RYUUIISOU SCANLATIONS - Blog https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ Blog posts from RYUUIISOU SCANLATIONS [26] Whatever Floats Your Boat, Will Surely Sink My Ship https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
Example:

(Bookwalker)


(Random shit scans commonly found on the net)

Of course, side by side, Bookwalker is still such a godsend...

I could redraw this... fix it. But, I don't have the interest nor the time to do such complicated work right now. (And neither do Washizu readers wish another week would be added on top of their releases).

One thing that also makes me a bit sad is it doesn't contain any inner extra pages (character introductions), and it's chapter contents page is also lackluster compared to the physical ones.

Example:




I'm still considering posting those on Mangadex as is. Like those .5 chapters at the end of volumes. Not sure really.

Speaking of posting, if you save any pages you'll notice one annoying little thing between volumes. Their page sizes are all over the place from one volume to the next. Again, for no discernible reason.

I'm not going to deal with that either. It doesn't make a damn difference anyway and the volume itself is consistent, so why even bother!

I'm sure by volume 6 or maybe only at 8, I'll be cutting all kinds of corners.

My life goal is to finish Washizu, and I'll do it to completion!
I like the sequels ending, so I foam at the mouth thinking of the day I post it.
That doesn't confirm I'll do the sequel, I just like to fantasize.

Also, comments! What's a blog without some damn comments?! Am I right, or am I right?!
You can tell me I'm super cool, you can call me a fag, whatever floats your boat, it's all up to you. (Little bubble icon on the bottom right of posts...)
I don't have much of what you'd call a "life," so I don't think I'll have problems with moderation. And that is of course, not a challenge to anyone... and I mean no trouble by it. Thank you...]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0300 [25] Doing Things Late at Night Will Only Have You Regretting Deeply Later https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
I have done a couple by now, which I notice only later. I just fixed one where I seemingly typed 3-sou instead of 5-sou. (It's for reasons like this I always keep the little tile image, though almost everyone does I think).

It's embarrassing. I do this alone and late at night. So I apologize for any stuff like this.
I even check multiple times, but being your own proofreader while groggy.... won't help much eh!

Sorry!! <(_ _*)>]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:10:00 -0300 [24] Obligatory Progress Blog https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ That's it, that's the blog.

Here's some gifs:






end of post...]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:41:00 -0300 [23] BELIEF IN HIS OWN JUDGEMENT, AND HIS UNWAVERING HEART! https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ The damn counter is even at 77 right now. That's got to be good luck. I shouldn't miss such a great chance for blogging!!

The world is aaall about luck. Because I'm a lunatic, you can ascertain for certain, all I think about is luck. Everyday I'm Akagi in this bitch, getting fucked over by the flow.

When the only good thing in your year is scanlating Washizu, you know it's not looking good. We're 8 months into this year, and I only had 1 good month and a couple days, total. (Yes, I keep fucking count of them).

I need to keep count of them, because it's a down payment. Every single second of good luck is just another excuse to get shit fucked punched (?) in the stomach.


(me)

What I'm trying to get at is essentially, I have never gotten a single good thing in life that has not exploded in my face a while later. And Washizu is going awesome right now (as far as I'm aware), so who's to say what's waiting for me soon....
Every day I'm terrified my hard drive and every single backup I have will spontaneously combust, leaving me with all my Washizu work erased forever.

...Backups, I lied. For the effect. The truth is I don't have a single backup of anything or made any ever. The folders in my computer are all unique and non-eternal, which is what makes it so special... and... cool.

Your reading of Washizu is held hostage by me, my fragile computer, and my fragile body. I have no intention of ever making backups, or keeping myself healthy (though I do go to the gym 3 times a week and have a nice all year bulk diet ;)).

One day, I'm gonna have a heart attack, or get ran over by a truck, and you're gonna lose Washizu, so you better start praying for me every second of your lives.]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:40:00 -0300 [22] WASHIZU CH.25 https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
WASHIZU CHAPTER 25!!!



Volume 4 finished. This makes it my first entire finished volume done entirely by myself!

I'm not sure if I'm continuing Volume 5 right this moment (especially since I need to get the raws again with the raw guy), or if I'm taking like a good rest week of anything but redrawing pages (my god! anything but that!!).

If you were to ask me a couple months ago, I wouldn't have thought I would be here.... Wow.... Wow....
That's probably not true, I've been thinking of scanlation for a long time, it just so happened I remembered Washizu recently and felt an urge to.

Uhh...? If you liked this chapter read One Outs. It's pretty good. How their scanlators went 100+ chapters making baseball translations... I don't know. I could barely do one.

Considering there's ONE chapter translated (Lololol) people know that next volume is a long arc (but there's a one chapter before that of an isolated story).

If you (the readers) have any problems with any of what I'm doing or how I do certain things, now before the next volume is the best time to tell me, so I don't ever have to do any big jarring changes between random chapters.

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translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:07:00 -0300 [21] WASHIZU CH.24 : The Public's Public Opinions are Public; So they're Public, okay? https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
It's one of my favourite chapters, so I think I put some love into it.
Of course, I always put love into it, because I love Washizu and I LOVE the reader.


The thing about this whole Scanlations thing is that the reader is the most important. It's always about what the reader will think, what the reader will understand, more than you/the scanlator/me. Because the reader is the one who fucking reads.

