First one of 2008. Whee! Who is made of fail? I am! (And my computer and school, but that’s another story).

Anyway, two new releases today: The exciting, newly rescanlated in shinier quality part 3 of Boys Next Door, and a shiny new Prince of Tennis doujinshi care of our undercover agent no_desu (Thank you, honey ♥) Kid S by Asanami Katsumi (H-Men). Inui/Yanagi, NC-17 with shota flavour (current-age Inui/10-year-old Renji). Both are available for direct download on their respective pages. The BND complete zip has also been updated to include the new version :)

*pokesprods at translators and editors* Hay guys 8D If you’re still alive and I haven’t spoken to you recently, please let me know ♥

And as always, still looking for more translators (especially Japanese) and editors! Check out the Forum for info and tests. :)

Kaori Yuki’s 0 no Soukoushi chapter 1 is now available for http download! Head on over to the ‘ongoing projects’ and download to your heart’s content.

We’re still in need of Japanese translators and editors! We can’t release very quickly with the limited staff we have (due to personal reasons + school & other obligations, we currently only have two active editors and one active (Chinese) translator), so if you want to help us out, please do! All information can be found here on the forum. We have a ton of stuff we want to do (Hallo, Azusa Yuuki) or finish, but can’t due to our lack staff to do them with. More staff = more releases = more goodies for you. (Staff also have the added benefit of being able to suggest new projects and having them done in a semi-timely manner. That’s not to say you leechers out there can’t suggest stuff. :3) Can’t commit to staying with us for months on end? That’s okay, we’re fine if you want to work on a single doujinshi or chapter or manga, and freelancers are more than welcome. ♥ *trump card* I’ll provide you with boyporn and/or girlporn out of my ridiculously large doujin collection? 8D

And you didn’t even have to wait a month :D So today we bring you Kaori Yuki’s 0 no Soukoushi chapter one, nice and ready for you to grab from our IRC channel. Go! Enjoy! Have fun~

We’re still looking for translators, particularly Japanese translators. If you think you can help out, please do! More translators = more releases. :D (And yeah, we can use editors too ♥ )

In light of being reborn, we are definitely looking for new staff, Japanese translators in particular. What we’re in need of at the moment: Dedicated translators (JP/CH), and experienced editors willing to work on pretty much anything we throw at them (though if something really squicks you, we’re nice enough to not intentionally put you on it).

All staff should be able to complete at least one 35 page chapter/oneshot/doujinshi a month.

Translators:
Should have at least two years of formal (college level) classes under their belt and a reasonably complete dictionary. For JP-EN translators, the ability to translate without furigana is a huge plus, but not required. Translations should be as close to the original as possible - clearly with artistic license for those things that just sound weird otherwise. Freetalks and SFX are not required to be translating, but they are good to have. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Katze (kamioakira at gmail dot com) for the translator test (we currently do not have a CH translation test, and JP translators are what we need most at the moment).

Editors:

Editors should be experienced in Photoshop or a similar program, be good friends with levels, contrast, the clone and healing tools as well as those handy dandy paintbrushes. Other groups have ‘cleaners’ and ‘typesetters’ - we don’t have those and never have. It is the editor’s job to clean and typeset all scans (including SFX where translated.) If you’re interested in helping out, please contact Katze (kamioakira at gmail dot com) for the editor test.

Scanners:

At the present moment, we are not looking for new scanners (read exception at the end) - but once we get underway we may put out a call. If you have something you think we might be interested in, scan a few pages and send it in with as much info as possible (author, title, etc) so we can have a look. Manga must be in Chinese or Japanese only.
Exception: We are looking for scans for part 3 of Boys Next Door in Chinese so we may complete the rescanlation.

Anyway. If you think you can help, give us a buzz!