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Showing posts with label Hideyoshico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hideyoshico. Show all posts
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.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
:<>
Good evening!
Sticking with the previous post's Hideyoshico theme, tonight it's time for the next instalment of That One Story With The Guy And The Other Guy. This one seems like it's on its way to a volume's worth of chapters, so hopefully we'll actually be able to obtain some clarity on the actual name of this thing in the not-too-distant future. But for now, we rejoin the cute/evil guy and the delinquent guy as they get up to some antics after class. This release is, once again, a collaboration between our good selves and the patriots over at Must Be Endless, so please go check them and their releases out if you have any good taste at all.
As usual, this is a Libre thing and so we'll take the link down in about a fortnight. At the risk of belabouring this somewhat, we'd really like to emphasise that we've been doing this a bit more lately simply because we've been doing more Libre stuff than usual, lately -- treating the download links like this absolutely will never become our practice under any other circumstances.
Anyway that's all for now, see you all again soon~!
Sticking with the previous post's Hideyoshico theme, tonight it's time for the next instalment of That One Story With The Guy And The Other Guy. This one seems like it's on its way to a volume's worth of chapters, so hopefully we'll actually be able to obtain some clarity on the actual name of this thing in the not-too-distant future. But for now, we rejoin the cute/evil guy and the delinquent guy as they get up to some antics after class. This release is, once again, a collaboration between our good selves and the patriots over at Must Be Endless, so please go check them and their releases out if you have any good taste at all.
Taisoufuku o Nugasanaide [this story, part IV]
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As usual, this is a Libre thing and so we'll take the link down in about a fortnight. At the risk of belabouring this somewhat, we'd really like to emphasise that we've been doing this a bit more lately simply because we've been doing more Libre stuff than usual, lately -- treating the download links like this absolutely will never become our practice under any other circumstances.
Anyway that's all for now, see you all again soon~!
Monday, February 27, 2017
∩∵)∩★
Good evening!
Returning now to our regularly-scheduled programming, here we've got the next instalment of Stay Gold. Our heroes spend the afternoon outdoors, boxes are meaningfully carried, and we end on a thrilling cliffhanger. And we've got a nice colour picture, for the first time in a while. So if you're interested in reading this chapter please fax "Give me Stay Gold Chapter 10 please" along with a return address to our usual number and we'll get back to you when convenient.
Meanwhile Lenny's considerable fecundity continues. Once again we draw from the Syohei / Inutoki well, and again we return to the characters we first met in Ringo, Ki kara Ochiru. This time it's the boys from the titular Ringo itself, and here we get to see how their little story ends. So, please:
(As usual, this is a Libre thingy so we'll withdraw the link in due course)
We're also advised that last release's Yuusha in Maounchi, Chapter 1 contained a small but not unimportant mistake, so we'd be obliged if you could delete your copies and instead grab the V2, which is here:
And that's all for tonight -- よろちくび~!!!
Returning now to our regularly-scheduled programming, here we've got the next instalment of Stay Gold. Our heroes spend the afternoon outdoors, boxes are meaningfully carried, and we end on a thrilling cliffhanger. And we've got a nice colour picture, for the first time in a while. So if you're interested in reading this chapter please fax "Give me Stay Gold Chapter 10 please" along with a return address to our usual number and we'll get back to you when convenient.
Stay Gold - Chapter 10
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(NB: the colour picture herein actually belongs to the next chapter, rather than this one here -- little mistake on our end. Makes no particular difference either way, fortunately.)
(NB: the colour picture herein actually belongs to the next chapter, rather than this one here -- little mistake on our end. Makes no particular difference either way, fortunately.)
Tomorrow at 7-30
(As usual, this is a Libre thingy so we'll withdraw the link in due course)
We're also advised that last release's Yuusha in Maounchi, Chapter 1 contained a small but not unimportant mistake, so we'd be obliged if you could delete your copies and instead grab the V2, which is here:
Yuusha in Maounchi - Chapter 1 V2 27/02/2017
Monday, December 26, 2016
8===Dԅ( ͒ ͒ )ᕤ
Good Christmas!
