It's been quite a long time. Does anybody know the status of this series?
The remake is currently at Ch11, so while there are some minor changes, bonus omake, etc, we're somewhere between the old version's Vol 4 and 5. I keep up with the series fairly obsessively, so I'm always happy to answer questions!
What's the status of the english translation on that? Last time i checked it'd been a while since the last update. Is it fully abandoned now or did sensei pick it back up again?
It's been permanently discontinued since August, with the primary reason being that Visa and Mastercard dropped Fantia. The alternatives, like buying Toracoin with JCB (unavailable outside Japan, but uses Discover's network), Amex, or Bitcash codes, are a convoluted and not-English-friendly process, and I'm sure the revenue drop quickly made the whole thing unsustainable.
There were clearly other issues going on before this - especially compared to the Yuru Oyako release, QC was shaky at times (both in translation and typos), the initially lightning-fast releases eventually lagged months behind, and while the old version was retranslated and reformatted to PDF up to Vol4, only Vol1 and 2 were ever available for purchase. Crucially, there was very little communication and no translations of Taiyaki's status updates, which was unfortunate - there's been a repeating cycle of overseas people wondering what happened to the series inevitably resulting in a small percentage sending Taiyaki messages that are basically "i read your whole manga on mangadex!! give me the next chapter!!!!". This sucks for everybody involved, and I think there was an opportunity to address it, but "trying to wipe the fan translation off the face of the earth" was instead chosen.
As an alternative to the English Fantia, Taiyaki opened up the "Translators Unite" feature on DLsite (that I think is basically a way of offering quasi-official fan translations with revenue sharing) for both completed volumes of the remake, and I think there is a Chinese-language version already available. Taiyaki wanted to return all English TL rights to the former Fantia translators, but apparently she was told that was infeasible. So, as far as I know, the remake volumes await a complete English re-translation, when those who might have been open to it have translated it somewhere between one and three times already. I'm therefore (sadly) skeptical an English version will appear anytime soon.
edit: Adding the remake volume release links if anyone comes across this and wants to give translation a go (or buy the Japanese releases): Vol1, Vol 2
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