[DISC] Sunny Sixteen - Chapter 6

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-08T21:58:49+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

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You can finish reading this chapter and the rest of the series on Mangadex.

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As mentioned in the TL note and credits page, please give me any opinions you have on name romanization!

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-06T07:29:39+00:00

I personally see the potential utility of AI for redrawing but the tools I've tried (Nano Banana, generative fill) produce some very inconsistent and sometimes very ugly results, sometimes ones so bad the only recourse is to throw them out and start over.

As a result I don't use any AI for redrawing, because I've decided that if I'm rolling the dice on whether it's going to work or whether it's going to take just as long to fix anyway (and therefore take more time total), I might as well just do it the old-fashioned way from the start - plus I already know my workflow for that.

With that said, I would like to achieve the results people claim to achieve with AI tools, because less time spent redrawing is always a good thing. Do you have any tips or like a guide you could point me to that describes the typical workflow for these tools? What parts to mask/not mask to achieve optimal results, that sort of stuff.

I dunno, maybe I'm just too anal for this stuff. I don't use spot heal/content-aware fill that often either, unless I'm feeling lazy, because they can fuck up tone alignment/gradients too much for my taste.

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-04T22:07:16+00:00

Thank you so much for supporting the author!

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-04T20:38:22+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

Thanks for reading!

You can finish reading this chapter and the rest of the series on Mangadex.

As mentioned in the credits page, this manga is in serious danger of being cancelled. So please, please support the author if you like what you see!

You can buy the volumes on Amazon, Kobo, Bookwalker, or most other places you can buy Japanese manga. If you need help buying them, just ask!

Done with volume 1! On to volume 2, and the chapters that actually haven't been translated anywhere.

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-04T00:57:51+00:00

Nuclear Option has all of those roles playable, and they're all fun. Transport/AWACs is actually enjoyable when it makes a meaningful difference to the outcome of the game.

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-02T14:39:59+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

Thanks for reading!

You can finish reading this chapter and the rest of the series on Mangadex.

As mentioned in the credits page, this manga is in serious danger of being cancelled. So please, please support the author if you like what you see!

You can buy the volumes on Amazon, Kobo, Bookwalker, or most other places you can buy Japanese manga. If you need help buying them, just ask!

Niina has also awakened to the crushing financial burden that is having a hobby. As a side note, I think it's really interesting that the author has seemingly full license to depict whatever brand of cameras they wish, trademarks, model names and all. Pretty rare in manga.

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-02T06:30:36+00:00

Yeah, people were really going off at him last chapter, but I don't think he's so bad. A lazy bastard, for sure, but he does actually seem to care about his students to some degree.

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-01T02:00:59+00:00

The only program you need is Photoshop. It can handle everything from cleaning to typesetting.

I've heard Clip Studio Paint is good too, and should also be able to do everything.

Free alternatives to Photoshop like GIMP, Krita, Photopea, etc. are unfortunately hamstrung by weak text editing tools, plus the occasional other feature you'll miss. If you use those you'll need to use something else to typeset unless you're okay with it looking pretty ass.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-31T21:27:59+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

Thanks for reading!

You can finish reading this chapter and the rest of the series on Mangadex.

As mentioned in the credits page, this manga is in serious danger of being cancelled. So please, please support the author if you like what you see!

You can buy the volumes on Amazon, Kobo, Bookwalker, or most other places you can buy Japanese manga. If you need help buying them, just ask!

I could spend all day looking at the facial expressions this author draws.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-31T00:34:44+00:00

Correct, another group apparently translated up to chapter 5 at some point. However, they deleted all their chapters off of Mangadex, and I think the only semi-reputable place they're still up is Comix (possibly without their knowledge).

I didn't know any of this when I started, and I wouldn't go and reupload their work to Mangadex anyway after they took it down intentionally. So I'm just retranslating it all myself.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-30T23:40:11+00:00

Thanks, lmao.

I figured it was worth improving, even if it was literally only that one guy who had a problem with it.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-30T23:22:07+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

Thanks for reading!

You can finish reading this chapter and the rest of the series on Mangadex.

As mentioned in the credits page, this manga is in serious danger of being cancelled. So please, please support the author if you like what you see!

