Ok, I want to ask. Is there need for the good quality raw scans of this manga (whatever volumen)?

If you have better than please PM AmanV

The scans that i have are practical the same, oh well

Hi there,
I wanted to know how far did WFP translate up to? Was it right up to volume 32?

how's it goin'?

Guys, Im catching up on Garouden, does anyone know where I could find vol 23-24? (in English) All download links I´ve found are Megaupload

V23 here:
http://www.mangatraders.com/manga/series/1338/page/2/

Don't know about v24

Thanks for the fast reply!

(I think I remeber reading somewhere that the WFP was just about to release vol 25 just before they went underground/disappeared so I took for granted they´d already released vol 24)

No probs

Ah I see. I don't fully know the story with WFP, I just assumed they disapeared for good and that was the end of them.
They used to have a Facebook page and even that has gone now. IF they really are finished, then I don't understand why someone hasn't leaked out the rest of the volumes as far as Baki is concerned or even Garouden.
What's there to lose now?

I found their FB page too, just a short time before they magically "disappeared." And I still had contact with one of the members up til a couple of weeks ago, cause as soon as I asked if he´d kindly share some translated material he suddenly stopped replying And hey, this was fairly long after everyone realized that it was all a prank and he still tried to make me believe that "everything is available at RSF, dude! Ichido totally sold it!" He honestly thought people would fall for it agian. Whatta dick

Yeaaaah...... I never really fell for the whole "self-destruct charade", I just think they (Ichido in particular I guess) wanted to to get rid of all the hassle and the shit people gave them/him all the time...So they went TOTALLY private, alas Ichido must´ve been satisfied with the paychecks he already regularly received.
That being said - my knowledge about all this shit is pretty fresh, so Im not sure how reliable my opinion is

What I do know is that all of them was kinda boring and anti-social, I pretty much never got any replies no matter how many discussions I kept coming up with about either Baki or Garouden (which they all seemed passionate about so WTF!?!?). And everyone was kissing Ichidos ass so badly I occasionally felt like throwing up.
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But like I said, thats just the opinion of a noob

You know a lot more than I do on this man, I've only just touched on this. And unless someone from that group can explain why they are acting the way they are then as far as I'm concerned they're a bunch of cocks.

I apologise for storming in hot headed like this not knowing hardly jack, but what I can't get my head around is why the f*ck would someone charge for scanlating a Manga which (as awesome as it is) hardly has much attention compared to a lot of other Manga done for free.
Personally I don't know another other group that charges in such a way, and even if you wanted to pay I've never heard of such a stupid system for doing so, and that's if you're lucky to even get through.
Does Keisuke Itagaki even get to see a cent of these 'underground' subscription charges? I wonder if he even knows his work is being pimped hah.

Ok so from the looks of things WFP are still operating, but have just gone into hiding while doing so?? Then that might also explain why no volumes have been leaked by any of their paying members.

Yeah thats my take on it anyways.. And strangely, what pisses me off the most is not that they´re doing it, but the fact that they dont have the balls to be honest about it and still think we are stupid enough to believe their infamous prank

EDIT: Hey sorry for going off-topic here folks, but I seem to remember the name "Moyt" and I just gotta ask. Are you possibly the one that lead the Berserk fan base in the request of a PS2 translation some years ago?

I'm just glad someone is independently determined to take this project on here, I really hope they can keep up the good work.


Ahhh shieeet you caught me red handed. It's a small online world, yup it's me, yet over another translation problem haha (does it ever end?!?)
If you must know the guy who did the coding and reverse engineering went AWOL without notice and gone was their translation website as well.
A shame really because himself (Saito) and his team did a great job on Namco X Capcom!
The only contact I've got left with any hope is the translator who uploads his translations of the game on YouTube.

Hey everyone,

Not quite sure what is currently going with the attempts to catch up to Sonniku's translations/scanlate the chapters. As I'm only doing the translating, I'm just going to go back to putting my translations in the English Translations post http://ritualscan2.free.fr/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=945&start=160. If anyone wants to use them for a release, let me know or at least credit me and reference this forum

EDIT: Translations for Chapters 160, 162, 164, and 166 up (I believe mkol2112 was translating odd numbered chapters).

Drivershigh glad you're working towards the scanlations, thanks for your efforts man.
Hope things pick up again

my bad guys we've been working on some sort of group project and its hard to get a system figured out so the releases stalled a bit but we should release the next chapter by tommorow.

