Sunday, August 19, 2012

Obokusama

Man, I hate to say this, but lately I really can't focus on scanlating like I'm supposed to. The main problem is that my parents have been bitching about me not applying for a job even though my graduation exam ended just about a month ago. They even complain about me studying Japanese even though I'm just studying by myself, not going to any Japanese class. I have my graduation ceremony right at the end of this month and have already been chosen to translate a book for a publisher, so why would I take a suicide move by doing something that could harm my future? Oh well, enough ranting. I hope you all can enjoy this old small webcomic while waiting for our next release. Things don't seem to go well until I get enough money and GTFO of their house.

Edit: For anyone who is going to post this on mangaupdates, notice that this comic was drawn by Caramel-Box's SD artist, not the one who did the manga adaptation.


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Monday, July 16, 2012

Otoboku chapter 21 (End)

And then, after 4 years since McDonald was founded as part of 4L, we can finally experience the taste of finishing a manga series, something we have never done before. This is probably nothing big to other groups, but to us, it proves that our efforts have finally born fruit. After 4 years, we have evolved from a newbie scanlation group that released crappy translations for Hayate no Gotoku to a full-fledge scanlation group that can afford scanlations in decent quality and with decent translations (although we're slow as fuck). I thank all of you who haved contributed to the scanlation of this series (especially akinator, Macurai, Avery, and Terrabyte), as well as readers who have been following us.

With the completion of Otoboku manga, I'd like to announce the continuation of Otoboku 2 project which many of you have been waiting. This time we'll be using real raw provided by NJMANGA, not any crappy Chinese scan like before, hence the quality will definitely be much better. However, it will take time because the raw need to be processed carefully. So far I'm having akinator clean chapter 5, but there are still plenty to work on. Therefore, if you happen to be an experiened cleaner, you're welcome to join us any time by visiting our channel (talk to me or akinator if you want to join). If you need to take a look, click here for a sample cleaned page (there are still rooms to improve, though). We'll try our best to bring Otoboku 2 to you at maximum quality that we can achieve. For now enjoy the final chapter of Otoboku. Full batch will be posted when Tokyotosho is back.


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Edit: Updated complete batch & fixed some filenaming issues in WOW!Scans' releases for readers' convenience.

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Otoboku chapter 20 released

First of all, I'd like to say sorry for those who are waiting for the manga I mentioned in my last post of Otoboku. Although I did say that we'd release a chapter from another series in this month, we're going to delay it to next month because we want to finish Otoboku as quickly as possible. For now enjoy your drama chapter while waiting for the finale. We'll get other projects roll after we finish working on this series.


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Friday, June 1, 2012

SRWOG DW LQ batches (reseed)

Because our old torrents on anirena and direct links on Megaupload are all gone for good, plus a number of people have been requesting, I decided to reseed SRWOG DW in small batches, starting from the first five episodes. Later episodes will be reseeded after this one is done, and their torrents will be updated in this post. Since we made 2 versions for a few episode (Atlus naming versus old fan naming), I would like to hear your opinions about which version you prefer me to seed for later episodes. The more people comment, the better for me to decide which one I should seed. For HQ ver, well, I think I'll remake it when I get 24/24 Internet access, as both my English and my Japanese have improved a lot compared to when I finished the LQ version. That's enough for now. See you later.

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Edit: Added the full batch. Seeding will be very slow and I will only go online 12/24, so be patient.
Edit 2: Finished seeding.
Edit 3: If you need reseed, specify the episodes you need and I'll reseed them eventually. My HDD and bandwidth are limited, so I can't just seed the whole batch all the time.

Otoboku chapter 19 released

Sorry for the late release. During the last month, not only that I was busy reviewing for the graduation exam, but I also got hooked on FE4 until a few days ago, when I finally finished the game. Honestly, nothing kills time and energy better than games do. Moreover, it was funny how Avery's email for proofreading didn't reach my mail box while I was playing, and he had to resend it to me. Anyway, here's your long-awaited chapter. We'll try to finish the rest within June and July. After that, we'll resume some of our stalled projects.

One more thing, one of the three series you've been expecting is going to get a new release from us within this month, so throw your dice and guess which series it is xD


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Friday, May 4, 2012

Otoboku chapter 18 released

*Sigh* This chapter was supposed to be released a week ago, but one of our proofreader who is in charge of checking the lines in Early Modern English, has been busy for something I have no idea about. As a result, we are releasing the chapter since there is no guarantee when he'll be back and finish his task. I have read some materials on EME, checked the play part again and again, and fixed all errors I could find, so I think it's pretty much okay to read now. We'll release a v2 if Avery or any of you can find anything else to fix, though.

