Beyond the End 5

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After a hand injury and an international hiking trip put me out of commission for a couple of weeks, I'm back to bring you Beyond the End 5.  This one is back to the 30 page length of 1 and 2, and features shorts for Radio and Page 65537, plus some two-page spreads for other characters.

I'm back to work on Baphomet Complex now and should have another update for that up soon-ish.

Baphomet Complex — What Kind of Name Is "Flimlight," Anyway?

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We're up past 6,000 words now, and things are actually starting to happen.

As you may notice from the above illustration, KC and Strange are not exactly in agreement as to the costume of our heroine, but — as I explained last time — Strange can't even agree with himself on this point, so it's only to be expected.

On the subject of the illustrations: Baphomet Complex three full-page black and white illustrations by KC.  In addition to the one above, there is one depicting Lilia in mid-transformation, and one depicting post-transformation sex (I swear, KC must be subject to some sort of curse that prevents him from drawing male faces).  If anyone has decent scans of the remaining two, I would very much appreciate them.  If not, I would very much appreciate some tips for making quality scans without damaging the book.

Baphomet Complex — 100% Baphomet Free

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After several delays, the first 3,000 words of Baphomet Complex are finally here.  There are about 40 pages to go, and this section contains no baphomets, monsters, sex, or anything that isn't a little girl sitting at a shop counter.

I've done a bit heavier editing on this than I'v done on Fallen Brides so far because Strange seems to be under the truly bizarre impression that almost every sentence ought to be its own paragraph.  I think they may get some kind of shock to their pleasure centers every time they hit the return key.

Note also that neither Strange nor Kenkou Cross have any clear idea what our heroine is actually wearing during this scene.  First she's wearing something so short that it lifts up and reveals her navel when she raises her arms, then later she's said to be wearing an apron (which, however short, wouldn't lift up when her arms move because it doesn't go over her shoulders), and finally KC's illustration shows her wearing a vest and a one-piece dress.

Beyond the End 4

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At long last, the fourth and — as of this writing — final installment in Setouchi's Beyond the End series of Monster Girl Quest doujinshi.  It's hard to believe that it was Valentine's Day when I started seriously working on this one.  Anyway, I figured I'd better stop procrastinating and get it done and uploaded before someone else got fed up waiting and did it themselves.

This one features stories for Alma Elma, Scylla Maid, Alice, and Worm Villager, plus single pages for several more monsters at the end.  Unlike the previous books, all but Scylla Maid's take place after the end of Part 3.

In order to save time, I stopped translating sound effects on this one, so you'll have to just imagine all the wet, squishy sex noises yourselves.

Fallen Brides Update: One Down, Seven To Go

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Well, here we are.  After 282 handwritten pages, 3 boxes of ink cartridges, and almost 35,000 words, the first draft of Wilmarina's chapter it complete.  It still needs some serious editing for voice and for sentences that flow a good deal better in Japanese than they do in English, but it's all there and it's all readable.

As usual, the pastebin contains only the plain text, while the ebooks include the illustrations and formatting such as italics and non-standard characters.

Next, I'll finally be putting the finishing touches to Beyond the End 4 (I'll probably dump individual segments on /vg/ as I go before uploading the whole thing here) before moving on to Baphomet Complex, which should serve as a good introduction to Mimiru's chapter in Fallen Brides.  For Baphomet Complex I'll be trying for a slightly shorter weekly update, as opposed to my somewhat irregular schedule with this chapter.

Fallen Brides Update: Almost There

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Well, I'd planned to have this finished by now, but real life intervened, so here's what I've got at the moment.  Only four pages out of 80 remain.

Also, if anyone has a better scan of the above illustration (or any of the other illustrations or title pages), I would very much appreciate it.

Fallen Brides Update: Somewhat Closer To Consensual Than Many Of You Probably Expected

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After a couple weeks of life, with it's incessant jealousy of art, interfering at every possible opportunity, we're up to almost 30,000 words, and one more update of this length will bring us to the end of the story.

I've been experimenting with formatting for ebook versions because Pastebin can't handle the illustrations or all the formatting in the original, so check them out if you want to see the hearts and musical notes that punctuate Deruella's dialogue.  Symbols like that display better in the MOBI than in the EPUB, while the reverse is true of the header image I made from the original title page, but I hope to have found some way of correcting both issues by the next update.

Expect to hear from me again in a week or so, and then it will be on to Baphomet Complex and editing.

Addendum:
I realized after I first posted this that I forgot to explain a point I had been meaning to, so I'll just touch on it briefly here.  Some of you may be wondering why I chose to translate 魔王 as "dark lord" when the existing translations of the encyclopedia entries and sections of the world guides have rendered it fairly consistently as "demon lord."  The latter would of course generally be a more literal rendering of the Japanese term, but there are several considerations in this instance that lead me to reject it.  魔 is commonly used throughout the encyclopedia and related fiction, either on its own or as 魔物, to mean "monster" — the occasional use of the English word as interchangeable renders this translation relatively definite — so that 魔王 ought to be read not as "ruler of demons" but as "ruler of monsters."  The translation "monster lord," which many anglophone readers of the encyclopedia are likely to be familiar with from its recent use in other works, very naturally suggests itself as a solution to this dilemma, but in the case of the encyclopedia I consider that it fails to capture a second crucial part of the meaning suggested by the original, namely its association with established fantasy archetypes.  The encyclopedia is at its heart a parody of what has come to be the generic Japanese fantasy world — largely derived, of course, from Western source material, but still possessing distinct features sufficient to merit separate consideration — and in such a setting, one expects the forces of darkness to be lead by a 魔王.  "Dark lord" is the equivalent omnipresent post in Western high fantasy, dating back at least to The Lord of the Rings — although it should be remarked that Sauron's title in Japanese translations I have seen is 冥王, literally "dark king" and also used to express the name of Pluto.  It is sufficiently universally understood to admit of parody in works such as The Dark Lord of Derkholm.  For this reason I choose it as the best English rendering of the encyclopedia's 魔王.