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Saint Young Men

Title: Saint Young Men
Original Title: 聖おにいさん (Saint Oniisan)
Author: Nakamura Hikaru
Publisher: Morning KC
Category: Seinen
Genre: Slice of Life, Humor
Status in Japan: 7 volumes, ongoing
Scanlation Status: Abandoned
More Info: Baka Updates
Read Online: MangaDex

What if Jesus and Buddha were living on Earth in modern times? What if they shared an apartment in Japan? Saint Young Men is a humorous manga about the daily lives of Jesus and Buddha, with each chapter focusing on some element of modern life, such as Disneyland, rush hour on the train, Christmas, the public pool, carnivals, and more.

Volume 1 (10/31/12)

Comments

53 responses to “Saint Young Men”

  1. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    Thanks for the releases you did for ths.

    Reply
    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      You’re welcome. Hopefully there’ll be another one in a month or so. :)

      Reply
  2. gatobus Avatar
    gatobus

    I’ll take a look, seems interesting. Thanks.

    Reply
    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Enjoy! :)

      Reply
  3. Shabby Avatar
    Shabby

    Somebody recommended this title, so I downloaded all the chapters. :3

    Reply
    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Hope you enjoy it. :)

      Reply
  4. Click Avatar
    Click

    Thank you for the scanlations!

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    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  5. Ralphy Avatar
    Ralphy

    I absolutely adore this series and the translations have been spot on. I hope wholeheartedly hope more scanlations will be released in the future, even Jesus knows this series deserves it XD

    Reply
    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Glad you’re enjoying it. I have the next chapter partially done and hope to get it posted before the end of the year.

      Reply
  6. taylynne Avatar
    taylynne

    I have the manga but I’m not fluent, so I enjoy the translations. I like the manga a lot it is pretty funny, so thanks for the hard work. I look forward to any more that you upload! :)

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    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      I’m glad you’re enjoying it. :) I have ch. 7 partially done and hope to get it out before the end of the year.

      Reply
  7. LieIncubus Avatar
    LieIncubus

    I need more SYM, please! щ (ﾟ Д ﾟ щ)

    Hikaru Nakamura is a genius, I hooked up with SYM and now I read Arakawa Under the Bridge … His works are very good.

    Thank you for the scanlations! ^ ^

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    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Glad you enjoyed it. :) I had hoped to have the next chapter our before Christmas, and then before the end of the year, but I was busier with the holidays than expected, so that didn’t happen. I am very near to getting it done, though, so expect it within the next week or two.

      Reply
  8. bsbatman Avatar
    bsbatman

    really appreciate your work. keep up the good work.

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    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Glad you’re enjoying it,

      Reply
  9. Wild.Beauty Avatar
    Wild.Beauty

    Thanks for scanlating this. Please keep up the great work! Look forward to reading the next volume! ^_^

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    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      I actually have Photoshop open and am working on it right now, so hopefully it won’t be too long.

      Reply
  10. rin Avatar
    rin

    this is really good piece of maga and I really enjoy it!
    Thank you soo much for translating! :3

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    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Thanks, glad you’re enjoying it. :)

      Reply
  11. jia Avatar
    jia

    this seems like it’ll be a hilarious read
    shall give it a try!

    Reply
    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      I hope you enjoy it. :)

      Reply
  12. Yu Avatar
    Yu

    Think of something to lower your virtue! XD

    Just stumbled across this, and it’s ridiculously wonderful. Thanks so much!

    Reply
    1. admin Avatar
      admin

      Glad you enjoyed it! :D

      Reply
  13. Krauser-tan Avatar
    Krauser-tan

    thanks for the scanlation (• ε •) XD

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    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  14. Aurora Avatar
    Aurora

    Thank you very much for share this! It looks so funny!
    I liked the Dr. Zoidberg’s Jesus too!
    “I help those who help themselves” hahahaha!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPoMF3dX2CY

    Thanks again! xD

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  15. Jareth Avatar
    Jareth

    Thanks!!!! more pleeeeease! *o*

    Are great!

    Reply
  16. Scott Avatar
    Scott

    Really, thanks for doing this (along with everything else)! I hope you’ll find the time to do the other volumes!

