Strays

Strays is closing down. The only thing really keeping us running was the DDL server donated by Stormbringer. GGpX is taking the projects he wishes to for Illuminati-Manga.

It’s been a fun and I’m quite certain Siedhr would have something deep and meaningful to say here but it’s been a hell of a couple weeks for me and I just can’t think of anything specific other than thanks to those of you who showed us support over these many years.

Unfortunately the downloads are already down, there’s nothing I can do about that. Previous releases should be up on Lurk’s bots.

We haven’t been getting anything out due to a bum mouse and some other things that prevent Not_Log from doing work.

The good news: there’s a bunch of releases in queue, and I’m getting money back from taxes so I can get a new mouse and possibly a tablet.

The bad news: shit’s gonna have to sit in queue until this new mouse/tablet gets here. No idea how long this will take, hopefully it won’t be too terribly long.

Well if you’re here you may or may not have noticed we have a new site and proper domain now. Update your bookmarks to http://straysscans.net or you won’t be able to get to us again as of Sunday!

Report any broken links on pages after Sept. 2007 in this post. Anything before then I haven’t bothered to fix yet. All links should be fixed, report broken ones here.

edit: We were not directly responsible for MU’s complete purge of our series. I informed them that they needed to update the links changing strays.vnmanga.com to straysscans.net or purge them, they chose to purge them.

Due to the mothersite not getting donations for hosting and I would presume lack of further motivation Gh0st has decided to shut down vnmanga.com. Currently I am seeing what I can do to get the site hosted elsewhere, but I cannot be sure that I will be able to get everything done in the week we have until vnmanga shuts down. If I cannot get everything set up I will post updates here:

http://mangahelpers.com/s/strays

We now have new hosting set up, I will post the link here once we get the domain set up.

So I promised to give out some links and here they are:

First a couple of short stories translated by zindryr:
The Pale House in the Cold Forest
Kazari and Yoko
They’re both pretty fucked up but good.

3dbooru
Giant model repository run by nil who donated us a second secluded ftp space so I can recruit some new kids without fear. Tons of cosplay.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled waiting for chapters.

I may as well explain what’s going on with vagabond, too, vallanhaamu who signed on to do it proceeded to get really really busy shortly after we brought her on, we have them cleaned and ready to go but we’re waiting for her to get the time to translate.

There is no significant change between the split releases and this release. This one has a new credits page, new filenames, and has been crushed for about 4mb space savings. I didn’t actually touch anything else. This is just so people have an easier way to get the entirety of volume 4 without having to deal with multiple zips. Split zips will go away when I get around to it or possibly when someone gets around to updating the release page. Split zips are gone.

DDL

I also, when reading through volume 2, noticed that there was a page missing and a duplicate in MangaScreener’s version. The duped page is 64 and here is the proper version, done by us.

In other news, ballzy has been making sort of regular updates to the wiki and I have created new categories for those of you wishing to just look for a certain series’ blog posts. Unrelated, Yoshitomi has revealed news of School Mermaid 2, it has started serialization as of this week/month. We will likely be doing this if scans ever show up.

Strays has been scanlating Vagabond for the past year and recently our translator decided to up and drop it with little notice. In order to continue providing good quality scans of Vagabond (or any scans at all) we need to find another translator. Proofreading, consistency, etc can be provided to prospective translators if they believe that might be a problem. As this is a weekly series we would like translations to come in a timely manner but we can work with any translator to work out some kind of schedule. Apply by leaving me message here, PMing me on mangahelpers, our forum (Not_Log on both,) posting a thread on our forum, or emailing us at strays [dot] scans@gmail.com . I can also be contacted on irchighway under the nick Log or Not_Log . Already replaced that took 2 minutes.

In other sad news, Magazine Z has recently been canned. This was the home to staff favorites Companion and Chevalier and it’s a shame to see it go.

In less terrible news, we will be adding some color bonus pages to Jackals with the help of sTFun.

Edit 4:30pm: Also the wiki has been brought up to date thanks to ballzy.

So like tonight I was going to release 4 different things only to realize none of them are done. Two of them still need edits (one of these two may come tomorrow) one of them is missing color pages and the other one is done but it’s a chapter after 2 beyond what we’ve released (feel free to speculate what was what in the comments.)

edit: let me clarify the conditions here since some of you aren’t very good at this game. 3 series, 4 chapters, no series had an impact on another series.

It was suggested I make a post on the front page so here goes.

Everything is on temporary hold again as I have killed a second computer and I won’t dare try to run photoshop on an eee. Once I get a desktop PC again I should have a few releases pretty much right away, as I’ve been kicking everyone’s butts to get things ready for when I can do QC again.

edit: yes computer ordered. no I’m not coming back to #strays for a while. no we’re not dead ignore anyone who says otherwise.

7/13 edit: For some reason I’m getting wierd behavior on vagabond so it’s temporarily stalled until I can get our other QCer to take care of it. KoT and possibly more coming soon.

also, ixi hush.

Yes we know raws for My Balls and Vagabond are out, don’t worry, we have them all. Stop spamming the comments with urls and notifications, they will be purged.