421cookies

421cookies 1 year ago



@ Whelp, I knew Plykiya would do this interview soon or later. Tooko Have you crossdressed before? May I get some of your love nectar? no homo tho.

AdekHamilBang

AdekHamilBang 1 year ago Tooko

Hello, I'm a new sole scanlator who is currently doing 2 series at the moment. And so, you as an experienced sole translator, is there any advice you can give to cheer new sole scanlator so that they won't give up midway? Hello, I'm a new sole scanlator who is currently doing 2 series at the moment. And so, you as an experienced sole translator, is there any advice you can give to cheer new sole scanlator so that they won't give up midway? ago by Last edited 1 yearby AdekHamilBang

redpandamaniacal

redpandamaniacal 1 year ago A much appreciated group. Somehow, I didn't realize that Hachimitsu Scans was one person. I've been a huge fan of their taste in works up until now. If I see that they've scanlated something, then I know it'll probably be something that I'll be interested in.

Wolvenworks

Wolvenworks 1 year ago AdekHamilBang proofreading is very important. the fact that there's an actual position/job for making sure whatever someone typed actually makes sense is a proof to that. the more sensible your TL is, the less load you put for your proofie, and the less people will whine about your "shit TLs" and demoralize you.

theHist

theHist 1 year ago Thank you so much!!!! I love your scans <3

Baqly

Baqly 1 year ago I really appreciated what this group has worked on, some of my ferrite series were translated by this group and I always had an smile in my face when I saw the Hachimitsu logo before reading a manga. Im always enjoy the series this group translated and some of these were the one that got me into manga to begin with. Thanks for all amazing work! I hope you continue being amazing!

Ceiye

Ceiye 1 year ago Wow, I just realized how much manga from your group I've read. Like, I always figured it was a lot, since it felt like at least one was on the front page of my follows at any given time, but I've never actually checked your group page. Just a sea of green and blues... Thank you for all your hard work! ago by Last edited 1 yearby Ceiye

JasmineTea

JasmineTea 1 year ago Huh, I remember seeing you and your merry solo team and though "oh, started not too long ago! let's see where the honey goes" and ... I guess you can claim the "veteran" status now, after all the other teams came and went! I guess I think I'm supposed to ask a question here so... how has your relationship with the readers and other teams' been? I've noted changes in the things people comment about as time went on and as websites change, so I guess... do you read comments? Has the tone changed over the years, stayed the same, or anything?

Tooko

Tooko 1 year ago Lymus

I generally love all types of honey as long as it's not the super cheap kind, but neem honey is one of my favorites.



@421cookies

I suppose I'll just have to leave that up to your imagination. But in the immortal words of En from Usotsuki Lily:





@AdekHamilBang

Burn out is an all-too common thing for scanlators, especially for new scanlators that can quickly feel overwhelmed if they pick up too many series at once. Scanlation is, at times, a very thankless hobby that requires a lot of time (and sometimes money) to put out quality work. As Wolvenworks alluded to, translation quality is usually the number 1 thing readers look for in a release, since if you can't understand the translation, you can't understand the story, so putting the most emphasis on translation accuracy and fluency in English is something readers are going to appreciate almost more than anything else. I suppose the best advice I can give is to have dedication to your scanlation work and take a certain amount of pride in the work you put out, since it's a reflection of how much effort you put into each chapter, which readers will easily pick up on. If you don't think you can handle the workload all on your own, try to recruit other members. The only other thing is to make sure that you love whatever you're working on. If you don't love a series, working on it can feel like a chore, or worse a burden, giving you very little motivation to want to work on it and release more chapters. I've been there with certain series, but I don't believe in dropping anything, so I just plow through stuff like that and then move on to other things. Lastly, if you feel you need to take a break, then do so. You can always come back to a series later if you need some time away from a particular series or scanlation in general.



@JasmineTea

My relationship with the readers of the series I work on has generally been a positive one over the years. Even initially, I got a lot of positive comments from people when I first started working on Usotsuki Lily and Kuragehime, even though I was such a noob at scanlation back then that I really didn't deserve the kind of appreciation I was getting, though I guess the chapters I was putting out weren't that bad for someone just starting out. For other teams, I've only worked on joints with a few other groups over the years, but I can't say that there were any major problems. In fact, working on Reversible as one of my earliest joints was very positive for me, since it helped me transition to improving my own scanlation skills.



