Saturday 12 December 2009

Yononaka v03 c11!!!

It seems I only post at odd hours. But no worries for I have managed to finish another chapter! Yay!

For this release I downloaded so many different fonts, and half of them aren't even any good:D But as you'll see, there's more variation. So be sure to comment on the font and its size for it is larger than last time. I dont't know why, but it just happened.

I was also thinking that when Fushichou releases their chapter I'll evaluate my actual abilities on scanlating and then decide whether to go on or not. Because if my translation differs drastically from theirs, I'm a failure, you know.

Ok, the time is late (or early) and I'm going to have a nice cigarette. By the way, what do you think about my logo? I was just having fun with GIMP and then it just happened. It looks like a smoking chicken to me:D So I tried to find all the Chinese words that pronounce as 'li', but none of them meant bird.

Alright, enough with the smalltalk - Mediafire UPDATED!

P.S. I found the (probable) uploader - it's Junko from Aarinfantasy! So next time I'll credit him/her correctly.

40 comments:

  1. I think my trans similar with yours, I just took a quick look on the raws though. It's ok ^ ^ just be more self-confident and thanks so much for the release >__< Yononaka is the yaoi title I really love the most!

    ReplyDelete
  2. ampersand said:
    Oh, please do keep going on! Thank you so much for another release and so fast too! *Squeal* I haven't read it yet, so I'll have to comment on the font after reading. ^_^

    ReplyDelete
  3. If I only had to translate, I could give you releases almost every other day. But the editing is what takes the life out of me, cause the scans have a really nasty shadow on one side, and I'm usually just painting what I can white and then tweaking the colouring and sharpness on the details. That's why it takes me two nights to fully complete a chapter. But I just can't not edit and give you ugly scans, it's just not my nature:D Although they are hardly first-class.

    So, thanks for the comments, and I'm off to bed, it's almost 6 am here and my weekend is filled with supposed studying;)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thank you so much for another release and super quick too! When I first saw your logo, I just thought it was boldly unique. Please keep up the awesome work! ^_^

    ReplyDelete
  5. I gasped out loud when I saw that there was a new release! XD Thank you so much for doing this for us.

    What a hot chapter. I'm really starting to wonder who's going to end up with whom. O_o Tsumugi seems to be loved by everyone at this point. lol.

    As far as your scanlating job is concerned, you're font choices and sizes blended right in. :) I really wish I could help you out with the page cleaning, but I'm not very experienced with photoshop. (I'm a graphic design major, but I haven't taken an indepth course on photoshop yet.) I could do the whiting definitely, I think I could do the color tweaking, but I really can't remember how to sharpen an image (or parts of an image). :/ If you send me an example page I could see if I can figure it out.

    Unless you'd rather just do it yourself, which is completely understandable.

    Ah, but this is primarily a thank you note, because there is no one more awesome than Mad Li at this moment. lol

    ReplyDelete
  6. thank you for all the hard work!!

    Fushichou releases are ok (i think their older releases use to kind of hurt my already bad eyes sometimes tho, lol...) and the quality of yours don't look too bad either. All your hard work isn't going to waste so I do hope you continue with your releases too.

    At first when I glanced at you logo i though the "li" were just connected bows, lol. On a closer observation it does indeed look like some type of bird, lol.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Thank you! This release really make me grinning ^^

    ReplyDelete
  8. Thank you for the releases!
    I like your logo

    ReplyDelete
  9. You know what? I love you. Don't be scared. I mean it platonically. ^_~

    I never thought that I'd get to see more of "Yononaka". Fushichou seems to be slowing down their releases, so I'm worried that they're not going to complete the series. I thought it was doomed. Because I can't read Japanese, I thought that I'd have to make up my own story to go along with the pretty pictures. My story wasn't very good. It was rather silly and improbable. The twins became super-heroes saving mankind from hetrosexuality in my version.

    But you came to my rescue! Thank you so, so, so much! <3 <3 <3

    I'm sorry. I'm being weird, I know. I just got home from an all-day outing after getting 3 hours' sleep and being forced to eat raw fish on a bed of salad greens with a penut butter flavored sauce for dinner. I'll stop now. XD

    ReplyDelete
  10. Hey, guys, I'm up:D Again. About the scans, I thought I'd try some others from Aarin as well, maybe some of them are better:P

    BTW, if you're on Aarin, I'm kickedout, but I hardly hang out there anymore...:(

    This chap was quite the challenge to translate, so hopefully I hit it close to home:D

    OK, I'll walk my dog now, or else she's gonna pee her pants.

