...what's even going on in this thread?

I was told that since I was reading the afterword anyway, I might as well tell you all what is said, so:

It seems I wanted to draw housewives. Also, a flirtatious daily life. The one with white hair is a younger and somewhat of a gyaru, the one with tone hair is older and went to a nice school in the area. The husbands are probably nice in a normal way. During the summer they'll A futile situation is a futile situation, but personally I think it's a problematic relationship. If I were friends with those people, I wonder if I'd be able to say "You need to end this relationship"... I feel like I'd end up saying "You need to be careful...go on vacation and such. As two families!

A futile situation is a futile situation, but personally I think it's a problematic relationship. If I were friends with those people, I wonder if I'd be able to say "You need to end this relationship"... I feel like I'd end up saying "You need to be careful...

That was a quick translation; if you're lucky, NHFH will come out with something more thorough.

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omnscient0, being the awesome and wonderful person he is, has fixed it! It's not a feature built into the site, but if it comes up again, he can work his magic again.

Awesome, thanks! I'll keep in mind the existence of an IRC channel in the future, too...

Finally figuring out these admin tools, and belatedly listed My Admired Beloved as the first chapter of a series in addition to being in the anthology. Which is fine, but the comments' thread is still chapter specific. Is there a way those could be merged over to the series?

So is this a oneshot? Or will it continue?

There are two chapters in this collection called My Actual Beloved and My Beloved respectively. I assume those are sequels.

It's a ten chapter series (of sorts), spanning KiLa KiLa, Steps and Game. I'll probably put up an announcement about our plans with this series tomorrow.

Oh, I guess I should request uploader status too, so I don't have to ask you guys to put up v2s of things all the time?

(Or v3s. Editor-san noticed an error on a credits page the other day, but I couldn't bear to put in a request for that...)

I was thinking a prequel and a sequel tag would be good to have. These tags can be included for one-shots that has two parts. I was reading this manga http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/even by Miman and there was no next chapter but there was a sequel which is this one: http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/step_in

It's a heck of a band-aid, but I'll do this and proper tagging for it over the weekend.

Also, I think a search function on the forums would be kinda cool (but not really a necessity). So you don't have to find the manga/doujin you commented on to check if someone replied to you, you just have to search on the search bar, eliminating the need for finding the manga>then clickin on the discussion button.

I do believe this has been accepted as a suggestion in the past, though it's yet to be implemented.

There are stills bits that I'm missing (the rest of Game and Love Flicker most prominently), but looking through the Jin I've got

Wow! Awesome.

Adorable to Me (Love Flicker), Worrying (Sayuri-hime 5), Sweet Temptation (Perfume of Love) and Sweet Desire (Perfume of Love) form something of a four-part series—though I couldn't figure out what to call it.

They just had to be in different anthologies, huh?
I'm not sure of this one. Crossing-over characters aside, each of the two main stories are fairly self-contained, and with the way the anthology pages are set up, getting to the second part of each isn't troublesome in the slightest.

Though given that you did go to the trouble of looking through everything, I'd fall back on your judgement here. If you would like them in a series I can come up with a name - would the order you posted them in be most appropriate?

Yeah, she seems to have gotten into the habit of having works run across multiple anthologies...

This one is the least connected, though (basically two two-parters with a connected character and setting). I'd originally thought there were more pieces, but I may have been mistaken. I might wait and see if something else turns up in the same school setting; they have a pretty distinctive uniform, so that shouldn't be too hard.

I'll figure it out as we go, handy to have a name ready for it. I think I'd like to go the unofficial series page route and we'll use a cover page that isn't already taken to keep it from getting too confusing. Sound good (this can apply to the previous two as well)?

Yeah, that sounds good. The first chapter's cover page will likely be fine—the characters don't appear on any of the volume covers anyway.

Wow that ending o_o can't wait for the next part D:

I think the next one won't be out for another two months. Don't quote me on that, though.

We discovered that Yuri-Hime releases issues two months ahead of their nominal cover date—this chapter is from the September issue, but that actually came out mid-July. Yuri Hime's November issue will be out in a bit over a week, but it will take us a bit to obtain raws, so ... maybe a month or so?

