Promise

I am going to finish Volume 14.  It’s on my to do list.  I realize I’m taking forever, but I’m going to!  I can’t not.  So… yes.  Not dead yet.

Important news about internet scanlation

“Japanese, U.S. Manga Publishers Unite To Fight Scanlations”

If you have not read a variation on this article yet, please take the time to read it now. This is very serious business. Scanlations have been operating in a legal grey area for a while now. You will have noticed that most groups don’t scanlate something after it has been licensed in North America to minimize the chances of their getting a Takedown Notice, but that still doesn’t make it technically legal. While I would argue that scanlations are just a natural trend of the internet obviously old giant publication companies like Kodansha, Sueisha, TokyoPop, Viz et al. don’t feel that way and they are perfectly within their legal right to seek to shut down every scanlation group on the internet. I read a lot of scanlations and it’s disappointing for me too, I don’t want to lose the ability to read so many of my favourite series, but I don’t think they’re worth getting sued over either! I am sure most other scanlation groups on the internet are having this same talk right now and deciding what to do.

I’ll is an old property and Kodansha has bigger titles to deal with, but it still worries me. I’m going to be finishing off Volume 12 translation for sure, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do from there. There are some extreme tactics I could take should they actually start shutting down sites like Mangashare, Onemanga, and MangaStream but it will be a lot of work and mean a lot of hassle for you fans so I would like to put it off if I can. Yet security through obscurity never lasts for long. Mangatraders may already have been taken down.

If you have been reading your manga online and not downloading it to your computer for convenience reasons, if you would like to continue reading it now might be the best time to start downloading. I personally recommend stoptazmo as one of the last bastions of illegality on the internet. It’s not fancy, but it works. A lot of groups might be moving to IRC completely now, like entropy, so now might be the time to learn how to use that for downloading.

The collective we of the internet had a good run of it, but got too big and attracted too much attention. Unfortunately, I predicted this happening a few months ago and it’s not a prediction I’m happy to see come true. But here we are, I’ll take it day by day and you should keep your eyes and ears open too.

sort of a release

Oh my god guys I swear to god I’m going to finish this manga. Also please know I read every comment and email I get sent and I appreciate them all immensely even if I don’t always reply. It is all you fans who are so excited to read and share this manga that is forcing me to finish!

That said, some very smart person over at the downloads page pointed out that the Volume 6 extras are not on the site whose link I put up. So everyone who has visited this site since I put it up has been lacking them all along. Imagine how much of an idiot that makes me feel, and then go download these two extras, Chapters -4 and -5. They are sidestories like all the other minus chapters, and with -5 is a little 00 extra, both centering around Tachibana when he was younger. Needless to say, very cute.

And because I am even more of an idiot I somehow missed out on scanlating Chapter -9 in Volume 10 for three-odd years. So I’ll post the raws and get on a translation at the very least for that.

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