Golden Stage (“Koganeiro Butai”) Volume 1 [English, 172 pictures, Complete at last !], + the volumes 2-5 repacked together, by Takuma Harazaki
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Today, I received a very pleasant mail, Zathael telling me Kusanyagi had finished translating Golden Stage, by Takuma Harazaki, great news ! 
In this manga, we follow a young slender (OK : skinny) heroine, making her first steps in a new highschool, having a bit of sex, interacting with other individuals having their own sexual life… The scenario thickens in the following volumes, but at least, the sex is quite good, good positions, realistic hair, powerful sex.
This manga was translated by Kusanyagi and commissioned by Zathael (for the most of it) and me (a small part), I’m grateful to you two 
For more works by this artist, please see My Takuma Harazaki Redirection Page
I remember the very old days when I first discovered Golden Stage, this was a time when English-translated manga was excessively rare, without established scanlators, and nearly all the hentai addicts, me included, were getting their stuff from the – still active ! – ABPEA newsgroup, haa, memories, memories~~~
In that time, the discovery of Golden Stage was like an electroshock to me, I was entranced by the drawings, their intensity, the hot girls, I fell in love with that manga. All that to say I was thrilled when Kusanyagi and Zathael started this manga as a donor project, I was glad to contribute
… However, to be frank, looking back, the passage of years has been devastating. In regards to today’s hentai releases, the pictures are of too small resolution, beyond salvation with the (my) usual easy retouching methods, I find it sad 
Just like when I first watched Disney’s Robin Hood for the first time in 24 years and thought “hey, it sucks”, this was a sad feeling (watching again The Jungle Book felt awesome, though, go figure).
I’m not trying to deter you from reading this manga, I think Golden Stage is worth it (and look at the preview pics from the following volumes, Jebus !), but, well, take it as a friendly warning, maybe :o
Open the Complete Pictures Gallery (or the backup gallery)
Here comes the zip link! Help yourselves! ^^
(49 MB, 172 pictures, English)
Or you can also use the Alternative :
Zip Mirror #1 – or – Zip Mirror #2 – or – Zip Mirror #3
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And, look, the following volumes are even better, with GREAT art !
Won’t anyone feel interested in commissioning their translation from a scanlator, perhaps ?
Golden Stage volumes 2-5, in Japanese :
Zip : Mirror #1 – or – Mirror #2 – or – Mirror #3 – or – Mirror #4
Here are the covers and a few preview pictures from the Japanese volumes…
i dont know why but reading this makes me fell old,actually my first H manga is secret plot:p
Would you use anything other than rapidgator?
Like depositfiles and uploaded.to, for instance ?
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I have to admit, there was a time when I thought this was never going to be completed. Kusanyagi can and does do some very good work, BUT he also has a habit of going on hiatus from time to time where he stops releasing stuff and becomes totally unreachable. I am very grateful to him for finally finishing this one, and there are one or two other things I would like to see him complete, but I would suggest trying to find someone else to do volumes 2-5.
In any case, thanks to Kusanyagi for all his hard work on this, and thanks Oliver for your contribution to this one, and for sharing it here.
It's an old H manga, but I still like the art.
@Zeke: My first H manga that I got immediately HOOKED on and was THE BEST H-manga IMO that if you introduce to others who have not yet have a taste of H manga that they would start liking H-manga, would definitely be Cohabitating lover by 10MO. This was my very first h-manga that got me to like even more h mangas across different genres (except yaoi), but still my fav would have to be that sweet sweet vanilla.
It's too bad that the artist isnt really active at all.
http://www.hentairules.net/2008/11/06/cohabiting-…
"It's too bad that the artist isnt really active at all."
Yeah, he has only put out 50-60 doujins over the years… seriously though, 10MO has put out a lot of stuff, but only some of it has been scanned, and only *two* things have been translated, as far a I can tell. Besides Cohabitating Lover, there is one doujin that I have found translated, [Zattou Keshiki(10MO)] The Grass Was Green on the Other Side Too / Mukai no shiba mo aokatta (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei). Maybe Oliver will try and share it here, now that he knows it exists.
I haven't checked that doujinshi out, but it might be too loli. Zetsubou Sensei even had a joke about the illegal immigrant and a lolicon in the actual show (and probably the manga, but I've never read that)
Edit: Okay, so I read it. Despite being about "rape", I fucking laughed my ass off (mostly because I understood why they were acting the way they were acting because I've watched every episode of the anime). And… to my amazement the lolicon is in this as well (he's the fat guy at the beginning, if I'm not mistaken).
Errr… I might take a look O_o
Many thanx Oliver and Zathael.
How much does a translator usually charge ? per page or ?
From 1 to 3$ depending on who the translator is and how hard the job is. There are also translators that give you a script but don't do the photoshop editing, it's cheaper then.
I recently found out that the group I'm in (THMMY) is apparently one of the cheapest, at a dollar per page.