2 titles · On MangaDex since May 2024
A team consisting of a very slow, sort of scuffed translator who likes digging up obscure manga about old European books and time periods (aceredshirt13 - that's me), my close friend celadon who does all the graphics/visual editing/scanning of physicals (thanks homie), and those kind enough to help us out with translation checking, quality checking/proofreading, and Britpicking (credited individually in each project).
We originally came together to scanlate Please, Jeeves, but add other projects as time and interest allows! If you'd like to help in any fashion - particularly translation correction and Britpicking (proofreading in British English) - let us know!
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• Don’t upload our translations anywhere else unless MangaDex goes down for good.
• Don’t use our translations to translate into other languages. In the vast majority of cases, a translation of a translation becomes so distant from the original text that it doesn't count as a translation anymore. Translate from the original Japanese! (If it’s out-of-print like Please, Jeeves, we’ll link you the raws. Otherwise go buy them yourself.)
• Don’t use our fan translations anymore if the manga gets officially translated (unless the official translation is either really terrible or in some way unethical like that AI translation of Neko Oji) or the mangaka specifically asks us to take them down (i.e. not just the publishing company). Respect mangaka wishes and put money in mangaka pockets - and buy the original Japanese versions to support them if you can.
• Don’t tell any official parties about our translations. At least one mangaka privately gave us explicit permission to unofficially translate their work even when the publishing company disagreed, so getting them or us in trouble by publicly discussing it with the mangaka or the publishers would be against both our wishes.
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In-Progress Projects
• プリーズ、ジーヴス / Please, Jeeves by Tamaki Morimura and Bun Katsuta - A delightful adaptation of the Jeeves stories by famed British comedy writer P. G. Wodehouse. Only the first chapter is up at the moment, but the entire manga is scanned - we'll return to it as soon as possible! (It's just a lot of work doing all the cross-checking from English book original to Japanese book translation to manga and then Wodehouseing it up... sigh.)
• トラファルガー / Trafalgar by Yasuko Aoike - A two-part manga about the naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars, and two childhood friends who find themselves on opposite sides of it. Part 1’s rough draft is done - just needs checking.
Non-Manga Projects
• 名探偵ホームズ 霧のロンドン殺人事件 / Great Detective Holmes: Murders in the London Fog - An adventure game for the Famicom where you play as Sherlock Holmes and solve an original mystery. Romhacking is about 90% complete and my translation is half-done - will hopefully move on to the other old untranslated Holmes games once I finish.
Possible future projects can be found here. If you know of any manga that might fit the group's interests (manga about childhood friends with gay energy who end up on opposite sides of a war, for instance), shoot us a message!
