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No.411
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I have an idea. It's likely an incredibly foolish and demanding idea, but bear with me.

Our genre has been around for over half a century at this point, if not older. In all that time, we've  seen the collective publishing of hundreds of manga, anime, and light novels. A fair number of them made it into English and are loved for it. However, many more have not. For this I propose a project, possibly in cooperation with /animu/ and /japan/ maybe even /a/, that project's aim being to track down and possibly translate obscure /mecha/ manga that is out of print and/or never made it out of Moonland. Pic related. Interested?
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No.412 
>>411 (OP) 
I love this idea though. However most translators on this site are on /animu/ and I'm not sure if they are up to the task given their own projects.
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No.413
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>>412
So we have a confirmed nearby source of translators,, even if they have an uncertain availability. Good. How easy are they to contact?
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No.414 
>>413
They have scanlation threads on /animu/.
However they are working on Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu, Number Girl and World of Moral Reversal, so I doubt their availability.
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No.415 
>>414
Then we talk and wait. It's not like the things we want to hunt will sink into nothing.
No.416 
In the meantime, we might want to start compiling a list of options.
No.425 
Perhaps it can work like this:
>/japan/ hunts for hard copies
>sidenote, any relevant contact they can make with futaba/2ch fags would be welcome
>/mecha/ hunts for files and prioritizes manga
>/animu/ translates
No.442 
Who's going to read this shit? Lets be honest about it. Obscure manga is obscure for a reason and popular /mecha/ mangas get abandoned constantly. If you were translating photonovels and build fighters mangas I could understand but this shit is doomed to end up on managfox and never get read.

Neat idea but why bother?
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No.444 
>>442
>Obscure manga is obscure for a reason 
That's not always true, there's plenty of obscure works from all mediums that are obscure for a variety of reasons. From little marketing to limited releases.
No.445 
*plenty of good works
No.446 
>>442
>who
Isn't it obvious? Us, and any other /m/ sorts we choose to share them with. Plus, The Big O is fairly well-liked in the community, so it's a good jump-off point for the other works.
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No.447 
>>446
There's like 10 of us here and how many want to read random mangas from the 80s? 

There's a bunch of good interesting stuff not being touched as I said. Would be better off digging up that.
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No.448 
>>447
Got any titles?
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No.449 
>>448
Any of the build divers mangas. And the 2nd build fighters manga which is a full tournament story featuring the Zaku amazing.

Any of the photo novels other than sentinel.
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No.450 
>>449
I see. What's a photo novel?

Can we do Lost Memory, though?
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No.451 
>>450
Photo novels are novels with supporting images for the text. They use model kits and usually get released in modeling magazines. Bandai released 1 online fully translated on their website recently.
No.486 
Fuuuuuck, we need something to get us going again after the old BO left.
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