In the language of flowers, Quince means "HNNNG"

Today's release is a treat: a delicious new chapter of the "Floriography" series by Tooru Mizutani, detailing Hiroki and Rena's first time together. A bit light on the action, really, but a pretty nice read nonetheless. The book was chosen by Cucumis Sativus himself, also responsible for the translation— a round of applause for the man!

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This is apparently only the first part of the story the author originally planned to write— though I have no idea whether the second part was actually released or not, as I can't find any raws for that. Oh, and about the title— marmelo is a Portuguese loanword adopted by the Japanese for the quince blossom. In floriography, this flower can symbolize playful temptation or enticement when included in an arrangement, which fits the content of the doujin perfectly.

See ya!

Mary had a little discussion about race portrayals in porn

After the previous doujin by the same group me and FUKE released last January, here comes another chapter in the "Childhood Destruction" series by Turtle.Fish.Paint— and this also marks the first release of our newest addition to the family, as the translation has been provided by our resident slave unpaid intern homme à tout faire, translator and cucumber man AKA Cucumis Sativus! (I affectionately call him Gherkin. Or "You, boy, fetch me another bottle of wine before I whip you" from time to time.) A round of applause for the man!
Another wolf this time, with a creative reinterpretation of Grimm's "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids". Goat meat looks tasty~

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Yes, we got beaten to the punch by another translator. I'm not going to make a fuss about it, and given all the work we both put into this, we still decided to release it (and by the time the other translation was posted, I was 3/4 of the way in the edit, and the script was done, so it would have been a waste). Enjoy the spreads, at least!

Liked this? You can check another work of theirs we released in the past— and watch this space, because we might revisit them once again.

If you're curious about the title of the post, head past the break and read on.

Natsunokumo chapter 20

The fight between the mercenaries and the people of the Zoo is coming to a close with the match between Mitsuki and Gaur. The two seem to have some history, but as eager as Gaur is to settle the score, she seems to lose much of her bravado as the superiority of her opponent is made clear to her. Yet, as the people of the Zoo watch helplessly from the sidelines, Gaur might still have a trick up her sleeve to help her even out the odds.

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This marks the end of the "Group Encounter" arc and start of the fifth volume— and we're finally past the halfway point of the series! Thanks for the translation to mako, without whom we wouldn't have ever gotten so far!

Obligatory Self Introduction

Hi… Uh… Cucumis sativus here, Second Hand Scan’s newest bitch member. As Somebodyelse has already mentioned, we met on Phantasy Star Online 2, so I’ll dispense with the origin story (of our fated romantic meeting as we vanquish the ferocious dragon within a volcanic hell). When it comes to the Japanese language, it doesn’t take long for the conversation to head towards anime, manga, and ultimately porn. After a few exchanges about what we like and what we’ve read, Somebodyelse mentioned he was, well… Somebodyelse of Second Hand Scan’s fame. Long story short, I asked if I could join his merry little one man group. I know some Japanese and I have studied translation theory before, so this would be a fun little gig to stick my hands in.

So why the name Cucumis sativus? Let’s just say it’s a nod to one of my first hentai experiences, a really hardcore CG set depicting a busty girl in a bunny suit getting gangbanged by a bunch of demonic vegetables (this was just one of many scenarios). And when I say demonic vegetables, I’m not talking about anthropomorphic looking veggies manhandling a girl. They were literally vegetables with demonic faces (and tiny looking arms) going to town with this girl’s body. T’was a strange yet beautifully erotic sight to behold.

Anyway, I’m still getting my bearings straight with the whole scanlating gig. Somebodyelse is showing me the ropes in both his script preferences and editing tricks. Hopefully, the two of us will start producing some nice quality works together, plus the occasional lone wolf projects I’ll attempt. Projects will range from both naughty and safe.

I hope you look forward to it. Please be gentle.

Befriending strangers for fun and profit

I've recently been playing a bit of Phantasy Star Online 2 (a free-to-play title currently only available in Japan), thanks to the fan-made English patch having progressed far enough to have made most of the game understandable to someone who can't read more than two or three moon squiggles total. While having my ass handed to me— repeatedly— by one of the game early bosses (fuck you, rock-burrowing flame-breathing dragon thing, you're an asshole and I hate your guts), I happened to team up with a guy who could actually read all the flavor text that's still left untranslated from the patch (by the way, there's nothing of importance). We got to talking, I asked where he learned his Japanese, and chatted a while.

I got myself a new translator!

Soon-ish I'll have him introduce himself on here (after I give him access to the blog... what's the harm in giving random internet people unfettered access to your stuff, right?), and we'll detail some of the projects we'll be working on in the near future (try to take a guess? Not that you'll win anything, but I've left a hint).

Teepo header because a) it's awesome, and b) the English edition of the day-one didn't come with the steelbook. The only reason I preordered (instead of doing the sane thing and waiting for the price to drop) was to get the that goddamn Teepo-tastic case, and I didn't know it. I'm grieving.

(PS: Natsunokumo is still on, and this will have nothing to do with that.)

Hole in love

After Lord only know how long, here I am, back from the dead, with some sweet, weird doujin for all y'all bunch of pervs. Salaryman Guy finds out that there's a hole in the wall that separates his apartment from his neighbor's. Will he call the landlord and complain about it? Will he put up a shelf in front of it and forget about it all? Or will he take the chance to peep on the hot lady next door's "private time"? Take a guess.

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Thanks for TheKa from TapTapTrans for the translation, and all the folks over on the E-Hentai forums (Slobber, binglo, Boggyb, jantch, maipantsu, takeshi.dono) for their support!

Part of the reason it took me so long to release this was the time required to remove all the floating text (a metric fuckton of time, to be precise). The fact that my computer decided to blue screen more than two dozen times in the last month after installing Windows 8 didn't help, either. I'm having flashbacks of Win ME.

Enjoy and see ya soon!

Busy, busy...

I'm not dead, though I haven't had much chance to work on anything to post on here. Expect something soon-ish, provided I can get my fonts to show up correctly on Windows 8.

Pro-tip: don't upgrade to Windows 8. Just don't.