Grooming Up

Will be tidied up later. Considering Azumanga wikia, I assume posting Ja Ja Uma Grooming Up within this wikia should be acceptable - since both series share the same author.

This manga is scanlated to promote awareness, in the hope that some publishers would be interested to make official publication.

Plan for Revision
Jzar has given valuable lessons to greatly reduce images size without sacrificing quality. Using the method, I'm planning to revise everything that I've uploaded thus far (chapter 26 to 32). Revision goals are: For now my target is to fix chapter 28. For the rest, I'll let a more competent translator(s) to drive revision direction.
 * 1) Smaller image sizes = faster load = better reading experience.
 * 2) Better quality of translation.
 * 3) Consistency in storytelling.

Storytelling Consistency
Inconsistency in storytelling would hinder reader's enjoyment since inconsistency would force reader to pause and think "what the heck is he talking about?"

Pronouns and Honorific
Japanese (and other asian countries) has several layers of politeness that is absent in English; hence they are often lost in translation.

I feel that we should retain this information, because it helps us to (roughly) know more about the speaker: That wraps the discussion on pronouns; for honorific, there is no dispute - we'll keep them.
 * Is one a polite / rude individual
 * Where does one see one's self in relation to the 2nd party. Ex: if A uses watashi to B and uses Ore to C, we can safely assume that A has certain respect to B, but not to C.

Hindsight
When reading a chapter we may give general meaning to a general term.

After reading further in, on hindsight we might know that for those involved in the conversation, that general term actually has specific meaning.

If we feel the ambiguity is writer's intention, we should keep the ambiguity. Otherwise we should clarify it from the beginning.

Take fall race / fall races as an example. I initially assumes they are talking in plural. But while doing page 43 of volume 4, I realized that they are talking about one major race in fall - the Kiku race.

Faithfulness to the Original
When I started this project, I wanted to stay as faithful as possible to the original text. However, along the way we've been changing some lines to make the story flows better. The following are partial list of changes that we've done: あなたかざりはないですか すごとまぐさにまみれます つけてもらえぬぅイヤリング 涙こらえて買うてます 男ごころのぉ. . . 未練でしょぉ. ..
 * 1) Step 56, page 62, 4th panel: Shunpei's line didn't mention about toilet paper at all.
 * 2) Step 57, page 81, Ume's lyrics spanning 4 panels: