おしおしおーし！

Oshi oshi oshi! MiSawa doujinshi scanlation group.

[oshix3]

Announcement

Thank you to all our followers for your patience.

We are sorry to announce that due to differing opinions on scanlation policy within our group, Oshi oshi oshi! Scans as a group will cease work on any future scanlations.

We have received some messages that some of our past releases are being reposted under “another” group. Thank you for informing us--however, in fact, Team Karaage is a group that several of our members have formed anew to continue scanlation work.

While our time as a group was brief, we enjoyed sharing Misawa with you all, and hope you continue to be active in this fandom.

[oshix3]

Hey guys we’re still alive, sort of

Moving on, since I don’t want to spam your dashboards with non-releases, I’ll answer all the questions at once:

Help, I can’t access your releases! We took down our releases. Please see previous news posts for more information.

Will you be reposting your old scanlations? Sadly, not to the general public, no.

Are you going to stop scanlating? No, we’re not.

How is progress going with contacting the authors? We are still hammering out a letter. Our apologies.

What’s going to happen after that? Honestly, your guess is as good as ours. However, our first aim is to see whether we can reach an agreement to translate older, out-of-print works/comic strips.

[oshix3]

Hi! I'm wondering if you've taken down all of the scanlations here in this blog? I'm a new fan of MiyuSawa and just found out your blog, but URLs are error. I'm sad ;;

Hey! Yes, we’ve taken down all of our scanlations. Sorry to hear you didn’t get a chance to see them. 

We’re still in the midst of drafting a letter to authors, but we’re also discussing amongst ourselves the possibility of moving to a more private, controlled platform. We will be sure to update you all when we’ve made some more progress.

Leave me your skype ID and I’ll give you a link to them though jokes

[honeyhoneychan]

Daiya fandom and Why I’m no longer providing raws

Hello!

I’m Honey or HoneyHoneyChan.

If you guys are familiar with the Oshix3 scan group of Daiya no Ace fandom, you will notice that I have been providing a good portion of the raws.

I made the conscious decision to stop providing raws. But I don’t plan on quitting the Oshix3 group, nor do I want the Oshix3 team to stop providing content to English Daiya fans.

To give you an idea of how much love doujinka’s work and how I’m invested in the fandom:

Just this year, I bough around 150 doujin, with shopping service and shipping fees. I’m not going to give you guys an exact amount, but if you did any research on acquiring doujin, you will know how much I am invested in my fandom. At least monetarily.

First off, I am not familiar with the Japanese doujinshi circles nor how it works.

I came into the Daiya fandom around July 2014. It was a very small fandom, so I desperately looked for fan content which I know is a sentiment all fans have. I was already familiar with buying from Japanese sites and auctions before because I also collect Japanese fashion and figurines. A few months later, I started buying doujin off Toranoana and Kbooks.

When I saw a recruitment for the Oshix3 group, I jumped on the occasion. My sentiment was to share the doujin with the English fandom. However, in the process of doing so, I inadvertently hurt doujinka.

At first I justified it with the following:

I’m doing non -profit! People who can’t aquire these books (money, ran out of print) get to see what doujinka have produced in Japan! Doujinshi is technically illegal so we’re all playing in the grey area of the law. We are going to promote doujinka who English fans haven’t even heard of! English fandom is filled with scan groups! We’re just a sea of many

And on top of it, I got my group to agree to:

Crediting the doujinka and give links and instructions on their pixiv and how to buy their doujin. No download links Disabling the right click function to make it hard to save the content (which is easily bypassed as so many of you pointed out in anon) A warning to not upload anywhere else Take off any doujin that doujinka personally confront us about.

All this, I thought was miles ahead of other scan groups. Which Justified our activities.

In a mere 3 months (including our month of hiatus) We gained 1.5 k followers when usually I just see around 200 notes on popular English fandom Daiya fanart.

What tore at me the most is the attitude of fans I had help create.

You have broken my heart when I decided to wreck my own copy of Eyes on Me to scan and share. It was meant to be kept on Oshx3’s page exclusively. It went up on sharing sites almost immediately. We’re trying to resolve this issue but there has been 0 replies from the upload sites.

We have anons who complained our website isn’t easy for them to save stuff or hard to navigate. That’s because I DON’T TRUST YOU. I specifically requested that there would be warnings up and NO RIGHT CLICK before I became a provider for Oshix3. And now you have proven me right by uploading scans AND EVEN OUR WARNING TO NOT UPLOAD on sharing sites

That was the last bit of trust and confidence I have for the English tumblr fandom of Daiya.

