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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 24

Welp, it's the last chapter. This chapter was really a fitting end to the project because it talks about worrying about being replaced. And ngl, it would be awesome if another group picked up the project. I said my piece why I'm done with the project. I truly love the series. Thank you loppxi for spreading the love posting they had raws! Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: loppxi

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch23

Wow, it's been almost a month... Again. Sorry, I got sick after my trip. And as much as I thought it be fun to be sick to not work, I couldn't even leave my bed, because I was super sick and just needed to sleep as much as I could for 4 days. Good news, I do have the last chapter translated. My credits page is done. I just need to redraw and typeset. One more chapter!

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 23 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: loppxi

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch22

Wow, it's been almost a month... And it's really just the typesetting and overall editing that's the problem. But I'm not looking for a typesetter, because I change the script while I typeset to either match the scene better or - when I translate, I'm tunneled and struggle on a fluid line - so coming back to the script after a few days I can come up with a better line refreshed and maybe with better ideas. Please enjoy!

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 22 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: loppxi

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch21

There's only 3 more chapters until I say goodbye to this project. I was just looking at Kuzushiro-sensei's twitter page, and there's pvs of the anime in October wooooot!! Exciting~ Everyone will know my inaccuracies lol. But also, Kuzushiro's shogi manga looks interesting based on the cover art. Maybe I should try that next because as I said, I want to expose more manga. But who knows, maybe not. I actually privately make my own scans of manga I don't release. And that's the real reason I have no plans to do more past volume 3. I'm minimalizing my p footprint and supporting the authors I can.

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 21 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: loppxi

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch20

The chapter came out really later than usual. Trust, it's because this is not priority to churn chapters out. I have to be careful of burnout, because once that happens, it's gonna be more than a 2 week between release, it could be months, it could be 6 years!? But also it's good to take a step away from the script to have a clearer perspective on the translations from jp to en. That's why I like working by myself, I don't have to feel the pressure to churn this hobby out on someone else's time. Nor answer to the expectations of most accurate translations. Love this being a hobby, hehe.

I've said my piece in the credits, too. I don't think this manga is girls' love until there's clear evidence of romance. I like this being GL subtext because it is ambiguous. But who knows, maybe the korean scans know it's actually romance. (Not like I think it's the korean team who added it, I think after Sato saying she felt like she's getting NTR'ed, someone added the girls love tag on mangadex.)

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 20 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: loppxi

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch19

I love Kuzushiro's humor. I love Toko-san. Really nice chapter.

Some hard lines to translate, thankfully no touch redraws. We're back in volume 3!!

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 19 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: loppxi

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch16

^ This is such a heartwarming, swooning line.

Sorry for the text walls for the translation notes. I'm just gonna assume though not everyone has read enough manga about Japanese day-to-day life and it's nice to know the intricacies of the culture in Japan. I think I mentioned before I spent some time rereading Bakuman to refresh manga background knowledge to help with my translations. I struggle whether to use "douki" or some english equivalent in the script too. I tried to refer back to an anime this year called "Can you keep a secret?" about an office romance between colleagues who entered the company the same year. I didn't actually though~ but I hope the translation notes are helpful to some even if not everyone bothers to read it. Heh.

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 16 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch15

I didn't plan to get a chapter done so...regularly. I was feeling burnt and planned to take a whiiiile until I do chapter 15. But I got this chapter done in like 2-3 days surprisingly. TS was fast, barely any RDs and if it was simple and quick. TL was also straightforward and not too stumpy, I am still worried overusing words like "so" "even" etc.

During my break though, I watched Medalist and then read the scans, and then bought the official 11 volumes from Kodansha. Medalist is an awesome figure skating series. Kodansha also does a fantabulous job. Like, there's so much figure skating lingo, oh gawd, but it also helped me see how official licensing companies typeset their SFX and etc. When the audience does a standing ovation, it's flooded with claps plus the jp sfx. I took that as reference for me to TS as well as how they choose to TL sfx like ス to ssp one time when someone appeared in frame. Though not gonna lie, there are a couple times I don't understand what the dialogue means and I think it's because the translator and editing team themselves don't know either... Oof. But I'm in the same boat too, I'm not a 100%. But I try my best to convince and create dialogue that makes sense to readers even if it's inaccurate. Also. Kudos to whoever is currently scanlating Medalist, they also do a good job with TS and TLs. Like I mentioned with Kodansha, the current scan group goes above and beyond with the million claps in the panels lol.

Sorry to rant about another manga, but it was a good reference and inspiration for me to better my scans. I don't want to do a disservice to Kuzushiro-sensei (as much as I am already, but I promise I'm done after volume 3).

Anyway this chapter was awesome. It made me laugh and I really resonate with Futami.

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 15 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch14

I reread some Bakuman to hopefully get the right lingo for manga. In SJ they ranked popularity from surveys/questionnaires from readers. At least 2008 manga about manga said that lol. I wasn't sure if I needed to do a TL/N to clarify Subaru's rival wanting to promote in Shogi. I didn't. But know it's not him wanted to get promoted in a job, but it's in Shogi (which who knows, he could be a pro shogi player too).

