MOTHER Manga Scans

Satsy,

I’ve been wanting to put the Benimaru Itoh manga, “Ness’s Adventure Memoir”, behind me for years. I have a notebook in which I wrote down my full translation for it about four years ago, but it’s at my dad’s place in another state right now and I’m sort of stuck where I’m at.

I do have the manga itself with me, though, so perhaps I can type out the script and somebody else can scan it in and edit the images.

Back then, I fully intended to scan the whole book in and edit the scans in English, but it proved a daunting task and I got caught up in something else.

I don’t have an image editor right now that’s anywhere near decent. I have to use somebody else’s computer for everything, and I’m not allowed to download anything on it. I’ve really been wanting to help out with the scans you’ve already put up, but that’s my situation. If you can provide images large enough to read, so that I wouldn’t have to manually download anything, I can perhaps at least write up the English translation, for anyone who wants to edit the images.

I hope you get more people reading this blog because it SUCKS doing all this work when it feels like you’re posting it into oblivion… or to be “absorbed by the darkness”, take your pick 😉

Keinsu: Thanks, I’ll be sure to keep doing this — on the forum topic I wrote out a good reason to be doing this in the first place, then realised it was actually a very good reason! 😛 Keeps ’em better protected once scanned. Even if nobody else sees them, or if nobody else realises I’ve done this, so long as people wanting to translate them come across them and decide “hey these aren’t all that bad!!” then my work’s done.

‘Cause then I get to find out what these things are saying! And that’s good enough for me. 😉

Anyway I can scan the Benimaru Itoh manga if you want, and if you think of a good place I can upload the images so I’m not just filling a .zip (some sort of directory would be better than, say, Photobucket), here or the forum topic or the tumblr or an e-mail — be sure to lemme know!

In the meantime I’ll also be asking my brother. Web designer guy and all would know what to do (though he’s a busy guy).

Is that Goemon from Mystical Ninjas on the right?

eeerrrr, the left.

Yeah, it is.

Hey.

I translated this page:

http://www.thingsbybrent.com/junk/comics/p097_e.png

It was way more work than I would have ever imagined. But it’s good practice, I think.

Here’s the original for comparison:

http://www.thingsbybrent.com/junk/comics/p097_j.png

What do you think, Tomato?

Ooh, good job 😀 I’ll post it in an update in the near future.

For reasons that are only obvious to me, I moved those files into a subfolder:

http://www.thingsbybrent.com/junk/comics/m2_bko/

I also added another page, and corrected the name of the author on page 97.

Haha, nice, EBrent! 😀