Sunday, 24 May 2009

Volume 18 c174-175


Rookies v18 c174[L5RG]
Rookies v18 c175[L5RG]

And that concludes volume 18.

For those keeping track, we've released 121 chapters in 67(ish) weeks, an average of 1.8 chapters per week. When you consider that they were originally released in Jump at the rate of 1 a week that's not too bad. Is it?

ISBN '4088732294'

111 comments:

Romuald said...

Sure, that's great job.

This manga is amazing, to make the baseball that interesting is just incredible, your translation work is also really good:
This game was the most boring stuff for me before reading this comic.But now I think I even begin to undersand the rules. But to find the opportunity where I live to play baseball somedays... Not a chance.

you've got my congratulations and cheers from Leipzig.

Anonymous said...

YOU GUYS SUCK

Anonymous said...

I second that.

Anonymous said...

piss
ass
fart

Anonymous said...

Most scanlation groups don't even put out 18 volumes worth of content. I can't complain.

fartsmella said...

how is babby formed

V3gas said...

Yay, awesome. Another great job! And that release speed is not really bad at all, especially considering the quality of your releases!

Anonymous said...

not too bad at all, you guys are some of the fastest out there, and the quality and translation are all high standard, keep it up.

Anonymous said...

Great job guys.

I'm really loving this series. I was never a really sports manga fan until I started to read this series. After this, I've read Prince of Tenis, Slam Dunk, etc.

But this has a nice ground in some sort of realism...and gotta love the group of characters.

Keep up the great work and thanks again!

Anonymous said...

Kudos to the L5RG. Great quality scans, translations and speed. Can wait to finish the whole series. Keep up the good work!

KaNawogirusa said...

Thanks guys! You rock!

Anonymous said...

the quality of typesetting and translation are really good for me

thanks for your great work!

Kei said...

YAAAAAY:D

I've been dying to know what's happened to Wakana's finger (esp. because this is one of the scenes they used in the teaser of the movie!)

Keep up the great work!
L5RG is my poison.

Anonymous said...

Love your work guys !!! keep it up :D

Anonymous said...

You're download links don't work for me :(

Anonymous said...

no YOU are download links don't work for me

Anonymous said...

6 more volumes to go :) I am looking forward to it...thanks for your hard work you guys.

Anonymous said...

...Well, thanks for releasing chapters, just that they're getting released at all and it's great but, what's happened to your previous releasing speed? Just out of curiousity?

Assistant to the Secretary of the L5RG said...

there were a ton of chapters translated before
once we bridged the gap, it's only natural that the speed wasn't gonna keep up

Anonymous said...

Aha, ok, well thanks ^^ Just wonderin' that's all ;D Well, keep up the good work, and I'll just tell ya to hurry up for the sake of it :P. I WANTZ ROOKIES!

Unknown said...

Thanks for the explanation above! It happens a lot, I think. I'm not a fan of sports, but sports manga <333. Great quality and consistency.

People are disillusioned and strangely impatient because you gave us too much good stuff at once to start and the speed's evening out to a normal one [or more] chapter a week release.

Anonymous said...

Firefox can't find the server at pnxtr.b33r.net

any idea???

Codehs said...

thanks you... you guys rock

Paul said...

None of your download links are working =(

Anonymous said...

One of the best manga I've ever read. Thanks a alot for your time and effort.

Ebag said...

Can't wait for the next releases.

Anonymous said...

I really appreciate your work, i just want to verify that you guys haven't died on us. Don't feel rushed, but maybe you could leave a comment every once in a while just to show that the group still exists.

Anonymous said...

check the comment below the batch torrent links to see our status

Anonymous said...

its been 2 months, its only logical to ask...






Are you guys dead?

Anonymous said...

Look at the right sidebar.

Hey, are you guys still alive?
Yes.

Anonymous said...

please...(cough) (gasp) (cough)...please come back...(wheezing) (gasp)...need more rookies...

Thank you in advance...(bows)(leaves)

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much! You're doing a great job!

Anonymous said...

i dreamed that you guys are back in buisness such an dissapointnent now :( ^^

Ebag said...

Man, I wish ya'll would do another chapter. I'm jonesin'.

AleximusMaximus said...

