Karma Falls Scanlations

The night when Jossi and I became a couple, both of us were drunk, we made out. This was in high school. We agreed to meet the day after and he stole my jacket so that I would have to come, sneaky.

You know when something you once thought was fun, now is source of anxiety and guilty conscience? I can’t shake off the feeling that this scanlation project falls into that category and I guess that’s why it’s so hard to update… And lately it’s probably because I’m feeling nauseous 24/7, morning sickness my ass. It’s also a lie that it disappears after the 12th week. Let me tell ya it’s sucks to be knocked up, it’s the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. Week after week feeling sick non stop, it’s hell! Sometimes I feel like an abortion is the only sane alternative, why putting yourself through this shit voluntarily? But… I’ll just have to endure… And sometime this year we will hopefully have chibi dragon if all goes well. To Jossi, pregnancy is apparently tummy and boobs. Though cheeky, he’s got a point since my boobs have grown from a nice B-cup to a D-cup. Let’s just say that he’s a lot more excited about that than me, I miss my old ones. And I’m afraid where this will stop, apparently they grow even bigger after the baby dragon is born and you have to feed it.

I do want to finish Keppeki at least, starting with the release of chapter five. I’m ashamed to confess that this actually was finished months ago. Time flies… even when you don’t have any fun. I’ve written this before (which is now long ago of course), but in my opinion the second volume is even better than the first. And in the first chapter an old acquaintance makes her return! What will Sata do?! I wondered if anything could be more adorable than this, then I read chapter 6. Oh my God, Sata! You’re too cute! You’re cute BUT I don’t want my kid to have OCD, it seems to be enormously stressful for everyone involved.

Thank you for all the comments.  Also I should apologise not only for abandoning the site but my email account too… At least it’s nothing personal, I’ve treated everyone in the same way  …which is an excuse? …hmm.

Anyway to get your dose of hysterical cleanliness obsession/love comedy, click on Keppeki under projects. Also, beware of the N.Y. greeting (^_^;).

Update of chapter 4 of Love you, hurrah!! I rushed to finish it as fast as I could, but in the end the result turned out the opposite sadly. And to add to the misery, the longer time it takes for a chapter to get finished the more paranoid I get and I have to read everything over and over again. I’ve written about this before, but ain’t helping! The quality isn’t getting any better. Maybe I’m keppeki too…

This is my favourite chapter in the first volume, hell it might be my favourite chapter including the second volume. There are several reasons I like it although it’s always a culture shock from me to see “nanpa” which is so common in manga… I have a feeling we don’t talk to strangers in the streets no matter how good looking they are in Sweden. If you asking for anything else but the time or directions chances are that the other person will think there’s something wrong with you. I wonder if it really is common that girls hit on guys they see in the street (and the other way around of course) in Japan. Sadly I’ve yet to go there so I haven’t had the opportunity to see for myself if it’s true. And oh, everything I wrote about Sweden is false if there’s alcohol involved, then all the normal rules seem to be overruled. At least for some, I’m pretty controlled even when drunk. Though, of course nothing that comes out of my mouth will be of any value but that’s like a natural law when it comes to intoxicated people.

Gyaru and yanki are mentioned in this chapter. It’s quite fun to look at pictures of different gyaru and there are a lot of material on the internet I think. I like the more extreme ones best actually, because they’re not trying to look pretty which is a nice change. But they do want to shock it seems… Some say gyaru resemble punks but I don’t know… the punks I’ve known spent like 10 $ on clothes per month not hundreds of $. Not that I’ve known that many punks though…

And speaking about yanki, there’s a video from Peter Bjorn and John’s latest album that’s pretty funny. You probably don’t know who they are if you’re not especially interested in indie music. I think they’re pretty good, but I happen to like indie music and electro pop. Anyway I don’t pretend to know how to extinguish yanki from bosozoku, they look pretty similar to me. But the people in the video have motorbikes so maybe they’re bosozoku? Or not. Anyway it’s a fun video.

aya: Nice art! I’m actually kind of envious because I can’t really do anything like that myself. I’ve only learnt the necessary things to do scanslations and nothing else. Although I would like to be able to, I know it requires much hard work to be good and so far I’ve been too lazy.

lys: Thanks for the pity \(^_^)/!!! Also, I’m glad there’s someone out there who likes my ramblings.

Hmm, I kind understand what you mean with Skip Beat, 21 volumes (and still going) are quite much… I’m also a little reluctant to buy really long series… at least in the beginning. But I did buy the whole Kenshin series in one batch though…

But it’s so true that there are types of characters that you like in fiction which you couldn’t stand in real life. I think the tsundere is an example of that. I like tsundere characters, but in real life… I’m not so sure. I mean they seem kind of… socially incompetent for using a nauseating expression. I don’t think I actually know any tsundere in real life… Though there have been times I’ve misunderstood people thinking they were much harder to get to know than they actually were.

