Char’s Deleted Affair 3x The Release!

Yes, that’s right! We’ve got a HUGE release to bring to you folks just in time for our 7 year anniversary! *applauds*

As most of you are aware, we’ve been sitting on Char’s Deleted Affair for almost a year now. Yeah, that’s all about to change. These three volumes were done over the span of three weeks. Yes, we managed to complete that much in such little time. I’ve been incredibly bored lately so I decided to get my lazy ass in gear and crank out some material. I guess we’ve filled the quota for the next three years. KIDDING! With that in mind, I’d like to say this:

Loyal Fans of Zeonic|Scanlations!

We have lost several series to our glorious and noble cause, but does this foreshadow our defeat? No. It is a  new beginning. Compared to most scanlators, the resources of Zeonic is really quite low. Despite this major difference, how is it that we have been able to continue for so long? It is because our goal in the Gundam community is a righteous one. It’s been over one year since this shit ass economy consumed the job market and began to eat away at what little savings I had! Never forget the series we’ve brought you! We, the most notable Gundam scanlation group around, have had a long and arduous struggle to achieve our goals for everyone. Our fight is sacred, our cause divine. Our projects are at a stalemate. Perhaps I’ve become complacent.

The economy has forced me to give up many of the series we’ve started because I don’t have the means to purchase them. I’ve done my best to clean up craptacular scans and utilize them to bring fans a little bit of Gundam every month. We were on a roll for quite a while before I started to fall a little bit further behind every month due to a lack of purchasing abilities. So, I’m turning to the fans once more in search of help to purchase some of the materials I am missing. Even if we had 20 people donate $5, that would be a huge help to our cause. As you can tell with this release, we’ve got a lot that we want to offer, so here’s what we are trying to purchase:

* Char’s Deleted Affair [Volume.13 & Volume.14]
* Gundam W Frozen Teardrop [Volume.01 & Volume.02]
* Ecole du Ciel [Volume 12]
* Char’s Counterattack  BEYOND THE TIME [Volume.01]
* Gundam Unicorn Bandee Desinee [Volume.01 thru Volume.04]
* Etc.

There are several other series but I’m focused on clearing what we started initially (Beyond the Time, Gundam Unicorn, etc). Granted, I’ve searched the net for files, hunted on Winny and what not and simply cannot find them. I know they exist as I’ve found 2ch pages with hash IDs and what not, but they never appear for me. So, I’d like to ask the community for help to allow me to purchase these. They’re relatively cheap, but alas Amazon Japan’s shipping fees are astronomical and Kinokuniya isn’t much better with marking up their prices. I’ve pretty much been eating a $40 server bill every three months (which I shouldn’t, but I love you guys), so purchasing Gundam Ace for chapters is pretty much impossible right now. 🙁

Please, if you are able to donate, send it via the e-mail address below.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past 7 years!

Deacon Blues
Administrator of Zeonic|Scanlations
deacky@gmail.com

Now, I’m sure you are all wondering about the releases, so I’ll get those to you now. Enjoy!

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM CHAR’S DELETED AFFAIR
VOLUME.06

Story & Art by: Hiroyuki Mikimoto
Translation: Deacon Blues
Edit: Martin Wandering

[TORRENT || VIEW IN GALLERY]
RELEASED: 2011.06.28

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM CHAR’S DELETED AFFAIR
VOLUME.07

Story & Art by: Hiroyuki Mikimoto
Translation: Deacon Blues
Edit: Martin Wandering

[TORRENT || VIEW IN GALLERY]
RELEASED: 2011.06.28

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM CHAR’S DELETED AFFAIR
VOLUME.08

Story & Art by: Hiroyuki Mikimoto
Translation: Deacon Blues
Edit: Martin Wandering

[TORRENT || VIEW IN GALLERY]
RELEASED: 2011.06.28

3x the Speed, 3x the Material

Hi gang!

Over the past three weeks, we here at Zeonic have completed three volumes for a series that’s been stalled for almost a year. In fact, when we release the three volumes this week it’ll be nearly a year since anyone has heard from them. So, I’m quite pleased with the progress I’ve been making on them and will continue to make with the subsequent 6 volumes that lie ahead of us. Here’s to hoping that everyone enjoys what we have in store =)

Gundam the ORIGIN: Animated

MONTHLY GUNDAM ACE AUGUST 2011 ISSUE
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN ANIMATION PROJECT BEGINS!

Coinciding with the final chapter of Gundam the Origin in the commemorative issue of Gundam Ace, an anime project has finally been announced! The latest information will be presented in the magazine in subsequent issues!

The Chief Gundam Officer, Uchida, notes that he feels Gundam has become “something different” somewhere around the ending of the first series telecast. He goes on to state that since Zeta Gundam it’s become apparent that this is no fluke trend as various and different kinds of Gundam have been produced as a result, each of which have been supported. For him, when it comes to keeping the “Gundam brand” alive over thirty years, feelings are rather complex.