Do you know why I am so concerned with re- uploading? Justciel has a lengthy detailed post that explains how Publishers of original content TOLERATE doujinka: http://furuya.co/post/125413910427/more-asks-related-to-the-doujinshi-discussion

I am not pointing fingers at the wonderful people who have gave encouragements and thanks to Oshix3. Plus abided our rules.

I don’t want to penalize you.

I still want to be your friend/ ally and provide Japanese content. But we need a drastically different approach because most of us understand so little how the Japanese Fandom works.

If the doujinka needs to take art down because of legal reasons or personal/professional reasons, they need to be able to control where their stuff is headed and know how many things are in circulation. Which I’d like to stress again from Justciel’s post.

My decision to ignore doujinka’s warnings about scanning, uploading and using their work under the guise of non-profit service to the Daiya English fandom totally destroyed any bridge we want to build with the Japanese fandom. We just left a lot of doujinka very upset and fearful.

English fans, please know this. There is a ton of free full smutty and fluffy comic strips available on the doujinka’s twitter and pixiv if you just try to look outside tumblr.

I want to make this work so that more content in English will be available to you.

For those anons who continue to complain that you SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT to see doujin because you can’t afford it,

Here is my answer to you:

Why should I

Look up pre-orders and which shopping services buy R-18 doujin. Spend my own money to buy the doujin Pay a shopping service fee Pay a Bank transfer fee Pay Domestic within Japan shipping to my shopping service Pay Shipping service to my home Wait weeks for my doujin to arrive

Then destroy my doujins to scan them for you? You are a complete stranger on tumblr who hasn’t tried building any sort of relationship with me.

It is extremely unrealistic and egoistical to demand at your leisure, to have every single piece of fanwork in any fandom, on YOUR DASH, at ANY TIME. Just because you follow tags on tumblr.

I thought this fandom could be trusted and I wanted to provide content that you wanted to see.

I’m not going to be stupid enough to be betrayed again on top of upsetting doujinka who may never find the motivation to produce fanart for my fandom again.

You can continue to consume other group’s scans. I can’t stop you.

My personal end goal is to have doujinka trust us enough to be easy to view text translation and maybe full content in English as long as we ASK.

I will answer questions too on my twitter and tumblr on why I decided to stop providing raws. My twitter: @farmlandsaga My Tumblr: http://honeyhoneychan.tumblr.com ,

[oshix3]

We here at oshix3 completely support our provider honeyhoneychan’s difficultly-made decision, and hope you all do as well. 

We apologize for the drama, and hope to reach an amicable resolution to this soon.

[oshix3]

[oshix3]

You’re welcome!

coelfre : While we recognize the inconvenience behind the anti-right clicking, it is put in place as a means of upholding our system. Surely if the anon was browsing our tumblr as diligently as you suggest, they would have noticed that we have explicitly stated all over our blog that it is there to discourage people from downloading our releases? What’s really sad here is that you seem to think that we are here for your convenience.

Moving on to the anon, while we appreciate your detective work, basically every author whose work we have released has forbidden unauthorized reproduction of their work.

Scanlation has always been a shady business. We realize that what we are doing will go against many authors’ wishes. To do what we can for them, we do not provide download links, we encourage people to buy their doujins, and we try and prevent people from downloading the images. While this is far more than what most other groups do, we are fully aware that we are still in gray territory. Unfortunately, the only way we can avoid stepping on any authors’ toes would be to completely cease scanlation. If this specific author should choose to explicitly reach out to us and specify that they do not want us to scanlate, we will stop working on their work. However, our first and foremost loyalty is to the English-speaking Misawa fandom, and as long as we continue to be invested in this pairing, we will continue scanlation. And so, for the time being, we shall have to continue stepping on toes. 

Presuming you are a Misawa fan yourself, we hope you understand.

[oshix3]

Can you please allow click to new tab/window since you don't allow right click. it really difficult because I lost track of where page I browse in your tumblr everytime I want to read dj. Geez, Does everytime people right click you lose a penny or something MF.

As per our FAQ, we highly discourage download links and re-uploads anywhere else. The anti-right click is purposely put in after consulting the rest of our team。

http://oshix3.tumblr.com/faq

If you are experiencing short term memory problems, I encourage you to please consult a doctor.Here are some possible causes: http://www.webmd.com/brain/memory-loss

For the rest of our followers, thank you for your continued support and encouragments. We will however, no longer answer asks regarding the right-click issue.

[oshix3]

You’re welcome!!!