I don't think I do a very good job at that. I mean most of the time I'm doing this while I'm very tired, late at night, so it means I do a couple of dumb things.
EXAMPLE:
I put a TL for the obvious ship name of the obvious ship that just arrived and they were to told to get on and said: "the name of their ship." Uh? Yeah? You'd think so, right?

Maybe I wanted to explain the -maru suffix, for ship names, at the time I wrote it. But I don't remember, nor do I think it's really necessary.

Sometimes I fear it's like this. But I'm going against TL notes for now (for Mahjong), because people know! I know and I don't even play mahjong anymore!!


One thing that confused me getting into this is that I thought Washizu would have already been translated by now. I mean, it's Washizu!
(I remember when Kaiji Part 1 wasn't translated).

The other is whatever the latest specific group was doing regardings Washizu. The last arc?!
Are you serious?

>By a majority vote between the three of us members of (omitted), we decided to start scanlating at chapter 45 (final chapter of Volume 7, Part 1 of the “Prison Ward 6” arc which is the series finale) instead of starting off where the previous scanlation group left off.

A vote? There shouldn't even be a vote. People want to read Washizu from where they stopped, there's your vote. The people's vote!

Another another thing is that I didn't antecipate Washizu to be so closely followed, but the attention was pretty instant. (I should have, it's FKMT)

I asked and you (the reader) answered: releases are now single chapters as I finish them.

Volume ends next chapter!

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translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300 [20] WASHIZU CH.23 https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/

I should have uploaded them to Mangadex as I speak! I'm not sure because I write these posts at random times, not exactly when I finish!

4 CHAPTERS. ARC FINISHED. I'm very happy. Feel free to complain about the quality of my work though, I wouldn't mind. There's only 2 chapters left for this volume, and then I can finally say I finished an entire vol all by myself. I vibrate with happiness even just thinking about it. It's kinda scary.

There's.... a baseball chapter. Ghhhh... Only to slow my good pace!

I don't think it matters since people seem quite patient. (After 5 years, what's a couple weeks right?)

Random thing:
I just entered a scanlation thread on /a/ recently, which I hadn't done in a while, and I was appalled by two things.
　　1. Christ almighty! The mangas that there's an effort out there to translate sure look fucking boring. (I always had this opinion).
　　2. Apparently... sleazebags are now using AI to redraw their pages! What a doozy!

There's one page which is a pile of coins and gold bars, where I did such an embarrassing job of working with that it might as well be AI generated (LOL). I say this, but I might go over and actually redraw it later. Whereas right now it's mostly clone tool spam (controlled spam, to look okayish). (IM NOT DOING THAT)

I mean, come on people! Have some decency! Why won't you spend hours of your day and night redrawing complex pages! While also translating and typesetting! And rereading so many times to make sure it flows well that your brain facking melts (and it's still really only passable!)!!

Jeez, I wonder why.

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translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:58:00 -0300 [19] WASHIZU CH.22 https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
The chapters have slowed down a little bit, this is because I have been playing stupid videogames. Now I only work on chapters for a couple hours, instead of many many couple hours. SORRY!
I already said I was lazier, but now it's not bed it's vidya.

In general, I'm really REALLY disappointed with my current pace. I'm not doing as many pages as I want a day (redrawing, typesetting).

Speaking of, I just realized I didn't know the difference between cleaning and redrawing. I thought it was all the same thing. So for the new volumes after 4 I'm not actually doing any cleaning, only the very hard redrawing. I get them already in really good quality.

No, I'm not changing the little blurb thingy.

You might also see a spice of professionalism on the blog now. Indeed it's mostly scanlation now. This is because now there's people, and people are SCARY. (lol) I was fucking around earlier as I waited for Mangadex and now it'd be embarrassing...

Are newer photoshop versions good for scanlation? Or roughly the same? CS5 is starting to PISS ME OFF. Everytime I close my laptop and come back, it's completely fucked. Any brush has this problem where I click nothing happens and then it takes a while to start dragging. I don't know... it's just a mess.

NVM. CSP 4 the WIN.

I wonder sometimes if my questions are rhetorical or not. Blogs are really interesting things.

I'm starting to wish this place had comments, but it's a static site. (I might start asking questions like that on the Discord, I don't know!) I'm kind of too busy with the translation to see any of that...

One thing that I will actually discuss with myself later will be translation notes. I have one for a specific yaku that I really think most people won't know (not even the common reading, I don't think). But even so, there's some more specific ones anyway all throughout this chapter. It's all easily googleable, so i'm not sure. I mean, surely most mahjong readers know Pao (the liability)? I'd like to think so!

Onwards to 23! Then I can do my batch upload.

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translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:57:00 -0300 [18.1] shadow https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
He looked at his shadow in the corner of the room.
The single dangling bulb
left only him on the wall.

His hair
slowly curled
and turned into some devil's horns.

That imprint scarred him.
He could not hold himself back,
and he fell backwards, kicking the stool
away from him.

The devil showed himself,
because he did not want to die.

But the dead man's
broken neck,
slipped out of the rope,
fibres turned weak.

