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Hello all!

It's me, Kid Named Bird from Team Kid Named Bird. For clarification, I'm actually named after the team, not the other way around. I'm the lead translator and dialogue letterer for Beyblade X, or at least I was. I am heartbroken to announce our indefinite hiatus from the BeyX manga; if we do get back to it, we'd finish off all the year one content (up to the likely incoming subtitle/branding change) and all of the extras that go with it. This would leave us with a finite amount of work for us to do and a nice archival version of the beginnings of X.

To explain why we're ending our release, I'd like to say it's not because we don't want to. We'd love to continue on this project because we all really adore this manga. It's hard not to grow fond of something you've poured so much time into. I never really even planned on forming the team to translate the manga until the first chapter was about to come out. I had translated the prologue chapter as a fun side-project — I learned how to letter and translate because of it! So once some of my veteran scanlator friends and some brave newbies hopped on the project with me, I felt like we could actually take a bite out of this massive undertaking. A 36-72 page manga every month for a team of mostly employed/student volunteers is insane, especially when you consider the amount of redraws we had to do on this specific work. There were so many text overlays we had to draw over or speedlines (blech!!) we had to clean up, and usually tens of pages of them. Sometimes we had to do the work of a weekly manga series translation to get our stuff out depending on the amount of pages we did. After a while, that took a toll on our team. We can only do so many 50 pagers in a row before it completely consumes all of our free time outside of our full time work or education. I knew that as soon as we got behind by one chapter, we'd not be able to catch back up. It would just cause us too much grief and stress. I didn't want to do that to my team of unpaid volunteers, so I made the choice to throw in the towel. We were doing pretty professional work for free, and we got burnt out. We all had entire lives outside of BeyX, and I wanted my team to live them. It wasn't a decision I made lightly, or without reason. The official release is coming out soon, and if you don't mind the dub names, the previews looked pretty good! They seem to be Singapore/South East Asian exclusive for now, but I'm sure someone will snag the scans for them. Also, the anime, for the first time in Bey history, is almost exactly the same plot-wise! Previous series manga and anime have diverged wisely, but as the manga and anime have an overlapping writing staff this time, the stories hit almost all the same beats. If anything, I think the anime takes the manga's story and gives it far more breathing room and better pacing. The extra character-focus episodes have done wonders to help develop the cast further and make Bird's journey of perseverance all the more compelling. You will still get to experience the story of X in different ways, but maybe without us. If we had the time, energy, and ability to sustain our bodies, we'd still be working on this manga, I promise you that. The kind words we have gotten from our readers have meant the world to me (I tear up at them sometimes!). I hope that one day, we can return to finish off the first year of BeyX content. If we don't, then oops! Every member of our team has other projects we work on, so you can find us there. I can't tell you what those projects are for our privacy and safety, but we do them! For now, this is Team Kid Named Bird spinning out.

3! 2! 1! Let it rip with us next time, whenever that may be! Thank you so much for supporting us!

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 10 (OUT NOW)

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DESTINY REWINDER'S INTERACTIVE COMICS ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH! Courtesy of our friends at Pyroxene Scans. Kid Named Bird also helped with typesetting, as well as whynowhy/Armes Navy (#ARROWWIZARDBUDDYGANG) as a playtester.

Chapter 3 in particular is the much discussed Beyblade and Frieren crossover. Yes, it's finally here!

Check out the Pyroxene blog for more info

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Hello, hope this is okay to ask! Will you guys ever sub the extra mini chapter that came out to promote the special Bey crafted by Bird?

Eventually! We hope to do the other extras in the volumes as well, like the bios, but it's just a matter of finding the time and resources.

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In chapter 9 Multi says "Just one person on the team, Pendragon" but was that supposed to imply that that person was an exception to Shiguru's undefeated record or an exception to her perception of weak bladers?

It's referring to Shiguru, we have gone in and updated the page on mangadex to reword it

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 9 (OUT NOW)

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Duel Masters Win episode 1-5 English subbed (not clickbait)

come get you card gamers juice over here

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HEY

PLZ DO BEYBLADE X CHAPTER 9

We are working on it. Translation and redrawing takes time. We thank everyone for their patience.

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Thank you for the new chapter, btw the credits page at the end got crunched up

Thanks for the heads up! This has been fixed :)

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 8 (OUT NOW)

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Manga SFX typesetting tutorial, but like, the bases. From me to you :) Pulled it straight from DA 2007 I feel If ya wanna see more of my SFXes, you can find Beyblade X chapters at @kidnamedbird

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 7 (OUT NOW)

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 6 (OUT NOW)

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 5 (OUT NOW)

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 4 (OUT NOW)

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We also have some patch updates to previous chapters. Volume 1 of the manga just came out and added eight new color pages to chapter 1, which are now in our release as well if you feel like rereading. We have also changed "Ex" to "Ekusu" in previous chapters as according to the official anime site, that is the official romanization.

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incoming updates :)

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[TEAM KID NAMED BIRD] Beyblade X Chapter 3 (OUT NOW)

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We have also opened our tumblr ask box in case anyone has any questions about our releases. Enjoy the chapter!