Dainana Joshikai Houkou

[Joshlemagne]

I would have made a thread in the series discussion subforum, but it doesn't seem like I can.

Anyway I've been working with Overload scans recently on Mikake no Nijuusei, by the same author as Dainana Joshikai Houkou. Anyway I mentioned I wasn't sure why you guys stopped with it and it was brought to my attention that the reason you listed was missing pages in the raw. We had the same problem with Mikake and managed to use a digital camera to get shots of the missing pages and clean them up enough to use. The results aren't 100% perfect, but I doubt that very many people noticed when all is said and done. I wondered if there might be any way I can help and maybe get things rolling again? Dainana is one of my favorite manga in recent years and I like to see lots of people exposed to it. And I think some of the best chapters are yet to be translated.

[osakaki]

Hey there. I guess we have some forum permissions to tweak, so thanks for bringing that to our attention.

Yeah, there are four pages, I believe, missing in the raw of volume three that's floating around online. Once I've got a hold of those, it would be pretty smooth sailing (depending on the cleaning) to start releasing again. If you think you could help with that, that'd be awesome. It really is an underrated manga. I'll PM you which pages we need when I get home from work and can look at the raws again. Can you tell me which pages in your project were taken with a camera? I'm interested to see how much of a quality difference there is after I know. I didn't notice anything weird when I was reading it. I've been reading your guys' releases of it. Good to see you're doing it justice.

I was interested in translating Mikake, too, but we just went on to other things instead. Luckily I didn't have 160 pages translated like I did when I saw a group had started putting Hadi Girl out.

And thanks for the offer!

[Joshlemagne]

[osakaki]

[Joshlemagne]

[osakaki]

The missing pages are 54-57. I noticed in the images you posted that you can see panel lines, etc, from the other page. I wonder if putting a piece of paper (dark paper might work?) under the one page you're taking a picture of might help with that. Luinthoron, the guy who scanned our Sotomura raws, said that helped cut down on that when he was scanning.

[Tsss]

Working with scans like that wouldn't be much trouble, I have seen and worked with a lot worst before.

On the other hand, cut-panels like on the image IMG_1370 would need to be addressed on your side. Or the corner of IMG_1354 for example.

We can correct the missing white borders quite easily to make everything look uniform with PS. So if it's only a few pages, I could do it.

[Joshlemagne]

[Lily-hime]