
Ooook, well, finally this is all done. I really hope you all enjoy this because I put a ton of effort into it. This was one of the most difficult single volumes I’ve worked on, when it’s all said and done.
所以,对于那些不知道的人来说,这是坂本信一的新系列《午夜儿童》的第一卷。我们做了原版《飞行员一枪》第0集, 当它在《大跳跃》中出现的时候 (这本书也包含了这首现在被称为“第0集”的原创单曲)。这是布拉姆·斯托克(BramStoker)的《德古拉》(Dracula)的改编本,虽然有很大的变化,是坂本唤醒师的个人版本。这是他自 Innocent 在2020年初结束,我们在8年多的时间里对其进行了扫描。像往常一样,他的作品真的很详细,很漂亮,唯一能正确看到它的方法是从实物版本,因为Shueisha唯一的数字RAW相对于纸质版本来说分辨率很低。正因为如此,这本书花了很长的时间和大量的精力才完成。所以我真的希望你们都喜欢。
最后,我不得不自己完成很多任务。这个系列和坂本信一的另一个系列的难点在于,作品中有很多细节,如果不适当清洁,很容易弄乱,还有很多重画要做。因此,这花了很多时间研究原著的翻译,以确保它与布拉姆·斯托克的《德古拉》的发音是真实的,任何直接的台词或对原著的引用都需要与之匹配。然后,最重要的是以高分辨率扫描原始图像,裁剪所有247页,调平并手动烧制深色,这样细节就不会丢失,进行大量重画并加入双页排列,然后排版并检查所有内容。同时保持文件的高分辨率,这使得一切都变得很慢,因此我们可以释放它,而无需对其进行大量压缩。这是一个需要对整个247页的卷进行多次传递的过程。
Anyhow, because of that I’m really burnt out on working on this and I’m not sure if I can continue working on this series. It really took up about half of my free time for about two months now. It’s just mentally exhausting to have this much work to do on your own and no one else volunteered. So I’ll see how I feel about it when volume 2 comes out. As usual we’re only doing volume versions of this series because I don’t have time to work on the magazine version which looks way, way worse because of how badly Shueisha compresses their digital manga making them look blurry and awful. So I just wanna get that out of the way upfront, though I am really proud of how this turned out. If someone wants to volunteer to help, specifically we’d need help related to cleaning and redrawing, you can email me to discuss it at kewl0210@gmail.com. Volume 2 is slated to come out in “Autumn 2022” so that could be any time from September to November, it usually comes out on the 19th of the month.
So all that said, I hope everyone checks it out! It’s a great series and I’m excited to see where it goes from here regardless of anything else. We’re working on a bunch more stuff which hopefully gets done soon.
Also, if you want it, I made a super-high-res uncompressed version where we don’t scale it down at the end for file-size reasons. Keep in mind the “regular” version is already huge, it’s 2560px tall. This version would be the totally uncompressed version from the 1200dpi scan which results in pages 8580px tall. They don’t allow filesizes this big on Mangadex but I figured I’d put it here if someone would prefer that.
Uncompressed Volume 1
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#DRCL midnight children Volume 1 (Ch. 1-7 + episode 0)
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