Mazel Tov!! :D
We're working on 155-157 as I write this and we ought to release at the end of the coming week. (So give it till next Thursday).
155-- Typeset, SFXed, basically done, waiting on proofreading checks.
156-- Working on SFXs
157-- SFX done, waiting to be typeset.
I want everyone to think of a dance, execute it and then post the results here when we release.
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.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Ideas?
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
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
Monday, July 18, 2011
PHEW GOD
Want your bad, bad romance...
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
PHEW. God, this was way too long in the process. Basically the issue is cleaners -- we need cleaners who, essentially, have lots of free time on their hands. Also, someone promised to do extra, but then had to go on vacation and couldn't find where she'd left the cleaned chapters! I even had to do SFX myself! The moral of this story is: "Always back up your stuff in many places, and inform your team beforehand if something unexpected happens."
What I mean by this is: If you've basically read our chapters, you know what kind of quality we expect from cleaners, so if you think you can do that, please please sign up to help us, and we would be more than happy to send you a Google wave invite.
Also, Mahou-X: It seems we're going to be busy for the next release. If you guys are really ahead, go ahead and do 161-163 for us.
Dr Sunshine
EDIT: Also, I know that ch149's title is not there. Nobody provided me with a translation for it in the script. ='(
EDIT2: The title of chapter 149 (thanks to Anon and other people) is "Love's Invasion <3 Armageddon". This has been corrected in the latest update.
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
PHEW. God, this was way too long in the process. Basically the issue is cleaners -- we need cleaners who, essentially, have lots of free time on their hands. Also, someone promised to do extra, but then had to go on vacation and couldn't find where she'd left the cleaned chapters! I even had to do SFX myself! The moral of this story is: "Always back up your stuff in many places, and inform your team beforehand if something unexpected happens."
What I mean by this is: If you've basically read our chapters, you know what kind of quality we expect from cleaners, so if you think you can do that, please please sign up to help us, and we would be more than happy to send you a Google wave invite.
Also, Mahou-X: It seems we're going to be busy for the next release. If you guys are really ahead, go ahead and do 161-163 for us.
Dr Sunshine
EDIT: Also, I know that ch149's title is not there. Nobody provided me with a translation for it in the script. ='(
EDIT2: The title of chapter 149 (thanks to Anon and other people) is "Love's Invasion <3 Armageddon". This has been corrected in the latest update.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Current Status
149 - Translated. Proofreading!!
150 - Translated. Finished lettering, SFX ~80%.
151 - Translated. All done!!
150 - Translated. Finished lettering, SFX ~80%.
151 - Translated. All done!!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Explanation
You guys really do deserve an explanation. We're soooooooo late, because a lot of stuff came up at once: cleaners going on vacation all at the same time and starting summer classes, and people disappearing and reappearing left and right.
I really do apologise, but as the editor and not a guy who knows a whole lot about Japanese / has a lot of skill when it comes to redraws, there is not a whole lot I could do.
So sorry. We should get the next chapter or two up in the next week or so.
I really do apologise, but as the editor and not a guy who knows a whole lot about Japanese / has a lot of skill when it comes to redraws, there is not a whole lot I could do.
So sorry. We should get the next chapter or two up in the next week or so.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Birthday Gift
Wewt wewt.I'm 23 today, it was just Memorial Day yesterday, and we have 3 chapters for you (and Mahou-X will probably follow up with the next 3 so it's 6 for you lucky folks!).
Enjoy!
DOWNLOAD:
143
144
145
I'm in a reflective mood tonight, so I'm going to reflect on what's happened with Yankee Goon since we began to help scanlate this manga. Cue the wavy water transition and the harp sound effect. It seems like forever ago, but we first uploaded our translations with chapter 63, on the 23rd of December, 2009. That's about a year and five months ago. Since then we and Mahou-X have managed to reach chapter 145! That's 82 chapters as of this posting - 82 chapters in 73 weeks, about 1.12 chapters a week. So we do in fact release a bit faster than the weekly chapters!
With the manga ending at 211, that means there's 66 chapters left. And, at a rate of about 1.12 chapters a week, that's about 59 more weeks. Sure it sounds like a lot, but hey, that means you'll have new Yankee-Kun every week (or ... 6 every month, depending on whether or not one group or the other gets tied up in REAL LIFE SHIT), for more than another year or thereabouts. We'll be able to "delay" the "end" of the manga (in English at least) for that long, so that's nice. And considering it was only first picked up for scanlations about a year after it had already been serialized, you really can't fault those of us who picked it up after it had already started.
Anyways, it's been a lot of work, but super rewarding. I'm looking forward to finishing working on YK&MC and to further collaborations with Mahou-X.
DrSunshine
EDIT: Shit. I meant to introspect and say profound words about my experience so far as Chief Editor / Head Sorta Guy of YG, but, being a math/science kind of fella I ended up writing a report instead. D:
EDIT2: Woops. Stoichiometry fail. 66 chapters /1.12 chapters/week = 59 weeks. Haha.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Latest Chapter in Chinese
Can any of y'all read Chinese?
Cuz here's the latest chapter that the Chinese scanlators have done.
Spoilers: It looks like a timeskip, and Chiba and Kumagawa have totally gotten together. Yey. :3 And still no Adachi in sight! What the fuck! And why is everyone all like "GYAA" at Shinagawa? Fff, I'm going nuts about this manga ending so soon.
Cuz here's the latest chapter that the Chinese scanlators have done.
Spoilers: It looks like a timeskip, and Chiba and Kumagawa have totally gotten together. Yey. :3 And still no Adachi in sight! What the fuck! And why is everyone all like "GYAA" at Shinagawa? Fff, I'm going nuts about this manga ending so soon.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)