About time, right? I had to sort of rush to get this through before I leave the country for all of July tomorrow morning. I've had the translation for months and months on end now and the raws and cleans for longer. I suppose it just took me that long to muster up the motivation to proofread the translation, since typesetting was just the past two days.
Also -- we are in need of a translator for the Asch spinoff manga. Please contact me via the email listed on the "Contact Us" page if you wish to take up the task, but please do remember that I can't access my email from atop a mountain and I'd rather not take away from family time to go to an internet cafe when I am in a city, so if you try to contact me, you probably have to wait till late July/sometime August for a reply. Still, don't let that stop you from emailing me~ ...I must be sounding desperate.
What else? Hmmm. Translators are definitely needed to continue the ToS anthology and maybe the ToR anothology too depending on if Ju-da-su still wants it. Wow...I have less raws than I remember having. Ahahaha, suppose that's the result of (very) slowly whittling down reserves.
As for ToA chapter 23? I don't even have raws ready at the moment and thus cannot assign anything to anyone, so please don't ask within the next....Baah, I'll be generous and say 6 months.
I know I suck. I promised more stuff this year, and yet, the only thing being released at what I can even call a "steady" rate is our collaboration project with Buusagi, the Jade spin-off manga. Though that's mostly because I like cleaning more than proofreading and translating and also because the staff at Buusagi are awesome...As for anyone waiting for the main Tales of the Abyss manga -- I'd like to say that it's my fault entirely for the holdup. I've had a translation sitting on my computer for months, but I completely lost the motivation to even proofread it. I did, however, print it out to work on it in case any of my classes get too boring.
I honestly haven't really handed out that much work so far this year either. Yume and Ju-da-su are handling their translations at their own pace, I ask Nagi for help in scanning whenever public raws aren't available (ie -- a good bunch of the Jade manga chapters) and...I don't remember anymore.
But just because we're stagnating doesn't mean we're throwing down the towel. I've lost a bunch of motivation over the past year and a half or so (I remember MangaUpdates listing our release rate at once every two weeks, but now it's up to about once every 3 months). Even if I do get offers from wonderful people wanting to help, I honestly don't actually have that many projects I want to work on anyways. As you all know, Eternal covers pretty much all of the series in the Tales of Magazine and it really would be idiotic for us at WoaA to release the same series twice, since we don't really want to compete. Plus, we have a few staff in common, so that makes the whole thing more complicated in terms of even if we did want to cover a series, it would be senseless to ask the same translator who worked on it for Eternal.
So what does that mean? It means I still suck at working on time and that I'll be out of the country most of the summer, ruining any plans for more productivity then. Of course, I'll still try to get some work down, but, as you may have noticed, we probably won't ever really be as lively as when we first started. Hopefully, we'll still get jump-started and do something, but I'm honestly not sure anymore.
Though our offerings this year might be less than expected, I hope you still like our releases nonetheless~
First off, there's Tales of Symphonia (again) with chapter 2 version 2. This time around, we're working off of the official French release. This might clear up some inaccuracies of the first version, but it probably isn't 100% faithful to the original text, since there are bound to have been liberties with the french version, and I'm sure we made some liberties ourselves in this translation in order to make the characters sound more...well, in-character. Additionally, we have a separate .rar file for the bonus comics that are behind the slip cover of volume 1.
Then there's a double dose of Tales of the Abyss with 20 and 21. I know I've been annoyed about this in the shoutbox. This year has been a pretty slow one for us, but I hope this gets us off on the right foot? At the very least, it'll stop the complaining. (A nice note for the rest of the year: When I'm not obligated to release something like today, complaints usually push releases further back)
Finally, there's the long-awaited Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut chapter 3. I assure you that this chapter is cursed and it's a miracle that it's even getting released today. I had to redo it at least 3 times thanks to my computer dying at very inopportune moments. Hurry and get it before it mysteriously disappears~~~~
Additionally, there is another release coming in later today, I'll update this post after it's been finalized~
Okay~ Here's yet another wonderful chapter of the Jade-centric manga, done in collaboration with our friends at Buusagi~ Have fun!
Posted by miken-chan on Jan 23, 2010 Post a Comment (14)
>> Reminder~
miken-chan
Time is passing by rather quickly, so I'm here to give a reminder to everyone who wants to send it fanart/manga colorings for WoaA's 3rd birthday to please email me the images by the 20th. ^-^
