A certain Valkyrie would love this deal

Posted on October 21, 2015 by zxzxzx

So a friend tipped me off about a certain post on a site called OzBargain about cheap custom phone cases. They’re currently running a promotion where your first item is $0.99USD including standard postage to anywhere in the world! I thought I’d go and design a custom phone case for my Xperia Z with a High School DxD theme. That said, you can choose from any of the user created designs there and also create your own design with any image(s) of your choice. This is coming from “CowCow” which I’ve never used before but they seem decent enough. This offer seems only to be one per household. You can either sign up for an account on their site and generate your own coupon codes via this link or use my codes (still need to create your own account) which I receive $1 of credit for per purchase.

$0.99 for 1st Custom Phone Case, Additional $9.99/each with Free Shipping (Hardshell & Enamel Only):
Z099CASEQZNZC

Not sure when this expires, but there are also other $0.99 items available like small purses, mirrors, keychains, sleeping masks, etc. which you can get codes for.

I haven’t done any PS work for a while so it was a rather quick mash together job but I reckon it still looks decent. Let’s hope it comes out alright when I receive it. My case design:

Phone-Cover-v2s Phone-Cover-Overlayed

Update: It came out pretty good.

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An update on translation and other things

Posted on September 29, 2015 by zxzxzx

Hey there,

It’s been a while since I last made a post I think. I’ve just finished Top Secret for V19, all that remains is the Afterword which I should be able to get done this week. In regards to V20, I still do not have a source for it and I’ve just read an announcement that the Chinese translation team is looking for Japanese to Chinese translators. Apparently, their time-frame is usually 2-3 months (6 translators + other staff) so with the assumption that they have nothing now and they are able to meet that target, it will be 2-3 months before I could start. Code Zero was originally going to work on V20 as well but has said that he will be busy this year so there’s nothing which can be done at the moment. Summaries and spoilers can be found on the Animesuki forums (thanks to jopjopjop and Gary29) Thankfully, we also have a new Korean to English translator and editor team – daniel Yang and Alexis138. They have been doing short stories from DX1.

I’m nearing the time for exams again (November) and have been flooded with assignments which is why I’ve slowed down. After V19, I will probably try to make some progress with Shinmai Maou, and then short stories from Dragon Magazine/other which haven’t been translated yet.

Also, the same goes for the EX short stories from BorN’s BDs. I haven’t seen any Chinese sources around for them so they will have to wait until there is a source or someone else translates them. In the meantime, jopjopjop’s summaries are excellent.

I have had many requests for LN translations, none of which I expect to even look at until December. I don’t mind suggestions, but please do keep in mind that I may never get to them. As for life, besides uni four days a week, I’m now working a day a week in IT, and have recently got some new watercooling gear for my PC.

Anyway, thank you to everyone, especially for donating and pointing out my mistakes. Suggestions for the next anime season?

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Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha Translation

Posted on July 22, 2015 by zxzxzx

Hey there everyone,

I’ve decided to pick up Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha as I’ve been wanting to read it for some time. I’ll be doing this on the side with HighSchool DxD still my top priority. Since there aren’t many volumes of this translated yet, I’ll take some time getting used to the names, style, terminology, etc.
I’ll be translating this the same way that I do HighSchool DxD. I’ll be using a Chinese source, translating with text-to-speech engines and then checking it against the Japanese original.

I plan to do this fairly slowly, probably less than a quarter of the speed that I do DxD at. I’ll put updates for this in my “Latest Update” post but I probably won’t have estimates on completion or the next part.
My uni break is almost over so things will be going back to how they were during V18. I might speed up or slow down, I’m not certain about things yet but I’ll find out soon enough.

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SLASH/DOG

Posted on June 26, 2015 by zxzxzx

JeruTz has started translating Ishibumi’s other work, SLASH/DOG. His translation is here:
https://jerutz.wordpress.com/

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Site suggestions?

Posted on June 25, 2015 by zxzxzx

Looking to improve my site. Let me know where this site can be improved, suggest some features, I’m open to anything.

Here’s a list of suggestions already made or ones I’ve thought of:

Email updates (Sign up in the sidebar.) – Following my blog would only alert you to new posts at the moment and since I publish my translations on ‘pages’, you’d have to keep checking the page to see if there are updates. I’ll be trying out a mailing list soon.

Updates via Twitter or Facebook (Don’t think I need this if I have email and RSS) – I don’t use either of these very often but many people do which I’m fine with.

List of short codes for comments (Try out the new comment editor!) – I’ll make a page or edit the comment functionality so you can have different text styles and spoilers.
⇒ SPOILER CODE: [spoiler title='Title']Text[/spoiler]

Reference links (Now active!) – When I put translation notes into the text, you have to scroll down to find the corresponding note manually so you’ll lose your reading position or have to read them afterwards. I’m planning to make them show up whenever you hover your mouse over, this way it also keeps your current reading position.

Site Stats – (Link’s in the menu now.) As you know, there’s a little box which tells you how many visitors I get but there’s actually a lot more info than that. I use WP Statistics, WordPress’s statistics as well as Google Analytics. So there’s info like most viewed pages over time, country, age, gender, etc. (Google is a stalker).

Boosto! Comments (Will fix the bugs and features when I have time.) – This was tried out briefly but it still needs more work so it’ll be back soon. More info about it here.

Summaries (On hold.) – Some people don’t remember what’s happened in a certain volume or story. That happens to me too. Since there’s going to be a re-reading of LNs as per this schedule, I plan on doing summaries as we go.

RSS Feeds (http://www.zxzxzx.info/tag/rssf/feed/) – Have updates from my sidebar show up in the RSS feeds.

Comment submission box on top (Done.) – The comment submission box will be moved to the top instead to being at the bottom. This will make it more convenient as you won’t need to scroll down to the bottom.

Mobile Site (Working.)- A better viewing experience on mobile devices.

Edit Comments (Now active.) – In case you make a typo or want to make some amendments, you can edit comments for 15 minutes after posting.

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