The ride never ends
Anyway if you're late to the party -- we're now closed! See post below for full details.
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Friday, December 29, 2017
Beat it on down the line
Good evening! And --- good night!! For this is the final post we will ever make.
Not really a lot of explanation needed here. As will have been evident to anybody who keeps up with us, as time has gone by we've collectively found it an increasing struggle to devote the kind of energy and attention to scanlation which we were able to bring in our earlier days. Having, therefore, had a serious discussion amongst ourselves as to whether our current quantities of free time and enthusiasm are still sufficient to make us the appropriate custodians of the stories we cover, we arrived at the unanimous conclusion that acmedan has come naturally to the end of its life, and the appropriate thing to do is to close the group down and give it a dignified farewell.
A decision taken with heavy hearts, naturally; but we feel the group's demise, while sad, is not untimely -- we have stood long enough at the post of honour, and seen ourselves turn gradually but inexorably from a group which put out new content every week (a bizarre fantasy, considered here at such a far remove) to the kind of slow-moving, title-grabbing operation we were railing against when we coalesced out of the homo threads in the first place. We're all not quite the people we were at the beginning -- common themes between us, regrettably, are increased real-life business and duties, and perhaps the kind of weariness with the material that follows unavoidably from considering it as a burden to be undertaken instead of a finished product to be enjoyed. There's a life cycle to these things, perhaps.
So this is the end, we're done, there'll be no more releases -- we can be formally and for all time marked as "inactive" on MangaUpdates (if we're not already!). We retire quietly, and hope we were able to carry out some decent work over the years. We remain content, at any rate, to have never taken donations nor to have ever demanded secret loyalty oaths from our readers. And we apologise profusely to the original authors for our prolonged travesties of their stories. If you've enjoyed anything at all we've worked on, please do consider helping the creators out by purchasing their works: all of the titles we worked on should be available at highly reasonable prices from the usual outlets, and constitute handsome items even in their raw unintelligible state.
Finally, to make a short personal comment: having been the leader of this group throughout its final years, I'd like to tender the warmest possible thanks to ac and KG, in whose footsteps I have so ineptly followed.
KG would like to add here: "I never got to fulfilling my lifelong goal of seeing anyone fuck in Yozora." A sentiment no doubt many of us will agree with.
The future of our titles
A couple of our members are going to continue elsewhere with Stay Gold, and we'll add a link to the new chapter once it's finished being scanlated. As for everything else (including, for emphasis, all the Nojikos), we bequeath them like the dying Alexander bequeathed his conquests, τῷ κρατίστῳ -- that is to say, we have absolutely no opinions whatsoever. We wish all good success to our successors in these titles! Unfortunately we have no scans to give out so those will need to be sourced elsewhere.
And that's it! Goodbye! It's been fun.
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A decision taken with heavy hearts, naturally; but we feel the group's demise, while sad, is not untimely -- we have stood long enough at the post of honour, and seen ourselves turn gradually but inexorably from a group which put out new content every week (a bizarre fantasy, considered here at such a far remove) to the kind of slow-moving, title-grabbing operation we were railing against when we coalesced out of the homo threads in the first place. We're all not quite the people we were at the beginning -- common themes between us, regrettably, are increased real-life business and duties, and perhaps the kind of weariness with the material that follows unavoidably from considering it as a burden to be undertaken instead of a finished product to be enjoyed. There's a life cycle to these things, perhaps.
So this is the end, we're done, there'll be no more releases -- we can be formally and for all time marked as "inactive" on MangaUpdates (if we're not already!). We retire quietly, and hope we were able to carry out some decent work over the years. We remain content, at any rate, to have never taken donations nor to have ever demanded secret loyalty oaths from our readers. And we apologise profusely to the original authors for our prolonged travesties of their stories. If you've enjoyed anything at all we've worked on, please do consider helping the creators out by purchasing their works: all of the titles we worked on should be available at highly reasonable prices from the usual outlets, and constitute handsome items even in their raw unintelligible state.
