Sorry for the slow pace, but my wrist isn't letting me working these days. Two chapters should be up soon, #74 and #31.
The good news is: I got some better scans! All I need now is high quality scans or photos of the (Japanese) covers. Perhaps someone on the forum has them lying around and can scan them in for me?

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/kase_san_ch14#22
Bas. That is all.

It's like that in the raws also. Japanese aren't too good at English.

I use the program in German so I don't know the exact name of the option in English but in XnView there is an option to not resize pictures.

That's what I thought. In German I try to use the options Ansicht->Automatische Bildgröße->Nicht Anpassen. But it always resets to "Auf Fenstergröße anpassen, nur große Bilder".
Update: turns out I need to set this in tools->options->view, everything I do in the normal view tab will not carry over.

About comic readers, I've already tried cdisplayex and the controls are bad in a way that can't be customized as I already said. But I went and tried a few more.
-ComicRack can only open archives which means that its uses are pretty limited. I generally prefer to unzip my comics so I can see thumbnails. But it may be possible to display thumbnails in zipped archives somehow, I wanted to look into that anyway. Haven't experimented with the controls further for now.
-MComix has controls that I don't like and they are not customizable.
-MangaMeeya: Ok, mangameeya has, by default, the worst controls of the whole bunch. But they can be customized pretty well; it has the most options yet. It doesn't have the option to change the window size according to the displayed image automatically, though. I tried to be clever and bind the shortcut for resizing the window on every key I use for navigating but I can only bind it to one key, so that's out. Fullscreen-mode-only it is. I also don't like that there is visible tearing when I scroll a page, but I might be able to fix that if I peruse the settings a bit more.

So at this point I have four apps that are "okay" (irfan view, honeview, mangameeya and xnview).

I think it's less them screwing up so much as you have specific needs that aren't necessarily requested by the majority of users. As was already suggested, comic reading utilities might have what you're looking for, rather than image viewers.

I'm gonna be so arrogant and say that many of my unmet needs aren't really that specific. My hor. scrolling wheel isn't supported? Sure, that's a specific need. I wouldn't go on a rant over that, I would send the developers a feature request and make do without it. But controls like "the image will start scrolling to the right when you hold down but hit the lower edge"? I'm not gonna put up with blunders like those. I will furthermore be as arrogant as to say that the majorities of users, as well as the majority of programmers are uneducated in interface design and don't see the problems that're right in front of their eyes.
But thank you for suggesting a program I hadn't tried before. I forgot to thank you earlier.

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I've been using Linux the past couple of years, but is ACDSee still a thing?

Took a look at ACDSee. It doesn't resize the window when the next image has a different resolution, so you basically have to use it in fullscreen mode, always. It also doesn't have context sensitive navigation keys, that scroll or go to the next image, depending on whether the image can be scrolled horizontally. So you have to use "space, backspace, up, down" to read comics which requires two hands or moving one hand constantly, which is annoying. (Honeyview also didn't have context sensitive navigation but at least I could rebind the controls on keys that are next to each other.) My horizontal scrolling wheel is not supported and the vertical scrolling wheel jumps to the next page instead of scrolling down. Irfan view is still better.

My take on Honeyview in their forums: https://forum.bandisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5522

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No, just for looking at pictures. I need native resolution, because resized images often look bad. A resized comic page can be unreadable. This should be a no-brainer.
I have a long list of complains about Photoshop as well, but at least it's a complicated program. But how do you screw up an image viewing program?

I've been using Linux the past couple of years, but is ACDSee still a thing?

Gonna try that tomorrow.
I just tried out Honeyview and it's... actually not that terrible. It has some problems but when configured right it's only slightly worse than irfan view, currently. And one can hope that it will improve in the future. I'm gonna post in their forum and see if I can give some feedback.

Does anyone here know of an image viewing program that's not terrible?
I've tried the windows photo gallery, the windows photo app, xnview, faststones, irfan view and cdisplayex. Every one of these apps except the last two doesn't give me the option to open images at native resolution by default, which means that they are plain useless. (I have some hope remaining that it's just a bug in xnview rather than by design, because the options look like they should support that.)
But I also have some gripes with irfan view. I haven't seen that program improve in a decade and they forum is locked so I don't think any of my complaints is ever gonna be addressed. And cddisplayex has bad controls. I am gonna write some suggestions in their forums though.
Do I really have to program my own goddamn image viewer? In 2016?

So, does anyone have a program that they can recommend? I would be quite thankful.

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i thought yuri project dropped kase-san to let /u/ take over?

So they did, but that also didn't seem to go anywhere at first. But now someone competent is working on it and they are pretty fast also. Dunno if we're gonna get more translations, though.

Thinking of people doing things for free on their own time--
So, um . . . I notice the front page for Kase-san lists a bunch of chapters which are not scanlated. For which I am pining. Does anyone know, maybe somewhere in the depths of the 27 pages of discussion it's already been said, if anyone has plans to do any of those, and if there are any hints as to how long-range such plans might be if they exist?

The volume 3 chapters are currently being typeset. If no one else does it, I will put them on dynasty in the next few days once they are finalized.

This series is cute and all but any romance where the partners have a parent-child relationship feels just wrong to me.

"Please let me watch you pee!"
She did it!

Dat Engrish.
Dat IKEA erotica.

