Umishi chapter 71

Phew.....................................
I had to do research on fuel sealing systems and all sorts of other things just to make sense of this chapter. I learn something new every chapter.

Umishi chapter 71

About No Side, I still haven't heard from the person who said he had better raws, so I'm going to proceed with the horrible ones as usual. I can always (get someone to) release HQ versions in the future.

EDIT: I have just been informed that the word is Gland Packing, not Grand Packing. It all looks the same in Japanese.

Umishi chapter 70

Here's your Umishi for July. This chapter contains a small treat for all Tokkyuu fans. Personally I always found the character designs a little too frog-like to be taken seriously so I've never been able to get into it. Shallow, but there you have it.

Umishi chapter 70

I'm all footballed out now (*cough*all my favourite teams are out*cough*) so I'll be working on translations a little more now. I'm already working on No Side volume 4. Speaking of which, I got a message from someone with much better raws, so if talks pan out you'll be able to see higher-quality versions of chapters 22 and 23 and subsequent ones in the near future. I hope so, once I'm actually able to get in touch with the guy.

No Side chapter 23

Wheee! The World Cup is so much fun! I'm not much of a football fan, but once every four years I go all out and just enjoy the mood! It's like the Olympics, but better. Not to mention I spent most of 2006 working and studying and working some more, so it's been eight years since I got to cut loose like this. Yay!

No Side chapter 23

"Taito Sports" is supposed to be "Daito Sports", I just forgot to fix it before I uploaded the chapter.

Umishi chapter 69

Here's your Umishi for June and now I must be off. I've got a World Cup to watch! *ka-pwing!*

Umishi c69

Oh, and all mangahelpers links are down, for obvious reasons. I'll get round to deleting them eventually.

No Side chapter 22

As promised, here's chapter 22 of No Side. You can read earlier chapters at Mangafox, or just use google for other sources. This chapter contains a lot of nudity so reader discretion is advised.

No Side chapter 22

The raws are very bad, so if anyone has/knows where I can find better ones, please share. Right now I could use some help cleaning these. It would make the series come out way faster if I could just focus on translating and typesetting and let someone else prepare the raws. As you can see, my standards aren't very high. I just have a few stipulations:
1. Don't resize anything
2. Separating the pages is optional (I left them alone)
3. Removing gutter shadow is optional (I left it alone)
4. Don't overlevel. Less is more when it comes to bad raws
5. Removing all the dirt is optional, but get rid of what you can without spoiling the art. See #4.
6. Do NOT use any filters. None. No, not even NeatImage. And certainly not those awful Topaz ones that turn everything into blurry grey blobs.

If you look at the raws and think you can do all that...hmm, let's see... send me an e-mail at [removed] and we'll talk. Ideally I'm looking for people who can take on whole volumes at a time, but if you can do even one chapter that'd be a big help.

Umishi chapter 68

Last chapter in volume 7, as promised. Next up will be No Side chapter 22. I'll be editing that as an example, after that I'll recruit an editor and focus on the translation. Enjoy.

Umishi chapter 68

Umishi chapter 67

Uhh, what I going to say? Oh yeah, I'm putting the hiatus off for one more chapter so I can finish up volume 7, so expect chapter 68 in a few days. Also it's not going to be total blackout, I'll still try and release a chapter every month or so just to keep things flowing.

Umishi chapter 67

Umishi chapter 66

See, the number 66 is close to 666, maybe that's why I had so much trouble putting the chapter out. Photoshop CS2 finally quit without notice, forcing me to get CS3, which was all well and good except it makes my laptop run hotter than fire, which makes editing very uncomfortable. And that's not even counting the boredom and laziness I mentioned in my last post. So tired...

Umishi chapter 66

Umishi on hiatus?

I managed to get Photoshop back in line, though it still freezes every once in a while. Thing is, I'm bored and I don't feel like translating Umishi any more. For a while anyway. If anyone's willing to step up to the plate, I'll happily do the editing and you can do the translating. Otherwise after I release chapter 67 I'm going to take a break and work on something else for a while, until I get my Umishi mojo back.

Photoshop hates me

It won't run, but it won't let me uninstall it either. I hate you, Photoshop!