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.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Good news!
I'm working on typesetting 162 today. The script and sfx for 161 will be done soon.
We're working BACKWARDS
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We're working BACKWARDS
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Piecemeal... or not?
We have 163 ready but we're still working on 161-162. The question then remains, if you want to download and read them out of order? We'll leave that choice up to you.
I don't consider this a "real" release, but I feel guilty that we don't have something to show.
I don't consider this a "real" release, but I feel guilty that we don't have something to show.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The Decline in Published Manga Translation Quality
A professional manga translator weighs in.
Now, this is something I've noticed when looking at a lot of Yen Press manga. Things like Cage of Eden, Soul Eater and High School of the Dead. I don't know, maybe I just happened to grow up or get into manga at a time when a huge amount of effort was made into translating and relettering them -- all of the manga that I first read were always flipped, sound effects-ed, and written with literate quality English.
Viz seems to have stayed rather average, and quite above average with their releases of manga such as 20th Century Boys, but Yen Press's translations are internet scanlation quality. There was even a bubble where a character said "chivalry" and it had been left typoed as "chivarly". I can tolerate not seeing sound effects translated, but that is just very unprofessional.
That's why it's my policy for Yankee Goon Scans that we reletter sound effects and try to do a naturalistic dialogue style-- I'm just applying the standards that I was used to as a reader. It kind of pains me to see physical, hardcopy manga released by companies that are getting paid for their work, have such a slapdash level of quality.
Now, this is something I've noticed when looking at a lot of Yen Press manga. Things like Cage of Eden, Soul Eater and High School of the Dead. I don't know, maybe I just happened to grow up or get into manga at a time when a huge amount of effort was made into translating and relettering them -- all of the manga that I first read were always flipped, sound effects-ed, and written with literate quality English.
Viz seems to have stayed rather average, and quite above average with their releases of manga such as 20th Century Boys, but Yen Press's translations are internet scanlation quality. There was even a bubble where a character said "chivalry" and it had been left typoed as "chivarly". I can tolerate not seeing sound effects translated, but that is just very unprofessional.
That's why it's my policy for Yankee Goon Scans that we reletter sound effects and try to do a naturalistic dialogue style-- I'm just applying the standards that I was used to as a reader. It kind of pains me to see physical, hardcopy manga released by companies that are getting paid for their work, have such a slapdash level of quality.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Please Rehost, Share, Distribute, Hand Out and Spread YKMC
Let me get things straight: We don't give a fuck about online readers rehosting our scans.
We want you to rehost our scans. We want you to download our zip files and share them among your friends, print them out and hand them out on the street, do whatever you like to distribute and spread them far and wide. Yankee Goon Scans is about releasing this entertaining manga to the masses, and by golly, if the masses want to share it with the world, who are we to stop them?
So don't worry-- get the word out! We're behind you 100%!
We want you to rehost our scans. We want you to download our zip files and share them among your friends, print them out and hand them out on the street, do whatever you like to distribute and spread them far and wide. Yankee Goon Scans is about releasing this entertaining manga to the masses, and by golly, if the masses want to share it with the world, who are we to stop them?
So don't worry-- get the word out! We're behind you 100%!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
156 Three Weeks Late
Really sorry, folks. Some of our cleaners had internet issues and stuff to deal with.
FUCK we really let you down when we said it'd be the week after. I really can't apologise enough. 157 will be coming a lot sooner, though, since we have the pages all cleaned and ready for typesetting. Just... not today. I rushed this chapter out today because I wanted to get things done ASAP, and I can't do any more right now.
156 DDL
FUCK we really let you down when we said it'd be the week after. I really can't apologise enough. 157 will be coming a lot sooner, though, since we have the pages all cleaned and ready for typesetting. Just... not today. I rushed this chapter out today because I wanted to get things done ASAP, and I can't do any more right now.
156 DDL
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