First of all, I would like to thank all of you. The artists, readers, translators, editors, the raw providers, the scanners, and everyone else.

For the most part, it was a pleasure to work with everyone. It was a pleasure to see the fans’ reactions to various works that the artists have made. And it was also a pleasure to see continued support not for the people who localize the doujin manga but for those artists who created them. All in all, it was a pleasure.

Sure, we had our rough times: complaints about what didn’t get done or got done slowly, the way the scanlation process worked, and other various criticisms that had some legitimate concern behind them are just summaries of some of those times. I would like to answer them so that it’s all cleared up here.

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…maybe. After my first real chance of failing a class this semester, I’ve come to believe that no one can really say they’re graduating until the diploma touches that person’s hands. I’m just being careful of not being overconfident is what it really ends up being.

Anyway, the department took a class photo of those planning to graduate this year. It was a little blurry, but I thought I’d share it anyway:

The professors are concentrated at the upper-right corner of the picture minus one. It’s up to you to guess which one I am. Whether you get it right or not, I won’t say. For those that do know, well…it’s our little secret, okay? (+_+)