It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular! Ch.22

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Surprise, the chapter was delayed again because I am still playing PSO2. (158 hours) Even more of a surprise is that ツインテール/Twintail has seemingly returned from thin air and cleaned this chapter. And a third ‘surprise’ is that we are slightly on hiatus while we/I figure out what to do with all the secret staff we have now. But I think you knew the hiatus part already.

Q: Akatsuki no Memoria WHERE? You said before second cour, and it’s second cour already!
A: Was stalled due to needing TL. Is being actively worked on now. No ETA. Might even release in bulk.(?)

17/7/2012 Edit: To quell confusion, YES, we’re still doing this manga. Regularly.

Don’t Cry, Girl Ch.06

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And with this, we bring Don’t Cry, Girl to a close. We–well, I mean me–took a long time to get it done, but it was still very fun to work on. This last chapter threw all the redraws at me to fix, which took a bulk of the time, but it was a good way to experiment with some redrawing stuff anyway. There’s a ‘bonus’ chapter at the end of this volume that has nothing to do with the actual plot, nor does it even have the same characters, so we decided to skip on it. We may do it someday, I doubt it though.

A batch should be in the Mediafire folder if you want to get it all at once. As for “What now?” we have 3 projects basically stalled, you know the ones. To the girl e-mailing about it, Cosmos needs to be rescanned. Properly. (Working on it) Sorairo Square needs to be cleaned up, and I’m already all over Akatsuki no Memoria, gotta at least get something out before 2nd cour…! Oh, and we have a Projects page now. Yeah.

Anyway thanks for following along these 6 chapters. Hope you had fun reading!

It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular! Ch.20

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A bit of a delayed release, since I’ve been feeling really under the weather lately. But also as a means to spend more time on trying to actually QC properly, in the hopes of maybe quelling the amount of complaints we get on mistranslations; which we might still have. (We’re looking for some TLC help!) Remember to voice said complaints so they can be fixed and all that, just don’t be mean about it.

Still got Don’t Cry, Girl Ch.06 to complete, then it’s off to doing all the other stuff we have to work on. Hopefully I can keep up!

It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular! Vol.02 Omake

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Volume 2’s been out for a little over a week now, but raws only surfaced recently, so we went ahead and translated the Omake just like last time. There’s a short of a author thing at the end of this one that sheds a little more light on the Twitter ‘incident’ and who they are as a duo.

The volume itself has already sold over 60,000 units in it’s first week, placing it in the Top 10! I for one, as the person that typesets thing manga, find it to be spectacular. Seems we, as a collective whole, managed to change Japanese perception once again. It’s pretty neat.

Edit: Key error on the last page; I neglected a “not”. Should be fixed now. (Too late for aggregate sites.)

P.S. HP batches aren’t there yet, since I got sick again. Should pass soon though.
Should also change the tag from “Loser Girl” to “Watamote” but it’d probably mess up RSS feeds.

Houkago Play Volume 3 End + Volume 2 “Extra”

Chapter 43
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Chapter 44
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Chapter 45
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Volume 2: Chapter 00
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And with this, we end the long road that is Houkago Play. It really has been a long road since we picked it up after kyonkundenwa last October. (Last October…?!) In that time the chapter’s passed from purely my hands, to K and Sector89. Was pretty cool to directly see how it was approached by another perspective. The ending itself is more or less a mystery, but maybe it was a good end? The world may never know.

The “Chapter 00” is the chapter at the very front of volume 2, that shows all the main characters from the volumes. Apparently it was never translated, so a fan requested us to do it, and so we did. What does this mean for Houkago Play now? I don’t know really. The story is technically not over, since I own a copy of Houkago Play R. Maybe we’ll do it, maybe not. We’ve got a lot on our plate still, behind the scenes.

Either way, it’s been fun. I hope you all enjoyed reading along, as much as we did working on it.
Batches will probably come tomorrow/very soon, for those waiting. Watch the DDL.

