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To my CCM, YBCB, FXDL, and TRA readers:

As some of you may already know from my posts and/or the Discord server, I recently got admitted into a two-year Masters program. I officially start the term next week (Aug. 30). From what I’ve been told by upperclassmen, alumni, and faculty, the first year is extremely intense and students have virtually no free time…and I don’t doubt that considering my class schedule, particularly for the first semester.

I’ve never had an official release schedule, but I’ve always tried to stay relatively consistent with my releases for all of my projects by regularly dedicating my free time to translating. However, this free time will unfortunately be going away for a while. This means a significant drop in releases, if not a hiatus from translating. If I do end up going on hiatus, I will try my best to finish the current volumes for YBCB, FXDL, and TRA beforehand. Hopefully, this situation will only last for my first year at worst (first semester at best), and I will be back to having ample free time afterwards. Of course, once I go back to working full-time, my schedule will change again, but I imagine it would only give me more free time, as it was back when I was working before.

Honestly, the entire decision of going back to school was a very last-minute process and I was not at all anticipating it before six months ago…aka it only came under my radar after I picked up FXDL and TRA. It pains me that my planned schedules and anticipated completion dates for YBCB, FXDL, and TRA are no longer possible, but I guess life is just always unexpected like that.

I will say that I currently have no plans of dropping YBCB, FXDL, or TRA. I want to finish all three, even if it will take much longer than I originally expected due to slower releases or a short break. In fact, I even have a list of new projects I want to take up once these three are complete.

As for CCM, my stance on it has not changed since the beginning – ultimately, I’m hoping for someone else to pick up the project. Through the years, I’ve received very mixed responses (some quite offensive as well), about my approach on waiting for another translator to pick it up. I personally assumed that it was preferred to have some content (albeit slow) rather than no content while waiting for someone else to pick it up, but quite a few have told me that this is counterproductive, because other translators have apprehension about picking up ongoing projects. To be honest, I don’t think any current translators would pick up the series…Rather, I’ve been trying to encourage my readers to try picking it up, even if that means edited MTL (which I don’t think would be that bad paired with my glossary). In any case, CCM readers, please share your opinion in the poll below. But note that regardless of the poll results, I will make my own decision – this poll is just to help me understand what you, the readers, think.

As always, I thank everyone for the support. It is definitely difficult to be translating so many projects solo (in addition to translating for Prince Revolution as well), but it’s a very rewarding experience that I love and hope to continue. This site and my readers truly mean the world to me. If you need to contact me, feel free to message me through the Discord and I will respond when able. I also post updates there, which might be more timely and informative than following the site as a whole.

Tl;dr: Because I am starting a rigorous graduate school program, releases will drop significantly and/or I may be forced to go on short hiatus. My compromised free time should only last for one year at most. I do not currently plan on dropping YBCB, FXDL, or TRA. As for CCM, please let me know your opinion in the poll below with the main objective in mind: having someone else pick it up at a faster pace. My final decision may or may not match the poll results, it is just for me to better understand you all. Thanks for all the support! You can join the Discord server for updates and/or contact me there.