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Cool. Thanks for the welcome and answering my questions ;]. I'll try to stop by Waba this weekend.

Cool, glad to see there's a GA thread. I only skimmed the last few pages, but it seems everyone meets up @ waba on saturdays? any other details? Do people bring their own sticks? Anyways, the name is Ken (seipherzero psn id). Location: Stone Mountain/ Duluth area How far your willing to drive to meet up or if you don't have a car: 45min Who you play: Hakumen Skill Level: Moderate. I usually get my ass handed to me by my neighbor, but I just consider him to be all-around good at games. I just switched to stick a little while ago. Still getting used to it.

No, the happy trigger drama cd are all skits. I'm not fluent in Japanese, but here's a synopsis of each to the best I understand them. 乙女の秘密の内緒の温泉 (Maiden's Secret Private Hot Springs) There's a trip to the Kaka hot springs with Tao, Litchi, Noel, and Rachel where they all get drunk and start talking about cherries, bananas, and Litchi's panda. ジンパパと兄型ロボ (Jin-papa and Anigatarobo, 3 parts) This is a 3-part story where Jin creates "Anigata-robo", Ragna-tan. He eventually bonds with it, only for it to be destroyed by Ragna when it tries to protect Jin. ノエルのドキドキ通販生活 (Noel's "Doki-Doki" Mailorder Life) Short story about a kind of "shut-in" Noel who stays at home and orders everything via mail. Ragna is a pizza-delivery guy in this one. Jin is "Yojigen?" Pot (I think a cooking pot) salesman. ラグナ太郎物語 (Legend of Ragnataro) Another one is a parody of the japanese "Momotaro" story where Ragna=Ragnataro, Tao=dog, Bang=monkey, Rachel=pheasant (rabbit). Noel plays "Grandpa" Noel and one of the oni, Litchi plays "Grandma" Litchi and the other oni. バイトだよ! ラグナくん (Part-time Job! Ragna-kun) Ragna loses some mahjong matches with Rachel. The loser is required to do whatever the winner says. Rachel puts a "Nyan" curse on Ragna, where Ragna starts saying "Nyan" after everything he says. Rachel commands Ragna to get a part-time job to buy some tasty tea. These are all really funny, and are great to listen to ;].

I've been setting my upload bandwidth to unlimited while I'm asleep. I have to limit it in the day though (or else browsing becomes unbearably slow).

They should be located in the "Illustrations" folder. If your torrent client allows you to select files individually, just do so. You can crop em in an image editor. Image size should'nt be a problem as they're all A4-cropped pages in 300dpi. More than enough for web-view. If you plan on reprinting them..that's a different matter ;p.

Alright, hope this does it. I'll leave the torrent up for now. Probably gonna limit the U/L speed though. Choose your poison: MediaFire Megaupload Edit: Forgot to add pages 18-24 in the torrent. Here's a zip file with the missing pages. MediaFire: BlazBlue Material Collection pages 18-24 MegaUpload: BlazBlue Material Collection pages 18-24

Pausing the seeding for a few minutes. Uploading a 31.8mb zip file with everything. If these are adequate to everyone, I can just kill the torrent. My internetz is so sloooow! lol

I'll try running a batch file in photoshop. That should do the trick.

Yea...shit's huge. If hi-res isn't that important to you, I could try lowering the image size. That requires resizing 150ish pages though. If I get some free time this weekend, I'll try to do it. I already spent the whole week getting this up :P. Need a little break.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/3102506 There's the torrent file. Could someone chime in and tell me if it works? This is my first time uploading a torrent. I made separate folders in the case you only want certain parts. I recommend you buy the book if you ever have the chance. These scans don't do it justice! ;]. Please keep seeds up. I've organized like this: 0_Covers (Dust cover, Main Cover, Extra info cover) 1_Illustration (Illustrations from gallery mode, other bb products, etc) 2_Ragna (Character art, design, and concept) 3_Jin 4_Noel 5_Tager 6_Taokaka 7_Rachel 8_Arakune 9_Litchi 10_Carl 11_Bang 12_Hakumen 13_V-13 14_Other Character (Tsubaki, Makoto, Linfa, Kokonoe, Hazama, Jubei, rest of support cast, Character sketches, rough sketches, etc) 15_Variety (おしえて！ライチ先生 / Tell me! Dr. Litchi, Staff-drawn sketches, a sweet Litchi section, and 4koma) ***Everything should be in page order (didn't check)

They're 300dpi TIF images cropped @ A4 paper size. I might end up reducing the image size and throwing it into a single PDF file. I'll play around with it when I get home.

Each file is about 25.7mb uncompressed. So maybe about 3.5GB uncompressed? I think I'll zip/ rar the files by sections. If anyone has any better suggestions, please let me know. It will be a pain to upload and download if the file size ends up being that big. Everything is scanned. I just need to piece together the cover and dust jacket. I'll have to upload them after work. Gonna KO for the night ;X

Here's just a teaser of some of the character portraits that the Material Collection contains. As I'm typing this message, I'm 138/ 144 pages not including the covers. After I finish scanning, I'm gonna take a shower and get the files ready to be uploaded. I'll try to upload them tonight, but if not, it will have to wait until I get home from work tomorrow.

50/144 pages scanned. Still have to do the covers and rotate all the odd numbered pages. Everything is being scanned at 300dpi and saved as a TIF file. Images are cropped @ A4 papersize (scanner bed isn't big enough). I haven't noticed anything significant being cut off from the cropping other than half of Tager's fingers on his main page. I don't have anything to take care of after work tomorrow, so I should be able to finish scanning at least.

I got all the pages separated without damaging them. One page has a few scratches from the hobby knife (oops), but I can clean it up in photoshop. I'll start scanning when I get home from work today. The drama cd is a blast to listen to. I absolutely love the seiyuu for Blazblue, and this drama cd is certainly a great treat. It's really funny. One skit has Ragna as Ragnataro (Momotaro) and the crew reenacting the Momotaro story. It's really good stuff! I can never get enough of Jin's maniacal laugh, lol. Anyways, I'll keep you all updated. I'll probably be going with 300dpi PNGs then?

Well, about to start cutting the binding/ figuring out the best way to separate the pages. I guess a PDF file would suffice? or do you guys have any other preferred file format? Might take a few days to get everything scanned and uploaded... but it'sa comin'. Might get around to scanning the booklets for some of the other goodies I got...

Do we still need scans up of this? I just got the two that I purchased. If it's already posted up on the 'net, I'll avoid putting my 2nd Material Collection under the knife ;p. Otherwise, scanner All Green!

Hakumen main with Ragna sub. I just bought a new tv (my roomate moved out a few months ago taking the TV with him), so I'm gonna have to practice hardcore to make up for the long hiatus ;p PSN- seipherzero