Freesia by Jiro Matsumoto

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[Revilenigma]

Hiroshi Kano is man looking like just anybody. However, he has talks with a girl no one else can see and he can hear a phone ringing that no one else can hear. At the same time Japan is at war and new laws have been formed, legalizing vengeance killings. If a person is murdered, his or her family can hire a proxy to take revenge upon the victimiser. One day Hiroshi gets hired by a firm enforcing those vengeances.

Is anyone else a fan of this series?

[morten]

Damn, I love this series... 

Wish I could get my hands on the volume 9 raw to scanlate it, but it's gone gone gone... 

Gonna upload the raw of volume 10 later... 

What I love about this series? Hiroshi is the coolest mofo ever... And the girl he lives with... 

And Jiro Matsumoto is one of the best mangaka out there... Gonna order Wendy next as I can't find the raws anywhere...

[Revilenigma]

Wish I could get my hands on the volume 9 raw to scanlate it, but it's gone gone gone... 

Seems like Triumvirate can't continue the series cause they're missing the raw for volume 9. Strange cause they did the first 3 chapters for volume 9 so it's odd that they don't have the rest.

also: I have a collection of Jiro's web comics and I'm gonna plan on uploading them all somewhere sometime.

[Fleri]

Damn, I love this series... 

Wish I could get my hands on the volume 9 raw to scanlate it, but it's gone gone gone... 

Gonna upload the raw of volume 10 later... 

What I love about this series? Hiroshi is the coolest mofo ever... And the girl he lives with... 

And Jiro Matsumoto is one of the best mangaka out there... Gonna order Wendy next as I can't find the raws anywhere...

Seriously what's up with his head and the girl he lives with....everything is f****ed up  And the girl he is always imagining...Wonder who is she?

[Revilenigma]

I think all of Kano's imaginary friends or people he feels guilty about, when he found out Higuchi became successful the imaginary higuchi disappeared, I find it interesting that we don't see any imaginary people anymore, maybe Kano no longer feels guilty for any of his actions. 
Replied: May 11, 2009, 10:21:11 PMsomeone on mangahelpers uploaded a shit load of raws up too chapter 75!

[morten]

Replied: May 11, 2009, 04:21:11 AMsomeone on mangahelpers uploaded a shit load of raws up too chapter 75!

Oh my! Finally I have the raw of vol9 again!! Now if I just could have a translator at hand, I would scan Freesia 9 & 10 in two weeks!!

But all of my translators are busy... 

Must find a translator for Freesia now..!! 

[Revilenigma]

volume 9 translation is already out!  

[morten]

volume 9 translation is already out!  

 

THERE ARE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE???!!

Starts to scanlate, tomorrow it shall be done..! 

I'm gonna send that guy the raws of volume 10!! 

Thanks Revil, another +1!! 

[Revilenigma]

Triumvirate is still doing volume 9 but they were waiting for better raws for volume 9, I thought about scanlating it myself but you'll probably do a lot better job at it.

[crazyankan]

Nice news! :D

[morten]

K', I'm releasing this a little bit earlier, new Doro chaps will come out sunday/monday...

Don't post the DL link on other forums... You can post the link to this thread...


I will upload the raws of Freesia vol.10 & 11 and Wendy when I have time. I wanna upload some other stuff before...

You're welcome to discuss the developments in Freesia vol9...

[mono]

Freesia - Awesome.. kinda makes you feel like you'r going crazy reading it though sometimes,. maybe its just that funny tobacco i smoke.. :P

cant wait for Wendy though  Mort..

you got any ideas where i can find some new translators for [MU] ? we need to finish Eden & Emma.

[Revilenigma]

Jiro's brother:
I gonna go check if any of his works have been scanlated.
Replied: May 22, 2009, 08:08:31 AMHoly crap! He's not Jiro's brother, it's his sister

here's her site:
will keep searching...

found her blog:  


reading her blog and I think that I found out... that she's... he's a transsexual

a transsexual rock star manga-ka priest... awesome

[mono]

omg. makes you wonder what happened to them in their childhoods hmm?

[Revilenigma]

I would love to see what their thanksgiving family diners are like
Replied: May 24, 2009, 01:10:53 AMhis sister marrying a lesbian couple

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCA828hnyeM" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCA828hnyeM</a>

btw I think Freesia is gonna end soon it looks like that young political activist dude is the main antagonist of the story. I look at the last raw and the last scene is Fucking Awesome.

