So, since YK&MC ended, Mahou-X and we will --eventually -- catch up to and finish the manga. After that, a few of the core members of Yankee Goon scans, including me, want to continue scanlating. We're interested in good, but little-known or dropped manga, like YK&MC was a couple of years ago before it started getting quite popular among the online manga fan community.
We were wondering if you readers had any ideas or suggestions to toss out. Personally I've had my eye on Hana No Asukagumi, as I'm kind of interested in doing more manga with a yankees/delinquents-with-a-heart-of-gold theme. But I'm open to pretty much anything that's not-creepy and seemingly forgotten, these sorts of "hidden gems".
DrSunshine
The official site/blog for the Somethingawful goon-run project to translate Yankee-Kun & Megane-Chan, by Miki Yoshikawa. Our sister group is Mahou-X.
How about Magic Ban: Hyde and Closer?
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy Barakamon. Bliss is doing that series but they make very little visible progress, and it doesn't seem to be their priority series though.
ReplyDeleteanything but shoujo manga
ReplyDeleteRenai Kaidan sayoko-san: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=48943
ReplyDeleteMonthly manga that's still fairly new, so it's hard to predict where it will go, but so far it's been very interesting and enjoyable. No releases in 5 months suggests the scanlators dropped it.
What about super dreadnought girl 4946?
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know nobody continued translating it and the chapter only comes out once a month.
Even though it's really different compared to YK&MC since it's more sci-fi than daily (real?) life.
Durarara manga .A.
ReplyDeleteSuper Dreadnaught Girl 4946 is a giantess fetish manga for creepy people with a giantess fetish, so no.
ReplyDeleteHowbout Shikabane Hime? Dynasty have only released 18 Chapters, and their release schedule imho sucks (3-4 months between chapters)
ReplyDeleteor Rideback? Semi-sports manga with fightan. Had an anime a few years back, though I've no idea how well it followed the manga (Complete at 10 Volumes, only scanned to vol 2 ch 7)
Those are the only ones I can think of atm..
Hmmm...Moyashimon would be nice :S
ReplyDeletemy vote go to kamen no maid guy, is droped en chap 9
ReplyDeletehow about platinum garden, has comedy, drama and totally not enough attention by scanlators?
ReplyDeleteor what about ghost hunt?
here's another one, 'only you' by author SUETSUGU Yuki? that has stop the translation at chapter 11 years ago, it good story and supernatural/ESP.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'd love to see Moyashimon get some love.
ReplyDeleteEvil Heart
ReplyDeleteHaru to Natsu!!!
ReplyDeleteSeigi no Mikata!!!
ReplyDeleteMoyashimon, Rideback and Yurara are great too.
Moyashimon, as much as I'd like to take it on, is out, because it's been licensed in the US.
ReplyDeleteI like AMAI SEIKATSU, but anyone take. This my suggestion AMAI SEIKATSU.
ReplyDeleteDurarara manga, please!
ReplyDeleteGINTAMA
ReplyDeleteGintama would be awesome
ReplyDeletehow about dear school gang leader?
ReplyDeleteBari Haken
ReplyDeleteI thought Gintama was being scanlated by someone else already. Did they drop it?
ReplyDeleteYeah, according to this: http://hiwamatanoboru.com/projects/
ReplyDeleteThey're still doing Gintama.
i really like last inning
ReplyDeleteRobot (Manga title)
ReplyDeleteMaybe "Kurosagi"?
ReplyDeleteIt has already finished, but scanlated only to chapter 37. Although another group recently picked it up, but who knows how long they will last (also, their quality is not very good so far).
ohhh durarara is a good one
ReplyDelete!!!
How about cuticle detective inaba or ookami-san to shichinin no chuugentachi. They both only have 1 chapter scanlated but they are interesting. You would have to read them to see their awesomeness, they are both promising. Since you could find them on mangafox and actually read them that assures they aren't licensed.
ReplyDeletei would like to see Hammer Session! finished. both the groups doing it dropped it though so that makes me think there was a problem finding raws D:
ReplyDeleteChoku! (http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=39778) or Katekin (http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=12734)
ReplyDeleteGanota no Onna (http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=14815) or Heaven!! (http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=716)
ReplyDeleteThe group that worked on Heaven!! is inactive and there's still one Volume to go (or three, if you want to start from scratch).
Update: time is slipping away due to returning to education and a potential job, so it'll take a while longer before I can learn to clean...