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 14 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch13

Woo!

There aren't any translation notes!! I hope manga readers know enough about what a shonen manga and shojo manga is. But I'll clarify here. Shonen - means boys, which means the demographic for shonen manga is targeted toward young boys (like 17 and under). Shojo is the female counterpart.

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 13 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch12

Hmm. The span between releases are pretty short. I hope no one expects me to continue at such a speed... But I already have ch13 translated haha. Next chap is like 10 pages and the chap after is 10 pages or so. Which is part of my motivation in vol 2 "cuz yay, quick chaps!" To clarify, I don't know where exactly in Tohoku Futami and the Hazama's are going, this is just a general map from Tokyo to Tohoku I found on the internet.

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 12 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch11

Hello, I seriously still contemplated Touko and Toko. And how I decided was I wouldn't write Kyouko. Just nah. I wish this name was more common though, because I been looking for reference in pop culture. Other comments: I'm sorry my translation notes are redundant if you already know about Japanese alcoholic drinks, general Japanese culture, and something that's already explained throughout the chapter. I just hope I can give good context for new readers that aren't versed in JP culture.

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 11 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Ch4

Hello, I decided to challenge Chapter 4, because I really want to clean up the panels redrawing the original text than just stamping TS over it. It took 2 days to do the detailed, overbearing text, but I'm proud of the end result. I also will use the last chapter page to include translation notes like you see in official volumes. Looking pretty professional for a hobby. I think next chapter I'll redo will be 5 for Touko's entrance...I been wishy-washy whether I'll use Touko or Toko... I'll just do it based on my preference...

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 4 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Tora-ish Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Hello, I decided to release my own version of chapter 1 to revive my motivation to scanlate again. I took a break to reread Skip Beat's 50 volumes officially out. Great read. Just like chapter 1 of Egao. I'm not sure if I'm going to redo every chapter and volume 2's. I swear, typesetting takes the most work. Sometimes I leave the jp sfx in and sometimes I don't, but it was way too busy to leave all the jp sfx for phone ringing, so I redrew it and stamped my own version of sfx for it. It might look bad...sorry. But not that sorry, because it's free content. I mainly did my own version to have a better reading experience. I think I succeeded. I will also admit it's not perfect, but I'm really proud of the end result.

I think reading official scans also helped me expand my typesetting. Like I would never do vertical TS but it looks good for one word bubbles. Again, I'm proud of how it turned out. Enjoy!

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 1 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: Sort of, I leveled the whites so less dust/specks Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: Tora

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Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu.

Like the credit page: I like to make a correction to previous scans that Futami’s Shogi Supervisor’s name is Kakunodate Touko, not Nikaido Touko (or this is a difference between magazine vs volume). Regarding other name changes I made, those are purely a translator/localization preference for Sato/satou and ha-san/haa-san. I’ve thought about Toko instead of Touko, but again it’s just preference. Although Hazama’s name is not Haazama, it’s a nickname from Futami extending the a, Haa-san. Another note, I don't know if Tsukinawa is correct, nor were they mentioned the first 3 volumes as I recalled.

I will like to recognize my translations may not be the most accurate, but I try my best to retain the important point of what the characters are trying to say. My tls can come off clumsy too. But it's better to not get too stuck in the details and nitpick or I would never release something I'm proud enough of.

Enjoy reading!

Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. Chapter 18 Read it here. Credits to Bakaei-scans: Translator: Tora Proofreader: Tora Cleaner: – Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora Raw Provider: loppxi

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Tenshi to Akuto!!

I'm glad my past self 7 years ago TSed the more annoying-cool panels. It's bittersweet to officially drop the manga, but it's actually one of the more annoying manga to scanlate because the bubbles were made for japanese so it's a ton of skinny bubbles. The flower screentones Hirakawa loves to use is impossible to redraw by hand. But this series is a great story, I love the developments and the characters are also so likeable and interesting. Goodbye Tenshi to Akuto!!

Chapter 28: Camp and Curry Read here. Credits to Bakaei-scans. Translator: Tora Proofreader: – Cleaner: Aka Tenshi Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora

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Tenshi to Akuto!!

Hello, I am so sorry to all the past readers of Tenshi to Akuto!! I will admit I am stupid to think I could wait for me to translate the whole 4th volume just for the table of contents. Because of that I didn't release 27 or 28 after translating them. Luckily while I was away, other groups have picked up my slack and started releasing it more regularly. Since I have 28 already translated and 1/5 TSed, I may as well release that as well. Afterwards, I have no plans to continue the series. Hirakawa Aya is an amazing author though, I'm reading their other work, Mikadono Sanshimai wa Angai, Choroi and it's hilarious. It's like reading an innocent, dumb Akuto.

There will no longer be dl links. After 28, and finishing my other short term projects, I don't plan to continue to scanlate long-term.

Chapter 27: Akuto and the Play!! Read here. Credits to Bakaei-scans. Translator: Tora Proofreader: – Cleaner: Aka Tenshi Redrawer: Tora Typesetter: Tora Quality Checker: Tora