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Hi, there!
Why did I write "invitation" in the title of this thread?
Well, because we, Death Toll Edited Mangas, aren't really "recruiting", in the sense of finding people to do our current projects. Right now, we have all the editors, proofreaders and translators we need.
But all that stagnates, dies, so we thought, why not trying to expand and start something new, or revive something old?
Right now, Death Toll has three translators associated with it, plus our great freelancer Royal.
If you know Japanese and there's a series you'd like to translate, or one of ours you'd like to see active again, why not try joining us for a bait chapter?
The reason I say "bait chapter" is that I cannot guarantee we will be able to start new projects just by getting translators. Death Toll has a peculiarity: we advertise our positions asking for people who want to do that series in particular, and we don't give our staff assignments they don't want to do.
The upside of the policy is that motivation is never a problem. Even for our series that have low release paces (most of them, sadly), the staff waits patiently because they are personally interested in them.
The downside is that most of our Manga Editors are personally interested in only the series they applied for. We have a couple of factotums who like Edited Manga for Edited Manga's sake - they are lifesavers! - and will take any job, but they are very few. Most of our team members do just one or two series. (A small advantage of that is that burn-out is never an issue.)
But we do have a policy of odd jobs, that is, asking our staff graciously to do one chapter of something else just to help us. If I get a new translator for a new project, I can almost certainly get a chapter out, and then we can try to use it to fish for new staff to complete the team and make the bait chapter into a new project! You gain a release and team to work with, and we get new members to our skeleton crew! Double win! \o/
Death Toll is a quiet group that does mostly second-tier and obscure manga. Any team member can suggest new series and our structure is not vertical. Heads of Department's only prerogative is setting standards and grading applications, but once you are approved (well, sometimes there is a short probation period) you have final say on your work unless you mess up badly. And everyone here says "please". Seriously, even though I am Admin, my job is mostly serve as everybody's secretary and pick up the drudgery. And bore you to death with these ads.
Our series were originally survival manga, but now, while there is still a bias towards violence, we can do most genres. Most of our series are seinen, but the only genres we would probably not do would be ******, BL and GL as no one that I know of is interested among us. Romance, josei and shoujo would be hard to get staff for from our team (we did do Haruka 17 a long time ago), so they are also a tough call, but we are open to anything else. Bring your suggestions!
We try to keep high standards, and we do have a TL test if you are not experienced. We uploaded it to Imgur: https://i.imgur.com/1YrSctq.jpg. Please transcribe the Japanese and translate it, then send us the transcription and the script as a PM to Wraith in our forums (deathtollscans.net) or Kendama here and at Batoto. Our Head Translator tells us that test is hard, so don't worry if you make a couple mistakes.
If you are experienced, though, you can send us some of your past work and we will tell you if you can bypass the test. And if you absolutely insist, I can give you a whole chapter to translate as test. We're not fussy, really.
So, feel like giving it a try? Our group is rock bottom and tired of digging further, so the only way now is up!
Sorry for the long message, and thanks for reading. If you have read this far, here are some of the series we have been thinking about:
Short or near completion:
- Underdog (four chapters to completion) - a violent seinen
- Demon Assassins (ten chapters to completion) - action shounen, generic but entertaining
Long stalled:
- Diamond cut diamond (26 chapters to completion) - supernatural, mystery shounen we do with Outer World Scans
New projects we have in mind:
- Shounen Y - supernatural shounen with a touch of metaphysics and ethics, finished at eight volumes
- Psychic Odagiri Kyouko's Lies - cerebral mystery comedy by the author of Liar Game. Finished at seven volumes. Neglected probably because, like all series by this author, it's very wordy and hard to translate. Seinen.
Why did I write "invitation" in the title of this thread?
Well, because we, Death Toll Edited Mangas, aren't really "recruiting", in the sense of finding people to do our current projects. Right now, we have all the editors, proofreaders and translators we need.
But all that stagnates, dies, so we thought, why not trying to expand and start something new, or revive something old?
Right now, Death Toll has three translators associated with it, plus our great freelancer Royal.
If you know Japanese and there's a series you'd like to translate, or one of ours you'd like to see active again, why not try joining us for a bait chapter?
The reason I say "bait chapter" is that I cannot guarantee we will be able to start new projects just by getting translators. Death Toll has a peculiarity: we advertise our positions asking for people who want to do that series in particular, and we don't give our staff assignments they don't want to do.
The upside of the policy is that motivation is never a problem. Even for our series that have low release paces (most of them, sadly), the staff waits patiently because they are personally interested in them.
The downside is that most of our Manga Editors are personally interested in only the series they applied for. We have a couple of factotums who like Edited Manga for Edited Manga's sake - they are lifesavers! - and will take any job, but they are very few. Most of our team members do just one or two series. (A small advantage of that is that burn-out is never an issue.)
But we do have a policy of odd jobs, that is, asking our staff graciously to do one chapter of something else just to help us. If I get a new translator for a new project, I can almost certainly get a chapter out, and then we can try to use it to fish for new staff to complete the team and make the bait chapter into a new project! You gain a release and team to work with, and we get new members to our skeleton crew! Double win! \o/
Death Toll is a quiet group that does mostly second-tier and obscure manga. Any team member can suggest new series and our structure is not vertical. Heads of Department's only prerogative is setting standards and grading applications, but once you are approved (well, sometimes there is a short probation period) you have final say on your work unless you mess up badly. And everyone here says "please". Seriously, even though I am Admin, my job is mostly serve as everybody's secretary and pick up the drudgery. And bore you to death with these ads.
Our series were originally survival manga, but now, while there is still a bias towards violence, we can do most genres. Most of our series are seinen, but the only genres we would probably not do would be ******, BL and GL as no one that I know of is interested among us. Romance, josei and shoujo would be hard to get staff for from our team (we did do Haruka 17 a long time ago), so they are also a tough call, but we are open to anything else. Bring your suggestions!
We try to keep high standards, and we do have a TL test if you are not experienced. We uploaded it to Imgur: https://i.imgur.com/1YrSctq.jpg. Please transcribe the Japanese and translate it, then send us the transcription and the script as a PM to Wraith in our forums (deathtollscans.net) or Kendama here and at Batoto. Our Head Translator tells us that test is hard, so don't worry if you make a couple mistakes.
If you are experienced, though, you can send us some of your past work and we will tell you if you can bypass the test. And if you absolutely insist, I can give you a whole chapter to translate as test. We're not fussy, really.
So, feel like giving it a try? Our group is rock bottom and tired of digging further, so the only way now is up!
Sorry for the long message, and thanks for reading. If you have read this far, here are some of the series we have been thinking about:
Short or near completion:
- Underdog (four chapters to completion) - a violent seinen
- Demon Assassins (ten chapters to completion) - action shounen, generic but entertaining
Long stalled:
- Diamond cut diamond (26 chapters to completion) - supernatural, mystery shounen we do with Outer World Scans
New projects we have in mind:
- Shounen Y - supernatural shounen with a touch of metaphysics and ethics, finished at eight volumes
- Psychic Odagiri Kyouko's Lies - cerebral mystery comedy by the author of Liar Game. Finished at seven volumes. Neglected probably because, like all series by this author, it's very wordy and hard to translate. Seinen.