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I think the twelfth nights quote is probably about how neither of them can escape destiny e.g. their feelings for each other.

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kith

Can't you do both, put it on imgur and do the text overlay?

Manga. Fucking. Fox. Nuff said.

but on a serious note, the thought of the chapters I edited being on mangafox makes me really uncomfortable (as most scanlators would tell you). what's more aggravating is knowing that it can be easily avoided by just not uploading to imgur at all.

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this guide to the bookmark method might be a bit easier. it places it in the bookmark bar so you don't have to type in the link all the time.
http://imgur.com/hX4ThdH

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Thanks for noticing, Alextasha i'll paraphrase what i said on 4chan. basically, i'm trying something new, overlaying directly on the korean comico site so that ssamba gets a lot of page views. this means i'll stop uploading to imgur because that does not benefit ssamba. i've left instructions for how to do view my typeset directly on the comico site a few pages back. There are 2 ways, you can either...

1)create a bookmark (bookmark a random page) and then change the url of said page to the following


javascript:(function() { var oss_js = document.createElement('script'); oss_js.type = 'text/javascript'; oss_js.src = 'http://static.oddsquad.org/js/naver.reader.oss.js'; document.body.appendChild(oss_js);})();


2) use an add on, depending on which browser you're using. i'll leave the instructions here.

from what i've seen most views are garnered around 3 days or so before it's locked so that should leave plenty of time for you guys to enjoy the roughs. but if you guys haven't seen it before it's locked for some reason, sign up for a comico account to unlock the chapter. More info can be found here

last edited at May 25, 2015 3:15PM

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Nezchan

But it's hard not to be curious

whoever she is, she'll always be inferior to mayu in my heart.

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Nezchan

it's a bit disappointing that Jin brought a new character in at the end who we don't even get to know anything about

yea, i definitely get what you mean. it's like when animes end with a flashforward-vignette showing the conclusion without explaining how they got there. it's a bit of lazy story telling. still, seeing as how this is about mika growing as a person i guess it could be forgiven that jin chose to not go into detail about this new love interest.

there are a few more loose threads that need tying up as well, for example takako and yui. it'd be kinda pointless to have all those chapters featuring their past without it meaning anything. though given their current situation, i wouldn't be surprised if we're back to square 1.

on that note, am i the only one who feels like jin is not very good at wrapping things up? her one shots are great, but for longer series the ending often feels a bit abrupt or rushed. that, or the ending is so obvious during the first chapter that it feels all the ones in the middle were a bit redundant.

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Stretch discussion 21 May 03:51
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Thiaguinho-sama

So you like Lolita...? you also like lolis? are you a conrade? o7

no i'm not a 'comrade', whatever the hell that means. lolita is an excellent piece of prose. it's explicitly stated that the author himself is anything but a paedophile and has nothing but disdain for the MC. let's cut this discussion here. it's neither here nor there.

And please explain what you mean by dp

display picture/photo

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Stretch discussion 21 May 03:37
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Nya-chan

tldr; when you read something you enjoy immensely, like Stretch or Prism, you want to admire the author and think that he's a great person because he can write something like this, but then you are confronted to the reality of the person and it's a let down.

we've been here a bunch of times before, so let's not go there again. i don't know why it's so difficult for people to accept that you can separate the works of an artist and the artist themselves. you can enjoy the work, but dislike the artist and vice versa.

maybe i find this mental gymnastic doable because my favourite book is lolita but that's besides the point. stretch is great. it inspired me to change my dp after like...5 years.

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ChocolateCakeLover

Their happiness and character is irrelevant, fandom wants fandom should get.

how could i forget the cardinal rule. oh well, that's what fanart and OOC fanfiction are for right?

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now that i've read it again, i'm surprisingly ok with this ending. yes, it was disappointing that we got a bunch of chapters about mayu and mika only for them to not end up together but looking back it might've been out of character for mika to fall for mayu when she insisted that she's not into younger girls. besides, it doesn't seem as though mayu or saki is unhappy with how things are so it's a good end, not the ending i would've liked, but a good end nonetheless.

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halmoni

kyra, you are the hero webtoon scanlators need but don't deserve. Thank you for figuring out all that coding jazz.

thanks halmoni. i'm glad that it was useful to someone and the translator no less! i have a request, can i have your email address? if you're not comfortable leaving it here you can just drop a message at kyra.scanlations.stuff@gmail.com

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anonymous

On the topic of replicating the comico reading experience, I tried overlaying the the FF scanlations (similar to Cheese in the Trap if anyone knows it) on Japanese Comico site. I've only done the first chapter thus far.

To make the English translations visible, you can either create a bookmark (bookmark a random page) and then change the url of said page to the following


javascript:(function() { var oss_js = document.createElement('script'); oss_js.type = 'text/javascript'; oss_js.src = 'http://static.oddsquad.org/js/naver.reader.oss.js'; document.body.appendChild(oss_js);})();


you can also use an add on, depending on which browser you're using. i'll leave the instructions here.

