Groundless - Vol. 9 Ch. 42 - The Dragoon and His Lover

[MangaDex]

 

[Gold_Scale]

Thanks to "Joker" for commissioning this manga, sadly he only commission until volume 9 if any of you guys have any manga that you want to read just DM me in my Ko-Fi page. Thank you

 

[40percent]

Huge update, kino content

 

[Blackspace_2]

sir, does this mean overwatch one-eyed-sniper is back?

 

[Bibliothecarius]

Thanks for the chapters!!!!

 

[Callidus]

Thanks a lot for the chapters. Such a fantastic underappreciated manga.

 

[Hoshiya]

Thanks for the chapters! But I have to be honest that the raws you worked on is ass, hella blurry and lost almost all the sharpness

 

[Gold_Scale]

Thanks for the chapters! But I have to be honest that the raws you worked on is ass, hella blurry and lost almost all the sharpness

Yeah i know thats the only best quality raw that i could find, and the one who put the commmission says its fine to use that quality. Me personally i would buy from Bookwalker and use that.

 

[Hoshiya]

Yeah i know thats the only best quality raw that i could find, and the one who put the commmission says its fine to use that quality. Me personally i would buy from Bookwalker and use that.

I would give you that raw I downloaded years ago that I downloaded in nyaa to fix ch34~36, but I wonder if I still have that

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Thanks Joker and Gold_Scale.

 

[MagnaDrake]

Thanks for the translations. Time to do the yearly readback because I keep forgetting the factions in this series.

 

[Sasso]

We are so back. This was very nice!

 

[Pinbat]

Thanks for the release. Coincidentally I was just reading Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan and saw you also picked that one up. Is your translation no longer MTL since you aren't putting that in your credits/donation pages like you used to? No hate just wondering.

 

[jvreerjvp]

Thanks yall its sad I finished it all so quick though

 

[danbellucci]

Thanks Joker and thanks for the chapters. So great seeing that tank bitch get her hands blown off, though without her there isn't much long term drama left besides the enemy sniper siblings. It feels like the author only thinks of the story one volume or one arc at a time anyway. It's feels as though he just likes his characters and wants to come up with situations to let them interact but doesn't have a clear long-term plot.
There's a risk it becomes kind of boring and low-stakes and arbitrary if it feels like the author is just making up operations for the sake of it without any convincing dramatic plotlines.

But I don't get that mafia guy. What's the point in sending someone to subtly F-up the mission and help the liberation army when you won't get any credit for it because you haven't defected yet?
in a situation where army defections are common, doing something brazen like lighting up a cigar at the beginning of a night time mission and unconvincingly saying that you're spacing out is quite likely to get you interrogated and tortured as a spy. It's just up to the discretion of the commander. They could just shoot her at the end of the mission and say she was one of the casualties.

 

[danbellucci]

also , giving away your position by lighting up a cigar when they have tanks and militia is quite likely to get you pinned down and killed as well. It's a bit weird that she'd be willing to do that. it greatly increases teh chance of her getting captured or killed by the liberation army, who probably won't believe that she helped them since they don't have any confirmation about double agents or defectors, and it greatly increases the chance of her allies interrogating or killing her under suspicion of being a traitor.

 

[Strela]

Not the horse :'(

 

[Gold_Scale]

Thanks for the release. Coincidentally I was just reading Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan and saw you also picked that one up. Is your translation no longer MTL since you aren't putting that in your credits/donation pages like you used to? No hate just wondering.

I still use MTL to assist me to translate. I can speak japanese and understand it, i just can't read japanese that's the problem so my process is first i use a OCR software to copy all the japanese text into a document then i copy it into ChatGPT or google translate to translate it, after doing that i will check every single translated line with a japanese voice software speaking the text then i compare it with my understanding of japanese. If the sound i heard sound right in the translated version of ChatGPT or Google Translate then i will use it. That's about it.

 

[egi321]

Thanks Joker and thanks for the chapters. So great seeing that tank bitch get her hands blown off, though without her there isn't much long term drama left besides the enemy sniper siblings. It feels like the author only thinks of the story one volume or one arc at a time anyway. It's feels as though he just likes his characters and wants to come up with situations to let them interact but doesn't have a clear long-term plot.
There's a risk it becomes kind of boring and low-stakes and arbitrary if it feels like the author is just making up operations for the sake of it without any convincing dramatic plotlines.

I mean, the author seems to put a message at the end of every volume.... And going by what he says, and I'm being as respectful as possible given the information he gives.... He seems to be a bit of a fuck up and struggles hard with the concept of deadlines.

The plot is fine and the world building is interesting. The pacing is what naturally suffers the most from it. Which naturally affects the storyline. So I'd say it's probably that. Case in point, it was clearly building towards a larger war with the continent for a while now. And Sophia has her plotline with her baby too. But since he does one volume at a time, doing both art and plot, and seems to take around a year for each volume..... Well, more immediate things need to be resolved and things that are not essential at that point get left behind. So we just focused on subaharan here, and the tank commander with a bone to pick. No place to deal with the other stuff. Pacing issue.

Guy can write well enough.

If anything, the best decision would be for him to stick to the author seat and get someone else to assist with the art part. Should probably help.

But again, given what he says about himself, don't seem like an individual who does well with delegating.

It's one of those breeds of artists that can put off good stuff, but need to retreat into the shadows for a while before they release more stuff.