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Monday, June 27, 2011

Regarding the screw-ups of Chapter 11 & 12 of Aphorism

I'm deeply sorry for screwed-up order my Aphorism manga chapters (11 and 12) were uploaded in, on Mangafox. I understand some of you may be very frustrated...so here's the download links for the chapters to ensure a less-enraging reading experience.

I may not be uploading to Mangafox again, since the first two times I submitted chapters, they went horribly wrong. It was a bit embarassing to see the screwed-up-order manga chapters I myself submitted...and the threads that followed, involving the screwed-up order. I certainly don't want to repeat the experience.

Maybe I'll just upload the translated chapters on Mediafire, and perhaps a kind soul would upload the files on Mangafox for me...  

I assure you, these files are in perfect order sequence. There are no mixed up pages, nor are they backwards. Most certainly they are not upside-down either. 

Note: The following are .rar files. You need Winrar to extract them.

Chapter 11 (titled 'new folder'):

http://www.mediafire.com/?30dwkalvjp8hsqn

Chapter 12 (titled 'translation'):

http://www.mediafire.com/?5glt2r1cy09m56m

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Aphorism - I might translate this series

Holy chickenballs. I can't believe I had enough concentration to actually read through Chapter 24 to Chapter 28 of Aphorism...the Chinese version of those chapters...and understand them all!!! Right now I'm reading Chapter 29. (Sadly there are only 30 chapters out right now, so only 1 left to go for now)

Oh, in Chapter 28, there was such a BRILLIANT plot twist. I could've never known that HE was actually...!! Man, I'mma love this manga FOREVER.

And also, I've had thoughts about possibly translating the chapters (so maybe I can be freed from writing any more summaries ._.)...below is my translation of a page from Chapter 13.



It was easy enough to replace the original text with english text...and since the scans are from 99mh, I don't need to clean them, since they're shiny clean already.

There's someone on Mangafox that also wants to upload new chapters of Aphorism, but they want to directly scan Chuang Yi's version of the Aphorism tankobon...so they'll have to rip out all the pages, and do alot of cleaning (since a direct scan will make the pages appear gray). There's no gurantee that they'll make smooth rips of the pages either...

Maybe I'll consider this a contest...I'll try my best to translate every chapter as fast as possible, and if the person on mangafox uploads faster than I do, I'll go back to doing summaries. Maybe. Now I have to do all this compressing stuff... 

EDIT:

I've submitted Chapter 11 to Mangafox...all's left for it to be moderated...(hopefully it can be uploaded)

I forgot to write in to tell the moderator that in the .rar file, the pages are actually numbered in descending order (like pg 38 is at the top and pge 1 is at the bottom) It's obviously in the wrong order, so I spent about 30 minutes to reverse it. (By having the page 1 named as page 38, and page 38 as page 1) Painful times. I hope the moderator will catch on and know that...

I can't believe I spent the whole day translating this...I thought it was so easy...but now I understand a translator's pain...(I did not procrastinate either, and it still took me about 7 hours)

This is my blood, sweat and tears...headaches too. Since it took me so long to translate ONE chapter, I could maybe just stick to summaries...(I'm still schooling, after all)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

for those searching for aphorism manga...

  • For those searching for my Aphorism manga summaries, please click on the 'aphorism' tag on bottom on this post.

  • If possible, please support the original mangaka and buy the official english version of Aphorism from Chuang Yi. :)

  • And you should also learn that Tvtropes is the best site for finding out more info of 'not-mainstream' manga/anime.

Ignore the below section if you have no time for trivialities.
-- The tvtropes page for Aphorism is sort of  detailed. (ok, not really. if you're mainly reading scanlations of the manga, and read certain forum threads, you pretty much know almost all of the stuff there.)

I'm pretty sure one troper has read (or interpreted) at least a part of chapter 26 and 27, since it mentions Yama...and a few other 'wtf?' spoilers. I just checked 99mh today, and I had previously stopped at chapter 25. Now there's 30 chapters of the manga!

I'm doing my best to shift through the dizziness in reading the chinese in the latest chapters with my basic vocabulary. Please cheer me on ._.

I also assume at least one person who added in a trope on the tvtropes page was someone who at least saw scans of the omake after chapter 23. Since it mentions...'that'. 'That' omake/side-story. Daaaaamn. Ho Yay indeed. Once a crack pairing, has become somewhat canon. +w+

Actually if you buy Chuang Yi's vol 4 to 6 of the manga, it's catching up to the Chinese version (raw?)of the manga. (English version is slow by 7 chapters, that means slow by 2 volumes max, which should come out in maybe 3 or 4 months for each volume.)

P.S

I hope the scanlators will hurry up with their scanlations, so I will see more fanfiction, more fanart...or at least a bigger fandom. I hope my Aphorism manga summaries will attract more fans as well. :)