Donor Projects: Update. Updated!

You may recall a while ago I made mention of donor projects. Where I hoped to get donations for interesting raws I'd gotten hold of in lieu of coughing up large amounts of money for entire volumes to be translated. (It's been slow). Well I've procured through a raws despository the first volume of Shape Up Ran - a charming gag manga written by Masaya Tokuhiro about a girl into body building and, well - a whole range of bizarre things. The following image is the only english language summary of the plot I have.

I have no idea who originally did these scans and there are no notecards or images, so it could very well have been one of those japanese p2p nets I keep hearing about. It dosen't really matter as long as we're clear I'm not taking credit for the scanning. I did however give it a bit of a scrub. It's going to need more work before it heads off to be translated, but I don't have the time for that at the moment. Please do give this a read it if seems at all interesting!

Now with Volume two!

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Release #108 - Galaxy Express 999 Volume 1

[Strange Scans] is proud to present, Galaxy Express 999 volume 1! This is the 1998 Dark Horse english release, which has been out of print for a good fourteen years now as far as I am aware. This scan is for archival purposes only, do not download unless you own a copy of the manga. If you do not please consider purchasing a copy to support the distribution of manga and show your appreciation for the work of Leiji Matsumoto. 

I've always liked Leiji's work, ever since I heard of "Galaxy Express 999: The end of infinity" which I recall seeing this advertised alongside Urotsukidōji (Which was a fair while ago now). He has a very unique style, which I really enjoy. He also draws really nice women - just look at Maetel! Classic stuff. Maybe I should have a dig around for some related doujinshi.

Also the notes inside indicate that "For the Purposes of publication in English, the artwork in this graphic novel appears in reverse of the original Japanese version." - I find that a bit disapointing honestly.

Enjoy!

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Release #107 - Sailor Moon

[Strange Scans] is proud to present a Sailor Moon doujinshi - 月火水木金土日#3! This circle has done a few Sailor Moon doujinshi from what mugimugi seems to indicate, I have a feeling I have one of the others in storage somewhere. Also, after working on Kabu no Isaki I've refined my scanning method (yet again) so there should be a dramatic reduction in oversized scans from now on in.

Enjoy!

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Release #106 - Kabu no Isaki Volume 1

[Strange Scans] is proud to present - the first volume of Kabu no Isaki! A rescanning project that would not have been possible without the translation and editing assistance of  dou - thanks again guys! This is the tankobon scan of the first volume with quite a large amount of translation fixes applied - some of which have a reasonable impact on the plot of the story. So if you've read the existing scan this will be different. There is some banding in the scans - sorry about that, it appears to be a problem with my scanner.

If you don't know Kabu no Isaki you may know the author - Hitoshi Ashinano, from his other amazing work Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō also known as YKK.

"How did this happen? The surface of the earth has become ten times larger, so you need a plane to get around this giant world! Meet Isaki, who pilots a Piper Super Cub. Accompanied by his neighbors, the sisters Shiro-san and Kajika, today's another enjoyably mellow and wholesome day!".
How could you not read it after a write up like that? 

Enjoy!

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(Click on the pages for a larger version)

In regards to recent events..

It looks like Megaupload got popped by the FBI See wired.

So those links are going to be down (obviously).

I'll put them back up on the DDL server but it might take a day or so.

Release #105 - New Dominion Tank Police OST

[Strange Scans] is proud to present a soundtrack release! This time it's the UK OST for the New Dominion Tank Police OVA's. The aptly titled 'New Dominion'. The metadata however read Dominion II - New Dominion Tank Police, so we're going with that.

I find it interesting that they managed an english release of this all the way back in 1993. (The same year Ninja Scroll came out) I also find it interesting that Anipuma and Unipuma have blonde hair in Dominion Tank Police  and on the cover of the New Dominion Tank Police soundtrack but not in the insert or the New Dominion Tank Police anime? I know that New Dominion Tank Police was a reboot but whats up with changing a detail like that? Maybe I'm too picky.

Regardless, enjoy - and don't forget to sing along with the insert!

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Release #104 - Dominion Tank Police

[Strange Scans] is very proud to present a genuine gem of an art book - Masamune Shirow's 'Dominion Club'. It was released in 1987 for 1000¥ (Good luck finding it that cheap today) It features eight full colour prints, four monochrome manga pages and the dominion files (an eight page double sided foldout) which focus on individual characters. All of this is in A3 by the way - so it's really nice (especially if you are a fan or collector) to be able to the art in such quality.

