Recent content by Taruby

Yeah, Azuma Hideo is a very important figure in manga history more people outside Japan need to learn about and appreciate! There's also a lot of misinformation circulating the western internet about him being the 'Father of Lolicon' and a certain panel in Disappearance Diary about Yaoi and...

I had Sham Cat favourited because I've been researching and translating the words of Azuma Hideo, and then noticed your translations pop up today. I couldn't find any contact information, but I'm intrigued about you picking this as your very first manga scanlation project. My friend, AndroidLB...

I remember reading the first volume scanlation of this after it's first volume was released on March of 2006, and being super impressed with the art and story by Moriyama Daisuke, but then the scanlators started using magazine scans and I dropped it. Going through my amazon.co.jp cart this year...

I downloaded this series translated by M+K in 2005~2006 via BT, but only read up to the 3rd volume. Was going through my old folders, and saw a cut-out of Bat-mode Nana I made from one of the pages, which reminded me this series existed. It's interesting, after all these years, to go back and...

First-rate Ero-Guro-Nonsense, the first of its kind, by the Father of Otaku Culture. What the western world understands as hentai manga, or what Japan calls Bishoujo ero-manga began with this story.

Chapter 10 references something that happened with Miyazaki Tsutomu, the Otaku Killer. A reporter, Kobayashi Toshiyuki, went into Miyazaki's bedroom, and said in his 2015 book that since there was nothing related to erotica that's visible within the bedroom, a TV cameraman scrounged around and...

@jak @EKappaZ @Mudsaur @thegoatrider In Japan, 'Star Wars' was a huge deal back in the early 1980s during what Japanese manga/anime/game historians refer to as the 'ロリコンブーム', and one could say there was a 'Star Wars' boom going on at the same time, heavily influencing the kind of comics and...

More margin notes. The author is responding to two different users from specific districts. I'm not going to bother transcribing the names or district. 「ファムのガレージつくってくれてありがとーっ！！あの…できれば完成品くださーいっ！！」 「音楽カセットありがとっ！！なかなか良いチョイスですぜ！！」 "Y-san from X district, thank you for making a Fam garage kit...

Since the scanlator couldn't read it, I transcribed and translated the author margin note for those curious: ■End Chapter Note: 「STⅡ～てめー悪魔のゲームめっ　オレの時間をお返してやがれーっ！！」 "STⅡ～! You damned demonic game! Give me back my time—!” Unless I'm mistaken, STⅡ is the Japanese abbreviation for 'Streetfighter...

@dogtato: When Mangaplus loads, click to '・・・' in the upper-right corner, and switch from vertical to horizontal so it loads the double pages correctly sewn together.

Regarding the note on Boku: Adults will often refer to boys as 'boku', and boys will use this as a personal pronoun. If a young girl hangs around boys or brothers who use 'boku', then it's common for these girls to also use 'boku' as a personal pronoun until the end of elementary school. Past...

@Devil_Trigger: These translations are old. 2002-ish or older. The scan quality and translation preferences of people back then are different from the way they are now. There wasn't much in the way of English and Japanese dictionaries, either. Guts name in Japanese is 'ガッツ' (Gattsu), and for a...