As you may remember me mentioning, the October issue of Monthly Dragon Age came with a Maken-Ki! booklet, called the Hatsudashi Namashibori Book (I'm not sure what that name means), which contained full color versions of Chapter 37 and the first chapter of Maken-Ki! Kai! among other material. I scanned Chapter 37 along with the covers and some illustrations. This was a side chapter titled "drink & meet" that originally celebrated the anime's release. Enjoy this full color scanlation.
http://www.mediafire.com/?8sml9h3f5u7n2s4
As usual with my Maken-Ki! scanlations, credit for the translations goes to Hidoi, who originally scanlated this chapter. I got some help again from DeathsUncleBob over at Oppai Scans, who did the typesetting for me, so a very special thanks to him.
What I did not include from the booklet (a lot, as you'll notice in the table of contents) includes Chapter 1 of Kai!, some concept art, and an interview with Takeda Hiromitsu and the artist of Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai. The only thing worth releasing wuld be the Kai! chapter, but that series is not being scanlated yet, and I don't want to post a raw version.
I'm not sure what our next release will be. We're working on a few things, but there's no set time for completion. See you later.
Is the Kai! a spin-off maken-ki!?
ReplyDeleteOr just something different from the same artist, either way I'd be interested in taking up the RAW's and putting the series out.
Maken-Ki! Kai!! is a prequel series by the same artist that takes place when the teachers of Tenbi Academy were students. It runs in Age Premium, Fujimi Shobo's online magazine. It's only available to people in Japan (I've tried to subscribe, unsuccessfully), which is why it hasn't been scanlated yet. The first chapter was in Dragon Age a few months ago, but no group wants to pick the series up if they can't get the rest of the chapters.
DeleteAh that makes more sense.
DeleteShame that no-one is taking the time, it sounds like it holds a ton of lore and possibly ecchi, due to what we've seen of aki...
Ah well.
Is This The Magazine You Are Talking About?
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Yes, that's the one. I'm not sure how often Maken-Ki! Kai! appears in it, or how many chapters there have been. I'm really not even sure that there have been more chapters. It could've just been a oneshot. I guess if someone takes the time to download all of those, they can let me know if there were more.
DeleteDomo arigato ^_^
ReplyDeleteFirst, I prefer Raws than translations, because I think the Raw one is quite collectible. And then I really hope you are able to scan the whole booklet, as I'm a big fan of Maken-ki!. And I know there are a lot of pages and it will waste much of your time, anyaway, I hope you can do it. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I prefer Raws than translations, because I think the Raw one is quite collectible. And then I really hope you are able to scan the whole booklet, as I'm a fan of Maken-ki!. And I know there are a lot of pages and it will waste much of your time, anyaway, I hope you can do it. Thanks.
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