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That there is no chapter release for the month of February.

I mean, just as well, given the schedule we've all been on with the translation, but...man. This hasn't happened in a while. I'm going to be sad without my raw fix.

It's a plot..... to starve us to the point where we eventually forget about GLO.
And then GLO will be discontinued without anyone noticing.
Yup, I made all that up, I know.
I WOULD like to see a new raw, though^^

Raws aren't attractive without translation by themselves.

2 translating team:
How's it going? When will be more phases? =)))

Phase 80 will be out soon. Hopefully before Saturday.

crazyankan wrote:Phase 80 will be out soon. Hopefully before Saturday.

Well, I kind of meant a raw release. No chapter 87 in the new Ultra Jump!

crazyankan wrote:Phase 80 will be out soon. Hopefully before Saturday.

Caturday....post sum neko Alita!!!!

Twitchywrote wrote: Well, I kind of meant a raw release. No chapter 87 in the new Ultra Jump!

What do you mean? I have just entered UJ page.
That site is a nightmare. The links are all mixed. In short, it is impossible to say anything.

In the chapter list...do you see a Last Order? Coz I don't.

Twitchywrote wrote:In the chapter list...do you see a Last Order? Coz I don't.

In the list, I do (the eighth from the top), but the image does not correspond. It is something infantile named NEEDLESS!

There's no Gunnm. I realized this after buying UJ. $%^&^&*!
Don't hate on Needless too much. It's a parody on the moe genre.... or at least that's how I interpret it. But UJ is going downhill. Biomega has ended, and Nihei is moving to the magazine Afternoon. The last few months have brought really shitty new series. This is my analysis of current Ultra Jump.

Agaruta (Kasaharu Matsumoto): Very creative sci-fi storyline. He takes too many breaks. It's complex and hard to follow. A challenging read.
Gunmu: Last Order (Yukito Kishiro): No use for a comment.
Grandeek ReeL (Sekohime Sakura): It's about swords.
Cloth Road (Hideyuki Kurata, Okama): About a world where clothes are computers. It's not bad. Very bizarre.
Steel Ball Run (Hirohiko Araki): A continuation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. A race across the U.S. The art work and expressions are experimental and amazing. Five Stars.
Ten Goku -Heaven's Prison- (Hiroyuki Utatane): Crappy. I think it's about girls and their periods.
Tenjō Tenge (Oh! great): Absolutely amazing art and expression. The storyline ain't nothing special though.
Dogs/Bullets & Carnage (Shirow Miwa): I should get into this. It looks decent.
Needless (Kami Imai): I interpret this as parody of the moe genre. A good laugh.
Ninkū -Second Stage: Etonin-hen- (Kōji Kiriyama): Some old series revived. It doesn't really belong in UJ.
Biomega (Tsutomu Nihei): Sci-fi with godly art, unimaginable world and zero emotion.
Bastard!! -Ankoku no Hakai Shin- (Kazushi Hagiwara): Some old series revived about naked angels.
Peace Maker (Ryōji Minagawa): Cowboys killing A-rabs in a parallel universe? Crappy-ish.
Puchi-mon (Aoi Nanase): Crappy moe battle. I can hardly look at this.
Mebiusugia (Toshiki Inōe, Shinshi Rikudō): Manga that tried to get attention by sex. On the crappy side.
Roman (Sound Horizon, Namamaru Katsura): Sound Horizon is a musician and Namamura does the manga. The music albums and the manga go hand in hand, kind of like what Coheed and Cambria are doing. Interesting project, but too cheesy.
~New Series~
Hayate X Blade (Shizuru Hayashiya): About girls with swords. Go away.
Animal Kal Ribs (Park Seong-woo): About girls with (you guessed it) swords. By Korean dude. Please go away.
Akikan (illustrated by Hiro Suzuhira): About cans that turn into girls. Go to fucking Mars.
Hatsukoi Magical Blitz (who cares): About a boy who will die unless he has sex with moe girls. Artistic suicide and a symbol of a death of a culture.

ack44 wrote:There's no Gunnm. I realized this after buying UJ. $%^&^&*!
Don't hate on Needless too much. It's a parody on the moe genre....

