Souten Kouro chapter 57

Chapter 57 is done. I have to hurry to class, so here's the Mangafox link.
Chapter 57 - Lü Boshe

Please, please, please pay attention to the previous posts about the direct download links. I do not have good enough internet, I cannot use Mediafire on the one that is good. If I do manage to upload anything before Christmas, it's a miracle.

Souten Kouro chapter 56

And, as promised, chapter 56 is here! I haven't started working on 57, but it could be done by Friday at most. As a reminder, there will be less chapters on Monday, mainly because most of my weekend will be spent at the anime convention here. That being said, I think volume 5 will be complete by the end of October. Please look forward to it!

Chapter 56 - The Dialogue of Flames

Souten Kouro chapter 55

I managed to finish chapter 55 yesterday, so here it is:

Chapter 55 - The Pledge of Terror

Chapter 56 is half done, so I should be uploading it tomorrow.

Souten Kouro chapters 52, 53 and 54

I kinda screwed up with the timing, but here are the following three chapters:

Chapter 52 - A Beast in a World without Men
Chapter 53 - The Outrageous Ones
Chapter 54 - Enter Lü Bu

I hope I can get a chapter or two this week, but since there's an anime convention here, in Dijon, I can't guarantee more than that. Chapter 55 is partially done, though.

Souten Kouro chapters 49, 50 and 51

Since I managed to finish these over the week-end, I thought it would be better to just post them as soon as I could. Chapters 52-54 should be done by Friday.

Chapter 49 - The Great Virtuous Teacher Rises to the Heavens
Chapter 50 - Evil Omen
Chapter 51 - The Emperor's Death

Well, the Mangafox links will soon be replaced by the Mediafire ones, so the character introduction page issue will have been solved.

Edit: I only managed to upload chapters 46, 47, 48 and 51 to Mediafire. I'll have to try tomorrow again.

Souten Kouro chapters 46, 47 and 48

Welp, the post got deleted. However, these are the Mediafire links!

Chapter 46 - The Two Zhangs
Chapter 47 - The Rebellion's Mountain Pass
Chapter 48 - Plundering Command

Aventurier ~Shinyaku Arsène Lupin~ chapter 2

As explained in the previous post, this chapter will first be available on Manga Fox.

Chapter 2 - Arsène Lupin in Prison

Edit: Added Mediafire link.

About posts until Christmas

Well, I'm back with some news. For one thing, chapter 2 of Aventurier and chapters 46-48 of Souten Kouro are done.
Problem is that I'm currently in France, in Dijon, and my internet connection is either completely crap (like the one in my dorm) or filters a lot of sites, including Mediafire and Imgur, because it's a university connection. Mangaupdates are a no-go as well, but Manga Fox seems to be A-OK. As such, I will be posting new updates to Manga Fox as a priority, but if my dorm connection happens to work on certain days, I might manage to upload some of the chapters to Mediafire as well.
As for Souten Kouro, it occurred to me that, after all my delays, I've only just finished volume 4. As such, I will try to release either entire volumes or at least half-volumes. Taking breaks isn't a very good idea, because I keep forgetting what terms I used for this or that.
So, in short, both scanlation projects are alive and well, but they will be available on online manga readers first and only then as direct downloads, most likely during week-ends. Either way, whenever a chapter (or group of chapters) is first released, there will be a new blog post announcing it.

Aventurier ~Shinyaku Arsène Lupin~ chapter 1

What's this? A new series? Don't I have enough work with Souten Kouro?

Actually, this is one manga I've been looking for. I tried finding raws in January, but couldn't find more than scans for one of the magazine's issues. Now, however, I've just found out that someone uploaded the first two volumes (the fourth is being released in two weeks or so). As such, I decided to pick it up.

So, let's quote the description on Mangaupdates:

The continuing adventures of classic Arsène Lupin character created by Maurice Leblanc.
The manga adapts Maurice Leblanc's novels about a gentleman thief who solves cases while outwitting both the police and criminals. The first chapter of the manga retells the first short story Leblanc published, "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin" (1905).
Lupin is a Gentleman Thief and a master on disguise, during the Belle Époque years

So yeah, this actually takes lines from the novels. As such, I decided to use the translation that's in the public domain, especially since it sounds like it's from that time. I did check the French version and, occasionally, the English translation changes some things - these changes are not to be found in Morita's manga. Naturally, there are quite a few lines that weren't in the novel, but I hope the difference won't be too noticeable. Also, even though he uses -san, I will consistently use "monsieur" and "mademoiselle", unless the French version uses words like "Miss" or "Lady".

Link here.

Souten Kouro chapter 45

Looks like Liu Bei is back in action. Link here.

Souten Kouro volume 1

I eventually realized that I must be stupid to think that I can improve all scanlations for a volume release when I'm not even sure whether I can finish this before I have grandchildren.

As such, here's a link to volume 1, containing all its chapters, as well as the volume cover and the description (which I translated). I won't be translating the author descriptions, unless there is a great request for it. I won't delete the old links before I have confirmation that the volume release doesn't have outdated or missing pages.

Souten Kouro chapter 44

And this concludes all completely translated scripts I had around New Year's Eve. Since I have exams, it is highly unlikely that I should finish chapter 45. If I do, all the better.

Seems Zhang Jue doesn't just happen to look like Jesu Toki from Hokuto no Ken Jesus, after all.

Souten Kouro chapter 43

That went quicker than expected. I'd like to make a correction, though: chapter 45 hasn't completely been translated, so that will take a while. Until then, I'll try to release chapter 44 before I leave (which is next week).

We Sun Jian now.

Souten Kouro chapter 42

So, after nearly 8 months of inactivity (due to both editors being lazy/busy), I decided to go back to the basics and just finish the chapter myself. As such, editing might not be as smooth as it used to be, but whoever followed this from the beginning might not mind.

At any rate, here's chapter 42.

I'll be leaving in a few days, so all I'll have for the next two months is a laptop without Photoshop, so my editing will be even crummier than it already is. Fortunately, all scripts up to chapter 45 have been done since last year.