Hey there. I'm back. I'll be scanning more Area 88 sometime soon, so here's a thread. This next batch is the last of the original Viz comic run, before it moved to Animerica for a couple of years.
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/l8045772ct3b3
If you want to help clean these scans, you can email me.
[email protected]
>>12454639
Keep up the good work, man
Bro, you're back!
Maybe I didn't lurk enough, but was the entire manga translated (official/fan)?
>>12454639
Original editor here; I've fixed the problem with my monitor's colors, but I've got uni shit from now until May that's going to eat all my time. If someone else wants to jump on these before then go ahead; I'll be back by then if nobody's here.
wow. i'm in an a88 thread before shtitlips.
Ah, you're still keeping on keeping on, then? Good. This comic's pretty ACE, if you know what I'm saying.
Have you found a translator yet?
>>12462953
Nope.
>>12462967
Great. Not even those that would get paid want to touch it?
>>12463018
Anon, why would people decline commission like this one? It's not some doujin about prehistoric gay robots with giant wooden dicks dancing in circles and singing Precure songs.
>>12463038
Because military technical jergon out of the ass, and according to what I've seen on various places, including /a/ looking up things that aren't "aaah" and "oooh" and "cum inside my nipples" seems to be hard.
>>12463048
This for me. I'm an inexperienced translator who wouldn't want to end up fucking up the script worse than Viz did.
Making em super-duper-bw-contrast is bad on my tastes. I like a touch of grey and some texture sharpness in my old manga. Do you, gais, like it, shall I go on like that and contact the OP?
This one thing >>12459484.
>>12463107
Mai bad, that one >>12459488.
>>12463107
I like it. And super duper BW is shit, period. It kills detail.
>>12463107
I'm not really a fan of leaving the paper texture in.
>>12463107
>>12463125
Also I wouldn't bother with cleaning the Viz chapters, IIRC even the OP said that it's best to just clean the tanks and put the Viz translation on those, while keeping psds or whatever while waiting for a translator to pop up and eventually just change the text.
>>12463125
Still, I made it. Please, compare. No need to hurry, it's best for best quality. I will experiment more.
>>12463107
>>12463138
The original tif scans are in the Mediafire folder, the images posted in this thread are just a quick batch for dumping, if that makes things easier.
>>12463145
These little guys, right? I see.
>>12455638
Where should I start? What size are your edited images?
>>12463558
Same details, but I guess, people like more contrast. I will wait for the original editor-kun. If he tells me what to do, I will start.
>>12463223
If you dig in the previous threads you can find the "preliminary" version of his scans. Look in the archive, use the subject field. If you want a more immediate answer you could try to holla OP on /a/ >>>/a/124171022 I guess.
>>12463645
>Replacing VIZ text with a translation.
Are they going to put it on bakabt? I see no other reason.
>>12463775
>Are they going to put it on bakabt
I don't know.
>I see no other reason.
>he doesn't know about Viz's "liberties"
>>12463802
They send SS troops to you if you use scans of their books? If I will place them on nyaa via VPN, i'm doomed because they have their men everywhere, right?I just don't know, man.
Oh, excuse me, i's about translations. I see. But since there are no translators, then...
>>12463848
>>12463862
I don't know, I don't really care, I thought the whole point of this project was:
1. providing high quality scans of the tankobon releases with the Viz translation on them (since the Viz releases are mirrored garbage and the already existing scans are of bad quality and also incomplete)
and, _IF_ possible
2. having someone that is good at moonspeak check the Viz translations for inaccuracies and such, and eventually fixing them, and then putting those on the tank scans.
The first part is totally feasible. It seems our boys are at a dead spot with the second one. Nobody seems to be willing to work on it for a reason or another.
It's too bad that people that aren't EOPs but still don't know japanese or any asian laguages don't have alternatives either.
>>12463918
Thanks for the explanation. I will try to find somebody, it's not such a big deal to check, not to translate the whole thing.
>>12463980
Thank you. It's kind of a shame that to my knowledge there are no french/italian/spanish translations, otherwise I could have at least tried to help the project in a meaningful way.