    P.S. death, how would your working hours be? are you a very busy person? I'll try some other scans and if that doen't work out, we'll see what you can do;)

    ReplyDelete
  11. THANK YOU!!!!!!! (a million times) I love this series and thank you so much for continuing with it, and fushichou is taking far too log in scanlating this that I am glad to read some more of it!!!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Oh my god!Thank you very much for picking up this manga!It has been forever since I read an English release,you are a life saver ^^
    If you do not have enough time to clean/typeset I can do the editing for you (and with great pleasure)Here is a few cleaned pages for your reference
    http://www.box.net/shared/b9vyo3pkrj

    ReplyDelete
  13. Thank you so much for the translation, you did a very good job!!! ;o) I love this manga and all Takaguchi works.

    ReplyDelete
  14. @Mad Li
    I have all the time in the world really, since I'm taking some time off college for financial reasons. (If I live here just a bit longer I can get in state tuition.) On top of which I'm a bit bored and wouldn't mind a challenge to improve my skills. Basically, I'm a prime candidate. Pick me. :P

    I was a bit nosey, and took a look at Julia's scans. They seem to be losing midtones, but that could be due to her source image. (Sorry. Art major.) Other than that they look good to me. How fast could you scanlate with two cleaners? :O


    @beloved828
    I can't resist saying that I loved reading your comment. It has style. ;)

    ReplyDelete
  15. Thanks for another chapter.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Oh,you're right about the midtones Mad Li ^^;;
    I can't say that I'm a pro @ cleaning,but I love this manga so much,so I wanted to be a part of it somehow and acted nosey myself.Since you have time and want to improve yourself,I guess a cleaner won't be needed ^^;;;

    Here is a re-leveled page,if you think an extra cleaner would be better,I can clean a chapter within 2 days ^^

    http://i45.tinypic.com/imhxe0.jpg

    Thanks again for scanlating this manga ^^

    ReplyDelete
  17. OK, actually until June I am supposed to be very busy, since I'm getting my baccalaureate (apparently bachelor's degree for you). So, I have to start working on collecting data from various articles on stable isotopes in bird migration. I think you can guess how much free time I should be having. But the point is I like doing this, bringing joy to people:D So obviously I'm going to take a little time here and there to bring you as many releases as possible.

    death, Julia, how about I'll upload you a page and you'll get it back to me as nice as you want it. There's no need to rush, quality over speed. Mostly, the part I'm struggling with is Tsumugi's hair, that is a bitch to work on.
    I'm assuming you both run Windows and use Photoshop? I have no idea if and how much it is better than GIMP, but we'll see, won't we:D
    http://www.mediafire.com/?1fw2mfyjmmy

    ReplyDelete
  18. Oh, and death, I don't think my scans are any better than Julia's:D

    Most of the RAWs I've got are excellent, some varying in colour, but mostly ok. There's only this one chap that has been scanned from a magazine, and that's pretty awful, esp when you view it in actual size. But that's just something we have to deal with:D

    ReplyDelete
  19. I don't know mch about scanlation but i think that yu did a good job and thanks again for the release.

    ReplyDelete
  20. THANK YOU for the release! This has been my favorite series for. like. EVER. <333

    ReplyDelete
  21. @Julia
    Julia, that was me, not Mad Li! Come back! (and I think I might like your original edit better, to be honest. I'm just a noob. Don't listen to me.)


    @Mad Li
    Oh, no. I didn't mean to imply that I know what I'm doing. lol I can already tell that Julia knows her way around photoshop way better than I do.

    So, here's a status update. I finished the page. Removing the shadow on the edge was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Because you mentioned sharpening the image, and because I didn't really know what I was doing I used the default settings, and I think it came out too sharp. :/ At least I think that's what's causing the weird hair textures. What do you think? Any tips would be appreciated. (For a first try, I think it's pretty good. :P)

    http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q205/alagra/testdone.png


    Do you think I should redo it? I'm getting the hang of this now, so I should be pretty fast from here on out. ;)


    (Stable isotopes in bird migration? That blows my mind. Is it as interesting as it sounds?)

    ReplyDelete
  22. death, did you purposefully make the image smaller or did photobucket? Because I'd really like it in original size, so I can better see the details. If it's photobucket, then mail me the pic at madlikene @ aim.com

    Believe me, stable isotopes may sound interesting, but boy are the articles in a very scientific language.

    ReplyDelete
  23. Oh, btw, where are you both from?

    ReplyDelete
  24. Here is mine,
    http://i45.tinypic.com/9kwfsz.jpg
    http://i49.tinypic.com/28u09z6.jpg

    Sorry death,I didn't notice it was you,I saw "Mad Li" at the beginning of your post and didn't check the rest.I think your cleaning is pretty good,probably better than mine,but I cleaned the pages anyway.

