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Thank you! Life's a bit hectic at the moment :/ But I hope to be starting work on volume 12 soon. By the way, these are not scans! Rather, rips from the digital versions that were released in 2022 I believe.

Well, I just read volume 1 of the Kana release, compared it to my own work, and I'm pleased to say that everything looks great from Kana. The cover has a satisfying spot-gloss, they used their re-draw resources well to make every single sound effect in English, the font work is nice, and the...

I have not actually finished reading the series myself (I was reading the pre-existing translation for a few volumes but decided I'd rather not have it influence my work), so I don't know if more is explained about Gary. I notice on page 13, the window has the パッパー sound effects (which I'm not...

You know, I've wondered this, too. His behavior on page 13 is kind of unexplained (the hand over his mouth expression...?) As for why he tried to find her at the end of the chapter, we could maybe assume that he deduced - "Why would she be gone without putting away her set up? If she was done...

We did it! My goal was to get Vols 1-11 out before June (the official release's first volume due date: link). Vol's 10 and 11 were uploaded pretty much back to back... Vol 12 will take some time. Going to take a little break (a few months max) and ease back into it. Thanks for reading, everyone!

Personally, while I love the Monster anime, I think it would be really cool to see it done live action. It would be amazing to see it shot on location, with German/Czech actors, speaking German and Czech, etc. I realize this would... Pretty much never happen lmfao but man it would be so cool to...

I see now the translator is listed on the Abrams website (maybe it was before and I just didn't see it) - it's Kristi Iwashiro. This is great to see! I'm unfamiliar with her work but it does bring some peace of mind knowing that there's a real human's name attached to the localization. I also...

I hope so too. Does Kana have a history with using AI in their translation jobs? I'm assuming that's what you mean. I'm gonna be getting volume 1 for sure and reading it to see how I feel about the localization. Maybe I'll even break down my thoughts here if I have anything substantial to say.

Upon further investigation and consideration, this Kana release will only get to volume 7 (the volume I'm currently working on) in 2028. So maybe this news doesn't change my priorities. Either way, y'all will know when I continue working on this, because volume 7 will be uploaded. :P

Everyone, I just received news that Urasawa and Nagasaki will be releasing Billy Bat in English, starting next year. Source: https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-kana-release-naoki-urasawa-takashi-nagasaki-billy-bat-english/ As such I will be suspending this project indefinitely. It was very...

Hell yeah! Here's the invite. It shouldn't expire, anyone's free to join. The Google Drive link can also be found in the server, which I'm keeping updated along with MangaDex in case my translation also gets taken down here.

Hey! Thank you so much. It is true that I only have the first 6 volumes translated. I took a bit of a hiatus bc of life stuff but I'm hoping to resume later this month, or sometime in August for sure. If you want I can drop the invite to the discord server I recently made. It's read-only but...

I have all files related to this project backed up on my hard drive and cloud storage, so if it comes to that, that'll always be an option.

What do you mean? Well I mean, it did, only my chapters survived bc of the technicality I'm pretty sure. I really doubt BB will ever be licensed for release in the States because of certain aspects of the story. I feel like they'd end up censoring it which would be even worse than never...