ReplyDeleteDidn't wanna post till I found a manga, but an old one I stalled(due to Village Idiot Scans having to stall it I think) was "Go! Tenba Cheerleaders". Stars a delinquent trying to fix his ways or something like that. It's a comedy adventure. There is fanservice, but not copious amounts of it. I think VI scans seem to want to continue it, but they're in need of both a translator and a cleaner for it (along with all of their other projects).
You should do blazer drive
ReplyDeleteGuys, sorry to be negative with every post--Haven't had time to check out all the others you've all recommended -- just want to point something out: Our translator team are all female, and have specifically stated that they do not want to translate any mangas with fanservice/ecchi material, so please do not recommend them for us. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHammer Session and Heaven!! seem pretty cool. I'll run it by them.
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei - A lot of the translated chapters are spread all over the place. Would be nice to get chapters translated in order.
ReplyDeleteYou guys could try and finish Crows, the current group that was doing it hasn't been heard from since January when they said they'd keep doing releases. It's a delinquent manga, and theres no fanservice/ecchi material. Well, there is pretty much no females to be seen in the series aside from a few panels lol. Last release was 217 days ago. Pretty much about youths and their love for fighting.
ReplyDeleteSZS would be a bitch with all the little extra cultural stuff. Crows-- now that'd be a good idea. I like that manga.
ReplyDeletehow bout otogi matsuri...
ReplyDeleteHi I know a pretty good manga that had been forgotten.. It has a pretty nice story and a Yankee attitude protagonist to add. :D
ReplyDeleteMel Kano
Here are others that I believe had become hidden treasures as well. :)
Boku No Watashi No Yusha Gaku
Let's Lagoon
pleaseee let it be a funny one like YK&MC!
ReplyDeleteAnother deliquent manga you could work on is Shonan Junai Gumi, the prequel to Great Teacher Onizuka. It's rather long and so far scans only cover about half of the 30 or so volumes.
ReplyDeleteGunslinger Girl hasn't been updated in awhile, not too long though so yea. Acony also hasn't been updated in awhile and there's only like 1 volume to translate.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above post about Shonan Junai Gumi. That should be scanlated.
second shonan junai gumi its definitely a good one to pick
ReplyDeletehow about scanlating saint young men....
ReplyDeletepls scanlate saint young men.... we want to see buddha and jesus in manga....
ReplyDeleteSeto no Hanayome needs volumes 14-16 translated I believe. It's a comedy, I haven't read it but the anime kicked ass.
ReplyDeleteI wish you could translate Coppelion as only 2 from 11 volumes are translated (RAWs are available) and manga is still ongoing. I rly enjoyed reading this manga ;]
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=32077
Hahahaha. St. Young Men is AWESOME
ReplyDelete"akagami no shirayuki-hime" please!! unless it is being scanalated already, the next chapter hasn't come up in a while...
ReplyDeleteif it is being scanalated then never mind i guess, and keep up the good work!
Saint Young Men!!! :D
ReplyDeletesaint young men would be awesome
ReplyDeletegetbackers plz that keeps getting dropped like now tomorrow
ReplyDeleteWell, the only manga that I can see that actually seems a bit like YM is probably D-Frag!. It's actually quite funny, and it involves a high school setting, delinquents, romance, comedy, and a group of random but awesome characters, much like YM.
ReplyDeleteOh, here's the link to the manga D-Frag! if you guys want to help this manga out.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangafox.com/manga/d_frag/
how about rubbers 7. ping pong and yakuza(-ish)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1332
how about some nyankoi!
ReplyDeleteJust read Hana No Asukagumi and its awesome. I cant believe more people dont support it. Please continue it.
ReplyDeleteyey!!! saint young men!!
ReplyDeleteD-Frag is pretty funny, but it just updated yesterday!
ReplyDeleteHey, how about Junai Tokkou Taichou!? It's quite interesting, funny, delinquency, got romance in it and no one is continuing with translating and I've been waiting for aaaages. The chapter ends at volumne 6.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangafox.com/manga/junai_tokkou_taichou/
Here's the summary.
Chiemi Yusa's high-school record is far from perfect. She's already been suspended twice for fighting, and she's not even half-way through her first year! In danger of getting expelled for starting yet another brawl, her teacher approaches her with an unexpected offer: get her classmate Akifumi Deranged Devil Hirata, the nastiest fighter in the whole school, to clean up his act, and her record will officially be cleared. Reluctantly she accepts, and immediately goes on the attack. But as she's waiting for him to retaliate, she discovers that he has more in store for her than just a fight! From the creator of Girl Got Game and Heaven!! comes a rollicking brawl of a good time as the roughest guy and girl in school get themselves into trouble--and find themselves in love.