[mono]

huh?!
i need to find time to re-read Freesia from the beginning.. im confused now!
do we no find out what Hiroshi's power actually is? or how the woman from the agency knows a lot about him?

also any news on "Wendy" & "Little Feet" & Avant-Pop Mars"? - these last two are new to me - they're on his wiki page

AND ! have any of you seen the Freesia: Icy Tears movie?

[Revilenigma]

huh?!
i need to find time to re-read Freesia from the beginning.. im confused now!
do we no find out what Hiroshi's power actually is? or how the woman from the agency knows a lot about him?

also any news on "Wendy" & "Little Feet" & Avant-Pop Mars"? - these last two are new to me - they're on his wiki page

AND ! have any of you seen the Freesia: Icy Tears movie?

Little Feet and Avant-pop mars are just written short stories I believe, they're not manga, I believe there is a e-book version of Avant-pop mars.

and I don't think we know yet about how Higuchi knows Kano or anything about Kano's powers.

I've tried downloading the movie but it doesn't wanna work, I've read a review and it sounds pretty bad.

[Uncle Cali]

Holy..! There's a movie, then?

@ Revilenigma: the file you're trying do download, is it subbed?

I don't have much hopes for it, because Freesia is too damn good to become a movie... some things just shouldn't be made into anime or the big screen.

According to imdb, it's also known as "Freesia: Bullet Over Tears".
And it's almost an old movie too, since it was released in 2007. Odd...

[Revilenigma]

not sure if it's dubbed, the torrent is called "freesia icy tears 2007 dvdrip" or something like that (too lazy to check)

the difference between the movie and the manga's are (from what I've heard):
the trailers:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MOXWv_oAyE" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MOXWv_oAyE</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvum6gvVJ_I" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvum6gvVJ_I</a>

[Uncle Cali]

I found three torrents for it on isohunt.
One for the movie spanish hard-subbed, avi, 2CD.
Another for a either japanese or chinese release, in rmvb format, apparently not subbed.
And the last one, with external subs (eng, I suppose), avi, 2CDs.
Only the third one is currently seeded.

[Revilenigma]

the last one was the one I was downloading but it just stalls and says "locating sources" 

[Uncle Cali]

^I thought so.

Well, it's a pity; I can't really test it because my connection is real crappy at the moment.
Maybe some of the other guys will be luckier and actually manage to download it? If not, there's always emule to check... oh, well.

[mono]

yaeh, i tried to get it before but failed...
we'r probably not missing much, especially if they changed the plot

thanks for the infos though guys

lets find raws for wendy!

[Revilenigma]

looks like someone is speed scanning freesia

[Uncle Cali]

Well, that's good too, right?
I mean, GWR is going to work on the tank releases, so it's not a problem (I think).
By the way, raw chapters 76, 77, and 79 are available at raw-paradise.
It's odd that ch 78 isn't.

So, guys, any luck downloading the movie?

[Revilenigma]

I don't have a problem with it either, I just find it funny that a series we all thought would never get scanlated again after volume 8 now has a speed scan group.

I know one person scanned 70-77 and then suddenly someone just uploaded 79 out of nowhere.

no luck with movie

[mono]

so whats the crack with the releases?
why are people releasing chapters 10 in advance!? is it a numbering thing like on BotI? or am i being lame? (i havent dl'd and checked :S, i'm out of touch with freesia, need to re--read from beginining)

from mangaupdates:
c.71 by Bod Rangzen (0d ago)
c.70 by Sinuse Scans (3d ago)
v.9 c.53-59 by Gantz_Waitingroom (17d ago)

[Revilenigma]

so whats the crack with the releases?
why are people releasing chapters 10 in advance!? is it a numbering thing like on BotI? or am i being lame? (i havent dl'd and checked :S, i'm out of touch with freesia, need to re--read from beginining)

It's because the raws and translations for the magazine scans from 70-79(except 78) are out and volume 10 and 11 aren't

[morten]

Who gives a fuck, both are very random groups...  

Donnu yet if we should release the chaps after vol.11 in a tank release...

[Revilenigma]

both groups seem to be pretty new. the first is a gantz speed scan group, while the second just seems to pick up random chapters of random series.

[morten]

They will give up when we release volume 12 together with volume 11... The question is, what to do with pests who scanlate after that..? 

I would rather wait for the vol.12 tank but it's not out yet... I will check the quality of the Ikki raws when I have time...

