Thanks for the release. And of COURSE she had to drag it up.

Thanks! That was great.

Oh, man...
The things I would do with a "coupon for anything you ask" from Chika...

Thank you Ralen

Ichigo Mashimaro was the first thing I thought of when seeing this

I was giggling the whole time I read this chapter.

Thanks again for the scanlation, Ralen!

Thanks for the chapter, to think I almost missed this post, too...

>>208602
Drag what up?

>>208611
Yeah, I wish there was some way to attach thumbnail images when you upload an archive.

Also, more exploitable:

Ralen you are just awesome!

mirrors:
http://rapidshare.com/files/393187293/Ichigo_mashimaro_2010-07.rar
http://depositfiles.com/files/8d4l5d3fj
http://www.fileserve.com/file/8Q7zAWh

ch 2010-03
http://depositfiles.com/files/y5cbl91c4
or
http://www.mediafire.com/?j0tj3wjmnl2

2010-05
http://www.mediafire.com/?nn0hnkygwnw

2010-06
http://rapidshare.com/files/382538687/ichigo_mashimaro_2010-06.rar
http://depositfiles.com/files/id14trodz

>The things I would do with a "coupon for anything you ask" from Chika...

You'd get her to bake a whole batch of chocolate chip cookies just for you, right?

>>208646
Yeah, something like that, but not exactly.
I was definitely thinking about her cookie, though.

>>208646
I first read that as "You get her to bukkate..."

>>208646
I'd get her to be my own personal game faq.

>>208660

lol @ nobue's "must b 21" shirt

>>208663
Because of the possible sexual connotations, or because of the obscure western music reference?

>>208664

I was percieving it as a reference to manga Nobue's age vs. anime Nobue's age.

>>208671
In IM, most of the English printed on the character's clothing is a reference to Western music. Barasui is really into it. Hence the other subtle references like the goldfish being named "Richard" and "James" (Richard James of Aphex Twin) or Matsuri's pet being named "John" and Ana's pet being named "Frusciante" (John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
When I fansubbed the last OVA, there was another one that I missed that a person on this board pointed out to me. Ana and Matsuri are practicing English, and one of the phrases Ana says is "How to Disappear Completely," a song by Radiohead.

In this case, "Must B 21" looks like it's a reference to an album of the same name by Will.I.Am.

>>208672
Here are some examples. Aside from the obvious ones (Nobue wearing a shirt with the Aphex Twin logo, Miu wearing a shirt that says 'I ♡ The Aphex', and Matsuri wearing a shirt that says 'Red Hot Peppers') the other two ('Aussois' and 'Come to Daddy') are both Aphex Twin song titles.

There was also that special short that Barasui did called "Strawberry Bubblebath" which seems to be a reference to the "Analogue Bubblebath" series of Aphex Twin albums.

>>208672
Not sure if it was associated with the manga or anime, but one of the girls wore a shirt with 'Jiggy with it', I guess a suitable reference to Fresh Prince.

So, Barasui is completely gay for Aphex Twin. Eh, it's too bad he doesn't have an ear for good shit like Lee Hazlewood. I'll never learn to like music composed with a single black box/board.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_GYHL27os

>>208672
Yeah! I remember pointing that out to you. I'm a huge fan of both Radiohead and IM. That song, "How to Disappear Completely" was inspired when REM's Michael Stipe was telling Thom Yorke how to cope with panic attacks, and he advised Thom to repeat "I'm not here, this is not happening", and those lyrics made it into the song. Around that same period, REM released the album "Reveal" which made it into the notes in one of those IM omake books as something the author was listening to. Can't remember if that book was penned by Barasui or not.

>>208677
Ah, that would be this page from Strawberry Bubblebath, right?

>>208679
Ah, yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. I dug it out of my manga folder and found that Barasui did write it. I respect him even more now.

>>208676

>gay for Aphex Twin

Yeah, pretty much.

>>208676

Don't point your finger.

