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Monday, February 7, 2011

Postmortem

For the past 2 or so months, there have been only one submission that passed, so it's safe to say that this project has collapsed. I had a feeling that this was inevitable, whether we released 0 volumes or 20 volumes.

Here's an analysis from my point of view on this. It's only from my point of view as the organizer, so it's incomplete.
  1. Attrition: Most team members got gradually slower and stopped as the project progressed, leaving without so much as a word. I guess they just felt bored. In the final stages of the project, I was getting more applications than actually submissions. These applicants left after getting rejected a few times, which is understandable.

  2. Difficulty: Pokemon Special is a fairly difficult series to typeset, and typesetting manga itself already has some difficulty.

  3. Raws: The goal of this project was to produce a better quality release than the CY cam releases, so I might have jumped the gun by starting a project on raws that aren't decent by scanlation standards in these past few years.

  4. Management: I had a few problems as well. In hindsight, this project shouldn't be based on a blog. If this was a forum, I could control applications and submissions much more easily. Furthermore, I should have assigned all chapters ahead of time to prevent excessive lag. Lastly, that e-mail submission thing might have been the final nail in the coffin, because submitters couldn't see progress in the project.
To be honest, a side goal of this project for me was to see if a reasonably discipline group could take over Pokemon Special, instead of one guy who is now apparently in charge of scanlating Pokemon Special in pretty much every scanlation scene around, even the Chinese. I'll need to reconsider my eventual retirement plan a few years down the line.

Well, I hope that you guys see that being a Puella Mag-er, scanlator is a hard job. I apologize for my own management oversights.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

E-Mail Submission

I was looking over the list of chapters that still need to be done, and found Aerilic's chapter 142. It seems that I've forgotten about Aerilic's submission for almost a month, probably because I didn't see his comments. So from now on, I'm going to enforce the rule of using e-mail to submit. You can still post in the comments if you want others to review your chapters, but e-mail is mandatory. It's a problem with me and not you guys.

Oh, and chapter 142 passed, by the way.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Pokemon Special vol 9 (ch 104 - 116) release


Oh, finally. Chapter 113 had to be cursed or something. Volume 10 will come soon as well.

Pokemon Special vol 9 (IF)
Pokemon Special vol 9 (MU)

Here's the group page on MU, by the way. I hope you guys won't mind if I listed the releases as joint releases.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Pokemon Special vol 13


9 and 10 should be finished and released within a week.
  • Chapter 155: VS. Kabutops -Simon
  • Chapter 156: VS. Noctowl - Simon
  • Chapter 157: VS. Mangemite - Simon
  • Chapter 158: VS. Scyther -link
  • Chapter 159: VS. Pupitar - Chern
  • Chapter 160: VS. Porygon2 - Chern
  • Chapter 161: VS. Entei - Chern
  • Chapter 162: VS. Hitmontop - link
  • Chapter 163: VS. Bellossom - Aerilic
  • Chapter 164: VS. Slowking - kuromitsume-kun
  • Chapter 165: VS. Lugia & Ho-oh (Part 1) - Black Star
  • Chapter 166: VS. Lugia & Ho-oh (Part 2) - kuromitsume-kun

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Pokemon Special vol 12

Strangely enough, 10 was finished before 9, but I'll wait till they both get completed before making the final preparations
  • Chapter 143 : VS. Cleffa & Igglybuff -Pikachu
  • Chapter 144 : VS. Swinub - Pikachu
  • Chapter 145 : VS. Sandslash -Shincario
  • Chapter 146 : VS. Lugia (Part 1) -Shincario
  • Chapter 147 : VS. Lugia (Part 2) - -reichiru-
  • Chapter 148 : VS. Lugia (Part 3) - -reichiru-
  • Chapter 149 : VS. Kingdra - -reichiru-
  • Chapter 150 : VS. Chinchou - Simon
  • Chapter 151 : VS. Lanturn - Simon
  • Chapter 152 : VS. Butterfree - Simon
  • Chapter 153 : VS. Ho-oh - SoaringSomeone
  • Chapter 154 : VS. Yanma - -reichiru-