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Hello! I hope everyone is doing well this holiday season! I have been incredibly busy and haven’t been able to really work on the site recently. Hopefully I’ll have more time after the holidays. In the meantime, it came to my attention that there are issues sharing the World Stars scanlations links on places like twitter, because of the ☆ character breaking the URL. I’ll be trying to fix this issue, but it’ll take a bit, considering there are 368 chapters. I’ll do what I can, as I can. Thank you in advance for your patience. Happy Holidays, and I hope everyone has a lovely new year!
 

Current URL fix progress: 124/368 (as of Jan 12)

Hello, I hope everyone is hanging in there during this crazy year! I just wanted to post that I finally fixed up basic Character List Page! The list links to pages that include their bio, tags, and a link to their articles on the Kitawiki, and it includes the Nation, Micronation, and Ancient/Former Nation characters that have appeared in the series, with the exception of one time cameos and characters that have had almost no development, etc. I will in time be adding lists for State and Province Characters, Historical Characters, and probably another page to cover the small cameos and mentions that occur.

Please let me know if you spot any errors or incorrect links within the pages and I’ll try to correct them ASAP! Thank you for visiting!

I hope everyone has a good holiday season! I don’t have a lot at the moments, but I thought I’d list the blog posts that spaghettifelice helped complete translations for recently. Many thanks to her for translating! Some of these are just text posts, but it’s nice to get these entries completed just the same!
　

• 2008/08/28 – MP3 Player
• 2009/07/20 – It’s a goat. This is a goat.
• 2009/07/27 – The background is temporary
• 2009/08/07 – Let’s listen to National Anthems
• 2009/08/13 – Miss Taiwan
• 2009/12/25 – Turkey and Greece
• 2010/01/08 – Apologize to Ukyo-san!!
• 2010/09/05 – Editors and meetings
• 2010/09/16 – Mini game
• 2010/09/17 – Ren’py
• 2010/09/20 – I went to the sea quite a while ago
• 2010/09/21 – Cleaning Prussia mac version

Sorry for the lack of updates. This last part of the year has been a little overwhelming, so I haven’t been updating. I’m hoping to return after the holidays to start catching up the blog mirror and working on other little things. Thank you for stopping by.

As stated, mirrored a few more of the Kitayume reposts:

• Engy the Pest
• Happy Birthday!
• If it’s Japan, He Can Make it – High Efficiency Binoculars to See Inside Brains
• To Your Heart’s Content, Russia!
• You be Italy, and I’ll be Germany
• Mr. Sve and the Dog

There’s still 46 or so of these for me to go through just to get caught up with the blog mirror. I’ll do my best!

Haven’t had time to do a whole lot, but I recently got through mirroring a few more of the Kitayume strips that were reposted to Bamboo Thicket. These strips are:

• Britannia Angel
• Poland and Lithuania – While You Were Gone
• We Love England
• The World of War and the Fool of Owari
• China and Shinatty-chan
• Cleaning Out The Storage
• Ghost Culture of England and Japan

There’s still a LOT more to go through. I’ll continue to add more as I can.

Sorry for the lack of updates! After the scramble to back up as much as possible I needed a break. Also I have been assisting with typesetting content for Kitayumeverse, so if you are interested in seeing Himaruya’s non-Hetalia works, please check it out!
 

I managed to back up all the major Hetalia works from the geocities site. However, I still have a good number of reposts of that content to the Bamboo Thicket blog to go through. Currently I am working on reformatting the source info on the pages that are currently complete, because of the geocities site going down causing deadlinks and Himaruya’s circle requesting link backs to go to Bamboo Thicket. I will still also be linking to some web archive snapshots of Kitayume, since some of the pages have had minor changes or were combined with other strips when they were uploaded to Bamboo Thicket. I’ll work on this as I can and then return to blog mirroring.
 

Thank you for your patience and support!!

Just posting quick to mention that I just completed the Japanese backups and general QC for the Unlisted and Lost Content section! I was prioritizing these as they’re rarer materials and are the most likely to be lost once geocities goes down. It was difficult to cache and not all the original material had caches available, but thankfully I was able to find all the original Japanese for them.
　

The Main Storyline has also been backed up, but I am also linking those chapters to the related posts on Bamboo Thicket as Himaruya’s team is adding them there. I will continue to do this with future content as it is available.

