Life was easier back then (they say)

Okay, so... I don't wanna jinx it. Every single damn time we talked about future projects and shit we always, and I mean always ended up falling behind or simply delaying things until someone else picked them up. Like... wanting things is not enough so we shouldn't be making bold promises, that's the philosophy(problem free).

With that said, I think we'll finally going to finish The Story of My Village by Akira Oze. My confidence in saying this is that translating it was a bit hard and there are certain notes that should be made almost every chapter so it's a lot of work, but when you have a reliable and willing translator that asks for this project? Yeah, I'm really confident right now and with a great tlc I'm hoping we finish this in 2025 (or at least most of it). Now if we had an extra ts...

Anywho, here we go with the second volume 

The Story of My Village ch. 12

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Dangerous manga for dangerous humans. Been a while since the last EVOL and I just remembered we had a few minor typos and shit to fix for ch 16... Oh well, next week.

EVOL ch. 17

And something we haven't done in a while... a double dose. Here's pip3's favorite chapter of this anthology (so far)

Won't She Speak Well, That Girl Who Woke Up From a Dream ch. 06

Stranger than fiction

I really vibe with this one, underneath the more humorous first layer, this chapter has some good depth to it. 

Won't She Speak Well, That Girl Who Woke Up From a Dream ch. 05

Laughs and giggles

Things are sometimes really overwhelming.

Won't She Speak Well, That Girl Who Woke Up From a Dream ch. 04 

This chapter was brought to you by Jeff Bezos.

What does night have to do with sleep?

Gotta love the horns. It's such a good idea. The volume will be compiled late because I'll need to replace a few pages, don't worry they're minor changes that won't really impact the story like a "hey" instead of "he" or a sfx that needs to be changed.

EVOL ch. 16 

A gentle breeze around the knees

And we're back. Hope everyone had fun with Himeanole.

Well that was a wonderful collection of short stories. This last one was on the shorter side, like the 3rd one, but the length was perfectly fine here while with the other I feel like there was room left for more. Great endings on all of them though.

So I guess that's that and now we know Kyoko Okazaki is excellent at creating incredible oneshots, too. The thematic link between the five chapters makes you think she did them one after the other instead of over the course of almost 2 years. Hard to pick a favorite because that first one really floored me when I first read it and the fourth one was amazing, maybe it's between those two but I feel very strongly about the second one, too, some days I think it's just as good.

End of The World ch. 5

And

End of The World (complete)

Can't teach an old dog new tricks

Heard you was looking for dark and depressing👀 

Won't She Speak Well, That Girl Who Woke Up From a Dream ch 03

So.. yeah. We're gonna be on a bit of a break right now, around a month... unless a typesetter magically drops from the sky. Though you might see something before that that has our paws on it👀