Getter Robo Arc Complete

I have returned, and with me I bring the conclusion to Getter Robo Arc.

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 13
Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 14

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Part 1
Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Part 2

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Part 1
Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Part 2

Getter Robo Arc Complete (Torrent)

The final chapter of Getter Robo Arc was originally published in Super Robot Magazine Volume 14 (2003/09/19). If this were the original magazine publication, the story would end on page 354 of chapter 14. Instead, the Action Comics and Futabasha Getter Robo Saga printing have an additional 20 pages that Ishikawa added after the magazine was discontinued. But he would never get the chance to continue the series as he had planned. Ken Ishikawa passed away on 2006/11/15.

So ends the story of Getter's journey. From a manga that began in the 1970s to a life-long work stretching into the early 2000s. Each Getter series is its own story, but how they lead into each other is what makes them so compelling. It seemed that Getter Robo Arc was the beginning of the end for the Getter series in a lot of ways - but no one knows what could have been.

I just want to thank everyone that's helped me in my mission to get the Getter Robo series scanlated. OtherSideofSky, Damage, Tatari, C-K, donators, and many more. I've still yet to scan and edit the Saga version of Getter Robo Go, but as of now, the complete story of Getter Robo Saga is available in English. Enjoy the finale of Getter Robo.

In other scanlation news, my joint project with Hokuto no Gun and HappyScans has also been completed. Ken Ishikawa's Super Robot Retsuden is done!

Super Robot Retsuden

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 12

Welcome to the far future! Thanks to OtherSideofSky for translating this fine chapter.

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 12

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 11

The adventures of Getter Arc and Gettersaurus continue! Earth's situation is dire... What will the Getter team find beyond the mysterious zone!? Praise be to OtherSideofSky for his translating prowess!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 11

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 10

Racial tensions, double Getter action, political power struggles, Kamui's past and much, much more in this great chapter! Thanks to OtherSideofSky, and enjoy.

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 10

Getter Robo Arc Vol 2 Ch. 9 and Mars Vol 4 Ch. 2

Another double dose! Okay, truth is, I forgot to release Mars yesterday so you all probably already got it from our partners over at Hokuto no Gun and HappyScans! Anyway, these are both good chapters and the Arc chapter in particular is a great preview of what's to come. Enjoy!

Geter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 9
Mars Volume 4 Chapter 2

Mars Volume 4 Chapter 1 and Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 8

Another dose of your two favorite "humanity is evil" stories!
Thanks to OtherSideofSky, HappyScans! and Hokuto no Gun

Mars Volume 4 Chapter 1
Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 8

Getter Robo Arc Chapter 7

Here's the first chapter of Getter Robo Arc volume 2. This is quite a good chapter and the following chapters are even better as the story really starts taking off. Thanks to OtherSideofSky for his awesome translation!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 2 Chapter 7

Also, it seems I somehow forgot to do a full volume compilation of Getter Robo G, so I've added a download link for that. Thanks to the reader who brought this to my attention.

Getter Robo Saga - Getter Robo G

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Complete

As promised, here's the full compilation of Getter Robo Arc volume 1. It includes the Mazinger short story "Relic of Terror" as a bonus chapter. We'll continue on to volume 2 either this week or the next depending on how things go on my end. Thanks to OtherSideofSky for translating Arc volume 1 and thanks to C-K for translating Relic of Terror a few years back. Enjoy!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1
Mazinger Z: Relic of Terror

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 6

Here's the final chapter of Getter Robo Arc volume 1, I'll have the volume compilation out on Monday along with the extra chapter of Mazinger that's included with the volume. Enjoy!

 Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 6 

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 5

The insects continue their rampage at the foot of Mt. Asama - will the Getter team be able to stop them before they infest the entire area?

