Here's to all of you with springtime allergies (Update!)

So, after some setbacks, we finally bring you volume 42 version 1!

We've finished the rest of the redraws for this version together with all of those little volume extras. Should be final now.

So, without further ado, here's the rest of Highway Star but more importantly, the introduction to everyone's favorite planty feline:  http://www.mediafire.com/?5n3u2y9bp2wgbyz

This is the complete edition so feel free to spread it. Edited by Orthio - 15/5

Volume 42 - progress report

So some unfortunate circumstances have delayed volume 42.  We're literally only a few pages from release, but the last 10% is going to take another week at the shortest and might actually be longer.  Sorry!

Here's a preview version of the first new chapter to tide you over:

Highway Star part 7 (preview edition)

We've already fixed some things from that version for the final, so don't archive it or upload it anywhere please!

And yes, we're still planning on finishing part 4 this year, but if we slip by a month or two don't hold it against us OK?

Merry Christmas!

It's still the 25th where I am, so it still counts!

Here's volume 41 of Jojo.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ooqhzdb9qwl6n8p

In this one, Josuke and Rohan face off in the game of the century!  It's everyone's favorite Suikoden minigame, Triple Toss! Also they get attacked by the Stand from Speed, which is pretty cool. Josuke is kind of a jerk for not using Crazy Diamond on Rohan's furniture though.

RPS Kid came & went

Here we are at volume 40! We're more than halfway done with part 4 now. Kira's having some trouble adjusting to his new life, and our heroes are having a hard time adjusting to the new crop of Stand users! Read as Rohan almost gets killed by an 11 year-old kid (featuring one chapter in full color!!!), and marvel at the alien invader.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sl8rouruo4418xq

I've been told the next arc, Highway Star, is not to be missed! I guess I'll find out if that's true while I translate it!  Expect it before the year's out - possibly quite a bit before, but we'll see.

April 31st

Hello to all 194 of our loyal readers!  It has come to our attention that our release of volume 39 had a few minor typos and grammatical errors, so we fixed it up with this v2 release.

http://www.mediafire.com/?r076hv3ox6xy3v3

Hopefully it will be in readable English this time!

As a reminder, we've been doing a few things with our releases lately.  One, we're using Japanese name order and modes of address (mostly).  While we've stopped short of leaving in the honorifics, we've kept people using family or given names as appropriate rather than switching them all to given, and when a name is listed in full it's in family-given order.  Two, since quotation marks are used as intensifiers in Japanese and Araki really loves his quotation marks, we're taking a page from American comics and using a lot of bold.  So when you see seemingly random words and phrases in bold, that's because they were in quotes in the original.  And three, we've decided to preserve the use of fonts in the original as much as possible, so Stands are being given their own fonts whenever they have unique fonts in the Japanese.  If it gets annoying, say something and we'll go back to only using one or two fonts rather than the six that ended up in this volume.

Next volume... I don't even know what's up with the next volume! I haven't even read it yet! I heard there was an alien or something? Whatever! We're taking a short break from our hectic schedule, so don't expect volume 40 before July at the earliest.  But we're definitely going to keep at it until all of part 4 is in good, readable condition! With only 7 volumes left, we'll probably even be done by 2014!  ...maybe!