    Reply
    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      You’re welcome!

      I have actually decided that I’m going to stop after vol. 1 (so one more chapter).

      Reply
  17. Osric Avatar
    Osric

    This manga is hilarious! Thank you so much for translating it so well, particularly seeing as, given the content, I doubt we can expect a licensed version any time soon…

    Are you really going to stop at the end of volume 1? That’d be tragic. I’ve read some other scanlations of this and, well, frankly they’re not as good. Can’t you continue it? Please?

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    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      I’m sorry. I wish I could continue to scanlate it, but it just really isn’t fun for me anymore.

      I hope some other group will pick it up and do a good job with it.

      Reply
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  20. flo Avatar
    flo

    THANK YOU !!!!!

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    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      You’re welcome!!

      Reply
  21. Jugow Avatar
    Jugow

    They made an excellent job, the group that continues to miss many things, I do not like (but there is) a shame that is dropping in Chapter 12, whatever, good luck!

    Greetings from Mexico

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  22. Gryphon Avatar
    Gryphon

    Holy amazing work! Thank you so much for translating this super manga into english. You have made my whole week! And, the notes you have at the start of each chapter are very helpful. I gave you a plug on my facebook page. Seriously, thank you thank you thank you!!
    Gassho,
    Gryphon

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    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      Glad you’re enjoying it. :)

      Reply
  23. Linda Lam Avatar
    Linda Lam

    Ahhhhh! I love this series so much. Gotta be one of the top gag mangas in my opinion! You rock!

    Reply
  24. taylynne Avatar
    taylynne

    Thankies for this! I love this series, and I’m rather sad no one has updated any english translations in such a long time. I have a few of the manga, but I’m not perfect with japanese, so thanks for translating and the downloads!

    Reply
  25. Millo Avatar
    Millo

    Megchan!!! thankyou for translating this manga!! <3
    but, will you translate the later chapter?? it sooo addictive

    Reply
    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      I’m not planning on continuing to translate this. I will translate chapter 8, which finishes off volume one, but that’s it. Hopefully someone else will pick it up.

      Reply
  26. Lokavidu Avatar
    Lokavidu

    Thank you for translating this.very nice..

    Reply
  27. Zeke Avatar
    Zeke

    So weird. So, so weird. And there’s stuff in here that makes me feel like a bad Catholic for laughing at it. And yet… it’s a lot of fun.

    But weird. SO weird.

    Thanks for translating this and particularly for the notes. I’m a translation geek myself and I always enjoy learning about context and such. I noticed there was no note for the ending of chapter 5, with the cats trying to sacrifice themselves… maybe you weren’t aware of this (I wasn’t until I googled it), but apparently there are a couple of Buddhist legends where a rabbit does the same thing. The “rabbit in the moon” seen in that part of the world was put there as a reward for its generosity.

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    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      Thanks for commenting. Yeah, it’s hard to know what to make a note of or not. Sometimes it feels like I could make a note for several things on every page, so I try to keep it reasonable. :p

      Reply
  28. Kanzan Avatar
    Kanzan

    Just wanted to add my thanks for this series. I got a lot of laughs out of the cross-culture trans-temporal shock that the two holy men experience. Even printed them out for my Dad to read.

    Much appreciation from California.

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    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)

      Reply
  29. ferofax Avatar
    ferofax

    I’ve been getting a lot of very positive feedback on this, so I’m glad I finally found somewhere to download it from. As it stands, it’s only Volume 1 here. Any chance of getting the other volumes as well?

    Anyways, more power! And I bookmarked this already, just in case. *wink wink*

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    1. megchan Avatar
      megchan

      Unfortunately I am not planning to continue translating this series beyond the first volume, for various reasons. I do have the final chapter in vol. 1 almost finished and will be posting that this month, but after that, the project will officially be moved from “ongoing” to “discontinued”.

      Reply
      1. ferofax Avatar
        ferofax

        That’s too bad, but I guess it can’t be helped. Off to find the others then!

        Reply
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  31. dvnc04 Avatar
    dvnc04

    this is so amazing! i’ve been laughing all day

    Reply

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