Just so you know!

Another visitor! Stay a while, and listen.

Yes, I haven't done any scanning work (or made any posts, yikes!) Since 2016 but I am still around doing other projects. I monitor and reply to my comments and emails pretty quickly for a person who's knee deep in video game archival side projects.

If you shoot me a message, I will get back to you as soon as my schedule permits.

Also, I have reuploaded Kabu No Isaki here, by request. I do listen!

Enjoy!

DDL's are Back

Wow!

At long last, and after various struggles. The DDL server is now fully working!

This means all DDL links should be functioning again.

If you find a broken DDL link or (any other issue) please use the email on the sidebar or leave a comment so it can be fixed.

That is all!

Adventures in anime

So I've been watching a lot of anime lately. 

An awful lot. A criminal amount. Perhaps even enough to kill a full grown horse if you wanted to be dramatic and hated horses. This all started when I realised a while ago that I hadn't actually watched an anime start to end for a fair while. I used to find time to watch anime - so what's changed? Well it's been a combination of being busy with other more important real life things and old hobbies (if you can call watching anime that) being pushed out of the way for new things - such as wasting time on the internet, which isn't a hobby but bear with me here.

(I will say at this point - that the internet, is a terrible, terrible time sink if you are not careful and that I do not regret quitting  some of the sites I was on to be more productive with actually getting things (no matter how trivial) done.)

So apart from this making me have a closer look at how regularly I should be taking breaks and other ergonomic issues I've been noticing a few trends.

Mainly that out of ten anime. Two will be pants shitingly good, six will be okay to tepid and two are so bad that I check my email and talk to people on steam so that I don't feel like I've totally wasted my time.

Seriously, some of the bottom of the barrel ones feel like they were down to the last 10,00Y on the animation budget and the staff sat around on their lunch break despairing and filling out job applications.

But I digress.

I've been enjoying finding small references, details and probable copyright infringement as I watch.
I'd like to note at this point that Blue Ray anime is fucking amazing and please, please, please for the love of all that is kawaii let there be more Blu Ray re-releases in the future. 

So without further delay lets flick through some of the things I've found - After the jump!

Two years running and mediafire

I like to think that in some small way [Strange Scans] is chewing through the unimagineable backlog of untranslated and unscanned material that's out there - and while it's been a lot of work. It's been a lot of fun too. It turns out that as of today it's been two years worth! (of fun and work)
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Thanks first and foremost to the circles in Japan who've put out the work which is being scanned and editied. Thank you reader for passing through wether you've been keeping an eye on things since the first post or you're stumbling through a year after this post has been made. (it happens!)

And of course thank you to the guys who've helped out or worked with [Strange Scans] the last two years.

Dou, Desudesu, [Deja Vu], [Mukys], [UMAD], Rinrurirun, Sahadou, the Voile team and all of the artists who've been comissioned along the way.

See you around!

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Also the Mediafire account of [Strange Scans] has finally - after over two years and multiple infingement notices been closed for copyright violations (on doujinshi?) Unless there are any great suggestions of other file hosts (And I am open to that if there is demand) it looks like it's DDL and E/Ex-Hentai from here on it.

RIP Mediafire account - 30/07/2010 - 11/01/2013

In other news

I've had a lot of business to take care of lately so things have been a bit slower than I had planned. However I'm in the clear for a bit so I got around to changing some things I've been meaning to for a while.

 

All releases including ones posted prior to the DDL server now have a DDL link alongside the usual Mediafire/E-Hentai combo. So even in the event of Megaupload's demise being replicated there will still be links live.

Due to some confusion on what has and hasn't been translated. I took the time to go back through and make sure all translated scans link to the translation post and vice versa. (In case anyone wants to confirm the translation with the raw or something)

 

Tags now show in the sidebar down the right hand side, hopefully this will be usefull for sifting through the releases on here. I'll go back and make sure all of the tags are accurate and add some more in the next day or so.

Formatting for the text only page has been fixed a bunch and looks a lot less shitty.

If you have any suggestions, questions or comments with regards to my work leave a comment or send me an email about it! strangescans[at]gmail.com

Black Magic M-66: Part 4

Well, it's about that time again I think. Lets have another Black Magic M-66 collection round up! In todays action packed issue we cover rare cells, promotional material and other miscellaneous stuff.
As usual 56K beware, there are many images ahead.

I think when it says Mario, they mean the first half of marionette.

Miscellaneous scans: Part 1

This post is also known as - odds and ends: scanning edition. I have a few major projects in the pipeline which are going to slow down my posting quite significantly. So I thought I'd make a post with a few of the more interesting bits and pieces I have lying around.

I like this alternate costume for Sakura, so I've put it in for no particular reason.
It's unused  apparently this is available as a mod or DLC?
Why the fuck was I not informed.

The rest of the this post, right after the jump.

So, how about this.

So I've been musing over a few idea which I'd like to work on/enact in the future - and would like some feedback on them. Things like, muti-lingual translations, accepting donations (I just set that up anyway), selling scanned doujinshi, higher resolution releases and working on scaning/translating actual manga.

I have also attatched an image of a genderswaped Kenshiro above to catch your attention. Has it worked? Good. Follow after the jump for more words about the above subjects. (Or don't, it's not like I c-care or anything baka!)

Black Magic M-66: Part 3

A third Black Magic M-66 collection round up post? At the risk of seeming obsessive about such things. Why not? This time We'll be having a look at animation cels. Which, while they can be a bit expensive are pretty cool to collect. Mind you, it has to have been made somewhere before 2000 when cels were still in use.

Proceed onwards for the third installment in this fascinating trillogy.

(Image heavy post ahead 56k beware!)

Black Magic M-66: Part 2

For todays segment we have the Black Magic resource round up part two: The revenge of the excruciating detail.

The above image is the japanese front/back cover of the original manga without the title/back cover synopsis text on it., I've seen it in poster form somewhere but I passed on it at the time, whoops.

Of course the text and detail is after the break so that the main page isn't filled with this.

Read on for mystery and intrigue (?).

Update/filler Part 1

Hi guys Superkawaii‼ here,

(that shouldn't be autoplaying, tell me if it is)

So you may be wondering why I've been quiet the last few weeks.

Well, I've had a pretty big computer upgrade. Changed OS (XP -> windows 7) and lost my old copy of photoshop. So I've spent the last few days getting everything back together, re-installing all of my old programs, and unstalling and triming a ton of junk that seems to come with everything (I'm looking at you msn)

It'll be business as usual in a while and I have some really nice quality stuff to get through. Until then though please stick around and enjoy the scenery and/or filler posts that I make until I get things up and running again.

love from,
Superkawaii‼