Let's have a flashback

"Happy New Year.

Resolutions:

Finish Rookies.
Be a little more regular and frequent with releases.
Reveal shocking news!"

Oh! Memories of the old days :-P

Best regards to you all

barbapapa said...

like anyone ever keeps their new year's resolutions
it's an unwritten rule to break them

Anonymous said...

thanks for this great manga and your hard work!

Bernardo said...

Here's a thought: I'm very grateful that you transletd Rookies so far, but assuming we can't be anything but grateful even when you don't deliver is just plain rude. I've been part of scanlation groups and I'm well aware that some of them avoid taking on projects that already have another group working on them. That rule is specially true when talking about 'unknown' mangas, such as this one.

So it comes to this: if you're doing it, thanks a lot. If you're not, you might just as well being the exact opposite of a favor to all of us.

I might be wrong, but I was dying to say this for a long time.

barbapapa said...

But several other groups WERE doing this manga alongside us. I can't quite recall how much longer than us they lasted.

Bernardo said...

You can never know how many groups didn't start because you guys were already doing it.

All I'm saying is you should at least give us some honest info about how fast you can scanlate right now. I'm not even saying you should do it faster. Neither am I saying you should do it at all. But if you do, it would only seem logical that you try to ease everybody's anxiousness. You're doing a great job and all, but the blind expectation bothers me more then the actual chapters entertain me.

barbapapa said...

if only we knew ourselves

Anonymous said...

Hey guys,

It has been 3 months since your last release...do you guys have releases working in the pipeline or are you planning on dropping the project? Please let us know...thanks :)

someone2040 said...

Well I can tell you that Deadbeats dropped it due to falling behind. We did have releases and wanted to keep doing it, but there was less and less point with LFRG getting that far ahead.
So, hope you guys finish it off and wish you the best of luck. Just get a release or a post out there on your main page to let people know you're still alive once in a while :D

oranj said...

C'mon guys, finish it up!

Anonymous said...

is there gonna be a volume 19?
that is.. if your still alive hehe.

Anonymous said...

First of all thanks for all the chapters, if it weren't for you guys we wouldn't even get so far in the series. However i would really like an update, i'm not saying i want another chapter, i would be pleased with just an update. It's been months since we've read a release. Tell us your plans and don't leave everybody drifting around anxiously expecting for a release and wondering if you're still going to do this project or not.

brb said...

the update is, our translator is busy and who knows when that'll end
we're not rude and don't want to scare him off, so we'll let him decide when/if he returns

Anonymous said...

I appreciate all of your hard work, but atleast tell us if you're going to finish, don't just leave it hanging. A lot of other groups can finish it if you arn't. Rookies has become one of (if not my absolute) favorite mangas. It's fine and dandy if you take your time, I just want to know if you actually are planning to finish it or not...

ic4ru577@yahoo.com said...

Need help w/ tracker of the last 2 chapters of book 18. For some reason, I can't download it from the site.

V3gas said...

I took the liberty of hosting those 2 chapters. You meant chapter 174 and 175, right?

Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?kzlmnjw3zwt

ic4ru577@yahoo.com said...

Thanks a bunch

Anonymous said...

Thank you sooo much for your releases till now, and I really really hope you keep it.
You're doing great!!! ^_^

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the scanlations so far. However, can't anyone help with the rest of the chapters? Although not well-known, Rookies is one of the better baseball manga. I know that no one will pick up this project, but we do need to get going w/ this series, so help us please if you know any scanlation group out there who can help w/ the rest. Thanks a bunch.

Anonymous said...

I miss this series..... D:

Anonymous said...

Are you sure, you're still alive?

Anonymous said...

* takes out a stick and poke *
We may need to bring these guys to the morgue

Anonymous said...

first 16 months:
34 updates in 14 out of the 16 months.

last 5 months:
0 updates in the 5 months.

Anonymous said...

hehe, I'll give some offering too.
that much needs to be done, you know, gifts for the afterlife, because this group just seems to be dead =/

too bad.

Anonymous said...

Is there anywhere I could get raws? I might try my hand at translating

Anonymous said...

Mangafox has the raw for Volume 19. This is the link http://forums.mangafox.com/showthread.php?t=81006

Anonymous said...