The advantage of this is that you'd be supporting the artist through the official website, which was why i tried it out in the first place. Also the Japanese comico has chapter titles and a blurb which might be fun to look at. As is, the current chapter titles aren't accurate lol, I'll change it eventually.

If anyone tries reading it this way, drop me a line to let me know what you think. I'm planning on updating most of the roughs in a similar fashion.

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Halmoni is there a new yuri manhwa on comico. It sure looks yuri! Title is 행운소년소녀. If it is will you and your team be scanlating?

judging from google translate, it's a story about twins. i doubt comico would go down the twincest route.

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takachi

I wish I could be as fast!

nah...it's only because i don't have to level to make sure all the whites are actually white and i didn't redraw all the sfx.
btw, could you tell me all the fonts you used so next time i make a rough it looks a bit better? i'll probably help out with the editing over on YP too so it'd be helpful

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anonymous

pretty small world, and web when it comes to yuri and also FF. you're bound to bump into a few names here and there (4chan, dynasty, tumblr) :P

and no prob, as if i needed a reason to procrastinate on finals

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Really good chapter imo. I was afraid that No-rae is a (teensy) bit Mary Sue-ish because she didn't have any notable flaws but here we're really delving into her personality. I like the role-reversal here as well cause it's Seol-a showing her mature side by noticing No-rae's childish behaviour.

Seol-a's little smirk at So-seol giving her a tip is pretty funny. We have a shipper on board guys. Also good to know that Seol-a got the mum-stamp-of-approval.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r8x0rtias0ls9rj/9.png?dl=0

edited to remove my own link since someone's already mentioned it.

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Why? Would it not have been easier and less repugnant to simply go up to her and say "Hey, your boyfriend just propositioned me. You might want to consider dumping him."

ah...but the drama. also stupid teenagers doing stupid things. but mostly the drama imo.

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[insert comment about how contrived it is that seol-a happens to run into an old lady and ends up in no-rae's house]
let chaos ensue.

no but seriously...maybe everyone should read this before something unfortunate happens again. let's be nice this time round folks.

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gravity discussion 23 Apr 12:29
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Upon rereading this after having edited this a couple years prior, I think this merits the "wangst" aka "whiny angst" tag if we have one of those

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Takachi:

I don't see how the "tsk tsk" is at all applicable here. To me that sounded perfectly normal for any person. Like "oh my". As for the "shameful tactics" and being embarrassed, again, it doesn't prove that all he wants is to score. The possibility that he likes Seol-A and wants to go out with her but relies on shameful tactics to make her his sounds quite likely and believable to me. Not saying that it's great, but I don't see how that makes him a monster or an absolute evil.

I agree. I'm going to give Kyeong-woo the benefit of the doubt and say we wasn't about to assault Seol-ah whilst she's drunk. I mean he genuinely did seem concerned from some of the panels.

The 'I got found out' and 'fucking embarrassing' could perhaps be because No-rae saw through his bravado. He doesn't actually have the balls to say 'directly' that he likes someone and has to resort to 'shameful tactics' such as getting them to open up to him via a bit of alcohol.

Granted it is coercive but it's not as horrible as the scenario that I had imagined when the new chapter hadn't come out yet.

I also agree with you 100% on the rumours thing. I think part of FF is about how rumours don't present an accurate representation of how someone actually is. Kyeong-woo may be the the 'king of fucking' or whatever but he's definitely far from a monster in my book. That would be like Seol-ah's ex who attempted to strangle her.

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I think YP has uploaded newer versions with nicer raws. Is anyone going to upload them cause I'd be willing to do so.

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i've never really understood the vehement hatred towards ji-hwan but i think by now most people will have realised that he's an angel compared to kyeong-woo

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Fonts 09 Jan 09:45
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Can anyone give me the font we usually use for notes? aquilla or something I think?

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Seasons discussion 07 Jan 00:59
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Also on ch11 page 0193 the fourth panel "I don't know if she's want to hear I'd been here since this afternoon..." should be "I don't know if she want's to hear I'd been here since this afternoon..."

Fixed. It's I don't know if she'd...

I don't really understand what Taki was thinking letting Sakura sit for a few weeks. If she intended to visit her anyway, why say 'fine'? Sakura went through a lot of torment after that. Maybe she got tired of waiting for Sakura to make it up to her, but it just seems callous to me.

On the contrary, I think Sakura is the immature one (she's the younger one and she was in middle school then as well so can't blame her for it). I mean she pulled the same stunt 3 times and Taki is always the one running after her. In chapter 8 she deletes Taki's email, in chapter 9 she just left for no reason, in chapter 10 she randomly asks Taki to break-up with her and you can clearly see on one of the pages in chapter 10 that's she's not too thrilled.