Well, I’ve got some good news and bad news. Good news is we are going to have a back-to-back release here at Zeonic within the next week or so, the bad news: server yet again. MasterCard didn’t send me a new credit card since mine expired back in April. This is going to be interesting. $40 for three months? Schweet. Anyways, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the release that we have in store for you all 😀 Rest assured at the rate we’re going with the series before these two volumes were complete, we’d be done in the year 2019. Hah!

EDITOR-SAN-TACHI’S: Those of you interested in editing/quality check, could you please send me an email again? Thanks!

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In light of recent news, I just though I’d leave this here for all of you to enjoy =) Until next time?

Zizagging flashes of light catch her attention. A panic stricken face of confusion overcomes her as a Rick Dom is torn apart by an explosion.

“THOMAS!!” she screams as a Zaku and yet another Rick Dom are taken out.

Her eyes frantically follow the trails of light attempting to identify the source of the explosions. She locks on.

“Bits?!”

Just as she realizes this her mobile suit comes under attack by them in a rapid-fire barrage of beam blasts.

“WHAT ABOUT THOMAS?!” she screams at the goliath mobile armor as it receeds into the colony bay firing a massive beam blast in her direction from one of it’s arm cannons.

“It’s falling? Is it the gravity of the colony?” she evades the blast but not before it blows a hole in the side.

Descending from the sky her mobile suit touches down in one of the residential area streets. Bewildered she cries out, “What?! There are still people in this colony?!”

Desperate she turns toward the mobile armor looming overhead, preparing to fire another deadly beam blast.

“No, don’t shoot!!”

But it was too late…

Yeah… tell me about it.

First off, no… it wasn’t an April Fools joke. It appears that my wonderful host decided to just charge my credit card when I had it set for the hosting to expire. I’m not too happy about that because I’m now out $38 on my card. :/ So, it looks like we will be here until June I guess. Le sigh…

Just dropping by to slap up our planned cover art for the novel release:

Remember, you can head on over to our “RELEASES” section to read the prologue of this exciting edition to the Gundam W franchise! I apologize (not really) for taking so long with this, but it’s turning into a labor of love for me. I’m striving for the best possible translation and subsequent editing of this novel so that it can make up for the preconceived notions that people have surrounding some grossly biased and shipped translations and summaries they’ve read in the past. Like all of our releases, rest assured we shall set the record straight!

I was poking around the Gundam Wiki for some odd reason when I started noticing some of the odd titles that we have logged in our database. Granted, what we have here isn’t much… mainly just some information that I scrounged up on the fly and what not just to explain some base points to fans. Well, I decided to click around and discovered that a vast majority of entries contained information that was pretty much lifted verbatim from my website. Granted, I don’t really care in the long run, but the fact remains that credit wasn’t given to the original source.

This shit pisses me off.

I’ll keep this rant short and relatively to the point. I don’t slap up random things here and there for people because I have to, it’s because I want to. There’s a huge section of the Gundam world that most people don’t know about, and I’ve been aiming to fill some of those voids any way I can. I take the time and effort to find minute things out about the series that I have filling my shelves and I scour various Japanese sources that do a better job of tying loose ends together than I do so that I can attempt some form of comprehensive coverage. But, what I hate in the end is when people just take shit and slap it up in another public domain for others to see without a care in the world.

Research your own shit then. This site will never be a comprehensive source for everything Gundam (I wanted to do that eons ago), but it will be home to a niche crowd of smaller titles that very little is known about. If you wanna repost something, just ask. I’ll gladly allow you to. Hell, I’ll even tell you if and when I’ve changed something so information doesn’t conflict. =)

I’ve overhauled this section of the site, adding some character information, mechanics and a summary for the first tankoubon of the series. Chapter summaries will follow in the near future. And, as you can see, I’ve also created a logo for the series. It’s not the best, but I guess it mimics the style you’d see over here. *shrug*

Howdy all,

No, this isn’t a request for donations. It’s merely an announcement. Given that we’ve been toddling along for nearly seven years now, it’s time to say farewell to the domain that is Zeonic|Scanlations. No, the group isn’t disappearing, but the website is turning off its lights and locking the door. We’ve received many generous donations in the years past which have continued to support the site, but alas me thinks it may be time to just say farewell to the site and have people just watch our twitter and tosho for releases and what not. It’s just not in the cards financially for me/us. 🙁

Tonight, I want to begin by thanking everyone who visits this website and continues to support our releases by downloading, passing them along to others, seeding, etc. And as I mark this day, I’m also mindful that I have a lot of promises to keep to this year, and I hope that all of you continue to support this group and what it is trying to accomplish.

