Sunday 7 January 2018

2018 New Year's ramblings + Chapter 8

Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru, Chapter 8


Hope everyone had good holidays. Because mine was a maelstrom of suffering. Read below for some rambling:
- Home heater just had to break down and need replacing in middle of freaking winter due to extreme cold DURING THE HOLIDAY BREAK; freezing my butt off for over a whole week until it got replaced, and setting me back a few G,
- As a result of house freezing, pipes completely froze, thus had no running water, forced to use bottled water for daily tasks. Myself, feeling like a villager bracing/enduring the harsh winter trying to survive,
- A new job I really wanted was given to someone else,
- Got a letter from the tax man saying they revised 2016 years taxes and said I owed them money due to the discrepency that they themselves made in "error" (yet again, for the 4th time in 1 year). Fuck my gov't legal robbery, their incompetence, and wasteful spending.
- Hard drive is almost full and in the red (I've only got one 1TB for system and storage, so could really use a new hard drive),
- And to top it all off, visiting distant family members (that I've never met in my life) drank the last of my most expensive of coffee (that my parents who went to South America brought back during their vacation) before all of the above went down. 

It's like Jesus looked at me, turned to God and said "See that guy? Yeah, Fuck that guy."


The only good thing that came out of this was my PC still working at all. That, and that I could forget about all of the above while enjoying doing this chapter. Y'know...Silver lining. Bright side of things...no mistakes, just happy little trees. Nope, not working...still freezing my butt off and totally filthy because no running water. FML. I've totally taken simple hand-washing under running water for granted.

 Listening to stand-up comedians on Youtube in the background while working has been getting me through this with laughing instead of crying.

Anyways, I've rambled on long enough. Hope you all enjoy the new chapter as much as I did working on it. Next release will likely during mid to late Jan....if shit stops being flung in my general direction long enough. Final revisions will eventually be collected in a single batch volume, so for those who want download all at once can do so when it comes out.

DL Link: Here
Read Online
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Update:
About 4 hours I post this, and then this happens:
Batoto is closing down because the owner is tired, and most likely too emotionally worn out to make rational dicisions (such as selling the site, or giving it away to a new owner to take over operations), instead opting to completely kill his creation like it's Frankenstein's monster. I sympathize with his plight, but it still fucks over the whole community as a whole, as it's the only place that respected the wishes of scanlation groups, (giving credit, linking to their site, adhering to timed-delays, allowing them to post and edit chapters personally, letting users edit pages, add chapters....the list goes on of good things they do that other aggregator sites simply don't) and respecting publishers wishes as well when asked to take down licensed titles.

So until the victor is decided in the inevitable war for supremecy when other clones try to take Batoto's place (like Nyaa.si vs Nyaa pantsu), there will likely be dead links to [Read Online] on my site until that's sorted out. I'd recommend bookmarking, and backing up what you can now.

P.S. This incident reminded me of something: google's ability to delete blogsites without warning. Due to the nature of scanlations, if that ever happens to this blog, then I'd recommend joining my discord channel at https://discord.gg/JdTYjcD to know where this series' translation project is going or what I'm up to.

Update 2: Mangadex is my new home.


11 comments:

  1. Thank u always for ur great work...
    ^^...

    Whoa, quite severe winter u got there...
    >.<...

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  2. This is one of my favorite seires Thanks for translating with all that year-end hardship.

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  3. Thank for great work!


    But I'm afraid that your hardships are yet to be over...

    Read your line:
    It's like Jesus looked at me, turned to God and said "See that guy? Yeah, Fuck that guy."

    and 3h 48min 46sec after your post...

    Batoto announce that it will be closing down permanently.
    https://bato.to/forums/topic/28840-batoto-will-be-closing-permanently/

    it's not your fault, but still, the timing...

    Well new Batoto may be on it's way and others are also taking actions, like
    https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/7otv2t/any_small_group_relying_on_batoto_can_contact_me/

    Anyway Thanks! and Good luck.

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    1. Read that staff it's staff members were notified well in advance...it's too bad they didn't notify the rest of the community well in advance as well so we can more smoothly ease our way, migrating away from Batoto to a new platform, instead of scrambling under short notice like fleeing a warzone being bombarded.

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    2. The situation is more like the coyote-effect

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  4. Thanks for the chapter, and also my condolences for your hard disk and coffee

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  5. I need more of this series!
    Thank's for the chapter!
    I will really miss batoto... Dx

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  6. Can you actually post it somewhere else? Batoto made it so that no manga can be read.

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    1. Remains to be determined. Currently "window shopping" so to speak, for alternatives. Taking a wait and see approach, much like other smaller groups such as mine are doing at the moment; because I don't want to make a new account to upload just anywhere only to find out they fall out of the race to the finish line, and I most certainly do not want to support aggravator sites if possible; who were partially responsible for Batoto's demise in the first place.

      I'll post about where I'll upload for online reading in my discord server, and in a future blog post here, once it's decided.

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  7. Tyvm for your translation .

    Yeah, we just need to wait the new Onemanga/Batoto now.

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