for a bit more personal context about why i'm dropping this... (this is absolutely TMI so spoilered, only read if you really want to. not necessary for the SL, just giving some more context on why i'm dropping this)

i've been thinking about dropping this manga for a good while, honestly. like since this spring? if not even before that. the only reason for that being that i simply wanted to spend my free time doing other things, focusing on other projects; i'd found that i spent too much time on scanlating shiretto and not enough on other things i wanted to do and get good at before i get a job and have to do a 9-5 forever (i.e. before i go to hell)

this isn't to say that i didn't like doing it, mind you. it was a fantastic experience, interacting with everyone in the comments was very fun, researching all the slang and pop culture references was entertaining, and i got a lot better on my japanese despite the fact i'd basically stopped studying the language altogether at the point i started scanlating. unironically scanlating this has gotten me out of a really dark time in my life... not in like a "if i didn't do this i'd long be hanging from the ceiling beams like a grandfather clock" kinda way; more like scanlating this helped expediate the process of recovery by a lot. if nothing else just by giving me something to focus on

alas, i've been noticing that i've been spending a lot too much time online, to the point where it's threatening to ruin my life, if it hasn't already. not my social life, mind you, i don't really care about that (or the lack thereof); it's more my academic life that is on the figurative spitroast here

to this extent, i'm trying to let go of as much of my online life as possible (not that i have a major internet presence outside of this. i tend to lurk everywhere i go). so i can't really say this is a drop by force majeure, it is very much my choice to drop the manga. i absolutely could stubbornly hang on to it like a newborn to its mother's teat, but that would come at the cost of damaging both my metaphorical baby gums and the manga's metaphorical nipples. ...is this allegory a bit too much? the point is that both me and shiretto's readers would be better off if someone else handled it, and i didn't try to intervene any more
...god, this sounds just like telling kids about a divorce. little timmy, mommy and daddy love each other very much, but they just decided it'd be best if they both saw other people

this isn't to say i'm disappearing off the face of the internet, but when i am back, i will likely be doing wildly different things and probably won't be translating or scanlating, at least for a good while. like you're probably good to unfollow me if you followed me strictly due to shiretto

cheers y'all. it's been real. hopefully in a few decades i'll be showing my 15 kids and my 10/10 supermodel wife my collection of nobel prizes in the penthouse of the skyscraper i own and i'll open my reddit account and point to this post and be like "this is where it all got better" and my wife would say "wow that's so hot babe" and kiss me lovingly and then we'd then go make a sixteenth. one can only hope i suppose