No worries, man! As far as Im concerned you can take all the time you need, Im just grateful a translation is being made at all Btw I just got vol 33 in the mail box That cover is invigorating, its big-ass manga time tonight!!!



Yeah I remember they ended up dropping it, sad, everyone seemed so optimistic at first, I was among the ones you gathered, sir I was a regular at theblackswordsman forums at the time (still am...kinda) And yea I saw some of the vids from the dude on youtube too, they´re not too bad actually, worked fine as a lil' consolation cookie.

I just looked up the original Grappler Baki up on Mangatraders and was surprised to see they had chapters

1-22
55-81
178-183

Just thought id let people know encase they werent aware.

Whats being worked on at the moment? I know some group are currently doing the original Grappler Baki and they just uploaded chapter 28 a few days ago.

I also know Baki SOO chapters are moving along but I dont know which groups are involved, and what chapters they are doing. Could someone explain.

I second what 'myself' says.
Take your time guys, i'm just soo glad that a group is willing to take on Baki etc out of their own goodwill without any 'catches'.
Thanks again for everyone’s efforts involved in scanlating.


Ahh theblackswordman I remember (cheers on for the 3 Berserk movies out this year!)
I think I got too many peoples hopes up at various places, ohh well. Completely forgot about that project, and then when you reminded me I did a bit of searching around for old time's sakes and found the devil in hiding HERE:
http://www.transgen.comeze.com/news.php
I'm feeling evil for answers

Anyways I'm going way off topic now but @ 'myself' if I make anything of it this time, I'll post at the relevant places and let the world know

sooo... this died?

No again im sorry about all this late posting but i've had trouble getting in contact with mkol who should be releasing the next chapter.

suuuuuuuuuuup?

sup guys, I'm reading SOO and just found till chapter 162. I also want to know if someone has seen Garouden vol. 24 or so, just read vol. 23 and Tanba was going to do something really stupid and cool xD

Yeah finally good ol' crazy Tanba is back! Tbh I was just a liiiiiiittle bit bored with that tournament, though obviously some of the fights was awesome of course... The biggest "let down" was when Shozan was about to choose his opponent, I was sure it'd be someone we knew of already to keep the suspense, but it was pretty goddamn clear what the outcome would be.

And sorry, I dont know shit of the whereabouts of vol 24

@ Moyt Hehe, sick him! ...Havent been to TBS in a while, got a lot to catch up on, wonder when it´ll be possible to get a decent copy of the movie, cause you really do wanna watch Berserk in at least decent quality. Im sure you´re already aware of it but the first 10 minutes is available on youtube, and the opening song "Aria" by Hirasawa is pretty fucking amazing too

@MYSELF
I sent 'him' a message via their site. I doubt I'll get a response, and if I do it'll most likely be a negative one. This guy did do a 'runner' after all, after hyping up a Berserk translation hah.
But I won't give up for the love of Berserk, I'll just ask other programmers until someone accepts!

Looks like the Blu-Ray of the first movie will be out end of May:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=VPXV-71219
So I'd probably expect someone to release a decent rip around then.
I'm trying to avoid watching any of it until they release all the movies, and that's going to be one hell of a wait
I'm also glad Hirasawa is doing parts of the music, just wouldn't be the same without him! Blu-Ray rips of the TV series have already been released, and from what I can see from the screen shots it's worth the download if you have an old format of it.

Sorry everyone for going soo off topic. Seems as I'm halted in the middle of reading Pickle's fights I might as well talk about something just as amazing with a fellow Berserk fan

if anyone can contact mkol2112 can you plz tell him to message me the next chapter this is taking to long.

Unless I'm seeing this wrong, but things don't look too promising from what I'm reading at Mangafox forums. Either way I hope you guys pull through

got my hopes up, now the hope is slowly fading away..

