that awkward moment when you decide to abandon the project you're working on and start the one you actually wanna do

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I see you post a bunch of Azuma's early stuff. I scanned and translated some of it over the past couple years, if you're interested

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*comes back to life* of course when I say "azumanga" this is what comes to mind right

if azumanga is so good why isn't there a... ugh... oh... ack!! bleeeh!!! *dies*

Until then, see you next time!

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NEW PROJECT RELEASE! Azumanga - The Kiyohiko Azuma Anthology (1998) - Featuring Tenchi Muyo!, El-Hazard, Battles Athletes, & Magical Girl Pretty Sammy Mr. Manager's Manga Translations, Scanlations, Scans, Trivia, and other archival preservation tidbits

A more detailed writeup is included on my blog here: manga.mrmanager.org/2025/06/new-...
As always, I post it to the usual places. So what are you waiting for? Check it out now!!!!

3. It has a CD-ROM with a bunch of extra stuff! The CD is came with has some retro, 1998 webpages that both include extra comics and some behind-the-scenes info. If you're a diehard Azuma fan, you won't wanna miss this!

2. The original book has more content, including comics based on El-Hazard! For whatever reason, certain things did not make the cut for Recycle. Now the couple dozen or so remaining El-Hazard fans out there can finally see something they haven't before!

Some even had to be converted to black and white for Recycle! With my scanlation of the original, we finally get to see this example of Sasami bullying in HD, as God intended.

But what does the original "Azumanga" have that "Azumanga Recycle" doesn't? Well, it's mainly 3 things. 1. This has full-sized, full-color pages! Azumanga Recycle was printed in a standard manga format, so some of the larger Laserdisc-sized comics had to be scaled down.

In case you didn't know, before the smash success of Azumanga Daioh and Yotsuba&!, Kiyohiko Azuma was a prolific gag artist and created many sanctioned parody manga for Tenchi Muyo!, El-Hazard, Battle Athletes, and Magical Girl Pretty Sammy

Case in point, this is a full translation of the original Azumanga from 1998. This is the source of the title "Azumanga" that Azumanga Daioh later took for itself. This was later downsized into the reprinted book "Azumanga Recycle", which I released a translation for last year.

Special thanks to MartyMcFlies for helping me scan this beast. More details are on my website but this book is Laserdisc-sized and literally would not fit on my scanner. So kudos to him for having a scanner big enough!

I have some great news! First of all, I'm not dead. But more importantly I JUST RELEASED ANOTHER SCANLATION!!! (yaaay!)

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An Abundance of Caution Mr. Manager's Manga Translations, Scanlations, Scans, Trivia, and other archival preservation tidbits

a quick update on my blog: I'm still going, but I had to make a quick change to hopefully prevent the situation from getting any worse.
manga.mrmanager.org/2025/06/an-a...

imagine showing that to a prehistoric caveman and he beats your head in with a large rock

Very happy to report that we are far from the end of Sasami bullying.

For anybody hungering for more, no need to worry! My next project is coming along over the horizon, you just need to be a little bit more patient. But until then, toodles!

Finally, the one other project that I've finished by now is Wallaby, which was also printed in a seperate booklet that came with Azumanga 2. I'm pretty sure it's Azuma's very first totally original manga, and it's got some funny moments in there. manga.mrmanager.org/2023/08/wall...

Geez has it already been two years!? This comic originally was published in a booklet with "Azumanga 2", which I will get to one day, I promise, okay!!! It's interesting to see the early ideas for these characters. manga.mrmanager.org/2023/08/try-...

Before that I did a nice retranslation of Try! Try! Try!, which is a sort of prototype of the later popular Yotsuba&! series. There was a pretty low-quality translation floating around for a while, so it was super satisfying to finally fix this one.

Introducing my Next Project: Azumanga Recycle! Mr. Manager's Manga Translations, Scanlations, Scans, Trivia, and other archival preservation tidbits

You can read up a more detailed introduction here: manga.mrmanager.org/2024/01/intr...
This one ended up being quite the challenge and took over a year, but the result was worth it! There's variety of different types of comics you can enjoy, even if you don't know anything about Tenchi Muyo.

Since I finally clawed my way over here: let me introduce a couple of my projects. My most recent one is a translation of Azumanga Recycle (2001). An anthology of various officially-sanctioned comics for the Tenchi Muyo!, Battle Athletes, and Magical Girl Pretty Sammy franchises by Kiyohiko Azuma!

I have officially migrated. Check out my blog and stuff to see my scanlation projects! linktr.ee/mrmanager411

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