It’s one of those “not an update” updates again! How lovely.

So, these normally bring bad news. Or they sort of seem that way. At least I’m trying to not make it feel that way. I would like to keep you updated. Some things just take time, other things, I just don’t know when it will get done. There is certain things I would like to release at certain times, but it doesn’t always pan out.

Anyways, updates! I’ll be out of town, flying out to California for the weekend. Won’t be back until late Tuesday. Thus no updates during this time. Also, no progress on stuff will be done during this time. But we still got all of this week before then!

I really want to re-release Jumbor chapter 1 and 2 this week. I really do. But I’m still waiting on getting Chapter 1. If it doesn’t show up before I return on Tuesday next week, I’ll have to typeset it myself (which is a waste, since I know a typesetted version is done and ready, but I don’t have it yet). So, I’ll give it another week to hopefully show up. Either Jumbor chapters 1 & 2 come out this Friday, or Jumbor chapters 1, 2, & 3 come out the following weekend. Either way, weekly chapters start after that. Hopefully two chapters a week, but we’ll see.

Mankin-Trad’s summer video project, has started. It’s going to take me a little while to figure out the software and the best, fastest, and easiest way to make the videos. Won’t be happening this week. Depending on how Jumbor goes, will say how much time next week I can work on it.

Butsu Zone chapters… Chapter 1 is going to be the longest, hardest chapter to scanlate of the whole series. Possibly the largest chapter we’ll do, ever. We’ll have our best guy on it. I promise. Oh, that’s me, by the way. Not that I don’t trust other people with Butsu Zone, but, I have alot of passion for the series. So, I won’t release it until I know it’s perfect. Takei worked really hard on this chapter (since he wasn’t sure if he could get another chance like this), so I want to ensure that his passion for his work is still visible for you as well.

The new KZB volumes, 7 and 8, won’t be released until the 4th. So, it will be a while before we’ll get scans of those. If you want to check out the covers, make sure you check out the only current active and best Shaman King/Hiroyuki Takei news portal, Shaman King Nation!

So, what’s being released this week? Well, right now, at least 1 thing. And that is, partial scanlations of “Stan Lee the Book.” It won’t be all the pages, just the important (Takei-related) pages. The download will contain both the original Japanese scans as well as the English Mankin-Trad scanlation. This should be ready in a day or two, once I finish up the last page.

Some other things that are “coming soon” are these:
Shaman King Style Guide (English)
Episode 29 script (Japanese)

I’ll probably re-scan that script again. AS you can tell the page color doesn’t match. And I think you’d rather have some more HQ images, right? As for the Style Guide, it won’t be a “complete” scan. Several pages in the beginning will be removed before release. The reasoning behind this, is because some of them could still be “legally sensitive.” I kept the little side information up, so you can see that the pages will be very large, and in HQ. And like things that are in HQ, we won’t have Online Viewing for them. So, you’ve been warned. Also, the Style Guide may be broken up into parts for easy downloading (it’s less than 70 pages, in full color)

But both of those still need some reformatting, and other things before being released. So both of those will be out at some point. This is just a little bit of a teaser before it comes out in it’s full glory.

Not to say this is everything we are doing. No, far from it. But as you probably noticed, this news post is already quite long. Why make it longer? Just look forward to our upcoming “Stan Lee the Book” partial scanlation!