I just remembered that it's almost been a year since
@miniiiiiia started translating Kanokari
Together with Sankeri editing her group Kanojo Okarishimasu Scans put out her first release(chapter 121 where Mini confronts Chizuru) in Christmas Eve of 2019 almost a whole year ago, man time sure flies.
Before that we were at the mercy of Jet Yau who were slow and put a lot of memes in their scans and were a lot more liberal in general. Heck at first they intentionally delayed the chapters for 3 weeks before my dude Sonic(
@SteamedBunInvasion) sniped them for 3 weeks(after which they quickly released all 3 remaining chapters and caught up).
Anyways, some time after that henry(think his name here was
@harou right?) joined as editor too and then after a while the project was taken up by Black Cat, which might have not happened if she didn't start translating it for months.
Back then Black Cat didn't have as many projects as now, things have really changed.
It's been a long ride since 2017. In the early days we had to satisfy ourselves with summaries from bakadata and raws and the occasional translated chapter from
@SilverHelios. In 2018 Jet Yau picked it up and translated it for a year and a half, but of course that came with tons of baggage, still it was better than just looking at raws and reading summaries.
Then the anime got announced some time in 2019.
And then came minia and Black Cat in late 2019 and early 2020. Anime aired in 2020 and now we have a second season coming.
2020 has been a rough year but Kanokari brightened up my week every week, here's to a better 2021.
You guys who picked up the manga after watching the anime should really appreciate Black Cat's fast and quality releases more. You have no idea how painful it was to wait for days on end for a translated chapter that usually was heavily rewritten anyways and you have no idea how painful it was to wait for a group to pick it up in the first place after the whole scanlation community basically wasn't interested in translating it at first because of the subject matter and how touchy a lot of western manga/anime fans get.
Still I wouldn't change a thing. I've been reading it for all these years and while it's been rough(whether it was the manga's pacing, boring parts of the story or the usual waiting for translation issues etc.) it's also been a great experience, an experience that you simply can't get by binging through it after watching the anime.
@SNKY @harou @JakalDX whole Black Cat crew I wish you all an early Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
And of course can't forget my guy
@NotJim99 and his Dekinai Scans group who translated a bunch of the bonus chapters and omake as well as would often translate a bunch of minutia from Reiji's twitter on /a/
Send
@miniiiiiia regards from /a/ and hope she's doing well
Happy holidays to all you guys here too!
I'll leave you guys with a classic collage of our favorite couple from /a/
Cheers!