Gekikou Kamen Ch. 18

Been slowly dropping behind on this once more, although I was genuinely sick the last couple of days which doesn't help.

I did finally manage to get around and sort out some digital rips for myself though, so I've chapter 19 for Gekikou and then the next five of Cestvs all sorted out. We'll see if the new year can be any more productive I guess.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 17

Another day, another chapter, another instance of Yamaguchi's tasteful erotica. This chapter marks the end of volume two and also the start of the next arc, though quite what it'll entail is anyone's guess.

The next chapter is already out but the only public raws for it are horribly watermarked so I'm a little stumped at the moment. If someone reading this fancies ripping the magazine I'd be happy to cover the costs, otherwise I'll have to see if I can manage something on my own.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 16

Had a few holdups so this chapter's out well later than it should be (not all of them my fault, surprisingly). Chapter itself has a also bunch of legal terminology and my legal knowledge in English is minimal let alone Japanese so YMMV with it all.

During our lengthy break volume two of the series went on sale. I've not bought it yet but from the contents page alone it seems one chapter (nine) was entirely renamed and I can only imagine the random rewordings that Yamaguchi's done. Shogakukan seem to have started some degree of shilling for it too, and had Shinji Higuchi (Shin Ultraman etc.) and Kazuhiko Shimamoto (Blue Blazes etc.) offer endorsements.

Public raws for 17 are out and it should hopefully be done soonish, 18 meanwhile is out but haven't seen anything shared for it yet so I guess we can say I'm technically only one chapter behind still...

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Mahiru [One-Shot] & Shounen [One-Shot]

Was going through my PC when I stumbled upon a few one-shots that, despite having effectively been done for years had never been uploaded (there was in fact a third one-shot, though someone else had already beaten me to it). I would in the future like to do more similar releases so I'm tentatively labelling them as their own separate thing but given my current release rate, well, don't hold your breath.

Garo 1965-09 (later collected as part of Mokuzou Mortar no Oukoku).

This was actually done from magazine scans as I didn't realise at the time it'd gotten collected in a tank, the difference in quality is so minor however that it'd be more or less pointless to redo (and I know that no one would care anyway).

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Garo 1982-04 (later collected as part of Mokuzou Mortar no Oukoku).

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 15

And with that we are (finally) all caught up. Gekikou is serialised in Big Comic Superior which is published on the second and fourth Fridays of each month, though given that I use public raws there'll always be something of a delay before I can even get around to the actual translation. As stated in the chapter itself though, the series is skipping next issue (out tomorrow) so we shouldn't be seeing 16 until the 23rd.

In the meantime we'll have to see if I can get some Cestvs done or something.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 14

Now it really has been a long time since I've gotten any back to back releases done. This chapter's quite interesting in that it marks a slight return to Yamaguchi's more violent tendencies, though who knows how it'll develop later on.

It also has a bunch of random words that gave me more trouble than they probably should've and which I might well end up changing (or will be changed by Yamaguchi himself in the volume release), but such is the way these things go. Still, only one chapter left now.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 13

I think this is the quickest I've released a chapter in months. Two left and we'll have caught up.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 12

Well this took longer than it should've, in part perhaps because I found it a bit of a weird chapter. Alongside it feeling rather extraneous (especially considering we were in the middle of a flashback) there's a few bits I feel might well get changed for the volume release. Indeed, as mentioned in the chapter Yamaguchi seems to have misspelled Vrood as Vroot a bunch of times, although we won't be able to see if he fixes it until the second volume's release in late October.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 11

This was more or less entirely done two weeks back but I just keep getting side-tracked.

The next issue of Big Comic Superior isn't out until later this week either so it would've been the perfect time to try and catch up, alas.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 10

This was genuinely done about two days after the last chapter, I just left the final QC till now. Oh well.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 9

Turns out there wasn't a chapter last week so we've actually caught up slightly... Is what I'd like to say but I got distracted by the new Somnium Files game so this got pushed back a bunch and chapter 12 is now going to be due out tomorrow. If nothing else I guess we're not losing much ground now...

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 8

And another one. This chapter had a bunch of parts rewritten for the volume so I've gone with the volume versions where possible. None of the pearl mentions for instance were originally in the magazine and the villainous group was renamed (two boxes were also outright removed, but not a lot I can do about that without getting scans for the volume itself).

I'd say we're making progress on catching up but chapter 12 is due out tomorrow so we're effectively still four chapters behind.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 7

And here's another chapter, complete with some of Yamaguchi's ever tasteful eroticism.

I moaned about it last time but the public raws for Big Comic Superior were finally updated, so I'm now able to get up to chapter 10 without needing to try and rip anything myself. Chapter 11 also came out the other day so we're just about staying above water pace wise.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 6

And another one. The romanisation of the suits in this chapter are very much subject to change, so don't get too attached.

Public raws for Big Comic Superior still aren't being updated, so only one chapter left to go before I'll need to try and rip them on my own or something.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 4-5

Still slowly trucking away at things but here's two more chapters of Gekikou. Chapter 10 came out a few days ago in Japan but public raws are still stuck at chapter seven, so we're either two or five chapters behind depending on how you want to look at things. These two chapters do have some elements which people might find in poor taste, but none of the latter chapters have had anything similar (at least thus far).

Somewhat coincidentally, today also saw the release of the manga's first volume (which goes up to chapter eight). I picked it up and was surprised to find it it has perhaps the greatest number of changes I've ever seen made in a volume release (at least for a series I've worked on). The volume itself is 280~ pages long and maybe a fifth of those pages had had some quite noticeable edits made to them. Most manga authors these days will make minor changes when it comes to the volume release (Ejima and Mikamoto would add the odd bits of screentone for instance) but in Gekikou whole paragraphs were rewritten and a number of pages were redrawn completely.

Chances are I won't ever get do a proper version from scans of the volume, but the one textual error that I pointed out in chapter one was fixed so I'll go back to change that at some point. There are also a few other minor textual changes that I might make (for instance the weight of Zenopadon's head was reduced), but we'll see how much effort I feel like putting in.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 3

And another one.

Cestvs (should) have another chapter out this week, so will hopefully be able to get it (and the prior chapter) done soon(ish).

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 2

Two chapters?! In one month?! Who would've thought it.

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Gekikou Kamen Ch. 1

Guess I'm not dead yet? And with something new to boot! Of all the stuff I've released this might possibly be the most niche, as I can't imagine there's much interest in weirdly focused tokusatsu theory, but I've been enjoying it thus far and I like the author.

This chapter was actually more or less done when it first released (i.e. four months ago) but, well, I've been lost to the void that is Elden Ring, various BL VNs and so on...

The intention is to catch up with magazine releases (it's currently up to chapter eight) which should be doable as it's bi-weekly and normally only 20 or so pages, I just need to get past these next few that are a tad longer.

I should also really get back to Cestvs and such, but there's never much need to rush on that front.

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