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The Employees of Blue March
    
Sometimes, even the best laid plans go awry. (Wryyyyyy!)
Besides the being my usual über-busy self at my so-called day-job, which has been more like a day-and-night job as of late, these past couple of weeks were unexpectedly (totally unexpected) non-hentai weeks. This is very bad for the hentai stuff I need and want to do. But it’s great for the non-hentai stuff, which I also want to do!
So tonight, at the mercy of my internet service provider (last night, they were having problems) I bring to you Chapter 25 of KDOS. Raw material provided, scanned, cleaned, translated, and edited, including a 3-D test page edit, by me, Tonigobe. No wonder I’m tired! LOL!
Note: Blue/red 3-D glasses not included in the RAR file… sorry. 
Enjoy.
- Translated Manga
- Previous Chapters
- Chapter 25 Raw File
About the 3-D page…
 …briefly. For some reason, this tri-tone (blue, red, and white) advertisement in Comic Gum inspired me to do a 3-D version. It would have been better if I shifted the perspectives of the blue and red images a little to create better depth, but that was a much more difficult task than I was willing to spend time on.
I also attempted to make a 3-D page with the Muuko-san cover (see image below). But I’m not as happy with the results. If I get inspired again, I’ll try to make another attempt. But for now, there’s too many other things I would like to work on and finish up. ^_^;;
So much to do, so little time.
It may be cool to do a whole manga in 3-D one day. ^_^
Yeah, I’m still working on it…
Besides the long hours at my so-called day-job, it was a back to school week for the kids last week. And that meant taking them shopping for their school supplies after work. So, as I mentioned earlier, these past couple of weeks actually were non-hentai weeks.
   I’m still currently working on a commission for Lyteral. It’s Shaman King doujinshi. As mentioned, the scan quality is low. The text is difficult to read in parts (for me, at least). So it is taking me a while.
I did get a chance to work on the non-hentai parts on next chapter of Muuko-san. I hope to take a break with Lyteral’s project(s) to finish that off tomorrow night. IF(big if) I’m kids-free this weekend, I really want to finish off Gift.
If possible, tomorrow night, I’ll post a commission that I finished for Max and Emily Tate a few weeks ago. If I kept things in order, would have posted it tonight, but I wanted to post up KDOS first. ^_^;;
Catching up: Japan In Brief…
I was in Japan for a week and all I got was… a manga!?
Well, I also got the new K-On!! CD Singles, but…
Sorry for the long absence. A couple of weeks ago, I was in Japan on semi-business. I got back last week, but most of my time since was used in trying to catch up to all the stuff that I missed while I was away (mostly work… *sigh*).
It was a whirlwind week. So I wasn’t packed heavily and I wasn’t lugging around a large luggage to pack all sorts of goodies inside. I did take time to buy a few things for my kids and me. A lot of stuff I can buy (as imports) here where I live (large Japanese population) or online, so there really wasn’t a whole lot that I could think of that I “just had to have.” And as I said, I was there on semi-business, so most of my free time was spent enjoying the culture and eating.
Koe De Oshigoto! Chapter 24 RAW
  During my trip, while in Akihabara, I did manage to eat at a maid cafe and get myself a copy of the June issue of Comic Gum. It came with a souvenir wash cloth (like the pic below).
From the June issue, I scanned myself a copy of the 24th chapter of Koe De Oshigoto! over the weekend. And since I did the scanning, I also did my usual prep work (cleaning). In a way, this was a good timing, ‘coz I wanted to test out the scanning function of scanner/copier/printer I bought some months back.
It’s a trip to scan manga again after a long absence! The machine I have now is nothing like the big clunker (office machine) I used to use. During the course of scanning KDOS, I think I finally settled on a MO around the 20th or 23rd file; so those of you with a keen eye might notice some differences among the files starting around there.
 As far as translating goes: I hope to start translating it this weekend when I have my kids with me. (During their homework sessions!)
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the May issue while I was in Japan. Since no one has been providing raw scans of KDOS anymore, I went ahead and placed an order for it. Hopefully, the company I ordered it from is reputable, and I receive it in a decent amount of time (2 weeks estimate).
Anyhow, for those of you who want the raw scan, here’s all the links. Sorry, no torrents this time.