Now only the rope's shadow
was left on the wall.
And it could not curl, or
turn evil,
because unlike the man
the rope didn't choose to kill
and if it did,
it would know death would not purify it.

-- Christopher]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:12:00 -0300 [18] WHAT https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
I JUST NEEDED TO WRITE THIS SOMEWHERE. OH MY GOD. ITS GOING TO BE PROBS A BIT FASTER NOW?! I DONT KNOW!!


I MEAN, COME ON!!
FUCCKGIGI CSP HAS FUCKIGN CLONE STAMP TOOL I FUCKING USE IT FOR TYPESETTING WHAT THE FUCK HAVE I BEEN USING CS5 FORRFR GRRRRR.RGEH WHY THE FUCK WOULD IT BE UNDER THE FUCKING BLEND TOOL

OUT OF 46 PAGES (CH.22) I DID 35. I MIGHT AS WELL GIVE THAT UPDATE.


23 IS ALSO 46. SO IT SHOULD STILL TAKE A WHILE.

P.S.: Use CSP for EVERYTHING :-D FUCK ADOBE, I HOPE THEIR COMPANY BURNS DOWN!!]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:11:00 -0300 [17] DISCORD is a land where (BLANK) https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ What would ever happen in the empty Ryuuiisou discord? Even if two or more poeple joined, I could not tell you. It is a mystery box, just like that.

We could have... proofreads? etc... as I release chapters in batches, instead we could perhaps look over it as I finish each. You could even help me translate certain pesky lines I feel don't quite pack the punch!

I don't know if that's true. I'm just throwing out an idea, man! It's probably going to be a bunch of nuffing.

Does anyone know of the funny edited panels for the end of Yami no Aegis chapters? lulz contests!



That could be alright? ........communities are hard.

Hmmmmm...Hmmmmmm.....

I-It's not like I'm asking you to join or anything, b-baka! Hmph!]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:10:00 -0300 [16] WASHIZU CH.21 https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
The more I think about it... was it yesterday, or the day before yesterday? Breaks are the worst for mental time continuity. You forget everything and remember nothing.
That's a good thing for everyone but me, it means I lose track and work more. Occasionally I sleep more. (It's good for nobody, sorry.)

I talked about talking about fonts (meta), but mine aren't very interesting. The main ones you see are CC Wild Words, CCComicCrazy, Media Gothic, To Forgive and Yu Mincho. I have some others but I don't use them as I find them ugly.
I'd love to ask here, "hey give me fonts! Send me a big pack of manga fonts!" But no one reads this anyway, so it wouldn't be of much use. (If you think otherwise, I'd love to have them... manga fonts only especially unique ones).

22-23 ARE HELL! So they will 100% take even longer!


also did anyone notice i doxxed my country anyway with RSS? lol I suppose only weirdoes (affectionate) would notice, so im... okay

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translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:47:00 -0300 [15] WASHIZU CH.20 (for the first time ever, Scanlation is discussed in the scanlator's blog) https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/


Cloning is a bitch. I heard of copying a section of a pattern (like the dots) instead and then pasting for aligning, but it's all the same shit from the same goddamn butt. Don't look too close, you'll see flies and... their children, maggots everywhere.

Maybe using Photoshop CS5 or 6 (whichever one it was) is not really doing me any favour either. BTW, I also use CSP (Clip Studio Paint) for most of the typesetting, while I do cleaning mostly in Photoshop.

No, I did not fucking pay for CSP (ROFL).

(is this the first time I discussed actual scanlation things in this blog? Maybe next chapter update I'll give out... my fonts or something)

I'm surprised no one ever did those shitty scans that put a bunch of squares on top of text or just... whatever other ugly things. To be honest, I read releases like that just fine. Sometimes it's all you have. Gintamas had some REAL bad ones, i'll tell you that.

There's AT LEAST two gintama chapters that are Japanese to Chinese and then Chinese to English translations. With a Comic Sans font to boot. INSANITY!

Look forward to the releases (I only have... 120+ pages left to scanlate... GAWSH!)

Same time next week! (Jk, i obviously have not a single fucking idea man)

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I don't want to put those credits note transcripts here anymore. Too much trouble.

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translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0300 [14] It's Easy to Say You're Tired, But Do You Have the Balls to Say You're Actually Just Really, Really Lazy? https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
Okay, I lied. Blogging is hard and annoying. And my tone is weird... and... annoying.

"Who the fuck would want to read this guy spiel?!", that's what I end up thinking. Maybe I'll change my mind one day. I can't know. I don't think I want to know...

I'll still be scanlating. I'll do something this weekend, if I can, but one of my final grades hasn't come out yet. I have no clue then if I 100% passed this semester. I'll study for a make-up test if that's the case. Otherwise, I can start this week.

I'm not sure what to tell my psychologist. He thought it was very nice that I was making a personal blog, and making poetry. How can I tell him I don't really want to upload any of that anymore, and I'm going back to my hermit ways?

I can tell from the way he looks at me and writes stuff down, he knows I'm a freak!

I haven't...
played Mahjong with people in over a year... maybe more...
and I'm translating Mahjong manga...
I was never even good... and I forget some of the rules now all the time...

