Beat it on down the line

Good evening! And --- good night!! For this is the final post we will ever make.

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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.