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So... I'm suddenly a part-time scanlator now
🕑 Added 2021-09-25 01:13:57 +0000 UTCBit of background: There's a gender bender manga series starting in 2011 called Asuka Hybrid; basically an androgynous boy gets accidentally sent to live in a girls-only dorm, then ends up running into a sorceress who hastily solves his problem by turning him into a girl, now he must spend a while living as one while trying to find her to turn him back.
There was a decent fan effort to cover its first volume (9 chapters), then it abruptly stopped on a cliffhanger, and the scanning/fan translation group just disappeared. A few years later, a new group (Resurrected Scans) picked the series up and covered chapters 10-17, but then abruptly stopped last year and went radio silent, again, at a cliffhanger.
The series is really cute and has been on the back of my mind a lot, and I kinda became obsessed over the last few years waiting for the translation efforts to resume, though it didn't happen. Eventually I started trying to dig around to communicate anyone for the project, and after several false starts and dead links, I FINALLY found the contact info I was looking for.
One thing led to another, and I found out that the project is still technically active, they were just really low on personnel; they have the scans! They have the translators! But they don't have many folks to do the cleanup and typesetting to format it to English. That's all, it seems.
Because I do have a graphic design background, I volunteered! I DO NOT have scanlation experience though so this is gonna be interesting. Above is a test page of the ill-fated chapter 18! I wanna figure out where TF this story goes and will do my part to see it through damnit
but yeah this is a weird turn of events lol
Comments
Dawn Cavalier
Wow, this story is right up my alley! This must have been really cool to work on
Lukundra
Wow, that’s really cool of you. Would love to check it out sometime
