Midara Books [English, TANK’ED version : better scans in higher res with less censorship, with additional retouching by me, 193 pictures], by Kon-Kit
Allright, here’s something nice
A kind person called Bia.Matsuo has tankified Midara Books, by Kon-Kit.
The version of Midara Books I shared in may 2013 was, save rare chapters, based on strongly censored magazine scans (you may read my explanation regarding tanks and magazines). While, here, Bia.Matsuo used the tank scans, that were in Japanese, and combined them with the translated dialogues that were in the magazine scans.
This is now much less censored, and in higher resolution !
That said, I am disappointed by the quality of the tank scans, they were blurry overall, sometimes super blurry on the image borders, and they haven’t been cleaned as there are dull grey areas around numerous image borders.
Also, the way the “tankifying” was done has puzzled me lots, frequently, within a single image, two image sources are mixed, the magazine and the tank version O_o
And so, I tried retouching a bit the images, to make it more pleasant for you guys.
– My retouching, in images : Original version, Initial tankifying, my fixes.
– The oddness, illustrated : magazine scans version, initial tankifying, my insufficient fixes.
All in all, even with the poor quality of the tank scans and the weird combining choices, this new version is a net improvement. SO, thanks a LOT to Bia.Matsuo ! ^_^
I am NOT removing the magazine version, it has its own perks, properly cleaned images and better images at times, it is available here
I share MORE great stuff by Kon-Kit, cf. The list of his works!
Open the Complete Pictures Gallery
Here comes the zip link! Help yourselves! ^^
(226 MB, 193 pictures, English)
Or you can also use the Alternative :
Zip Mirror #1 – or – Zip Mirror #2 – or – Zip Mirror #3
As of usual when ✔ the images are in high enough resolution and ✔ the archive is quite big for its number of pictures, and ✔ it offers a significant gain, and ✔ I have enough time to do it, if it may help, I’m offering you a smaller version, in which I resized the images to standard 1600 px resolution. Originally, the images were in lots of different dimensions, for instance around 1700, 1600, 2460, 1680, 1770 pixels…
The zip shrank from 226 MB to 79 MB.
Personally, I prefer it for reading, it takes less disk space, and it’s the version I used for the preview pics.
Download links, Zip : Mirror #1 – or – Mirror #2 – or – Mirror #3 – or – Mirror #4
"The zip shrunk from 226 MB to xx MB."
Mmm, delicious xx megabytes.
Just yanking your chain. I fucking love your repacks, thanks for doing these.
Thanks for noticing
In a way, I'm sad, I spent on this volume enough retouching time to prepare six "normal" shares instead, and nobody seems to give a fuck. Oh well, that's the internet. I hope my improved versions remain for some form of posterity somewhere, who knows ^^
I check here from time to time knowing you retouch versions, Oliver. It doesn't go unnoticed. Thanks.
I just had fun this with earlier today.
Love higher resolution since I can rotate my 1440p monitor to portrait mode and see that glorious detail.
Damn, you're making me jealous, I wish I could easily rotate my monitor. That'd be awesome, most of the time, the left and right quarters of my screen just don't serve any purpose at all, they'd be better used if my monitor could be turned 90 degrees :/
On second thought : I'd become crazy because I wouldn't ever be sure my monitor is really vertically aligned. Might be a bad idea
I thought it was uncensored for a second
Still this is Godly as hell!! Love reading Kon-kit's works!
Thanks again for the share as always Oliver-san!!
Hahaha the pigfetish father was hilarious. thanks for the share