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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...

Checked reddit, looks like there was a DMCA takedown?? Lmao. Idk why (most) of my chapters stayed up though. 🤔 EDIT to avoid triple-posting: My chapters likely stayed up because I've been resizing my pages to be printed on an A5 size format. This is a decision I made after I initially uploaded...

That's... Really weird. It must be an issue with Mangadex all of a sudden? Even chapters 2-9 of my scanlation are gone all of a sudden. I'm not super familiar with this site so idk if there's someone we can contact about this...

I know hahanaho already responded but I just wanted to affirm that response, yes, I'm working on a new translation. It will take some time still, as I'm doing everything solo (save some private rounds of proofreading), but I just wanted to provide an updated English version for fans with more...

Yes, this is based on a more recent digital release (in the credits at the end of each volume, it states they are sourced from an ebook copy). It's also my own translation, save whatever few chapter titles or bits of dialogue I happened to catch from the Arienai version that I really liked.

Hi! I'm not sure why chapter 1 didn't originally upload, and I only just now noticed that my original submissions got uploaded. Oops! Chapter 1 is uploaded now. I'll also be going through and re-uploading my version of vol. 1 as I changed some things to make it more consistent.