Hello,

I might be a manga translator, but it's been a hot minute since I last actually looked around for something to read.

So what're you all reading?

I'll be picking Youkai Izakaya back up in a month or so when I have the time, it's a Nonoco work and is kind of cute / funny.

I'm partial towards Wakamono no Kuromahou since I did the bulk of the translation before I pissed enough chuds off that they had a concerted effort to snipe me. It's charming and has a bunch of lefty themes to it which is why I translated it... but it certainly has... Japanese tastes.

    • Koolio [any]M
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      4 years ago

      Have you read Berserk yet?

        • Koolio [any]M
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          4 years ago

          I would, it's a classic and still being released. There's a joke that the author never publishes, and there's like 6 months between chapters now, the series has like 330 insanely detailed chapters.

          • notthenameiwant [he/him]M
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            4 years ago

            I'm still waiting on the next Hunter x Hunter chapter after a year, and you want to put this on me? I can't.

            • Koolio [any]M
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              4 years ago

              If you want something horny, Tsugumomo's good

            • Koolio [any]M
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              4 years ago

              Bruh I swear the author is going to kick it way before it actually finishes.

              • notthenameiwant [he/him]M
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                4 years ago

                HxH is going to end in the same way :( . It's some of his best work to this date too. (I am including all of Yu Yu Hakusho)

            • Koolio [any]M
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              4 years ago

              Mairimashita Iruma-Kun was cute, though there was a translation group that picked it up at a point that was absolute shit.

              • notthenameiwant [he/him]M
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                4 years ago

                Mairimashita Iruma-Kun

                Not really looking for cutesy stuff. I want heavily subversive stuff at the moment.

                • Koolio [any]M
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                  4 years ago

                  I'm trying to find one I read a while back about political intrigue in the after-war period, it was pretty good.

                • Koolio [any]M
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                  4 years ago

                  Found this cursed oneshot: https://mangadex.org/title/47255/what-has-happened-to-me-the-story-of-an-uyghur-man-who-now-lives-in-japan

                • Koolio [any]M
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                  4 years ago

                  The series I translated for a while, Wakamono no Kuromahou was an allegory for Black Companies, though I'd warn you it's extremely horny and in ways that'd probably get me canceled if people actually read it.

        • Koolio [any]M
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          4 years ago

          https://mangadex.org/title/607/berserk