Good day to all of you reading this. For a while now, I've been really busy with all sorts of stuff in life that sort of was going to affect this place. My work in translating has gone down as a result and it probably has affected those of you that have been reading these works. Some are probably wondering "what is Ataru up to that is preventing these manga from coming on the page?" or "will he ever get back to these projects?" Sure one series has sort of kept coming even with all that's been going on, but the next words I am about to say are going to change where I currently stand with translating...and may or may not change certain perspectives and projects on this page:

As of 4/25/11, I will be accepting a promotion at my real job. While I can't say how or why that is important, I will say that this promotion will mean I will have much less free time. And with less free time, I will not have as much time to translate manga like I had in the past. So effectively, my content will be greatly lessened and will have to be adjusted accordingly...hopefully I will get some stuff done on weekends (like I did with Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo), but my scripts will be greatly reduced compared to where it has been for the longest time.

With that said, here is my current status on what I feel will be happening to my projects:
-As it stands, the biggest and most important project that will probably stay on my docket as of right now will remain Hell Teacher Nube. That's sort of been my pet project and, considering I'm close to 3/4 of the way through the series finally (well not there yet but close to it), I'm not abandoning it. If I just do one series on the weekend, this will probably be the one and the only one over any and every other one I want to do. Until that day, though, I will use the remaining two weeks before the new position starts to further myself along in this series so that my weekend burden will be reduced.
-The series that probably will be biggest affected from my decision is Jungle no Ouja Ta-chan, which I only just started back in January. Sure I'm still essentially in the comedy section and nowhere near the "Shin" segment, but this will either have to wait until Nube is over or may be dropped altogether. I can't specifically say yet what will happen and may have to talk to the benefactor of the project but we'll hopefully come to some agreement.
-As for after Nube (and/or Ta-chan), I still want to work on a couple other projects but they will probably be weekend-only translations...or maybe not even done at all. I really don't want to ever give up translating manga, but that's all based on priorities and the world that I now find myself in.

Again, a major apology for recently and hope for understanding of what's been going on. I will keep updating in case things change though...and of course pay attention to what is going on and I will give the same respect and care.