Transcendence

becca becca becca.
i was wondering when you were going to write up a staff intro haha... but a late welcome to you as well! ^^

omg lol dat tongue

nice touch w/ the party hats. it would not have been a true 1 year old's bday party without them :'D

hiya olivia! nielle here o/

looking forward to working with you! i'm in a very very different timezone from you but ushi can tell you i'm definitely around during your waking hours hehe.

hope you enjoy being on the team~ if you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. we're not a scary bunch ^^

whaaat no japanese classes? that's a pity
i need to get back into studying it. maybe after i finish up my third exam, but that won't be til april

learning ASL sounds cool. probably really useful to your profession too, right?

bright and sunny out. we'll see how long this lasts
i want it to rain again

3:08pm
just finished up some work for one of my managers, waiting on another one to finally call me over for a meeting about some tax planning stuff

seeing people i know in the bathrooms and making awkward small talk for the 2 seconds we make eye contact before i go into a stall to pee.

it's a me!

roze?

 

ahoy there!! nice to see you around these parts, pau.
i'm nielle... i'm pretty sure you already know me. :P

nielle here~

nessy maybe

/also not nessy

disturby?

you caught me


i hate studying




nessy again

hiya o/ it's been a while
but nope, it's me.

roze

yay \o/

nessy?

i'm seeing a pattern here LOL

roze

oh~ cool! yup haha having classes that give you credits for both really help x__x

it's really fun taking classes totally outside of your major/minor though

not quite~

nessy?

oh umm like are there any classes that count for both of the minors!

raining like crazy + it's cold...

about 55f / 12.7c here

friends' apartment (my apartment?)
study study study study

prince royce - stuck on a feeling (ft snoop dogg)

watched predestination with my bf
still not sure how i feel about that movie lmao

a wild nielle appeared

roze

State of the 'Dence: Fall/Winter 2014 Edition

HAPPY 2015!!!

The last six months have treated us well. We've experienced a few growing pains in the time period we spent growing accustomed to the merge, but we finished off 2014 with heaps of wonderful things to say about our group's progress.

Transcendence Projects

On the Transcendence side, we've managed to finished off some of our long-running projects (Men's Kou - 2010, Hanayashiki no Juunintachi - 2012, and most recently Black Bird - 2009!). While not all of us were very involved with the first two series, we can certainly as a group rejoice that Transcendence was able to see these popular projects through to the end.

Our ongoing projects have really been taking off, and it's only thanks to all our dedicated staff that we're able to put out consistent, high-quality releases every week. They've really taken the accelerator to our high-priority projects:

• Joou no Hana saw leaps and bounds of progress with 5 releases in the last 3 months, and it doesn't look to let up any time soon now that Nessy is leading our partnership with Phoenix Serenade Scans;
• Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken only has 6 chapters remaining in the series;
• we're nearly caught up on Natsume Yuujinchou, a project that had special significance to our team in the trying times of the merger;
• and Roze and MingMing have taken particular care in tag-teaming the scripts for Switch Girl!

We've seen steady progress with our medium-priority series, and our lower-priority projects haven't just fallen by the wayside, either:

• We've got to thank joopinks for riding it out through the remaining 2 volumes of Bibi!
• Love All, our joint series with Chibi Manga, is only 4 chapters away from completion.
• Last but not least, Cosplay Deka has seen constant effort to ensure at least a monthly release.
• Cosplay Animal has seen considerable progress, with Blue3Wind taking up the permanent TSer position.
• Our joint project Galism with Evil Flowers is still hanging in there,
• and our CL trial staff have each had a chapter of Really?! as a nice welcome to the cleaning world.
  
  Even projects we've temporarily placed on hold haven't just stagnated.
  
  • Butter!!! and Cheon Gi Dot Com are hanging in there,
  • while Ardour and Shibariya Komachi have seen some revival thanks to our TL Trial Staff.

Decadence Projects

Roze's baby Decadence, while not even one year old yet, has seen a ton of growth this year! We've finished a number of single-volume projects and oneshots (My Little Robinson, Shoujo no Jikan, and Arabian Pearl, among others), and that's not all.

The four longer-running projects that started Decadence off have been doing quite well:

• Our joint project Biyaku Cafe with Mystic Iris Scans is still going strong. Now that blue3wind is managing the project from MI's side, look forward to a whole bunch of releases!
• Hetamen is making good progress.
• While Love Devil started off as a project with Icarus Bride, we took it into our own hands and have since moved on to crumpledcrane and Roze translating the French scans, with chiisai-hime and CowTopia helping out as JP-TLCs.
• Love Scatters is still coming along smoothly, with great translations from Putochan to help us through.