Actually there's plenty of people online I don't talk with anymore but wasn't on bad terms with, I skid around online friendship topics for my psychologist by saying "every now and then," because if I tell him something like that I get scared he might tell me to contact people again.
I wouldn't mind playing a game, but... I'm the terrible sort of friend who doesn't contact people. My IRL acquantainces send me reels sometimes on Instagram. I only have that godforsaken app because of that. It's pretty usual for me to not reply, but they don't stop sending them.

I won't ever get people. That's why I'm scanlating manga alone, maybe. :i


What was I saying again? I can't remember. I don't want to look up. It's scary. I don't want to read.

You do it. I can't... I can't... look... Oh god...]]> Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300 [13.1] as shikoku before war [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
He carried me on his shoulder.
Everything around us was pure orange,
I couldn't see a thing. And it was bright,
was burning.
I wanted to close my eyes,
but seeing him I couldn't.

He was battered, covered in blood. It permeated even
my own clothes,
with the brooding red
of war.

"Don't worry,
you'll taste green tea again
soon."

"You can count on me,"
that's all he said.

Drowsiness caught up to me.
And I couldn't stay awake anymore.
It wasn't long enough,
to get a look at him.

Soon enough, I was laying on the wooden floor of my house,
and my wife had made
us tea.

As I looked out to the horizon,
the sky was pure white. And I could see everything.
Even the boats,
coming to shore.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:23:00 -0300 [13] It's Altruistic People That Make The World Go 'Round https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/


The scanlation community always surprises, it's certainly got the kindest people in the world. They provide raws and ask for no credit! Two kind souls! Oh.... how can I thank them...!! Their god like kindness...!

Anyway, on a serious note (no funny voices), I know from the rest of my blog I'd seem like the kind of person who would post them all here in my blog despite them saying they did not want to be put down or whatever, but I assure you I am no such devilish fiend, and no general asshole.

I am sorry you had to read my awful messages, and my eccentric typings. Thanks.

The world would come to a halt without these people. That's what I say!]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:22:00 -0300 [12] Delays are Inevitable https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
I would love to continue Volume 4 right now. It seems there's more people who care (instantly) about Washizu than I anticipated, and the chapters have only been out for half a day at the time of writing this. But alas, the raws are the ugliest things I have put my eyes on, and I wish not to touch these if at all possible...

Either way, I am incredibly busy with college for at least the next week. If I'm unlucky I might need to do a make-up test. Sadly, it is not because of translating manga (that would actually make me feel better), but personal affairs.

I had to go to campus on a day I didn't have class, because this and that, and then I'll still have to skip a class to go to back to the eletronics lab to get some stupid project finished. Yada-yada! No one cares (not even me).

Scratch all everything, you have to read nothing. MANGA WON'T BE TRANSLATED FOR 1-2 WEEKS, BUT I WILL COME BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO SCANLATING. That's all. Why meander, right?



Perhaps one day, you will get your manga. One day... So hold the hope close to your heart, okay? <3

I'm still thinking about that software review. Spoiler alert, it's a cool wallpaper widget I have from around 2003 or so. It's... cool, okay?



Until then I'll

(i really want to put as many images as i can
from now on.)
]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:21:00 -0300 [11] People Who are Bored are Bound To Do Something Stupid https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ I'm not the writing or speaking type, I suppose it makes enough sense. I'd imagine it just means I'll do a blog post once a week or every two weeks (not counting chapter updates, if I do them quicker, although I still plan on releasing only entire volumes), and 3 poems or so every same time frame.

It also means I can cut the poems up as I like them better, and throw out the trash. (every poem is trash, yes, but I mean the really gross wet trash from the slightly gross piece of vegetable, yk?)

Any sort of too verbal too much "out-there" energy was simply a fluke. A slightly manic fluke born from being a bit too lonely and a bit too crazy. No crimes there...

(i look like this, not only now, but always)

I've also hit a slump. So everything I ever made or experienced in life has turned disgusting and filthy, and I have no urge to do anything. It's at times like these that if someone were messaging me I would end up ignoring them. (sorry)
It could also be extreme paranoia that makes me end up not replying to a message, but that's not... related... to blog... posting... or translation... hm.

Yes, you are reading an insane person's blog.

I'll do...
a software review soon.


I can't even think of a good or funny way to end this post.
So
I'll
just]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:20:00 -0300 [10.3] Big Wooden Hammer [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
He walked around holding a big wooden hammer.
Be it at the grocery store,
or just out on a walk, you could count on it,
he'd always have it.
You never saw him swing it. He always had the same
sad expression,
frowning like a gag character.

He wanted to swing it but couldn't.
Maybe that was it.

You wondered why he even held the damn thing.
It just made his palms sweaty in the scalding heat.
If it was metal, skin would have already
melted.

It's insanity.

Not the crazy crackheads that yell,
but the ones with a hammer. Those are the ones you
need to be scared of.
They're REAL crazy (but be careful around both ok?)

You never know when you'll get hit.

The last time we saw him,
there was red sticky goop
on the head
of his mallet.

And he wasn't
sad,
not anymore.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:19:00 -0300 [10.2] Accidental Bumping [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
"Sorry,
it was an accident."

That's all you had to say back then.
Just those few simple words,
and not even for a fraction of a second
would I have been able to not forgive you.

But you didn't.
You never did.
Maybe you had too much pride to offer that,
maybe you just thought all that didn't matter
for someone like me.