I do read every single comment on both the blog and on the manga/chapter pages here. One of the things I enjoy the most about scanlation is seeing other people read, enjoy and discuss series I work on since I don't really get the opportunity to join the conversation myself. I don't get that many comments on the blog per post anymore, but that's just a change in the overall way people read scanlations now than how it was a decade ago. As for the tone, I feel it's been pretty much the same over the years in that commenters are appreciative of the work I do, which is very uplifiting and motivating. I generally love all types of honey as long as it's not the super cheap kind, but neem honey is one of my favorites.I suppose I'll just have to leave that up to your imagination. But in the immortal words of En from Usotsuki Lily:Burn out is an all-too common thing for scanlators, especially for new scanlators that can quickly feel overwhelmed if they pick up too many series at once. Scanlation is, at times, a very thankless hobby that requires a lot of time (and sometimes money) to put out quality work. As Wolvenworks alluded to, translation quality is usually the number 1 thing readers look for in a release, since if you can't understand the translation, you can't understand the story, so putting the most emphasis on translation accuracy and fluency in English is something readers are going to appreciate almost more than anything else. I suppose the best advice I can give is to have dedication to your scanlation work and take a certain amount of pride in the work you put out, since it's a reflection of how much effort you put into each chapter, which readers will easily pick up on. If you don't think you can handle the workload all on your own, try to recruit other members. The only other thing is to make sure that you love whatever you're working on. If you don't love a series, working on it can feel like a chore, or worse a burden, giving you very little motivation to want to work on it and release more chapters. I've been there with certain series, but I don't believe in dropping anything, so I just plow through stuff like that and then move on to other things. Lastly, if you feel you need to take a break, then do so. You can always come back to a series later if you need some time away from a particular series or scanlation in general.My relationship with the readers of the series I work on has generally been a positive one over the years. Even initially, I got a lot of positive comments from people when I first started working on Usotsuki Lily and Kuragehime, even though I was such a noob at scanlation back then that I really didn't deserve the kind of appreciation I was getting, though I guess the chapters I was putting out weren't that bad for someone just starting out. For other teams, I've only worked on joints with a few other groups over the years, but I can't say that there were any major problems. In fact, working on Reversible as one of my earliest joints was very positive for me, since it helped me transition to improving my own scanlation skills.I do read every single comment on both the blog and on the manga/chapter pages here. One of the things I enjoy the most about scanlation is seeing other people read, enjoy and discuss series I work on since I don't really get the opportunity to join the conversation myself. I don't get that many comments on the blog per post anymore, but that's just a change in the overall way people read scanlations now than how it was a decade ago. As for the tone, I feel it's been pretty much the same over the years in that commenters are appreciative of the work I do, which is very uplifiting and motivating. ago by Last edited 1 yearby Tooko

bi7r

bi7r 1 year ago

i would never thought that Hachimitsu Scans was only one guy!

i am a big fan of your works thank you so much, i was visiting your blog almost daily till it got blocked in my country this year (fk u saudi arabia)

and to think that my one and only waifu Kei is also your favorite, you sure have a great taste.

Okama was such a great manga i really enjoyed , Hibari-kun! too, i even have my avatar from it

thank you so much @ holy!i would never thought that Hachimitsu Scans was only one guy!i am a big fan of your works thank you so much, i was visiting your blog almost daily till it got blocked in my country this year (fk u saudi arabia)and to think that my one and only waifu Kei is also your favorite, you sure have a great taste.Okama was such a great manga i really enjoyed , Hibari-kun! too, i even have my avatar from itthank you so much @ tooko ago by Last edited 1 yearby bi7r

bigstew00

bigstew00 1 year ago this is one of the better pieces, i hope hachi will release is works here to further archive since some places are...well it was a well done piece glory to ex

sukaley

sukaley 1 year ago



With all the time you spend scanlating, do you have time to read manga for pleasure? Do you usually read similar themes to what you scanlate, or do you have a favourite genre outside of gender-related? What are some of your recommendations of mangas you haven't scanlated (yet)? Wow, I never realised Hachimitsu Scans was just one person!!! @ Tooko , you're amazing! The quality of your scanlations and the pace at which you put them out are always incredible, and you've translated a lot of manga which have become my favourites (e.g. Shimanami Tasogare). Thank you focusing on a topic of manga that is so often not translated into English, and thank you for bringing exposure to more LGBT+ perspectives in manga. Although your projects range from light hearted to serious, they all have characters discovering themselves and becoming more and more unapologetic for not fitting in to societal norms, which I can definitely identify with, and I believe the core messages of some of the more serious stories are sorely needed in the scanlation and manga-reading community.With all the time you spend scanlating, do you have time to read manga for pleasure? Do you usually read similar themes to what you scanlate, or do you have a favourite genre outside of gender-related? What are some of your recommendations of mangas you haven't scanlated (yet)?

Tooko

Tooko 1 year ago sukaley

Although most of the manga I read I scanlate myself, there are some other manga I read for pleasure. Outside of gender bender-related series, yuri is my next favorite, and I guess this shouldn't come as a big surprise since I've worked on Nanashi no Asterism, and am currently doing Eden no Otome and (although it's just basically super subtext) Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru. Gender-themed and yuri take up about 99% of my reading habits for manga, at any rate.



I generally don't like recommending anything I ever intend to work on because I'd be afraid of it getting picked up by another group. This has actually happened quite a bit, and even more so in recent years, so I've had to be a little more aggressive recently about picking up and keeping up with certain series. I will say that there is a recommendations channel (and a lewd recommendations channel for hentai) on the group's discord server, and people regularly post series there that may or may not be scanlated. Although most of the manga I read I scanlate myself, there are some other manga I read for pleasure. Outside of gender bender-related series, yuri is my next favorite, and I guess this shouldn't come as a big surprise since I've worked on Nanashi no Asterism, and am currently doing Eden no Otome and (although it's just basically super subtext) Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru. Gender-themed and yuri take up about 99% of my reading habits for manga, at any rate.I generally don't like recommending anything I ever intend to work on because I'd be afraid of it getting picked up by another group. This has actually happened quite a bit, and even more so in recent years, so I've had to be a little more aggressive recently about picking up and keeping up with certain series. I will say that there is a recommendations channel (and a lewd recommendations channel for hentai) on the group's discord server, and people regularly post series there that may or may not be scanlated.

bluxaroo

bluxaroo 1 year ago Just wanna give my thanks. I've been reading Hachimitsu's releases since 2012 or so and Ookami Shounen and Kakukaku Shikajika are among my favorites. Here's to another nine years.

kimpo

kimpo 1 year ago WE Need more people like you thumbs up keep it up.

Bainhardt

Bainhardt 1 year ago Been a longtime reader of Hachimitsu, so I have to say thanks for the awesome work over the years and for continuing to be a juggernaut in your own corner of the scene! (´ー｀)b