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.

Re-Translations Amnesty

This is a more technical sort of post: there's no release here, and the message below is addressed exclusively to the staff of non-English scanlation groups -- if that doesn't apply to you, you can comfortably skip this one.

Now, as anybody who's asked us for permission to re-translate something in about the last six months (at minimum) might have realised: we've managed to build up a very significant backlog of unanswered requests. There's no good reason why this should be the case, except that I've been too busy/lazy to attend to them: they're time-consuming to address and we get a lot of them, basically -- not that this is a good reason but it's the actual reason, unfortunately. Of course I should make clear that this is nobody's fault (except my own): we invite people to ask for permission for these things and almost no individual email is hard to deal with: it's the cumulative effect of all the emails we get, has become the problem. I've been meaning for a long while to sit down and finally get around to straightening the situation out, but I haven't yet found myself with enough time, regrettably. So I've decided it might be best to try to adopt a new approach, both to clear out the amount of unanswered emails as have arisen prior to now, and also to ease the load I have to deal with in the future.

So our new policy for re-translations is as follows. If it's something which I've scanned (that is, if the raws are credited to Rezonville, which is the vast majority of our releases now), then we hereby allow any and all groups to re-translate them without needing to ask for permission. This applies to anything we've released prior to this post, and anything we release subsequent to it. I'm going to ask people to essentially use their common sense here: if you want to release something of ours in another language, have a check to see if anybody else has released it in that language first, and obviously if another group has priority then let them get on with it. Our permissions list is very out-of-date at this point and should not be relied on.

If you've emailed us asking to re-translate something which is a Rezonville scan, and I haven't answered you, then the above paragraph is your answer -- you have permission, as does everybody else in your language. If any situations have arisen where your group was waiting for permission and, while it was waiting, was beaten by another group which went ahead and used our releases without asking, then I very sincerely apologise.

If the scans are by anybody else, then please email us in the usual way. If you've emailed us about a release like this, and haven't received a response, please re-send your message.

In all cases, we'd be grateful if you could leave our credits in your re-translated release.

And I think that's all, please let me know if you have any queries,

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

[mediafire] | [sendspace]

Yasaotoko to Sadistic - Complete Volume

[mediafire] | [sendspace]

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)

[mediafire] | [sendspace]

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;

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~

Recruitment!

First post of this nature in eighteen months so we hope you'll allow us this little indulgence. We'd like to announce that we're interested in taking on a new typesetter and cleaner to help us out with things -- we're looking to see if we can't gee things up a little and, to that end, an extra pair of hands on the cleaning and typesetting sides would be of very great assistance to us.

In both cases we'd ideally be looking for somebody with some prior experience: on the typesetting end somebody who can re-draw and typeset SFX (as well as all the usual duties of course); and on the cleaning end somebody who knows how to handle magazine scans (we leave re-drawing to the typesetters, as above, so experience there won't be necessary). So if you've got some past experience, some free time on your hands and you enjoy the stories we're working on, then we'd be extremely grateful to hear from you at acmedanmail [@] gmail.com. Thanks~!

Recruitment Post - Cleaners!

Hello everyone! Sorry to bother you all in the middle of the week but we'd like to let you know that we're looking for a new cleaner to help us out. We're specifically looking for someone who already has cleaning experience, especially with cleaning scans from magazines and anthologies.

We leave all the re-drawing to the typesetters so all we'll need of you is being able to straighten and level the pages to the proper standard. If this sounds like you, and you're willing to contribute some of your time to the World's Best Scanlation Group™, then please let us know at acmedanmail[@]gmail.com.

Anyway that's all and we'll see you on Sunday!

Recruitment post: cleaners!

psst mod's asleep
post call for cleaners

So now that this week's release post is up and Rezonville's asleep, this is the perfect time for me to hijack the blog and once again ask for some extra cleaners.

If you enjoy rotating pages so that they're all nice and straight, as well as levelling raw scans so that blacks are blacks and whites are whites, then this position is perfect for you! We're in need of help with some of our current projects as well as some upcoming projects we have in the back-burner.

No prior experience is necessary since we'll be willing to show you the ropes, but having some would be pretty cool too.

For more ~detailed~ info on what a cleaner does, please hit up our Recruitment page. If you're interested in joining us (or if you have any further questions) please drop us an email at acmedanmail[@]gmail.com.

Note: If you've emailed us before about a cleaning position, please don't hesitate to contact us again!

Recruitment post: typesetters!

acme the night before a big release

Yep, another one of these. A few of our typesetters are taking a break with scanlation commitments as their real life schedules get busier and busier.

So! We are looking to recruit 2 or 3 typesetters. In our group not only does this mean placing text in their bubbles, but it also means cloning and redrawing panels and art.

Experience is not necessary (though that'd be pretty awesome) but you will need access to Photoshop or a program that can work with PSD file formats. Enthusiasm and ability to handle banter are also highly desirable.

For more info on typesetting, please see Dangerous Pleasure's tutorial.

Anyone interested in working with a bunch of madcunts a group of hardworking and passionate people, please email us at acmedanmail[@]gmail.com

Mediafire issues

Hey all, it's just been brought to our attention that our Mediafire account's been suspended.

Until alternatives are found, please use our Sendspace links. We're also aiming to make sure each file has some sort of download link for it, so please use the batch links when you can.

Feel free to report any broken Sendspace links here while we're at it.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

EDIT 21/1:  Everything should be working now, please let us know if anything isn't.

ʕ•͡ᴥ•ʔ releases and important stuff

I'm going to rudely interrupt your regularly scheduled posts, usually by our ever so sassy Rezonville, to answer the numerous queries we've been getting over our Nojiko titles and for plans next week.

Firstly, releases. This week we have a Yukio/Rin Ao no Exorcist doujin by Ai Yuco:

Ao no Exorcist dj - You're Myself, I'm Yourself

ge.tt | Sendspace

As well as a mini monster of an NGE doujin:

NGE dj: Mauve

ge.tt | Sendspace

As always the FAQ gets lonely at times, so pay it a visit if you're interested in sharing our releases.

Now for those interested in what's going on behind closed doors Nojiko-wise and for next week, please do read on!

Recruitment post!

HELLO DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CLEAN SCANS

I'm afraid this isn't a surprise midweek release to those that check our blog daily, but more like a begging request post for some extra staff for our upcoming projects.

At the moment we are looking to recruit the following:

• Japanese to English Translators
• Another dedicated cleaner
• Typesetters

Prior experience isn't needed, but having access to Photoshop or a program that can use PSD file formats are required. That and a willingness to learn!

EDIT: Access to Photoshop or PSD files requirement is for cleaners/typesetters. Sorry for any confusion caused.

For more info see our Recruitment page. If you are interested please send us an email over at acmedanmail[@]gmail.com.

Update post.

Just a quick note to say that Sendspace links for both Ringo and Usotsuki, as well as smaller file sizes and a batch download for Ringo have been put up in the Releases page and edited into the last release post.