Five Years Later

Time flies when you're having fun, right? Technically the group was created a couple of weeks or a month or so before the 31st of May but that date should be when we redid the first 2 chapters that our fearless leader(-kun) put out solo and then a new one as a group and then kept a (somewhat) consistent schedule of releasing a new chapter every weekend. Speaking of which, here's a word from our sponsor, the one and only pip3 aka Bernd-Scans founder and chief:

These last couple of weeks, with our 5th anniversary approaching, I’ve been thinking about something to write up for the occasion. Something that ideally wouldn't be hollow self-flattery, wasting everybody's time.

The thing is, this hobby doesn't provide much in the way of interesting stories or anecdotes. What it boils down to is a bunch of people from all over sweating it out in front of their computers for hours at a time, each fulfilling their own roles, out of their own motivations, to make Bernd-Scans happen. What we have in common is, I think, a passion for manga. Manga that are intriguing, if a little unorthodox. And as far as I’m concerned, that's cool. 

A big thanks to everybody that has contributed over the years💖. Here's to five more!

And what a better way to celebrate this anniversary than with some new Minetaro Mochizuki since that's where it all started. I've been sitting on the raws for this for... about 3 years and finally, here we are, a small collection of short stories that take places in the same town, it's a recent thing so his art is on point, as for the writing... it's light and funny, particularly the 2nd and 3rd stories but it's nothing on the level of Chiisakobe or Tokyo Kaido (sadly) which, admittedly, is a pretty high bar. Still good though.

Short Bomb! (Minetaro Mochizuki)

Don't know what else to say, five years is a long time and I'm pretty proud of the work we've done, how we evolved and all the stuff we worked on, I genuinely liked all of out projects even if some more than others, I was thinking of making a poll to see everyone's favorite(s) but then I felt like it was a bit self indulgent and... lame.

Here's to more cool manga in the future, in these 5 years there are things we've sat on the raws for due to a lack of staff that other groups have picked up since, hopefully they do a good job, I'm a bit fearful of mtl roaches these days but I'm hopeful for a couple of stuff that we've been interested in doing that they have good people working on them, because seeing other groups work on cool stuff is always great since, well, even with several to a dozen series we've been eyeing getting scanlations, we... still have a huge backlog of stuff we could and would like to work on, so here's hoping we get more staff, particularly a jtl and a ts, but it's somehow really really hard to find people interested in scanlation, I'd like to resume Maiwai sometime this year too but we'd really need a ts.

Keep walking on the wild side and remember Life ist the hell.