Wednesday, January 4, 2017

I'm Not Dead Yet

Although I did come uncomfortably close over the past year. But enough about my health.

Mizusho 2 has gotten to six volumes now. That might be the end of it; I haven't gotten a definite answer yet. I do know that Shinobu Inokuma is doing another series now, reviving Salad Days, the high school comedy-drama he did before the first Mizusho.

I've lost all my volumes of both Mizusho series, so I doubt I will be bringing more transaltions to you anytime soon. With copyright lawyers waxing fat off the Digital Millenium Act and MangaFox taking off more and more scanlations including Mizusho (which has never been licensed here) the era of scanlation may be ending. It's yet another case of an industry shooting itself in the foot with the help of greedy lawyers; scanlation was what really created a wider popularity for manga in the United States. And now the lawyers are beginning to go after fanfics; look at CBS taking the makers of a Star Trek fanmade movie to court, even while Star Trek Discovery seems to be crashing even before it gets released.