Stretch
Guess it's about time I made a post on this new web manga I'm working on. It's called Stretch and is about two female roommates living and stretching together. You could read it as an instruction manga on stretching, but you could also read it as a slice-of-life romance manga. There are 16 chapters out and I've translated the first four so far. I'll be adding more chapters in the next few days. Enjoy.
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Chapter 11:
Volume 1 Extra:
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Chapter 14:
Chapter 15:
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Chapter 17:
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Chapter 22:
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Chapter 24:
Chapter 25:
Chapter 26:
Chapter 27:
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Chapter 29:
Chapter 30:
Chapter 31:
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Chapter 33:
Chapter 34:
Chapter 35:
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Chapter 37:
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Chapter 39:
Chapter 40:
Chapter 41:
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Chapter 43:
Chapter 44:
Chapter 45 [END]:
If you don't feel like reading it online for some reason, go to this MEGA folder.
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If you don't feel like reading it online for some reason, go to this MEGA folder.
Thank you :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for this interesting web comic! *_* I wonder if you give permission to re-translate this manga. I'm a member of an italian scan group (Kokoro Scan Team) and we'd like to re-translate "Stretch" in our language. Can we do it?? *o*
ReplyDeleteLet me know, please >.<
Of course, feel free to use re-translate it. I'm happy as long as more people get to read this cute manga.
DeleteOhh thank you very very much!!! :D
DeleteThis is a really fun manga so far! The stretching tips are useful and the story seems pretty good too. It really comes off as at least shoujo ai, if not yuri, but it isn't labeled as such. Maybe I'm just wearing yuri-goggles?
ReplyDeleteFlipping through the RAWs, I thought it was yuri or at least shoujo ai too, but while translating the chapters I noticed they're not even a couple. They're only roommates and haven't been more than friends yet. It can still happen, of course, but so far, I'm at chapter 7 right now, they're just two very close friends. I'll add the tag as soon as something in that direction happens though.
Deletewell, now that we're in the mid-teens, it is looking a bit more shoujo-ai like. At least Ran has it bad, based on the way she reacted when she found out about Keiko's boyfriend back in high school. From the way Keiko is acting, I think she is starting to come over to the other side too... Can't wait for more! (I'm sad that you're so close to catching up with the available raws! Only 16 chapters out still?)
DeleteHuh, no wonder the art style looked familiar. So this is Higashiyama's alt nom de plume.
ReplyDeleteAside from the artwork, is there any hard proof?
DeleteThe entry at Dynasty-Scans says so? *shrug* Good enough for me.
DeleteDoesn't hurt that the style of narrative and dialogue rings bells too.
While it's likely true, there's no definite proof, so it's just speculation.
DeleteI love you Translator Fag.
ReplyDeleteI don't even have to think twice before I start reading a manga you translate anymore, I love your choices. Thanks Boon, you are the best.
ReplyDeleteI will read everything you translate o.o
ReplyDeleteim loving this manga :)
ReplyDeletethanks for your hard work! keep it up :)
Thanks for the fast releases :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for translating this manga. It's quite well written, and packs a lot of character and personality into its very short chapters.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the ch 12 link seems wrong: https://plus.google.com/photos/110793535724604745254/albums/5988261037160909777e should be https://plus.google.com/photos/110793535724604745254/albums/5988261037160909777
Thank you. Damn typos.
DeleteSo here I am reading the newest chapter and suddenly, Twin Peaks.
ReplyDeleteo.O
(Impressive translation/release speed btw!)
Thank you so much for translating this, the release speed is amazing. This is goddamn great.
ReplyDeletethank you so much for the releases! seeing a new chapter out really makes my day! i feel a bit sad though that there's only 2 chapters left :(
ReplyDeleteNew chapter got posted. P.S: here's the special: http://www.sendspace.com/file/zbnd2n
ReplyDeleteErr, meant to say, it's the same as the special posted in the print magazine that I linked.
DeleteThank you very much, Vito, I'll see if I can find someone to clean it for me. I suck at cleaning.
DeleteDon't need to, since it's the same chapter that got posted today:
Deletehttp://yawaspi.com/stretch/comic/017_001.html
sorry for my poor wording. I only noticed after I already uploaded it, it was originally posted magazine about the time volume 1 came out, probably to promote it.
Whoa, this is great. I'll see if I can make some time to translate the chapters in the next few days. Thanks for the hint.
DeleteThanks again for bringing this fun little manga to us! I hope to see more in the future. how often do chapters come out?
ReplyDeleteIt's very irregular, sometimes biweekly and sometimes monthly. We'll have to be patient with this one.
DeleteSeems like you've been updating this rapidly. Thank you very much!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving every gag of this. But too bad it wasn't label as 'Yuri'. Still can't help but like this though.
Thank you very much :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for your hard work.
ReplyDeleteBut, God, will those two PLEASE have red-hot lesbian sex already?! The subtext is killing me here!
thx for your hard work and for interesting choices of mangas. :) btw, did someone checked if stretching tips scientifically proven or just made up?
