It's all a conspiracy.
Okay, so after I spent most of the evening yesterday typing out the summary for chapter 1, I realized it was waaaay too long to post in one big chunk, so I'm definitely splitting it up into parts. So here's part 1 of chapter 1!
Chapter 1: Birth in the Moonlight (part 1)
The scans I have open with a translation of a bonus from the collected volumes that includes some early design sketches of Neene (a character we'll meet later) and our hero, Riku. Moriyama notes that Riku's design hasn't changed too much from the original concept, and he wanted someone that "looks somehow insufficient at one glance." Yep, I'm guessing our hero is going to be some sort of Butt-Monkey. The next page is a color insert of a cool looking blond teen with goggles and a cross necklace. Obviously this is not going to be our main character, he looks way too competent.
There's a table of contents (laid out to look like a cellphone menu, which is pretty cool) and then the first chapter proper starts. It opens with a colored page and narration from the main character: "She caught my lie." It shows a short flashback of a young boy speaking to a slightly older girl with a Hime Cut hairstyle tied back with a ribbon. Calling the boy "Ricchan", the girl gently scolds him for lying, asking him what the mother of The Boy Who Cried Wolf might have felt if she had been present during the lies he told. The scene jumps to a panel showing a silhouette of a teenage boy running up a hill. "Now that I think about it...that was when the lies truly began." The boy looks at a cellphone where a picture of the Hime Cut-girl is shown with a building in the background, then looks up at the building he's standing in front of—now in ruins—and decides that this is the same place as in the photo. This is the first time we get a clear shot of the boy
◊, an older version of the one in the flashback—brown hair in a bowl cut, glasses, a coat over a school uniform...all in all an Ordinary High-School Student. This looks like our protagonist! And Moriyama's right, he does look like he couldn't handle action well. Sucks for him that this is an action manga.
'Ricchan' goes inside the wreck of the building, talking to himself about how it used to be a hospital before a fire several years ago. He notices the former children's ward and thinks about a boy he used to play with there as a child. Then he hears a girl's voice from another room and, believing that it must be Hime Cut-girl, rushes into the room the voice is coming from—only to see a group of thugs in the process of stripping a girl against her will. Our protagonist responds by staring at the scene with a frightened look and saying "whoops". Real heroic, dude.
The scene switches to the blond guy with the goggles from the opening page riding up to the outside of the hospital on a motorcycle
◊. He mentions that being there "brings back memories", then looks up at a girl standing in the limbs of a tree, calling her "Rena". Rena gives Goggles something of a deadpan look and tells him not to call her by her first name, saying he should call her by her surname, Arisugawa, instead. He apologizes and asks if she likes teriyaki or fish burgers better, but she hates both. Looks like Rena's going to be our Stoic Action Girl for the series.
Rena starts drinking what Goggles brought her as he starts munching away on the food (both meals, I’m guessing) and asks her if anything's happened since she's arrived. She's only been there for ten minutes, but five minutes ago she saw someone enter the building. As they watch, the girl the thugs were attacking runs out of the hospital. Googles asks if that's who Rena saw enter, but she says it was a boy instead. Goggles groans about the amount of people nearby as Rena notes that it's sunset and they should go, but before that "let's help out real quick."
The manga switches focus back to 'Ricchan' and his predicament. The thugs confront him for giving their victim a chance to run and start to debate about how they should punish him as Ricchan gets increasingly frightened. He pulls out a coin behind his back and shouts "Stupid, run away!" before flicking the coin toward the door, confusing the thugs into thinking he didn’t come alone. 'Ricchan' tries to make a run for it, but the thugs catch on to his scheme, grab onto his scarf and throw him to the ground before he can make it out of harm's way. They beat him badly enough that he seems to nearly lose consciousness, but then they find his cell and decide that humiliating him is a much better punishment. One of the thugs flips open his phone as the others order him to strip off his clothes, planning on forcing him to touch himself in front of the camera and sending the photo to everyone in his address book. (Sheesh, Moriyama's really going out of his way to make it obvious that this series will have a higher content rating than Chrono Crusade.) 'Ricchan' complies at first, but then remembers the photo he has in the phone and shouts at them to stop messing with it. That earns him a few slaps to his face.
