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Status Update! 19 Feb 10:59
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Oh boy, we seem never do this (or used to, anyway >_>).
Got several things in the chute for our surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) slow process that is quality checking (thank an aussie and a dictator for that).
We'll try to not let this month slip by with just the petty crumbs that is Sasameki Koto.

As for the banner contest, we have not (completely) forgotten about it.
Still trying to decide a clear-cut winner, as ties keep happening after the votes are tallied up, which is always hard to solve without trying to gather more votes (which give us more ties, hooray).
If the voting process continues to be at a standstill, you may see a change in the poll (which is currently really old) asking YOU to help.
This may not happen (and hopefully doesn't have to), but it's an option we're considering.

And lastly, we need editors.
Unless you're fine with the pace that we're currently chugging at, more editors who are very willing to learn (and not run away after a short time period) will help increase our release speeds.
...Although, that applies to most groups out there, too.

In other news, I'm completely dominating the front page~

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Applying for Editor 19 Feb 07:29
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Haven't heard anything from Casusby about this yet, not sure which of the staff members you sent it though.
At the very least, send it to me (mrengenious@gmail.com) and I can pester him with it.

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Banner question. 09 Feb 06:04
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chang wrote

This is the first time I am hearing the word vocaloid. I really wonder what it means. Today I searched on the internet but couldn't find the exact meaning of it. I hope that someone will help me by providing information in this regard. Regarding the link provided by MrEngenious (the spelling seems rather strange) I am sorry to say that I couldn't follow what is written. I think it is Japanese.

The term "vocaloid" typically refers to the voice synthesizer programs from Japan like Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka that have had quite a bit of popularity and fanwork. I'd say it's similar to the "touhou" series in that there has been very little story/basis for most of the fanwork that is out there today.

...and I suggest you use a better search engine (I suggest Google) since Googling "vocaloid" provides a first page that adequately informs you both with links to the technical program (thanks to Wikipedia) and images and youtube links to the actual programs themselves.

And yes, Pixiv is in Japanese. The hypertext links, however, are in English. If you hover your mouse over the links you should see the hyperlinks in English in the status bar of your browser (my browser shows it in the bottom-left). It's not going to be the most fun way of navigating, but it's doable.
If you're using Firefox, install the greasemonkey extension and you can use the developing Pixiv translation script for easier navigation instead: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65644

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Well that fits amazingly well.

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Sasameki Koto 36
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The pinwheel may be referring to the Mac OSX spinning wait cursor when the system is not responding.

Page 9 will have to be fixed later because I derped when I should've herped.

Edit: Fixed.

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Banner question. 03 Feb 07:26
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It comes from one of the comics made by http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=174190
I highly suggest you favorite/bookmark this guy (hopefully you have a pixiv account) since he's been doing this for YEARS and is STILL GOING to this day.
Hundreds of 4-komas about the major vocaloids in a make-believe world.
If the Pixiv layout confuses you (even confuses me now since they changed a buncha stuff), the links are in English, so you can hover over them all to see the link and navigate that way.

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LOVE CUBIC 05 (end)
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In case you didn't notice the pattern, stuff is still not on the bot.

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LOVE CUBIC 04
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Honey Crush 11
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Happy New Years!
Once again, not currently on the bot.

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Just wet myself 26 Jan 10:21
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Chug chug chugging along.

LOVE CUBIC 03
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Again, not on the IRC bot.

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Finally! 22 Jan 09:04
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Something.

Gyakusou Shoujo 09
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Currently it is NOT available on the IRC bot because Kim Jong-il still maintains his decrepit grasp on the bot.

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...(the important, real life kind, like in newspapers)?

I take a look every so often, but not all the time.: 46%
I read/watch the news everyday. It's important that we keep up!: 20%
I read the interesting articles, nothing else though.: 19%
Don't read/watch the news. Don't care. Doesn't affect me.: 15%

765 total votes

Oh you youngins.
You'll realize how important it is to read ALL of the news once you hit the age of adulthood.

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earsofdoom wrote

So.... who won anyways?

Won't know until our almighty Kim Jong Il dictator gets to doing stuff.

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The first chapter was done by Endless-Abyss, not Kawaii-Scans.

Edit: First chapter now up.

last edited at Jan 9, 2011 4:07AM

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We planned for one, but plans fell apart when certain unnamed people didn't do what they were supposed to.
Expect some soon much later, but not today (and probably not tomorrow either).

On a side note, if you have any suggestions or just plain old thoughts about our reader, there's a topic for it in the Feedback section now.

