Tetsuya 10

Introducing our new cleaner, Doomroar. Happy easter, folks. Glad we could at least get one chapter out before March ended.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gat8ood7ioud478

I'll write a real blog later. Maybe.

Tetsuya 9

http://www.mediafire.com/?9cx8m8awuanefux
This is not yet on the official Mahjongkrazy mediafire, but it will go up sooner or later. Take this link for now!

Delays, delays, and more delays. I translated this in January, cleaned it 2 weeks ago, and David typeset it just today. I'm sure we have good excuses but you don't want to hear them now, do you? Anyways, enjoy Tetsuya and expect more soon. I'm on break and I want to translate as much as possible.

Tetsuya 8

http://www.mediafire.com/?c7583857gvnhh9q
We had this done and ready 4 days ago... sorry for serving it cold! I don't check my email enough it seems.

Tetsuya and Boushu have their infamous challenge at the shrine. Classic moment, at least for me. It's so simple and yet it embodies Boushu's winning philosophy so well. The anime did it justice, for sure.

Tetsuya 7

http://www.mediafire.com/?s4feh9bxu5v3t46
At long last, Tetsuya volume 2 begins.

You know what's kind of ironic? I translated this chapter in 2 days. 2 days!
Except I waited a month or two to do it, and then I couldn't get into the Mediafire for a solid week.  Ah well, if you've seen the anime this chapter should be nothing new to you. Tetsuya meets Boushu and realizes his talents are lacking. This is where the story truly starts, in my opinion. I think the anime had the right idea by skipping most of the first arc. Tetsuya really begins to develop after meeting Boushu.

Anyways, hope you guys enjoy some Tetsuya.

Nana-Chan Scrambles! + Death Pie Volume Release

All right, this is it, we're absolutely 100% done with Death Pie now. There were a few parts of the translation that I got mixed up, so I had Kazuhiko go back and do them over again. I'll detail those changes in a bit, but first, we have for you a fun little Oneshot by Shimamoto that was included in the same volume as Death Pie! I really thought it was quite funny, though like Death Pie it left a lot of questions unanswered. A nice little short to whet your whistle while you're waiting for more Tetsuya or Akagi or whatever it is you want.

So yeah, as I said, I thought this was a funny little short, and you can find it on the mediafire separated out from the other chapters of Death Pie. It does involve some of the same elements, like a Yakuza group that has mahjong rep players, but it's clearly not a manga to be taken very seriously. Nana-Chan is looking for her father, who was taken away by some Yakuza, so she goes to a mahjong parlor to gather clues using the last piece of evidence she has, a black mahjong tile. The Yakuza there refuse to tell her up front, so she challenges them to a Mahjong match.

There were many moments in the short that made me crack up, such as how Nana gasped when the Yakuza guy riichi'd, only to show a moment later that it was because she'd won. Also, the yakuza smiling and having a good time simply because Nana had been having so much luck by doing it was really hilarious. Also, if you're going to go for one yaku and one yaku only in mahjong, it seems that Niko-Niko (Chii Toitsu) is the way to go, as it's good at both offense and defense, though still quite lacking in the defense department.

So, there were a lot of questions that were asked and never answered, like why Nana's dad was taken away, who the detective was, stuff like that. My theory is that Shimamoto left it open like that in case people wanted more, but unfortunately it didn't get popular enough to warrant any more chapters. A shame. I would've liked to see more of Nana-Chan the genki girl owning souls with her Niko-Niko.

Below the cut are the changes made in the volume release of Death Pie.

Tetsuya 6 + Volume 1 Batch

http://www.mediafire.com/?sxvxa90cfazacsr
And here we have the end of Tetsuya volume 1. It's good. The last two chapters really made this manga worth it, even if the first couple were a tad questionable.

-Spoilers-

What luck. Or not, because he gets shot in the head 2 pages later. ;_;
Ultimately, this chapters forms a clear cut ending of the arc with no real cliff hangers. Tetsuya and Kondou part ways, and the gambling parlor is closed, What next, you ask? Spoilers: nothing you haven't already seen in the anime. Hate to disappoint, but from Volume 2 onward, the manga seems to follow the anime very closely, at least for a few volumes.

Speaking of the next few volumes, if I keep going at this current pace it will take me 20 years to complete the entire manga. So I better hurry up. For all we know, apocalypse happens in December of 2012 and then we'll never get to read the whole thing!

As always, Crump and Kazu have done wonderfully, even with their busy schedules. Kazu in particular does like a million other series at the same time and often does hundreds of pages per day. Now that's dedication.

Tetsuya 5

I present to you Tetsuya chapter 5. It is now on Mediafire. Also, Here's a Batoto link

Cleaned and typeset by Crump and Kazu, respectively.