Things are starting to look pretty bad for our "hero", until Rena and Goggles walk into the room and repeat to the thugs that he told them to stop. Goggles and 'Ricchan' exchange surprised glances as Rena closes her eyes and looks rather disdainful. The thugs ask if they're friends, but Goggles denies it and says they're just passing by. Then the thug that stole Ricchan's phone leers at Rena and, assuming she and Goggles have come to the hospital for some alone time, asks her what she's doing with a boyfriend that's too cheap to take her to a hotel. Rena responds by giving him a ROUNDKICK TO THE FACE, causing him to drop the cell phone. AWESOME. The thugs obviously aren't okay with this, as Rena tells them that she doesn't like them because "you don't have any "radiance" in your souls!" The thugs * think she sounds crazy, then notice that Goggles is dialing something on his phone. He chirpily informs them that he's dialing "1-1-0" * and that Rena could kick their asses badly enough that they wouldn't be standing by the time the police arrive. The thugs decide it's time to get the hell out of dodge.
Rena and Ricchan exchange glances for a moment as Ricchan blushes, looking as though they might be having a moment...and then Rena tells him to pull up his pants. He yelps and quickly puts his pants back on (god, he's such a dork). Goggles hands him back his phone as Ricchan gives him a look of recognition. The two stare at each other for a moment, Goggles recognizing 'Ricchan' by his full name—Amami Riku—and Riku calling him "You-nii", whose full name is Takebe Youhei. It turns out that Youhei knew Riku when they were in elementary school (Youhei was the boy Riku met at the hospital as a kid). Youhei says "Man, what a coincidence..."
He grins and asks if "she"—"Your sister...or was she your cousin?"—is doing well, then remembers that her name was Amane. This triggers a short memory in Riku's mind of the Hime Cut-girl, which confirms that she's the "Amane" Youhei is talking about. Riku looks a little...I'm not sure how to put it, "anxious" I guess...then smiles and says "Yeah. She's doing fine." Youhei asks him what he's doing there, and Riku responds that he was "wandering around and felt a little nostalgic" when he saw the hospital.
(This is probably a good time for me to explain the colored text. Essentially, whenever Riku lies, his dialogue tends to be surrounded by quotation marks in the scanlation: "like this". To differentiate Riku's lies from normal quotes, I'm going to be using red(?)-colored text to mark them when the text does. I'm still experimenting with what color is best for this, so bear with me if I keep changing it!)
Rena, having seen him when he entered the hospital, immediately calls him out on his BS and notes that he was rushing into the hospital as if he had some sort of "purpose". She accuses him of hiding something as Riku looks guilty.
How will this confrontation end? Find out in part 2!
edited 31st Oct '10 12:23:58 PM by BrightBlueInk
Current project: Cleaning up the Chrono Crusade examples one at a time. God help me.
It's all a conspiracy.
Chapter 1, Part 2
Heh, okay, I lied, the confrontation is sort of a non-issue from the point we're starting into this chapter. We switch from that scene back to the thugs, who are griping about being "looked down on" by Rena. Well, yeah, you guys are kind of useless; of course people will look down on you. The thug that Rena kicked in the face decides to teach Riku and gang a lesson and grabs one of the other thug's phones (he dropped his the same time he dropped Riku's) to call in some of the other gang members to take them on. As he brings the phone to his ear, it starts to make gibberish, static-y noises. He drops the phone and starts to shake as one of the other thug's cell phone starts to ring with a call from an unknown caller. As his buddies try to figure out what's wrong with him, the shaking thug's eyes start to split in two. Ugh! Back with Riku and the gang, all of their phones start to ring, too. Rena and Youhei both whip out two cell phones (much to Riku's confusion) and yell at Riku not to answer his cell "if you don't want to die." Youhei tells Riku that the hospital is now within "their 'field'." Rena stomps onto the cell phone that the thug left behind, breaking it, then demands Riku's cell so that she can do the same thing to his phone. Riku freaks out and clutches his cell phone, not wanting to give it over because of the photo in it. Youhei scolds Rena for scaring him, but she insists that Riku will be ambushed if they don't do something. Speak of the devil, the three of them hear a noise, and crawling on a window behind Riku is the Eye Scream'd thug, who's now mutated into a spider-like monster and carrying the torn-apart body (the torso and the head, really) of one of the other thugs in his teeth. The thug-monster throws the body through the glass at Riku, who (understandably) freaks out and runs screaming out of the room, still clutching his cell. Youhei runs after him to try to keep him safe while Rena stays behind to take on the monster, but not before she warns Youhei to be careful, because Riku is a "liar" and "could possibly be..." ...something. As Youhei leaves the room, Rena unsnaps her red coat to reveal a tube top and a pair of booty shorts, then whirls around to face the monster, calling it a "kanshu." *
