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I am slightly confused now. Apologies: it must have been all that good food and booze during xmas and New year's festivities.

So far, you wonderful people have completed Vol 10's scan+translation. Great kudos to you all!

But what keeps confusing me is that vol10's last "phase" is 62, whilethe "phases" of BAA that come out from periodicals (and not from tankobons/volumes) are differently numbered so in this latter category that "phase" was numbered 65.

So the next phases, the ones after vol 10, are to be numbered from 66 onwards since you work on the "periodical" episodes, right?

Ok, hopefully, so far, I'm still not wrong.

Now, please confirm me that there are (so far) only english scanlations of phase 66 and 72, while for the other phases we have a hodgepodge of translations and raws scattered in the forum, right?

Or have I missed some scan+translated phases?

(btw, please remove the snow effect, it's making my head swim and it plays tricks with the cursor :p)

Again, congrats to you all, and I say "ALL", including all the people that have decided they wanted to do something they liked more than translating/cleaning BAA's raws -- I still would congratulate you because...

de gustibus non est disputandum (bad latin, I know -- been too loooong time since I last really tried studying)

Loose meaning: everyone's tastes are so different it is useless to judge'em

cheers, hope you all enjoyed these days.

tcd.

well put if i say so myself, im on tha same boat is only 66 and 72 translated im gettin confussed hear too? msome one help us out

just get full volumen 10 and download the raws, ig phare 65 is the last one in volume 10 then... you got your problem solved! =P

first, volume chapters are not labeled the same as monthly releases.
starting chapters, and the first retail tankubon (commercial volume wise release with bonus etc, that later is translated and resized for our occidental market) messed up the numbering.

volume release numbering is the law, but monthly numbering release is used for ... month by month scanlation basis .
by checking with the ch-by-ch releases, you will soon get used to this, nothing else to do

and for the actual, available releases, let aside what is on main site download page, we have two running speed-releases of the last 2 chapters (72, 73) hidden in the top 20 recents threads of this forum but for the olders ones, but still not on the main site download page, all we got is raws (same place, hidden here and there, or available on P2P networks), and scripts, except for phase 71, but i answered to that in the other thread so i let you see > there <

feel free to help, hey it's as much for you than for us

that's the way it works, community, free scanlation underground sites etc. but the main problem is free time, for all of us

once you have a translated script, even a kid can do a paintbrush Low Quality scanlation (i called them "fastlation" when i do one, occasionaly on mangahelpers ), but HQ, "better than retail commercial release" scanlations, requires even more people than "just" a translator or japanese native people, and a kid.

i am for the casual "speed LQ release so everyone can have his fix as soon as available, and then HQ volume release because there is bonus stuff and the manga desserves it"- way of life, the way it works in the worldwide scanlation community (except for a chinese team, spamming other teams that dare use their fresh, ultra cleaned, 24hrs-before-first-jap-retail-scan, chinese scanlation of the big shonen series ... but they are an exception)

with the right people, at the right time, it can be a LQ scanlated chapter in two hours, can even be less ! this happens every week for naruto, one piece etc.
of course, but maybe you don't know, Gunnm is no shonen, and the japanese used in it is WAY above shonen one. but for a native japanese who knows english, he reads, he write ...

speed work is sure trash, depending on the scan and quick proofreading, but reading a chapter with the text on, and not in a separate window is nice
while i do buy the books, prefer reading on screen, size is 3x, you can see all details, no food pieces, no need to use both hands or damaging the book ... so HQ, volume releases, is greatly welcomed ! and so i helped teams by the past, and try my best to help this one, but i can't afford the time.

i could have done the help i suggest in the other thread, and not answering to you, so you could have leeched the chapters in few days, but i'm glad i spent the last half hour before going to sleep (it's 4am here) going all pedagogical and stuff, i think it's a better asset.
what's this already, "when you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but when you learn him to fish him, you feed him for life" ?


i hope having answered your questions, and that you now know a little better where you are, and how things work
welcole aboard