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== Toradora! Spin-Offs ==
I was looking into the spin-offs for Toradora and found you were the last to work on the second one. Do you have any plans to do more with it? I really love the series, so thanks for what you've done on it so far. --[[User:Fallton13|Fallton13]] ([[User talk:Fallton13|talk]])
:It's in my backlog, but I don't see myself working on it again anytime soon.  My currently active projects are the Golden Time light novels and their scanlations and the Evergreen manga scanlation.  When you consider that I'm an guy in his 50s with a job, house and wife, it's a miracle I'm able to do what I '''am''' doing.  FWIW, my full backlog includes Toradora Spinoff 1-3, Watashi-tachi no Tamura-kun 1-2 and even Nareru SE 1-7.  But it would take a miracle for me to get fast enough in translation to tackle all that, and to get the time would require me to retire (not for another ten years at least), or to be suddenly unemployed (not something I want at all). --[[User:Rpapo|Rpapo]] ([[User talk:Rpapo#top|talk]]) 04:57, 8 November 2012 (CST)

LOL. I understand completely. Having only a couple of hours to yourself each day, if that even, is quite rough. I'm only in my mid-30's with a job, house, wife, teenage kid, 2 cats and 2 dogs and live-in parents, so I can comprehend. It's a bit disappointing, and I'm not one of the "beggers" so I'll just say thank you very much for your contributions. And I'll even throw in a BIG thank you for your contributions to the Evergreen manga. I've really enjoyed it so far and look forward to more. The Golden Time manga on the other hand has thus far disappointed me (no fault of yours of course), but that always happens when I read a manga AFTER the novel. LOL. --[[User:Fallton13|Fallton13]] ([[User talk:Fallton13|talk]])
:I never held out very high hopes for the Golden Time manga myself, after seeing what they did with Toradora and Watashi-tachi no Tamura-kun.  In both cases, they were manga where they put a competent (but not inspired) artist to work adapting the real work to another form.  Such derivitives rarely measure up to the original, and were done entirely for the sake of reaching out to more people (and raking in more money along the way).  That said, though, the manga is drawing people to the light novel, and has shed some light on certain aspects of the story: things I missed or misunderstood while translating the novel. --[[User:Rpapo|Rpapo]] ([[User talk:Rpapo#top|talk]]) 04:57, 9 November 2012 (CST)