Does anyone have a copy of the Area 88 - Mission Fuga album with a working copy of track 16, Angel's Theme (G-Aria)? This is what I have...
mega.co.nz/#!YEk00LRa!76gQtgj9obAGCPBNJEW0pSlE6OYc6RER6yEdLiA3S7M
>>12463558
I prefer this one, it looks more like print.
SAF B-503 reporting in for duty.
I'll probably scan another chapter tonight.
Wish you could do another /m/ series OP.
>>12472360
Try being more specific.
>>12472449
Kikaider 02, Captain Harlock, Five Star Stories, etc.
>>12472661
>Kikaider 02
I'll consider it.
>Harlock
Already scanlated.
>Five Star Stories
Already scanned, to my knowledge.
>>12472661
Yes, Five star Stories, it's only one volume of the original that's missing.
>>12472715
11th is incomplete too.
>>12472711
Different anon, but can I request some titles as well?
>>12472747
Might as well.
>>12472750
Alright then...
Ryu Knight
Choudenji Taisen Victory Five
Lamune & 40 Fire
>>12472750
>>12472754
Oh, and I forgot to mention Space Family Carlvinson and Comic Gunbuster. Courteously bumping this thread, so it won't fall off.
>>12475863
I'll see about it.
got the rest off?, since those are the 30 something chapters and i cant find the first ones
>>12478100
I'll upload them to the Mediafire.
Oh boy, so many death flags in this last chapter......
>>12478732
Why is this a picture rather than the usual full color drawn cover?
>>12480421
They switched to photographs for some reason.
>>12480426
Were the full color chapter covers specifically made for the Viz releases or something?
>>12480421
I guess they ran out of art for the individual comics
I wonderwhat jets Shin and Mick will be flying in the next chapter.
Will it be thecaptured F/A-18 they used to escape captivity?
So I'm reading the first chapters, and the cleanup job is baaad. Not on the levels of the old "Hikaru" scans, but bad nonetheless.
>SUPER DUPER BW
>bad downscaling resulting in artifacts like aliasing
>fucking jpg
>>12483290
Just take a look at this shit.
>>12483311
Jesus Christ on a stick, they ARE the Hikaru shit. I thought you guys already rescanned the early chapters.
>>12483390
>I thought you guys already rescanned the early chapters.
Then you thought wrong. Only the missing chapters are being scanned.
>ch11
>all of our Phantoms got destroyed
>there seems to be an intact one in pg18
Also nice cameos at page 15.
I got work off early. I'll scan some more Area 88 in a bit.
Just keeping the thread alive.
I scanned some more Area 88, but I forgot to post it last night. I'll dump when I get home, and probably scan another issue.
How many chapters Area 88 still have?
>>12493903
Translated ones? I don't recall the exact number, maybe 20-ish, assuming they didn't butcher it? IIRC OP posted about it in the past. Bakaupdates states it's 6 volumes.
In total? 171, according to the last chapters translated scripts.
My question is though, when does the Tigershark show up, and why was the Draken completely omitted from every adaption?
>>12495769
Campbell, please no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkrin-z8EE4
>>12495370
>when does the Tigershark show up
I'm not sure of the exact chapter, but it seems to be near the middle-end. I don't want to spoil anything further.
I read the wiki page and trope page that at some point Shin fliesan X-29. I wonder in which chapter he flies that and whether or not he is just testing it or it become his personal plane.
>>12500103
I remember him flying that to Area88 when he comes back to base after long absence, towards the end of series.
That was his second last plane. He doesn't get shot down though, just runs out of fuel.
Oh man I miss these comics I had in Japan. Had all of them, but had to throw them away since the school didn't allow me
>>12500103
>I wonder in which chapter he flies thatThe very end?
Doesn't Shin die at the end?
>>12505149at least in the OVA version, yes, it is IMPLIED that Shin dies (or flying toward his possible death) at the end judging by the state of the Area 88 mercenaries being severely outnumbered. The outcome isn't shown. Hopefully in the manga, he survived the whole series
>>12506229
I find the manga ending to be BARF.
>>12495763
I think this woman might be a new major character. The mask and custom helmet are a dead giveaway.
>>12507910
Isn't that Saki's cousin, who also shows up in the anime as a Mirage F1 pilot?
