Translation 71: Bokura no Hen Byoushi Chapter 1

A new project over at Viscans. Each of the chapters is a separate short story with little to no connection to each other. This first chapter is a whopping 66 pages long.

The first story is an odd one. It touches on drugs in Japanese society. Obviously there must be a musician somewhere, and in this one it's a guy who plays the piano. But he had to stop because his hand didn't work as well as it did after being run over by a bike.

One day, he finds himself wondering into a building that he had thought was abandoned. There he runs into Arishima, who ends up being a high school drug dealer who gets it from some Columbian she knows. They have a rough first encounter, but slowly find an affinity for eachother.

But what's this? The police come by her place looking for the Columbian which sets Arishima in fear. Will the Columbian squeal her out? Is she going to have to quit high school? What about her dream to visit Mexico to check out the mushrooms?

Check it out at viscans when it releases.

Translation 70: Go Tenba Cheerleaders Chapter 20

The start of the exciting conclusion to volume 3 of Go Tenba Cheerleaders. Summer vacation has finally come to Tenba, and the cheering club thinks about what is going to happen over their summer....which naturally turns out to be a summer training camp.

What's odd about this training camp? It is on a remote isolated island which a strange old man who looks a bit like the first James Bond and what in the heck are God Hands!? Also, the coach seems unusually serious. Just what is going to happen!?

Check it out at viscans when it releases.

Translation 69: Go Tenba Cheerleaders Chapter 19

Katsuki and Saki go for a walk together in the city! Saki finds out what it is like to be hit on, and we get to see Kokatsu go for a walk. This is the first chapter in a while to focus on the relationship between the two in a long time, and Kokatsu is used an an element to he help keep things from getting too serious. But wait, some stranger start making passes on Saki while Katsuki is gone? Whats going to happento her?

Check it out at viscans when it releases.

Translation 68: Go Tenba Cheerleaders Chapter 18

A chapter focusing on Minori! It starts off with her getting a love letter from a guy named Shiina as she arrives at school in the morning. Summer is coming and the guys of Tenba High are entering mating season. They all ogle over her breasts and just plain silliness ensues.

If you aren't prepared for lots potty jokes about eating hot dogs and such, you may want to sit this chapter out.

Check it out at viscans when it releases.

gWaei 1.1Dev Started

I have been working with my git repository and have made some nice progress. The reworking of the main gWaei interface has done wonders.

Among the changes:

• Like kanji results are grouped, the kanji lookup now gives stroke order instructions
• There is a clear button in the search entry, a new search button all the way to the right
• The colors of the entry turn to your highlight color settings when you hit enter or press the search button
• We have a progress bar on the bottom, the dictionaries can now be switched by alt-#
• Tab and shift-tab have been switched to alt-up and alt-down for cycleing dictionaries
• Alt-left and alt-right finally appear correctly in the history menu for their shortcuts
• There is a new spellcheck togglebutton in the toolbar
• A new "edit" menuitem which will open up your vocab list that you have been saving/adding to during your gWaei session.

Yes...there have been a lot of changes. I am thinking of releasing 1.1 into the wild in a week or 2.

gWaei 1.0.1 released!

Still haven't updated the page but it is out. Get it while it is hot. It has some small fixes. For users, it fixes the auto-conversion of "ge" to the hiragana "ge" instead of "ke".

gnome-doc-utils is no longer required when compiling only the console version of gWaei. This cuts out a dependency that should never have been there in the first place, but was left because I couldn't figure out if statements in configure.ac.

The last big developement is I finally have the git repo for gWaei up! Hopefully I can get some other developers helping me work. Also, the users can se the progress as it goes along.

Since Gnome 2.26 is about to become stable on Gentoo in probably the next week, I'm going to start winding up on the development of gWaei 1.1/2.0 soon. (Yay)

Translation 67: Sekitou Elegy Chapter 11

The lingering memories of a kiss. Satoshi and Chiiko take a nap in the car until later in the day, then go around exploring. Satoshi is forced to speak more casually to Chiiko, and they also learn that they have similar names when written in kanji. Satoshi also finally finds out Chiikas REAL name. (OMG)

Check it out at viscans when it releases.