(I kinda wrote this a long time ago... And sorry for the melodrama, heh, I tend to be melodramatic at like 3am, which was the time I wrote this. Also, the title is reminiscent of Bakuman, no? xD)

I write this piece of news with a heavy heart as this is really not something that I want to do. Unfortunately, all good things have to come to an end. Every ending, however, is also a beginning.

I start with the beginning. I am entering a new phase of my life called "university" come this July. Seniors tell me that my course, in particular, will be hell - crazy long hours with hardly a break in between, and less holidays than the rest of the university. And that brings me to the end: this will have to be the end of the long hours I spend translating. I currently translate 4 series, and I have decided that I will drop half of them in anticipation of my busy school life to come. Hopefully, I will not need to drop more series as I go along.

The first series I am dropping will be Examurai. I've said this before so this should not come as a surprise. I've begun to lose interest in the series, thus there is really little motivation for me to translate at all. Coupled with the issue regarding university, Examurai is the first to get the axe off my translating list. Examurai 7 will be my last for the series. Turns out Examurai is ending :| Last chapter is chapter 8. So... I guess I'll continue till then, but chapter 8 may be considerably later than usual.

The second series is a series I really would rather not drop, but as the wordiest of the lot, the one that takes the longest to translate and the one that I'd need to devote time to every week, it just has to go. Yes, that's Bakuman :( This was a tough choice because I still love the series and enjoy it a great deal. It also has a very special place in my heart as it was for its section on MH that I was first modded, resulting in a great attachment to the section and by extension, to the series. Thus, it is with great reluctance that I drop this series. Bakuman 139 (week of 6th July) will be my final translation of the series.

Indeed, this means that I will continue to translate Nurarihyon no Mago and Ao no Exorcist, at least for now. Also, to clarify, I will not be stepping down from my position as global mod on the forums! You will still see me around MH, so this is certainly not goodbye :) I thank you for your support all these months I have been translating Bakuman and Examurai. Much love to MRI and Muda as well for everything <3

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On a different note - due to personal reasons and extenuating circumstances, I will have to delay the translation of Mago 159 to next weekend, while Bakuman 138 will be handled by whoever MRI sees fit in my absence :)

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Sorry everyone, but I have decided to drop Nurarihyon no Mago as well. Reason being mainly university, and the fact that my part-time job will be getting even more intensive shortly after university starts,. That's a double whammy on how much time I will have left for everything else. Thus, I've decided that a single, monthly translation (Ao no Exorcist) is more than enough. I will translate Mago up to chapter 160, simply because it's a nice number, heh. I have a lot to catch up on this week, so expect lateness and please bear with me.