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 5

Many thanks to OtherSideofSky for his work on this series as usual. Originally, I said this was a two part story, but that's actually not the case. The next chapter is actually the conclusion of both this story and Getter Robo Arc volume 1. We'll move on to Getter Robo Arc volume 2 shortly afterwards. Oh, and here's something to note - part of this chapter was actually adapted in the New Getter Robo OVA (2004 - 2006). See if you can recognize what scene I'm talking about!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 4

Holes in the fabric of reality, answers to questions that lead to more questions, nostalgia with firearms and swarms of bugs all balled up into the first half of this two part story!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 4

Enjoy!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 3

Another week, another chapter of Getter Robo Arc!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 3

Now, I'd like to take a moment to show you something. As you remember, I said that our scanlation partner Wright of HappyScans! spent quite a bit of his money on funding future manga projects. Well, let's take a look at what volumes Wright has personally bought and shipped to my location for the purpose of scanning!

Yokoyama's Giant Robo volumes 1-2, Shin Mazinger Zero volumes 3-6, the 4 volume Maoh Dante remake, the full-color Dynamic Heroes manga and Super Robot Retsuden. If there's enough demand and support for it, we'll do a rescan and re-release of Shin Mazinger Zero volumes 1-2. Also, Super Robot Retsuden already has scans floating around, but we figured we would give it a higher quality release.

As you can see, Wright has donated a good amount of manga. We've got translators lined up for all of the projects, it's just a matter of time until they're begun and finished. If you appreciate projects like these, please consider donating a few dollars sometime so that we can continue to keep giving you great projects by Dynamic Pro and other old-school authors like Yokoyama, Ishinomori, Tezuka and Matsumoto.

Getter Robo Arc & Anthology

It's time for the second chapter of Getter Robo Arc! With the Getter Arc team assembled, our three heroes make their first sortie. Thanks to OtherSideofSky for translating this!

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 2

And now for a special release - Getter Robo Anthology chapter 2! Wow... It's been a long time. The project got stalled since the previous translator ran away and I was too busy trying to get other things completed to focus on this project. But, luckily for everyone, Chen Gong decided to translate this manga for us. Really, I can't thank him enough for doing this. Go over to his blog and give him your thanks for saving this long dead project! Don't forget to check out his other great projects, too.

Also, I've rescanned and re-edited chapter 1 of Anthology. There are two versions of each chapter - a normal quality and a "low-quality" version. The normal quality version is 300dpi (the same as Arc) but the pages are physically large so the scans reflect that and may be too large for some people to read comfortably. Therefore, the LQ version is at 200dpi and should be fine if the normal version is too large for your monitor resolution. Anyhow, enjoy!

Getter Robo Anthology Chapter 1
Getter Robo Anthology Chapter 1 LQ

Getter Robo Anthology Chapter 2
 Getter Robo Anthology Chapter 2 LQ

Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 1

This is it. The last Getter Robo series by Ken Ishikawa before his passing in 2006. The very last manga to continue the story of Getter and the Saotome labs started in the 1970s. I'll tell you now - this manga series ends on a cliffhanger. The magazine that it was published in, Super Robot Magazine, was discontinued midway through the series' run. Presumably, Ishikawa was going to continue the series, as the final page of the manga stated: "Getter Robo Arc Part 1: End". But sadly, that never came to be.

Presenting:
(Getter Robo Saga) Getter Robo Arc Volume 1 Chapter 1

I'd like to thank OtherSideofSky for translating this series and Getter Robo G. His work is top notch and his speed is just as good. And I'd like to thank everyone who donated to get this project going. Without you, this wouldn't have been possible. Thank you.

P.S. The reading order of Getter Robo Saga is as follows:
Getter Robo, Getter Robo G, Getter Robo Go, Shin Getter Robo, Getter Robo Arc

Getter Robo Saga - Getter Robo G (Complete)

And there you have it. The second entry in the Getter Robo Saga series, Getter Robo G, has finally been brought to completion. With this post, the only main Getter Robo series left untranslated is the final story of the saga - Getter Robo Arc. I'd like to thank OtherSideofSky for stepping up and translating this part of the series in his usual speedy manner.

