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I think this might be my favorite chapter of Umihashi so far, and that means a lot since I've personally helped work on nearly all the chapters and got an in-depth feel for them over the time I've dedicated to each since I joined the team for chapter 11. We never see the movie Tracing Blood, so...

I would be perfectly content for this to stay a story about two successful women being successful together forever. But the way that Kanna can't remember stuff from high school makes me think that there might be something deeper happening; that this might be a revenge drama disguised as a...

Bright Smiles Scans is recruiting a CLRD who specializes in screentones for a new ongoing series we're picking up. We need an intermediate- or advanced-level redrawer with plenty of experience to wrangle a manga with gratuitous screentones and sfx. Our pace for this project is slow (one chapter...

We have plenty of options available to us, but we don't have anything else quite like Curtain Call on the menu. If you have ideas, feel free to DM me. But otherwise, since we work fairly slowly, I hope you'll patiently look forward to seeing what we release next :)

the thing i find most remarkable about this oneshot is the way kouno-sensei plays with the medium to convey her thoughts. we are presented with what would normally be interpreted as a person writing a fictional character, but by keeping the character stylized and making the sketch realistic...

actually, yes! let's discuss this more in dms :D

Thanks for reading! Although this manga is a series, we were just interested in the Pixiv oneshot that serves as its prequel/pilot, so we will not be continuing translation for it. Feel free to pick it up!

yep, we're releasing it tomorrow. thanks for your patience!

i'm very interested to know that too! i think it's a rich detail which is very likely to come up again. so far it's already had 2 influences on the story: 1) in the backstory, it pushed karoliina's agenda of aino getting all the honor and glory, which is what allowed aino to travel with iro in...

so far everyone's been really focused on how terrible the parents are, but nobody's speculated about WHY rikitake made them so awful. back in chapter 2, we saw how iro was able to get a handle on her unstable emotions after receiving encouragement from her partner. because iro has a somewhat...

Earlier this month, May 2025, Mangadex was hit with a wave of copyright takedowns that affected thousands of series and hundreds of thousands of chapters, leaving many scanlators and readers uncertain of what the future might hold. Since none of Bright Smiles' projects were affected by the...

Thanks for picking this up! Seeing how many series you scan that I follow, I can see you're quite the hard worker 😆 I've been curious about this series since it was first announced, so I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks for the chapter! Looking forward to seeing what's next 😄

I think that these are some good points to keep in mind. This manga will be tricky for whoever picks it up, and will require a lot of sensitivity to the source material to translate well. As far as broader context goes, one of the reasons I support she/her for Hibiki is because the author...

Thanks for the chapter!