I have a sudden urge to try and kidnap Yaoi scanlators as well about 5 million different Naruto, Bleach, One Piece scanlators to do something useful and scanlate Baki.
Just messing
I got a feeling WFP going AWOL was a very bad thing in the end

Anyways the best I can do for you guys is ask around for help, but don't expect a miracle.
Just to clarify can someone list exactly what kind of help is needed now, and what support you already have for scanlating Baki. I have no idea about scanlating, but if myself or anyone else is to ask around for help at least we'll have something to go on.

as a former member of Darksage i could give a lowdown of what i know has gone off but it wouldnt make a difference , as for what is going off now is still up in the air!!

personally i think WFP have kidnapped Mkol2012

we need him back for 163!!

after that chapter unless Raenef changes his mind i think any hope of continuation is with AmanV


@ Moyt

i think while the joint effort was proposed the people needed were accounted for but now who fucking knows, anyway i would say any help would be needed so any of these for a basic scanlation


translator - french to english or japanese to english
cleaner
typesetter

and if you want to get anal about it and delay releases then add

redrawer
proofreader

Look, as long as the actual translator(s) aint missing, we should be cool, right?

Hell, as I said before, even I will be able to do whatever job EXCEPT the translation itself once I´ve saved up enough cash to buy an epic computer (yes, I could even scan it since I buy every vol as soon as I can get my hands on them, but doubt it´ll be necessary considering I get them much later than the japanese scan contributors).

Then I just gotta get familiar with a bit more advanced photoshopish program (whatever it is you use nowadays, Im a bit rusty)

Sadly, this could take about a month or so though, sorry I know I said I´d be able to do it sooner than that but shit came up IRL... I am very passionate about Baki and I really do want to help.

@Moyt Yeah I guess we´re just gonna have to wait that long funny you should mention cdjapan, thats actually the place where I bought both editions of the first Baki series, btw I cant decide which of them I like more, so I kept them both (which I probably would´ve done either way )

And you´re planning to wait and watch all three in a row? ...Yeah, good luck with that I know I wont be able to resist watching 'em as they come out anyway, eventhough your plan probably would be a better experience.

it's all a waiting game at the moment

were waiting to see if AmanV can get ahold of Mkol2012

in the meantime im waiting to hear from Drivershigh.

if there are people willing to do basic cleaning and typesetting the worse case scenario is that a few chapters between 163 -169 will be untranslated , because after 170 Soniku has done an English script that can be used (thanks to Soniku !!! )

if anyone is willing to help typeset or clean that would be awesome. pm me.

I apologise because even though I have looked around for help, I've not actually asked.
Either because some places have ridiculous rules and criteria that have to be met to make a request, no requests can be made at all, or I know straight down they would never have the slightest interest in Baki due to 'personal tastes'.

Soo much crap out there that is getting scanlated to waste it's a sad shame really.

@MYSELF - its soo expensive buying DVD's, music CD's or just about anything from Japan
Ohh those Berserk movies, I'm probably talking crap; watch me end up watching the first movie as soon as it's released
BTW my latest attempt on a Berserk PS2 to English translation looks very promising!
Luckily I managed to get one group interested recently, so fingers crossed it won't fail this time! I've not announced it anywhere yet but keep your eye on theblackswordsman

Anyhow let's hope Baki scanlation gets back on track

From everything I can see across several sites. These chapters have been scanlated

1-162
165-233
244-280

So a scanlation of 163 and 164 would link that up nicely.

err...

so can you tell everyone where the scanlations of 165-233 are please??????

i know WFP leaked volumes 30 and 32 but where are the rest of the scanlations you've seen??

Wow! If that intell is indeed correct there are less untranslated chapters than I thought, what are we even worrying about here?

@Moyt, what country you from?, I live in Sweden so for me its rather cheap to buy from Japan. Japan´s currency is very low so unless you live in, lets say, some third-world-country, then it should be cheap to buy stuff from Japan for you too

Oh so you´re calling upon the Berserk fanbase again? Lets do it ...that being said, I gotta get off my ass and make a much needed visit to TBS asap, its been too long!

well i just found these 267-271 .... some guy is translating them himself!!! ive asked him to come take a look over here

check his scans at

http://spinybackwebdesign.com/Baki/


so Scabab wheres the rest????

Ohh so things are looking up nicely again for Baki?!?!?

@ Myself - "Hej!" From the land of the UK, where vat and importing goods with customs charges to add completely drains your money, the £ just isn't strong like it used to be
I have other means to find bargains from the Land of the Rising Sun, like Yahoo Auctions Japan and so on, so not always bad. But buying new stuff, wow that's a different story hah. Maybe I'm comparing too many things in my mind with UK goods to Japanese.

Yup I've already started it at TBS, I've even given you a shout out there as well
It's starting off slow but I'm sure it'll pick up

where can i find 165 onwards?