2019 wasn't a particularly great year for Dumbnut. While there were some highlights (notably catching up on Cestvs, alongside finishing Survival and Getter) total releases were significantly down, with the last few months especially being rather light on releases. In part this has been because of external factors (MangaDex's troubles the last few weeks haven't exactly inspired me to do much work) but at the same time a lot of it probably comes down to burnout; 1000 or so releases in five years is a large amount for any group, even more so when it's just the two of you.
Whether or not 2020 will end up similarly remains to be seen, but if nothing else I'll hopefully be able to finish up a lot of my lingering projects.
At any rate we start the year with the much belated second chapter of Breakdown. I'd done the TL for this months back but QCing 90 pages is a long and arduous process. Latter chapters shouldn't take as long (hopefully).
And then we've something new with Tanikamen. In case the art didn't quite give it away this is Shibata's debut work from 1993, and follows the titular Tani as he tries to woo the girl of his dreams. It was originally 12 volumes long, though after the success of Shibata's followup work, Air Master, it was reprinted in six, which is the version I'll be working from.
While 10 chapters were done by other groups I'll be starting this from scratch because that's how I do things; given how short the chapters are we should catch up in no time at all anyway. The initial translators also missed an early pun (on page 12 Tani says hitomebore which can mean love at first sight, though bore is also how the Japanese write volley, hence my love at first spike) which is a good a reason as any for me to re-translate.
While I'm here I guess I should also mention that that Somali and Guru Guru are dropped; the former having been licensed, while the latter's been taken over by someone else. Granted it's not like I've released either of them in months.
