Small note about HGSS Special


I made an announcement a couple weeks ago about our Pokemon Special HGSS arc project. Well, FedEx decided to be lazy asses and delivered Grade 4 magazine several days later than planned - and by the time it was delivered we were too busy with preparing for a trip to do more than scan the pages. (Yes, the pages are all scanned; I haven't cleaned them up yet, but at least I have them scanned!)

What trip? Cynthia and I are going to Japan for ten days. We're leaving tomorrow. EXCITING!!! but that has put off our expected completion date of the first HGSS chapter. Considering the looooooong plane ride we have ahead of us, we very well might be able to get the chapter done within the next few days or so, buuuuuut in light of Japanese copyright laws and such, I don't feel completely comfortable actually uploading the chapter using a Japanese internet connection. :D; So I'm going to hold off until I'm back on American soil to upload the completed scanlation. :Dd

Expect the first chapter either on March 28th or shortly afterwards! The second chapter will go on sale while we're in Japan (I don't have to worry about FedEx letting me down on that one), and will probably be completed byyyyy... early April I guess?

In the meantime, North American folks!! Get your hands on a copy of HeartGold or SoulSilver if you can, the game is amazing and so worth it! (Australia and Europe are getting the games on the 25th and 26th, respectively, so you guys can enjoy the games soon too!)

Peace out!

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- posted by Umeko @ 3/17/2010 11:28:00 AM 2 comments

 
Announcements, announcements, anou~ncements!
Hey, so it's been a while! Anyway, I have a couple of announcements.

First off, about Pokemon Special (GSC arc). We had always been intending to go back to scanlating that, but as of now we are officially announcing that project dropped. The reason for this isn't because we don't love the manga anymore or anything - far from it! - but rather because Viz will be (finally) translating those volumes starting in August. (And non-flipped too, if you haven't seen the second edition releases up to now!) HOORAY VIZ!!

We highly encourage those of you who enjoyed what you did see to purchase Viz's releases (if you live somewhere where you are able to buy their releases, I am aware that the USA isn't the entire world or whatever). If you don't want to wait until August, there might be a certain website somewhere where you might be able to find scans of the Chuang Yi translations of volumes 8 through, like... 31. The name of this website might begin with "manga" and end with "fox," but that's just a might. One that you didn't hear from me, certainly.

Oh, but fair warning that Chuang Yi's translations suck pretty hard, at least during the GSC arc. I can't read them without going into an UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE!!!!!!

Now, I also have a second announcement. Though we are dropping the GSC arc, we will be picking up...



\o/!!!!!!

That's right, the HeartGold/SoulSilver arc of Pokemon Special is on its way, and we are TOTALLY on for the ride.

A bit of an explanation of how this will work, however, for those of you who are unaware of the way Pokemon Special is serialized in magazines. The preview pages above note that the arc will start on March 25th, but that's not the real first chapter. Pokemon Special is traditionally serialized in several magazines at once, meaning that there are as many as three chapters released a month; they're arranged in such a way that you could, in theory, read just one of the magazines that serializes the manga and you won't be totally confused by missing stuff in the other magazines, though the full story is covered by all the chapters. Once they're collected into tankoubon form, all of the chapters are arranged in a way that makes sense.

Don't think about it too hard or you will get confused.

The HGSS arc is being published in two magazines: Corocoro Ichiban! and Elementary School Grade 4. Ichiban! is published bi-monthly, and its first issue with the HGSS manga will be released on March 25th. Grade 4 is published monthly, and its first issue with the HGSS manga will be released on March 3rd.

Yeah, that means tomorrow.

SO BASICALLY. I'll be getting Grade 4 by Thursday or Friday, and you can probably expect a scanlation of the first chapter soon afterwards. \o/!

Look forward to it!!! :DDD

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- posted by Umeko @ 3/02/2010 04:24:00 PM 6 comments