Now, the more astute among you may notice that this Christmas post is dated Monday 26th December, but in fact Acmedan operates in its own special time zone approximately 48 hours behind the rest of the world (for complicated tax reasons we don't need to get into here) so this all looks totally correct from our perspective. And hey, it's always Christmas somewhere in the world. But in acknowledgement of the general consensus that Christmas '16 has been and gone, we'll adopt an appropriately retrospective posture and hope that you all enjoyed a pleasant, relaxing Christmas and got all of the things you were hoping for. And if we could add to the general festivity even a little by re-introducing youse guys to another long-absent friend, this time Hideyoshico's equine edventure Romeo is Rival. Here we have the much-awaited third instalment, where our protagonist manages to get into more trouble than he bargained for:
And that comprises this entire post: we were unfortunately too busy celebrating/drowing our sorrows over the Yuri on Ice finale to have anything else prepared. We hope to be with you again shortly for some further chapters of your favourite titles but, until then, we'd like to wish you all a very happy new year and our best wishes for 2017. Until we meet again~
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Romeo is Rival - Chapter 3
And that comprises this entire post: we were unfortunately too busy celebrating/drowing our sorrows over the Yuri on Ice finale to have anything else prepared. We hope to be with you again shortly for some further chapters of your favourite titles but, until then, we'd like to wish you all a very happy new year and our best wishes for 2017. Until we meet again~
Thursday, September 22, 2016
:)
Good evening!
And we're back-!! Our impromptu unannounced summer vacation went on a little longer than anticipated but we've now returned to full hardness and are ready to give it to your favourite stories once again. And so to that end, please find enclosed herewith the next Stay Gold: herein we find Hayato putting Hidaka's advice into practice, and maybe getting a result he wasn't expecting. So please lean forward with your hands on top of your head and your elbows against your thighs, ensure your feet are flat on the floor and download:
That's all for now -- I'll try to attend to all the outstanding emails over the weekend and we should have some more Nojiko in the very near future. Until we meet again~~
And we're back-!! Our impromptu unannounced summer vacation went on a little longer than anticipated but we've now returned to full hardness and are ready to give it to your favourite stories once again. And so to that end, please find enclosed herewith the next Stay Gold: herein we find Hayato putting Hidaka's advice into practice, and maybe getting a result he wasn't expecting. So please lean forward with your hands on top of your head and your elbows against your thighs, ensure your feet are flat on the floor and download:
Stay Gold - Chapter 9
That's all for now -- I'll try to attend to all the outstanding emails over the weekend and we should have some more Nojiko in the very near future. Until we meet again~~
Sunday, July 24, 2016
＿φ(°-°=)
Good evening!
More Stay Gold for you tonight -- we find Hayato having a fairly mixed time of things, and Hidaka manages to get himself in an awkward situation. Not much else needs saying here, so let's go straight to:
Stay Gold - Chapter 8
And that's all for this post -- if you're waiting on an email I hope I can get that over to you in the next few days (I've let things slip a little again, unfortunately). But that aside, we'll see you when we next see you!
Sunday, June 19, 2016
:( •ᾥ•):
Good evening!
More Hideyoshico tonight -- specifically, the next (and, at time of writing, most recent) chapter of the untitled Libre story, which appeared earlier this year in the Kuzu BL anthology. We revisit the cute main-character dude from last time, but this instalment takes a more oblique sort of approach -- instead of a continuation we get a glimpse into his past and, with it, perhaps some idea of how he ended up like he did. Hideyoshico always does a good job of depicting dysfunctional guys, and this chapter has that kinda content in spades, so hopefully you all can have a fun time with this one:
Anyway like last time, this release is a collaboration with our good friends at Must Be Endless, so please do give them a check out if you're reading this and you happen to be a BL fan. And once again, this one'll be up for a limited time only -- again, we apologise for the inconvenience and very solemnly affirm we've got no intention to do this kinda thing for any other releases. Conferre the previous post for our reasons for this in detail. We'll keep the links up until, say, Monday 27th June and, again, if you're too late to grab the download, we'd never want to suggest that you could email us for the link.