Getter Robo G Chapter 5 Part 3
Getter Robo G Chapter 5 (complete chapter)

When I started on this journey in 2008, the only translated Getter Robo manga was the first volume of the first series. Many were familiar with the OVA/TV releases but had little to no knowledge of the manga that influenced a whole generation of creators and fans in Japan. I decided to get this great series translated, but due to the difficulty of finding willing translators, I had to scanlate Getter Robo in an out of order manner; The first series we released was Shin Getter Robo because it was the shortest, thus the easiest to find a translator for. Then I found translators to help me with Getter Robo Go because it was a relatively unknown part of the saga, yet probably the most pivotal point in the series. I wanted to get it out of the way because translators would come and go, and I never knew if I was going to be able to get another Getter series translated.

Fortunately, we've been able to do Getter Robo and Getter Robo G since then even though I still have to deal with importing and scanning the books myself as well as trying to reel in translators with promises of money. It's truly a miracle that Getter scanlations have even gotten this far. It's all thanks to the hard work of the various translators I've had the pleasure of working with over the years and the financial support I've gotten from donators. Not to mention my stubbornness, I guess.

Anyhow, enjoy. I've got no solid date for when I'll start Getter Robo Arc, but I'll probably get to scanning it after my finals are finished.

Getter Robo G Chapter 5 Part 2

The continuation of the massive final chapter! Not much to say without spoiling it, so let me tell you about how I went blind this week.

 So there I was, typing away in photoshop, when my eyes started acting up. The stinging sensation was fairly intense, so I stopped what I was doing and tried to tend to my eyes. As time passed, the pain intensified, and it was getting harder and harder to keep my eyes open.

Long agony short, I couldn't open my eyes for about two days and any amount of light caused severe pain. I went to an optician as soon as I could. Turns out, my contacts had some buildup on them due to their age, and had severely irritated my upper cornea in each eye. Luckily, the condition was temporary and I just needed to give my eyes some rest. Instead of doing that, I completed this chapter.

Enjoy.
Getter Robo G Chapter 5 Part 2

Getter Robo G Chapter 5 Part 1

This is the beginning of Getter Robo G's final chapter. I'm releasing this chapter in three separate parts because not only is it over 200 pages in length, but every page is crammed with text and there are two page spreads everywhere.

Not surprisingly, this "chapter" was originally published as multiple interconnected chapters - which explains the overall length. I apologize for not releasing it all at one time, but this single chapter is nearly as long as the four previous chapters combined  - it really does make up nearly half of the entire book.

Enjoy the beginning of the end
Getter Robo G - Last Chapter: Getter's Final Battle! Part 1

Getter Robo G - The Terrifying Bacteriological Bomb

We're just one chapter away from completion now. The next chapter after this one is the final - but its nearly 200 pages in length (that's an entire volume for most series)! Therefore, Getter Robo G Chapter 5 will be released in two parts. Many thanks to OtherSideofSky for his translation.

Getter Robo G Chapter 4

In other news, expect a Mars and Dokuro no Yakata release tomorrow!

Getter Robo G ch. 3, Mars ch. 2 and New Project: Dokuro

That's right, another new project! This time, it's Go Nagai's Dokuro - a collection of horror themed short-stories being translated by OtherSideofSky.

In addition, it's time for another chapter of Getter Robo G (also translated by OtherSideofSky). This time, it's a brand new story exclusive to Getter Robo Saga focusing on the origin of the Hyakki Empire. To top it off, we've got another chapter of Yokoyama's Mars. Translation by our friends at Hokuto no Gun. Many thanks to OtherSideofSky, Hokuto no Gun and HappyScans!

Dokuro Chapter 1- Red String
Getter Robo G Chapter 3
Mars Volume1 Chapter 2

Getter Robo G Chapter 2 and New Project Announcement

Presenting Getter Robo G Chapter 2.

In addition to this release, I would also like to officially announce that Dynamic Pro Scanlations will be teaming up with HappyScans! and Hokuto no Gun to scanlate Mars by the legendary Mitsuteru Yokoyama. Expect the first chapter of this series to be released sometime next week along with the third chapter of Getter Robo G.