It's been a long, quiet while since then.
A little more time,
and I probably would've forgotten you entirely.

I was walking,
normally,
through the bustling streets.
I bumped my shoulder against some
inconvenient
moron.

But it was you.
I knew it was you before I even looked.
I couldn't bring myself to turn around.
I think I was scared.

"Sorry!" you yelled,
and kept moving forward.

I stood there for a little while longer,
as the people in droves
kept bumping into my shoulders.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:18:00 -0300 [10.1] dog-eat-dog world [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
No one asks
to be
a stray dog.
No one
chooses it.

So why is it
that the world
treats that dog
so badly?

He seems
to be
jumping.
Reaching
for a
T-bone steak
from the
rich guy
in the
rich house.

The other
dogs
get turned away
by him.
Aggressively so.
They don't
understand
what makes him
tick.

They're all
stray dogs.
But he's not
doing
as they do.

He seems
to be
having
a lot of fun
his own way.

They bark:
Why won't he
eat our bones?
Why won't he
take
the leftover
donuts
thrown into
the trash
by the store.

He's alone.

So they
decide
he must
be wrong.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:17:00 -0300 [10] Computer Lovers Should Treat Their Computer Better. It Wouldn't Save What You Save, Had It Known... https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
Whenever people send me pictures, I always save them. I'm not sure why. I have a folder full. There's a lot of desks, and setups. Girls are always liars, inconspicuous about their compliment fishing. Guys are the same, but only if they think you're a girl. I should have lied to the last one that did, I could have manipulated him, I think.
Everyone's the same kind of gross.
The rest is things I actually like, from people I actually liked talking to.

But I delete the penises, even I'm not that dirty. I don't get why anyone would send those sorts of pics. They're all brown tips, if you were wondering. Mine is a pretty pink. (lol)

It used to be that you were certainly a guy if you were using an anime girl as a profile picture. Now, people ask, as if it's confusing! Of course I'm a guy! Why would you think otherwise!?
It happened to me thrice this year. People I'd rather not talk to. Certain normies.
Thrice, of course, not counting the two people that thought I was a girl and sent me their penises.

I also save messages. If I talk to someone for a long time. Tonight I was cleaning some of the more useless ones. Or ones I've forgotten or want to forget.

Chat Log

>[2026-05-17 01:05] <gnom> when i was a kid i used to hit my head a lot so maybe that has something to do with it
>[2026-05-17 01:05] <gnom> like fall over and hit my head

>[2026-05-17 01:06] <deleted_user> wait what
>[2026-05-17 01:06] <deleted_user> like on purpose or accidentally

>[2026-05-17 01:07] <gnom> accidentally
>[2026-05-17 01:07] <gnom> simply bad at balancing myself i guess
>[2026-05-17 01:07] <gnom> if i was on any kind of weird uneven place

>[2026-05-17 01:07] <deleted_user> WTF
>[2026-05-17 01:07] <deleted_user> so like did it affect ur development or what

>[2026-05-17 01:08] <gnom> well
>[2026-05-17 01:08] <gnom> id like to think not
>[2026-05-17 01:08] <gnom> but
>[2026-05-17 01:08] <gnom> maybe

It did. It did.

Chat Log

>[2026-05-18 01:09] <brody> that's old
>[2026-05-18 01:09] <brody> I like that video because I hear my ex's voice

>[2026-05-18 01:11] <gnom> why did you two break up
>[2026-05-18 01:11] <gnom> if i had voice recordings of my ex id kill myself so ur doing great

>[2026-05-18 01:14] <brody> I did not good stuff to him
>[2026-05-18 01:14] <brody> I have pictures of him still saved
>[2026-05-18 01:14] <brody> I'm a warrior dude
>[2026-05-18 01:14] <brody> god

>[2026-05-18 01:17] <gnom> you are bro

>[2026-05-18 01:18] <brody> thank you
>[2026-05-18 01:18] <brody> it's been 6 months
>[2026-05-18 01:18] <brody> I'm not yet over him

>[2026-05-18 01:19] <gnom> np
>[2026-05-18 01:19] <gnom> takes time

>[2026-05-18 01:22] <brody> I am on a walk
>[2026-05-18 01:22] <brody> I'm trying to clear my head

>[2026-05-18 01:22] <gnom> that's good
>[2026-05-18 01:22] <gnom> i love walking
>[2026-05-18 01:22] <gnom> it does help

>[2026-05-18 01:23] <brody> not really
>[2026-05-18 01:23] <brody> makes me think of him more

>[2026-05-18 01:24] <gnom> fair enough
>[2026-05-18 01:24] <gnom> depends on the mindset

>[2026-05-18 01:25] <gnom> id tell you not to focus on it but that's kind of impossible lol i know how it is

>[2026-05-18 01:25] <brody> yea ur tight
>[2026-05-18 01:25] <brody> right

>[2026-05-18 01:25] <gnom> tight

I've never even had a girlfriend! What the hell am I talking about!? LOL

Chat Log

>[2026-02-09 22:27] <deleted_user> i am by your side
>[2026-02-09 22:27] <deleted_user> forever twin

>[2026-02-09 22:27] <gnom> its true

>[2026-02-09 22:27] <deleted_user> until you block me
>[2026-02-09 22:27] <deleted_user> again...