But definitely don't quote me on that.

I should put together a list for the Takemiya works at some point, but I'll wait for that until we've actually got more of them translated.

(Yes you should!)

There are stills bits that I'm missing (the rest of Game and Love Flicker most prominently), but looking through the Jin I've got:

Adorable to Me (Love Flicker), Worrying (Sayuri-hime 5), Sweet Temptation (Perfume of Love) and Sweet Desire (Perfume of Love) form something of a four-part series—though I couldn't figure out what to call it.

Love*Aroma, Love*Preparation and Love*Aroma 2 (all from Perfume of Love) get continued in Steps with Step Up, Step Forward, Leave Hickey? and Step by Step, Steps extras. I'd tentatively call this Love*Steps, since I can't find an official name for it. Of course, this won't really matter much until we get around to releasing Steps, after KiLa KiLa.

There's also going series spanning KiLa KiLa and Steps, and I believe Game as well, which Jin herself has helpfully referred to as the My Beloved series. I wouldn't bring it up now at all, except the chapter we're working on right now is the first in that series, so I thought I'd at least get the ball rolling and see how you wanted to handle that.

KiLa KiLa (the chapter) also has a direct sequel, Rin Rin—but there are three unrelated chapters between them in the tank, so if you were thinking of implementing some sort of sequel button, that might be a place.

Does anyone else think Takemiya Jin's stuff is getting a bit less hard-edged lately?

This chapter was actually published in 2010, which is why I sometimes think it would be useful for Dynasty to list the original publication date instead of/in addition to release date of the scanlation. Though I should probably get around to posting a timeline for all the Takemiya works...

Yes maybe? I'm not too familiar with exactly what collection (?) they are a part of; I read the Chinese translation. The one I was thinking of was originally a three shot, with the first two parts being about a love triangle between Girl A, Girl B, and Girl B's sister

This thee-part appears in KiLa KiLa, which we are currently working on; the follow-up is in Steps, which we will working on after that.

the story about the bread shop owner and the rice shop owner (also on Dynasty)

Interesting. I'd assumed that one was a stand-alone, but I still need to double-check that.

Otherwise, the chapters you mentioned span Love Flicker, Perfume of Love and Steps. At some point we will probably arrange for Dynasty to have them all listed together so they can be read in order.

Some of other Takemiya Jin's works start off with one couple and then the side characters get their own short and kinda branch off into their own backgrounds and stories (the one I'm thinking about hasn't been translated in English yet, here's to hoping some scanlation group will pick it up though)...

Are you thinking of 愛しい人 in KiLa KiLa and めかくしのこい in Steps?

Doesn't this already get done with some series? Or at least it seems to have been done with Morishima Akiko's work.

Conditions for Paradise?

Also 20-year-old Girl and Honey & Mustard. Morishima seems to be particularly egregious for having different series span different tanks.

But this still doesn't account for two-shots, which clearly are not series of their own.

Yeah, that would be helpful

However, the stories set in that school don't overlap that much, so you could also make an argument for keeping each of the individual stories separate.

If that argument could be made, then I don't think an extra page/sorting option would really be necessary. Limiting it to works that have explicit, otherwise unaccounted-for continuations would hopefully keep things from getting too confusing.

Well, in this case, (Unnamed Continuous Takemiya Series), there would be cases where chapters dealing with one set of characters would be separated from each other by chapters dealing with different sets of characters. But at if a read really wanted to skip a bunch of stuff to follow-up on Ryouko and Akemi, at that point you might just say they'd have to do that manually.

Two potential solutions, either a) put the pseudo-series page inside the anthology page (could cause its own problems), or b) don't give the pseudo-series a page at all, but change where the redirect leads when pressing "next chapter." In the case of the latter option, this could either be entirely hidden from the user, or it could be presented the same way series' with magazine tags are (i.e. the user can choose whether the next chapter will be the next entry in the magazine, or the next chapter of the series like so).

Both of those could potentially work. I think the second option is more elegant, though carries the risk that people who might want to use it would never notice it was there (not that I've ever wanted to, but I was unaware I could read in magazine order).

