Bakeneko System

FWIW, the webcomic has finally moved past the seventeen chapters published in the three tankobon volumes.  Chapter 18 came out yesterday, entitled "Preparations for the Festival".

Good lord that Aoi catgirl is sexy when she's looking all shy and embarrassed.

Why I can't stop reading this manga title as "Bakaneko system" I wonder.

Definitely a good time for this to show up, i've been needing an infusion of cute recently. It seems like even some of the characters are here to enjoy the cuteness as well.

Aoi seems to express herself better reciting poetry than in talking normally.  Or so it seems.

Who else? And why won't that picture delete/spoilertag properly?

Picture delete: Try editing the message in its raw form.  Click on the first button on the tool bar to toggle the BBCode mode.
 
Who else?  The mangaka for Nariyuki Makase, Nishino Juutarou.  Similar to what has happened to Bakeneko System, that series was switched to webcomic format part-way along too, and there was doubt for a while as to what was happening.  So I asked the guy.  And he answered.  That was April 2013.
 
I tried to send a question to Nagesaki Yuna in October 2015 regarding Tamanyan and whether or when would be her next series, but got no response.  I found out later that she was in crunch-time with Sora x Lila, and had medical issues beyond that.  Not a good time for her.
 
And then there was the conversation with Yokoshima Takemaru regarding Bakeneko System in May 2016.  

That's all I can find scanning through my Outlook Mail folders.

FWIW, this was not the first mangaka I've gotten a response from.

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Who else? And why won't that picture delete/spoilertag properly?

wait wait wait, the mangaka himself responded to you?? 
 
also it was in japanese the mail??

Yes and yes.  I did some research, discovered his personal e-mail (attached to his twitter account, I believe), and wrote a very simple question to him in Japanese.  He responded a few days later, and we went back and forth a couple of times working out our mutual misunderstandings.  
 
Part of his misunderstanding came from the precise timing of my message.  He thought I was asking when the next chapter would be serialized to the webcomic (which I didn't know about at that point), when I was simply trying to ask if the series as a whole would be continued beyond the third tankobon.  As it happened, he was busily working on pushing a chapter out to the webcomic at that moment, and so thought I was asking him about that.
 
FWIW, this was not the first mangaka I've gotten a response from.  Perhaps my second, or maybe third.  For obvious reasons, scanlation is never the topic of the conversation.  And my average for getting any response at all is only about 30% or so.  Mangaka are busy people, and their corporations would prefer to keep them from being distracted by their fans.
 
And from said Twitter account, I find this bit of cuteness, dated a couple of days ago.  I don't know whether it was from the mangaka himself, or fan art.
 

I tend to agree with you.  In this case, I discovered the series on Amazon JP over a year after the third tankobon was released.  It did not appear that the series was complete, so I did some digging, found the mangaka's e-mail address, and asked him directly when the next tankobon would be coming out, if ever.  He misunderstood my question at first (no surprise: I may be able to read Japanese more or less, but I have little practice writing it), but we got it sorted out.  He told me the series was going to be re-released as a webcomic, and then presumably would continue from there.  Since then, twelve chapters have been released that way.  But, all those chapters were serialized several years ago (2013-2014) in 'Comic GUM' (a seinen monthly) and collected into three tankobons before the series went into hiatus.

 

All the above tells me the series, while cute, was not received with rave reviews.  I have my suspicions as to why, but to confirm those suspicions I will have to translate a few more chapters.  And if I'm going to translate anything at all, why would I not share the results?

 

Since this particular mangaka can be seen (from Manga Updates) to have hentai leanings, my worst fear for this series is that it may drift off too far in that direction.  If it does, I may be obliged by my personal scruples to set it aside.  We shall see.

wait wait wait, the mangaka himself responded to you?? 

 

also it was in japanese the mail?? 

When your being used to heard sasuke as some badass ninja instead its half neko human hybrid that looks like a girl Followed

Glasses girl and cats, I can see why I must follow this manga mmm...

Y...yay?

 

I have nothing against them but webcomics tend to be very hit or miss.

I tend to agree with you.  In this case, I discovered the series on Amazon JP over a year after the third tankobon was released.  It did not appear that the series was complete, so I did some digging, found the mangaka's e-mail address, and asked him directly when the next tankobon would be coming out, if ever.  He misunderstood my question at first (no surprise: I may be able to read Japanese more or less, but I have little practice writing it), but we got it sorted out.  He told me the series was going to be re-released as a webcomic, and then presumably would continue from there.  Since then, twelve chapters have been released that way.  But, all those chapters were serialized several years ago (2013-2014) in 'Comic GUM' (a seinen monthly) and collected into three tankobons before the series went into hiatus.

 

All the above tells me the series, while cute, was not received with rave reviews.  I have my suspicions as to why, but to confirm those suspicions I will have to translate a few more chapters.  And if I'm going to translate anything at all, why would I not share the results?

 

Since this particular mangaka can be seen (from Manga Updates) to have hentai leanings, my worst fear for this series is that it may drift off too far in that direction.  If it does, I may be obliged by my personal scruples to set it aside.  We shall see.

FWIW, there are currently three volumes.  The series got put on hiatus for quite a while, but then was revived as a webcomic.  The artist has been releasing a chapter every other week, and has re-released a dozen of the chapters so far.  Even so, he has a ways to go before he releases everything that was in the original three volumes.

Y...yay?

 

I have nothing against them but webcomics tend to be very hit or miss.

Just for grins, check out this Facebook page.  Apparently there is a yearly (in October) Bakeneko Parade somewhere in Japan.  Anybody may participate, as long as they dress up as a cat.

Cat girls? Insta-follow

Hmmm . . . this small cute thing seems less a bakeneko and more a bakenuko.

Remember what the other cats said about Sasuke being a half-grown bakeneko.  And compare her to Aoi (name filched from the next chapter), the bakeneko that snatched Sasuke at the end of this chapter.  Beyond that, I cannot say yet.

Hmmm . . . this small cute thing seems less a bakeneko and more a bakenuko.

Normally I wait until a manga gets to about chapter 4 before I follow, because so many get a chapter or two and then disappear as whoever gets bored with them.  But I saw "bakeneko" and I thought, "Say, I wonder if this has the rpapo seal of approval".  Looked at the scanlator and aha.  So here I am.

If anybody's interested, the webcomic lives here.  It's in Japanese, of course.  Twelve chapters have been posted there so far, and the printed tankobons go through chapter 17.  So far.

Cats, cats, cats- my dream situation!!!!

In rpapo I trust

Something I found most of a year ago.  Bought it in January, scanned it in February, cleaned it in March, worked on it page by page as I was bored or stuck on other things.  Enjoy!

 

FWIW, there are currently three volumes.  The series got put on hiatus for quite a while, but then was revived as a webcomic.  The artist has been releasing a chapter every other week, and has re-released a dozen of the chapters so far.  Even so, he has a ways to go before he releases everything that was in the original three volumes.