Shinohayu ch38: Early Rising

As a curiosity, the town in the very first panel (picture below) is how Yumachi looks from the air. In real life it's called Tamayu-cho Yumachi. This is where Shino, Kanna and most of the main characters live. Hayari, however, lives in the city center of Matsue, a few km to the NE (30 min by public transport).
In the year 2000, Tamayu-cho had about 6,000 hab. but then in 2005 it was absorbed and became part of the city of Matsue (200,000 hab). At the time, many other towns and villages were also merged into Matsue. Today, the limits of Matsue-shi (Matsue City) cover a much larger area than just the urban area of Matsue. That's why the Yumachi girls but also Yue and Aina who live even farther away, they all participated in the Matsue City Tournament.

Enjoy:
Shinohayu ch38 (Mega)
Shinohayu ch38 (Mediafire)

Toki ch04 & Biyori ch58-59

Double release!
Toki Chapter 4: Pressure. Toki's first real mahjong match begins!
This release has clean HQ scans provided by a kind anon as with previous chapters.
Toki ch04 (Mega)
Toki ch04 (Mediafire)

Saki Biyori: Tsuruga 8 & Shiraitodai 3.
Biyori ch58-59 (Mega)
Biyori ch58-59 (Mediafire)

Saki ch166: Chance Meeting

More plot development. Very interesting.
Enjoy:
Saki ch166 (Mega)
Saki ch166 (Mediafire)
I added a few translation notes after the picture (behind a spoiler box).

Translation notes

• In page 8, Fujita-pro mentions something called "kesshou league". Kesshou means "Final" as in the Final of a tournament. I translated it simply as "Final League" but I guess something like "Super League" or "Champion's League" or "League of Winners" or something like that would also be appropriate. Most likely, it's a high level tournament of some sort.
• In page 10, the old woman says the surname of Saki's grandmother is アークタンデ  (aa-ku-ta-n-de). This is almost certainly in reference to the Norwegian surname Arctander so I translated it as such. However, keep in mind that until Ritz writes the name in romaji, there is no way to be completely sure. The same goes for the name of the pro player mentioned by the reporter Nishida: アークタンダー　(aa-ku-ta-n-daa) which I translated as Arctandar.

Shinohayu ch37: Kyouka 3

Kyoukahayu: Chapter 3.
Enjoy:
Shinohayu ch37 (Mega)
Shinohayu ch37 (Mediafire)

Cuteness overload!!!

Saki ch165: Free-for-all Fight

It's the end of the vanguard match! Enjoy:

Saki ch165 (Mega)

Saki ch165 (Mediafire)

  

A couple of translation notes:

• "Tsumogiri" is when a player draws a tile and discards it right away. I didn't put a note because I thought most readers already know it or can look it up easily.
• This time, I decided to leave Yuuko's "nanoyo" as it is. It doesn't mean anything, it's just her way of ending sentences. I guess we'll see it often during the sergeant match.

There were a couple of obvious misprints in the original japanese version of this chapter which have already been fixed in this translation. Let me point them out just in case:

• In page 7, when Ryuuka mentions the 6-sou, in the original she says "9-sou". The 9-sou has nothing to do with this hand, it's clearly the 6-sou that she meant.
• In the scoreboard in page 14, the point gains/losses of each player were wrong for most of them.

Saki Biyori ch56-57

I was going to release this together with Saki ch165 but the raws aren't out yet. Also, for Toki ch4, the provider of HQ scans was busy this month and didn't have time to clean them. I'd prefer to use the HQ scans if possible so I'll just wait until they're ready. If there was no other choice, then eventually I could use LQ raws. That's the status at the moment, just so you all know.

In the meantime, enjoy some Biyori:

Saki Biyori ch56-57 (Mega) v2
Saki Biyori ch56-57 (Mediafire) v2
v2: fixed some typos.

Saki 164: Subara & Biyori 54-55

Well, it took some time for the raws to come out but it's a Subara chapter!

Enjoy:
Saki 164 (Mega)
Saki 164 (Mediafire)

And a double Biyori chapter: Achiga 7 & Kazekoshi 6.
Biyori 54-55 (Mega)
Biyori 54-55 (Mediafire)