New Doujinshi Collaboration: Futanari no Elf

YQII · 2023-09-16T01:02:13+00:00

We're excited to announce that FAKKU will publish Futanari no Elf by Kawakami Masaki! This is a long-running series consisting of shorter episodes, with the typical one featuring a title page and four additional pages of content. The story is set in a world where our reality suddenly linked up with a parallell world exclusively inhabited by futanari elves. It centers around the human girl Yuri, who visits this world as an exchange student, and meets up with a cast of elves of various shapes and sizes. While her interactions start out pure with her playfully squeezing squishy elf ears to get a rise out of them, over time other feelings and desires slowly awaken inside Yuri as well as the local elves... Something that should be noted about this series is that it is a slow burn. The author themselves have described the first 16 episodes to be on the level of a shonen manga when it comes to lewdness, but the smut gradually increases from there on. For something more concrete, the girls are always covered up in some kind of fabric up until Ep 16, and any action beyond that is left implied. Once we get into the 20s and 30s, that's when things get raunchier and a lot more hands on. We think it's important to be upfront about this so you know what to expect from this exceptionally cute series. That said, this level of build-up is extremely rare in the field of ero manga, but that only makes the eventual payoff that much sweeter! To give everyone a taste of what this series has to offer, we're making the first four episodes (20 pages) free to read for anyone logged in. Our current plan is to release this free preview at the beginning of October, with the first proper release (Episode 5-11) following shortly after at the end of the month. For anyone who's a fan of futanari and elves—and let's be real, who isn't?—we hope you look forward to this series as it starts dropping in about a month's time. And if you're on the fence, we highly recommend you at least check out the first four parts, as those will be available for anyone to read for free! November 2023 Update: We've now released the first "set" of the series, Episodes 1 - 16. The second set, 17-31, will be released in 2024, with the first two parts having a tentative release schedule of February and April. As mentioned above, these upcoming chapters are more graphic both in the sense that you get to see more action between the characters, but they also starts incorporating color elements. I say elements as typically, the main character might be fully colored while the background is left black and white, or it might just be a single panel that's in color. The righ-most image below gives you an idea of what to expect. May 2024 Update: Episode 22 was a fairly straight forward affair with 24 black and white pages and 8 in color. The next two releases, 23-26 & 27-31, more so mixes color elements with otherwise black and white pages. Typically the main character on the page will be in color, whereas the background characters and elements are not (see rightmost example below). Please note that Ep 31 is in pure black and white, and some only have a single partially colored page like described above (25-29). As such, it's very hard to accurately answer the question of "how much is in color," but a rough estimate for the next two sets is that Episodes 23-26 is about 50% color, while 27-31 sits at about 20%. Thankfully from there on (32-36 as of writing), the newer releases are in full color—with simpler shading for the backgrounds! Episodes also get increasingly longer at that point, these five episodes covering 90+ pages with the average chapter being around 18 pages long. The current plan is to release up until Episode 36 before the end of 2024, so look forward to more colorized futanari elf goodness in the second half of the year! October 2024 Update: Episode 36 + Mini Manga is now out, and with that, all currently available episodes are released. We hope to continue the series when the author releases their next compilation. Please note that while Episode 36 is a regular chapter, the Mini Manga section consists of 100 pages of 4-koma style strips that are purely visual and comedic in nature. An example of what to expect can be seen in the sample pages on the product page.

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YQII FAKKU Translator

6 months ago

jakub11402 wrote...

Im still hoping for physical release. Chapter 36 (I think) would be great as ending of the first volume

First off, given the tiny size of the individual releases, I think it's pretty safe to say we'd go for a book format rather than a box set for this series, if it gets a physical release in the future. We plan on catching up with the currently released content (36 + mini manga) by the end of this year, so 2025 is when we'd start considering a physical release at its earliest. Until then, the pipeline is full of other projects.

As for how it would be packaged, the first 36 episodes add up to over 300 pages, which isn't unheard of but still pretty big for a book. Ep 31 ends at a more reasonable book size (~210 pages), but whatever we do probably depends on where the series goes from here; if it wraps up and ends at Ep 40, there's little sense in making a "Volume 1" that spans 1-36 as an example.

jakub11402

6 months ago

YQII wrote...

jakub11402 wrote...

Im still hoping for physical release. Chapter 36 (I think) would be great as ending of the first volume

As for how it would be packaged, the first 36 episodes add up to over 300 pages, which isn't unheard of but still pretty big for a book.

Quick reminder that Nana & Kaoru books have over 600 pages :)

But anyways, thanks for an answer, I will wait for future news then.

coolman12345

5 months ago

"As for how it would be packaged, the first 36 episodes add up to over 300 pages, which isn't unheard of but still pretty big for a book. Ep 31 ends at a more reasonable book size (~210 pages), but whatever we do probably depends on where the series goes from here; if it wraps up and ends at Ep 40, there's little sense in making a "Volume 1" that spans 1-36 as an example."

What's funny is that he has joked on stream and on twitter that he wants to keep this going until he is 100 years old so the party will keep going for at least another 70 years!!!

ReggieTheReckless

5 months ago

Eh, it was ok

Makeiks

5 months ago

coolman12345 wrote...

That would be funny but I think after like 2-5 years he will get tired.

coolman12345

1 month ago

For chapter 36, the coloring looks completely off in the preview compared to the JP tank release.

jakub11402

4 weeks ago

coolman12345 wrote...

For chapter 36, the coloring looks completely off in the preview compared to the JP tank release.

Huh? There was tank released in Japan? Or You mean digital vol. 2?

YQII FAKKU Translator

4 weeks ago

coolman12345 wrote...

For chapter 36, the coloring looks completely off in the preview compared to the JP tank release.

We're looking into it ahead of the release. Update: The chapter has been renecoded with the correct settings.

jakub11402

1 week ago

What do You mean by "all currently available episodes are released" when there is already up to 39 chapters finished? You guys have to wait for WHOLE tankoboun to be finished before You can translate each chapter seperately anyways? That seems kinda stupid, unless the chapters are not finalized yet and author still works on them for example with coloring, I dunno.

YQII FAKKU Translator

6 days ago

Yes, we wait so we can get the finalized versions and to best know how to split up the chapters for our releases.

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