>[2026-02-09 22:27] <gnom> i will not

>[2026-02-09 22:27] <deleted_user> i am sure you wilk
>[2026-02-09 22:27] <deleted_user> youll be like
>[2026-02-09 22:27] <deleted_user> No i fucking ruined my opsec

>[2026-02-09 22:28] <gnom> LOL

>[2026-02-09 22:28] <deleted_user> Im gonna fucking block this fucking foid

...It does sound like something I'd do.
They
weren't
wrong...


I wonder if these logs make me look like the very social, crazy internet people meeting kind of guy, that's always got something going on. It's definitely not the case.
I wouldn't talk to anybody, if it was up to me. It's these people that keep coming in droves. Pestering me. Annoying me!
Most of the time. lol
...

Japanese websites comprise the other weirdness of my hard drive. If you know what you're doing (me), you can get all their images in bulk. I tend to get the ones from around 2001-2007.
After that they blend too much with 2011, which is pretty much 2015, which is pretty much 2017... which... yeah. Something like that, surely.

For every 200 pornographic images, you may get one cool picture of a cat or otherwise.

(I'm sure Github is fine with flesh colored squares...)

Sift, and sift...


ふ～ん God... he's so cool～!

Or... random security camera videos...



Or, pictures of naked drunk guys from a party, all of which now must have families, their holes still burned in my mind. That ZIP file that now won't be seen by anyone for a long long time. Like a pebble thrown into the deep deep ocean.


[NO! THERE'S NO IMAGE OF IT]


Or, wallpapers. My favourite. I have 2206 wallpapers in my folder. Not all are usable, especially with an open door behind you. But I love them all equally.






I'm not very good at organising any of these multitude of images. So sometimes I... don't. Scrolling is way more fun anyway. You can find random ones pretty easily.
It's just nice to look at them sometimes... cathartic even...



Man... I just can't forget... those ugly... holes... eugh...]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:16:00 -0300 [9.1] My Soul [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
My soul is silver,
but my balls are golden.

That's the
current read.
Gintama, for the uninitiated.

I knock out one series
every week or so.
Of non-stop
reading.

155 chapters I've enjoyed.
553 left to go.

Maybe.

Those total counts
are never
right.
That's piracy
for ya.
The numbers
always
lie.

　　Days: 91.0
　　Mean Score: 6.68
　　Completed: 99
　　Chapters: 15,455
　　Volumes: 1,493

That's my sheet.

I haven't bought
a single
one.

Personally?
I think I've got
too little.

Even with
fifteen thousand
chapters,
I still wouldn't
trust this guy
with my
manga.

Or translation
of any
kind.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:15:00 -0300 [9] WASHIZU CH.19 https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
WASHIZU CHAPTER 19!!!




Wow! 5 years of waiting for a single finished volume. Rest assured, dear readers, you won't ever have to wait EVER AGAIN!

jk

I kinda want to scanlate another manga for a bit... Don't sweat it... it's just two volumes...



AND
I'M
A
FREE
MAN!!!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

>With that, we finish Volume 3.

>If anyone has better raws for Volume 4.
>Send me a message on dc: lainposer
>or email me: liberty@cocaine.ninja
>or anything, idrc how you find me, just do it.

　　　　　>It's pretty fugly...

> (link soon WHEN MANGADEX ACCEPTS IT)

RYUUIISOU SCANLATIONS
translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:14:00 -0300 [8.3] Normal is a Silver Medal. I'd rather not have it. [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
It creeps
on you.
Unexpectedly.
Before you,
or anyone else,
can ever
notice it.

Once you become
"alone."
Once you cross
the line into
abnormal.

You can never
be around
others.
Around your
past peers.
Not ever
again.

Are you ready
for that
ending?

Even your parents
will become
embarrassed of you.
Eventually.

You will die
alone.
In a ditch,
or a sterile
hospital bed.
If you're
lucky.

I don't think
you are.
Ready, I mean.
You can't be.
You don't have
what it takes.

I know this.
Because when you
read my question,
you answered it.
You didn't just
accept it.

It might have been
just for
a second.

But you looked
deep into
yourself,
and you saw a
sliver
of normal.

Something you
didn't want
to abandon.

Even if it's
something as
small
as the
clinging.
That pathetic,
quiet
yearning.

For normality.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:13:00 -0300 [8.2] ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES: FLAT IS JUSTICE! [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
LISTEN UP, YOU DEGENERATES AND TRUE PERVERTED SCHOLARS OF BODILY FORM!
The Flat Chest Lovers Society is officially OPEN for new recruitment!
We are a Secret Perv Society, yes! You heard that right! Say it loud! Say it with pride!
Throw your shame into the nearest garbage bin and look toward that fateful horizon! (known as perversion... or maybe the flat chests... themselves...)

Do you understand the majesty of that perfectly straight line?
Some men are weak! They crave the soft, bloated monstrosities of the heavy-chested!
But they are blind to the aerodynamics of the pure heart!
They are weighed down by the unnecessary mass of the common world!