Oh, forgot to say that you can read the first two chapters if you find it interesting, but if you are not, then it's fine, you don't have to. Also it's not ecchi that's for sure ^^
ReplyDeleteHow about Ransetsuki? No ecchi, and it's Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Supernatural. The scanlation team who's doing it is planning to drop it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=13077
i just read "Junai Tokkou Taichou?!"
ReplyDeleteit was great, thank you piacine for the recommendation
How about Dansai bunri no crime edge, I'm sure very few people have heard of that manga
ReplyDeleteDOUBLE J
ReplyDeleteHIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
how bout finishing yankee even if you guys only had 5 chapters left thats still plenty of time to decide
ReplyDeletelast inning is good
ReplyDeletehttp://senbonzakura.kageyoshi.net/
ReplyDelete^ For everyone wanting to learn to clean manga. Not sure if it's the quality everyone wanted.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/ningen_kyouki_katsuo/?no_warning=1
ReplyDeleteMaybe this?
Zero In
ReplyDeleteGekka Bijin would be a good one. It's a monthly shonen manga that has awesome characters and art but no one has done any more translations for it in quite a while. It's only been running for about a year so there aren't too many chapters to go through in order to catch up.
ReplyDeleteMay I suggest "Pastel"? It's a pretty good story, quite interesting. It's currently a Noobiesnack project, but they seem to be dropping it soon.
ReplyDelete@Draven
ReplyDeleteYES X3!!!!
Pastel is awesome. The only way to describe it would be:
Pastel. Awesome. I jizzed my pants. 'nough said.
wow, I was reading "Junai Tokkou Taichou!" it was amazing! I loved it! it was so funny and cute! xD
ReplyDeleteHow come no one mentioned Cromartie High School? ( http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1340 )
ReplyDeleteI find the lack of cromartie disturbing
ReplyDeleteI might note that you might be getting slightly ahead of yourself already planning new things when there's still so much to do on this series and also there hasn't been any for months now.
ReplyDeletehow about gintama
ReplyDeleteMaybe you guys can do Rabuyan since no groups have picked it up and the ones that did dropped it. There hasn't been a new chapter in , i think, almost a year which breaks my heart.
ReplyDeleteHow about JIN? It's about a modern-day brain surgeon who travels back in time to the Meiji era. No one's ever scanlated the manga, but it was the basis of two super-popular live-action series. The characters and situations are interesting, the storyline intriguing.
ReplyDeleteJIN on mangaupdates
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=13334
JIN on dramawiki
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/JIN
Barihaken
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=26484
From mangaupdates
"This is a story about an otaku that turns out to be the leader of a bunch of delinquents, but he's hiding his true self. His goal, get a girlfriend who resembles his anime characters. "
I can definitely see you guys transitioning to thus from Yankee, they have same "feel" to it. Read a couple chapters in, I'm sure you'll like it.
The entire thing is only 4 volumes long, the group that is scanlating it have translated Volume and around 3/4 of volume 2. They have had this project on hold for nearly 4 months now, and they don't seem to be able to pull the people to start it up again. Perhaps a joint?
Their site
http://projectbitemescans.blogspot.com/
Kunimitsu no Matsuri 5 years since last release :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=457
Kongou Banchou
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=22376
or
Noritaka
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=554
Please could you give us a few Yankee Kun chapters good sir.
ReplyDeleteTeppuu. Martial arts manga thats gotten a grand total of three updates so far this year.
ReplyDeletecan you have 2 scans for one manga right? if so do gintama
ReplyDeleteKotaro Makaritoru (and its sequels Shin Kotaro Makaritoru & Shin Kotaro Makaritoru L) is a series from the 80s which has action, hilarity, romance/bromance, and crazy epic high-school martial arts battles with gangs/delinquents/other clubs. May not be your translators' cup of tea tho (main character is a super-perv) but the series is relatively tame by today's standards. Has been stalled since 2004.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2991
Scans and raws are here: http://www.mediafire.com/?82khclenb54j7
Sorry to re-open a (maybe) closed discussion, but didi you settle on a title yet? What will you be translating next? =)
ReplyDeleteNot to be obvious, but NoobieScans is gone (shame) and Pastel officially dropped. =P