I'm unsure how limited the release of this was but I haven't seen too many copies floating around. This one was in mint condition, I was actually under the impression it was A4 or letter size - so I was quite surprised by it's actual dimensions.

Below are a few examples of the work inside.

Don't forget to click for large!

I'm pretty sure the green fairy there is Greenpeace with two friends of hers.

There are two versions of this for download, one in blistering eye watering high res, and one in my standard release size - choose wisely!

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Comission - Black Lagoon

I really do enjoy Black Lagoon. Possibly the manga more so than the anime - but thats neither here nor there. I think I'm about due for my six monthly re-read to see how many more chapters have been done since I caught up last time. Also have I ever mentioned Saywer/Shenhua get nowhere near as much love as they should?

I have? Well okay then.

Praise and thanks should be directed to Zet for this one.

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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.

Comission - Metal Slug

Metal Slug, is a A grade arcade classic - so far it's run for about seven games starting in 1996 with a few spin off's here and there. Once in a blue moon when I pass through the arcade I usually play a round or two of this. Sure I get hammered after the first few stages to the tune of about ten bucks but hey - thats arcade gaming. 

Alternately I'm no good at Metal Slug.

This one is thanks to Jo Pereira of Nerf Now.

It's sfw.

Release #103 - The Legend of Zelda

[Strange Scans] takes it back to the (N64) classics with a release featuring none other than Zelda - 'NISEゼルダの伝説 真章'. I loved The Ocarina of Time on the n64 as a kid - it was just mind blowing from the first moment I played it in store. And then Majora's Mask after it? What an amazing followup. I'm sure most people will say OOT was better because it was the first one they played - but come on, MM was such a complex and quality sequel. Is there a poll for this somewhere I wonder?

PS: Does anyone remember the quest for that one zelda doujinshi a few years ago? It was like the holy fucking grail, and then some guy found it randomly in Tokyo.

Anyway, enjoy your Zelda!
Also those earings are nice.

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Edit: Also, that doujinshi I mentioned.  
'Super Smash Bros. Melee - Double Princesses'
These links go to the translated version by the way.

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Comission - The Misadventures of Tron Bonne

You know Tron Bonne, right? She's already had her own game on the PSX and she's in the (kind of) recent Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as a playable character. Anyway, she has a really cool reporter outfit on in one of the missions of the PSX game. Tron in glasses? 

HHHHNRRRGH.

This one was done by the extraordinarily talented Zet (Deviantart) (HentaiFoundry)

It's SFW by the way.

Release #103 - SHD Powerful Magical Girl Sweet Leona [Translation]

[Strange Scans] revisits the classic muscle girl artist SHD yet again with 'Powerful Magical Girl Sweet Leona'. Here's a hint, don't clean a doujinshi and then send off the uncleaned raw. You'll have to do it all over again, it was worth it though.

As a side note though - I don't want to be too nitpicky but has anyone ever noticed how the same kind of written content goes in every doujinshi? I should compile a list of most used words and phrases some day, it gets pretty ridiculious sometimes. Maybe my standards are skewed and I want more plot than porn?

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Release #101 - Street Fighter

[Strange Scans] takes the fight to the streets with a doujinshi of an arcade classic - Street Fighter! (Also the title is 'PULP crybaby Sakura') the circle is PRETTY DOLLS who seem to have a fetish for Sakura and the impact font. Not that I don't like Sakura mind you - I mean I enjoy Chun Li doujinshi as much as the next person but there are other characters. Like Karin, Elena, Makoto - Poison?

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Release #100 - 沙村広明 Sister Generator

[Strange Scans] hit's one hundred releases in style with a first, a tankobon release! This is a collection of six stories by Samura Hiroaki released in 2009 (Which is pretty recent for my scanning). I am not aware of it being translated, despite the baka updates cover having english text. It seems that the first chapter has been done, but I can't find it anywhere. It may have been already scanned somewhere, I could have sworn I saw a page or two from this floating around a while back but I'm not sure.

It was pretty exhausting to scan coming in at 213 pages. I decided to push the quality further too, so the pages are 1400x which pushes the overall size to enormous. (544mb). Don't let you put that off though, it really is worth a look. I don't usually do this but I've put some sample pages down below.

Enjoy, and I hope you'll stick around for another hundred!

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