Riku runs out into the hospital's lobby and throws up, still trying to process the reality of what he just saw. Youhei catches up with him and puts his hand on his shoulder, which causes Riku to jump and scream while Youhei tries to get him to calm down. He manages to convince Riku to give him his cell while promising that he'll just turn it off and won't smash it, apologizing for Rena freaking him out. (He's reeeally taking this whole kanshu thing pretty calmly, even though he obviously has an idea of what they are.) As he turns off his phone, he notices the photo of Amane and asks Riku if that's why he didn't want to give his phone over. Riku says it is, then Youhei teases him and tells him to just make copies of the photo. (I think something might have been lost in translation here, Riku's response sounds more like Youhei told him to take a photo of her.) Riku says he can't, that the picture is "all he has". "This is the only picture...Amane-nee isn't here anymore." ("Nee" is an honoriffic for "big sister", by the way—and I should've linked to that page earlier, sorry!) He tells Youhei that even though Amane is gone, he got the picture and a text saying "find me" earlier that day, and when he recognized the hospital in the photo he decided to come look for her. Youhei asks what happened to her, but Riku says he wouldn't believe him if he told him. "Nobody believes me. I don't...want to be called a liar anymore..." Uh, dude, didn't you establish in the opening narration that you are a liar?
Anyway, Youhei suddenly grabs Riku and throws him behind him. Riku turns and sees Youhei get hit with several spikes that pierce through his arms and legs thrown by two kanshu that begin to close in on the pair. He panics and asks in terror what the monsters are, and Youhei tells him that he shouldn't answer his phone or he'll be "infected." He starts to explain, then shakes his head and says that Riku wouldn't believe him, that people usually think he's insane when he tells. Riku shouts at him that even if he didn't believe him, the monsters are right in front of him...and Youhei winks, telling Riku that the world is "full of stories that sound like lies", just like the kanshu, but if you refuse to tell people they won't have a chance to believe you in the first place. He pulls the spikes out of his body and reassures Riku that he'll be fine, because a "jinki user" can't die from something like that. He then asks Riku to close his eyes as one of the kanshu starts to charge toward them, which Riku is all too happy to do. Youhei shouts "Awaken! JINKI!" A glove forms around his hand, a blade appears in it, and he gets strange markings around his eyes, then charges forward and slices the attacking kanshu into several bits in the blink of an eye. This causes a blast of power that flies at Riku, sending him tumbling out of the room. Oops.
Riku wobbles to his feet and wonders what happened (his eyes were closed, remember), but doesn't seem to be too hurt. But before he has a chance to get his bearings, he hears a noise behind him and turns to see another kanshu stalking toward him. He starts to run in the other direction, but realizes to his horror that up ahead is the hospital garden that he and Amane used to spend time—and it's a dead end. The kanshu attacks Riku as he enters the garden and wounds his arm. Riku thinks to himself that he still hasn't found any clues about Amane and starts to whimper her name, crawling backwards away from the kanshu. His hand bumps into an egg-shaped cocoon as he crawls, and light starts to shine from the egg, which hits the kanshu, disintegrating it into dust. Riku turns and looks at the cocoon, placing his hands on it, as he narrates the close of the chapter: "Now that I think about it, this is when the lies truly began. The beginning of bitterly tender lies that enveloped the world."
Overall, this chapter is a pretty normal introduction, but that doesn't mean it's a bad one. It does a good job of setting up the world and introducing us to (who I'm assuming will be) the three main characters. It also introduces us to what I expect will be a running theme: the impact of Riku's lies on his life and those around him. It remains to be seen if this becomes An Aesop or not.
Riku, Rena and Youhei are already reminding me of character tropes that Moriyama used in Chrono Crusade. Like I mentioned when she showed up, Rena's obviously The Stoic, if not a downright Emotionless Girl, and she even looks pretty similar to Fiore, the Emotionaless Meido from the villian's crew in CC. (Of course, Rena doesn't appear to be a villain...or is she?) She's also got Rapunzel Hair, which a lot of characters in Chrono Crusade had. Youhei, on the other hand, looks and acts sort of like a younger version of Father Remington, who was a mentor of Rosette, the main character in CC. Youhei's definitely more of a best friend to Riku than the higher-ranking officer Remington was to Rosette, but he's already showing hints of being a mentor-like character with the short speech he gave to Riku about thinking people won't believe him. My guess is he'll end up being a Big Brother Mentor.
