FOUR MORE YEARS

Good evening!

So it's --to our utter amazement-- the group's fourth birthday today: when we were originally getting all this together probably none of us thought we'd manage four months before we ran out of steam. Anyway we'll spare you all a speech, seeing as you've had a couple already, but of course we should say that this is still all very enjoyable to do, our readers are extremely nice people and it's a continued privilege to be the conduit through which this excellent material is brought into the English language. And of course, if you've liked any of our titles, please do consider throwing the actual authors a few coins: all the tankobons we've covered should still be more or less available in the usual locations, and even if you can't understand the language the art's still a pleasure to look at (and best of all, it's free from all the vandalism we've done to it!) But anyway none of this is what you're here for, so:

we've got some new Nojiko as promised, and this here's an interesting one. We're not entirely sure what this is: it popped up in an issue of OnBlue late last year and was described there as being part of an "insect-themed collaborative work" (paraphrasing slightly), with this Nojiko story to be the first instalment. So this could be a oneshot, to be followed by other oneshots with similar subject-matter by other artists (or by Nojiko herself); or there could be a second chapter of this later, by Nojiko or by somebody else; or it could be something else entirely -- this is really kind of a mystery. If anybody in the comments can bring any wisdom here we'd be especially grateful, and of course we'll offer any clarifications we can obtain ourselves. But anyway here this is now, whatever it is, and, fair warning, this is some fucked-up content (though not much graphic, in Nojiko's usual fashion). Anyway she thought this was worth drawing so naturally we thought it was worth scanlating, even if it's a little weird, so without further ado:

Ten Ten Shiro Shiro [oneshot?]

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And finally, something very exotic. The Udagawachou movie has been out for a little while on DVD, and it's, uh, -- our reaction to it has not been especially favourable, to put it mildly. But putting aside its quality (or otherwise, as the case may be), it's a live-action adaption of one of our scanlations, so we felt some vague obligation to do something with it. And so, in a departure from our usual fare, we've put together some subtitles(!!) to the thing, so you all can read along at home. Now we emphasise here that these are subtitles only: we don't want to attract any unwanted attention by actually uploading the movie (a more substantive form of piracy than regular old scanlation, we imagine) so you'll need to procure your own copy of that. But once you've gotten that worked out you can download these and affix them to the video (and we strongly exhort you google how to do this yourself -- we've unfortunately got nothing to offer in the way of tech support). Shouldn't be any adjustments needed to the timing, we hope. Anyway so please enjoy (and do please let us know your thoughts about the movie in the comments):

Wait for Me at Udagawachou - The Movie - English subs

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And that draws this very long post to a close: we hope we'll still be at this for a long time yet -- and more immediately we hope we'll see you all again soon! Take care now~