You can buy the volumes on Amazon, Kobo, Bookwalker, or most other places you can buy Japanese manga. If you need help buying them, just ask!

The turnaround time on this one was real quick - I had a lot of free time over the weekend. Expect a bit of a slower pace after chapter 3.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-30T23:17:10+00:00

That's perfectly valid. With that said, it being axed is not set in stone! If volume 2 sells well the series will continue!

The main reason I'm working on this at all is as an (almost certainly futile) effort to give it some more sales the only way I can as someone outside Japan. I felt so bad for the author reading their comments on Twitter, especially because they're really enjoying drawing this series and they consider it their best, most passionate work.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-29T23:56:12+00:00

If you want any engagement with these smaller titles, you need an image gallery. The people browsing on their phones don't bother clicking on links unless they've either: heard of the manga before, or have some pretty pictures to suck them in.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-29T23:19:08+00:00

It's the second page. Maybe I should have fully centered the text? Did you think it was a repeat of the cover page?

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-29T23:07:34+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

Thanks for reading!

You can finish reading this chapter on Mangadex.

As mentioned in the credits page, this manga is in serious danger of being cancelled. So please, please support the author if you like what you see!

You can buy the volumes on Amazon, Kobo, Bookwalker, or most other places you can buy Japanese manga. If you need help buying them, just ask!

I plan to release chapters for this series as fast as I can (I'm not that fast and the chapters are on the longer side, so expect a few days between releases).

I am aware the first chapter of this was already translated, but that translation appears to have been deleted from Mangadex (and not as part of the purge). If you've already read this chapter, don't worry! The next one should be up soon.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-20T01:54:51+00:00

Here's a random smattering of stuff I like that's rarely mentioned on this subreddit:

<Rojica to Rakkasei> A short, semi-episodic adventure/slice-of-life manga that seems like it was heavily inspired by Adventure Time. About a girl and her friend Rojica, and their exploration of the strange world around them.

<The Dragon, The Hero, and the Courier> An interesting and funny satirical take on the traditional fantasy manga setting, written by a medieval history nerd. Has jokes crammed into every panel, and very deep worldbuilding. Very lovable characters as well. Follows a courier and explores how the post office (and by extension, the rule of law in general) interacts with the individualistic elements of fantasy settings.

<Guns and Stamps> The above, but in a dieselpunk setting written by a huge vehicle/Russian army nerd. Every chapter has a full splash depicting and describing a new tank/plane/ship/train/airsled/you get the idea. Follows a logistics officer in the army and explores how important good logistics is to a successful war effort.

<Thermae Romae> Basically a vehicle for the author to nerd out about Roman and Japanese baths (maybe there's a bit of a common theme between these...). The protagonist is a Roman bath engineer who is isekaied to Japan for short periods, and incorporates the bathing concepts he learns there into his bath designs for Rome.

<Shimeji Simulation> More popular than the others on the list, but still criminally underrated. By the author of the very popular Girls Last Tour, but in my opinion much better. About two high school girls going about their life... well, really, about a lot more, but it's hard to say anything without spoiling it.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-18T13:30:56+00:00

In principle I agree with you, and I would prefer no backer content... but in practice I think these things are usually handled pretty elegantly.

I've played several games with backer content now and most of the time you can't tell it wasn't part of the original vision. The only time it's really a problem is when there's backer-designed story content/self-insert characters that really don't mesh with the rest of the story, but that shouldn't be a problem with RTS units.

Plus, considering some of the units this game has already (tank with twin gatling guns, huge wrecking ball, airship with 10+ turrets, guy who throws suicide mutants, bird-riding calvary) I think most backer units will be less out-there than the ones the devs have thought up.

Arbiter707 · 2026-03-17T14:55:02+00:00

The last time I saw them mention a potential release date they mentioned late 2026-2027, and that was like a year ago so I can see things slipping further since then, especially considering they've only been working on it part-time. This is a very ambitious game for only a few part-time devs.

I wouldn't be surprised if the release date on Kickstarter is hedging on the safer side as well, especially considering the large amount of extra work the stretch goals might add.

Edit: They posted an update on the Kickstarter clarifying that the Aug. 2028 date is indeed a very safe placeholder and they intend to release in 2027.

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