Riku's the most unique of the three characters so far (in comparison to CC characters at least), and also the character that gets the most development in this opening chapter (which is appropriate, since he's the protagonist). He looks a biiit like Chrono from Chrono Crusade with his round baby-face and shaggy hair, but beyond that and the mysterious dead woman from his past he's not really all that similar to him. On the surface level, he's not all that much like Rosette, either—Rosette is a Hot-Blooded Action Girl and a far cry from the behavior that Riku's showing in this chapter. However, they do have one thing in common—both of them are flawed. Rosette has a knack for getting herself in trouble and is a textbook Destructive Savior. On the other hand, the most prominent character traits that Riku has shown so far is that he's sort of a wimp, and he's a liar. When he's not running away in terror, he's whimpering over Amane. It’s not the greatest first impression and I have a feeling that he'd give Shinji Ikari vibes to other people. That being said, I don't really find him unlikable—he's obviously supposed to be a normal guy, and this situation is definitely not normal, so it's understandable that he'd be freaked out. And there's also that brief hint that the reason why he's become such a liar—he apparently knows something about Amane's death that nobody believed when he told them. If I know Moriyama, we're not going to find out what that is until much later in the story. I hope you like waiting.
Also, can I just say that the kanshu are creepy as hell? I mean, the virus being spread by cell phone is a little hokey, but it also turns an everyday item into an agent of hell, and with their spidery legs, split open eyes and facial features skewed like a Picasso painting, they look genuinely frightening. Moriyama already seems dead-set on taking advantage of the fact that he's writing for an older audience, too, between the torn-apart corpse that gets thrown at poor Riku and the brief Attempted Rape scene. Hopefully he won't go over-the-top in an attempt to prove this isn't kid's stuff, but the manga version of Chrono Crusade never sacrificed plot or characters for the sake of being Darker and Edgier *, so I'm reasonably confident that World Embryo will end up the same way.
Well, that's it for chapter 1! I know this was a little long, so thanks for bearing with me. The next chapter is about half the length as this one, so it should have a short summary overall. See you next chapter!
edited 1st Nov '10 9:07:21 PM by BrightBlueInk
Current project: Cleaning up the Chrono Crusade examples one at a time. God help me.
I am now a shiny stone~
I highly suggest you import the Chuang Yi release, it's hit the 6th volume by now, I should think.
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
It's all a conspiracy.
Oh, hey, thanks for the tip! I'll try to see if I can find a place to buy those.
Current project: Cleaning up the Chrono Crusade examples one at a time. God help me.
It's all a conspiracy.
Okay, looks like it's time for (part 1 of) chapter 2!
The Dramatis Personae so far (partially for my sake, I'm horrible with names):
- Riku Amami
◊: The protagonist. An Ordinary High-School Student who so far has failed at being heroic—he's a wimp and an admitted liar. He apparently became a compulsive liar after nobody believed his story about the mysterious disappearance of his relative, Amane.
- Youhei Takebe◊: A childhood friend of Riku's and a "jinki user". He's a goof that keeps in high spirits even when fighting the kanshu. Seems to be some sort of partner to Rena.
- Rena Arisugawa◊: An aloof partner of Youhei's that kicks her fair share of ass.
- Amane◊: A mysterious relative of Riku's, Youhei can't remember if she was his sister or cousin. Something happened to her before the story proper. Riku recieved a text saying "find me" with a picture of her attached, which drove him to search the abandoned hospital for her. Riku seems very attached to her.
- Kanshu◊: A strange breed of monster that infects people through cell phones, turning them into hideous demons.
Chapter 2: Cocoon (part 1)
The chapter opens with Youhei slicing through another kanshu, then laughing as he powers down, saying "that's sixty." Rena's phone starts to ring as more kanshu enters the area and she points them out to Youhei. The kanshu seem to try to provoke Rena and Youhei into leaving the area, but before they follow them, Youhei calls out for Riku. Riku looks out of the broken glass of the hospital's greenhouse and shouts to Youhei that he's not hurt, who breathes a sigh of relief. Youhei asks if he can get out of the garden safely, which Riku confirms, then Rena starts trying to rush Youhei out the door because the kanshu are getting away. Youhei says a quick goodbye to Riku as he runs out the door, while Riku shouts after them to wait, trying to show them the strange cocoon he found in the garden.