And that's all for now -- everybody please stay safe out there~
More Hideyoshico tonight -- specifically, the next (and, at time of writing, most recent) chapter of the untitled Libre story, which appeared earlier this year in the Kuzu BL anthology. We revisit the cute main-character dude from last time, but this instalment takes a more oblique sort of approach -- instead of a continuation we get a glimpse into his past and, with it, perhaps some idea of how he ended up like he did. Hideyoshico always does a good job of depicting dysfunctional guys, and this chapter has that kinda content in spades, so hopefully you all can have a fun time with this one:
Requirements for Being Trash [this story, part III][aight you're too late now, sorry]
Anyway like last time, this release is a collaboration with our good friends at Must Be Endless, so please do give them a check out if you're reading this and you happen to be a BL fan. And once again, this one'll be up for a limited time only -- again, we apologise for the inconvenience and very solemnly affirm we've got no intention to do this kinda thing for any other releases. Conferre the previous post for our reasons for this in detail. We'll keep the links up until, say, Monday 27th June and, again, if you're too late to grab the download, we'd never want to suggest that you could email us for the link.
And that's all for now -- everybody please stay safe out there~
Monday, June 13, 2016
ヽ(~_~(・_・ )ゝ
Good evening!
Tonight... Stay Gold... is back! back!! back!!! (...but really yep, here's a new chapter). We'd been sorta wondering what had happened to this one: the tankobon came out in late 2014 with the ominous suffix of "Volume 1," and so we waited patiently for "Volume 2" content to appear imminently... and we continued to wait, until we'd rather forgotten about it. But skip forward to a little earlier this year, and the story makes its surprise re-appearance, in a rather unexpected place: the story had been published in Gateau (by Ichijinsha), but it's now mysteriously moved to OnBlue* (by Shodensha) -- of course there's no explanation provided for the change, so we can only guess what obscure machinations caused the story to switch not just magazines but publishers as well -- if any readers have any insight as to what might've happened here we'd be very interested to hear from them.
Anyway yeah, more Stay Gold for you all -- Volume 1 was, perhaps, not Hideyoshico's best or best-received story but, without wanting to spoil too much, this chapter seems to indicate that the manga is making a slight change in direction (and definitely a positive one, we feel) -- if you found yourself a little weary of this story when we last left it then we think you might be pleasantly surprised if you give this chapter a try, suffice to say. And if you've forgotten the fairly baroque way all the characters are connected then there's a handy relationship chart at the start of this chapter, which might perhaps be a little more painless than a re-visit of the previous ones. So let's get down to it:
And that's all for now!! Until we meet again~
*One obvious downside of this change is that OnBlue has precisely zero colour insert pages (whereas Gateau dished them out generously), so we must sadly report that the great flourishing of colour art we saw with the previous chapters is presumably now finished, very unfortunately.
Tonight... Stay Gold... is back! back!! back!!! (...but really yep, here's a new chapter). We'd been sorta wondering what had happened to this one: the tankobon came out in late 2014 with the ominous suffix of "Volume 1," and so we waited patiently for "Volume 2" content to appear imminently... and we continued to wait, until we'd rather forgotten about it. But skip forward to a little earlier this year, and the story makes its surprise re-appearance, in a rather unexpected place: the story had been published in Gateau (by Ichijinsha), but it's now mysteriously moved to OnBlue* (by Shodensha) -- of course there's no explanation provided for the change, so we can only guess what obscure machinations caused the story to switch not just magazines but publishers as well -- if any readers have any insight as to what might've happened here we'd be very interested to hear from them.