It was announced today that geocities will be closing in Japan. The end of service will be in March 2019. This means that Himaruya’s site Kitayume will be losing its home. Currently we are unsure what plans, if any, Himaruya has on relocating his site. We will be working to archive the original Japanese versions of the Kitayume content here, and on Kitayumeverse.net. I’m unsure how long it’ll take to get through everything, but we should be able to back everything up before geocities goes down for good. You can visit the Main Storyline page to see what how things will look with both English and Japanese versions of the pages. I will try to post more updates as I work through this archival work.

Just to give notice of what I’ve worked on and such…

First of all, I finished getting the last seven chapters of World Stars up on the site. Sorry it took so long. But currently World Stars is completed until Himaruya returns from his hiatus.

I have also been transferring the other Holiday Strips and Events over when I’ve had bits of free time. There was a lot of material here, but I think I can say I’m somewhat close to finishing. I’m just over halfway through adding the 2011 Christmas event, and after that I just have the 2011 Halloween event for that section. The 2011 Christmas one is giving me some trouble though, so it’s going slower than I had hoped.

After that I may try to get up the translation for the Prussia Cleaning Game, since I think someone was asking for that…

As a side note, my work will probably be extra slow for a bit, as I have been having a health issue and it’s really killing my stamina. Still trying to get it sorted out, but hopefully it won’t slow me down for long.

As always, thank you for your patience!

Comics that were originally posted on the Bamboo Thicket blog now have their own section! You can see them here: Blog Comics. I may add to this later, but I’m still working on copying content over in general.
　

Also, I don’t think I mentioned it previously on here, but I’ve been adding translations for The Hetalian Horror Show visual novel as well, as the Hetascanlations translators get through them. Please be sure to check that out as well!

I wanted to give a more formal progress update. To recap, the PHP our server runs no longer recognizes a specific code I was using for the old content pages I hadn’t yet transferred to WordPress. I’m currently trying to move content over as-is so that it will still be accessible.
　

These are the “completed” sections that I have transferred over.
　

• Nonlinear
• Memo and Old Blog Caches
• Unlisted and Lost Content

Warning: There are still some errors within these sections, most noticeable are areas where certain punctuation was processed incorrectly and shows as Chinese text. Also, the 1st Web Profiles (example) where the table coding doesn’t function correctly with WordPress. These will be fixed at a later time.
　

At this point, the sections that still need to be transferred are Blog Comics, Events, Extra Materials, and the Prussia Cleaning Game. Also, the plugin I was using for the Character Page malfunctioned, so I will need to rework that with something different.
　

I completely underestimated just how much content I need to transfer over, and I am finding it overwhelming, so I’m probably going to work at it a bit slower, because there are other projects and priorities that I need to work on. Again, I’ll try to post updates as I get through things. I apologize for the delay. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Our PHP was recently updated and it goofed up all my pages that were on the old layout, which I have not completed transferring over to wordpress. I’ve tried fixing it, but I think the coding is obsolete, so those pages are not working correctly at this time.

I’m going to try and just copy things over to wordpress as soon as I can, but there’s a lot to go through, so it may be a while before everything is up. ALSO, I’m just copypasting the old code, so the formatting on those pages will look wonky until I can go over them properly. In the meantime, if you’re browsing any of the translations and come across a broken image (excluding the “Memo and Old Blog Cache” pages), please give me a heads up. I’m trying to make sure I get everything correct, but I might miss something in my rush.

Also! There’s probably gonna be some weird text errors here and there with Chinese characters mixed in. This is due to a previous PHP update that for some reason had problems with certain apostrophes. I will fix them later.

I’ll update again on my progress as I get through things.

EDIT: Nonlinear strips have been copied over, not including the blog strips, which will be moved to their own section. That’s all I have time to do tonight.

Recent additions!

Completed blog translations! Many thanks to spaghettifelice for these!

A few things I added recently:

Blog entries that have been completely translated:

Been busy of course. I was doing a bit of behind-the-scenes work that won’t really be noticeable, but here’s a few things I’ve added recently:

That’s all for now. I have to focus on some art for a convention this weekend. I’ll be back next month!

Bouncing around between various things. Here’s what’s been transferred over:

That’s all for now!

I went ahead and transferred the Comic Diary pages to WordPress! There are 11 of these pages in total. Again, this is older material, but I hope you enjoy it. A note though, these pages still have some untranslated sections. I hope to fill them in someday.

Also, the following Nonlinear strips were transferred:

Further updates may be slow for a bit as I have an event coming up in early May that I need to focus on.

Managed to get through these pretty quick, so World Stars Chapter 356 through Chapter 361 have been added! That’s all I can work on for today.