Posted in ramblings on December 7th, 2009 by Deacon Blues
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Winter Update 2009
It’s that time of the year again… you know when I kinda post useless long-winded updates on the blog promising releases and not actually delivering? Well, today marks yet another one of those traditions. Nonetheless, I’m going to outline just where we stand on each of the [dozens of] projects that we currently have open. I’m officially done for the semester on Thursday, December 10th at 9:45am following a wrap-up dialogue with one of my Japanese professors for a project that I was involved in. So without further adieu, let me kick off the project standings!
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00I
#File.01 “Awakening”TRANSLATION: COMPLETE
EDITING: INCOMPLETE
SCANNING: 100% COMPLETE
PHOTOSHOP: 33% COMPLETE
QUALITY CHECK: INCOMPLETE
ESTIMATED RELEASE: WITHIN THE WEEK
The Gundam 00I series is going to hit a roadblock once I finish translating the third chapter. At the moment, the latest Gundam Ace issue that I have is the November.2009 one. Due to the yen to dollar exchange being utter shit, I haven’t been buying anything. That and combined with not having any money (heh no server money either), I haven’t been able to purchase anything anyways.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED VERSUS ASTRAY
ARCHIVE.01 Graveyard Specters [Phantom]TRANSLATION: COMPLETE
EDITING: INCOMPLETE
SCANNING: COMPLETE
PHOTOSHOP: 33% COMPLETE
QUALITY CHECK: INCOMPLETE
ESTIMATED RELEASE: WITHIN THE MONTH
Seeing as how I no longer purchase the Dengeki Hobby series, would those of you who have subscriptions to this please contact me so that I may continue translating it? Currently Archive.02 is on hiatus because the HQ scans I have are cut off, thus preventing me from translating it. I’m also interested in Gundam 00N as well. And I guess we will be nuking the Delta Astray and SEED FRAME ASTRAYS adaptations as well due to little demand/interest in the series. If I need to be convinced otherwise, please let me know.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM CHAR’S DELETED AFFAIR
VOLUME.05
TRANSLATION: COMPLETE
EDITING: INCOMPLETE
SCANNING: COMPLETE
PHOTOSHOP: 33% COMPLETE
QUALITY CHECK: INCOMPLETE
ESTIMATED RELEASE: END OF THE MONTH
We do have an editor working on this series, however they have been delayed quite a bit due to real life issues. I’m currently working on bumping this around to other people to get it up and out. I do have quite a bit of this series translated and it’s my goal to try and complete this [boring] series before spring break of next year. If worse comes to worse, we’ll just release chapter by chapter since it goes faster that way.
MOBILE SUIT CROSSBONE GUNDAM STEEL 7
VOLUME.01
TRANSLATION: COMPLETE
EDITING: 33% COMPLETE
SCANNING: COMPLETE
PHOTOSHOP: 33% COMPLETE
QUALITY CHECK: INCOMPLETE
ESTIMATED RELEASE: UNSURE AT THIS POINT
This is definitely better than the original Crossbone series, and I’m having quite a bit of fun translating it. Hopefully we can produce a kick ass English adaptation of this for you. I’m being anal retentive with my translating and editing style with this series, just because I don’t want it to read like shit like the original Crossbone series did. And no, chances are we probably won’t be doing the Skull Heart volume.
I’m aware that I didn’t update Gundam 00F on here. Truthfully, I’m finding it hard to continue working on this project. Most people just bitch about the main characters and what they do, so I’m not sure if it is really relevant to peoples interests. Then again, I’d love to rub the “gothic lolita” material in the face of a certain someone who lives in the UK just to show him that his “observations” on the manga are grossly inaccurate, but… maybe I won’t.
As usual, donations are awesome. I’m considering abandoning the torrenting system and may possibly come up with a new gallery software with a direct download option built in. Or, I may just opt for a gallery only release, but I haven’t decided yet. Input on this matter would be appreciated. As usual, if you have any questions, please feel free to post on here or on the forums.
Until next time~
December 8th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Man, I beg you not to nuke Delta Astray and Frame Astrays. I believe, that all Astray series deserve it to be translated. So I hope, that you’ll complete them. Just know, that there are people, who agree with me.
And I’m looking forward for you nex releases! Especially VS Astray and Steel 7!
December 9th, 2009 at 7:55 am
I’d be very happy to work on editing Char’s Deleted Affair. I’d be happier to have a paying job, but in the meantime I’ve got lots of free time, and C.D.A. was what really motivated me to sign on for this whole editing gig. Just say the word.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:21 am
I’m looking forward to all of it =D. also again, like many other people, I volunteered to help edit and I can help at just about any time.