As I mentioned before, I've been working on a translation for a series I'd like to pick up. It's with great pleasure that I can now announce that my translation for chapter 4 of Itoshi Koishi is done! I have about half of the chapter edited, so I hope that within the next few days I'll have something to upload.

I have read through volume 1 already, and I have volumes 2 and 3 purchased and ready to read. In total, there are 15 chapters plus a few bonus chapters here and there, so there's plenty of content left to look forward to :)

I'm hoping that since the text is less condensed than BokuWata was, the translating will go quite a bit faster for this series (more on BokuWata in a minute). That said, this series has a lot of redrawing that needs done, and because I'm pretty bad at that, I don't expect the actual release rate to change much at all. The workload basically got flip-flopped. Comfortably, I'd guess that it'll be one chapter every 1-2 weeks, assuming nothing major happens to change that one way or the other.

To pivot back to BokuWata briefly, I do still intend to release my own chapter 1, however there were two major things that pushed me to release this first:

• As I've said before, I was going to work on Kagitsuki Terrarium after BokuWata, however the old SL group restarted their release right before I was able to start on my own. Due to fear that I'd lose my chance to work on a series again because of the old group returning, I wanted to press ahead with Itoshi Koishi
• The first chapter of BokuWata is actually very dense. I had gotten used to the few lighter chapters near the end, so going back to the heavy translation workload was demotivating.

With that out of the way, I will hopefully have that finished up before too much longer. I have no idea what kind of timeframe it will take, but from my eyeballing, 3 out of the remaining 10 pages to translate will be quick and easy. With splitting my attention between both series and Itoshi Koishi's allure of actually feeling like I'm making progress, I might guess two weeks from now or more? Who knows, it's not critically important anyway.

I think I've rambled on for long enough, so that will be all for today.

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Tags: #BokuWata, #Jokes

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To be up front with it, I've hit a low point recently. Between not sleeping well for like a week and really feeling the effects of quarantine hard, I haven't had the mental energy needed to work through translation stuff. I've felt guilty about it, which makes me feel bad, which demotivates me, which makes me not work... It's a vicious cycle. If you follow any of my personal social media accounts, you'd know I've been filling the hole in my soul with various yuri manga which, although enjoyable, has been bad. I've read 13 different yuri series in the past 5 days and followed two new mangaka on Twitter... Totally healthy...

But anyway! Update on Chapter 8... I've finished the translation on the actual chapter (save for like 2 panels) and all that's left to do is the afterword and the thanks page. The afterword is, well, wordy and will probably take a full day to knock out. The thanks page won't be too terrible, except for all the kanji for names (kill me). I stand by that after I'm done with chapter 8, I'll be releasing my own chapter 1, however past that is a big unknown now because...

The group that had seemingly abandoned Kagitsuki Terrarium put out a new chapter within the past week or so. I assume this means that they'll be getting back to releasing that? Honestly, it's for the best. I was very excited to start working on that series, but as I had mentioned before, the level of redrawing that the series deserves is not one that I could do myself. I'll still be reading that on my own time, and who knows, if they seem to drop it again, maybe I'll crank out a chapter or two to keep the momentum going.

In any case, I'll be keeping an eye out for more series to pick up from here on out, and when I've made a decision on a new series, I'll announce it here.

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I spent some time yesterday editing the first few pages of chapter 7 to help me relax after some stressful times. This morning I had too much going on to set up a stream, so possibly tomorrow morning I'll set one up to try to finish the last 9 pages or so. There are only 2 sections that I worry will take a lot of time, so honestly I'm pretty confident that I can be done with chapter 7 tomorrow morning, assuming nothing terrible happens.

As for chapter 8, translation progress is slow. Lots of fairly dense text, lots of uncommon topics and specialized words, and a lot more pages to get through. Of the remaining 10 pages, 3 are going to be quick and easy, the rest are going to take a few hours each to look up kanji and piece sentences together. I'm still aiming for one page per day, but I have no idea how much longer I will be able to keep that pace up.

In other general news, I've started actually studying again using Hirasawa-sensei's Kagitsuki Terrarium and Renshuu. I'm having a wonderful time reading through and throwing any vocab I don't know into a study list, and then having the site quiz me on them. It will absolutely come in handy when I decide to pick it up. I think today I read up to page 28 or so of the first volume, so I'm making good progress. I'm excited to see how much faster and easier the translation for the first chapter will go thanks to all the studying I'll have done by the time I've wrapped up with BokuWata and moved onto that.

I'm considering trying to find a redrawer for Kagitsuki Terrarium since that series deserves that level of quality, but I loathe the idea of working on a team with someone else's schedule. I like how I do things now, where I don't have to worry about deadlines and can have fun doing what I do. I do not ever want translating manga to feel like a chore again, so I'm incredibly apprehensive about the idea of having other people rely on me and whatnot.

In any case, I'm very sad to be nearly done with BokuWata, but I'm very excited to start translating Kagitsuki Terrarium (which I nearly call “Kagitsuki Aquarium” about every time I type it for some reason...)

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I mentioned on a tumblr post yesterday that I was going to be waiting to start the editing on chapter 7 and instead starting the translation for chapter 8. Since chapter 8 is back with the random medical jargon, progress has come to a grinding halt. At the end of the first day, I've only accomplished translating 3/14 pages in this chapter. Honestly, that is still very great progress (back in February I could only do 1 page per day), but coming off of the “6 pages a day” string I had last week, 3 seems a little lackluster.

Since I am still very much ahead of schedule for chapter 7, I will be taking at least one more day to work on chapter 8. At this point, I plan to start editing on Monday morning, but that is a very tentative plan. Regardless, once I start editing, the chapter should be released within 3 days. I can't imagine that the editing will take too long since most of the dialog is short text bubbles. If the Monday plan works out, then chapter 7 will be out by Wednesday.

Looking further ahead into the future, I will be releasing my own translation of chapter 1 after I've finished chapter 8. I will probably take my time with that chapter since that will not be new content. I think I've mentioned this before, but when I start a series, I always check which scanlation group(s) did the majority of the series. Since there's usually more than one way to translate and interpret languages, it's usually less confusing to have a consistent interpretation or style of writing (i.e. using honorifics, creative liberties with word choice, and so on ). I'm going to make it a point to give others that option, since that is what I'd choose if I were someone new to the series.

Plus I've noticed a few errors in the currently-available chapter 1, so it'd be nice to clear those up as well.

In any case, I'm starting to talk about nothing, so that will be all for now. We're getting close to the end of BokuWata, and then I'll have to find a new series to entertain myself with (probably Kagitsuki Terrarium, because I love Hirasawa-sensei).

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Series Agnostic

• #general – General posts about whatever, probably not overly important
• #announcement – For important announcements, i.e. starting/dropping projects
• #release – For chapter releases
• #jokes – For all the stupid crap I do

Series Specific

• #BokuWata – Boku ga Watashi ni Naru tame ni
• #ItoshiKoishi – Itoshi Koishi
• #KoeDasenai – A Girl Who Can't Speak Thinks “She is Too Kind”