Saturday, December 31, 2011

It's the Perfect Time to be a Princess!


As our last release of 2011, we are proud to present to you what we've been doing since Christmas. After much work and toiling around, here's the first chapter of the shoujo manga Shounen Oujo (Boy Princess) by Utaku Yukihiro, who based the story on Zenko Musashino's original concept.

The story follows Albert, a poor boy living in the Queendom of Morrigan, a country where women rule over men, who have no rights. While out on the town with his friend Theodore, Albert and Theo are abducted by slave traders, but are luckily bought by the servant, Guy, of a rich noblegirl. It turns out the noblegirl is 11-year-old Princess Alexia Lumiere, heir to the throne of Morrigan, who wants Albert, who bears a striking resemblance to her, to act as her double.

As you can imagine, men are treated very badly in this female-dominated society, and it seems selling boys into slavery is a common occurrence. The setting takes much of its influence from France in the 1700s, and this is mainly reflected in the architecture, and how the character names are pronounced. Albert, for instance, should be pronounced with a silence t (same as Colbert), and Guy is pronounced with an "e" sound, as in tree. Furthermore, the currency used is the reugny (roo-ni) (pl. reugnies), which comes from a French town. As such, in lieu of using "-sama" when it came up in the text, Madam and Monsieur are used instead. Also, you may notice that the title Mimic Royal Princess comes up a few times, usually inlaid between the kanji for Shounen Oujo. This is an alternate English title to the work the author's thought up.

And here's a nice color insert from the first chapter when it was published in the magazine Sylph. It's black and white in the volume release, so enjoy.


Lastly, happy new year to every one of our readers, and we'll see you in 2012.

Shounen Oujo ch. 1: Mediafire, Megaupload

22 comments:

  1. Happy new 2012 brotha and sistah! Let's pray 2012 is better than 2011!!

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  2. Just from this... You've translated another great manga, Hachimitsu!

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  3. At the risk of being pedantic,

    > in lieu of using "-sama" when it came up in the text, Madam and Monsieur are used instead.

    "Madam" is the English spelling; "Madame" is the French (plural, "Mesdames").

    Anyway, thanks for another great release, and a very happy new year to you all, too!

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  4. Love it, thanks so much!

    Have a Happy New Year!!

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  5. Thank you for translating this. It's interesting so far.

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  6. Amazing year that we already have, thanks to you hope we can still see more series that all of us like as otobuki that personally i enjoy so much and everyone also...

    THANKS FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE
    HOPE A NEW A BETTER YEAR FOR THIS SERIES

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  7. oh wow.... new year series
    pretty artwork too
    and I'm drooling for the next chapter already

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  8. Happy New Year! Thanks for the release, it looks like fun ^_^ Keep up the great work and hope 2012 will wbe good for all of us!

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  9. thx for the manga, didnt expect u guys to do a manga so.....heavy? wells it's good netherless, so thx again ^ㅂ^

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  10. I like the huge joke on the first page, "Expose!! GYAA!! My Eyes!! ... It's this kind of story."

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  11. Hello, first time commenting!! ^-^
    I've found you and your lovely scanlations after getting hooked on 'Kuragehime', and this looks like another story that I'll need to follow!! (Really, as a self-proclaimed Feminazi, it had me sold simply at the concept of a matriarchal society. ~.^)
    The artwork is lovely, as is your interpretation, and I can't wait to see where the concept will go from here... Thanks for your dedication, and Happy New Year!! <3

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  12. thank you for translating this series^^
    happy new year!!

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  13. Plot remember me of "Kyoumen no Solhouette". :)

    Is a good story, I wanna read more :)

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  14. thank you so much for this wonderful manga! i am really in to it >.< i am looking forward for new chapter and happy new year! all best wish give to this site (=w=)b

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  15. Just read it, seems interesting so far.

    What kind of publication schedule is Sylph on? Monthly?

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  16. wow!!! the chapter 2 had released! super!
    thank you very much >.< b

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  17. Looks very interesting from your description, can't wait to read it, thank you so much and best wishes for the year ahead!

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  18. Just found out you guys pick up this series today, and WOW DOES THIS LOOK DELICIOUS! xD

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  20. Hi, just wondering, but it appears that both of your download links are no longer working, would it be possible to fix this? as i was hoping to download the series to read it as i wait for the release of the next chapter next year.

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    1. Hi, although these links are broken, you can download the series on our Shounen Oujo page, http://hachimitsu-scans.blogspot.com/p/shounen-oujo.html

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