Some of our newer projects have been off to a bit of a rocky start, but we're excited to be able to push all of them them out to the public!

• Chocolate Girl underwent a change or two in TL, but we have the French scans and will be working steadily on it!
• Our original planned TL for Kedamono Shounenshoujo poofed, but the reappearance of CTLs means this one will be back on track soon enough.
• Smells Like Green Spirit is one that some of our staff (cough, chiisai-hime and CowTopia) have taken particular interest in, so rest assured that this one will push through without issue!
• SP x Baby is currently on hiatus. We'll be back on it once the mangaka gets going again, no worries.
• And last, Aibu de Jirashite is one I've taken a special interest in, so please cross your fingers for everything to turn out okay!

Staff Members

Warm welcomes to our new Translator (crumpledcrane), Proofreaders (CowTopia, QueenyLeAcH), Editor (Pau), and even a returned staff member (Disturbance)!

Thanks to our core Transcendence staff who stuck around all this time (joopinks, MingMing, putochan, and yen_claire) as well as the Decadence staff for migrating over to Transcendence during the merge (Aozora, blue3wind, chiisai-hime, Hyeomi, Nessy, Nadisara, and Shifuyu). Our team would definitely not be the same without you all, and we're glad and ever so appreciative to have you be a part of it.

• Special thanks to Roze for stepping out of her comfort zone as an editor to provide French TLs for not one but two of our series. It takes a lot of effort and time management skills to commander such a heavy time commitment like translating along with everything else. Especially after taking on the admin helm at Transcendence, that's a lot of work, and we salute her for being able to do it all.
• To Nessy, our hardworking and ever-efficient Decadence Manager, it would be such a dirty ship without you (get it? because you clean basically everything ahaha /shot). Thank you for your honest but kind words and playing peacemaker for the whole team.
• Thanks to chiisai-hime for slowly expanding your role from a proofreader for many, many scripts - to a Japanese TLC - and finally to full-on translations for so many of our series. We seriously would not have half of the headway we do on our series if you weren't around.
• Thank you MingMing for being ever so responsive (whether it be about translations or trainees), and for always having your stuff together.
• (from roze:) A special thanks to Nielle as well. She is the Queen of the spreadsheet and works very hard to keep it constantly updated. She also should get a badge for the amount of poking she seems to do around the forum. I admit I have slacked off when it comes to poking people because she is so good at it and usually seems to do it before I do! (And I often forget >w<) We salute you too for all the amazing work you do around here as well, for being able to keep up with all the forum activity even though you're working a full-time job! That's amazing!
  

Also, here's a special shout-out to chiisai-hime, Disturbance, MingMing, Nessy, and Blue3Wind for taking on trainees! (Thank you for treating our newbies nicely *kisses*) Now that we have our new French TL crumpledcrane on board to help guide new recruits into the lion's den our recruitment subforum, I have no doubt that our readers will be flooding in to become trainees.

Looking Forward

Although the December Gameathon didn't turn out nearly as well as we'd hoped, we were still able to interact with some of our beloved readers. Look out for future efforts to do so, through a potential Donation Month (read: scanlation bribery, hehe). If any of you guys have ideas to lure more readers to the forum or just get in some more interaction, please speak up as we'd love to hear your ideas and make them a reality.

We've recently picked up a new series for Transcendence (Geten no Hana) and Decadence (Mahou Shoujo Ore). Get excited, because they look to be fun ones!

Lastly, thank you all for a wonderful second half of the year!! I won't end this State of the Dence properly, just to represent that Transcendence/Decadence won't end this year and will keep growing and growing to greater heights! Hope you all had a wonderful New Year's Eve / New Year and enjoyed the festivities with friends and family!

lounging on the couch at home. considering taking a nap......

water! i think fire is really fascinating from a distance... but i'm a cringy little baby when it's up close.

ahh i see, i was just curious since i've never met anyone else who had strong feelings against shoujo ai o: can't think of any series off the top of my head, i'm glad you've enjoyed the ones i've sent you in the past though hehe.
but lulz yes i can't handle the shoujo love triangle thing anymore. (did you end up explaining it? not sure if i was around for that)

christmas or new year's eve

whoa, blue appeared!
i'm afraid not at the right time though 8D as i am a nielle.

