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In the absence of a release, enjoy this Kawoshin image I found on Tumblr (and go watch the Evangelion Movies if you haven't already!):
Life quickie: So far I have one A and two B's (one of which might be scaled to an A) for the semester. Still waiting to see what my final grade for my last class will be. Also, I've finally heard back about the Aquatics Coordinator position, and I've got an interview for it on Monday.
Donations: I have set up a business account at PayPal for donations. The next time we need funding for a project, I'll post the donation link. When we don't actively need money, the donation link will be hidden / removed. After some consideration and listening to your opinions, we'll be keeping the Adf.ly links in order to generate money passively, so that we hopefully don't need to use the donation link. If we do run open the donation link to raise funds for something, then when we make the purchase, a censored version of the sales receipt will be posted as confirmation that your money is being put towards the intended purpose.
Downloads
BnN-04 (Joint w/ GGScans)
YYS-07 (Joint w/
hoshi_kuzuu)![[STK-&-GGScans]-Bokura-no-Negai-04-01](http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/suzakutheknight/52318413/11830/11830_original.png "[STK-&-GGScans]-Bokura-no-Negai-04-01")
![[Hoshi-&-STK]-Yume-Yume-Shinjuu-07-01](http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/suzakutheknight/52318413/12184/12184_original.png "[Hoshi-&-STK]-Yume-Yume-Shinjuu-07-01")
Also, go watch Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo right now if you haven't already! Kaworu Nigisa remains one of my favorite anime characters of all time to date, and this movie just solidified his place on that list.
aislinnelise could place her order, and due to shipping cost she can only afford to make orders occasionally. This means that chapter 7 will have to wait until either aislinnelise makes her next order, we find another source of scans for this chapter, or we raise the money to order the issue directly ($40 through Amazon). We'd like to try for option 2 or 3, since it will be a while till aislinnelise can make another order. If anybody has a copy of the April issue and would not mind scanning it, please contact me via pm or email (suzakutheknight@gmail.com).Now let's talk money. So far, Adf.ly has generated $12.33 since it's implementation in our download links; $5 of this was given to aislinnelise to assist in covering the costs of the Feb. issue of BExBOY, so we have $7.33 of revenue to put toward buying manga. Let's take a moment to analyze Adf.ly's worth. The roughly $12 from Adf.ly has be generated from 3 months of using the service. The cost of an issue cost about $7-10 if you don't consider shipping. At about $4 a month income, Adf.ly would take about 2-3 months to pay for an issue. I'm of the opinion that this is not worth the annoyance that Adf.ly adds to the download process (not to mention potential downtime of the site). Thus, I'm considering removing all Adf.ly links from the site.
I'd like to get opinions and suggestions as to whether or not to have some form of a donation drive where people could donate a dollar or two every now and then towards purchasing manga. If we were to open such a drive, I'd also like suggestions on how to keep the cash flow as transparent as possible to you all. I scanlate stuff because it is fun, challenging, and rewarding in it's own right; I don't have an interest in profitting from it. I'd like to be careful about how I approach this.
In other news, the cleaning and redrawing of Bokura no Negai 04 is complete! I'm not making any promises but a May 1st release might be possible depending on the amount of time I need to dedicate to finals (I'll be calculating the grades I need to get on my finals when I get home tonight, fun times ^^).
UPDATE: We have scans thanks to a fan that wishes to remain anonymous! Thank you so much (you know who you are)!
Download
06
![[STK-Scans]-Recipe-no-Oujisama-06-01](http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/suzakutheknight/52318413/10976/10976_original.png "[STK-Scans]-Recipe-no-Oujisama-06-01")
While on the topic of good news, please welcome Crystal (
cljl2121) to the staff! She will be helping out with redraws and cleaning going forward. Recipe no Oujisama 06 is pretty much complete excluding the cover page which requires some complicated redraws. With Crystal's help we should be able to finish up soonish, and due to the popularity of the series, the chapter will be released as soon as it is ready without waiting till the next release day.Downloads
YYS-06 (Joint w/
hoshi_kuzuu)![[Hoshi-&-STK]-Yume-Yume-Shinjuu-06-01](http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/suzakutheknight/52318413/10585/10585_original.png "[Hoshi-&-STK]-Yume-Yume-Shinjuu-06-01")
So something kinda funny happened to me, and I felt like sharing it (pic related). But first updates! Regarding school: the good, I'll be on summer break come this time next month and the bad, finals are two weeks away. So if I drop off of the face of the earth after the release on the 15th, you'll know why. Regarding scanlation: the cleaning and typesetting for Recipe no Oujisama 06 is done except for the cover (it's a color one and therefore trickier to clean well). I'm also half way done quality checking the finished pages. Everything is done for Yume Yume Shinjuu minus quality checking, which I'll do once I'm done with the quality check on Recipe no Oujisama.
Anyway on the funny (ironic would probably be a better word choice now that I think about it). So I somewhat fancy one of the guys at work, and ever since I had started working there I had pegged him as gay or at least bi. Last night I finally grew the balls to ask him directly about his sexuality. Turns out he is indeed gay! He of course inquired back about mine and I told him. Fast forward to today as I'm finishing my dinner and open the fortune cookie, and you'd catch me falling out of my chair due to laughter with my roommate staring at me like I had grown a second head. Yep, being direct can accomplish many things standing in the shadows can't (I just made myself out to be a stalker didn't I...? It wasn't like that I promise!). We're not dating, at least not yet; I got off shortly after asking about his sexuality and had to go to classes, and I don't go back in till tomorrow. At the very least, one step closer! Sadly, I think he might be dating somebody already, but I also have reason to think that he's not. I've already made the first step. Now I'm going to give him a little bit of time to see if he wants to be the one to make the second. Wish me luck!
