Phoning It In
It’s almost summer, which means my traveling calender is starting to fill up again. Hopefully we as a group will manage to be more active this time compared to last year, but you know how it goes. Today’s big announcement is the launch of two brand-new projects: Green Blood and Udon no Hito. In familiar Kotonoha tradition, they are as different as two manga can be.
Green Blood is the latest work by Masasumi Kakizaki, the artist behind Hideout and Rainbow. Set in mid-19th century New York, this grim and action-filled period drama explores the violent gang culture in the notorious Five Points district through the eyes of two Irish immigrant brothers. If you enjoyed Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, like I did, this manga will be right up your alley. Kakizaki’s gritty artwork seems uniquely suited to portrait the cruel and unforgiving life during some of the darkest days in this era. His story, while not on the same scale as Scorsese’s movie, is fast-paced and engaging. If you can handle explicit scenes of graphic violence and nudity, Green Blood offers a fresh and captivating experience rarely found in manga these days. This project is a joint with Easy Going Scans, who are scanlating Kakizaki’s other famous manga, Rainbow.
Since the conclusion of Happy-Go-Lucky Days our ongoing josei section has been conspicuously vacant, which is all the more reason I’m glad we’re picking up Udon no Hito, one of the most talked-about josei books of 2011. In her second josei outing, up-and-coming artist est em gives us a witty, charming, and occasionally hilarious story about love and noodles. Although I do wonder at times which of them is the bigger focus of the manga. A big thanks to Aster for translating this wonderful manga for us.
We are of course not ignoring our other projects, as is evident by the new chapters of All-Rounder Meguru and Raqiya. Thanks to Weaper for helping us out with the latter again. Hopefully, these two projects will proceed smoother from now on.
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Since the group's inception in 2004, Kotonoha has established itself as the premier source of off-beat, sophisticated manga scanlations aimed at both the seinen and josei demographics. Among our most influential titles are Soil by Atsushi Kaneko, The Hour of the Mice by Kei Tōme, The Music of Marie by Usamaru Furuya, and the works from Inio Asano.
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- Green Blood v2 ch8
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- Udon no Hito v1 (complete)
- All-Rounder Meguru v7 ch61
- All-Rounder Meguru v7 ch59-60
- Raqiya v2 ch15
- Wandering Emanon (complete)
- Raqiya v2 ch14
- Ran to Haiiro no Sekai v2 ch9
- Wolfsmund v2 ch5
- Raqiya v2 ch13
- Raqiya v2 ch12
- Raqiya v2 ch11
- Garden ch7 part1
- Soil v7
- All-Rounder Meguru v7 ch58
- All-Rounder Meguru v7 ch57
- Ran to Haiiro no Sekai v2 ch8
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- Wolfsmund v2 ch4
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Thanks for two new Meguru chapters and the two new interesting titles.
est em! est em! est em! est em! I love her manga and that artwork, it’s so beautiful! I’m so happy that you’re scanlating Udon no Hito! Many thanks for that, Green Blood and Raqiya, of course.
Thank You so much for Udon no Hito, i totally love it. Ehm, i don’t want to sound snobbish but this is my first time on Your site and You have such great outstanding taste in choosing projects! I think i’ll have to read them all:-). Thank You very much for sharing the less known but great mangas with us!
Thanks for the Meguru.
As for the new lot, Green Blood just screams manliness. So, it will be read, not now but in time. For Udon, mhmmm FOOOOD!!!
To quote that Fat Bastard, “Get en maw belly!”
Many thanks!!!
Very excited for a new est em title, thanks for picking it up!
Btw. Nomad Soul, is the Kotonoha gmx email still valid? Dropped you a message there.
Thank you! I love most of your projects, so keep up the good work! <3
Thanks a lot!! I like two new projects.
I almost forget, why the Kanji for “Woman” is pronounced as “Hito”? Does it imply anything?
Wow, Thanks for Udon, and Meguru, of course (^__^)
Damn man, Udon no hito kicks ass
It’s getting a bit ridiculous how much I’m starting to love josei. Thanks Aster and Nomad Soul, and Est Em-sensei too of course.
Thanks for Raqiya. . .
I just read Udon no Hito, it’s AMAZING! I must admit the cover made me wonder if it were a horror story (I find all those udon somewhat nightmare-ish ^^) though Est-Em’s stories can be trusted to be sensitive and interesting, whatever the first impression might give <3 THANK YOU!
Udon no Hito is interesting. Thank you!
Thanks for Meguru. Never enough of new chapters!
It looks like I’ll have to read them all….I’m so excited!
Thanks for all you efforts
Thank you for Green Blood!
The story -for the first 2 chapters- doesn´t seem really original, but the drawing is completely outstanding and the charisma of certain characters so far makes it a very interesting manga. I will look forward to more chapters
Gunjo D:
As always, thanks. Udon no Hito is really great. As a big lover of Udon I’ll eat up every word of it. Not the season for my favourite, udon-nabe but now I’m inspired.
Thank you so much for these two beautiful projects !
Green Blood looks interesting,thanks,but when can we expect the next Wolfsmund chapter?.
Thanks a lot for that guys! And yay, a new josei. I liked all your josei picks, and I’m sure I will appreciate this one too.
est em!!! Yay! I love her work so much. Can’t wait to read her non-BL stuff.
Thank you.
The udon one was a good surprise, loving it.
Sorry to off topic, but nobody knows when it is transferred to the second volume of the manga A Girl by the Sea (http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/2011/08/30/a-girl-by-the-sea/)?
The second volume has not been published yet. I wouldn’t expect it until at least early next year.
thanks for the answer
speaking of Happy-go-lucky days, those mediafire links needs to be updated.. can’t download 13-14 & 15. Thanks!
Thanks. Links are now fixed.