It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular! Q&A

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So Gangan Online had a “Special” Sommelier Q&A with Nico-sensei, author of this manga, for the release of the second volume. Wherein they ask 7 questions ranging from “What was your favorite part” to the ‘incident’ on Twitter. Initially we were just going to do a text based translation, but come on, that’s boring! So I went ahead and rippedtook all the relevant information from the original page, and re-edited the entire thing into English. Well mostly. Was it necessary? No, not at all, but it’s pretty fun to do cool things like this.

Sorry if it breaks on your browser, I didn’t really test it outside of Firefox/Chrome.

Oh, and after the ‘break’ there’s two videos by akatuki1130 where she voices chapters from the manga.

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[NSFW] Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou Ch.03

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The latest chapter has finally been released! With that though, this will be the last time I write about it here. Primarily because it has it’s own website now, but it’s also mixed in with personal reasons and whatever. It’s good to have a manga picked up officially by a group, but it’s not that stellar when said “group” does a rather… mediocre job, as well as gets a kickback of sorts from it. But that’s just me though. うふふ。

If you like it, please do go over there and show your support and all that. Any blog-related stuff here will probably stay. I might keep keep on hosting it on our own reader, but if they decide to do host it locally there too I’ll remove it then. Got uploaded to Fakku, just read it there.

Also It’s Not My Fault I’m Not Popular is out in stores! If you have funds, do consider buying a copy.

A Year of Scanlation

Well, we technically have two “anniversaries”. The day we founded this group, and the day we released our first chapter. While we essentially skipped the first, today is what we consider the real anniversary. Hooray!

A year ago today, we released our first release, a chapter of Hen-Zemi. Thus triggering the downwards spiral that then brings us to where we are today. A little wiser, a little better, a little faster, and a little larger. But still just as lazy, if not even lazier.

Because this is an rather important post, one I’ve actually written, rewritten, trashed, and wrote again, I’ll kind of merge our initial “founding” story, and the oh-so-fun numbers portion into one post. Just click whichever you want to read. The last one being the most interesting.


The story itself is actually pretty boring. One day I was on /a/ and found a thread by J who was dumping their latest Ika Musume chapter. Looking at it I realized that the number was abnormally high, and that it didn’t correlate to what it said on Mangaupdates at all. So I dug and eventually found raws and saw that they were in fact not translated at all anywhere. Suddenly I hatched the idea that I could translate these, except I don’t like translating things, at all, so I needed a translator! And that is where the real start began.

Having read scanlations before, and with a rather above average understanding of Photoshop, I tooled away at the first few pages of Ika Musume Chapter 48 and spun a tale of them looking for a translator. These are the first pages I ever “scanlated”. [Page 1] – [Page 2] – [Page 3]

The “Personthingy” in question is now known as にんげん to the internet. He found my edits to be comical at best, but was more moved by the chance to actually make use of his Japanese studies. With that we did in fact scanlate that chapter. But it was lacking…. Badly….

At that time I found out Simple Scans actually was looking for some staff. I ended up taking their QC test, にんげん took the TL test. Long story short, because it was the QC test, I had to learn how to actually scanlate properly in… about 24 hours. And it was hard. Very. Hard. But we both managed to get in, in the end.

Once we were in, the rather renown abcd9146 was to be our adviser through this whole ordeal. I told him that we wanted to work on Ika Musume and would just release it under SS, he agreed. Then I showed him our original cleaned, ‘finished’ chapter, and he laughed. It was shit. 2/10 was the best he could do.

My rudimentary 24 hour skills were more than enough to get in, but not anywhere close to their level of quality to release. にんげん and I took in his words of advice and went back to the drawing board and emerged with this glorious masterpiece of a chapter. Proper redraws and all. [YOU CAN DL IT MAN]

Then we basically quit. And never released that chapter (until now). J picked it up, and we disappeared.

Eventually we reemerged onto the scanlation scene again doing doujins at Kibitou4Life, now Life4Kaoru.
But that is an entirely separate arc, for another time. You could compare it to the Namek arc or something.

Having been itching to get back into manga scanlation though, we wanted to start fresh. But I didn’t want to use our original name, which was “HNNNNNNNNGH Scans”. This is actually how we came up with the name World Three. And that is the start of the “World Three” arc, in the timeline.