Finally, to make a short personal comment: having been the leader of this group throughout its final years, I'd like to tender the warmest possible thanks to ac and KG, in whose footsteps I have so ineptly followed.
KG would like to add here: "I never got to fulfilling my lifelong goal of seeing anyone fuck in Yozora." A sentiment no doubt many of us will agree with.
The future of our titles
A couple of our members are going to continue elsewhere with Stay Gold, and we'll add a link to the new chapter once it's finished being scanlated. As for everything else (including, for emphasis, all the Nojikos), we bequeath them like the dying Alexander bequeathed his conquests, τῷ κρατίστῳ -- that is to say, we have absolutely no opinions whatsoever. We wish all good success to our successors in these titles! Unfortunately we have no scans to give out so those will need to be sourced elsewhere.
And that's it! Goodbye! It's been fun.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
啊
Good evening!
Big bunch of stuff tonight, you lucky people. First we continue on the recent Hideyoshico theme with the covers and extra content for Volumes 1 and 2 of Stay Gold. To recap: Volume 1 was originally published back in classical antiquity (2014) by Gateau. The story then disappeared for a while until, under circumstances which remain highly opaque to us, it was transferred to OnBlue and new chapters started appearing there. Volume 2 came out, published by OnBlue, earlier this year, and they very obligingly decided to reissue Volume 1 at the same time, with a nice new cover to match Volume 2's. We have them both here, of course.
OnBlue's Volume 1 also includes some re-issued Udagawachou content which first appeared in OnBlue magazine --and was duly scanlated by us, inter alia-- in 2015. Fairly unaccountable that it should reappear here but, as the stories share a publisher, it makes sense from that perspective, and certainly it appearing in a volume gives it a more permanent home than it just disappearing obscurely in a magazine. If you're a real Hideyoshico head you'll have seen this stuff already but we include it here for completeness.
As a final note, these covers feature very handsome shiny gold text which, regrettably, is turned into an unpleasant murky brown colour in being scanned. Obviously we always exhort you to Support The Artists and buy all this stuff in the original but these books in particular are really nice in-person.
And in case you were worried we'd forgotten that artists other than Hideyoshico exist, we return to draw from our earliest well of them all with the long-awaited(?) next chapter of Endou-kun no Jikken Note, drawn, of course, by the radiant Hayakawa Nojiko. This story is out now in volume form as well, in fact -- and like Stay Gold it appears as a pair of books. This chapter here takes us to the end of the Volume 1 content, so next up in terms of Endou will be the extra content from the book, and then we'll get onto the Volume 2 chapters. But for now:
Which takes us to the end of the post -- until next time, keep on keepin' on~
Big bunch of stuff tonight, you lucky people. First we continue on the recent Hideyoshico theme with the covers and extra content for Volumes 1 and 2 of Stay Gold. To recap: Volume 1 was originally published back in classical antiquity (2014) by Gateau. The story then disappeared for a while until, under circumstances which remain highly opaque to us, it was transferred to OnBlue and new chapters started appearing there. Volume 2 came out, published by OnBlue, earlier this year, and they very obligingly decided to reissue Volume 1 at the same time, with a nice new cover to match Volume 2's. We have them both here, of course.
OnBlue's Volume 1 also includes some re-issued Udagawachou content which first appeared in OnBlue magazine --and was duly scanlated by us, inter alia-- in 2015. Fairly unaccountable that it should reappear here but, as the stories share a publisher, it makes sense from that perspective, and certainly it appearing in a volume gives it a more permanent home than it just disappearing obscurely in a magazine. If you're a real Hideyoshico head you'll have seen this stuff already but we include it here for completeness.
As a final note, these covers feature very handsome shiny gold text which, regrettably, is turned into an unpleasant murky brown colour in being scanned. Obviously we always exhort you to Support The Artists and buy all this stuff in the original but these books in particular are really nice in-person.
