Ok, so here is DRCL volume 2! This one was also a huge slog! I spent several hours a day on this almost every day for 3 weeks to get this finished! I had some help which I really appreciate but I ended up needing to do the majority of it myself and this was a huge, massively time consuming task. Thanks to PronouncedSmith for doing a bunch of redrawing of the last two chapters, Luigi for doing most of the typesetting, and them plus Su Shi and Ai for helping check and edit (Which was itself a huge task). I’m really hoping I can get more help by the time the next volume comes out or I may not be able to continue this project. Even after speeding up a lot after figuring out a good workflow from doing volume 1, this still took forever mainly due to all the redrawing, double-page spread joining, and getting the whites white and blacks black and all that to make it look good.
As last time, this is scanned at 1200dpi of the physical raw and manually has all the redraws and page joins and everything done. That’s on top of translating and typesetting and all that. So we have an uncompressed version that’s really huge (5.2GB) and the more compressed version which is still pretty big which is what goes on Mangadex due to filesize limitations there which is more like 500MB.
The next volume comes out in Spring 2023! I’ll see what the heck is going on in my life at that point. I just really can’t dedicate nearly a month of my time doing every job on each of these.
Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://discord.gg/Nw45rfJYZF
#DRCL midnight children Volume 2 (Ch. 8-14)
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