Anyway yeah, more Stay Gold for you all -- Volume 1 was, perhaps, not Hideyoshico's best or best-received story but, without wanting to spoil too much, this chapter seems to indicate that the manga is making a slight change in direction (and definitely a positive one, we feel) -- if you found yourself a little weary of this story when we last left it then we think you might be pleasantly surprised if you give this chapter a try, suffice to say. And if you've forgotten the fairly baroque way all the characters are connected then there's a handy relationship chart at the start of this chapter, which might perhaps be a little more painless than a re-visit of the previous ones. So let's get down to it:
Stay Gold - Chapter 7
*One obvious downside of this change is that OnBlue has precisely zero colour insert pages (whereas Gateau dished them out generously), so we must sadly report that the great flourishing of colour art we saw with the previous chapters is presumably now finished, very unfortunately.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
:0
Good evening!
Something a little different tonight: we've teamed up with the extremely pleasant folks at Must Be Endless to bring you the second part of Hideyoshico's untitled, irregular pretty guy x delinquent guy story (the first being "High School Lullaby" which Must Be Endless took care of themselves, quite a while ago now). This story might well be on its way to a tankobon, in the fullness of time — this chapter here appeared in the "Joshi BL" anthology, which was published about eight months(?) ago, and a third instalment appeared more recently in the "Kuzu BL" anthology which came out circa this February — three chapters is of course (at least) halfway to a full volume, and we collectively wouldn't be surprised if this story got dragged out accordingly, in the manner of Stalker-kun. And we'll be continuing to work with our new friends to bring you the remaining parts as they appear! But that's all in the future -- now is the present and we, uh, present to you this, uh, present of a new release:
Now, this release is different from everything else we've officially released hitherto in that it's, of course, content published by that most lamentably litigious licensor — Libre. We've received differing opinions about how currently valid our long-standing fear of this frightening organisation actually is, but suffice to say that we've decided we'd rather be more paranoid than less paranoid, in this instance: we've built ourselves a nice little house here over the years we've been in operation and we don't want anybody barging in and knocking over all the things on the mantelpiece, so to speak. So on the advice of our solicitors we've decided to betray all the principles this group was founded on for just this one particular title — the links above will stay up until the end of April, after which they'll be taken down. Of course by this time the release will be on your favourite manga reading site and you can access it thereby.*
Acmedan was prompted into existence by, basically, a bunch of people kvetching about the complicated practices of certain groups which were around in those days, so please rest assured that taking a step like this annoys us as much as it might annoy some of you — but we hope people inclined to take that position can approach this with a certain generosity of spirit and see that this is a unique case which, unfortunately, may require certain unique steps to be taken. We're almost certainly getting too cautious in our old age, but still, better safe than sorry, perhaps. Anyway we bless this release and all who read this release with the antient magickal symbol for protection against cease-and-desist emails:
And on the subject of things which might invite legal action, we're pleased to announce our donation drive for this quarter is now open!! We're aiming for a goal of 1,000,000,000 US dollars so we can buy all the uh, essential supplies we need. To help ease the administrative load of our extremely over-worked and under-paid secretaries we would kindly ask that nobody make donations of under $250,000. Thank you all very much <3
And that draws this grotesquely overlong post to a conclusion -- hope we can see you all again soon~!
PS MBE are handling all re-translation permissions etc. for this, so please direct any enquiries in that area to them rather than to ourselves.
