Alright, it seems that this extended joke has rather gone too far and gotten stale, so I'll end it early. It was supposed to go on for five days. This is an end at three. Be With You Scans releasing porn was a fun idea concocted as early as half a year ago, but it never really got planned and when the time came for April Fools, finals came along with it. Some of us had doujinshi lying around that we'd always wanted scanlated, but they didn't fit into the image of BWYS, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity to get some XXX out there.
If any of you have ever payed a split second's worth of attention to the credit pages of Tsubasa and BWYS releases in general, the name Maris should be very familiar with you. Since way back around 2005-06 she used to write newsposts here, and she buys, scans, and edits mountains of CLAMP related things for the CLAMP community at large, not just in BWYS. If you have huge hi-res scans of CLAMP calendars or Code Geass artbooks odds are she did it. There are few greater turn-offs than sending anonymous death threats because you have apparently lost access to HQ scanlations of a manga that is licensed and for which there are 'alternative' scanlations that already exist out there.
There are no real internal conflicts or plans for a coup d'etat (not that I know of, anyway) but yes, its true that many of the staff have been unhappy with the direction of Tsubasa since Tokyo. For you, this does not matter as we are determined regardless to scanlate it as best we can and to try to catch up to Japan with it. I believed that readers could cope with not having the promise of Tsubasa releases for a few days, but some comments these last three days have caused me to seriously consider dropping Tsubasa. But over the past six years we've been doing Tsubasa, its taken a small army of people to come this far. I for one have made too huge an investment of my time to give it up for a few CLAMP-tards, and other members of the staff who have been here for about as long as I have like Maris, Foxfire, and kiwiish have all also made enormous personal investments into doing this.
Apologies for scaring those who have been close readers of BWYS, those who care to read and archive manga in its full glory and believe that quality matters. All the more love to those who actually came on IRC to find out what was up. Nothing was ever removed from the bot, and it is extremely easy to go on and download from IRC these days:
http://bwys.org/forums/index.php?topic=290.0. We are an IRC based group after all-- the point of which is that readers and scanlators are able to directly talk to one another in real time.
Of course, for many of you, none of this matters. All that you care about is knowing that the downloads are back up. And they are.
There's still a little more porn left, if you are open to it. Hanaharu Naruko is an extraordinary artist and one of those elite chosen to feature in
Range Murata's Robot artbooks. Or perhaps you know him from the blog
Sankaku. Kura by Hanaharu Naruko, 18+ (warning, there is a lot of plot)http://bwys.org/downloads/oneshots/Shoujo-Material_Kura_[BWYS].zip/msg [BWYS]Kurorin xdcc send #76To the Cape by Hanaharu Naruko, 18+http://bwys.org/downloads/oneshots/Shoujo-Material_To-the-Cape_[BWYS].zip/msg [BWYS]Kurorin xdcc send #77There is one more 18+ surprise coming up Sunday for the ladies out there though. Fufufu.
If you need something to take your mind off all this and cheer you up: we've just discovered a 21 page Cardcaptor Sakura omake that has never been scanlated or published in English before. It was made by CLAMP during the Clow arc of CCS as a booklet that probably came with the first pressing of a drama CD or something like that. I am estatic to get to do it!
P.S. Clearly many of you miss Tsubasa, but I attend university and it is April. Just a heads up that it may be unlikely any will come out for 1.5-2 weeks. There will be CLAMP things released in between however.
Foxfire: I would here like to insert an additional apology for any trauma my post may or may not have caused. While extending releases for an already-busted April Fools joke for five days seemed rather stale and pointless, I believe my attempt to amend the joke to a more believable state was even more tasteless, seeing as jokes just don't
patch that way.
I am, however, shocked by some of the more virulent responses we received. I understand there are die-hard Tsubasa fans out there, but death threats? Over the loss of SCANLATIONS? That's going a bit far.
All in all, I just wanted to say that Maris loves Tsubasa as much as the rest of us - she is hardworking and dedicated and one of the biggest anchoring pillars of BWYS, and even if she HAD dropped Tsubasa if any of you threaten her again you just may find Foxfire in your house in the middle of the night with a pitchfork and intent to
slay. So please keep that in mind. <3
