Ugh

Been busy.  Very busy.  I'll report on a bunch of shit though, so you know where we're at, and so I can vent about Eien 02 a bit.

Prunus Girl 21 raws showed up yesterday, so I stayed up all night to make sure it was ready for typesetting whenever Koiz wakes up.  Pretty good chapter, 23 pages this time, some fanservice, lots of teasing Maki.  As per usual lately though, no overt relationship development.  I think there's too factors at work here- first is that romantic comedy series pretty much end once the relationship hits a certain point, and Tomoki wants PG to keep rolling for a while longer.  Second, I really think he wants to let their relationship grow organically a bit more so it feels natural when there's some more overt shift in how they relate to one another (it's been reminding me a bit of Toradora and how comfortable Ryuuji and Taiga were with each other long before they realized that they had feelings for each other).

Waai coming very soon.  That means more Reversible!, Sazanami Cherry, Devil-chan, Past Future, etc.  Since we've been busy (literally everyone on the team, not just me and Koiz), Oto Nyan and Change H still aren't fully under control yet, so this should be a fun balancing act until we get things settled.  I'm guessing that the times around the quarterly releases are just going to be retardedly hectic every time, since we've pretty much committed to making sure Waai and Oto Nyan get fully scanlated one way or another and we've picked up the handful of Change H series.  Pray for my sanity over the next few weeks.

Eien 02 came out yesterday.  I bought and scanned it well over a month ago.  I'm rather displeased with how the sfx were handled, especially since we had long discussions with eXtreme and his crew on multiple occasions about it and they apparently didn't value our input at all (it's annoying that the first joint project that turned out with me feeling irritated towards the other group was one where I spent 60 bucks on a low page count book, too).  I think in the future, especially with groups we haven't worked with before, we'll take control of the typesetting step just so that we have more control over the final product.

My plan at the moment is to get more Mei out, then more Anal Angel, along with focusing on getting the logistics squared away better since we've been slipping in that department with all of us busy in real life.  If you don't pay attention to credits pages, I tend to only do translation on one or two things from each quarterly, since I like the consistency of working with series where we have raws stretching ahead indefinitely, so the goal with Waai and Oto Nyan is to get things whipped into shape and get our other translators back on a faster release pace.  I honestly have no idea where the two 4koma joints I've been slacking off on fit in to things, it's the end of the quarter and I've got all that shit to handle on top of it being a busy period for WOW!scans stuff, so we'll just see what happens there.

I have some non-WOW! stuff I wanted to post about, but this one's pretty long already so I'll save it.

Scanning and Drinking

Yeah, I haven't gotten many scripts worked on this week.  Between getting talked into socializing and having both Oto Nyan and Change H to scan, there just wasn't time.  The double edged sword to getting more people on the team and picking up more projects is that it increases the overhead in terms of time I have to put in doing things other than translating, which is frustrating.  Coordinating, scanning, checking translations, answering questions, all of it is stuff that needs doing and that I don't mind doing, but after a while I realize that despite having spent 6 hours on stuff for WOW!scans, I haven't translated jack shit.  Today or tomorrow I'm going to work on Anal Angel.  Fuck all this other stuff, I've been wanting to do some AA for like a week and it keeps getting put off since other shit needs my attention.  Expect some penises sometime this week.