Interrupting the long chain of constant Tanikamen chapters we have the return of Breakdown with one very lengthy chapter. No ETA on when chapter four will be out.
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Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Breakdown Ch. 2 & Tanikamen Ch. 0
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.
Thursday, 10 January 2019
Breakdown Ch. 1, Kaiten-One Ch. 35 [End] & Kendo Shitouden Cestvs Ch. 39
A triple release today featuring the start of something, the end of something, and something which'll likely never end.
First up we've chapter one of a brand new series: Breakdown by Takao Saito. Essentially a more grown up version of his earlier hit Survival it was serialised back in the 90s in the now defunct Leed Comic.
It's a fair bit shorter than Survival with only 20 or so chapters but most of them are quite long and I'm having the series scanned by the chapter so I wouldn't expect regular releases. Still, it hopefully won't take too long to finish.
First up we've chapter one of a brand new series: Breakdown by Takao Saito. Essentially a more grown up version of his earlier hit Survival it was serialised back in the 90s in the now defunct Leed Comic.
It's a fair bit shorter than Survival with only 20 or so chapters but most of them are quite long and I'm having the series scanned by the chapter so I wouldn't expect regular releases. Still, it hopefully won't take too long to finish.
Following that we've the very regrettable end of Kaiten. This was by no means a surprise to me (the series never exactly seemed to light up the charts sale wise, nor did it even seem to generate much buzz at all) but it's disappointing nonetheless. Youkai had obviously been cut short too but it at least had a fair bit of meat to it, Kaiten on the other hand ends without ever really having managed to establish much. And, while I did like the introduction of Shin and what not I wasn't a massive fan of Sako becoming this obsessive third wheel, nor Koko's complete disappearance as a character (though presumably Shibata would've done more with them had he the time).
Yet such is the way of things I guess. If nothing else Shibata still has Blue Striker, which I'll hopefully get more regular with, and his Kamen Rider series, which I'll hopefully be able to start soon. So if you like his style then there's certainly more stuff on the horizon. At some point in time I might even get to some of his older stuff, but we'll have to see.
As ever if you liked the series you can pick it up digitally from sites like eBookJapan, and physically from places like Amazon. Lastly thanks go to my editor, for helping out as always.
Yet such is the way of things I guess. If nothing else Shibata still has Blue Striker, which I'll hopefully get more regular with, and his Kamen Rider series, which I'll hopefully be able to start soon. So if you like his style then there's certainly more stuff on the horizon. At some point in time I might even get to some of his older stuff, but we'll have to see.
As ever if you liked the series you can pick it up digitally from sites like eBookJapan, and physically from places like Amazon. Lastly thanks go to my editor, for helping out as always.
And to end things we've another chapter of Cestvs.
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