roze next

i vaguely remember yumeiro patisserie and don't know what kitchen girl is. so i'm going with the first one \o/
and nessy why can't you stand shoujo ai LOL

600-page school textbook or the e-book version

wrong~

nessy?

chrysanthemum!

black tea or green tea

is me~
roze should be studying 8)

disturb?

oyakodon (the parent-and-child rice bowl)

Ingredients:

1 large chicken thigh, deboned, remove skin, cut into bite site
1 medium size yellow onion, thinly sliced
2 eggs, very lightly beaten
2 tablespoons mirin
1 tablespoon sake
1/2 cup dashi
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar
some spring onions, cut into 1" length
2 bowls of cooked rice

Method:
In a small frying pan, heat mirin and sake and bring to a boil. Add dashi, soya sauce and sugar, bring to a boil. Add onions, cook till soften, about 2 mins. Add chicken meat, leave to simmer for about 2 to 3 mins or until the chicken is cooked. Toss in the spring onions. Drizzle in the eggs, do not stir. Turn off the heat once the eggs is almost set. Place rice in a large serving bowl. Pour chicken and egg mixture over the rice. Serve with nori.

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sangchu geotjeori (korean salad)

Ingredients:
1 head green Leaf lettuce
2 green onion
2 small clove garlic - minced or grated
2 tablespoon light soy sauce
1½ tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon honey (or preferred sweetener)
1 teaspoon gochugaru (korean red chili pepper flakes)
1 tablespoon white sesame seeds

Method:
Toast sesame seeds in a pan over medium heat for 1-2 minutes, swirl it around until they turn light brown. Transfer and lightly crush with pestle and mortar. Combine the ingredients for the dressing: crushed sesame seeds, garlic, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, honey and chili flakes in a small bowl. Cut the green onions thinly lengthwise into long shredded pieces. Cut the lettuce into bite-sized pieces or ribbons. Add them together in a large bowl. Pour the dressing from step 2 to the greens. Toss lightly until the dressing is distributed evenly. Garnish with toasted whole sesame seeds and chili flakes. Serve immediately.

pink unless it's a bright pink in which case i'm going with purple :3

dark chocolate or milk chocolate

nah.

nessy?

chicken

9:51am
watching the clouds go by. no work to do~

sunny directly overhead downtown but i can see rainclouds gathering around mid-city. ((please please stay there for today)).

around 55-60F today i think? so cold for socal ;__;
lol we're such babies

 

five more days of work until winter break.

I. CAN. DO THIS.

chocolate croissant. nothing interesting

oh nessy how was the float :O

at work. shoes off b/c none of my seniors are here HEHEHEHEH

opening snacks in a quiet room. ;___;

nah hi!

roze?

home now~ in bed. nice and warm

just finished pork ribs & some pork stew thing

nope it's me hellooo

roze?

long hair, can always cut it if you want to go shorter but it takes a damn long time to grow out.

orange or neon green

is PMP II a calculator?

4:26pm
sitting in training for work and i am s o  b o r e d o mfg someone SAVE ME

deviled eggs sound like yummmm

4:40pm
only another hour or so at work thank the lawddd
been going back and forth between 3 different seniors to get projects done today

sun setting! still no clouds xD boring weather today

aw snow~ sounds pretty especially if it's not heavy or anything

office. just finished the stupid little webcast we had to watch

@Angel: what do you mean "the money it costs as opposed to the money you'll make"?

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at my current place, i think we get 16 weeks of maternity leave -- but i think that's all i'd want to take. i'm a bit of a workaholic so even if presented the option to be a stay-at-home mom, i don't think could ever take it xD

i wouldn't want to pull my hair out from spending literally all day with baby and not really having an escape. also i think it's too easy to get wrapped up in someone else's life so if i were a stay-at-home mom i'd just be a helicopter parent and have empty nest syndrome like crazy once my kid went off to college. i'm sure i'll love and cherish baby and whatnot but i need my own thing to do ;-;

probably just hire someone to watch after the baby if a family member couldn't do it during the day. then montessori/preschool. i should hit manager level by age 27 and i don't plan to have kids until i'm at least 31-32, so i'll be able to work remotely one day a week and have more flexible hours - maybe leave the office around 2-3pm to pick up my kid and then work from home the rest of the day?

haven't really thought details thru for that far ahead, i'm in no rush ^^;

#familyplanning. xDDD

78 F / 26 C right now
clear outside, pretty sunny. no clouds directly overhead

1:03pm
waiting for my senior to come back from lunch so i can start on prepping the next return

vitamin water!

