Father and Son in Hell Chapter 1

Okay I've been requested to translate this specially. I know I've sort of stopped translating totally, but I thought I'd just make an exception for this. Here's the first 16 pages of Chapter 1.

Unfortunately I'm terribly occupied again this time of the year so for the next 2 weeks I won't be able to do anything, so work on chapter 2 can only start after that.

For those who don't know, Father and Son in Hell is the 2nd (and last) part of a series, the first of which is titled A Boy in Hell. I also contributed to the translation for that, although someone else typeset and released it, and I don't have the link right now. You can check out this site if you want to read it though.

And finally here is the link.

Kranke

T Dogg, or Luminium, or Clever Year, has finished editing Tagame's Kranke. Many thanks to him for completing this project that had been held in stasis for like, 2 years! =)

You can find it here. And here's a mirror.

Editing

After looking at Tagame's newest italian translation samples of Virtus on his website, I was stunned.

Fuck commercial comics actually do replace SFX.

Well they probably have an easier time of it since Tagame probably sends them photoshop files with all the SFX layers intact. Which is SO much easier to replace.

I've decided to do SFX replacement à la Enorn, and now I understand why he doesn't have enough time.

Just replacing TWO SFXs took me up to ~1 hour. Granted I'm still continually discovering methods for SFX replacement, so hopefully it'll get faster, but still.....

That said I'm quite happy with my results, so that's probably what I will do for the future.

Although honestly speaking, why doesn't Tagame just freaking release his comics in English? It'll make it so much easier on the rest of us. =(

EDIT: ok I have come to the bitter conclusion that I cannot replace the SFX, not without taking an inordinate amount of time. I've done 4 images with SFX replacement, but for the rest of the chapter I'll add the SFX translations by the side, the same way as for chapter 12. Sorry for the incredibly retarded inconsistency. Sigh.

Pride Chapter 12

I know I know, it's been 3 months since my last post. Anyway I have finally finished chapter 12. Here it is. Any constructive comments welcome.

The next one will hopefully be in 1 month's time.

First post

Well nothing interesting to post, really. I'll be releasing my future translations of bara manga here, since it's a little troublesome to do it on forums. Let me give a short introduction of myself:

I named myself Kylix about 2 years ago when I started (too ambitiously perhaps) a translation of Tagame's Pride, and got Volume 1 done but it was of low quality, not to mention atrocious typesetting and non-cleaning. Since then I've been working in partnership with great editors like Tinman (I dunno what other pseudonyms he goes by) and Enorn, so I've more or less wised up to the tricks of the editing trade. However Enorn has been busy with his real life, as have I (considering my 1 year hiatus) and Tinman seems to be busy with other projects, so I've decided to take on editing as well.

Currently my projects include:
Pride - stalled at chapter 11
Father and Son in Hell - script not started at all yet, will send to Tinman after I get it done
Kranke - script done, but no editors taking it up (Not sure what happened to Tinman)
Works by Tagame.

I really do wish to see through at least Pride, though, since I've already started translating it and it's not too nice to drop it halfway. I am currently editing Chapter 12 of Pride, although I started like, 5 months ago (hides head in embarrassment), but the upcoming scat scene just turns me off =.= I cannot give any estimated time to completion, however, since real life is not always so obliging.

Well if you are an editor and wish to commission a script, I would gladly oblige, since the time taken to translate is like, 1/5 of the time needed to edit it. However that still depends on how much time I can take off from college, and of course it depends on the language, for eg. I am not familiar with the various dialects of Japanese, aside from really simple kansai dialect. I can also do translations from Chinese, Japanese and French into English. Not the other way round. Though currently I'm only fixated on Tagame.

Also, you are welcome to repost the translations, as long as you keep the credits intact (sometimes I add a credits page, sometimes I put my name on the same page as the artist =P, well, just don't take credit where credit is not due). If it's a joint work with an editor generally conditions would be up to the editor since he would be the one releasing it.

So that's it for my first post. I hope to get chapter 12 of Pride out soon. =)

PS. If you need the previous chapters of Pride find it on Enorn's blog.