    Mad Li,well,I have the raws until volume 7 -might be same as yours- and they are very good as you told before(some are even leveled/clean),but this particular chapter (v3) is a little problematic ^^;;; hope it is okay ^^

    Cheers

    ReplyDelete
  25. I meant,hope my cleaning is okay,I'm a ditzy when I wake up, lol

    ReplyDelete
  26. OK, Julia, not as good as I'd like it with Tsumugi's hair, but definitely a great job! Though I must remind you not to scale the images to your liking, all of them are supposed to be 700 pixels in width (this particular one was 701, for final editing I would have chopped of the excessive pixel).

    I'll go back to identifying my bacteria now and doing my Jap task, which is to watch a drama series:D Ain't I lucky?

    ReplyDelete
  27. So happy to discover someone's taking this title in charge again !
    I was sad to see Hochuuami had to drop it off.

    Thanks so much for your work ^_^ !

    ReplyDelete
  28. Oops. That was photobucket's doing. I've emailed you a copy of mine. Looking at it today I can tell that I'm going to have to redo it. There were a ton of mistakes I made that I didn't notice yesterday. Julia's looks so nice in comparison. :P

    Out of habit I tend to tell people I'm from New England, but I'm actually living in Florida.

    Which drama are you watching? Once I know I can decide whether I'm jealous or not. ;)


    Hey, Julia. Do you remember what changes you made to sharpness, contrast, brightness, levels, etc? It looks much better than what I did.

    ReplyDelete
  29. Hey,death!I think yours was good(I can't see everything clearly since it was a little small, yet it looked really good to me)
    I just leveled the page a few times.I don't change sharpness/brightness/contrast settings,that might make everything more complicated.

    Hi Mad Li,I didn't scale the width or resized the picture;I only cut the edge a little too much perhaps ^^;;; but it can be fixed in a few seconds.

    And good luck with your homework ^^

    ReplyDelete
  30. http://i49.tinypic.com/2v0h8wm.jpg (this is 700 px,with the edge)

    ReplyDelete
  31. @Julia
    So, you didn't sharpen the image at all? :? Must be the effects of leveling. Mine really was noticeably bad close up, but I'm learning, so hopefully it will never happen again. lol

    @Mad Li
    Rather than waste time. I decided to clean up Julia's edit:
    http://i47.tinypic.com/1qlsid.png

    Does it pass your inspection? Also, this was my first time using tinypic, and err it wasn't in english, so I hope I did everything correctly.

    ReplyDelete
  32. I made a few slight changes. This is the real link:
    http://i47.tinypic.com/fkuxx3.png

    ReplyDelete
  33. I noticed something else that was off and fixed it:
    http://i45.tinypic.com/280npj9.png

    I have to stop doing this. It's too bad there's no way to edit comments.

    ReplyDelete
  34. Why the hell did you fail to notify me that on page 7 (I guess) I forgot to finish cleaning:D:D????? I am so ashamed. When I get back home later today, I'll make sure I'll fix that ASAP.

    I can always say that it was very late/early and I was so sleepy, but that's not an excuse to lack in quality.
    NEXT TIME PLEASE POINT OUT THESE KIND OF MISTAKES!!!!! I don't want to look like a slacker, you know.

    death, I'll look at your pic when I get back, but I'll probably need your help anyway, it was made pretty obvious today, with the editing error and all.

    ReplyDelete
  35. Hi Mad Li,

    You're doing a great work! Really love this manga! But it has come to my attention that link for chapter 11 is the same as for chapter 10... and is the same file also. Can you please re-check it?

    Thanks!

    ReplyDelete
  36. Thanks so much for the chapter! Love the logo! And I give a great big vote of consent on Blue Wars if that was ever your planxD LOVE that thing, 'cept it's only available in Chinese and Chinese is, well, Chinese to me, so there's no way for me to understand what's being said.

    THANKS A LOT!!^__^

    ReplyDelete
  37. Only Chinese? I know only a handful of words in Chinese and no grammar:D

    ReplyDelete
  38. Ah. This is a bit late but thanks for the new chapter! <3

    ReplyDelete
  39. wait so can u put up any manga scans? maybe like demon flowers (kuruizaki no hana) ..volume 5 if u can skip to it..? cuz that wud b excellent, i dont care if its still in japanese or if its partially in japanese/english. cuz supposedly its been dropped by tokyopop now after pretty much 2 yrs waiting :/

    ReplyDelete