*We'd never encourage people to email us and ask for the link once it disappears, of course~
Something a little different tonight: we've teamed up with the extremely pleasant folks at Must Be Endless to bring you the second part of Hideyoshico's untitled, irregular pretty guy x delinquent guy story (the first being "High School Lullaby" which Must Be Endless took care of themselves, quite a while ago now). This story might well be on its way to a tankobon, in the fullness of time — this chapter here appeared in the "Joshi BL" anthology, which was published about eight months(?) ago, and a third instalment appeared more recently in the "Kuzu BL" anthology which came out circa this February — three chapters is of course (at least) halfway to a full volume, and we collectively wouldn't be surprised if this story got dragged out accordingly, in the manner of Stalker-kun. And we'll be continuing to work with our new friends to bring you the remaining parts as they appear! But that's all in the future -- now is the present and we, uh, present to you this, uh, present of a new release:
Shoujo C [this story, part II]
[aight you're too late now, sorry]
Now, this release is different from everything else we've officially released hitherto in that it's, of course, content published by that most lamentably litigious licensor — Libre. We've received differing opinions about how currently valid our long-standing fear of this frightening organisation actually is, but suffice to say that we've decided we'd rather be more paranoid than less paranoid, in this instance: we've built ourselves a nice little house here over the years we've been in operation and we don't want anybody barging in and knocking over all the things on the mantelpiece, so to speak. So on the advice of our solicitors we've decided to betray all the principles this group was founded on for just this one particular title — the links above will stay up until the end of April, after which they'll be taken down. Of course by this time the release will be on your favourite manga reading site and you can access it thereby.*
Acmedan was prompted into existence by, basically, a bunch of people kvetching about the complicated practices of certain groups which were around in those days, so please rest assured that taking a step like this annoys us as much as it might annoy some of you — but we hope people inclined to take that position can approach this with a certain generosity of spirit and see that this is a unique case which, unfortunately, may require certain unique steps to be taken. We're almost certainly getting too cautious in our old age, but still, better safe than sorry, perhaps. Anyway we bless this release and all who read this release with the antient magickal symbol for protection against cease-and-desist emails:
And that draws this grotesquely overlong post to a conclusion -- hope we can see you all again soon~!
PS MBE are handling all re-translation permissions etc. for this, so please direct any enquiries in that area to them rather than to ourselves.
*We'd never encourage people to email us and ask for the link once it disappears, of course~
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Updates
Good evening!
Unfortunately no new releases tonight, but we've finally gotten around to doing some things which should've been done a long time ago.
First of all, the blog has finally been dragged screaming into 2016: we've rolled up our sleeves and cleaned out the Augean Stables that were our projects pages, so you'll be pleased to know that those are now entirely current and up-to-date, and we promise to faithfully keep them updated going forwards. And with that done, we can now present the following long-awaited batch releases:
Sonna Me de Mitekure - Complete Volume
[mediafire] | [sendspace]
Stay Gold, Volume I - Complete Volume
First of all, the blog has finally been dragged screaming into 2016: we've rolled up our sleeves and cleaned out the Augean Stables that were our projects pages, so you'll be pleased to know that those are now entirely current and up-to-date, and we promise to faithfully keep them updated going forwards. And with that done, we can now present the following long-awaited batch releases:
Sonna Me de Mitekure - Complete Volume
[mediafire] | [sendspace]
Stay Gold, Volume I - Complete Volume
The contents of the Sonna Me and Stalker-kun batches are identical to their constituent releases, but subsequent to our finishing Stay Gold the very tasteful colour page above came into our possession (from the "Introduction to BL" book, of all things) so we've added that to the "Extras" folder -- the rest remains per our original releases (if you have the original release and don't want to download the whole batch, the picture up there has the right filename, so you can just grab that and stick it in the folder). We've also done up a new version of the Udagawachou batch, to include the movie special and the movie subs:
Wait for Me at Udagawachou - Complete Volume (V2)
Nothing's been done to Kurayami for the time being: in due course we'll presumably need to rename the Utsusemi releases (or at least take "KnS Extra" out of the filenames of the ones from 2013) but we'll wait until the volume comes out (...whenever that'll be) and we can get an official steer on how this is meant to be organised.
Also there's some very handsome new banners! (with more to follow)
Anyway that all having been said, some less positive news. We hope this is less of an announcement and more of an acknowledgement of what is, by this point, a fairly well-established situation, but at any rate we hereby give notice that we've dropped the following titles:
1. Hanabatake to Wakarebanashi;
2. Ippo;
2. Ippo;
3. Sora no Deau Bashou de.
Our very sincere apologies to anybody who was enjoying these series and was hoping we'd take them through to their conclusions, but unfortunately there's less enthusiasm for working on them at our end than there once was: and so we think it'd be better if, rather than sitting on them, we gave them up and allowed someone else more committed see them through the rest of the way. We have no opinion on who takes these off our hands and, as we've dropped them, we don't think we're entitled to give permission -- so please, if you're interested, just go ahead, and if you get in touch we'll link back to you here.