You will be happy to learn then, that for now, we’ve chosen a Furuharu and Kurasawa dj to add to our upcoming list.

Haha we’ll normally tag a release with the shipping it belongs to, but as that image was a joke, we didn’t feel it necessitated an addition of a tag. However, we have added a disclaimer-like image (all in good fun) before the surprise for now... Hope that’s enough! ;)

[oshix3]

Hi! I would just like to inform you that Peririko (POW!) has expressed on her pixiv, and kindly in English, that she does not permit her work to be posted on Tumblr, as well as scanlated or translated into different languages. It would be extremely disrespectful to continue to post works of hers after she has made it this clear. (Pixiv ID: 8605134).

Thanks for informing us, justciel. We have removed Backpack from our release list. We’ll also make sure to avoid doing any more of her works from now on.

Sorry everyone! Hope you enjoyed Backpack while it lasted.

[oshix3]

We post releases as they are completed, so nothing is set in stone. We are aiming for a slightly more regular schedule but for that to happen, we need more active members! *hint hint*

We missed you too and now we’re back! Thank you all for your support.

Yes, and there are more coming out all the time haha. 

We hope to continue bringing everyone in the Misawa fandom (and perhaps others?) your doujinshi doses.

[oshix3]

We’re also excited to be working on 19kaime no sono ato ni. Please look forward to its release.

For sure! Kokonotsu/kyuugou’s “Eyes on me” is definitely on our planned list.

[oshix3]

Hello! I noticed the buying link/doujin pixiv page for Kimi no Hanashi is in fact the one for "The 19th gift". Thank you for your work, I particularly enjoyed reading this story ♥

Thank you for informing us! The links have been fixed with the correct ones.

[oshix3]

Thank you all for the messages! To bulk reply...

1) sveter : We list the websites you can buy the DJs from with every release. A more extensive guide is still in the works... (or you can google one)

2) justciel : You’re right, and we agree with you! I’ve revised the post you’re commenting on.

3) Anon asking about Tumblr mobile : One of our staff members made our blog layout, so it’s probably not optimized for mobile use. Sorry about that.

To update our followers, our next release is nearly done (it’s been stuck in the QC stage for a while...). Unfortunately, most of us are quite busy with things right now, which is why our releases have slowed down. We hope you will be patient. We are looking for new helpers (particularly quality checkers)! Please send a message if you have the time and think you qualify. Thanks.

[oshix3]

myreadingmanga uploaded one of your lastest release and it was savable, just to inform you guys! Thanks for release as always!

Thank you for informing us! No worries though, we are the ones who uploaded to mrm lol.

[oshix3]

Thanks for your hard work, you really are amazing! It's a great thing to have a translation group dedicated to my OTP, you always brighten my days with your releases. /Continuate così!/ (it's Italian) Anyway, do you plan to release something on 5/15, since it's Sawamura's birthday? (and mine too, but that's irrelevant in comparison)

Yes, we’re releasing three doujins this week in celebration of Eijun Week. We already released “Knock” on Sunday, will be releasing “Natsu no Hina” tomorrow, and then finally “Backpack” on the actual birthday.

Happy early birthday! It’s not irrelevant at all. In fact, happy birthday to everyone born this week! Hope you enjoy our releases.

[oshix3]

Hello! First, thanks so much for providing translated djs! You guys are the best. I was wondering though, how would you recommend I support an artist? I live in the US, but I don't think the websites you have listed ship here, so I can't really order from them (I could be totally wrong about this though). Are there other websites you'd recommend where I can buy their work? Thanks so much! Really appreciate all the work you do :)

Edit:

Hello, thank you for asking such a great question. I am editing this to add something that will probably be answered in the future guide, but I wanted to provide this information now.

While many of us obtain our doujins from proxy sites, we do prefer to buy directly from the authors themselves. One way this can be done is through Toranoana + Tenso. Tenso is a package forwarding service that lets you first get something delivered to Japan, before forwarding to your address overseas. It’s a great service, and I can personally recommend it as I’ve used it before. It’ll cost more of course, but if you buy things in bulk, the price is quite fair.

There’s a great guide for this service you can find here:

https://kiokunoaria.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/guide-to-tenso-x-toranoana/

Anyways, we’ll be expanding more on options like this in our future guide.

- apodays

[oshix3]

Thank you all for your encouraging messages! We hope to continue to bring you more Misawa goodness.

maytavadee, yes, we have JULIA’s latest works! Both Vintage and Cotton Candy Cloudy. We will be adding those to our future release list eventually, never fear.