That wasn’t a very fun ride, I’m sorry.


What is a anniversary post without a bunch of rather useless data values? So I’ll break down most of that stuff here, but as I said this really will be the more interesting part. At least I think it will. I like numbers.

  • # of series done: 6
  • # of Volumes Completed: 4
  • # of Chapters Completed: 48
  • Total space used for DDLs: 995.42 MB
  • Total bandwidth used for DDLs: 612.17 GB
  • Total downloads served: 81,873 (Since March 12, 2011)

From there, people would usually go into actual web statistics. Page views, hits, visitors, etc. You know, the things people usually wave around like they’re important, or something. But in all honesty I, as the primary webmaster for the group, never set up anything to really track such things on purpose, because counting numbers is stupid.. The most I could do is “hits” via the access log. And that’s rather boring anyway.

Which, according to that, we have… 600,595 hits from 17/03/2012 – 20/05/2012. Yay?

Anyway, I’ll provide you the real meat of this section. If you’ve read our FAQ you would know that we basically handle all monetary things in house. No donations, no adsense. Like a lot of other groups. What a lot of other groups do not go into is how much goes into what/where. But now, you’ll know! For us anyway.

366 Days of Expenses

  • $341.00 on…. importing raws
  • $119.40 on…. the initial shared hosting plan (12 months)
  • $241.21 on… the original reader VPS (11 months)
  • $196.55 on… the new server we’re on now (04 months)
  • $ 37.47  on… domain moving from stupid GoDaddy
  • $ 83.99  on… a new scanner to scan raws
  • $114.00 on… a Bamboo Capture so I can clean better

Total: $1133.62 USD

Yup. That’s how much was spent this last year. Do any of those involved mind at all? Nope. So please, don’t you worry about us when seeing these numbers. It’s just a small price we choose to pay to do the hobby we love to do. Seriously though, you don’t even have to spend any money at all to scanlate. Share raws exist. WordPress/Blogger/Tumblr blogs are a thing. GIMP/Paint.net are free (most people pirate Photoshop anyway.) There’s more than enough tools out there for anyone to get into this hobby, and hopefully enjoy it!


In closing, I personally would like to thank: J for all that inspiration. abcd9146 for teaching me a good deal of everything. He Who Must Not Be Named for giving us a place at K4L/L4K. sexy mahou shoujo from kyonkundenwa for all the good times we’ve yelled about this hobby. Woxxy from FoOlRulez for dealing with all my stupid tech support questions. WCW_TL, and Yamada from 14BiQ, for their wise words of wisdom/advice. Of course Twintail and the Staff here at World Three for sticking through and translating/editing/cleaning/redrawing/typesetting/lettering at some of the most ungodly hours of the day just to finish a release. As well as all the hard working authors and artists that made the manga we scanlate in the first place!

And obviously, You. The ones that read, that have read, and that will read. Every single one of you.
Without you, none of this would be possible. None of this would exist. And for that…

ありがとうございます。 ♡(*´▽`*)

It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular! Ch.19

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And here we are again. The Life and Misadventures of Tomoko Kuroki. The chapter is rather on the long side coming in at 14 pages. Some anon was telling me I was basically trash for redrawing pages, which sure, you can say that because it’s somewhat true. But like I told them, unless you want to read pages like this, there’s no real point in say such things. (Also, there’s actually a second part to that credits image.)

Tanigawa-sensei will be taking another break again for the release of the second volume on the 22nd, so the next chapter is next month. But, remember to get out and pre-order/buy your copies to help support her. We managed to do a lot of cool things–and a few not so cool things–so let’s try to make a mangaka’s dream come true again!

Don’t Cry, Girl‘s post was edited with a DDL. Happy reading!
Akatsuki no Memoria is a go! Aiming to finish Vol.1 before 2nd cour. I’ve posted spoilers on /a/ already.
Houkago Play is already slowly being wrapped up as of this post. Hope to get it out somewhat soon.
Cosmos and Sorairo Square are still kind of tied up, but I’m working to untangle that ASAP as well.