Time for an announcement.

As you probably have noticed, I have completely removed the shoutbox. It was giving me more trouble than it's worth recently with the non-stop flaming, non-stop people asking for stuff, etc and I'm really sick and tired of dealing with it. Not only it wastes my time, it also completely kills my drive and it causes me to completely not feel like working on anything for the group and do something else instead, even when I have something planned. It has also completely destroyed the reason the shoutbox was there in the first place!

To tell you the truth, there were many times I'd wanted to quit from the manga scanlation scene as it was giving me too much unneeded drama, both running my scanlation group and doing public raw scanning. The only thing that has kept me going is my love for the manga I'm scanning/scanlating.

So now, I've decided to replace it with a Twitter account where I will tweet project related updates as a companion to the already existent project status threads at the forums. Hopefully, this will reduce or even completely remove these stupid flaming, questions and demands and I can actually focus on what needs to be done instead of dealing with these minority of jerks which in turn wastes my time and destroys my mood on working on anything.

I should be starting to get some backlogged stuff cleared out and sending out stuff to be worked on in about one or two weeks later. I'm busy with something this week and I need my computer to do video encodes to encode raws for Abyssal Chronicles so that they can complete work on the Tales of Symphonia OVAs (Both Sylvarant and Tethe'alla arcs) and Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~. The ToV movie is their priority right now and I need to do the final encode for the raw version of it by this week/early next week so the encoder can do the final encode for the release whenever they finish timing, translating and editing the script and finish up QC. The movie is 1 hour 50 mins and it will take almost two whole days to encode the raw. I seriously need a faster computer T__T. Though when it's finally released, I hope all the Tales of series fans will check it out! Same with the ToS OVAs of course. They've worked on and finished the Tales of the Abyss anime and I can guarantee the quality of their work as they put a lot of heart and time into it and they do not rush things.

New site design will also be temporarily put on hiatus until I actually have the time to work on it. Nagi, the group's main cleaner suggests quickly getting the last two chapters of Tales of Destiny out so I'll most likely get the work distributed out and work on the group's main project, Tales of Vesperia at the same time. Both cleaning and translation is already done. All that's left is proofread the scripts, send them for typesetting, QC, then release.

As for those that have applied for the proofreading and typesetting tests, I'll be looking at them soon. I hope that you guys will meet my standards.

Just a fair warning to you leechers out there that do not contribute anything to the manga scanlation community, no hate posts in the comments page and the shoutbox! We do whatever we want, whenever we want, and posts that tell us to release this, release that will only serve to annoy us and make us delay things further! We do this for free and in our free time and we make no money off doing all these! So you had better learn to shut up and be patient if you don't even want to think about contributing to anything that is related to the manga scanlation community as a whole! We are not paid to do these and you have absolutely no right to tell us what to do or even put a deadline on us!

Also, there are project statuses topics at the group's forums. You do not need to register to the forums to read them. So please just refer there to check the status of things! Another thing to note though, running this group is NOT THE ONLY THING that I do. I also scan raws from certain magazines for the public and I also have other things I want to do plus a real life and a full time job. I don't exactly have all the time in the world. I work on things for my group as much as possible when I have the time to allot to it, which is something that I don't have much of at the current moment.

And oh, I still have a site redesign to do, remember? I'm putting the new site design on indefinite hold. Will continue to use the old site design until I actually have the time to work on the new design.

Okay, onto the recruitment part, which are positions that I currently need the most.

Translators
Read this recruitment ad for more information

Typesetters
Read this for more information on applying for the Typesetter position

Proofreaders
Please download the raws and proofread the script below. Submit the script to eternal@eternalmanga.net when done.

Proofread this script
Raws to the chapter

I'm going to be pretty strict and particular about the Typesetter and Proofreader positions. Also, I want people that are able to keep up a good e-mail communication with me to update me if you're busy with real life, status of the work that has been assigned to you, etc, and won't just up and go poof on me without letting me know, be it because of real life, moving on, quitting, etc.

EDIT: I'm temporarily suspending the applications for the Proofreader and Typesetter positions until I can go through the current applications. Applications for the translator position is still open!

The New Year is upon us! And we have six chapters of Tales of Vesperia for you to enjoy! As you all know, Tales of Vesperia is the group's main project, and our attention is mostly focused on that. However, don't think we've neglected the rest of the projects. Of course, one main reason some of the projects might be stalled is because we lack people working on them, so it will be done slowly, but some of the series lack translators, and I can't do anything about that until more translators decide to join the group.

After this release, the group will focus on catching up to the latest Tales of Vesperia chapter in Japan. I will slowly be clearing the QCs that need to be done and start getting stuff released, and also proofreads that need to be done so they can be sent for typesetting. I will also be slowly working on the new website layout that I mentioned a few months ago. However, no new projects, save for those that already have their own projects page using this old layout, will be released until the new layout is done.

Hopefully this year will be better than the last for everyone! Happy New Year!

Tales of Vesperia Chapter 5.5
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Tales of Vesperia Chapter 06
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Tales of Vesperia Chapter 07
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Tales of Vesperia Chapter 08
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Tales of Vesperia Chapter 09
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Tales of Vesperia Chapter 10
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The group is in need of more translators! Please visit the forums Recruitment section for more information.

Whew, the long awaited Christmas release is finally done! I was actually planning on releasing more than this, but the Quality Check process was proving to be taking longer than expected with so many things to touch up and stuff that it's killing me, so I decided to go with releasing Chapters 02 to 05 and release the other two chapters that I had originally planned to release with this batch at another time.

Up next will be a Tales of Vesperia New Year 2010 release. Until then, enjoy the Christmas release! Thanks to the few people that submitted fan stuff for this year's Christmas release! Merry Christmas!!!

Tales of the Abyss Episode 02
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Tales of the Abyss Episode 03
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Tales of the Abyss Episode 04
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Tales of the Abyss Episode 05
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The group is in need of more translators! Please visit the forums Recruitment section for more information.

Fan sumbissions for Eternal's Christmas 2009 and New Year 2010 releases

It's almost Christmas! Although the deadline is specified 24th December 2009 at 12 PM GMT +0800, I'm changing it to 25th December 2009 at 12 PM GMT +0800, since I'm planning to release late afternoon/evening my time. If I receive anything after the deadline, and if I have not released yet, I will still accept it.

As for the New Year release batch, about one week left for submissions!