WE DISDAIN THAT JIGGLE! WE DENY THAT BOUNCE!
There is no truth in a curve that seeks to hide the menacing ribcage!
A true man of culture finds his home in that beautiful flat surface!
A landscape of absolute, unchanging perfection!
The clothes hang on it like a holy shroud, unblemished by the swell of sin!

Join us in our bunker at 123 Boulevard St.!
Bring your 1:7 scale figures! Bring your unwavering resolve!
Bring a ruler, because we value precision in all our aesthetic evaluations!
We are the enlightened few! We are flat enthusiasts!
WE ARE THE MEN WHO RECOGNIZE THAT TRUE BEAUTY DOES NOT NEED TO BE HELD UP BY BRA-STRAPS!

GLORY TO THE FLAT! GLORY TO THE F.C.L.S.!
SIGNED, THE SUPREME CHAIRMAN OF THE HENTAI GENTLEMEN LEAGUE.
(Meeting adjourns at 3 AM. No girls allowed! Especially not big ones!)

-- F.C.L.S.]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:12:00 -0300 [8.1] When You Forget Your Native Language, You'll Only be Able to Use it to Talk About Penises and Masturbation [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
It is a really
beautiful language,
but really
I have no interest in it.
I have never seen
an internet so boring
and so vile.

I could not find
a single worthy
or unique opinion.
All trash.
Everywhere.
In every corner
and by every person.
It has been a decade
since I've read anything
in this native language of mine.

It is far too warm,
and at the end of the day,
everyone talks like a normie.

How am I meant
to love this country
when all it has
ever done
is haunt me?
Everything I've ever loved
has come from outside it.

When you lean on
that disgust
too much,
you end up
talking only about penises
or homosexual rape
when you're with friends.
At least it
gives them a laugh.
Deep down
I don't find it
very funny.

I might not be free
of it anytime soon
unless I die.

I hope
they can at least
write on my grave
in English:

Here lies...
some sort of weird fag,
for all to see.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:11:00 -0300 [7.3] Tough Luck [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
The blood
spilled.
It trickled
down.
Pitter-patter.
Pitter-patter.
On top of
the electronic
mahjong table.

"It's a
haneman tsumo."
the man
to his right
said.
Mouth agape.

He was
flipping
his own
tiles
after.
Shocked,
out of habit.
Checking for
tenpai.
Like it
mattered.

The busted
gun
lay on
the floor.
Smoking.

He'd made
a comeback.
The win
of a
lifetime.
But we
couldn't have
expected
it.

So we'd
already
shot him.
Right as
his fingers
touched
the wall.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:10:00 -0300 [7.2] Just a speck different [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
I stood
in front of
my father.

I wore
a long
brown coat.
Down to
my feet.

A worn out
stain.
Red,
or maybe
brownish.
Around the
cuff.

"My son,"
he said.
"He's dead?"

"Yes."

The silence
was
deafening.

"I know,"
I said.
"Because
I killed
him."

I could have
explained
more.
I could have
told him
it was
an accident.
Or a mercy.
Or a
long time
coming.

But I
just
turned
around.

He couldn't
recognize
me
anymore
anyway.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:09:00 -0300 [7.1] I sit on the third roll [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
"I sit
on the
third roll."

That's
what
you said.

A cute
mistake.
Row.
You meant
row.

I could have
listened
to a
thousand
more
of those.

But
by then,
you were
already
dead.

Sorry.

For dragging
your
corpse
around.

Or
maybe
for letting
you
drag
mine.

You refused
to
let go.

I don't think
it was
grief.
I think
you just
liked
the weight
of it.

Which is
fine,
I guess.

I've
never been
too
heavy.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:08:00 -0300 [7] Poetry https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
Soon enough this site will be all poems. For every 5-10 poems, you might get a chapter release.

...That's actually not a bad schedule...

...for just 1 (one) guy...]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:07:00 -0300 [6.1] Too much to ask for [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
Twenty minutes.
That's all
he asked for.

Just
twenty.

The other fellow,
turned purple.
A real,
ugly shade.
He started
yelling.
Loud.

Barking about
this and
that.
The fragile
economy,
maybe.

He didn't
hear,
it could've
been
anything.

His eyelids
weighed
fifty pounds
each.

A soft,
steady
snore
rattled in his throat.

The fellow
kept screaming.
Louder, now.
Waving his arms.

But the guy
was already
gone.

He'd get his
twenty.

Maybe
thirty.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:06:00 -0300 [6] Don't eat a Pizza-sized Box, unless your metabolism is in tip-top shape https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ It's a lot of chicken. If you were wondering.

Good for me, I'll still be around 50 kilos tomorrow.
Not everyone is so lucky.

Maybe they are. They don't have to scanlate 30+ pages after it.]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:05:00 -0300 [5] WASHIZU CH.18 https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ Washizu ch.18

46 pages of headaches and annoyances later. Some of these pages can be hell to clean.




But the feeling of finishing a chapter. It is true... bliss!!

I might be the only person in the world who truly loves and hates scanlation like this (not true, I hope). I can't help but sit in class or lie in bed, and end up thinking: "I want to do more pages!"

I end up feeling my heart burn like I'm thinking of a crush, I want to go home and text my crush CLEAN PAGES!!

It's only going up when I finish the next chapter. Then volume 3 can be finished all at once.