I should put together a list for the Takemiya works at some point, but I'll wait for that until we've actually got more of them translated.

What do you think of adding new category - something like "Continuity" or "Storyline"? Not sure how to call it.

I will echo this whole post. I think this was brought up some time last year and the response was, "Well there aren't many instances of that." But now there are over a dozen two or three-shots that aren't categorized as such when they really ought to be. (I suppose we could just start making informal series, if that's preferable.)

Doesn't this already get done with some series? Or at least it seems to have been done with Morishima Akiko's work.

On the other hand, I can see this getting rather messy quite quickly. If I use what we're working on, for example, there are a series of Takemiya stories set in the same school that are spread out through several tanks (off the top of my head, Love Flicker, Perfume of Love and Steps), and I could see making some pseudo-series page that includes all those chapters. However, the stories set in that school don't overlap that much, so you could also make an argument for keeping each of the individual stories separate. And then there's the argument that this proliferation of pseudo-series would make the author's page messy and confusing: consider again Morishima's page, which has two entries for The Conditions for Paradise using the same cover art (one is for the collection "The Conditions for Paradise" and the other for the chapter "The Conditions for Paradise" and its sequels).

awww, yay a new series, I hope update is pretty decent with this! :3 love it!

As far as I know there are only two chapters out, so the translation is fully caught up. No idea when the next one will be.

Next chapter will be in September's issue of Yurihime. I believe it's in regular serialisation, but that still means it'll be two months between chapters.

honto.jp probably has was you're looking for and has the best international shipping rates.
amazon.co.jp also has a good selection.

ch 2 pg 3: "Chihiro and Aoi are childhood friends, and Chihiro are Shino get along well, but..." that "are" sounds out of place.
also pg 7: "then, she should we head back".

I'll upload a v2 for those once our editor is awake.

Alright. I should also say that with this, Perfume of Love should be complete

By the way, any word from Lililicious about how they'd feel about splitting Love*Aroma into its two constituent chapters? Since we've now finished with Love*Preparation, it has suddenly become relevant.

Secret Recipe's chapter organisation is off - Volume 1 should be chapters 1-9 + the special.

Yes, that was the final chapter.

thanks comrade now maybe takemiya can start a larger focus on game cause I would really like to see more of that series

This collected volume was actually originally released in 2010. Likewise, all of Game was released in a collected volume this past June; I'm not certain what she's working on at the moment.

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so is like the series over this chapter seemed rather conclusive

Yes, that was the final chapter.

Would an "abuse" be useful here? We used that for our release of "3/3 Memories" (mostly for people who filter Tumblr tags), and I was wondering if that might not be useful here too for people who want to blacklist it - or who at least want a head-up before reading something that heavy (I noticed some shocked reactions in the comments).

Please don't tell me that Takemiya, of all people, didn't just pull out the "she's a lesbian because of bad experiences with men" trope.

Her conversation with Katou is important here. It seems that Nonaka herself thinks along those lines ("I can't be attracted to men because I was abused as a child") at first, but that Katou convinces her convinces her otherwise - that she is attracted to women simply because that's who she is.

So I was trying to figure out what http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4758071942/ was, and it turns out to be a collection of Shuninta one-shots, a number of which are already on Dynasty. Would it be possible to group those one-shots together under this collection? The title of the collection translates as "The Structural Formula of First Love", and the chapter ordering appears to be:

1. 大人の女は無理をしない。*
2. 夢見る夜明け (Dream at Dawn)
3. セルフレームの向こう側*
4. BACKSHOT
5. 初恋構造式 (The Structural Formula of First Love)
6. さんまんえんではかえません (Not For Sale)

*Not yet scanlated, it seems

Please, pick away!

Don't say that! Otherwise I'll start saying things like, "HANDS should properly be stylised with all caps, because it comes from 'H and S', for 'Hanaoka and Sonohara'", or "We're planning on doing Love*Preparation once we finish Girlish Sweet, and in the chapter listing it comes between Love*Aroma and Love*Aroma 2, but those two chapters are currently amalgamated into one on Dynasty; would it be possible to split them?"

(This why our editor has been secretly plotting my demise)