It's Alive! It's Alive!

In our biggest pickup since we completed Stop!! Hibari-kun! a year ago, we are pleased to announce that we have decided to resurrect Okama Hakusho (also known as Okama Report) by Hideo Yamamoto! The series had been scanlated by another group which died in 2007, and during that time, they managed to release the first 22 chapters. In spite of that, if we are going to do this series, we are going to do it in its entirety, so we are releasing the series from chapter 1.

Also, the volumes that we're using are from a three-volume reprint (similar to what happened with Hibari), because the series is quite old. It first appeared in Young Sunday in June 1989 (back then, it was a biweekly instead of a weekly), and it was completed a little over two years later in 1991, so this is the second-oldest series we've done after Hibari. Okama Hakusho's story goes like this:

College student Shinya Okama is initially tricked into working at a gay bar by his friend Tanaka, but he starts to enjoy it when he sees how cute he looks in drag as "Catherine". However, his infatuation with himself is short lived when he falls in love at first sight with Miki, an innocent college girl and regular at the bar who happens to look a lot like Catherine. Although the two of them hit it off right away, Miki only knows him as Catherine, and to top it off, Miki already has a boyfriend. Not wanting to concede defeat just yet, Okama continues his struggle to get closer to Miki while trying to prevent her from making any progress with her boyfriend who just wants to get in bed with her.

As a small aside, the gay bar in the story is called Maurice, which is likely a reference to E. M. Forster's 1971 novel Maurice.

And so, we are kicking off the series with the first four chapters. Although we are not sure how long it will take us to catch up to the previous scanlation, it probably won't take that long since this is a relatively easy series to work on. And later this month, we will be working on it at the same time as Kuragehime v16 which goes on sale in about a week. As a result, we will probably be getting to Mizutama Honey Boy v04 next month. So that's what we'll be doing for the time being, and we hope you like our newest project.

Okama Hakusho ch. 1: Mediafire, Dropbox
Okama Hakusho ch. 2: Mediafire, Dropbox
Okama Hakusho ch. 3: Mediafire, Dropbox
Okama Hakusho ch. 4: Mediafire, Dropbox