People have asked on two occasions, how can they support us? We don't accept money donations because it is wrong for us to profit from material we don't even own. However we do accept manga raw donations. So, I present a list of manga that we would like to do eventually, but we can't do because we don't have the raws for a few reasons.
For some (non Gundam) manga we have
Diana and Artemis
This is a spin-off of Moonlight Mile, set late in the manga. It's not really important, it's just a fun story set in that universe that Ohtagaki did once he got the rights to Moonlight Mile. A full color ebook release happened on digital storefronts, and a black and white tankoban volume version came out in two volumes once it was complete... then in early 2024, it was pulled from digital fronts, and the volume has been out of print for quite some time. So... Moonlight Mile can never truly be complete until we do this one after we catch up to the MLM manga. However, this one being completely lost has made it an impossibility for us. The only way would be if someone found the colored version somewhere.
Super Dimension Fortress Macross: The First
This manga has been out of print for quite a while, which is kind of weird given the weird circumstances around this manga. It's basically "Gundam: the Origin" but for Macross, and it got cancelled for... strange reasons? Circumstances around this one are murky, and we're going to talk about this in a future article on this blog, just you wait. Anyways, a combination of being out of print and no ebook version have made this hard. We did find the ebook version, but it's missing stuff from the tankoban volume versions, wo we're at an impass until we can get ahold of the original versions of volumes 3-5.
Get Truth! Fang of the Sun Dougram
A 40th anniversary celebration for legendary real robot series "Fang of the Sun Dougram", in the form of this manga. Written and illustrated by Moonlight Mile creator Yasuo Ohtagaki, and supervised and edited by Dougram cocreator Ryosuke Takahashi. Hichikarah had volume 1 on ebook already, but we don't own volumes 2 and 3.
Combat Mecha Xabungle: Another Gale
A Xabungle sequel! Hichikarah happened to have volumes 1-3 on ebook format already, but we don't have volumes 4-6.
Armored Trooper VOTOMs: Crimson Eyes
Back when they were making new VOTOMs material in 2008-2012, they made this little spin-off as a tie-in, published in Shonen Champion Red. It's been out of print for over a decade and doesn't seem like it will ever be reprinted. So this factor and no ebook version have forced us to accept we're probably never going to do it.
Space Battleship Great Yamato
We're already doing The Ultimate Time Sweeper Maharoba. When Leiji Matsumoto briefly won back the rights to Space Battleship Yamato he made "Shin Space Battleship Yamato", known in English as "Space Battleship Great Yamato", a manga serving as both a Yamato sequel and a Maharoba sequel. It got reprinted recently in ebook format, so we'd be happy to do it if someone donated it for us.
The Cockpit
We've wanted to do this one for quite some time. We have the first few volumes of the bunkoban version, which No More Cheese Dip found online, but unless someone wants to donate the raws to us, we're probably never going to get far in this one.
Ippei
Yasuo Ohtagaki's first huge Manga series. He got the rights to it back in 2019 and did an ebook release for it. I managed to get volumes 1-9 for dirt cheep a sale, so we might as well do it later down the line. If anyone wants to give us raws for volumes 10-18, that would be swell, but this manga is low on our priority list.
Mazinsaga
This is one we really want to do. It's Mazinger Z, retold in the style of Devil-Man. Initially cancelled, but Go Nagai brought it back in 1999 because he loved the idea so much, before finally putting it on a long hiatus. We got a reprint recently after it had been out of print for 2 decades, but the ebook version is not on every retailer for some reason, I could only find it on EbookJapan. Still, it'd be cool to do it one day.
For some Gundam manga
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ: Mirage of Zeon
We would like to do this cool ZZ side story, but it's been out of print for a long time, and unlike Ixtab the long out of print Gundam manga we are doing, we don't have someone to kindly scan it for us and supply us with the raws for this. So, with no ebook version, we cannot do it.
MS Boys: Our War For Zeon Independence
Yet again, another out of print manga that we can't do because no ebook version unless Hichikarah was to de-spine her copy and pay a small fortune to get it scanned. Shame too because some of the action sequences here are actually great.
Zeon Military Prep School
They got a famous and notable shoujo mangaka to make a Gundam manga. The result? Something that's been out of print for ages. Shame too, because this is one of the last projects the mangaka did before she quit doing serious works to focus on yaoi manga.
Chapter 3 of Ohtagaki's anthology series of random yet wholesome stories he comes up with. The art isn't amazing or anything, this is a side project for him after all, but it's quite fun seeing some of these expressions and otherworldly creatures. The story itself is very cute too, with a wholesome story with a dark undercurrent added to parts of it. I liked it a lot.
This time we present you a prequel story. This is a bonus chapter included in volume 2, mostly just showing us Asuna's first day at the ...