Bang bang, blame blame. Not my thing so let it go.

Apehx is a twin. Azu will release in his own time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XedXMU9JAhI

>>208682
Awesome, what was that released for?

>>208688
Nintendo (aka FamiCom).

>>208688
I'm not sure, actually.

Ash Ra Tempel

>>208744

smoking is bad for you little girl

>>208673
Going through the volume 6 tankoubon I'm finding more of these. In a lot of the original monthly serials, the shirts and backgrounds were left blank, but now they've been filled in.

This one in particular made me laugh.

>>208957
And speaking of differences between the serials and the paperback version, I thought this was kind of interesting.

>>208962
I think I prefer the photographs. To use photos may be a bit lazy, but also makes it look interesting.

>>208957
can you upload that tankobon vol 6 then? thanx

>>208969
I've been in the process of re-translating and editing it these past several weeks. I'll let you guys know when it's finished.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2RC269GC
yotsuba shiritori
yotsuba play a word w/ ilustration
i got it from google. not my upload

The board seems to think this url is spam...
hamamatsushot . blog119 . fc2 . com / blog-date-200911 . html

Also, new Yotsuba this month, but no new IM according to Dengeki's website.

So, a month ago there was no Yotsuba but there was Ichigo Mashimaro, and this month it's the other way around?

What, are Barasui and Azuma taking turns?
Are they the same person? Maybe they cannot simultaneously exist, or maybe they are separate entities sharing the same body.

Or one could be the product of the other's imagination, like on an excellent movie I saw. It was about a fight club founder who ended up being the best fighter on the fight club, and at the end had an army of fighters he met at the fight club. I think the movie was called, "the adventures of fucked-up guy and his imaginary friend".

>>209251

Is that drawing of a man supposed to be Barasui? He looks like a child molester.

...oh crap, Chileanon won't be here to get angry at that. Rip my soul out, why don't you?

>>209259
He probably is, because he has siemen on his shirt.

>>208957
Heh. 2 pac.

>>208969
Okay, here are the links as requested.
Vol. 6 Deluxe Revised Edition.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N1ZZYVC8
http://rapidshare.com/files/403962867/Ichigo_Mashimaro_Volume_06_Deluxe.rar.html
Both of those point to the same file.

I tried to upload a new Ultimate Collection file (which was topping out at around 400MB) but the upload time was too long, and I kept getting errors.

It's been about 2 years since I did the original monthly serials that went in to volume 6, so I managed to correct a lot of errors I made the first time around. I also went to the extra effort of doing all the sound effects this time.
My apologizes for the poor image compression, these were the best scans I could get ahold of. I did my best to adjust the color balance.

Aside from the new translations and some of the minor differences like in >>208962, these are mostly the same as the monthly versions. There are a few new pages though, like the one here.

Feel free to distribute this anywhere you think people might be interested. I don't really know of any IM related imageboards or anything, except maybe 4chan's /c/ (which is why I keep posting this stuff up here).

>>209266
More proof that Nobue is a Barasui self insert.

>>209359

One with breasts. And as a cute girl. Not sure what that says about him.

>>209362
you find small chested, short hair, not wearing any make up dykish looking teen girls who smoke and drink cute?

>>209367
Yes.

>>209358
Thanks

>>209359
Wait, is that "lifting" ?

>>209358
thanx for all your hard work yet again, Awesome Ralen. I have posted your links to a few manga boards so you might get a few d/ls from them too

>>209380
Thanks for that.
I also posted the links on /c/, but there have still only been 11 downloads on Rapidshare so far (I can't check them on Megaupload since I don't have an account).

>>209395
you can make a free megaupload account too. They also give you free points. I dont think I will be using rapid anymore because they JUST changed their system and my new uploads dont even show up anymore on my free collector's account. I also use depositfiles and fileserve as back ups. mediafire only for something small

>>209435
Rapidshare converted my free collector's account to a free premium account when they did their system change.