Delicious maids

Azuma??

Afterwords or something.

Just some advertising for the other books in the series, but I took it for the sake of completion. Seems like there are a lot of them.

Last page

And back cover.

Ah, so that's what these are. I've seen dozens of them, at least the cover, but I've always thought they were just cheap doujin stuff.

>>207925
So are Sakaki's tits square now?

Those are nicely scanned.
Did you have to damage the book in order to scan it?

>>207944
No problem, it's a thin stapled book.

Thanks for posting this. It looks awesome!

now we need Ralen to translate all this.

>>207960
I don't want to make any guarantees at this point, but I will at least take a look at it.

Some of this is really hard...
I mean what on earth am I reading here?

>>207976
it's like I'm reading a noir graphic novel.

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>>207976
I guess it's full of pretty obscure references to anime, internet and sports... In the first few strips they talk about some baseball clip on Nico Nico Douga, as I understand it.

Hidamari Sketch looks a bit like Azumanga, though, but I don't know what's it about.

You must vc: des(c)heme it!

>>207983
Yeah, the baseball references were a little obscure to me, but I got what was going on for the most part (there's apparently a reference to a baseball themed manga called Abare Hayabusa or 'Go Wild, Peregrine Falcon' on pages 006 and 007 (scan #5)).

The main thing was the strip in >>207976, especially the top panel. I'm not sure how well I translated it. It was using a bunch of archaic kanji with modern simplified versions that weren't in my dictionary.
For instance "One Hundred Eleven" would normally be either '111' or '百十一' but here it was written '佰拾壹'.
"Film" was written 動畫 instead of 動画,
and there were several more.

The next page was much easier though.

>>207976
More research leads me to believe this is a Bakemonogatari reference. I've never seen it, but there are several other references to that series in this doujin, and when I started looking the references up, I noticed a lot of similarities to >>207976. Still not entirely sure what it means though. I may revise it if I figure it out.

So, it's basically a Family Guy doujin?

>>207987
It's not as bad as Pani Poni Dash at least.

bakemonogatari? did it reference this? (warning: teenage white girls discovering internet trend)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq--AJEunng

>>207987
The more I'm looking into Bakemonogatari, the more I'm finding these jokes are pretty much pilfered wholesale from that series.

>>207989
Is that dance actually from the show? Tried looking for it but got squat.

And I have to say, for a bunch of anime fans dancing around, I was fairly entertained.

>>207991
the actor that sings the op also voiced eri from idolm@ster: dearly stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emtb9hYTW88

>>More research leads me to believe this is a Bakemonogatari reference

Yup, that looks like a reference to the beginning of Ep 1 allright: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XX2_CGxAdyo (from 1:40 on)

I can't place the Hidamari comment since I haven't seen enough of that show, but since both are produced by Shaft maybe they did recycle a sound effect.

Oh, and thanks for the scans, of course.

>>207993
Thanks for finding the exact reference, I didn't really feel like trying to track it down. I managed to find video references to some of the other Bakemonogatari jokes, but this one didn't give me enough context to even know what episode to look in.

I had revised that page once earlier today (changing 'Calendar' to 'Koyomi' once I found out that was the name of one of the characters), but I didn't realize 踊り場 could mean 'stair landing' as well as 'dance floor'.

Here's an alternate video that preserves the original text with the English subtitled at the bottom.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0gGh_pQxpWE#t=01m33s

Don't make me break my foot off in your ass!

>>207996
Heaven forbid, it's not nearly as fun as this.

Just a status update, I'm making progress, but trying to hunt down all these references to make sure I'm translating things correctly is very time consuming.
It's also weird that the titles often seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the strip. Either that, or I'm just missing it.

I just finished the last strip of >>207930 in which Osaka talks about the series "Ninja Hattori-kun" with which I'm not at all familiar.
I was at least following her all the way until the very end when she says 羽美 (Umi?) would throw a fit. I have no idea how that relates to Ninja Hattori-kun though, since she doesn't seem to be one of the characters from that series.

>>208018
I'm on the last page.

Expect a small encyclopedia of translator's notes when this is done.

>>208053
Great, jokes with footnotes are the funniest!

>>208018
Thanks for all your work Ralen, It is very much appreciated!

Sorry, I didn't translate the afterword.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CFQ8XHLC
http://rapidshare.com/files/386688534/Ichigo_Tsuushin.rar

>>208081
Oh yeah, I forgot to add a note explaining evil Ryo Ohki at the end, but I figure most people have seen that comic anyway.

I can't seem to find it in my Azumanga folder though...

>>208081

Thanks for that, Ralen.

That fan comic was unfunny, although I liked the card game at the end.

>>208081
Not funny.
Art sucks.

Rag, the fuck is wrong with you? Or, is this a joke you were involved with making? Well, good one, bro - you got me!

Seriously, what a mess. Not even the characters were in character so why use them in the first place?

>>208090
I thought it had its moments.

There were some parts that didn't make complete sense to me (like the punchline on the rightmost strip of the page you posted) but I can't guarantee that I wasn't missing something myself when I translated it.

>>208092
That was me by the way. Name cookie must have gotten cleared.

This was good. I got a lot of the jokes, and it was relevant to my interests. Bravo.

I liked it, even if I didn't get every joke. Just not getting the references, which really must have made this a tough one to translate. I appreciate the extra effort you put into this to get it right as much as possible.

I appreciate it too, but wouldn't bother with reading the 22 other volumes there are of these.
A shame that the cover art looks so exciting.

>>208095
I hope my notes came in handy.

And I still laugh every time I see that 4koma guys scene in Bakemonogatari.

>>208098

>A shame that the cover art looks so exciting.

That's usually the case with doujins...

Thanks to this, I went and downloaded Taisho Baseball Girls.

>>Thanks to this, I went and downloaded Taisho Baseball Girls.

Good idea.

>>208099
Yeah, you'll get to see that scene where the main girl becomes an extra in a movie. Before she does a stunt (falling off a bridge) she gets this weird, Osaka-like look on her face.

>>208101
Ah, a perfect example of the "not as cute in real life" phenomenon.

First, great work, Ralen. I don't think I'll look through all the note links, but I appreciate your effeort.

>>208090
I agree it wasn't very funny, but I couldn't know when I bought it, since I can't read (enough)Japanese, and it was wrapped in plastic.
I think the art is pretty close to the original, but lacks Azuma's professional "schwung".

Well, it could have been good.

>>208103
Haha, well, they can't do nothing now being dead and all.

>>208162