Thanks for the infor, but what is moe?
My dictionaries could not help me.

Sergio wrote:

ack44 wrote:There's no Gunnm. I realized this after buying UJ. $%^&^&*!
Don't hate on Needless too much. It's a parody on the moe genre....

Thanks for the infor, but what is moe?
My dictionaries could not help me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)

I don't read the raws myself -- I don't want to spoil a single thing for the translations! Such is my love of Battle Angel.

crazyankan wrote:Phase 80 will be out soon. Hopefully before Saturday.

You lied to me!!

Sergio wrote:

crazyankan wrote:Phase 80 will be out soon. Hopefully before Saturday.

You lied to me!!

Everybody Lies

Would be SO much easier to have just written: "It'll be released when it's done" and just stick to that.
It's a promise that more or less can't be broken, and noone can claim having been lied to.

Yuffie wrote:Would be SO much easier to have just written: "It'll be released when it's done" and just stick to that.
It's a promise that more or less can't be broken, and noone can claim having been lied to.

We have an example of this. Id Software, DooM3 developers were always answering "D3 will be released, when it's ready.", and everyone waited 6 long years. =(((

There always has to be a deadline, in every work. A deadline, till which the work must be done, or else a person doing this work would be stimulated by nothing.

By the way. In the Roman Empire a stick for beating up cattle and slaves was called "stimulus", so, I guess, a word "stimulate" is related to that. =)))

Yuffie wrote:Would be SO much easier to have just written: "It'll be released when it's done" and just stick to that.

You are right!!

Int 29Ah wrote: There always has to be a deadline, in every work.

You are right also.

Int 29Ah wrote:In the Roman Empire a stick for beating up cattle and slaves was called "stimulus", so, I guess, a word "stimulate" is related to that. =)))

Interesting!

Int 29Ah wrote:There always has to be a deadline, in every work.

I disagree, deadlines are used to rush things and get half assed products that need to be patched a good ten thousand times before it works.
I know people need some tangible goal to get things done, but the concept of "deadline" has proven its innefficiency in term of quality long time ago.

It depends on a person. If you can concentrate and work most time of your day, it is really helpful.

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For me, it's really efficient. My own example:

When we worked (programmers) and didn't have a deadline, everyone was doing anything, but not the work. It was like "don't wanna do it today, I'll do it tomorrow", and tomorrow everyone was doing what they did before, everyone is lazy. A few months passed and we didn't make any progress, because everyone was simply doing nothing all 8 hours long and getting salary in the end of the month. Then, about a month later, this project was closed, company went bankrupt, and everyone was fired.

After that, we were all taken (as a team) to another company. Work process was organized like this: "If you want a salary, you have to do it before the deadline". And it worked. We were working for about 16 hours a day, and doing everything in a great quality just near a deadline.

Now I'm a freelancer. I prefer working at home, but when I take a project, I usually set a deadline for myself 1-2 weeks earlier than customer demands (without him knowing, of course). And a dedline planning really works. I usually work about 18 hours a day now by myself, but I have a 1-2 week holidays. =)))

I disagree, deadlines are used to rush things and get half assed products that need to be patched a good ten thousand times before it works.

Deadline set by a customer goes with testing time included. Also, noone has complained about quality to me yet. =)))

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Dream wrote:

Int 29Ah wrote:There always has to be a deadline, in every work.

I disagree, deadlines are used to rush things and get half assed products that need to be patched a good ten thousand times before it works.
I know people need some tangible goal to get things done, but the concept of "deadline" has proven its innefficiency in term of quality long time ago.

I agree with the French man. Except humans wouldn't get much done without deadlines.