As I have stated at some point in the past, here is (SOME OF) the tankoubon with, for the most part, all of the text removed for anyone to take and use it for their translation efforts ✧˖°. (maybe someone can get a discount on commissioning a translation of it lol).

I have tried my best to have it look, AT LEAST, not distracting with the idea in mind that text will be put over it. Hope that I have succeeded in that!

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Korean, uncensored:


Japanese, transparent black bars:


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This is still a W.I.P. and I'll try my best to finish it by september... no promises tho (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

As for a translation on my part.... still left to be seen about that for now ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for all the work so far on this. Feels like it's been forever since I've seen a new work by Kousuke though, I hope he's doing okay.

Base +6, Senshiman +6

As much as I would like to appreciate the effort, there's a whole bunch of problems I see here.
This is a pretty big pet peeve of mine, but if you're going to put out a textless (especially cleaning SFX), you should clean all the hearts, symbols, vertical ellipsis.
No one worth their salt is ever going to use the default ones. In the case of page 24, the 2 bubbles in the last panel are completely unusable without cleaning those hearts.
I understand you used the Korean version because they masked out the censorship throughout the book (hence saving time), but you should not be keeping the Korean versions of the chapter pages if you aren't cleaning those.
In general, there's just a lot of inconsistencies either where you can see the original SFX, or cases where certain hearts on a page or cleaned but one isn't (page 60). You've also missed a SFX on page 15.

This is just my personal view, but the reason I never ever consider using any of these public textless is that they're more trouble than they're worth when I have to go through every single detail to make sure I don't discover issues when I'm midway through.

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@Kyuume

Yea, I understand where you are coming from. I just started this project for myself and to, maybe, have it translated by me and a friend at some point. But, since things have changed and I can't say with any confidence when and IF I will ever get to doing that too, I decided to just post it here and any subsequent progress I make on it.

In regards to the hearts in the text bubbles, I just had the idea when I started that I'll just keep the original hearts. But, as I went and got to removing the SFX too, I realised that they would look kinda bad... but just left them there and didn't bother with removing them out of shear laziness (and since in my mind, covering/removing them would be easy for anyone doing work on it). But yes, moving forward, I will go back and remove them.

For the symbols, as in the exclamation/question marks + ellipsis, that are in their own bubble without any other accompanying text, I just didn't see the need to have them removed. Since I just don't think anyone would have a problem with them being still like that. They still accomplish the same goal and I feel save time to not have someone replace something that already does it's job as is. And again, if someone does take this and uses it for a translation, they can be really easily removed, if they so decide too not like them.

As for the chapter pages... yea that's on me. I'll rectify this in the next upload. Just didn't feel like going back after I've already started to work on it...

The SFX on page 15, yea that is a old page that I slipped into the upload. Again will be fixed with the next chapter upload. And as for page 60... are you referring to bottom speech bubbles hearts? I can understand that black heart, since that was part of the original text and yea, I'll remove it with the coming chapter. But the white ones I feel are more part of the panel itself. So removing them would feel counterintuitive.

As a closing note, I thank you for point this out and I'll try and incorporate your suggestions in the future. I'm still new to this and I kind of learn as I go. As I stated in my original post, I try and have my edits not be distracting with the idea that there will be text put over some, if not all, of the space that the original text occupied. If some spaces are blank, it is because I missed it because of my editing at late hours or because I currently lack the skill to edit it further then I've already done so (i.e. page 99). If you have and further comments/suggestions to make, PLEASE feel free to either post them here or send me a PM on forums.

Sincerely thanks for the feedback!

Base +6