In the next panel, Riku's eyes open and he sits up in bed, wondering if it was All Just a Dream...but then he sees the cocoon on the floor next to his bed and decides it must've been real. There's a brief shot of him frying eggs (maybe to make a joke about him cooking the cocoon, I don't know) and then as he finishes breakfast he calls out for "Shizuru-san". After several attempts to call for her, he huffs a little and stands in front of her door, calling her "Mom" instead. A woman that looks in her early thirties at the oldest * throws open the door, her eyes tearing up and excitedly exclaiming that he finally called her mom—but then he immediately switches back to Shizuru-san and she realizes she's been duped into getting up for breakfast. They sit down to eat as the morning news drones in the background about a mysterious incident which will probably be important to the plot at some point. Shizuru whines that she doesn't have anything important to do, so she should be allowed to sleep in, while Riku questions her work ethic considering she's self-employed. She starts to tell Riku about a case they had at her clinic yesterday—apparently she's a vet—while Riku thinks to himself that he feels bad for anyone that comes in with patients for her. Shizuru finishes her breakfast and slumps over onto the table, preparing to sleep right then and there, as Riku yells at her to "at least sleep on your futon!" Shizuru decides to take this as permission to go back to bed, so Riku basically throws his hands up in the air and storms out the door and on to class.
Just as an aside, I've read a few chapters ahead and I'm still not exactly sure what the make-up of Riku's family is. Between the way that Riku pretty much refuses to call Shizuru "mom" and the fact that she looks pretty young, this scene makes it pretty clear that she's his stepmother (which gets confirmed in a later scene). That being said, his Dad just...isn't around. It's a pretty obvious absence from the very beginning, and no, so far it hasn't been explained if he's dead, or working out of the country or...what. While this scene plays out pretty organically and still shows Riku and Shizune's relationship, I do really hope that it gets explained a little more clearly later on in the story because I've spent several scenes at Riku's home scratching my head over it.
Anyway, Riku makes it to class and cheerfully greets his three friends, Kijima, Tashiro, and Masaki. They talk about it being the end of the semester, and one of his friends (Masaki?), a girl, comments that it's a little sad that they'll be going into different classes at the beginning of the 2nd year. Riku's dark-haired friend (Kouta, apparently) jokes that it'll at least be nice to get rid of the noisy classmates, and the girl shouts at him to shut up. Those two are totally going to get married.
A woman wearing a doo rag and a track outfit sneaks up behind them and snarkily agrees with Kouta on getting rid of the noisy students. Kouta and the Tsundere jump and exclaim "Ken-Chan, when did you—?!" before the woman corrects them. "It's Kenmochi-Sensei!" Obviously, this is their teacher. At first she looks like she's smoking but it turns out she's just got a sucker in her mouth—I want to think this is a joking reference to the {{4Kids}} dub of One Piece but I'm guessing it's just a coincidence. Kenmochi-sensei gives a short speech to the students about there being a week left until the end of the semester, so it's "just gonna be a challenge of stamina." This makes all of the students realize she's as ready for the end of semester as they are. As the lesson begins, Riku muses to himself that sitting in class like this makes the events of the first chapter feel like they never even happened. He starts thinking that all the friends he's made in his first year of high school have made him feel "at peace." "Al of it...is already starting to drift away." ("All of it" probably being the mysterious circumstances surrounding Amane's death.)
His mind starts to drift off to the day before, and then he suddenly has a realization—he can remember going to find Amane, and meeting Youhei, but his mind is blank after that. He knows he's forgetting a "something" that Youhei saved him from...
The focus turns to Youhei and Rena, who have apparently been chasing after the Kanshu since the night before and are currently running around an Absurdly Spacious Sewer. Youhei notices that it's already 9 in the morning and groans, asking Rena if they can just go home. She insists that they're getting away, but Youhei points out that "at the rate we've been going, they're probably already long gone..." He then grins and points out that even Rena is worn out, tugging her close and petting her head. Rena blushes and pulls herself out of his arms. (Awww, cute...is this the start of a Love Triangle or was I totally misreading the interaction between Riku and Rena last chapter?)
