Original readme file:

Shadow Star, known in Japan in full as Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko (The Star That Died And the Jewel Of A Girl) and abbreviated as Narutaru is a manga by Mohiro Kitoh.

Since Dark Horse, Shadow Star's US publisher, decided to split first 4 volumes of Narutaru to 5 Shadow Star TPB volumes, there has been some confusion. Especially since Dark Horse stopped publishing Shadow Star TPB's after 7th one, but continued printing it in Super Manga Blast anthology magazine for over 2 volumes worth of material.

To clear all this mess up, here is a "comparision chart" of the volumes:

1: Starflight // Chapters 1-4 (Japanese 1-5)
2: Darkness Visible // Chapters 5-10 (Japanese 6-13)
3: Shadows Of The Past // Chapters 11-15 (Japanese 14-20)
4: Nothing But The Truth // Chapters 16-20 (Japanese 21-23)
5: A Flower's Fragrance // Chapters 21-23 (Japanese 24-28)
6: What Can I Do For You Now? // Chapters 24-28 (Japanese 29)
7: Victim's Eyes, Assailant's Hands // Chapter 29 (Japanese 30-38)
8: Japanese 39-44
9: Japanese 45-48
10: Japanese 49 & 50
11: Japanese 51-61
12: Japanese 62-68

Above came from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Star

So besides the 7(6) volumes of TPB edition, SMB collected chapters 30-45 (and almost half of 46... ) from Japanese edition. Which were volumes 7&8 and first 72 pages of volume 9 of Japanese edition.

So here we come to the difficult part: How to name the archives to make it most comprehensible.

1st: I decided to repack our original "chapter" releases to volumes and add a "(Dark Horse TPB)" to names.

2nd: I downloaded the anonymous SMB scans (kudos to whomever scanned those), re-edited them and packed as volumes 8&9 (Dark Horse SMB) following the original Japanese edition volumes 7&8.

3rd: When we get things running, I'll compile the first 72 pages of SMB releases + rest of volume 9 of original edition scanslations as volume 9 (SMB & JED) and continue scanslations from there with original Japanese edition volume and chapter numbering.

Thus the filenames will be following:

Shadow Star v01 - Starflight (Dark Horse TPB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v02 - Darkness Visible (Dark Horse TPB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v03 - Shadows of the Past (Dark Horse TPB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v04 - Nothing But the Truth (Dark Horse TPB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v05 - A Flower's Fragrance (Dark Horse TPB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v06 - What Can I Do For You Now (Dark Horse TPB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v07 - Victim's Eyes, Assailant's Hands (Dark Horse TPB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v08 (Dark Horse SMB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v09 (Dark Horse SMB)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v09 (SMB & JED)[m-s].zip
Shadow Star v10c49 (JED)[m-s].zip
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Shadow Star v12c68END (JED)[m-s].zip

That's it, most likely. Assuming that we get it finished, one day. ;)

-Jinchi
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