We will however finish Koketsu (new chapter soon!) and Bikkuri, and get the omake stuff for Itsuka Tomodachi done.
The final item remaining outstanding is the re-translation request emails, which have (entirely through my personal fault) gone unanswered for some time: I'll pull up a coffee and really try to get these all cleared up in the next week or so -- thanks to everybody for their patience.
And so that's all for now, hope we meet again soon~
Saturday, February 6, 2016
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:
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):
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~
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?]
Wait for Me at Udagawachou - The Movie - English subs
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~
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
(o尸’▽’)o尸
Good evening!
Time tonight for the remaining Stalker-kun content: the omake and colour parts from the tankobon. The title might've changed again(!), but it's still the same classic pairing you all know and love, so let's us just get right to it:
Time tonight for the remaining Stalker-kun content: the omake and colour parts from the tankobon. The title might've changed again(!), but it's still the same classic pairing you all know and love, so let's us just get right to it:
Gentleman and Sadistic - Extras
And that's all for now. We'll see you in the not-too-distant future for some Nojiko, hopefully, but until then, y'all take it easy now. Until we meet again~~
Thursday, December 24, 2015
( -_・)?
Good Christmas!
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| (something closer to the actual resolution) |
Time for, as is now something close to an established seasonal tradition, some Christmas Hideyoshico! First up we take another trip to Animal Hell with Chapter 2 of Romeo is Rival: we re-join Akira immediately from where Chapter 1 left off, and find him still extremely bewildered by his new surroundings. Subsequent chapters of this should appear a little faster. So please enjoy:
Romeo is Rival - Chapter 2
And next is the long-awaited final chapter of Stalker-kun! The story rushes to its thrilling conclusion as the two guys finally work their feelings out. This is 40 pages long and has some really nice colour art, so hopefully you'll all find this a pleasant end to one of our longer-running stories. We've got the tankobon all scanned up (more colour stuff and an omake) and hopefully that won't be an extremely long time into the new year. But for now:
Seesaw Game 4 [stalker guy part 6] [end!]
This'll be our final post for the year so, as we come to the end of 2015, I'd like to extend my sincerest thanks on behalf of the group to all of our readers for sticking with us this year and for tolerating our somewhat less regular schedule with patience and good humour. We wish you all a very merry Christmas (or whatever else), a happy New Year, and hope you'll all still be around in 2016 for whatever Nojiko thing we finish next. Until we meet again~!
Sunday, October 25, 2015
┌（-.-)┐
Good evening!
Long-time Hideyoshico fans will of course remember her 2012 classic Wait for Me at Udagawachou - a timeless tale abouta beautiful yet distant guy who gives all his prospective love interests just "seven days" to win him over a guy who cross-dresses. You may also be aware that this title was adapted into a live-action film, which came out in Japan just a few months ago. (...has anybody actually seen it? Is it good?) Anyway OnBlue has decided to mark this auspicious occasion by getting Hideyoshico back in to draw some new stuff for the story, which you may now find below along with some promotional stuff for the movie:
Pages 1-36 is all new content from the movie tie-in, and we've also taken the opportunity to dig up a couple small things from the vault: an OnBlue cover from when the story was originally being serialised (pg. 37 - scanned by our friends at Rooftop Scenery), and a peculiar tribute drawing by Shoowa and Koiwazurai Shibito, which appeared in the January 2013 issue of OnBlue (pg. 38).