 

**MORE DETAILS ADDED SHORTLY**

Char’s Deleted Affair [DATA SECTION]

Head on over to our database page where I’ve finally gotten around to compiling a section for Char’s Deleted Affair. I’ve pretty much listed all of the characters and mechanics that appear in the series. I’ll have the timeline up at some point in the future.

Gundam AGE: Minor Update

I’ve updated our data page to reflect the official spellings of the characters names.

Update and Updates! [Editor-san-tachi’s!]

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!

User Registration

User Registration is now open. Please keep it clean when posting folks, stay on the topic of the post. This isn’t a forum after all =)

The Traitor to Destiny

In Episode 8 of “The Traitor to Destiny”, the GM Kai Wagtail was shot down by a Marasai piloted by Ernest. This month, with the exception of the shoulder and leg portions of the Wagtail Unit, most of the parts have been replaced thus giving birth to a new machine! Check out the MSK-003 Wagtail II on the series page!

I’ve also updated some of the other information surrounding the series as well =)

Gundam the Origin [Section IV]

Just keep moving along… nothing of importance to see here. Trying a new way of doing things out here. We’ll see how long this format lasts before people start bitching about something 🙂

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN
SECTION.IV Encounters in Space

Story & Art by: Yasuhiko Yoshikazu
Assist: MASATO
Mechanic Design: Kunio Okawara

The final showdown. What is it that pushes these two men? Everything is being swallowed up in a world-destroying conflagration. The finale is in the next issue!

[TORRENT || VIEW IN GALLERY]
RELEASED:
2011.06.04

Back issues for this particular arc of the Gundam the Origin series will be released when they become available from the peer-to-peer programs.

New Data Pages Mk-II

For today’s update, I’ve created pages for STAMPEDE –The Story of Professor Minovsky– as well as Gundam X ~Under the Moonlight~. You can find them in the manga section of the Database.

New Data Pages

In my sleepless boredom from the overnight shifts this week, I’ve managed to construct some new data pages for the website. I’m put up the basic info pages for the 08th MS Team and High-Streamer novel series. The 08th MS Team pages is essentially complete and probably won’t be fleshed out any more than what I’ve said on them, but I will definitely put some more info up on the High-Streamer page since there’s zero information out about it on the net. I’m not too sure on a couple character name romanizations but I’ll fix them later on. Until then, to view them click DATABASE above and look in the novel section 🙂

Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel

I’ve added an information page on École du Ciel to our database, for those that are interested. The series has recently picked back up in Japan, so it gave me an excuse to work on that particular portion of the website again 🙂 The story is definitely heating up! I wonder if it’ll be ending soon… *ponders* You can view the section here.

What Could This Be?

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…

We’re Still Here? WTF?

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…

GUNDAM W: FROZEN TEARDROP

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!

Gundam Wiki: Battle of the CopyPasta!

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. =)

The Traitor to Destiny Manga Short

Chiming in with a rather odd release with no real value, I present to the masses the Advance of Zeta: The Traitor to Destiny manga short that ran in this months Gundam Ace. Enjoy.

GALLERY LINK

Advance of Z: The Traitor to Destiny

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*

March Expiration

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. 🙁

[STAFF POSITION] – Novel Editor

Greetings viewers of Zeonic|Scanlations!

It’s that time again! Seeing that a novel is something of a prized possession to me, it’s also a hell of a lot of work to edit. Therefore, we are looking for a person (or people) who have experience editing gobs of text to join our team for help with our novel projects. We have one editor (Martin) and I’d like to divvy up the work and get more eyes on it so that everything can be as seamless as possible. As I said, all eyes are on us now for a certain project so I’d like to make it shine. So without further adieu, the following are the talking points for the position:

  • CONFLICT: Figure out what the novel is all about. We’ll jot down a short summary of the chapter’s storyline and possible theme and we’ll need you to go through and mark anything that doesn’t make sense in regards to the storyline. Ignore all typographical and grammatical errors. This section is all about the conflict!
  • PACING: Given that this is being translated from Japanese to English, it is imperative that we accurately convey the pacing of the story. We don’t want anything shoveled in to quickly or too slowly. We’d like for the overall tone to stay relatively consistent throughout. Your task for this will be to mark places where pacing should be quicker or slower.
  • CHARACTERS: Are the characters well-developed and fleshed out in our translation? This doesn’t mean merely looking at their lines but through descriptions of the characters overall appearance and mannerisms.
  • VOICE: One of the most difficult tasks even as a translator is to develop a voice for the novel. The narrator for this provides a varying take on the situations progressing in this series so it’s vital that each one be conveyed accurately.
  • GRAMMAR AND TYPOS: The final task is to go through and correct all of the grammatical and typological errors that plagued the translation.

If you feel you meet these qualifications, please get in touch with me (deacky[at]gmail[dot]com) or feel free to post in the comment section below and we’ll be in touch =)

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