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Bad news for my Kenganbros. The scanlation group that has been doing excellent, high quality translations has decided to drop it. Guess we are going to have shit scans and raws for now since there is no official english manga release atm.
 
Deciding to subject myself once again to the South Korean bootleg Gundam (with some touches of Captain Harlock) knockoff "Captain of Cosmos" aka "Space Black Knight" aka "Johnny Destiny Space Ninja"

 
Slimy Time said:
Bad news for my Kenganbros. The scanlation group that has been doing excellent, high quality translations has decided to drop it. Guess we are going to have shit scans and raws for now since there is no official english manga release atm.
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HnG are being absolute jannies in their discord as per /a/. They ain't even lying, cause HnG says they're gonna remove the chapters from Manga Dex when it wakes from it's coma.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
HnG are being absolute jannies in their discord as per /a/. They ain't even lying, cause HnG says they're gonna remove the chapters from Manga Dex when it wakes from it's coma.
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And apparently contact other sites to remove their scans as well. That tells me that their whole "we really want this to get an official release so we are taking our stuff down to push for that" is bollocks. I suspect they got some sort legal notice telling them to stop uploading and take all their chapters down.

What's more likely, that in some autistic line of thinking removing all the hard work they have done and trying to scrub it from the internet will lead to an official release, or someone has threatened them with legal action leading to them doing this so suddenly?
 
I haven't read much manga but I started reading one that only had a few chapters out at the time I read it, then forgot about it. Through random chance I started reading it again a couple of days ago and it's really funny.
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Sumire 17. A 17 year old transfer student that is actually ventriloquist puppet operated by an adult man becomes popular and well liked despite being a doll because she's just a good person. Troons should take notes.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I haven't read much manga but I started reading one that only had a few chapters out at the time I read it, then forgot about it. Through random chance I started reading it again a couple of days ago and it's really funny.
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Sumire 17. A 17 year old transfer student that is actually ventriloquist puppet operated by an adult man becomes popular and well liked despite being a doll because she's just a good person. Troons should take notes.
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So it it like a soul in the puppet or is it just 100% the guy? And do people realize it one way or the other?
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I haven't read much manga but I started reading one that only had a few chapters out at the time I read it, then forgot about it. Through random chance I started reading it again a couple of days ago and it's really funny.
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Sumire 17. A 17 year old transfer student that is actually ventriloquist puppet operated by an adult man becomes popular and well liked despite being a doll because she's just a good person. Troons should take notes.
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Seconding this recommendation.
Read it.
Also I wouldn't make the troon comparison. The 'twist' at the end is that he's mentoring people, not that he wants to be a high school girl.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
So it it like a soul in the puppet or is it just 100% the guy? And do people realize it one way or the other?
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Most teachers doesn't see it, they get blank eyes, that's the conceit of the series. The man never says anything or reacts to outside interference like being cold because the doll is dressed in winter clothes, he's always in that black pyjamas like a kabuki stage hand. He is affected but still committed to the act even if it means he will die. An act that no one understands. He's got 0% personality and never says anything, he is just there and the other girls accept him because the doll-persona is a good person. Like I said, it's really funny.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
So it it like a soul in the puppet or is it just 100% the guy? And do people realize it one way or the other?
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There's a vast conspiracy to support the premise. It's implied entire generations were friends with Sumire, and as they become adults they continue the illusion for future generations.
 
I was reading Pharmecy in Another World, and it‘s one of the isekai I enjoy more just because it’s actually somewhat informative. But I realized that one thing that drives me nuts about a lot of these alt-history, Connecticut Yankee style series is that (even ignoring the obvious point that a lot of modern science would be viewed as heresy back then) they almost never take into account that a) most of the time scientific advances are linked, and b) the effects of suddenly increasing one area of knowledge in a population.

Like, in this manga, the character makes his own microscope, which allows him to prove germ theory to these Middle Ages people, but mirrors literally weren’t capable of producing that level of clarity and magnification until the mid-1800’s. Learning to properly silver mirrors is what led to a lot of germ theory.
 
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Amai Seikatsu

The complicated story of a young man who goes to work for a lingerie company.
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Since we were doing recommendations for manga to read, this one I thought was pretty funny for its time. A guy who’s able to guess how women think and act judging from the lingerie that they wear.

