these ships, so I know you don’t want to see them.

I’ll get working on the one she hates, but in the mean-time, I’ll give you some terribly drawn ships I drew up a few minutes ago.

So you better submit fan-art if you don’t want to see Jackie cry because she will cry at the next one I draw! (I’m also having good fun with this so it will be your fault for feeding my evilness)

 

How to submit Fanart?

(FYI for the newbies: To submit fanart look at the top of the page and hover over the tab that says “Stuff and Stuff” then click on the menu that says “Fan-art” there should be instructions on there to follow and you can see other fan-art.

The form might be on the Stuff and stuff page itself, which you get by just clicking the stuff and stuff tab. Scroll down the page and there should be a form titled “Form for contacting stuff” or something. Use that.

BEHOLD THE SHIPS YOU DON’T WANT

 

1. Kaoru’s Dad and Shitou

 

 

2. Kaoru and Nanae

 

 

3. This sinking ship

 

 

Chapter 15 Released

“Wait what-

But. But. But.

The count-down timer says 22 days!?

I’m not complaining! No way! I’m so happy. You guys are the best!!!!!”

 

Not only am I able to read your thoughts, but I can also officially confirm that we are awesome. And YES, this is not an April fools joke. (Because if it was we would be the fools for doing it 4 days late.)

Jackie and I are feeling pretty smug about it. Well… maybe not smug. Just awesome. We did a massive rush and got it out to you earlier than expected after our months of laziness and postponing.

As you may see, I am trying to follow in Jackie’s footsteps by making my posts more… fun? And visual? But it’s going more along the lines of wondering where the heck do I find these pictures.. and which ones I should use and…

Yeah I don’t think this is my style. Either way, I know you are all looking at me like this

right now.

And Jackie and I will be like this

after you all flood us with comments and love because we love your comments and you love us so you better comment….

OR ELSE.

Anyway. Here are the links for chapter 15.

 

DOWNLOAD LINK (HQ)

Download

 

LINK TO OUR ONLINE READER

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Status Update: Good News~ ;P

Hi all!

Thank you for all your comments and support! … Even with our badness with updating hahaha.

So, mostly out of guilt, we worked like madmen and finished this chapter waaaay before the projected date of release. I’m kinda like this:

right now. xD. I think I made C and I go through 15 pages today. Sooooo tired haha.

This chapter had less speech bubbles, so the majority of the heavy-lifting went to C. So all hail our savior Cae!

Unfortunately, our magnificent editor, who also doubles as the proofreader, went to bed already (timezones and whatnot), so the actual chapter won’t be released until tomorrow when C wakes up. But hey, at least it’s 20 days earlier! (… wow I must be tired. I was typing out “20 years earlier” before I caught myself hahaha).

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The new school year is starting on Monday, and I’m starting to plan out the year so I don’t think we’ll do Chapter 16 soon. We’ll see. >_> Comments help keep our motivation up so come keep us company~ ❤

Til tomorrow!

~Jackie

Page Cleaning Eye Candy

Okay so I know there are some ill-informed patrons out there in this wide world who look and see Jackie is the Translator and Cae is the editor/cleaner/thing, and they look at the page and think “Bah C is so useless why do they even need him whats the point of an editor. Bah how easy can it be to just cover some texts with white blobs hahahaha Jackie could do everything herself just as easily! (Which she used to and was super slow until I rescued her)
And I kind of need to let out my frustration because I work really hard and my work goes unnoticed, because I work really hard and then Jackie goes and covers it up with text again! That evil translator. So today after re-drawing several really tough things I had to redraw, I decided, stuff this, I’m going to show everyone what I accomplish and I’m not useless and I make your life awesome. So There. Take this gorgeous re-drawing master pieces from your most beloved, my fine self.

(Ps. Jackie is still more awesomer because without her your pages would look something like this…)

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THIS PROGRESS BAR IS INACTIVE. Please refer to posts for updates on our progress. We may revive the progress bar later if we do a site redesign.

Pages of Chapter 20 completed.

Goal: 30 Pages

Current: [translated] all [cleaned] all –> [average] all

100%

This does not include QCs and Proofreading

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Chapter 15 – Officially started! REJOICE MY LOVELY READERS! *Cackles*

Hi all!

I’m not brazenly pretending that I haven’t been MIA for forever and a day… *shifty eyes*.

I’ve gotten used to life in Japan. It’s super interesting here. For example, Japan is so technologically advanced and yet most people (at least in kyushu) don’t know computers at all. My students (adorable and super smart) drag and highlight and click. They don’t know any key commands. And when I show them print screen they’re mindblown. It’s so fun.

Another interesting thing is that they have no central heating system. Each classroom has its own designated aircons (that also double as heaters). So you step out of the teacher’s office (the classroom’s are the students’. Not the teachers’. The teacher’s base is the shared teacher’s office), and you freeze your butt off in the halls. As you pass other teachers, the greeting exchanged is: “It’s soooo cold isn’t it?” “Yes, it is! It’s soooo cold!”. And a shared smile. It’s awesome in a killer way haha.

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I just got back from a two day English camp that I co-led. It was so brilliant! But by the time I got back, I was dead. Seriously dehydrated to the point where I was nauseous on the whole bus ride back. By the time I stepped off the bus, my Japanese coworkers who had come out to meet us immediately commented with “Are you tired?”

When I responded with “You can tell?!” They nodded so emphatically and laughed. xD I must’ve looked like this…

In any case, I didn’t mean to spill my life story haha. This is the important part of the post ;P

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Status Update

I’ve officially started cleaning the cover page. It’s almost done. I’ll start translating this week while the students are on spring break. I’ll try and blitz it as much as possible but we’ll see how fast we can get this done. Cae’s unfortunately busy this week too…

Fingers crossed that we’ll have this out for you before end of April ^_^

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I hope that you’re all doing well! I’ve missed talking to you! Please leave a comment if you’re free~

Love as always,

Jackie

Pages of Chapter 15 completed.
Goal: 34 Pages
Start: 0
Current: 1

3%

This does not include QCs and Proofreading

 

 

We will probably do chapter 15 soon

Probably most likely jackie and I have talked about slowly possibly 99% soon near future soon going to start doing chapter 15 soon maybe yes. As soon as we get off our butts.