CINNAMON ROLL LOUIS

PART 1

Disclaimer: I just translated the anecdotes from KVIPs. Please keep in mind that they’re “anecdotes” so it may or may not be true. 

First of all I want to apologize for the radio silence lately. We had almost finished wrapping up chapter 12 of Hitsuji when my daughter was born in March. If I get a free moment that's not spent with her it's usually spent eating or sleeping, just pure survival mode. My computer's been gathering dust. She's sleeping on me right now actually.

Anyway, I haven't been paying attention but it seems Tokyopop has released the first two English volumes of Acid Town digitally with the third volume coming next week. There are also paperback editions on the way, which is great news and a little wild to me that I might eventually see it on a bookshelf in the US.

If you're at all suspicious about the quick turnaround of these volumes, I think you're right. I posted some pictures here comparing pages from the original scanlator's work to the official English version. Here are my thoughts:

A sight we've never seen before

Our reunion was "destiny".

You think so too, don't you?

I came to be agitated by your swimming.

But then before I even realized it your swimming saved me.

My feelings from that time. The sight I saw. They're all still engraved in my soul.

Hot and intense, until the day I burn out.

I'm ready. Ready to keep swimming forever.

There are no limits. We can go anywhere.

Since it's us, I'm sure we can.

Come on, let's race, Haru.

BTW Crunchyroll silently decided to delay them a week and you'd only know if you went back and checked the week old news post.

so in the recently released Free! fanbook, there's a huge character relationship chart showing the relationships between the 2343984 characters in this damn series.

Most of the arrows pointing from one character to another are solid and indicate, based on the color, how the first character views the other. Some of them have dotted lines connecting them, though, showing that they feel the same way about each other.

Haru and Rin both share a dotted line that says "Destined to swim together forever"

My English scanlation of the Hyakujitsu no Bara doujinshi "Molasses and Butterflies" (printed version) and "Molasses and Butterflies" (copy-bon), both released at J Garden 53, April 2, 2023.

Here's the new doujin! It includes a brand-new story, it's set during their time in Luckenwalde and is relaxed and adorable. The properly printed doujin also includes the recent story "Thorn Crown: Luckenwalde".

Click here or here to get it.

A note about reading: For the new story "Molasses and Butterflies" I recommend reading the copy-bon version first. It's because that version is the completed one, with finished drawings and dialogue. Sensei says she didn't have time to complete the drawing before the main printing deadline, so the version in the proper doujin is incomplete. I included it for your interest, but the copy-bon version is the definitive one!

Series writer Ookouchi Ichirou

Q: Please tell us about things you focused on when writing the screenplay for the beef between ADAM and Langa in episode 12.

A: Who won wasn’t really important. It’s about the differences between how a person named ADAM and a person named Langa approach skating. I wrote it while thinking that it would be nice if the mindset that Langa was able to acquire after coming to Okinawa after losing his love for snowboarding and then interacting with different people could save ADAM. In other words, this isn’t a battle anime. I think what’s important about this series is that episode 12 doesn’t end with him defeating the last boss, but concludes with them all having fun skating together again. That’s also why we don’t show the conclusion of Reki and Langa’s Beef in the last scene. Endings don’t matter in this series. That’s also why it’s different from a series about club sports. In club stories, after the big match is over the next step for them is graduation, but in this story, there is no graduation and they just go back to everyday life. Reki and the others will definitely go to S again, and even if they leave it for a while, there’s no graduation waiting in the future, so even if they don’t go for 3 years, they can always come back again. That’s why I think that this is a very unique series. 

(Spoon.2di 73)

Seven Seas Entertainment just announced it on their Twitter!

New license #1: PULSE by Ratana Satis

Seven Seas will publish this full-color, Mature-rated Girls’ Love/#yuri webtoon series from Lezhin Comics in beautiful new paperbacks!

Pulse by Ratana Satis - Extra Episode #4

All episodes are available on Lezhin English - read them here

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Unfortunately I can't fix it. It was taken down by tumblr because apparently it was too hot.

Author/Artist: Yukue Moegi

Status: Complete (One Shot)

Synopsis: An emotionally charged meeting between brohams during a festive time of the year.

I’m open to re-translation, but please use your own scans. Please refer to my re-translations post to see if there already is a scan team re-translating this work in the same language you will be proposing.

Please don’t upload/post this on reading sites and don’t forget to support the author by buying the original goods if you can!

Spazz

Happy Holidays, everyone! I’m sorry, but this is the closest thing we have to a Christmas BL lmaooo. This is Chapter 3 of the I Fell In Love With A Man Anthology (which we were supposed to release earlier, but whatever). Anyway, this is up on the google site and discord now, so I hope y’all enjoy reading.

If y’all be Samahan ng Malalamig na Pasko like us and Masato, tagay na lang us.

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