Spice and Wolf has become such a wildly popular series that I even found it even translated officially in Italian. At that point I figured we weren’t really needed anymore, and after stalling the releases for a little while, here’s the final decision: we’re completely stopping work on this manga.

I’ll honestly say that we were working on this manga just because we like the character Horo and wanted to have something about her. We don’t mind stopping distribution as much as the fact that we won’t be working on any more delicious Horo. It’ a very sad day.

So, what do you do now?

You should go to your regional Amazon site/equivalent and look for the YenPress translation of Spice and Wolf. Their version is on par with ours, and they’ll likely be releasing a volume we haven’t worked on in the coming days.
If you care to support your local non-english publishers, ask your favorite manga shop guy (if it’s licensed in your language).

Thanks for reading Spice and Wolf with us. It was a relatively long ride, and I hope that we contributed in making this series as popular as it is.

So what’s this? Well, the team (and 4chan) punished me a bit and got me to realise that this was becoming my personal blog. Even worse, it was becoming a blog about tech stuff, which is just one chunk of FoOlRulez. I replied: «Well, I have nothing to say each release, so I just set up a widget that displays the latest releases.». It worked, but not that well. Therefore, I’ll announce releases every once in a while. This way I’ll be able to give more consistent updates on FoOlRulez, our projects, and whatever is not related to my troll crusades.

Some point need to be made. First of all: the leader of FoOlRulez is Darais, not me. He succeeded me quite a while ago, and he’s doing a damn good job: 15 releases just this past month, and just as many planned this month. My job description became full-time trolling. It is exhausting indeed.

There have been delays on Necrophantasia’s projects lately – Sora no Otoshimono and Kannagi. We’ll get them out this month: Necro just had his time taken up by work. Same for Tonnura-san: Toshi was busy at work and couldn’t get to proofreading it. We can, of course, apologize… but we are doing our best with the resources we have. We will instead focus on releasing more chapters of our other projects, the ones where the team has fewer time constraints (currently SYD and Nusunde Lilith).

This said, this month we’ve released the usual burst of little SYD chapters. We get often asked «Why are you releasing them in this messy order?». The reason is because there are people wanting to read volume 2 (and we agree that we should be consistent in releasing them), but there are also people who want to read chapters that weren’t adapted in the anime. We decided to do a bit of both, and this is why we have been releasing a mix of volume 2 and 4.
More news for SYD: finally we’ll be able to implement the date selection on FoOlSlide, which means we’ll be able to upload SeitokaiYakuin’s chapters for volume 3 without messing with the release timeline. If you are wondering what relevance this has to us, Seito (formerly SeitokaiYakuin) has been the translator for Seitokai Yakuindomo at FoOls since forever now.

You can read and download Seitokai Yakuindomo 13, 14 (vol2) and 85 on our Slide.

We’ve also released a chapter of Tonnura-san. Both FoOlRulez and Suimasen-scans came out of hiatus with this manga. We were planning to release this over a month ago, but life comes before scanlation…and work comes before life. Because everybody was busy with their jobs and such, it came out much later.

You can read and download Tonnura-san 7 on our Slide.

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On a personal note, and I have to apologize to the team. Some readers started regarding FoOls as attention whores. This is because of the unreasonable reactions other groups have to our achievements, which puts us in the spotlight more often than we deserve.
In my opinion, people should judge FoOls by how we publish chapters: our releases are aseptic. Our credit pages are timeless, our editing is standardized through all our releases, and any personal touch is prohibited. It’s cruel to say this, but FoOls itself is aseptic when it comes to the hard work between team members.
I won’t lie that I’d love to have an easier relationship with the team members, but over time I learned that some people just enjoy being a bit distant while doing their thing, instead of frequenting the place like the other half of the team does (that’d be IRC).

So, we learned something new today: there’s 19 hard workers at FoOls, and one barking attention whore. Therefore, FoOls is overall a quiet group.

Before reading what follow, I advice you: just read it. The manga I mean.

If you don’t know “Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu” (that I think it means “The sky of Iriya, the summer of UFO”), it’s a story with lots of mindfuckery. It’s sometimes depressing too, it’s serious, DEEP, but also moe and kind of satisfying. Hopefully the manga will be better than the anime too, since there were many things that could’ve been done better.
Expect completely out of mind and metaphysical situations.

This manga is only 14 chapters long, and we’ll try to rush on it – bet it won’t happen just because I said this. It’s incredibly hard to edit too.

You can read it or download it or use the IRC triggers.

There’s 5 special coming next, we hope to release them soon.

Sora no Otoshimono 52
Read or Download, or find the IRC triggers

For the rest of the summer we’ll provide chapters without the joint.

Read or download it or get the IRC trigger.

Tonnura-san 6
Read or download it or get the IRC trigger.

Read it or download it or get the IRC triggers.

Image by Urielmatt: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19908348

On the 27th of next month, July, Kannagi will restart serialization. As the article says, three chapters will be released month by month, and then, due to the conditions of the author, it will slow down to a chapter every two or three months.

Also, since it’s been licensed by Bandai, we will have to block visualization and download from USA, in order not to damage the publishers.

Personally, I can’t wait to work again on my favorite manga. We will deliver as soon as possible.

Read and DDL vol2 ch6
Read and DDL vol2 ch7
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