I'm a Scanlator!

I just made my first release! It's the second chapter of a horror manga that no one's heard of, by a horror mangaka that is often overlooked by English-speaking fans of horror. Yeah! I'm in the big times now!

I did all the editing myself, from raws and a translation that are over a year old. I didn't even do the first half of the chapter because the group that started the project already did it. I wasn't being lazy though - I just didn't want to replace their good pages with my completely average pages.

Long story short, I suck. But at the same time, I did over 120 pages in less than a week. So I rock? I honestly don't know. Oh, this will tip the scales - I don't even know where to put the chapter to let people know about it! My best idea is a paranormal imageboard that I know likes horror manga. I can't even put it on MangaHelpers yet (where I found the translation) because I have to get my group application reviewed, and there's a five-release limit or something. These chapters are HUGE! It'll take me over a month to get four more chapters!

So, I'm congratulating myself while kicking myself. Awesome.

Here's my site for any fans of horror manga or Kazuo Umezu out there. (I'm sure there are two, maybe three of you.)
http://shaggyhorror.blogspot.com/
Feel free to share it with anyone you think may like it. I'd really like if more than a handful of people saw this.

Welcome to the world of Scanlator fansub drama. Please enjoy your stay with us.

Question. How exactly did you find a translation if this has never been subbed before? I am assuming, unless I am misreading, that you don't have your own translator?

Nope, I don't have my own translator.

I was browsing MangaHelpers and came across the manga Orochi. It had one chapter released but translations for the next five chapters. I checked out the site of the group that had released the one chapter, and it said to contact the translator on MH for the raws. That's basically it. I have no idea what I'm going to do once I finish those chapters. I guess scour MH, trying to find things that have translations but no scanlations. And hope the raws aren't hard to find or bad quality.

Good job dude! Like your work!

At first I was like o_O because I read that you were TRANSLATING and editing 120 pages over the course of a week. That'd be like, holy shit.

I will one up him and do 240 pages in a week. Deal? Let's throw down shaggy!

I really like your work. It's pretty sad how little horror manga gets scanlated in comparison to hentai. I'm sure it will be much appreciated.

Many new scanlation teams also tend to personally spread their work over the Internet and put them on online manga-viewing sites like MangaFox rather than just MangaHelpers until they become well known enough that leechers upload them elsewhere without your permission.

Don't forget torrents. Everybody loves torrents.

If you do nothing but editing 16 hours a day for a whole week straight, it averages out to approx 2 pages per hour. Seems doable, but requires dedication...

Thanks, guys. It means a lot that people actually enjoy this.

I'd thought of putting it on an online-viewing site but haven't gotten around to messing with it yet. As for torrents, I don't know anything about making one, and I kind of don't want to make a torrent for just one chapter, even if it is the size of a volume.

As for how much work this is, there are three things that really let me work fast. One, a lot of pages don't have any text on them at all. just a little resizing, and it's good to go. Two, I spend my time cleaning and typesetting - I'm not going to spend an hour trying to redraw something (as if I even could) when I could put a box above it with the translation. I figure, if it's good enough for officially-licensed releases, and it saves me time, it's good enough for me. And finally, three, I'm a NEET. No school and no job lets me spend a couple of hours on this every day.

Haha, that's what I like about translating eromanga... lol

Meh, wish I could spend more time on stuff like this. I can only do some work on weekends... which lets me finish only one doujinshi per week on average. Man I'm slow, haha.

My PC is so slow, editing in Photoshop becomes a pain more than often... :\

Lol, ShaggyJebus. Well, congratulations on becoming a scanlator.

Good job Shaggy, can't wait too see how well you have done. and expecting more of it in the future.