Desert Punk

holy shit. time to reread this entire thing.

is this real life?

An update (in a sense): http://mibscanlations.blogspot.com/2017/01/desert-punk-status-its-not-good.html

Hrm, the Borderland OST does seem oddly fitting ...

Having reread the entire series over the past couple of days, I’m amazed that Desert Punk still has killed neither Junko nor Natsuko till now ...

Gosh, I'm dying to see a proper showdown between Kanta and Natsuko. The last one was kinda buried before the conclusion.
Natsuko is one strange person. Both her and Masaru confuse me in their reasoning... or rather lack of clarity of what they want to accomplish.

As for Junko, Kanta has not enough blood for his brain to work properly. This is why I don't like time skips. People can change a lot during three years, but Kanta was not diligent enough to wipe the underground off or he doesn't see them as a threat (either way I don't like him to be so passive - I'd find them and kill them off just in case if I was him), while the West suddenly got interested in hurons, meaning they can mess up with their toys. But it took whole three years of hiding or fooling around for all sides to finally act on it.

So I'm pretty sure Junko is still hanging around him.

Oh, oh, and I've been listening to a lot of Borderlands soundtrack while rereading. So much better than anime adaptation

Having reread the entire series over the past couple of days, I’m amazed that Desert Punk still has killed neither Junko nor Natsuko till now ...

@Pirx
Of course it's Taro.

Is it really?
 
Tagged for #77 and #86 spoilers:

Amagumo went toe to toe with Sunabozu and is considered as one of the best mercenaries.

@Pirx

Of course it's Taro.

Damn, Amagumo is a beast.

Wow, Taro looks way too much like Kanta when he's angry. Maybe this is deliberate, but when Sunabouzu shows back up he better be a bishie or have a beard so I can tell them apart.

I wonder if that's still "Taro". In chapter 77 he reacted on his original name, plus he seems to control himself better. His life is not in immediate danger now, this change looks more like a tactic.

That's Natsuko. This should help:

http://vatoto.com/reader#7512aa6ad72632c1_6

That's Natsuko. This should help:

 

http://vatoto.com/reader#7512aa6ad72632c1_6

To be fair she hardly looks like that anymore. 

>her smile and optimism, gone

Too much sameface, was that Sunabouzu on the last page?

That's Natsuko. This should help:

http://vatoto.com/reader#7512aa6ad72632c1_6

@Pirx and @Kyir

I've seen declarations about spreading the word but no real action . No new review on you could write a positive review/opinion on Mangaupdates or a comment on Reddit/Animesuki/Mangahelpers.

My approach can be better described as "screaming at people I know until they read it too."

I tossed up some reviews in various places under various names though. I hope it helps.

@Pirx and @Kyir
I've seen declarations about spreading the word but no real action . No new review on you could write a positive review/opinion on Mangaupdates or a comment on Reddit/Animesuki/Mangahelpers.

I love how the Sunabouzu has become the boogeyman.

@Pirx and @Kyir

I've seen declarations about spreading the word but no real action . No new review on you could write a positive review/opinion on Mangaupdates or a comment on Reddit/Animesuki/Mangahelpers.

Been following this series for what feels like half my life at this point (oh god the manga started when I was seven,) so I'm overjoyed to see it updating again. Wish I could do more to help than just spreading the word on it.

@Pirx

Thanks again. I would be especially grateful if you would write a review on Mangaupdates since if someone is checking manga out it's most likely there. Upvoting a post on Reddit also helps, our site has had a huge pageview increase thanks to it (FYI we do not have ads there so we're not making any money out of it but such exposure might lead to finding help that we need).

In Polish:

Nie wiem czy zauważyłeś, ale jestem Polakiem (zresztą już mój pseudonim powinien to sugerować). A jeśli chodzi o pomoc fotoszopową to może i się przyda pod warunkiem, że znajdę tłumacza. W międzyczasie możesz zerknąć na ten tutorial: http://www.insidescanlation.com/etc/The-Idiots-Guide-to-Editing-Manga/guide/main.html

@Pirx

Thanks for the kind words. Typesetting takes time (I'm not as fast as good scanlators) and I have more important things to do. But I'll try and post the last chapter of volume 13 in a week or so. If you want to see a scanlation of volume 14 though I recommend advertising that title wherever you can. 

/snip

Take all the time you need. I just felt the need to sound dramatic since nor Polish nor English have enough words to express how both excited and sad I am. T__T I don't know where to put this energy sometimes. It's been a while since another series I liked faced a dead end, but it got licensed in PL lately, so I do hope the best for Sunabouzu too.
As someone working with PS and photo manips/retouching for several years now, I could offer help, but I don't know much about this field of work.

I'll do what I can about bumping the topic here and there, even if upvotes from a fresh account may be a little too little. I dunno how reddit works, it's time to suck it up and learn.

As for the st, done and done. I'll be in that corner, waiting to see what are the precious brats up to.

@Pirx

Thanks for the kind words. Typesetting takes time (I'm not as fast as good scanlators) and I have more important things to do. But I'll try and post the last chapter of volume 13 in a week or so. If you want to see a scanlation of volume 14 though I recommend advertising that title wherever you can. Reddit is a good place to start. Also, you could write a positive review/opinion on Mangaupdates and rate it highly of course. That way more people might notice it when they search for good seinen manga.

There is also Animesuki and Mangaheleprs - I've been talking to myself in those places. It's no surprise this brilliant manga has no fandom when its fans don't even bother spreading the word.

And if you would be so kind please delete your spoiler. I know it's in spoiler tags but you're not informing what it's about and once someone clicks it there's a high chance someone will see the spoiler (every person who reads fast will definitely see it).

 We're still looking for a translator. If you have a reddit account bump this thread please, maybe we'll have more luck there.

Anyway it's good to see old Rain Spider again, no matter how crazy he has become..

He's no crazier than he was though, he's just intelligent, pragmatic and ruthless and it is precisely why he's one of the best mercenaries.