Project Status

FORTHCOMING ONESHOTS

(In alphabetical order by author)

Kunieda Saika | Gankutsuou Doujinshi (Translated.)
Kunieda Saika | The Sleeping Man (Revised.)
Machiya Hatoko | Temptation in the Library
Sakai Kunie | Love Me Darling (Revised.)
Yamagata Satomi | Highstandard Impression (Translation on hold, hopefully temporarily.)

FORTHCOMING MANGA

(In alphabetical order by author)

Ima Ichiko | Five Box Stories

• Chapter Four: Coffin Under the Snow (Revised.)
• Chapter Five: A Warm Box (Translated.)
• Chapter Six: I Want to See You at the Library
• Chapter Seven: A Cloudy Day in Spring
• Chapter Eight: Strange Guys
• Chapter Nine: Our Season

Ima Ichiko | The Mysterious Stories of Ghost Moon Tower (2 volumes)

• Chapter One (Translated.)
• Chapter Two

Kunieda Saika | Like As the Time Will Come When it Will Rain…

• Chapter Six: A Single Futon (Translated.)
• Extra: The Curse

Kusama Sakae | Carnivorous Animal’s Table Manners

• Chapter One: Kiss, Syrup (Part One) (Revised, needs editor.)
• Chapter Two: Kiss, Syrup (Part Two) (Translated.)
• Chapter Four: Just Between You and Me (Part One)
• Chapter Five: Just Between You and Me (Part Two)
• Chapter Six: Spring Fingertips (Translated.)

Kusama Sakae | The Constellation Shine in the Sky

• Chapter Two: White Days White Nights

Mizushiro Setona | The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese

• Chapter Five: The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese (Revised.)
• Chapter Six: Melancholy Butterfly

Momoyama Naoko | Love in Chest

• Chapter One: Love in Chest
• Chapter Three: Cycle Ring
• Chapter Four: A Kiss and An Embrace of January (Revised.)
• Chapter Five: Memory of Afternoon
• Chapter Six: Complete World (Revised.)
• Chapter Seven: Run for the Night

Sakai Kunie | The Imaginary Garden

Yamagata Satomi | Kiss, Kiss Kiss

Yamamoto Kotetsuko | A Boring Man

• Chapter One: A Boring Man (Translated.)
• Chapter Two: Sweet Room
• Chapter Three: Let’s Tie Hands Firmly (Part One) (Translated.)
• Chapter Four: Let’s Tie Hands Firmly (Part Two) (Translated.)
• Chapter Five: Always in Hand
• Chapter Six: A Troubled Man

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

This list contains everything I’ve worked on, or plan to work on, no matter how much or little I’ve done. The projects that are nearing completion are marked as “translated,” “revised” or “edited.” The other projects may be six pages scribbled on notebook paper or twenty-five pages of a typed, ready-to-revise script. If you are curious about the status of any non-marked project, please feel free to contact me. I’ll be glad to let you know when I plan to give it serious attention.

Here are some definitions of terms:

Translated

This means I’ve completed a rough draft. I usually start revisions a few weeks after my initial translation.

Revised

The revisions are complete and the script is now ready to for the graphic artist to edit. If it says, “Revised. Needs editor,” then no one has volunteered to work on that project. If it says, “Revised,” someone is currently working on it.

(Revising is the most time consuming part for me because, unless a Japanese-English proofreader volunteers to help, I have to beg and plead for assistance wherever I can. Sometimes, it’s hard to find someone who can help. Or, rarely, I have more than one helper and they disagree.)

Edited

At this point, it’s almost done. The scans have been cleaned, typeset, and all I need to do is check it over for mistakes. Usually, this doesn’t take more than a day or two. So if you see something that says, “Edited,” you can usually expect it fairly soon.

(”Editing” in the scanlation world means “graphic art work.” Editing occurs in two parts; “cleaning,” which is removing the Japanese, and “typesetting,” which is replacing it with English. It is not the same thing as an “editor” in the publishing industry. I didn’t know that until I started doing this, so, in case you’re confused, too, I thought I’d explain.)

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