Little Kobe

[Glomoro]

@Purplelibraryguy I suppose it'd be a real problem if you could see his beads while he seems to be outside in plain view. They call that the place where the Sun don't shine for a reason, thank you very much

 

[pip3]

First of all, please note that our group consists of two members currently, myself (pip3) and suchtla.
Prior to this project neither one of us ever had made experiences with translating mangas and truth be told, we didn't have a clue what we were getting ourselves into.
I think that reflects in the quality of our few releases. Not only did we have some typos (thx again nutjob!), but also the visual quality was pretty bad.
For example, if you compare the pages you will notice that the level of blackness is very inconsistent and that I didn't remove some or any of the paper artefacts from my first few pages.
All this stuff boils down to the fact that I had no idea what I was doing.
As I kickstarted this project alone I had no person to guide me through the steps I should take and I honestly didn't read enough or any guides and tutorials at all.
The same thing goes for the typesetting too. I'll be the first one to admit that the only thing that's consistent about it is the fact that it's pretty bad.
The last thing I fucked up with this project is that I started it at the wrong time. As things are now I will not be able to release chapter 5 for another 6-7 weeks for private reasons.
I know this sucks because all the little momentum a niche title like this could have had on Mangadex will be gone by then.
But at the same time, I'm not doing this for the views and I think this can be an opportunity. Hear me out.
When we return from our hiatus, we will come back with much experience gained from the rocky few chapters that we have already released and we will re-release the chapters we already had online with all the above issues addressed, as well as other improvements like a few t/ns that are pretty interesting reads and an actual schedule of one chapter a week.
We are very thankful to the people who read our imperfect scanlations with all their flaws (I've literally misspelt the group name on the credits page Bernd->Bermd) and we are sorry for those that are looking forward to a new chapter.
In the meantime, all we can do is promise that we will do our best.

 

[billymaysrip]

When you have niche series like this, it's a miracle they get translated/scaned at all. Even if it takes years, it's always better to have a complete series available to readers than to have an incomplete scanlation because the group got too caught up with quality or other issues. With the best series, someone - either a legitimate publisher or a person with a lot of time or skill - often will come around make a high quality updated version. Thanks for the hard work thus far, and if there's any way the community can help, let us know.

 

[pip3]

@billymaysrip thanks. But even though it will obviously not match the quality of somebody with more experience, it should at least be the best I can do. We are only talking about three chapters, so this will barely be a setback for the project.
I started this at the completly wrong time.
I knew I would need to put the series on hold for the mentioned time period. I should've started it when I was ready to commit to scheduled releases at least for a few months.

 

[jak]

Milk of Human Kindness?

*Strong liked this*

 

[MITHR]

Thank for taking time to work on this.
I really enjoy reading this

 

[neoxonfire]

Thank you for this 😍

 

[Tamerlane]

Is it just more or does the cover make it look like George Harrison is in the King of the Hill opening?

 

[PsychoJing]

@Tamerlane
Thank god i'm not the only one who immediately thought that. XD

 

[supertron]

@pip3 thank you for working on this! I love these unusual "small" stories, they don't get enough love!

 

[SweetDelightBB]

Please give this one a chance. Fantastic art style with a great story, can't wait to see the future chapters.

 

[pip3]

@supertron u r welcome😀

 

[wigjump]

(─ ‿ ─) service

 

[vannn]

Really enjoy it so far, somehow feels like a western indie comic. Can't quite put my finger on what it is, maybe the paneling, but it doesn't detract at all. Worth a read.

 

[jcan]

@vannn
maybe it's the "thin lines inside thick lines" style that resembles some western comics.

great fucking manga btw

 

[Arashiyama]

Love the characters. Thank you for translating this.

 

[blazjon]

Very nice manga. Wish I could read until the end.

 

[horsewithnoname]

Damn Ritsu blushed. Those words were such a power move for him, damn...

 

[martje]

So so good thank you so much for the regular updates - literally the first thing i look out for every sunday xx

 

[pip3]

@martje you warm my heart