Bodaiju

[MangaDex]

 

[AnxietyAtTheParty]

If someone has the last four chapters, please upload them; I couldn't find them anywhere, even though they clearly existed once.

 

[subliminal]

@AnxietyAtTheParty
I assume you've checked there but remarkably Doko Demo Doa's old wordpress blog is still up.
listing their final chapters of bodaiju
https://3dmangascanlations.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/octobers-releases-2/#comments
but frustratingly they seem to have had restricted uploads
we're likely on shaky grounds with 10 year old translations of obscure shoujo series, maybe we'll get lucky?
They seem to have been some sort of private translation group but dead since 2013.

 

[AnxietyAtTheParty]

@subliminal

Yeah, I've seen it, and even tried digging through archived versions of their blog with web archive - but alas, there were no working download links.

DDD had this system where downloads were only available for a week after a series was finished, which makes many of their series very hard to find. Chinpui has the exact same problem - DDD's blog mentions it was finished, so does BakaUpdates, people remember reading the whole thing, but the second half of the last volume is nowhere to be found.

 

[subliminal]

@AnxietyAtTheParty
I never understood why shoujo groups seemed so prone to this weird gate keeping behaviour at least more so than others, coupled with staff numbers that go into double digits.
the final upload predates the days of batoto which greatly simplified release tracking but still we have groups like chibi that have been going on for years and recently removed all of their series from here other than joints.
I remember trying to track down the releases of one of those old shoujo manhwa groups I forget which specific one, and being stymied at every turn first you had to create an account and register then you had to make so many posts and sit around long enough to view the chapters.
eventually I gave up and just found some half scales someone had uploaded elsewhere

Nowadays it's all about discord servers which are frankly a nightmare...

 

[yukiwa]

@AnxietyAtTheParty @subliminal Ivy Scan is listed in their blogroll as affiliate. They're still around although not really active. Might they not have the files, or the scanner's contact info?

There's also a discord for /r/manga https://discord.com/invite/manga

Someone there might have it. People do hoard old manga releases.

Ed: Affiliate Forbidden Garden is active too, and just updated. https://fgscans.blogspot.com

 

[AnxietyAtTheParty]

@yukiwa Thank you very much for your suggestion, I'll keep it in mind for the future! This time asking around wasn't necessary; I tried checking one website again, this time using a different spelling of the title, and it turned out they had the whole thing. I'll upload the remaining chapters as soon as I'm done downloading.

 

[yukiwa]

@AnxietyAtTheParty Oh wow, that's GREAT! *u* I looked everywhere but couldn't find it for you.

ed: wait, Parhelion did find some. Is it two volumes? They have the first two. I thought the series was three vols??

 

[subliminal]

@yukiwa
Looking at MU it's 3 vols tankoubon vs 2 vols bunkobon.
Doko demo probably used the bunko version would be my guess.

@AnxietyAtTheParty
Oh well done where did you track down the final chapters?

 

[AnxietyAtTheParty]

@subliminal libgen. It's usually the first or second site I check, so I must have checked it before I found out how DDD spelled the title (which, for some reason, was different from the spelling on Baka-Updates and all other databases). It's great, even if downloading sometimes takes forever.

 

[subliminal]

@AnxietyAtTheParty
Ah I'd not thought to use libgen for manga before mostly for finding books and papers.
Thank you .