11 July 2012

Alabaster Chapter 1

Here's a new project by HappyScans and I that I forgot to mention in the future releases post a couple weeks back. Alabaster, a manga by the god himself, Tezuka Osamu. I've always wanted to translate a Tezuka manga, and if possible, to do 1 light-hearted story and 1 dark story of his. Alabaster then, was a natural choice for the latter, considering it's one of his earliest and darkest attempts (published at around the time of Book of Human Insects). Tezuka himself states in the afterword that he was quite depressed at writing such a nihilistic story with so many detestable characters. To give a short premise, Alabaster follows the lives of two characters who plot their revenge against a world that's shunned them for their appearances alone.


We're only releasing the first chapter today, and the next time we release, it'll be for the full first volume. Since the story's only 2 volumes long, we should be able to get it done by summer's end. As for the light-hearted Tezuka manga I plan to do, I'll keep that a secret for now since I don't know how long it'll be before I actually get to it.

Download:
Alabaster v01 c01:   Mediafire



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14 comments:

  1. Halo11 July 2012 at 20:59

    Thanks, awesome as always. Or maybe more, since it's Tezuka.

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  2. Anonymous11 July 2012 at 22:27

    Thanks! I was looking for new manga to try and Tezuka is a mangaka who I've always wanted to read. I guess I have no excuse now.

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  3. sensei 1211 July 2012 at 23:53

    Please, continue Midnight by Tezuka.

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  4. Anonymous12 July 2012 at 00:26

    Say Mister Hox, volume 1 and 2 of Bokurano aren't in the hoxbox anymore, mediafire has blocked them.

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    1. Hox12 July 2012 at 14:39

      Yeah, they sent me a notice about terms of violation and all that jazz. I don't want to upload it again and get my whole account deleted so just get it off from mangatraders for now.

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    2. Anonymous13 July 2012 at 22:25

      You know, minus is a pretty solid file-sharing site. Can't say I'm very savvy of their terms policing, though. If it means anything, I haven't once been linked to a file that's been removed due to a violation of terms, though.

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    3. Hox14 July 2012 at 02:38

      Thanks for letting me know. I'm still looking around for a good alternate free upload site.

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  5. magnogmusic12 July 2012 at 02:24

    all blessings to you and happy scans for doing this! been waiting to read this impossible to find tezuka manga forever - y'all rock!!!

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  6. Anonymous12 July 2012 at 07:38

    You're awesome! Here in Italy they stopped publication after volume one, now I can finally continue to read it.

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  7. Anonymous12 July 2012 at 16:54

    Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  8. Kencana21 July 2012 at 01:54

    Ooh... African-American protagonist, it's very rare. Glad to see you translating this.

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  9. Anonymous28 July 2012 at 15:56

    GODTIER MAN!! <3

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  10. jeff2 August 2012 at 18:33

    ahhhhhh this is awesome. i can't wait for the volume to come out!

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  11. jeff29 August 2012 at 17:35

    hey, sorry if i come off on rushing you, but can you update us on the status of this? thanks!

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