[mono]

haha its funny.
why dont they redirect their enthusiasm to a good series that doesnt already have a decent group on it  ie blood alone, tokage etc

[Revilenigma]

I will check the quality of the Ikki raws when I have time...

most of them are pretty good, one even has a colour page (ch70?) which usually gets turned to black in white in the volume releases so we should included that page with the volume release.
Replied: June 04, 2009, 06:20:39 AMJiro did a short little flash. awesome.

http://www.paraman.net/play/preview/15903

[Uncle Cali]

Just to let you guys know, in case you haven't seen it yet, chapter 78 is up on raw-paradise now.

EDIT:
And now, Freesia 80 has just been upped too.

[morten]

Nice, finally the enforcement on Tanaka starts...

I really hated that newfag with a passion during scanlating, but maybe he won't die like others in the past... Well, let's all hope for a painful death...

Hmm, a new Doro chap too... [No spoilers]

[Revilenigma]

Just to let you guys know, in case you haven't seen it yet, chapter 78 is up on raw-paradise now.

EDIT:
And now, Freesia 80 has just been upped too.

I don't care for Raw-Paradise's scans, I always wait for Finestela's hq's.

Nice, finally the enforcement on Tanaka starts...

I really hated that newfag with a passion during scanlating, but maybe he won't die like others in the past... Well, let's all hope for a painful death...

Tanaka has been around for awhile hasn't he? I remember seeing him as far back as volume 6.
Replied: June 27, 2009, 03:00:10 AMa really fucked up but funny flash by Jiro: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgaaaaaaaaa.exblog.jp%2F&sl=ja&tl=en&history_state0=
 

[morten]

Freesia 10 is ready... 

[mono]

Jiro really makes it look like that humanity deserves to get extinct in this manga...

true, but its that sort of darkness that attracts us to his work, yes?
he's obviously had a pretty f*'d up life!?

[Uncle Cali]

Well, I don't know... the "humanity deserves to die" thinking comes to me with common situations every now and then, so I think Jiro's fiction is better off than our world.
Pretty much all of his works I've read are both dirty and beautiful.

[morten]

Freesia 11 is now done too... 


We will scanlate volume 12 when it'll come out... 

[DamnedBones]

Both Freesia and Dorohedoro on the same day!! Jesus, you just made my day.
There are simply no words to describe my gratitude, awesome job guys

[Revilenigma]

my prediction for the end:

[morten]

Uh...

[Revilenigma]

[morten]

Oh...


Posting the samples of Matsumoto's new series/ oneshot (?)...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgsbYKpnACg" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgsbYKpnACg</a>

[mono]

WENDY!?

[Stone Cold Shego]

[Revilenigma]

WENDY!?

nope it's some other manga that jiro did (I forget the name ) , I have a few preview pages that I might upload sometime later, I think it's just a oneshot ebook he did.

about higuchi:

[mono]

nope it's some other manga that jiro did
I think it's just a oneshot ebook he did.

sounds good.
has any raws for wendy turned up i wonder?

[Revilenigma]

has any raws for wendy turned up i wonder?

nope ;_;

here what I saved from the free preview they have.

[Ferozban]

true, but its that sort of darkness that attracts us to his work, yes?

hell yeah, jiros worldview is both disturbing and beautiful at the same time.
i mean in his world all these cruel and dirty things are not done behind the curtain. so i wonder if some people wouldnt rather live in a world like freesia. i'd have a harder time dealing with people that pretent to be nice or pretent to work for the society.
jiros main and sidecharacters that openly display their nature and his relentless view of the world are what makes his mangas most appealing for me.


PS: Considering Jiros works...i'm also looking for some complete raws for Wendy. i allready heard the story is not that good, but i still want to read everything jiro ever made.
I could find some translators and edit the raw myself after, if and only if someone can find the raw of wendy.
i allready tried to buy the book from amazon jp but those fags dont ship to germany

[Revilenigma]

PS: Considering Jiros works...i'm also looking for some complete raws for Wendy. i allready heard the story is not that good, but i still want to read everything jiro ever made.
I could find some translators and edit the raw myself after, if and only if someone can find the raw of wendy.

there are plenty of people would love to scanlate wendy, but the problem is that it's almost impossible to get it unless you live in Japan ;_;

[morten]

i allready tried to buy the book from amazon jp but those fags dont ship to germany

I can feel you... 

Btw, what team are you currently working for?

[Revilenigma]

do they ship to Canada?

