To improve the accuracy of our translations, we are looking for one or more competent Japanese-English translation checkers to look through our scripts and point out any mistranslations. We don’t expect you to do the translator’s job, just to call his attention to inaccuracies in the translation. Of course, improvement suggestions and assistance with tricky sentences are most welcome. To make your job as easy as possible, we will provide you with scripts that contain both the transcribed Japanese dialogs and the English translations and the original manga scans. Generally, our translations are done with great care (unfortunately, that does not mean that we are free from mistakes). Chances are, you don’t have to correct more than a small fraction of the script.

Applicants will ideally be fluent in both languages. However, native Japanese speakers who know a decent amount of English (enough to communicate) and/or Japanese learners with more than five years of instruction are definitely welcome to apply. Obviously, you should have an interest in manga as well.

If you are interested, please contact us at kotonoha @ gmx.net with a few words about yourself.

Please note that some of our projects might contain mature/adult contents. If you don’t want to work on such projects, please state this in your e-mail.

After Love My Life, it fills me with joy to announce our second project by Ebine Yamaji today: Free Soul. Often considered as the author’s most mature and accomplished work to date, this manga features the same optimism and honesty that fans could already find in Love My Life, while adding a sense of subtlety and profundity that makes the lecture both an enjoyable and thought-provoking one. As an appreciator of good stories, regardless of what genres they belong to, I do hope that Free Soul won’t just appeal to yuri fans, but also people who are interested in reading a mature story with good art and well developed, multidimensional characters.

Working with us on this project are the fine folks over at Lililicious. In fact, I can’t imagine a more suitable partner for this kind of project. Not that you need me to tell you, but if you like yuri manga, make sure to pay their site a visit. I know I will.

Things have been slow around Kotonoha lately due to everyone being busy with what is often referred to as RL (now if only we could shorten those daily duties the same way we abbreviate words). However, all is not completely lost yet as some of us are still willing to sacrifice our precious spare time to work on Asian comics. Don’t believe us? Well, let’s see what we’ve got for you today:

Firstly, we are proud to present a rare treat in form of an all-color comic by manga-ka extraordinaire Kei Tôme (Lament of the Lamb, Sing Yesterday for Me, LUNO etc.): Fuguruma Memories is a gorgeously illustrated and wonderfully told fantasy story about the power of memories and what they mean to us. Never mind the fact that the storytellers are objects. If you like melancholic, yet soothing stories with a good portion of unsentimental nostalgia, this manga will surely appeal to you. Have I mentioned that it’s completely in color (well, except for the final chapter)? Yep, that’s not something you encounter everyday.

While not in color, the rest of today’s releases is not to be sniffed at either:

The second chapter of Yûnagi no machi; Sakura no kuni is set 32 years after the events of the first one. We are introduced to Nanami, a cheerful and energetic girl who seems to have her whole future ahead of her. Only slowly do we learn about the connection between her and Minami and how this young girl’s fate is also bound to the terrible event of 1945 whose aftermath seems to reach into today.

The seventh chapter of Soil concludes the first volume of this nail-biting crime thriller. If you think the story so far is mysterious and suspenseful, you don’t want to miss the second volume (and the third one) as Atsushi Kaneko will take the plot to a new level. The more secrets and lies the author unveils, the deeper the mystery grows. Starting from the second volume the pace accelerates like an avalanche, yet there’s still no telling where the story might end.

Finally, we have more sex and drama in the form of Uncivilized Planet. The sixth chapter marks the end of volume one. One more to go.

Oh, wait! I almost forgot that we have a new 1-shot as well: Idiot!. As much as I’d like to explain what the story is about, I think you have to read it to understand (or not, depending on how receptive you are to nonsensical gags that one laughs about even though one doesn’t know why).

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