Edit: The banner contest winners will have to be announced later, as unnamed person hasn't done jack since his job is all having sex with his free time.

Update: Kim Jong-il, as you have guessed, is currently out of commission due to his job having an affair with all of his free time and energy. Kim Jong-un has been placed temporarily in charge and is attempting to get some releases out before the end of the month.
As for the banner contest, voting is currently at a standstill until Kim Jong-un figures out how the frack to get rid of the ties. Do not worry, we have not forgotten about spending away Kim Jong-il's money.

Unnamed person edit: December Torrent

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Feel free to post your thoughts and/or suggestions.

First 12 or so posts are relating to this previous question:

Because we sure as hell don't know where we want it to go.
And before someone goes "Include everything!" ...No.
We're not going to become general readers like... well you know their names.
We've considered throwing in a minor category system, but we don't want to become DATABASE-SCANS, Mangaupdates is doing a damn fine job of being a database already.

Which is now obsolete.

Instead, I will now mark new stuff we're doing on the reader (or to mark corrections) rather than just shoving it on the top of the reader page in the news area that no one probably reads (although people barely read the forums too, BUT OH WELL).

Also keep note that for ALL groups other than us and Lililicious (since they decided to upload their own stuff themselves, and they do it pretty much ASAP), I have a 24-hour policy on uploads. That means that a release will not be put on the reader until at least 24 hours have passed since the release was released. Please visit the group/groups who worked on the release if you want to read things a day earlier :)
Other staff are welcome and probably will upload things on the day of release (except for Payapaya) if they choose to do so, I will continue with my lagged release system.

Some time before May 07, 2011: Horobi no Michi's permission gained (along with 4dawgz's for Love Pheremone No. 5). Harawa working on an Android application (that will be hosted on our site, not the Android market) for the reader. He would work on an iPhone version, but he does not have an iPhone or Macbook to make one on. However, if someone else with the required materials and knowledge would like to make one, he'd gladly let his code be shared for reference.
May 07, 2011: New section to be added to the reader, regarding favorites/read/unread/to be read that will be forum-account linked, currently in discussion.
May 09, 2011: Updated reader with 3 Vexed releases that I totally wasn't keeping up on. Good thing there aren't THAT many groups I gotta keep extra tabs on. And surprise, surprise, a little yuri.
Also, the reading list thing [beta] has been implemented, you can currently view series/one-shots that you marked as "read" and/or unread by clicking "Reading Lists" in the upper-right of the reader page.
May 12, 2011: Uploaded various stuff, mostly from Horobi no Michi.
May 14, 2011: Finished uploading all things from Horobi no Michi (with the exception of a couple of chapters or so because they were in the middle of nowhere and went nowhere after that).
May 16, 2011: Corrected a glaring error a recently uploaded Touhou doujin. Title was "An Old Promise" and it came from Collections of Twinkle Stars. It was erroneously named "Collections of Twinkle Stars" by yours truly.
May 24, 2011: Added two missing Yandere Kanojo releases. Added title names, where available, to the Yandere Kanojo series as well.
May 31, 2011: The android app is progressing well. Adding K-ON! which will be finished soon.
July 02, 2011: Whoops, a month without updates. Nothing much really happened. Occasional late uploads (particularly with XLG >>) but otherwise nothing really notable. Idol Pretender is a series rather than a oneshot though, for those gender bender lovers out there.
July 14, 2011: Permission gained from Yuribou for all releases. Will upload little by little. Expect trolling from some of what is uploaded :]
July 15, 2011: Uploaded several things today to the reader, both new and semi-old.
July 16, 2011: Project TAG EVERYTHING underway, heavily encouraged tagging of oneshots by staff is in progress. This is a prelude to a possible new system of filtering/sorting/recognition system via tags to help people avoid seeing/reading releases they may not have wanted to see (ie. the occasional het porn done by groups for whatever reason). Trolling uploads halted (for now?)
July 24, 2011: As one who's visited our reader regularly can see, we've implemented the ability to see tags on the most recent page. This is to prevent any accident when one does not recognize the seraies/oneshot and highly prefers not to see content they usually avoid.
August 7, 2011: Carat has ended in a fantabulous way. Also first Bakekano volume has finished and has been re-uploaded for entire volume revisions.
August 12, 2011: Planning to add a booru of sorts for dynasty. First I thought it was a joke, but apparently it's becoming an actuality to dump my pictures onto. Look forward to it.
August 20, 2011: dynastybooru is still in progress and early stages. Yomeiro Choice has been completed by Xamayon. Fully deserves the wtf
am_i_reading tag 100%
September 9, 2011: All reader related projects are still moving along, but at weird paces as you can tell (especially if you're waiting for them to come out). Yandere Kanojo had a minor change in the older chapters 3 and 4, namely that chapter 3 was replaced with the proper one and chapter 4 removed entirely due to mislabeling. This was an error on the scanlator's behalf and he instructed their removal.

