To Be... chapter 8

Here's the final chapter of To Be... It's about a girl who likes a guy (what a surprise), only problem is her room is really messy. Why the heck this should be a problem I don't know, but the mangaka says it's a problem, so there.

Sleeping Beauty and the Castle of Garbage

I've already decided on my next project, but I haven't started it yet because my laptop keeps messing with me. Oh, and I'm lazy.

Note to self: Extra addition of meat and vegetables are suggested for palatable enhancement.

To Be... v2 c3

The last-but-one chapter in the series, this one is a one-shot called Powder Snow. It's a high school love story, which ended up reminding me of many, many incidents in my high school days (we were all young once) and people I hadn't thought about in years. I even dreamt about junior high last night. Buggered if I remember what it was about though.

Powder Snow

To Be... v2 c2

This week's chapter is a Jou-kun special! It's also the last chapter of To Be... proper. The last two chapters are one-shots.

To Be... chapter 6

To Be... v2 c1

Uploadjockey is being a cow tonight, so we're going with zSHARE instead.

To Be... chapter 5.
Chapter 5

Umishi chapter 05

Actually I'd hoped to be releasing To Be... tonight, but I underestimated the amount of work the chapter needed, and now my neck hurts so I'm going to bed.

Take this chapter of Umishi that I was saving for later instead, and To Be... will be ready when To Be... is ready.

Umishi Chapter 5

To Be... c04

The last volume in chapter 1 of To Be...

Chapter 4
FileFactory

And even though Hikari's story continues in chapter 1, personally I think vol. 1 would have been a nice place to end it. Happily ever after and all that. But anyway, the author decided to go on so as a scanslator I'll go on as well. Look for vol 2 c.1 around this time next week, God willing!

To Be... c03

This manga has the fastest pace I've ever seen in a shoujo manga. It's only been two chapters and they're already in the 2nd year. I would have liked it to have gone into greater detail about life in a beauty school, but at least I can't fault it for slow pacing.

To Be... chapter 3

EDIT: Filefactory here, Easy-share here.

If you're having DL problems

Seems Uploadjockey comes with issues of its own. If you can't dl To Be...

Try one of these for chapter 1:
Rapidshare
Easy-Share

And for chapter 2:
File Factory

I really should get my own webpage.

To Be... c02

If you have any experience at all reading shoujo, you should have been able to figure out the entire story just by reading chapter 1 of To Be... However, in case you didn't:

Reuploaded: To Be... chapter 02
Also on Z-share

I forgot to mention this last time, but Hikari is supposed to be speaking with a Fukuoka accent. They're trying to make her out to be some sort of country hick, with all the stereotypes involved. Since I don't know what a country hick is supposed to sound like (does "y'all" go on every line or every other line?") I decided to skip translating that to avoid making a mess of it. But keep it in mind.

About the other manga I said I was working on, since I'm editing it now I guess I can say what it is: Wa ga na wa Umishi. It starts out a bit slow but the cast grew on me pretty quickly. Even Sawa-chan. Chapter 1 in a couple of days, God willing.

Just saving Manick's words of wisdom, don't mind me.

If you really truly want to do a project, it shouldn't matter if anyone else is doing it. If your desires are so shallow that you'd stop simply because your version isn't being read by as many people, then why do it in the first place?

Look out for chapter 2 of To Be... either tomorrow or on Friday.

To Be... c01

I always wanted to scanslate a shoujo series, and this is only 2 volumes long so I hope to be done soon. The title is "To Be..." and the story goes something like this:

In order to become a beautician, Hikari Takaya moves to Tokyo with her high-school sweetheart. But life at beauty school is completely different from what she expected. A love story about the dreams and romance of youth. Author: Sakurayama Kazumi.

I used to be quite the shoujo reader a few years ago, but then I quickly realized that most of them are just recycling the same stories and cliches over and over again. The few good ones are really good, but you have to sift through a lot of chaff to get to it. Of course every manga "genre" has its share of poor series, but I think it's only shoujo that has fully 90% of its titles being next to terrible. I wish I could say that "To Be..." was one of the rare exceptions, but... well, I'll let you make up your own minds:

To Be... chapter 01