chatango + forum = too entertaining

awww very nice! how long will your commute be then?

a japan + korea + hk trip would be ideal for me, i think. it'd take too many vacation days though

haha sure hope so. they've done full-blown solo concerts in japan and two in europe soooo COME BACK TO LA, MY PRECIOUS

already started adding more to my calendar b/c of the new releases OTL

taylor swift - wonderland

(hehehe sorry!!!!!!)

granted but you finished everything too fast and sat around for a long time waiting for more work so you got fired.

i wish my friends had not chosen to eat at a bar for lunch today....

skype. don't like whatsapp too much, i use kakao or line.

hawaii or alaska for vacation

hiya, you got me!

roze?

what are your thoughts on parents working vs staying at home with the kids / grandparents?

coke!

hard or soft phone case

ya hi. disturby now?

granted but you can't ever access any of it, it'll just sit collecting dust in a foundation.

i wish it had rained today too :(

4:34pm
waiting for someone to exit the stupid locator so i can update the michigan state return T__T

1:18pm
just finished lunch break, now waiting for more work

perfume!! i should show you guys my stash of samples someday ahaha

squishy or crunchy

just had spam musubi + pork w/ rice + pad thai. very full......

underwrite

black ink pen!! my favorites

dresses ending above or below the knee?

7:05pm and just got home~
considering sleeping eaaaarly tonight

mango shake sounds quite nice! (i say this as someone who doesn't particularly like mangoes hahahah)

i have a mint in my mouth?

pluto!!! even when i was younger i loved sailor pluto ;~; so mysterious and just classy ugh so amazing

water or milk

3:19pm just waiting for work........

skirt!

sun or moon

 

schoooool!
i did a communication design minor (so fine arts / marketing / entrepreneurship) for a little while before i got annoyed with the marketing classes and dropped it. is there a lot of overlap with your psych/special edu classes?

(i would personally have no problem w/ working at home or on a weekend. that's what's going to happen next month anyway sooooo LOL)

granted! but weekdays have also been made longer :/

i wish there were an express train that ran to work 24/7 so i wouldn't have to rent an apartment for busy season.

no, nielle again 8D

nessy now?

mango? (or must i track down a manga flavored green tea somewhere... hahaha)
ravioli sounds gooood though ugh! i'm currently chasing down butternut squash ravioli :c wants soooo badly

burritoooo

ohhh i see, nessy.
roze did you get to finish your astro assignment lol

2:49pm and i just finished up a couple of state returns! had to sit thru suuuch a stupidly long training during lunch, annoying

hmmm ok! will check some out :3 i'm more character driven for sure. but i'd rather have a light/funny plot than an overdramatic one if that makes any sense?

high heels! i am short and like to compensate for it. (plus they look nicer with tights which i wear allllll the time)

laces or velcro?

will deeeefinitely be coming to you with wardrobe troubles............

hmm couldn't appreciate the pilot ep ending too much cus i haven't seen arrow xDD my friends are trying to get me to watch it but mehhh.

back at the office, staring out the window... nothing interesting today

still sprinkling but at least it's lighter than yesterday

treble

got the first letter right, at least~

disturby again?

(omfg no. i forgot my breakfast this morning T______T)

granted, but it's b/c you got fired and so now every day is an off day. whoops..........

i wish my work had more interesting drink selections in the kitchen. (right now we only have a few types of coffee, 3-4 tea blends, and hot chocolate)

i had to stare at both of those for so long b/c i've never even heard of them? but i think i'll go with Hatenkou Yuugi, courtesy of wiki.

prefer your writing in pencil or marker?

just finished a napoleon dulce de leche.......
#fatfatfatfat

ehehehe good for you! too much time with us hmmm? and oh i watched the pilot episode for the flash. what do you think of it so far?

bones finished so we are now just watching the news while my mom frantically tries to book flights for the holiday season.

ohhhh geez hahaha maybe i should get started on some of these! what's your favorite so far of the ones you have finished?

for a duchess, you sure wash a lot of dishes!

in my living room, watching bones w/ my mom

sleepiNESS happiNESS
how many words are you gonna take over, nessy

still at the office. nom nom

it's dark out and i'm still in the office :c
can't even tell if it's raining cus all i see are city lights + darkness out orz

vanilla sandwich cremes b/c i was bored and wanted something to munch on

i will try!!! i can definitely see his weird/cute gestures being more extreme when animated xD

and oh geez what's on your backlog? :O