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Originally Posted by l.kostas

The Chinese scanlation reached chapter 9 a few days ago, even though they started long before the English scanlation. Here is Kouko C-3PO from chapter 8
http://manhua.178.com/qcjx/17990-20.shtml
and here are some childhood pictures of Kouko and Mitsuo from chapter 9
http://manhua.178.com/qcjx/19317-18.shtml

Yeah. I've had these pages available for 3-4 months now, as magazine raws. Village Idiot, however, doesn't want to use magazine raws, but rather tankobon raws, as they are generally of higher quality. Thicker paper => less bleed-through from the other side of the paper. Whatever. We have the whole tankobon, chapters 7-12, all scanned now . . . but we are lacking a faster (and less busy) translator than I. Puri translated chapters 7 & 8 from the magazine raws back in June and July, and I checked the translation, but then college life caught up with the poor soul. Chapter 9 I have transcribed entirely, and translated partially.