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daisy_chan in livelongnmarry

Offered: Scanlating Service - WON

Jun 29, 2008 23:33

Offer: Scanlating team, thestripedone and daisy_chan, will translate and edit up to 60 pages of your Japanese language manga or doujinshi (or other if approved on inquiry). Blocks of text, like the fiction in the back of doujin and freetalks, are not included ( Read more... )

anime or manga: death note, seller: daisy_chan, anime or manga: hikaru no go, offered: typesetting, sold, anime or manga: kyou kara maoh, book: harry potter, offered: translation, offered: misc services, anime or manga: any, anime or manga: prince of tennis

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karanguni June 30 2008, 05:04:46 UTC

Just have to say - Best. Kirihara. Icon. Ever.

daisy_chan June 30 2008, 05:07:22 UTC

Thank you much! zoesque made it (and this one too XD)

karanguni June 30 2008, 05:17:15 UTC

*DEAD* God, it looks like the perfect Yuletide icon.

daisy_chan June 30 2008, 06:37:17 UTC

smillaraaq June 30 2008, 05:39:24 UTC

Hi! Two quick questions here. First, just to clarify since it's late and my brain is really fried -- when you say "up to 60 pages", does that mean multiple doujin are fine as long as the total combined page count is under the limit? Second, any restrictions on republication -- i.e., would it be OK to post the scanlations to fan communities, crediting you for your work, of course?

daisy_chan June 30 2008, 05:50:35 UTC

Yup! Multiple doujins are fine, as long as it's less than 60 pages. The restriction isn't horribly strict either. If you have, say, a total of 63 pages, we won't thumb our noses at you for the last three or anything. ;p

Cross posting is fine as long as you credit. A link would also be nice, so we can read all the fun comments, but not required.

smillaraaq June 30 2008, 06:02:50 UTC

Whee! One more question, since I just checked my DJ folder -- how hard-and-fast is the 300 DPI thing? I just checked and I seem to have scanned all my books at 200 PPI; I can certainly rescan them if it's really essential, it's just a PITA and I fret about damaging the spines...

(P.S., ICON LOVE.)

daisy_chan June 30 2008, 06:33:54 UTC

how hard-and-fast is the 300 DPI thing?
I... have no idea? It's the settling on your scanning program that determines the quality and size of the image. 200 DPI is really too low if you want nice scans. PPI is a completely different measurement though. I think it has to do with the resolution per inch, which really only matters when you're printing it out.

Doujin are a pretty tricky balance, since you don't want to bend the binding, but don't want shadow either. Mine always turn out fine (even if I sometimes stick them under an encyclopedia over night). It's up to you ^^

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kishmet June 30 2008, 16:06:54 UTC

Hey, what's this blaming the price on me, biotech? :P

daisy_chan June 30 2008, 17:04:13 UTC

Don't be denying the truth, Kishily. You insisted and I was merely at your mercy.

lady_ganesh June 30 2008, 17:06:04 UTC

This may be the point at which, as a mod, I point out that a Buy It Now price is not required at all. ;-)

daisy_chan July 1 2008, 06:15:55 UTC

This... is very true. I somehow feel I should leave the option open though, I suppose. *shrug*

Great job with the comm, btw! ^^

lady_ganesh July 1 2008, 11:43:03 UTC

Totally understandable, and thank you!

daisy_chan July 1 2008, 15:43:28 UTC

Off topic, but are we still allowed to put up auctions even now that bidding has started?

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BUY IT NOW smillaraaq July 1 2008, 07:01:14 UTC

*crosses fingers*

Re: BUY IT NOW daisy_chan July 1 2008, 15:33:49 UTC

oh wow! Congrats and thank you *___*

Re: BUY IT NOW smillaraaq July 1 2008, 16:00:46 UTC

Oh, thank *you*, I've been *dying* for something like this for three of my favoritest DJ! I've got a general idea of what goes on in all of them thanks to some kind Japanese speakers who gave me quick summaries of the action, but I've really been longing for a complete line-by-line rundown of everything. :)

I need to go back and doublecheck the page count sometime when I'm not so tired and crispy-brained, but leaving out all nonsense of title pages and free talk and such it looks like these books have a combined total of 69 pages of actual story. However, only one of the books is particularly dialogue-heavy; the others are full of lots of pretty atmospheric panels with no more than one or two brief captions or small word balloons, including lots of the ever-popular "..." I should rescan these at a higher resolution before you start actual work on the project, but if you want to glance over them to determine if you want to charge a little extra for the page overrun, I can send you my current set of 200PPI scans...

Re: BUY IT NOW daisy_chan July 1 2008, 17:01:36 UTC

Oh, I KNOW. If I had money, I'd buy us too XDD I've gotten pretty decent at picture reading, but there's nothing like knowing the exact language and subtleties used.

I'll ask Stripey about the extra 9 pages. It's really up to him, since 9 pages doesn't take me long to get through... though that comes to the question of whether you want your sfx edited in, the translations in the margins, or just blank. With each option, you'll get a progressively faster return (especially if I don't have to edit in the sfx XD), but it's completely your decision.

As for an extra donation, I'd say it's really up to you. I think it's a fabulous idea because it's not my money and yay charity XDD But if you don't want to or can't swing it, then don't worry about it.

Upload the 200PPI scans in any case. As long as the dialog is clear (and not overly trapped in the gutter), Stripey can start working on the tsl, while you rescan.

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