[Ferozban]

I can feel you... 
Btw, what team are you currently working for?

currently none, since i started studying physics in Darmstadt wintersemester last year, and i have quite some problems^^ So i dont really have much time. Maybe after the next semester things will be a little easier and i maybe dont have that much to do. 
i'd like to help wherever i can in my free time.....well i'll tell you after the Wintersemester how thing are with this "free time" :)
but if it were for a rarity like Wendy i would put the studying aside for some hours each day.

do they ship to Canada?

no, to japan only.
And the more i try to get something from japan the more i start thinking that these guys don't really like foreigners.
even most of their websites are only accessable with a japanese ip. i had to find a free japanese proxy to acces some sites. those guys really are paranoid.


But i think i found something:
http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/title/13421.html

they sell Wendy as an ebook (well thats what we want anyways) for 500 yen
i could create an account there, and it seems they accept credit card. maybe even paypal

the problem i got is that they seem to have a problem with my browser and my operating system.

i dont quite get it. (i'm learning japan for a year now, so i'm not really good at it)
it seems they want me to install a 64 bit OS (well my pc is a little older) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.

[mono]

thats weird

is it just the publishers who dont want stuff delivered outside japan ??

[Revilenigma]

about the ebook:

they also want you to use some wierd ebook reader and it has to to be on a japanese pc

[mono]

boooooooo

[Revilenigma]

Why are they so paranoid about Wendy I wonder?

It's not like it has potential to become a big seller.

[mono]

idunno
its a one-shot yeah?
maybe theyre gonna get like that on everything soon
i heard that theyre cracking down on people uploading scans in japan

[Revilenigma]

I think it's a full volume, but I'm not sure.

[manter]

Anyone know whats going on with chapter 81 & 82

Does it even exist, or is the series actual completed at ch.80?

[Revilenigma]

Anyone know whats going on with chapter 81 & 82

Does it even exist, or is the series actual completed at ch.80?

They came out a long time ago.

[manter]

They came out a long time ago.

Do you have a link to ch.81 & 82?

Mu has it as being completely scanlated at chapter 80:

http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=141

But MAL has it listed as a 82 chapter series, so I'm a bit confused 

http://myanimelist.net/manga/1131/Freesia

I read up to chapter 80 but haven't found anything past that, even in RAW format. If anyone could clear up my misunderstanding; that'd be great!

[morten]

Last two chaps aren't translated/ scanlated yet... Wait till Freesia 12 comes out, we don't work with LQ raws...

http://twitter.com/offtopia

[kakihara1]

If any serious translators are interested I have raws of WENDY that are pretty well cleaned currently. I was planning to translate but I have to use a dictionary all the way.

[Revilenigma]

If any serious translators are interested I have raws of WENDY that are pretty well cleaned currently. I was planning to translate but I have to use a dictionary all the way.

Could you pm me a sample page?

[mono]

If any serious translators are interested I have raws of WENDY that are pretty well cleaned currently. I was planning to translate but I have to use a dictionary all the way.

would love to see that manga done.

revlon, we could do a joint..... thought you and mort dont need any help really do you :P

[Revilenigma]

Jiro has a new site: http://matsumotojiro.web.fc2.com/

[morten]

Last volume, show's over!

[Revilenigma]

[DamnedBones]

I've just finished reading the last volume and "Holly shXX!" it was great.  

Can someone enlighten me, please?

[Revilenigma]

[morten]

Way to go, I have to read Freesia again now from the start... 

[mono]

Way to go, I have to read Freesia again now from the start...

me too! 

[Revilenigma]

I have to read Freesia again now from the start...

I started doing that too, Kano's crazy talk now makes a lot more sense.

[anakastakis]

Way to go, I have to read Freesia again now from the start... 

Yeah, I need to re-read this one too.

[Gottheim]

I started doing that too, Kano's crazy talk now makes a lot more sense.

That's never a good sign.

[Urameshi-sama]

I wish I had the time and the internet limit to reread the manga too....

Way to go, I have to read Freesia again now from the start... 

I'm so confused by the last page.
Aargh 

I started doing that too, Kano's crazy talk now makes a lot more sense.

How so?

[Revilenigma]

I don't think

[Urameshi-sama]

[stele007]

I know this is rather old, but I thought chapter 80 was the final chapters of this manga (in fact, a lot of places say 80 is the last chapter...???).  It's great to hear there's another two chapters, but they seem to be rather hard to find.

[caz]

links for volume 09 were all deleted 

Could someone restore it? Thank you so much in advance! ^_^

[Redcat74]

such twisted manga. I loved it