Category Archives: Announcements

New Discord Server, Waratte! Sotomura-san, and more

Hey everyone! Haven’t had one of these in a while. Have some news!

  • First of all, we’ve opened up a new Discord Server for the site. I would love to see our readers join and hang out. I may be doing things there like early releases, possible sneak peeks, small news updates that don’t fit here, etc.
    Here’s the invite link to the Discord: https://discord.gg/ecmeKA6.
    If you don’t have Discord, you can go to http://discord.gg and make an account and either participate in your browser or download the app for desktop or mobile. I really hope to see you there, and not just because I’m desperately lonely!
  • Waratte! Sotomura-san volume seven raws are in my grasp thanks to the ever-awesome Saji! I’m working on them now and hoping to start releasing in early February, just in time to deliver everyone’s waifu for Valentine’s Day.
  • Speaking of releases, the manga reader site Batoto is closing. This is sad because I uploaded all the releases there and really enjoying reading the comments from readers. That’s part of the reason why I wanted to open the Discord. Boy, I love feedback! Another reason I enjoyed putting the releases on Batoto was because they didn’t compress them or anything. So now I’m not sure what to do for non-download options. Imgur and similar sites don’t seem like that great an option, and I’m not a fan of most of the other reader sites out there, but if you have any ideas, let me know!

And that’s about that! DISCORDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Dainana Joshikai Houkou v04c35

Dainana Joshikai Houkou v04c35 – The Location of the Soul / Saving People

Tsuboi and Iijima take a little walk and talk.


Sorry that it took so long for the next chapter.  I’ve been going through a lot of personal issues and life changes right now.  Going to be moving and possibly changing jobs in the next few weeks, so it could be a longer wait again for the next chapter, but once I get settled in and in a routine, I should be back to normal.  I’ve also been keeping an eye out for the next volume of Waratte! Sotomura-san, but so far nothing has been announced.  Enjoy!

Guess who’s coming back!

Waratte! Sotomura-san Vol. 6 Cover

Yes, finally!  We just got our hands on Volume 6 of Waratte! Sotomura-san, and it’s going to be an adorable summer.  Once I’m finished with the translation, I’ll move on to cleaning and typesetting, at which point chapters will be coming out shortly after.  To put an arbitrary time on it, I’d say you’ll be seeing Natsuki in action by the beginning of the summer, give or take a week.  Barring any crazy stuff happening, of course.

Special thanks once again to the amazing Saji for buying, debinding, and scanning the raws for me!

Chat & Watch special showing tonight!

By request of osakaki we’ll be doing a special showing of Chat & Watch tonight at the usual time (8:00 PM CDT / 2:00 AM GMT.) Tonight’s showing will be the Saint Young Men movies and whatever else we can squeeze in before folks start falling asleep. There will also be the usual showing tomorrow night also at the normal scheduled time with the previously posted lineup.

New show started: Yuyushiki!
TBA: Hen Zemi

Wonderland Chat & Watch!

Wonderland Translations is pleased to host our first-ever Chat & Watch tonight at 8:00 PM CDT (2:00 AM GMT.) For those of you who have never done an online group watch, the way this works is you point your web browser to http://chatandwatch.wonderlandtranslations.net and your IRC client of choice to irc://rizon and join the #wonderchat channel. Then discuss away! Tonight’s showing will be a test show to work out any kinks that may arise. The regular schedule will be for 8:00 PM CDT (2:00 AM GMT) every Sunday.

The shows currently scheduled for viewing are:

Other shows will be added as time progresses. Suggestions are welcome, just post a comment here or over on the forum. Just like the manga series we translate the focus will be on comedy, slice of life, and not-too-mainstream series.

Oh my, an update

After a long, hectic period which finds me the new owner of a house and the ower of a 30-year mortgage, I am pleased to also report two Wonderland Translations-related things.

  1. I’m getting back to work on Wonderland Translations.
  2. The thing that I am working on now is the new volume of Waratte! Sotomura-san!  Many thanks to Saji for delivering the latest volume for me to work on.  I’m doing the entire thing myself at this point (translating, cleaning, typesetting).  It might take a few weeks before releases start, but I’d wager you can expect to see some Sotomura sometime in January.

As an aside, the Sotomura drama CD project is not dead, but it was put on the backburner a few months back.  It’s more of a slog than I anticipated, and I burned myself out on it.  I plan to try and pick up work on it again in the next couple months, too.

tl;dr – SOTOMURA INCOMING

June News Bites

Here’s a couple things going on with the group and our projects.News Bites

  • There won’t be any releases next week as I’ll be out of town enjoying A-Kon in Dallas, TX with some friends.  Another member of the group will be there, too, so if you happen to see us (we’ll be wearing our own Wonderland Translations badges along with the con badge), feel free to say hello.
  • Pocha Pocha Suieibu has been placed on hold for now as the cleaner/typesetter for the project apparently has drowned in overtime work at his job.  We’ll start releasing it again as soon as we’re able to.
  • We’re slowly working on the Waratte! Sotomura-san drama CD!  Thanks to @Kibbitz2000, we got a hold of the raw audio.  It’s a slow go for me, as I’m better translating written Japanese than spoken, but we do plan to release it at some point in the future.  He’s also agreed to time/encode it for release.  So many thanks to him!

Welcome Nepenthe to Wonderland Translations!

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A new member enters the fold! Nepenthe is joining our staff as a proofreader/QCer for all releases over the summer.  She’s already saved one chapter from my nefarious clutches, and I’m sure many more will be thankful for her observant nature.

About: Nepenthe is currently a full-time broke college student, up in the land of horrible winters. AKA upstate New York. She studies geology, because geology is really really cool. Other interests include music, writing, reading, wasting time on the internet, and bugging people on Skype. You can find her over on Batoto.