Yancha Gal no Anjou-san - Vol. 3 Ch. 38 - Anjou-san and the Cultural Festival

[MangaDex]

 

[monkeyvoodoo]

Buy the book! https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4785963751

Chapter 41 is coming tomorrow; 42 should be a day or so after.

A bunch of chapters are gone from mangadex, so we'll be filling those in over the coming weeks.

 

[Htheratos]

@monkeyvoodoo

Thanks a lot!

 

[monkeyvoodoo]

Actually, Rem said he'd be willing to do TL on the pre-_anq chapters too, so we'll be doing those, as well.

 

[justanothermanganerd]

several groups competing to translate one manga

meanwhile dropped mangas I really liked be like

 

[meidunk]

Please stay that way, mc.

 

[FredFriendly]

@monkeyvoodoo Thank you for your work. However, considering your over-the-top holy-than-thou preachiness, I'd like to know if you actually purchase all of the series that you scanlate or if you just freely obtain the raws on the Internet.

 

[monkeyvoodoo]

@FredFriendly We always purchase the books we work on. It's really not a big expense, either. Anjou volume 3 from amazon.co.jp was ¥535 + ¥950 express shipping. Total of USD$13.88 at time of purchase, to have the book arrive at my doorstep three days later.

This is why we always push for readers to just buy the Japanese books. It's not expensive to support the author. Better than e.g. monthly Patreon support for chapters every few weeks. And, importantly, sales of the books in Japan directly contribute to the author being able to continue the series, possible future foreign-language licenses, and even anime adaptations.

 

[ixlone]

@monkeyvoodoo

Nice. The gap makes kittens cry.

 

[twinklecake]

based unlimited salt works

 

[monkeyvoodoo]

@FredFriendly since you asked:

We're also serious enough about this that we're picking up YK as they publish:

 

[HYBRID_BEING]

@monkeyvoodoo
On page page 7-8 Hatigarm typesetted some of the signs, and painted two white (couldn't translate?), but you didn't. Do you not plan to typeset as meticulously as they did?

 

[krispy]

@monkeyvoodoo real serious when im asking this no troll intended...did u snipe this series?

 

[monkeyvoodoo]

@HYBRID_BEING our policy for signs and onomatopoeia is simply just to leave them be. the only times we translate those are when it's relevant to the plot (i.e. without it being translated, the reader would be left confused). specifically for onomatopoeia, japanese has what amounts to an entire language. while it's possible to translate these (to a degree), often there's no direct translation, so you end up with some weird string of kana, with some form of somewhat-relevant english slapped on top of it. usually, the original japanese onomatopoeia serves its own purpose without translation: e.g. you can see something happening in the panel, and there's japanese fx text that you don't need a translation for to understand, contextually.

i think the blank spots you're referring to were cleaned by the staff cleaning the chapter, but weren't addressed by the translator, partially for the reasons i stated above, and partially to get the chapter out as quick as possible. i don't think it's a matter of being unable to translate. onomatopoeia in japanese is just particularly complex, often so much so that a native speaker would, rather than try to translate, just tell you "it's just a noise that means XYZ".

 

[Daktyl]

Damn dude, if you're going to snipe a series fine, but at least learn to clean properly.

 

[monkeyvoodoo]

@krispy sure, there's really no way around saying that we sniped this series. but there's a lot more to answer with your question than can really be addressed here in a quick comment. this could have been any series; we've been annoyed by donation-begging groups for a long time. ultimately, this came down to a weird coincidence of timing, and interest in a particular series. there was no particular effort in singling out a series or group.

 

[monkeyvoodoo]

@Daktyl point out something you're unhappy with and we'll be happy to correct it!

 

[Xystus]

What's going on? How come the chapters before were removed? Also dejavu but haven't I read this chapter previously? lol

 

[HellKing]

@Xystus I think the group that translated those chapters got pissed because of this snipe and took everything of this site

 

[Tarage]

@monkeyvoodoo Point out something I'm unhappy about and you'll be happy to correct it. I'm unhappy that you sniped a series that was already being done well. Begging for donations triggers you? There are hundreds of groups who do this. This is a hobby. Not everyone has the expendable income to do this for free, even if you can get it cheap. Instead of actually picking up a series that had been dropped or needed to be translated, you shoved your way in with an inferior quality product while slapping on shitposting about another group.

You want to make me happy? You want to correct this situation? Stop sniping shit and get the original scanlators to come back. I don't care what the fuck annoys you, YOU annoy me by being assholes.