Current Status

Sorry everyone!  Had a few life interruptions that kept me from working more on this - Throwing this out there just in case anyone stubles on this - I have the original manga for up to chapter 40 or so, and I do want to work on translating this still - however doing all the cleaning and typesetting as well as translation is just too much work for me!  I will continue to work on this if I can find some help with that - if anyone runs into this please either leave a comment here or send an email to locketrans@gmail.com.

ありがとう!

I'm back

I'm back, vacation was awesome.  I've started to work on chapter 13 again, I'll keep the widget on the right updated so you have an idea on how long until I finish. :)

Update on next chapter

Just a heads up, I'm going on a 2 week vacation starting this weekend, originally I had planned on releasing one more chapter before that, but I've had way to much stuff to prepare, so next chapter is probably at least 3 weeks out.  Until then!

Airmaster chapter 13 title page comic

Was planning on posting this yesterday, but I felt like crap, so stayed in bed all day, huzzah.

Honestly nothing to interesting in this one - just a little background on Michiru and introducing her siblings (they just show up on episode in the anime)

Chapter updates

I've added a little gadget on the right hand side of the blog that displays my translation/scanlation progress for the next chapter. Translation should be obvious, scanlation is just all scan/clean/typesetting steps compressed into one since I usually do them concurrently on one page at a time.

Oh, and someone had asked me where I got the raws from - Amazon.co.jp ships world wide (shipping is kind of a bitch, especially on smaller orders) I just ordered it from there.

And one last update, I'll probably post the 1 page cover comic from the next chapter tomorrow.

Chapter 12

Yay - Chapter 12 is done!

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Note from Shonen Jump

''To our readers,

The Internet is now overflowing with illegal copies of manga. All of these illegal copies run counter to the wishes of mangaka. They also ignore the wishes of the creator as to how the manga should be read.

It may be done without much thought, but in reality it hurts the mangaka who pour their creative talents into these works, and it is also against the law.

When we discover such illegal copies, we discuss possible measures with the mangaka concerned and try to tackle the problem, but there are so many heartless people around that it is just impossible for us to tackle them all.

This is a plea to our readers. Illicit copies of manga harm manga culture, infringe the rights of mangaka, and most importantly of all they deeply wound the souls of mangaka. Please also understand that it is illegal.

From now on Shueisha will, in collaboration with mangaka, deal more harshly with any illegal copies circulating on the Internet.

We hope we can count on the unchanging support of all our readers in this endeavour.
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My own two cents - This is probably aimed more at the people who are posting the Japanese raws publicly rather than the scanlation groups - and have to agree with them - the last couple chapters of the big series (Bleach, One Piece, Naruto) have actually been out completely on the internet before you could even buy in them in Japan.

In the (unlikey) case that Air Master is ever licenced and officially translated to english - Buy it!