Just a heads up that Anya_ seems to have made an error. Basically they reused pages 3 and 4 from the scanlation of Ponite-Ribbon Rhapsody, whereas in Fantasia, the actual content is different (ie. Chinatsu can be seen with Akari since they don't use the whole disappearance plot here)

That explains why pages 3 and 4 have a decent main font and then the font changes to an ugly one.

Ah yes, Rhapsody was done by a different typesetter. I'll let you know if Anya_ posts an updated version.

If you just post in the thread, I'll probably miss it. You can ask an admin to put it on the front page again, if it's an important update and some time has passed.

Just a heads up that Anya_ seems to have made an error. Basically they reused pages 3 and 4 from the scanlation of Ponite-Ribbon Rhapsody, whereas in Fantasia, the actual content is different (ie. Chinatsu can be seen with Akari since they don't use the whole disappearance plot here)

That explains why pages 3 and 4 have a decent main font and then the font changes to an ugly one.

I don't like the "recently added" page, because it doesn't have thumbnails, on which I base my decision whether to read something or not. That may be my personal taste but that list just isn't very useful to me.
But when I said that it's "really bad", I didn't mean the fact that you have to do an extra step (that would be just regular bad). I meant that (In my evaluation) most people who visit Dynasty are confused about the two lists and don't know they are missing out on some releases sometimes. And I really do think that that is really bad interface design.
Generally I get the impression that Dynasty is stagnating on the technical aspects of the site and I wonder why that is so. And it's not like there's nothing that could be improved.

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Oops, also I noticed that I wrote "Serina" instead of "Serika". New edit: https://postimg.org/image/fnbl87ra9/

Thank you very much for the correction! It was my first time editing (and actually my first time using photoshop in general so I probably made a lot of mistakes, pardon me if I did...

In that case you didn't do too badly, if this really was your first time using Photoshop.

Try to give text the correct perspective, if it exists in the actual scene (it's "diegetic"). You can skew a textlayer by holding ctrl and moving the handles at the sides of the textbox. If the text is supposed go on, and be aligned with a rectangular surface (e.g. a sign), then all you have to do is make the sides parallel with the sides of the sign and then move the text to it's final position.
If the surface has perspective distortion, however (opposite sides are parallel in the scene, but they're not parallel on paper due to perspective), then skewing is not enough. You can give text a perspective transformation by converting it to a shape and then using free transform. Move the corners of the shape to the position of the corners of the surface it's supposed to go on to establish the correct perspective. Then scale the shape by moving the handles of the side to give it the correct dimensions while preserving the correct perspective.
The downside of the method is that you basically have to start over if you make a single mistake; Photoshop doesn't really have good tools for this as far as I know. Illustrator may be a better choice but I've never tried that. In the case of this page it was a bit more difficult, too, because the letter had a fold in the middle.

Other than the perspective stuff, try to use a suitable font for different situations. For example, use a handwritten font for stuff that is supposed to be handwritten, etc. (I used "KG La Belle Aurore" here.)
Also, outlines make things look like they're not part of the scene (think sound effects). Did Serina really put an outline around her letters? Probably not.

If you liked the correction, feel free to update the file on Dynasty with my edit.

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Nice chapter, but this one page with the letter bothered me enough that I decided to fix it.

Does anyone else think that Mira's art is really poor? Somehow, they seem to have gained quite a following but I'm gonna avoid this author in the future.

Ahh, I can't believe I didn't see this! Kase-san is still the best~

Releases on the front page are sorted by date of the upload request, not date of publishing. Which means that when, as in this case, some days pass in-between the two events, then the new release will be sneakily inserted between older releases further down the page. This is really bad and I have no idea why Dynasty does it this way.

In summary: it's not your fault that you didn't see it and you should subscribe to any series/author that you want to receive updates from.

"She's her usual self, probably"

Fixed.

" they all seem so innocent "

Is this supposed to be a correction, too? If so, then I'm too dumb to understand it.

About "3h kissing"...

Donut wanted to leave at 7... Talk with Ice took some time... Kiss was there too... then was another talk... and then was 10. Why you think 3h was ONLY kissing......?

Donut probably didn't take much longer than 10 minutes or so to gather her stuff and get to the door. If the author wanted the conversation after the kiss to last for hours, (s)he should have used some kind of cut to show the passage of time. Ideally with the characters being in a different position to drive it home. For example sitting at the table with some tea, not still sitting on the floor next to the door. And the conversation would have moved a lot in 3 hours, too. In the chapter it's written like they really exchanged just a few sentences.

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Last chapter, when she wanted to go it was "almost 7" and now it's 10? They kissed for 3 hours, wtf!

Edit: Ah, ok it has been pointed out before.

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Maybe you could go with - 'this is what I look like when Yuu is having her way with me.'? It's a bit long maybe - and still can mean sex - but maybe it works better?

No, that's perfect. The chapter file should be updated shortly.

if that is how the author writes it then they are not sisters

It's evidence but not overwhelming evidence.

there is no need for an author to do a - 'they are 18 ofcourse - wink wink' thing for them - that is to get round drawing underage girls that might be an issue in some areas or whatever

Actual laws ware just one reason why an author might do something like that. A few sentences later you even provide an explanation yourself:

but doesn't want them as sisters in case people think it a bit creepy real sisters being so close maybe?