Just wanted to say, thanks for scanlating so many volumes, but I can't access any of them. Both firefox and safari can't connect to the server pnxtr.b33r.net

Anonymous said...

Hi,

Are you guys releasing any more? Im looking forward to the next few...

Thanks,
rob

Jamie Macg said...

Hey guys, thanks for the great work, I also really like your translating style!

But I can't seem to download from chapter 141 on?

is there a problem ?

Anonymous said...

This is to the person that asked about the raws.
I've seen the entire series on mangahelpers, all the way to the ending chapter, all raws.
Obviously i couldn't read a thing.

Anonymous said...

Thank a lot man!!! now....
"REST IN PEACE"

Anonymous said...

I hope u guys r going to keep up till the last volume :)
i'm dying to know what happens next

Anonymous said...

Hope u guys come back to life :)

Vu Duy Khanh said...

Hello The Legendary Fifth Rookies Group

My name is Khanh. I'm a member of forum truongton.net. I read Rookies and feel really love this. I have learn something from Rookies such as: Friendly, dream and how to reach for a dream. And i think i should translate this manga to Vietnamese and share to my friends in Vietnam. I just do it for fun, without business. I hope you can give me permission to translate this manga. I respect yours work and I will write your group name as scaners and translator to everyone

Thank for reading! Hopefully you will reply me a soon

KhanhVuDuy from Vietnam

PS: this is my email : khanhvuduy@hotmail.com

Vu Duy Khanh said...

Hello The Legendary Fifth Rookies Group

My name is Khanh. I'm a member of forum truongton.net. I read Rookies and feel really love this. I have learn something from Rookies such as: Friendly, dream and how to reach for a dream. And i think i should translate this manga to Vietnamese and share to my friends in Vietnam. I just do it for fun, without business. I hope you can give me permission to translate this manga. I respect yours work and I will write your group name as translator and posting to everyone

Thank for reading! Hopefully you will reply me a soon

KhanhVuDuy from Vietnam

PS: this is my email : khanhvuduy@hotmail.com

Vu Duy Khanh said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Vu Duy Khanh said...

anyone know the group's email
I'll try to contact to them for permission to translate these chapter, but no effective

if you know, please send group's detail contact to my email : khanhvuduy@hotmail.com

Vu Duy Khanh said...

anyone?
hic

x said...

Sure, go for it. Anyway it's not as if we can stop you. Please do consider buying the books though, it's a small gesture but one that actually benefits the original creator.
peace out.

Unknown said...

Guys (and girls ofc), thank you so much for scanlating this piece of art.

I'm hooked on rookies thanks to your hard work.

Anonymous said...

I would love to buy the book/manga if it's available in my country ;-(

Unknown said...

any chance we are going to see anymore chapters?

Unknown said...

any chance we are going to see anymore chapters?

Anonymous said...

Was the release of chapter 176 done by The Legendary Fifth Rookies Group? Confirm / Deny?

Anonymous said...

Raws for Volume 19 to 24 are available at Mangahelpers. To the group please continue scanlating. It's been a long time. If not, please tell us so..

Anonymous said...

dont leave us.

Jetstorm said...

Please any answer to the coming back question! You guys used to rock!

Anonymous said...

The manga is amazing, i've only read the first 10 volumes though, but it's very interesting. I found this serie looking for 'rokudenashi blues' blues, and ended up enjoying this baseball serie not done by master Adachi ^_^
Thanks for your effort translating this, just a request: it would be possible to compile all chapters in volumes, please?

Unknown said...

If you all plan to uphold the statement made on May 24, 2009 you would have to produce 65(ish) chapters... if you were to release today

Since We all know that is rather impossible could you at least give us readers an realistic pick-up date...

I'm not getting any younger..

Anonymous said...

I just thought I'd check see if there was any news... :( unfortunately there are no other groups doing this series at the moment.

Any chance on you guys starting up again?

Arjarath said...

Need Moar Rookies D: Thanks, guys!

Anonymous said...