I also decided to post the credits pages on the blog, along with a link to the chapter itself from now on.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

>I wish I could tell you why anyone translated only random chapters after ch.17!

>I wish I could!



>This got covered by the TL! And it doesn't actually look like you could really imagine behind it but... I wanted to show-off!

> (link soon)

RYUUIISOU SCANLATIONS
translated/cleaned/typeset by 1 (one) guy]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:04:00 -0300 [4.1] Last Night where you might have been able to see the Moon [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
The guy,
whoever he
was,
sat dejected
on the bench.

He sat
and
sat.

Shoulders
slumped.

Waiting
for a
shooting
star,
or a
text,
or some
other
romantic
bullshit
to save
him.

The moon
was
immense.
The sky was
a perfect,
unforgiving
dark.

With that
up
there,
no one's
getting saved
anytime
soon.

He probably
cried
a little.

I was
picking
my nose.

So I
didn't see.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:03:00 -0300 [4] If you see a Normal Person with your tastes, lock your doors and turn off your router. They've gotten better at Being You. https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
"Can you really understand what you are seeing?", sometimes you may find the answer to this rhetorical question over the normiebo is a certain "No."
Sometimes it may seem "Yes," but it is actually a "No."
And if it's a "Yes," then perhaps you just haven't found what makes it a "No" yet...

I don't say it out of snobbery. Although, it may sound like it. I would truly, truly from the bottom of my heart, and more than anyone in this world, want to be able to say "Yes," to see that true understanding.

I have yet to. I have yet to ever look at a normie, recognise it as one and not be proven wrong in my conviction.

I would do anything, anything in this whole wide world, just to get away from all these normies. They surround you from all sides. You might think you finally got away from them, and then one will find a way to you in the most obscure possible 0.001 percenter of a possible way.

They hide. They've gotten better at hiding as more of them exist.
You want them to not be normies. You feel a burning betrayal in your heart to share moments and find out about normality. They will vomit all over your memories.

Normality. As if I want any of it. Blow it all away!

Some would be quick to call me an extremist. They would realise their fathers, their mothers, their friends, their confidants, can be normies and still be "respected". If you happen to share that opinion. I would much rather you'd also drop dead. You are a normie.

You can try to cut yourself off from them; declare yourself abnormal. It won't come true.

A world full of fake pretend losers. They might not be the normies of the utmost circle, but even in a slightly deeper cut circle, they are still at the edge of it's circumference, or close to it. They will still have peers.

I disdain you and your social spheres.

I will be at the centre of the circles for as long as I live. No matter how many circles you go down I'll never be at the edge of a circle. Too weird for normals, and too weird for even weirdoes.

Someone without a peer group at any level.
Alien even among aliens.

You will come to find that normies have perfected being you. They have perfected your weirdness in it's most acceptable assets, and they have far surpassed the act of being you. They have your symptopms but not your disease, thus they are better than you. You have become meaningless.]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:02:00 -0300 [3.1] Suicide at the Far East Mountain [POEM] https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
The Far East mountain.
It's always freezing
and the brochure said the view was spectacular.
To die for.

He removed
his hiking boots.
Dirty, filthy things.

He stepped into the drift.
Bare skin
on the cool ice.
It's funny,
isn't it?

Even as the frost
bit into his bones,
he never once got
cold feet.

He fell.
I watched
from my room.

The mountain
didn't move.

Neither
could
I.

-- Christopher]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0300 [2/R] Posting When You're Feeling Edgy Will Only Make You Look Unsociable https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/ I removed sum posts. They're gay and stupid.
If you read them, then I'm not usually like that. I promise!

I'm generally unsociable anyway. But, somehow, all the people I know in life are loudmouths. That goes for all my friends, and family.

You'd think I'd be the same, instead I ended up scanlating manga all by myself. Maybe hitting my head one too many times when I was younger... changed me forever...!!!!

Okay, they're still kinda funny. I mean, what am I a pussy? If you're going to blog you might as well own it, asshole. Uncommented those awsome blogs. If you're wondering yeah it's all one big txt file.]]> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0300 [1] BLOGS & Lasik : They have a lot more in common than you may think https://jan.mikata.ru/gbook/
I actually quite love and enjoy the process. So what am I twiddling around making a blog for? I really can't answer any of these questions. I don't think I have any sort of appropriate answer.

My face is flushed red from embarrassment even. Believe me.


All jokes aside, I suppose the reason is that simple blogs like these really can have an unique charm I've always liked.

One time, I went on a really old (maybe 15 years old?) Japanese website, and it had a very long diary spanning years of a guy's journey and experiences with his Lasik surgery. I had been thinking of getting Lasik (although, I opted for contacts now), and it was a very interesting read despite how old it was.
He updated it for years and years. Not only after a couple days, weeks or months. Which is really what made it stand out.

Yeah... good luck finding that sort of consistency anywhere on the modern web!

I only perused his site, cause I wanted to send an email for the source code of an old software of his. I did do that, but apparently he couldn't share because it was now under some company.

>SAIKOUDOGG様
>
>お返事が大変遅くなり申し訳ございません。　, he says.

...Why did I put that as my name anyway?

"Would you really trust 'SAIKOUDOGG' with your manga?" Make that a PSA!

They don't have anything in common, if you were wondering.]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:56:00 -0300