Sorry for the long delay btw. Even I, as the group leader, has been busy with all kind of IRL crap lately. I will graduate from university in July, so the schedule is pretty much tightened. I'll try to finish my job on Otoboku as quickly as possible, although I'll be taking exams on 6, 10 and 13 of May.

Regarding OxM, I'm trying to push our typesetter to work more quickly, but there's no guarantee for a release any time soon. More information will be updated as soon as I receive feedback from BakaGrappler.

Also, I'm doing freelance translation for a new series on my personal blog, so if any group is interested, feel free to use my translations to scanlate the series. I have also provided raw with maximum quality on the site. McDonald already has enough projects to work on, so we are not picking this difficult-to-typeset-as-fuck manga.

 I still have more to say, but I don't have much time left, so for now enjoy chapter 18 of Otoboku. See you later.


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Friday, February 17, 2012

Hatsudora Joint Drama & Countdown pack 1

Actually I planned on releasing this 2 weeks ago, but it got delayed for two reasons. First, Macurai's Internet turned shitty, making him unable to go online for more than 10 days. Second, I'm currently on my internship period (just finished my first week), so it's literally sucking pretty much of my time, although I must admit that the working environment is relaxing and very friendly (plus I can torrent while translating stuff for the department I'm working for).

As for the releases this time, aside from Macurai, I really thank Avery for helping me edit the subs. Translating these videos were not difficult, but the Hatsuyuki Sakura part was quite annoying to me. I feel like Visual Art's and SAGA PLANETS used up their budget for art and music (yeah they got fripSide and I've Sound for the OPs), and thus couldn't afford some decent voice actresses. Doing crossover with Yuzusoft's Dracu-Riot! only made me see how horrible Hatsuyuki Sakura's voice acting is, since the VAs for DR did a great job with their roles.

Anyway, enough ranting. Enjoy the releases while waiting for more Otoboku.

P/S: Only the character song CM has HQ raw. The rest are 360p only.



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Monday, January 30, 2012

Dracu-Riot Character Song CM Vol.1v2 + Vol.2

Macurai's lateness due to bad Internet connection turned out to be a good thing. Thanks to that, I had time to find some HQ raws on Holyseal, and worked with PhD to do a v2 with better quality, although it's much heavier. I know this is pretty late since Mera's character song CD came out 3 days ago, but never mind. Vol.3 CM and some short dramas are now on the way.



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Edit : Darn! I've just figured out that I forgot to attach the fonts for Vol.2 CM! Sorry guys, but if you have DLed the torrent, you'll need to install this shit if you want to see the thing clearly. I don't know why, but MPC seems to have some problem with Syntax LT.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Happy Lunar New Year with Otoboku chapter 17

Actually we were supposed to release this yesterday since it was the first day of the Tet holiday, the biggest traditional celebration of my country. However, we had to delay the release due to computer problems. It's really annoying when the only PC with Internet connection in my PC is the most screwed up. My old man has just temporarily "fixed" it, but no one can tell when it will go nuts again.

Anyway, as we promised, here's chapter 17 of the manga adaptation of the legendary trap eroge. The last 4 chapters have also been translated long ago, but the typesetting is still in progress. Judging how the PCs in my house are, I cannot promise anything about the speed. Besides, unlike wow!scans, we have been a slow group for years, so you should expect slow release.

Regarding IchiHei, I know that many of you on mangafox and animesuki have been waiting, and we've been working on chapter 5, but it won't be fast since we are focusing on finishing Otoboku first. After that we'll try to push IchiHei and Otoboku 2 (3 volumes in total) out faster. For now enjoy the release, and Happy New Year to you all.



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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Dracu-Riot! Mini Drama #1

Unlike the previous video, this time I had 50119 do the encode. The filesize sure has increased, but I'm sure it's worth the extra space. Enjoy some random conversations on vampires and panties. I'm going back to review for my exam.



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Friday, January 6, 2012

Dracu-Riot! Character Song Vol.1 CM

Just some stuff I did with Macurai to relax. Sorry to disappoint you fans of Otoboku and IchiHei. I have Otoboku chapter 17 and IchiHei chapter 5 pending for QC, but right now I still have 2 fucking subjects left for my final exam. I have to concentrate on reviewing or I won't get a scholarship this time. My exam will end on Jan 14, and then I'll have 3 weeks to do scanlation again. Meanwhile, take your time reading other stuff.

P/S : The source file is from Youtube, so the quality kinda sucks. We have experimented to denoise to achieve better quality, but it's not worth since the filesize skyrocketed with little quality gained, so we decided to mux the source file directly with the subs. Well, not that it matters anyway.

Edit : We need more proofreaders and manga editors. Come join us if you're interested.



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