Anyway that's all for now -- we wish you a suitably frightening Halloween and hope to see you again as soon as possible!! (with more Nojiko)
Long-time Hideyoshico fans will of course remember her 2012 classic Wait for Me at Udagawachou - a timeless tale about
Wait for Me at Udagawachou - Movie Special
Pages 1-36 is all new content from the movie tie-in, and we've also taken the opportunity to dig up a couple small things from the vault: an OnBlue cover from when the story was originally being serialised (pg. 37 - scanned by our friends at Rooftop Scenery), and a peculiar tribute drawing by Shoowa and Koiwazurai Shibito, which appeared in the January 2013 issue of OnBlue (pg. 38).
Anyway that's all for now -- we wish you a suitably frightening Halloween and hope to see you again as soon as possible!! (with more Nojiko)
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
（（（（（（（（ ゜□゜）ノ
Good evening!
The Cat Shit Returns tonight as we've got the next chapter of Stalker-kun for your pleasure. This leads right on from the end of the previous chapter, as the two guys struggle for control of the situation and then possibly some sex happens. Just one more chapter of this to go, so enjoy it while it lasts:
And that's all for now - catch you on the flip side, dudemeisters~
The Cat Shit Returns tonight as we've got the next chapter of Stalker-kun for your pleasure. This leads right on from the end of the previous chapter, as the two guys struggle for control of the situation and then possibly some sex happens. Just one more chapter of this to go, so enjoy it while it lasts:
Seesaw Game 3 [stalker guy part 5]
And that's all for now - catch you on the flip side, dudemeisters~
Saturday, June 27, 2015
( ̊ଳ ̊)
Good evening!
It's the Hideyoshico Horse Thing!! She appears to be doing this now instead of Stay Gold 2, which will be a curse or a blessing depending on your feelings towards the latter. Anyway this looks like it might actually be a pretty fun title: we follow a loser NEET guy who is thrown into bewildering new life out in the boonies, where he falls in love with a beautiful horse (or something like that). Anyway as always we hope you enjoy.
(Also we'd like to apologise here for the quality of the pages: our raw-buying apparatus slightly broke down for this one and we had to use the abysmal e-book version rather than a scanned copy, and so despite our best efforts everything's pretty sludgy-looking, as you can see. If you've got a copy of the relevant issue of Hibana and wouldn't mind destroying it, please drop us a line at the usual address).
And now across to Lenny who's got some more delights. This is Yoru to Asa no Uta, a new story by the infamous Harada, who is apparently popular with the kids these days. Here we have the adventures of a handsome but sensitive musician, and the various guys who want to screw him. If you've read other Harada stuff then you know what sorts of directions this'll go in. But for now we have the original oneshot, which serves basically as a prequel, and then part one of the main story. And so:
All compliments to Lenny for these last two, as per the usual. Anyway that's all for now and we'll see you next time!
It's the Hideyoshico Horse Thing!! She appears to be doing this now instead of Stay Gold 2, which will be a curse or a blessing depending on your feelings towards the latter. Anyway this looks like it might actually be a pretty fun title: we follow a loser NEET guy who is thrown into bewildering new life out in the boonies, where he falls in love with a beautiful horse (or something like that). Anyway as always we hope you enjoy.
(Also we'd like to apologise here for the quality of the pages: our raw-buying apparatus slightly broke down for this one and we had to use the abysmal e-book version rather than a scanned copy, and so despite our best efforts everything's pretty sludgy-looking, as you can see. If you've got a copy of the relevant issue of Hibana and wouldn't mind destroying it, please drop us a line at the usual address).
Romeo is Rival - Chapter 1
And now across to Lenny who's got some more delights. This is Yoru to Asa no Uta, a new story by the infamous Harada, who is apparently popular with the kids these days. Here we have the adventures of a handsome but sensitive musician, and the various guys who want to screw him. If you've read other Harada stuff then you know what sorts of directions this'll go in. But for now we have the original oneshot, which serves basically as a prequel, and then part one of the main story. And so:
Aru Otoko no Uta [prequel oneshot thing]
Yoru to Asa no Uta - Chapter 1
All compliments to Lenny for these last two, as per the usual. Anyway that's all for now and we'll see you next time!
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