Orochi Chapter 5 (Manga Release)

Finally, it's done! It took forever, and I ended up having to do most of the pages twice, but it's finished and here for you to enjoy. In this chapter, a little boy tells a ton of lies. When he sees something horrible, no one believes him. What will he do when he is chased by a murderer and his cries for help elicit only laughs and condemnations?

I'm 99% sure there is no difference between the high quality and the low quality, but I'm still gonna give you the option of downloading one or the other. Because I'm crazy.

Low quality:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9OCBOAUR
http://www.mediafire.com/?2tnmqyomtmd

High quality:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H5R06XM4
http://www.mediafire.com/?tt2nzqmtmmt

This is the end of the second kanzenban. Expect the first chapter of volume three within two weeks, hopefully less. After that, there will only be one chapter left until I'm out of stuff to scanlate. There have been talks of getting the fourth volume, but I don't have a working scanner right now (though I may be able to get it working soon). Anyways, I'll start figuring stuff out after I finish chapter 6. Enjoy "Key"!

Getting Back to Business

I got a new computer. This one is a lot better than my old one; however, it is very different, and I'm not very used to it. For some odd reason, when I use the paint program (Windows 7, by the way), it makes Anime Ace, the font I've been using, look like complete shit. I have no idea how to make that not happen. Granted, I just started using it, but I don't want to spend a week getting acquainted with the program and trying to figure out how to make Anime Ace look normal. So, I'm going to do chapter 5 in a different font, probably Comic Sans because it doesn't look odd or out of place (and I don't know many fonts). What does this mean to the average reader? Nothing, except that the words in this chapter won't look like the words in the latest chapter of Bleach or Naruto. If I can get Anime Ace to look good, I might go back to it for chapter 6, but I might not. It depends on how I feel about Comic Sans after finishing this chapter.

I'm going to try to hurry through this chapter, so I can put it behind me as soon as possible, and not seem like I'm giving up on the project. I can't promise I'll get it done within a week, but I'm sure as hell going to try.

Now, here's a page I've been testing on to show how weird Anime Ace looks and what Comic Sans looks like:

Bad News

My computer died. I am typing this on my Wii with the remote. My arm already hurts. I am looking into getting a new computer, but I will be out of commission for a few days. I'll probably have to redo all of chapter 5, too. I only had 7 pages left. :( So, it won't be released for a while. Sorry, but thems the breaks. I'll try to update this as things progress.
PS: Thank God I read Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece this morning. I'm glad I at least didn't put that off.
PSS: This took me only 14 minutes with the Wii Remote. That's a damn good time (I think).

Orochi Chapter 4 (Manga Release)

4th chapter of Orochi - "Hometown." A man goes back to his hometown and finds that things have changed quite a bit. A creepy kid, a dark secret, and a lot of sound effects!

I'm starting to think that there's no difference between the PNGs and JPEGs, but I'm still going to release two versions, just in case I'm wrong. My eyes do suck, after all.

Low-quality:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zntzuznonln

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0H9EL8Q8

High-quality:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwy3emmtzzj

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GN9L55V8

I'll probably spend a bit more time on the next chapter. The odd weather in my area is affecting my sinuses and making me feel under the weather. (*cough* And I just got a Wii. *cough*) The wait shouldn't be too long, but don't sit on your thumbs waiting for a new chapter next weekend. (What the fuck did I just say?)

Orochi Chapter 3 (Manga Release)

Here's the third chapter of Orochi, titled "Prodigy." This is a story about family, how people can change, and especially, a mother and son's perception of each other and how it warps them.

Once again, two versions because, why not?

Low-quality:

http://www.mediafire.com/?54mmmdqnzhz

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GURMAIJF

High-quality:

http://www.mediafire.com/?oh5m43dmfa4

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NRHSKFYC

Links of interest:

Group page at MangaHelpers

You can subscribe to Orochi and see when I upload a new chapter there. Also, there's a read-online feature.

My Twitter page

I'll say stupid shit and how I'm doing on the latest chapter (that's the important part).

I'd also like to let everyone know that you can upload this wherever they please, as long as you leave the credits page in, to give myself and molokidan the credit we deserve. Thanks for reading! Chapter 4 will hopefully be finished in about a week.

NOTE: It's been brought to my attention that a page is missing from chapter 2. It doesn't add anything to the story, so if you've read the chapter without it, there's no need to worry, but I have added the page to the release post so everyone can get it. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks for catching that, js.

Orochi Chapter 2 (Manga Release)

Shaggy Horror's first release! The first of many to come, hopefully.

This is the second chapter from the first kanzenban volume of Orochi, by Kazuo Umezu. (A kanzenban is like an ultimate volume - really big.) This completes the volume. The first 90 pages or so were done by a group called [Kurokishakai]. Much thanks goes to the group, who also did the first chapter of Orochi. You can find that on their blog.

The chapters of Orochi are separate tales, connected only by the existence of a strange girl named Orochi. You absolutely do not need to read the first story to understand the second. This chapter is titled "Bones" and is about a woman with a bad childhood, her husband, and a spell gone wrong.

After I finished the chapter, I saw that it was over 180MB, so I saved the files as JPEGs to reduce their size. The result was two versions of the chapter, with one of slightly less quality. Both are easy to read though. And it is 215-pages long, so 180MB isn't too crazy a number. Anyways, here are the download links.

Low-quality:

http://www.mediafire.com/?g1xnrammznj

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G6JHKPF6

High-quality:

http://www.mediafire.com/?kmavefdokmt

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0ZCKNT61

Big thanks goes to molokidan for translating this and again, [Kurokishakai] for starting this. I'm going to start working on the first chapter of volume 2 now, and it will hopefully be out before Valentine's Day. Tell all your friends about me!

NOTE: A page is missing from this chapter. It doesn't further the story, so don't fret if you've already read the chapter - you didn't miss anything big. It just sound effects (UUUUUUUUUU). Still, here's the missing page so everyone can get it:

News that Actually Matters

Yeah, this post is actually important. Amazing.

Two things - 1) I got my first follower. Hi, horrorfangirl! It's great to know someone may really be reading these entries. 2) I've started a makeshift scanlation team, if you can call it that. On MangaHelpers, I found that someone had translated a bunch of stuff by Kazuo Umezu, a very famous (in Japan, at least) horror manga author, and no one had scanlated it. In other words, no one took the translations and put them on the pages so English-speaking people could read it. I decided that, since I have nothing but free time and love horror manga, I would do it.

I decided to start with Orochi, a series that had been started by a group last year but never finished. In fact, they only released one chapter and did half of another. About four days ago, I started scanlating the second chapter, where the other group left off. It's a lot of work, because the chapter is over 200 pages long. Thankfully, the other group did about 90 pages, so that saves me quite a bit of work. I've halfway through the rest of the chapter right now. It shouldn't take me more than a week to finish it.

I have some experience doing this sort of thing, but I'm no expert. I can't make the pages look great, but my goal is to get it out there, so other fans can read and enjoy it. There's a lack of Umezu in English, and that's a shame because he is a big name that's influenced a lot of people. I may not do a perfect job, but I'll at least get it out there. Here's a taste of the chapter (and my work):

I'm not really sure what to do once I finish it, but I'll deal with that once I'm done. I guess upload it to MangaHelpers and every site I think would appreciate it, paranormal imageboards and the like. If people seem to like what I've done (or at least not hate it), I'll keep doing more.