Rena then remembers the injuries Youhei got last night protecting Riku, but he shows that his arm is completely healed and notes "Jinki really are convenient, huh?" He hopes that Riku's okay after getting dragged into the fight, and Rena asks him if Riku saw his transformation. Youhei tells her that he told Riku to keep his eyes closed, so Rena shrugs and says that means he should've forgotten everything. Youhei agrees, but asks Rena if he should check once they're done in the sewer, to which she responds that he's "acting a bit hasty." That sorta seems to be Youhei's shitck in general, yeah.
On the next page...huh? Suddenly they're surrounded by kanshu? I checked a few different sites to make sure but yeah, either the scanlators accidentally left out a page or it really is that sudden. Youhei, still not taking the kanshu at all seriously, jokes that this sort of fight will be tough for Rena. She snaps back that if he keeps up his "frivolous talk" that he'll be sliced along with the monsters, which gets a joking "Uwahh, scary!" from Youhei. After a few more lines of back-and-forth between the two, they prepare to charge into battle.
edited 2nd Nov '10 9:36:25 PM by BrightBlueInk
Current project: Cleaning up the Chrono Crusade examples one at a time. God help me.
Hi everyone! My name is Haley (or Bright Blue Ink / BBI). I’ve been having a lot of fun reading everyone’s liveblogs, and I’ve wanted to give it a try. After going through several options, I’ve decided to do a (mostly) blind read-through of Daisuke Moriyama’s latest manga, World Embryo.
Q: World Embryo? Huh?
Don’t look at me, I didn’t name it! I think it might actually relate to the plot somehow, but as I said above I’m mostly going into this blind, so I have no idea what it actually means. For now, let’s just call it a Word Salad Title.
Q: Okay, why this series?
I’m a very big fan of Moriyama’s previous work, Chrono Crusade, and I’ve been meaning to sit down and give this manga a try for quite a while now, but kept getting distracted before I could get past the first five chapters or so. I wanted to liveblog a series that I wasn’t yet familiar with, but I still had a good chance of enjoying—and if this series is half as good as Chrono Crusade, it should be a fun ride!
Q: So what’s World Embryo about?
From what I’ve seen from the first couple of chapters and a glance at Wikipedia, the story follows a boy named Riku *, a Japanese highschooler who became a compulsive liar after the mysterious death of Amane, his childhood friend and step-aunt (his step-mother’s younger sister). * Through a series of circumstances I’ll cover in the liveblog, he gets drawn into a conflict with a race of demons known as “Kanshu” that can “infect”/possess people through their cell phones.
Although Chrono Crusade was a shounen title, it was already pretty dark. World Embryo, however, is published in Young King OURs, a magazine for older teens and young adults that has also published Hellsing, Trigun Maximum and Excel Saga…so it looks like this series is going to crank the darkness up a notch in tone. From what I’ve read so far, World Embryo stands on its own while still having several similarities in plot and tone with Chrono Crusade (partially due to Author Appeal, I think), so I’ll probably be frequently comparing the two.
Q: Wait, does this mean I have to know Chrono Crusade to enjoy this liveblog?
Nah. While I do plan on comparing it to Chrono Crusade when it’s relevant, I don’t want that to be the main focus—my goal is to make this enjoyable whether you’re a fan of ‘’Chrono Crusade’’ or if you’ve never read a single page of any of Moriyama’s works. I’ll also avoid spoiling CC unless I think the comparison is ‘’really’’ relevant, and when I do I’ll make sure to hide them under spoiler tags.
Q: How will you be following the series?
Scanlations. Sadly, although the manga is licensed by Dark Horse for over a year the American edition hasn’t been released yet *. It ‘’has’’ been translated into English for an Australian edition by Madman, but I don’t think importing those are very feasible for me right now. Luckily, the fan translation seems pretty good from what I can tell, and I also plan on going back and comparing Dark Horse’s translation to the fan translation as soon as their version becomes available.
Q: What will the update schedule be like?
I’m hoping to post the first chapter up tonight or tomorrow, and then get a summary of each chapter once or twice a week after that. World Embryo chapters are released once a month and are longer than typical weekly-released series, so the summaries might end up a little long—I’ll split them into two parts if they get to be too much.
Well, I hope you guys will enjoy this! Please let me know if you have any feedback or questions, since this is my first liveblog it’ll be a bit of a learning experience for me.
edited 30th Oct '10 4:14:55 PM by BrightBlueInk
Current project: Cleaning up the Chrono Crusade examples one at a time. God help me.