In Queue…
Currently, I’m working on my last commission (hope to finish it by tomorrow night!) before moving on to judging the Editing Contest. I was rather surprised (I don’t know why I should be: it was like this last year!) that of all the people who checked out the files, I only received 2 entries. (Perhaps the task was too difficult? Hmmm.) Still, from a quick glance of the two entries submitted, I think I’m gonna have a hard time judging; so it may be just as well! ^_^;;
After I announce the winner(s), I’ll be working on another set of commissions by Cloxx of Deutsche Doujins.
- A Commission by MaxAndEmilyTate (this week)
- Editing Contest Judging and Winners (hopefully by Friday)
- Cloxx Commission (weeknights after work)
- Contest Winner(s) Prizes (weeknights, in between commissions)
- KDOS and Muv-Luv Unlimited (Weekends with kids)
- Gift chapters 5 & 6 (weekends w/o kids)
- Muuko-san (whenever possible… sorry 3333h)
I mentioned this before, and I’ll mention it briefly again for those who are new to my blog: There was a time when I scanned manga, but over the years and numerous computer crashes, I have lost many of the files. In this blog, the last time I posted a Raw Scan, I had mentioned I managed to recover from an old hard drive 3 scans I did some years ago. I posted one out of the three, “Quo Vadis,” with the intention of posting the other two one of these days.
Well… today is… not the day.
Instead, I’m posting a scan of mine that I discovered on someone else’s blog! While I was searching for other chapters of Saigado’s “Haken No Muuko-san” the other day, I stumbled upon Hentai Comic Warehouse. (More on that in a minute.) And while browsing through the blog and *cough*leeching*cough*, I came across a familiar cover: “Navy Girls” by Dainijuugoheisidan (… say that name 3 times fast!). I scanned “Navy Girls” years ago, so I was amazed to stumble across it. (Then again, I am easily amazed!) I was even more amazed to find that this was my scan! 
Well, this is the internets, so I shouldn’t be surprised. But I am thankful to the person who started Hentai Comic Warehouse, since I was able to retrieve another lost scan of mine !
HONORABLE MENTION:
Hentai Comic Warehouse isn’t a wholesale/retail store, but a Japanese (yes, it’s in Japanese) blog. The blogger (sorry I didn’t get his name) posts a lot of Hentai mangas that you can download for free via Rapidshare or Megaupload without having to go through hoops or adverts or anything… other than the normal Rapidshare and Megaupload hoops. I haven’t gone through all the posts, but he seems to have quite a collection, and a wide variety, to boot! Some stuff I’m totally interested in, others not so. But in any case, I find it to be another great source for raw H-mangas, and I hope you find it that way, too! 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
JukanX, random guy, and bmo: UR welcum! Please look forward to the next chapter! Random guy, I hope my work gets easier, too; thanks for caring! JukanX, thanks for checking out the Donor Projects page and the heads up; details fixed!
About four or five months or so back, while salvaging some files from some old hard drives, I recovered a few scans I did back in 2003. Among those scans was this one: “Quo Vadis” by Kudara Naizou.
About the manga:
Back then, I couldn’t read a lick of Japanese, so I mainly bought mangas judging by the cover alone. I know… “Never judge a book by it’s cover.” But this cover had such a really cute girl on it! I couldn’t resist! Even today, I still don’t really know what the story’s about (I haven’t tried to translate it, yet); but I do know it deals with espers, ghosts and the supernatural (Somebody call Haruhi Suzumiya!)… and somehow, the cute girl on the cover has some psychic visions and such.
Even though I wasn’t too sure about what was going on with the story, I loved the artwork so much that I even bought and scanned the sequel, “Quo Vadis 2″! Unfortunately, that scan is still lost somewhere. Luckily, I still have both mangas. If need be, I can always rescan them.
About the scan:
The “Raw Scans” section of my blog has had my empty promise of providing some of the scans I have done or will do. (I’ve yet to scan anything new!) Now that I finally recovered a few, I figured I’d start with this one. A medium quality (about 40MB) version is available via MediaFire. My original raw scans actually total to about 175MB… way too large for normal use. Technically, I think I did an average job in scanning this. In fact, I’d say none of my scans are as good as some of the stuff I’ve been seeing lately. But like with some of my translations, my scans were all pretty much experimental.
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…briefly. For some reason, this tri-tone (blue, red, and white) advertisement in Comic Gum inspired me to do a 3-D version. It would have been better if I shifted the perspectives of the blue and red images a little to create better depth, but that was a much more difficult task than I was willing to spend time on.
I’m still currently working on a commission for Lyteral. It’s Shaman King doujinshi. As mentioned, the scan quality is low. The text is difficult to read in parts (for me, at least). So it is taking me a while.
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