Misha: I love Samurai Champloo, I even got a DVD box with Swedish subtitles. By the way I would like to take the opportunity to warn anyone against buying that DVD box, the subs sucks. I remember sitting there thinking I could have done it 10 times better myself, which I probably could! Which doesn’t say much of my skills, it’s just that bad. The fan-subs I’ve watched are so much better but they are in English and I bought it because I wanted them in Swedish. It’s true it was dirt cheap but I’d rather pay a little more to have a quality sub. I don’t mind watching without subs but that’s not an option for everybody and it’s really ruining a great series so I was quite annoyed.

Mio: Åh, Mio min Mio. I was very glad to read a comment on the Swedish version, I’ve been a little nervous about it since I haven’t gotten any feedback until now. Schysst! I’m happy you like it.

Thanks to everyone who has been so nice and patient and given me friendly encouraging messages rather than the bashing I kind of deserve. Thank you for being understanding. I will try to be more structured in the future so that this won’t happen again.

Well, what can you say. It’s been a while since the last update (^_^;). Really, this is not a pace I’m satisfied with so I will make an effort to speed things up from now on. The picture above is me getting my ass kicked for taking so long.

Though I hope there’s someone who will feel sorry for me… Oh, my God how much author comments I had to translate. That’s right, shower me with pity. Some of  Tobina’s comments are fun, but sometimes they don’t make any sense (to me) and it’s been a pain trying to read the handwritten text at times. I’ll be honest: I have no idea if I translated those comments correctly. And I don’t care anymore! I hope I got it right, but then again I might not have but let’s leave it at that. But personally I like the omake, who wouldn’t be tempted to hit that kind of teacher? And also Yui’s miracle break dance is not to be missed! Aww…

But now to something more serious:

I don’t know about you, but when I saw this I made up my mind, I’m definitely gonna make a Senda-GO and go cosplaying when the opportunity arises! Gureito! I’ve never cosplayed before and frankly, I’ve never had any desire to do it either so I thought that cosplaying was something I never would do. But now I found something that really allows me to live out my dark, hidden fantasies. Let’s see, I have to purchase the necessary items + a gakuran and I’ll be all set! Though I’m not sure that Jussi (or anyone else I know) will be as big hearted as Sata’s friends so I might have to go alone (T_T). Oh, I almost forgot the hat, the mask and the sunglasses, these three items are also indispensable. Wouldn’t want anyone to recognise me… This is why Sata is perfect to cosplay for people who feel too embarrassed or don’t like cosplay (of course all of you brave, hard core cosplayers won’t hide behind a mask though) you will be the centre of attention but still safely anonymous! I know it sounds almost too good to be true but here is the opportunity you all been waiting for.  So LET’S GO!

Skip Beat. Somehow I can’t resist it even though there are several things about it I don’t like so much. For example the art is not to my taste at all, I especially don’t like how the male characters look. The story tends to drag on and I kind of thought that volume 20 was boring. I felt that the manga was losing pace so I wasn’t tempted to watch the anime until I read volume 21 which made me change my mind because it was really entertaining in the way Skip Beat is supposed to be. I asked Jossi if he wanted to watch it too since we usually watch anime together but I didn’t really think he would like it (I meant it’s shoujo). But it turns out he liked it a lot, I suspect he even likes it more than me (^_^;) Yesterday he complained about that it ends soon… But I also hope there will be another season, it would be strange for it to end where the anime is now.

It occurred to me that Skip Beat resembles a shounen manga, in the sense that it’s about practicing and getting better. The film sets are like battle grounds and the spectators give commentary like in Bleach or Yakitate Japan. Another thing I noticed is that I don’t hate Shoutarou… He’s a hilarious character, a male bimbo in the truest sense. And I kind of understand him even if what he did to Kyoko indeed is unforgivable, but the way she was beckons the worst qualities in people I believe. If someone deny themselves all the time and never say what they want and never argue even if they’ve got the right to be angry I think you get an urge to test  how far you can go before you get a reaction. I kind of recognise that feeling in myself, I have a tendency to get mean if someone is too timid and never say their opinion. Of course that’s my problem and not the other person’s and I have really no right to be mean just because of that (and I really try to control that). Still people who never say what they want can seem dishonest, you don’t know what they’re really thinking and that makes it hard to like them. My general approach is to be friendly to everybody though, there’s no need to be rude without a reason.

Well here I am writing too much again… (I pretend to care, but in the end I won’t stop anyway, well I’m not forcing anyone to read…)

Jiu-Jiu by Tobina Touya has also been serialised, and I heard it first from you lys. And it’s good news! I’ve read the first chapter, and I think it has potential. I think I like Sarashi Asobi a little better but maybe I’m biased.

Kt: You have good taste \(^_^)/. I haven’t read so much of Takao Shigure’s works but I have the latest manga Isshoni Neyou yo (Let’s Sleep Together) . . …Eh? Really, that’s what it’s called… But it’s really sweet, nothing dirty. Hontou ni.

aya: I looked at the graphics you had made with the Love You art and I think it looked fine. Just keep on practicing. And thanks for the encouraging words.

And that’s what I want to say to everybody who’s written comments, thank you! It’s my energy source.

This chapter marks the end of volume 1 of Keppeki, next volume is even better in my opinion and much more romantic vV.

And yeah, I think I can safely say that next chapter of Love You will finished within next week, so please look forward to that!