I'm sure there's going to be a lot of initial confusion over our release of this series so I wanted to say a few things just to clear the air. In March, I was wanting to fansub the Zeta Gundam movie trilogy. When I couldn't obtain a DVD source from Japanese P2P programs, I jokingly suggested in a chat room conversation that I should fansub the original Gundam series since I had the remastered DVDs. This was taken seriously by others in the chat room, and the joke ended up becoming a reality via the Nyoro~n Subs version of Mobile Suit Gundam. After two months of solid releasing, we completed ten episodes and were looking to be in good shape to complete the series by year's end. Well, at that time, things started changing for me. I was offered a job in a new city not far from where I lived at the time, and I ended up accepting it. So I had take time away from fansubbing to relocate and work. It turns out the job wasn't for me, so after about a month of working there, I turned in my resignation and moved back into my old apartment.

But there's another side to the stall in Gundam releases that not too many people know about. At the beginning of the summer, I was working with Menclave on Code Geass and some other new shows. Some within Menclave approached me about bringing the original Gundam series over there, promising to provide new karaoke and other work with me staying on as translator, editor and encoder. It looked like we had things all ready to go, but the process was held up in AFX typesetting. After waiting around for a while, I decided that I couldn't work on Geass and the other shows anymore because work was taking up too much time and I was getting bitched at for taking too long to edit. So I had to quit there too. After that, the Gundam project was pretty much abandoned. I worked on it a little when I had free time, but ultimately I decided, hey, it's summer... I'm going to have some fun until August rolls around and then when I get back into school, I'll start Gundam again. That brings us to now.

Deacon and I had talked about doing this project together years before I joked about subbing it in an AIM chat. Seriously, we've wanted to sub this show as far back as when the only available video source was shitty Hong Kong DVDs. We even tried to start subbing it once before and even got as far as having karaoke done for the theme songs and several episodes translated. It just never worked out. Well, now that the project has been in limbo for several months, I've decided to reboot everything, but this time I'm releasing it under the label it should've been released under all along. If you prefer to think of this as ZC stealing someone else's project, go ahead and think that. But I think of it as the Gundam project finally coming home, where it belongs. So here are the first ten episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam, script-wise pretty much the same as the old release, but with new theme song karaoke and improved encoding quality. At the moment we will only be releasing this in 233MB MKV files encoded with H.264. That may change in the future depending on when I get my primary computer repaired and obviously if fan demand is high enough, I'd probably do it.

Now, the plan is to have this project completed by Gundam's 30th Anniversary in April of 2009. I hope you enjoy this release, as in my opinion, it's the first release of this series to get the complete attention to detail it deserves at every aspect of the fansubbing stage. I hope that the work me and the rest of the team does on this series is at least on the same level that a professional release would be. Hopefully, we'll do even better than that.

It's good to be back,

BAMF

Top of the mornin' to all of ye land lovers! We've got another release for you all today! The third installment to the Char's Deleted Affair manga series has been released by us, with credit for translation going to AthrunZERO, editing work by myself (with translation cleanups), HEDGESMFG, Derringer and RedTail. Photoshop work goes to the lovely Zanku and myself, with quality checking coming from the usual suspects. Stay tuned to more releases right around the corner! You can snag the torrent for this on the forums!

I've updated the releases pages to showcase all of the releases this group has made, collectively that is. The individual releases will not be posted. I'm still tossing up the idea of adding torrents and a link to the gallery, but I'm not entirely sure about that yet. In other news, we're preparing to unveil the projects department websites in the near future, so stay tuned for that shortly.

We're finalizing the quality checks for Char's Deleted Affair Volume.03 right now, so you can expect that to be released before the month is over. After that, we'll shift our focus back to Crossbone and try like hell to get a lot of that done before the summer is over with. Stay tuned!

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Greetings everyone and welcome to the new and improved Zeonic|Scanlations website! Here you'll find a much simpler layout to navigate rather than having all of those confusing popups that never work half the time, you'll be presented with a simple user-friendly navigation system up at the top of the page.

ABOUT US will have general information about the group, when we were formed, what we hope to achieve and what not. It will also mention things about Deacon's emoing as well as the shutdowns up until the recent drama that has landed the group on 4chan's archive board.

STAFF will have the obligatory staff positions... who is with us as well as who has left us over the course of the years. We'll also try providing mini biographies about each of the individual staff members as they can be creat--provided, rather.

PROJECTS will highlight the five major projects we're working on at the moment, show you what portions have been released and what else is coming as well as a little background information on things. We'll also post any relavent release notes that need to be addressed with a particular aspect of the series here.

RELEASES will be a complete archive listing of things coming from Zeonic|Scanlations, meaning manga, media as well as fansubbed endeavours. Direct download access will not be available on this site. Members need to gain access to it via the forum.

FORUMS will just take you to our online community. We hope you enjoy this new website and look forward to any comments you may have.