Pretty funny and interesting, in my opinion.
 
Slimy Time said:
And apparently contact other sites to remove their scans as well. That tells me that their whole "we really want this to get an official release so we are taking our stuff down to push for that" is bollocks. I suspect they got some sort legal notice telling them to stop uploading and take all their chapters down.

What's more likely, that in some autistic line of thinking removing all the hard work they have done and trying to scrub it from the internet will lead to an official release, or someone has threatened them with legal action leading to them doing this so suddenly?
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Did some digging and part of me thinks that the group has some delusions of being part of a official release given an old message from the artist for the series Daromeon somewhat mentioning the scans and the group seems to be acting smug over something based of a few leaked messages from their discord

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I have doubts Kengan will be officially picked by a publisher any time soon (if it does it'll probably be Viz because of Shogakukan) and I have more doubts that a random scan group will be hired to help.
Although tbf I can't recall the last time a fan scans/sub group has gone legit (not counting CR since they where never a group), I think I heard some members of Live-eviL going legit at one point but that was way before I cared about sub/dubs/etc.
 
Screw Danlon said:
I was reading Pharmecy in Another World, and it‘s one of the isekai I enjoy more just because it’s actually somewhat informative. But I realized that one thing that drives me nuts about a lot of these alt-history, Connecticut Yankee style series is that (even ignoring the obvious point that a lot of modern science would be viewed as heresy back then) they almost never take into account that a) most of the time scientific advances are linked, and b) the effects of suddenly increasing one area of knowledge in a population.

Like, in this manga, the character makes his own microscope, which allows him to prove germ theory to these Middle Ages people, but mirrors literally weren’t capable of producing that level of clarity and magnification until the mid-1800’s. Learning to properly silver mirrors is what led to a lot of germ theory.
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Reminds me of one of the later Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books where the main character gets stuck on an agrarian planet and tries to recreate what technology he can remember, only to realize he has no fucking clue how any of it worked and is only able to re-invent the sandwich.
 
vern said:
Did some digging and part of me thinks that the group has some delusions of being part of a official release given an old message from the artist for the series Daromeon somewhat mentioning the scans and the group seems to be acting smug over something based of a few leaked messages from their discord

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I have doubts Kengan will be officially picked by a publisher any time soon (if it does it'll probably be Viz because of Shogakukan) and I have more doubts that a random scan group will be hired to help.
Although tbf I can't recall the last time a fan scans/sub group has gone legit (not counting CR since they where never a group), I think I heard some members of Live-eviL going legit at one point but that was way before I cared about sub/dubs/etc.
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The whole line of thinking there is all kinds of wrong. I really doubt independent fan translations will stop any official translation, if it happens at all, especially since if they drop it someone else will just pick it up. Kengan had really dropped off the last arc anyway so I'm not too bothered but it's still a shame they're trying to wipe the internet of the whole thing.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I haven't read much manga but I started reading one that only had a few chapters out at the time I read it, then forgot about it. Through random chance I started reading it again a couple of days ago and it's really funny.
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Sumire 17. A 17 year old transfer student that is actually ventriloquist puppet operated by an adult man becomes popular and well liked despite being a doll because she's just a good person. Troons should take notes.
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There's also Sumire 16-sai, with the same dude/puppet at a different school.
 
Mr Snek said:
The whole line of thinking there is all kinds of wrong. I really doubt independent fan translations will stop any official translation, if it happens at all, especially since if they drop it someone else will just pick it up. Kengan had really dropped off the last arc anyway so I'm not too bothered but it's still a shame they're trying to wipe the internet of the whole thing.
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Yeah, I wonder if mangadex was online we'd see another scanlator war like we did with Kaguya (twice).
Although I can think of two exceptions,
First was any WSJ series after mangaplus was released and mangastream got nuked, I think KnY and Yuuna where the last two to get full fan translations on /a/ and iirc a group tried translating Ayakashi but stopped after the first chapter.
Second was Grand Blue (the diving one), I legit don't what the fuck happened to this series, one day it was a decently popular series and the next it gets licensed, group drops it, few others try to pick it up but all drop it a after 1-2 chapters each, and now hardly anyone still follows it.
 
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