OMG, this is torture, Im being waiting for months. I really want to finish the manga but does make any sense read the rest of the chapters w/o subs. I'm wondering why you guys just stop. Im being surfing all over the internet trying to find the complete series subbed with no luck. Well hope you guys start translating someday again :-)

principality said...

are you guys alive come one volumes 19 to 23 are just sitting out there please tell me you wont let this manga die i am begging you to put out some new realeses

Anonymous said...

man please continue this manga...im begging you...

principality said...

i agree please continue the manga or announce that you are not doing it anymore

Anonymous said...

anyone that still expects this group to continue rookies is just retarded

Anonymous said...

That's what I think too. It's been over 11months and still no word from the group.
Fuck! 196 has been translated but by who?
If I fucking knew japanese, I'd start translating these by my own. I loved this manga and now maybe never, can finish it.

Hate the fact that there are tons of series translated simultaneously by multiple groups. And these poor ass mangas aren't even worth it.
While Rookies sits a year with out new releases by no one

tom selleck said...

hey does anyone know where to get this manga raw? perhaps i could do something about it, i know japanese a lil bit and i guess i should give it a try...

principality said...

try manga updates or just Google rookies manga scans u should definitely find some

tom selleck said...

i couldn't find it man...there's one link on mangahelper, but it's a dead link...

principality said...

i will look for some links

Anonymous said...

all the raws for the remaining volumes are on mangahelpers.com

tom selleck said...

the link is already dead man...please someone help me to get all the raws for the remaining volumes

AleximusMaximus said...

Still interested in the RAWS?

Wakana said...

Several of us are interested.
I´ve been trying to find those for a while now, and would really appreciate it if you could help.

Also, I hope Tom Selleck is serious about cotinuing the scanlation project.

This manga is too awesome to be forgotten.

Anonymous said...

Hi...I found raws for v19 thru v24. If you're still interested, I can send you the links. Let me know.

Wakana said...

Yep, it would be awesome if you could provide some links. ^^

My e-mail account, if it´s needed: fanficanimation@hotmail.com

Thanks in advance.

Anonymous said...

I am a big fan of the Rookies manga and really appreciate all the work you all put in to allowing us to read it. Hopefully you or someone else will continue to translate the manga as I would be extremely grateful for some new chapters. Thanks :D

Anonymous said...

I want to announce to everyone a thing! Deadbeat manga scans have taken up rookies with Illuminati-manga to finish of Rookies. The started two weeks ago and have now released 176-177. They've also got HQ scans since the ones on tha interwebz were shit. So... Just wanted to swing by and tell all rookies lovers! ... Makes it sound like I'm doing a commercial for those manga groups but. Yeah! Just so y'all know!

Anonymous said...

Anyone got the raws for 19-23?
Leave a email @
magikarp@gmail.com

Thanks

Unknown said...

I just wanted to say 'Thank you' for all your hard work, and for you generous spirit toward us, the fans, over the years. Whatever you are doing now, you guys always have my thanks!

Leehar said...

Thanks guys, appreciate your work on it, I'm only up to ch76, and read quite a bit faster that 1.8 per week so hopefully I'll catch up to you guys soon and follow it all the way to end ;)

Sports Fan!!! said...

Hi LFRG!! Thanks for the 10vol + releases of Rookies! For a while, I thought it would never be scanlated so I put it on my wish list to read. After being away from the manga scene for some time, I returned only to find that Rookies was revived by your hands. For that, I thank you. If you are still active, it would be awesome if you could do to "Diamond no Ace" what you did for Rookies, that would be awesome. I've always enjoyed reading sports manga, but it seems that there are few groups dedicated to scanlating them... probably due to the low popularity with other shoujo mangas. To end this comment, please consider reviving this group and show the same spirit it had in scanlating Rookies (and possible pick up Diamond no Ace). Thanks!

Echo said...

Thanks I appreciate you guys a lot :D

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for what you did so many years ago. I picked up this manga around 2018 after reading Rokudenashi Blues and it has become my run away all time favorite. Kawato is a hero to me. Wherever you guys are now I hope you are proud of the work you did.

Anonymous said...

Yo, hope you're not dead yet and thank you for this scans, that's all. Peace ✌️

Anonymous said...

Thank you for translating this gem all those years back, the quality of these scans are undeniably excellent and the hard work you guys put in all those volumes is appreciated.

KAWATO THE GOAT!