By now, it’s no secret that I’ve had my share of differences over the years. The comments towards us have been harsh, but we’ve fought fiercely in what we stand for. That is, however, a good thing. It’s what keeps us going. It’s what sets us apart from others who have tried and failed repeatedly. Recently, a member of the translation community took it upon themselves in a “butthurt” move to remove any and all translations they had due to criticism towards it. This, in part, was mainly a criticism from myself. Many people ask why we here at Zeonic|Scanlations take on SO many projects. In my mind, I have everything woven in an elaborate and grandiose fashion… but it comes out at a snails pace, unfortunately.

To digress, this came in part from my desire to pick up after Gunota. I started Gundam|News, because I wanted a reliable and accurate website to prevent any false information from spreading around on the net. This small belief is the core principle of Zeonic. It’s what I stand for. I hate bullshit information. I hate made up facts. I hate reading how people are under the impression that one thing happens when in fact it’s something else entirely.

I acknowledge that my work here is by no means professional. If anything it’s laughably amateur. Nonetheless, I strive for perfection in any way that I can. If I don’t know something, I research it. I ask people to give me a nudge in the right direction without telling me exactly what it means. When all else fails, it’s then I say “Hey, can you help?”. At the same time, I’m also critical of other translations. Why? I’m not really sure. A part of me is so caught up in things that I don’t realize how I come across sometimes. It’s probably why people read too much into what I write that I come off as an elite dickhead lurking on the net. Word choice means a lot, and unfortunately I come off a bit strong from time to time. Mind you, our work hasn’t been under the microscope all that much, so I’m sure it can be quite nagging. We did have an issue with Gundam 00V at one point that was completely mistranslated… and I deferred it off as a translator error not associated with me. I do tend to sweat bullets thinking about my work being critiqued, but alas when and if it were to come I’m sure I’d be just fine with it.

Nonetheless, I doubt the person whom I criticized will ever read this, it’s just something I feel I’ll say.

I’ll digress further on the matter in which I feel the need to criticize. This whole post and what not comes in light of a novel project we’re undertaking. Yes, it’s the Gundam W: Frozen Teardrop series. When information becomes available in Japan, I try my best to translate it for the folks over at AnimeSuki. This usually tides them over until someone else posts translations of the actual chapter. Well, the reason why I become so critical is when they read my stuff and then read something else in the translation chaos and confusion ensues. This mainly comes in part from hastily posted workings with promises to change things later. This is a huge no-no in every facet of translation. This is what causes problems. This is what causes misinformation. This pisses Deacky off to no end.

I believe I’ve noted five or six translation errors towards a particular individual and their aspirations to being a beloved project to the world. I think it’s only fair. Yes, I called them out on it. Yes, I specifically stated they were mistaken. Does that make me a troll? No. Do I have a right to do so? Me thinks. I am competing, or rather I “was” competing with them in a translation sense. Not to toot my own horn, but it saves a huge mess of a cleanup later on down the line.

So with that in mind, if you think something is fishy with our work, something that doesn’t look just right, tell me! If there’s a hair on the scan or a smudge in a bubble, I wanna know about it. What hurts us makes us stronger. I’m here to attempt perfection. It doesn’t happen, obviously (i.e. slow releases), but we do a better job than the official companies that produce material. This is, after all, quite sad. People who do this stuff for free should not be the ones who are flawless (sic) and consistent in their material. It’s not that hard to do, really.

This all in turn brings me to what we can do to speed up our group. Mind you, I intend to stick to the “7-11” project as best we can, but I’m looking for feedback from the community on this one. Yes, comments will be open. I’m going to also be searching for a new home soon. This domain, while relatively cheap, is running on thin ice. We’re set to expire again in March. I, unfortunately, haven’t been able to pay many bills myself thanks to wonderful cuts to my income so Zeonic is definitely going to be something that gets pulled. Sorry, but I have to keep my gym membership: gotta look sexy somehow 😉

Nonetheless, I enjoy doing this… despite the burden I place upon myself. I like introducing new things to fans, I like learning new things myself. Translating this stuff continues to challenge my mind and my language skills. That, and it also pushes my English skills to the dark side (I’m so sorry Martin. So very, very sorry).

So now is the time to act. Now is the time to stand up for the future. (Hail Zeon! jk!) The awakening of a new Zeonic will be triggered by the fans of the Gundam community, and we shall be a symbol of information for the people. (Oh I’m killing myself here)

We’re in a position where victory is within our grasp, and once again, our most cherished scanlations site will flourish. Rise, my people, rise! Zeon thirsts for the strength of it’s people.

Sieg Zeon, bitches.

For those of you that wonder how I organize things here, I did a MS-DOS tree directory of the project folder! Happy gawking (yes, there is something in every folder)! Amazing!