ReplyDeleteSo good this manga *_*
ReplyDeleteThank you for your work.
Dude, goddamnit
ReplyDeleteIs stretching exercises in this one some of the real life one or author just drawn pretty pictures?
ReplyDeleteWhen translating the stretching exercises, I use all kinds of stretching sites as a reference to make sure I don't get anything wrong. So far, every single one of them has been a real one. I don't know if they're good or bad ones, but the author didn't make them up.
DeleteThanks for this, btw are we going to get a weekly update on KURO or are you going to wait until more of it is published and release it in a batch?
ReplyDeleteI decided against a weekly update because some people can't seem to get over the fact that it's only one page a week. I'll release them in small batches of, let's say, 5-6 pages. It depends on what happens in the pages though. If it's something very important, I'd even put out a 1-page chapter.
DeleteThank you very much :)
ReplyDeleteHello! I belong to a fansub in spanish called Ame Fansub [http://amefansub.wordpress.com/] and i'm writing to you to ask if you could allow us to use your scans for Stretch
ReplyDeleteThank you for your time. ^^
Hello! Of course! Feel free to use my scans or my translation or whatever. There's no need for credits either. Just make sure that more people get to read this manga.
DeleteBoon
Thanks Very Much! ^^
DeleteThanks for chapter 21 :)
ReplyDeleteCould you be kind enough to translate the Extra Volume 1, you can find it here: http://www.partage-facile.com/7O1C9G7IW6/stretch_ch.000.rar.html Thank you very much for all your work.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. I'd gladly translate the extra chapter, but the quality of the pictures is horrendous. Why did the scanner jpg-compress the pictures until they were like 60 to 70 kb each? There are so many artifacts... I wonder if there are any higher-res scans of this.
DeleteThere are some bound scans on /u/: http://boards.4chan.org/u/thread/1522018#p1546698
DeleteNot sure if they are usable due to being bound however.
Yes, I've seen them. I wouldn't mind using them as they're a lot better quality-wise and I think it's pretty cool to see them bound. It's as if you're actually reading the tankobon, but maybe it's just me. I'll wait a few days and if there are no better scans by then, I'll use the bound ones. Not sure if I should separate the pages to make them look unbound though...
DeleteThank you very much for taking into account the request and we knew that would be your answer, do not know how someone so he had thus compress the images. I have no problem with that are bound together, so do as you want, any help from you will be very grateful to me.
ReplyDeleteOK, thanks to chapter 22 I think I am beginning to understand the backstories of the two girls.
ReplyDeleteKeiko was engaged to the guy in chapter 21, got pregnant - but lost the baby through miscarriage or illness. Afterwards, their relationship fell apart.
As for Ran, could her father have been killed by the Tōhoku tsunami that occurs in the chapter 22 flashback? We know he died shortly before they moved in together. It would explain Ran staring out at the sea while visiting home for his memorial ceremony, and might also explain the implied financial reversal of her family.
Thoughts?
gahh, just finished reading the available chapters. thank you so much for translating this!!
ReplyDeleteYou do an amazing and prompt job with this manga. You're helping spread awareness of this manga and have probably prompted at least a few people to buy it who otherwise wouldn't, so great job!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for translating Chapter 0. Besides, you could be so kind to translate the interview they did to Higashiyama Shou Woman Insight on the launch of the first volume of Stretch.
ReplyDeletePart 1: http://www.womaninsight.jp/archives/66680
Part 2: http://www.womaninsight.jp/archives/66958
Anyway, thank you very much for all your work.
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll see if I can find some time off from translating manga to translate the interview.
DeleteHello! I am a member of Ame Fansub. [We retranslate to Spanish "Stretch"]
ReplyDeleteRespect your chapter 0, one fan of our Fansub we gave a picture what doesn't included in your version because your quality.
I get improving the quality and want shared the picture with yours. ^^
Greetings
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7j64dbpn7aeuusr/AABx62NJy8fv9ZIlB-txFIdJa
Thank you very much! I was looking for that page because the RAWs I used didn't have it!
DeleteThanks!
Thank you! I'll see if I can clean it to make it look acceptable.
ReplyDeleteHello again!
ReplyDeleteOther fan of Ame Fansub, we gave a oneshot with a horrible quality.
I get improving the quality, I think the implove quality and want shared the oneshot with you. :)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215384326/183b.jpg
Greetings
OMG! The correct link is this!
Deletehttps://www.dropbox.com/sh/7j64dbpn7aeuusr/AABx62NJy8fv9ZIlB-txFIdJa
Sorry. >.<
Thank you for the great work! It looks a lot better than the RAWs. I hope I'll find time to translate it soon though.
DeleteI really enjoy reading your translations; thank you for your work on them.
ReplyDeleteThx for all of your translations, every foocking... manga (sometimes hard determine for sure) you do is awesome. So i always watching you. Totally not in a creepy way. :) But this one probably my favorite, i mean light and very warm read, hints of yuri, useful information. Even cliped some exercises onto my freezer. So, one more time, you sir are awesome.
