Come one, come all! Kouyuri brings you another clichéd love story! - Ropponmatsu Bitter Translator

Also, I messed up and uploaded it before Faust gave me the all clear... OTL
Hopefully there aren't any flubs.

last edited at Jan 25, 2017 8:03PM

The cover is my canon ending. You can't tell me otherwise! D:

@Marion Diabolito
I have not worked on any scanlations before Malibu and I started Kouyuri, last summer, so your praise goes to someone else. x)

@Marion Diabolito
I don't know her exact age, but her first work that I know of was published in -95, so I would imagine she is in her late thirtees at the youngest.

Shou with long hair is so pretty～♥

You win this time...

I'll remember this!

@Nez
Go hard, or go home.

Having worked on this manga for over half a year, I must say that even if we are not the ones writing the actual manga, it is definitely disheartening to come to the forum when the majority of comments are negative. We'll finish what we started, of course, but damn am I glad we have other projects too... (Though people seem to hate on the Himitsu, Hitotsu anthology too...)

@Nez
For shame! You didn't mention Yonurime, Neko no Sakegoto, Vivit Gray, or Ichinose!

If you don't mind Touhou yuri, definitely check out those!

last edited at Jan 23, 2017 9:54AM

It would be nice if moderators didn't have to step in after every release we make for this series...

Guys... No one's forcing you to read it...

After 13 chapters, hearing the same complaints every time gets kind of old... =A=

You don't make me feel old at all, I promise.

I just turned 49 earlier this month, so that should make you feel young again.

I believe many things get more delicious as they age～

I miss this Morinaga Angst. I remember when I first read Girl Friends and the angst got me crying, I was a 12 year old back then and I had to wait for months for new chapters, that was torture.

You don't make me feel old at all, I promise.

last edited at Jan 21, 2017 8:55PM

I have not. :x

As for English to Japanese translation in general, the same as what I said above holds true in reverse as well. The original tone is often lost.

last edited at Jan 21, 2017 7:30PM

To go with Malibu's words about raws, here are some examples of physical scans before being cleaned. Without taking the book apart (finished product). Generally results in blur and/or cut off pages because of the crease in the middle. Pages taken out of the actual book (Finished product). Noticeably higher quality, but still requires quite a bit of work.

As for translation, 5-6 hours is probably my average for a 25 page chapter. Some take less or more, depending on the amount of text, and eventual hiccups concerning the actual translation. As I'm sure you know, Japanese and English are very different, both in structure and in ways of expressing certain things. A translator often has to decide between proper English, or trying to keep as many of the original connotations as possible. Sometimes, the word/expression doesn't have an English equivalent, and sometimes something that sounds fine in Japanese sounds extremely dorky English. This is especially true with SFX/onomatopoeia, as many things that don't make a sound have SFX in manga, e.g. どや (doya), meaning "looking pleased with oneself", which doesn't make for a very good SFX in English.

As for redrawing/cleaning, it is indeed a very time consuming process. Here is an example of the original image, the fully cleaned version, and the final result.

Hope our posts help. =]

last edited at Jan 21, 2017 7:15PM

Guys... Please... Read between the lines just a little... I beg you...

They didn't really look much like they do in the game... :/

Rabi-Ribi is definitely worth checking out if you like metroidvania type games. It has a killer soundtrack, and tons of cute girls to battle and claim as your friends. Gotta catch 'em all!

Check out Hella Yuri on steam. Most of the stuff is visual novels, of course, but there are some with more or less yuri that are not.

How not to love Anna?

Look, there is a Depressed SFX! Are you happy now?! ;D

My reaction whenever we release something... ;p

Thats one drunken one-night stand she wouldn't want to forget.

No, just not very interesting. =A=

Are they not yuri? Anyways, thanks for the translation Roppo.

They are, but they are either dull or simply don't have satisfying endings.

[...] aside from that one, the rest of the stories were not quite as interesting.

Are they sad at least?

No, just not very interesting. =A=

BTW, what was this published in?

A Chisako one-shot anthology tankoubon called Dark Cherry to Shoujo A. Kouyuri will publish one more story from the same collection, but aside from that one, the rest of the stories were not quite as interesting.

Edit: The same anthology as From Tomorrow on, No More Drinking.

last edited at Jan 9, 2017 8:00PM