Hi everyone.
Really long time no see this time. And that's because, besides IRL stuffs (that for me at least are finally freaking improving, THANK GOD!), we decided to tackle another monster release!
This one was an adventure in and outside the actual work. Hunting the books, scanning and re-scanning and re-scanning again, revision over revision over revisions... it sure was a lot of work. We wanted to get this done before Kaiten's release, and as Kaiten kept on being delayed that gave us more time to really to get trapped into revisions. But as Kaiten is finally upon us (!!!), we had to let go and put our foot down and finally release it.
Now, onto a message from our resident translator, Citlalin and a new massive helping hand Oak:
Hello everyone, buenos días a todos. I hope everyone's doing well, as well as one can be doing in times like these. It was hard to decide what to even talk about in the post for this release, because we've been working on Campanella for so long (to be fair, it was mostly just sitting there being stalled by me) that I feel in a lot of ways like a different person from who I was when we first started. I checked and the first time we mentioned the name was on 2024-10-15, although we'd probably been talking about it since a bit before then. There's been some ups and some downs in my personal life since our last release, a lot of downs actually as I'm writing this, but on the whole, things have mostly gotten better, if that's any consolation to pitiful little things like us living under this sky and on this earth. At least it's finally done. I'll probably never be totally satisfied with it, but at some point you just have to let things go.
This time I'm really not sure what we're going to work on after this, but fortunately Kaiten is coming out soon so there'll definitely be no shortage of new doujinshi to work on. (We definitely were just hard at work on it this the whole time and didn't need Kaiten's impending release to light a fire under our asses and get us to finally push this over the finish line.)
No book list this time, just a broad list of topics:
- *Your most duly employed friend on a weekday voice*: been getting really into some of the "new" (as in like, since 2000) work on Binding recently. 男の子は知らないけど (🎵 the boys don't know this but 🎵) Binding Theory has actually continued to evolve and account for new data since LGB, and the response to seeing that the Binding Theory of the 80s had problems was not just to throw our hands in the air and declare that Binding is just Vibes or whatever, never to be understood, as it turns out! Isabelle Charnavel and Sandhya Sundaresan have some really fascinating work here.
- I actually haven't started reading any of the entries to this year's toxic yuri jam because of several huge TL projects I'm (supposed to be) working on, but this year's lineup seems truly stacked with a huge number of very cool entries. It's been really beautiful and encouraging to see the scene coming up and blossoming and each year's entries getting more impressive and ambitious than the last.
- This year I continued breaking my self-imposed precept against gaming and made my way through (most of) the Towelket series and the rest of Kanashimi Hotchkiss's obra. Extremely mixed bag with high highs and low lows, but absolutely every minute spent slogging through TK6 was worth it for Warau Warawau and the last act of Dekapari. On the whole though, to be honest... I think the removed entries were removed for good reasons...
Anyway, it still feels kind of surreal that there's going to be new stuff in the PMMM world soon after all this time. (I did not play Exedra or Magireco, although parts of the anime I did really enjoy). Pour one out for the fans that didn't live to see it. I wasn't really old enough to be in the fandom when Rebellion came out, so I don't know what the atmosphere was like back then, but the reception in the lead up to Kaiten has felt decidedly... uneasy? No one I know is really confident they'll be able to pull off something that makes continuing the story past Rebellion actually worth it. Let's hope they're wrong though, and at least even if it is bad, we'll still get lots of doujinshi out of it, and some of it is practically guaranteed to be good.
And now a message from the wanderful Oak, who helped us with QC this time:If you want to check out some lighthearted mahou shoujo anime with yuri elements, try Mahoutsukai Precure. It has something of a laid back SoL pacing with two magical girls who raise a fairy child together. The manga adaptation is also worth checking out. Or if you want to see a dog be a mahou shoujo, try Wonderful Precure, also ft. an angsty cat mahou shoujo who says things like その必要はないわ (レズビアンのセリフ). Her owner's mother is voiced by Chiwa Saitou, though she gets unfortunately little screentime. Or watch the current season Meitantei Precure if you want to enjoy watching an ongoing series with an angsty lesbian who eats ice cream and slacks off at her job. If none of the above sounds appealing try reading all 22 volumes of Rozen Maiden and enjoy a battle royale between dolls.
Hopefully our next release, whatever it turns out to be, doesn't take as long as this one did. That's all. Until next time.
One final story about this work. It was originally released as 4 parts and an epilogue. The author made raws available but they were tiny and bad so we went hunting for the books. Thanks to some very helpful and kind folks at the MUT discord we managed to find a place that had them. We found 4 books with two not marked with any numbers, so we ordered all 4, see what we get and go from there and hunt the missing part later. When I finally got them you can't imagine our faces when we found out one of the unnumbered books (a chunky one) turned out to be a compilation book with all parts! Talk about a lucky break.
Anyway, hopefully our next release, whatever it might be, doesn't take us 3 years to finish. Fingers crossed! And now, onto the link. Enjoy!