September 23, 2011: Eternal Sisters volume 2 finally corrected (you can now download individual chapters rather than the entire volume for a single chapter). Added late Xamayon stuff and late Nanofate release.

And as an aside, thanks to omnscient0, ninina, and harawa (all IRC nicknames) for their contributions to making the reader you see today as awesome as it is now.

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Poll #6: Snow? 31 Dec 14:17
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Snow!: 50%
Pfft, doesn't snow here.: 41%
Nah, no snow yet.: 9%

1106 total votes

Snow's exciting up until you get over 4 inches or so of it, then it becomes annoying : /

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Zakk wrote

cool cool.

Kino is awesome. if she were a real person i would so marry her =)
that is of course assuming that she would take me with her on her kick ass talking bike.

i asked my family what they think is so weird about reading Yuri manga, the consensus was "i dunno its just weird"
i guess thats to be expected of my dad though, hes old fashioned almost to the point of redneck...

Problem with my family is more "The fuck you wasting your time on?" rather than "That's weird."
I'd rather be in your position >_>

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You have the link to the other groups right in your hands.
Let me show you:

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8551/muabuse.png

(1) shows the complete list of groups who have worked on the series. Whether they dropped it or are continuing it is not shown here, however.
(2) shows the latest releases, up to three of them.
(3) leads you to another page with the same information shown to you at the right., showing both the groups and their release dates.
As you can see on the page shown by (3), we have not released No Bra for over a year. You can also see here that another group or two has continued where we left off. That's your ticket to gratification.

Admittedly I could just give you the link right here, right now, but I felt it was better for you to know how to navigate to other groups' sites like this.

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We dropped No Bra roughly a year and three months ago due to lack of interest and lack of staff for the project.
Another group has continued on it, so you should go to them (they apparently finished it off too).

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...tech-addicted, bacefook-chained children?

Force them to use old, physical media! (Books, newspapers, magazines, and the like): 19%
Join in with them! No child of yours can have fun while you're around.: 17%
No torturing! They're going to have the least attentive minds out of all o' ya (but their multi-tasking will be the shit)!: 15%
Use parental spying tools! ("Dad, why isn't my password for WoW 2.0 working?" "Because you're not skilling your heal-a-tank-a-din right scrub."): 12%
Computer restrictions! (Dual-core? Why are you giving me a laptop from 2010!? What the heck is Linux!?): 10%
Website restrictions! (WHY WON'T YOU LET ME USE GOOGLE!? And why are we using Netscape Browser!?): 9%
ISP restrictions! (ie. force them to use only dial-up): 7%
Pen and paper for school! (No erasers, they're out of business): 7%
Local programming [for television] only!: 4%

982 total votes

Man, you oldies really want them to use old media. Get with the times :P (yes I voted for it).

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Confirmation 09 Dec 02:55
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If you used the English translations to enable you to translate SK to your specific language, all we really care about is if our credits page is present there.
If our actual English scanlations are present on your reader, remove them.

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Dynasty-scan**s**
Important because of the IRC channel.

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Missing yuri? 29 Nov 03:45
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Those were not done by Dynasty.
The editing (perhaps also the translations) should've made it clear that it was not done by us (as well as the lack of a credits page, assuming that website doesn't rip credits out of the chapters).
When we release our version, it'll go up on the reader.

On a sidenote, those chapters were done by the board /u/ of 4chan by semi-anonymous people.

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Regular ol' pajamas.: 30%
Whatever is available.: 26%
Only plain underwear.: 14%
I don't change.: 11%
Nothing, but with a blanket.: 8%
Shirt only.: 6%
Lingerie, gotta look sexy for the peeping toms~: 2%
Nothing, not even a blanket!: 2%

984 total votes

I never got the appeal of pajamas.
Soiling my regular clothes is comfortable enough for me~

Suggested by Melami (also the **only* suggestion so far : /).*

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Well, yes, it'll come out eventually, but don't get your hopes up. It could very well be ages before any of us gets to doing it. If we were never going to do it, then it would indeed go into the "dropped" category.