Stay Gold - Volume 1 - Extras
Stay Gold - Volume 2 - Extras
And in case you were worried we'd forgotten that artists other than Hideyoshico exist, we return to draw from our earliest well of them all with the long-awaited(?) next chapter of Endou-kun no Jikken Note, drawn, of course, by the radiant Hayakawa Nojiko. This story is out now in volume form as well, in fact -- and like Stay Gold it appears as a pair of books. This chapter here takes us to the end of the Volume 1 content, so next up in terms of Endou will be the extra content from the book, and then we'll get onto the Volume 2 chapters. But for now:
Endou-kun no Jikken Note - Chapter 7
Which takes us to the end of the post -- until next time, keep on keepin' on~
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
༼ (›´ㅅ`‹ ) ༽
Good evening!
Yet more Hideyoshico for y'all tonight (further Nojiko to come as soon as practicable, we swear), namely the next instalment of That Thing With The Two Guys And They Fuck Or Whatever, You Know The One.* Here things get a little more eventful: delinquent guy stats to push back on cute guy's affections, and cute guy reveals previously-unseen depths of feeling(??). As per the usual, this one's a joint effort between us and the philosophers over at Must Be Endless, whom we sternly admonish you to go and check out if you enjoy BL and didn't e.g. stumble in here on accident. And once again, to our profound and continued regret, the link for this one will go down in about a fortnight so that Libre doesn't serve a writ on us. So get it while it's hot:
And that's all for now! Until we meet again....
*The title for the upcoming complete volume has been confirmed as Gakuen Tengoku but you'll allow us this indulgence, we hope.
Yet more Hideyoshico for y'all tonight (further Nojiko to come as soon as practicable, we swear), namely the next instalment of That Thing With The Two Guys And They Fuck Or Whatever, You Know The One.* Here things get a little more eventful: delinquent guy stats to push back on cute guy's affections, and cute guy reveals previously-unseen depths of feeling(??). As per the usual, this one's a joint effort between us and the philosophers over at Must Be Endless, whom we sternly admonish you to go and check out if you enjoy BL and didn't e.g. stumble in here on accident. And once again, to our profound and continued regret, the link for this one will go down in about a fortnight so that Libre doesn't serve a writ on us. So get it while it's hot:
Lonesome Neon Tetra [this story, part V]
And that's all for now! Until we meet again....
*The title for the upcoming complete volume has been confirmed as Gakuen Tengoku but you'll allow us this indulgence, we hope.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
:O=====
Good evening!
Apologies for the pause in releases, which ended up turning into something like a hiatus -- busy time of year for a lot of us, unfortunately. But we're like Hetalia, we'll never die. Anyway, the releases. First up is Chapter 11 of Stay Gold, which takes us in dramatic fashion to the end of the Volume 2 content. Here Yuuji and Hayato explore their feelings in a somewhat more physical manner than hitherto. Of note is that this chapter exists in two different versions: in the tankobon it's a couple pages longer and a couple pages are different to how they appear in the magazine version (there's a note explaining this better in the actual release). We present both iterations in the one download: the magazine version, which was published earlier, comes first, and the volume version second.
Next up from this story will be the extra content in the new tankobons and then we'll get back to the chapters.
And to play us out, a new and very cute Syohei oneshot from friend of the library Lenny:
Apologies for the pause in releases, which ended up turning into something like a hiatus -- busy time of year for a lot of us, unfortunately. But we're like Hetalia, we'll never die. Anyway, the releases. First up is Chapter 11 of Stay Gold, which takes us in dramatic fashion to the end of the Volume 2 content. Here Yuuji and Hayato explore their feelings in a somewhat more physical manner than hitherto. Of note is that this chapter exists in two different versions: in the tankobon it's a couple pages longer and a couple pages are different to how they appear in the magazine version (there's a note explaining this better in the actual release). We present both iterations in the one download: the magazine version, which was published earlier, comes first, and the volume version second.
Stay Gold -- Chapter 11
And to play us out, a new and very cute Syohei oneshot from friend of the library Lenny:
Zenryaku Love Hotel yori [oneshot]
That's all for now -- hope to see you all again soon! Emails should hopefully get replied to in the near future, apologies once again on that front.
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