ReplyDeletehttp://i63.fastpic.ru/big/2014/0922/f7/adfe1cf170b39b26f9db380ff56780f7.jpg
Sorry for engrish.
Wow, it looks almost like a professional translation, if you print it out like that. (Only from the looks of it though, the translation quality is still amateur-ish.)
DeleteI'm glad you like Stretch. I especially like the natural interactions between Ran and Keiko because I could actually imagine two real people who talk and act like them.
Thanks for the comment!
your mediafire folders are blocked.
ReplyDeleteI have posted a comment before this but some how I cant find where it is....so I will say this again.
ReplyDeleteOMG I LOVE YOU, Thank you so so much for making this manga, really. I love Shou, because I love prism, I love his artstyle, his storytelling and all....And I love you, I dont care if Stretch has Yuri or not, I love it.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Yuri in mah Stretch...it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!♪＼(*＾▽＾*)／＼(*＾▽＾*)／
ReplyDeleteTranslator Fag is my hero. Seriously dude, I love everything you work on, it's all great.
ReplyDeleteDon't ever change man, we need you.
Oh, and thank you for the new chapter.
Thank you very much for the quick translation, but you have the wrong file on MediaFire, since Chapter 31 is actually 16.
ReplyDeleteOh snap, you're right.
DeleteI need sleep. Thanks for the comment.
I have the same problem, but this series deserves the hours without sleep. Thanks for the quick response.
ReplyDeleteThank you for translating this manga~~
ReplyDeleteChapter 32a confused me. Is the whole thing a flashback before they were roommates?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for always scanlating this!
Yes, it's flashback and picks up right after Chapter 22b ends.
DeleteThanks for always reading this!
Thank you very much! I like this manga!
ReplyDeleteHello, here again, but I come to give notice of a good thing. In Dynasty has appeared a user and has published scans of the bonus color chapter of the second volume and scans of the extras of the first and the second volume and frankly, the quality of the scans is very good. Here is the link to download: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/fl70mgsa626b4y0,j4lo2rizzokh1cb,i5d73bud2cukr0i/shared
ReplyDeleteIn Dynasty we would be very thankful if you translate this material, of course, if it's not too much trouble for you. Anyway thank you very much for all your work.
Hey, Principeinquisidor,
Deletethank you very much for the scans. I just translated the bonus chapter and I'll make sure to translate the other extras too.
Please say hi to the folks at Dynasty.
First of all, thanks for doing what you do. I really enjoy this.
ReplyDeleteIs it true that this series has been licensed? Certain manga hosting sites say it is, but I can't find any other evidence to support this. I suspect it's just bullshit but I can't be certain.
Already available the cover of the third volume, if you want to use as cover for the following chapters.
ReplyDeletehttp://i.imgur.com/lA1wLlO.jpg
Thank you very much. I already used it for the new chapter.
DeleteHey, thanks for all the translations of Stretch. I was wondering when you'd translate the Vol.1 Extras. Or have I missed them?
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
DeleteAs far as I know, chapter 0 was the only extra in volume 1.
I have this .rar from the same person who scanlated the other extras. http://www.mediafire.com/download/67kf4oieb9bb23v/Stretch+Vol+1+Extras.zip
DeleteAs far as I can recall he said that these pages were extras that were at the end of few of the chapters or maybe after all of them.
Holy moly, I never knew about these.
DeleteThank you, Ivaylo. I'll try to get these out in the next few days.
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ReplyDeleteOh shit, two new pages were added to Chapter 36. Seems like someone had forgotten to upload them.
ReplyDeleteTranslated and uploaded the two missing pages in record time.
DeleteWhoever forgot to upload them @ http://yawaspi.com, please don't scare me like that again.
Chapter color and extras of the third volume are now available thanks to Jnko. Here is the link to download:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/1w8b8jnb9c9ekk9,5nll1moxbeovv09,i5d73bud2cukr0i,j4lo2rizzokh1cb,fl70mgsa626b4y0/shared
Well that's nice. When I was gone this popped up xD I hope it gets translated soon.
DeleteAs always thanks for the awesome work (and the hasty translation of the last two pages)
Thank you for the scans!
DeleteYou really are a blessing you know. Translating this wonderful gem.
ReplyDeleteNow all that's left is the volume 3 extra and it will be all caught up.
That goddamn tease though of the latest upload..
I just like Stretch, is all. I wouldn't translate it if I didn't.
DeleteThe volume extras take a bit longer to translate though. I need to make a lot of research to translate the stretching parts because I don't know jack about stretching.
I see. Well I'm patient enough xD Thank you for the translations again though (:
DeleteAs a side note, what would you recommend as a reference to start learning Japanese?
I've never taken a Japanese course nor have I ever been to Japan, but I understand pretty much every Japanese text with a bit of help from a kanji dictionary. It's all thanks to the books Genki I and II. I studied them by myself and once I had the grammar down, I started consuming Japanese media (music, manga, anime, TV soaps and shows) like crazy. It took me about two years until I was at a level to start translating simpler manga/texts.
DeleteI haven't tried any other books, but the Genki books are really good imo.
Alright, thanks (:
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ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for your work !
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