Fans of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair may enjoy this release. Did you know there were 11 short 4-panel comics made for this game? Well, we’ve translated them for you!

Click here and download!

Enjoy the release!

So go download it and enjoy.

Merry Christmas to everyone out there!

It deeply saddens us that the pressure is on and that scanlation sites are being forced to either shut down or remove much of their content. We here at Manga Shouten hope that either a middle ground can be found somehow, or that at least a few sites are allowed to remain. We feel that online scanlations help introduce different series to people that they would have otherwise never read before (and thus increase sales). It would be a shame to lose that ability.

As for our releases, the download links will remain up for as long as possible. And if/when we find another site that will allow it, we will get our releases back up for online viewing as well. If anyone knows of another alternative (One Manga did not accept our releases, Manga Helpers accepted it but never made it public for some reason) please leave a comment and we will work as fast as possible to get them back up.

Dragon Ball – 201 (DBZ 07) – 「ピッコロの切り札」 (“Piccolo’s Trump Card”)

As a reminder, we have a forum on the Icy Phoenix message board. Sign ups are free and there’s tons of forums; it’s not limited to just our releases/forum. Feel free to sign up and post something. We don’t bite, I promise.

Dragon Ball – 200 (DBZ 06) – 「かつてない恐怖」 (“An Unprecedented Terror”)

Enjoy!

Iyouboushi was doing all of the translations for every release we’ve had.  He’s been pretty busy as of late and has not had time to translate anything new.  Hence, we do not have any new updates for you, our beautifully patient public.

We here just wanted to make an update to say that while we really don’t have anything new to offer today, we are not dead.  Updates will, inevitably, come.  Eventually.

Dragon Ball – 199 (DBZ 05) – 「ラディッツとの対決」 (“Showdown with Raditz”)

Dragon Ball – 198 (DBZ 04) – 「共通の大敵」 (“A Great Common Enemy”)

Enjoy!

Should we keep the current release schedule with it being once a week with the occasional week off or should we switch to a “release when finished” method that might result in multiple releases a week (or sometimes only one, as usual) but may include more weeks off? Really the only real difference is when you want the releases. Do you want them one (almost) guaranteed a week or the potential for multiple releases a week whenever they are finished and uploaded?

We’re leaning towards the latter, actually. Dragon Ball is such a huge manga and there will be so many chapters that it might be better if we start releasing them when we’re finished, with the occasional weeks off for sanity breaks. If we release one chapter a week, it will take years before/if we finish.

But we want to hear what you guys think. Don’t be afraid to leave a comment with suggestions or ways for us to improve (on either this or other matters). However, should no one comment by the start of next week, we’re going to go ahead and change the way we do releases.

We hope you enjoy this chapter.

We also want to go ahead and make the announcement that there will be no new chapter next week. Real life is rather busy right now and we’re taking a week off. We apologize in advance.