Hats (Admin, Translator, Editor, Quality Control)
A takoyaki fiend who refuses to sleep more than four hours a day has learned with age that human beings need more than four hours of sleep to function normally. Her astounding abilities include mishearing people, misreading things, and collecting junk—lots and lots of junk. One thing she has managed to do right is developing a keen eye for interesting projects, introducing to the internet with ♥ an eclectic range of Josei manga by underrated artists.
Weakness: Megane danshi
Current Project(s): Anything and all. (Damn, this girl needs a life.)
Swirly Owl (Admin, Editor, Quality Control)
A fine-feathered friend who lives in a place we can barely make out on the US map. (Geography has never been one of our strong points.) With the amount of manga she has stockpiled in her—are they owls, too?—parents’ war-zone garage, she could probably open up a library. A vicious manga hoarder, hardworking student, and just all around great friend to have on the team.
Weakness: Studying
Current Project(s): Has worked on practically every Heels’ project you can think of. (Someone give this owl a trophy!)
shielshi (Editor)
SwirlyOwl’s right hand man who holds her accountable. Am always available and willing to assist with editing or typesetting. All-around great, the finest person ever. Also, there is a “No Longer” secret: a charming, soul-draining infatuation with fluffy Chiikawa, and the terribly cute flying squirrel creature.
Project(s): Coppers, The Gamesters, Otoko no Isshou, Torch Song Ecology
Key (Editor)
We’re still trying to get to know you better personally, but it won’t be long. 🙂 The first two words that sprang to me when I thought of your editing abilities were competent and consistent. Grateful to have you on our team to keep Futagashira going.
Weakness: We’re dying to find out.
Project(s): Futagashira, Kozure Doushin
Lin-Senpai (Editor)
Ever busy social worker who gives up her leisure time to jump in and assist me when needed. A leader in the Evil Flowers group; very understanding, pleasant and a cool person to be around.
Weakness: Pretty people?
Current Project(s): Ane no Kekkon
Zeus (Translator)
A Hardcore translator, a speed demon.
Weakness: Natsume Ono
Current Project(s): Futagashira, Otoko no Isshou, Kozure Doushin
Maturin (Translator)
This one simply cannot say no to anything when asked. Too generous; even nicer than SwirlyOwl. A huge fan of BTS and IU, even I would describe her as stalker-ish but very kind one.
Current Project(s): Sandaime, Torch Song Ecology
Hooman (Translator)
A new member of SH. Willing to take on older projects to aid us to finish it up. Has a raunchy sense of humor and a wannabe NBA player.
Weakness: Being a Sports Fan
Current Project(s): & (And), Suppli, Heibon Ponch
Peko (Translator)
Met Hats through Genshin, and after 10 episodes of YG TREASURE BOX, 40+ episodes of TREASURE MAP, and 8 episodes of their mystery web drama, The Mysterious Class, singlehandedly managed to get her into stanning 12 talented, creative, handsome and crackhead artists named TREASURE, even though she had sworn that AAA would be the last idol group “IN [HER] LIFE!!!” Also, a dedicated cat butler. FF7 and manga addict.
Weakness: TREASURE
Current Project(s): ECBA
Chane (Translator)
A solid one but irl is taking her away from us and her beautiful translations.
Weakness: Mysterious intentions, a riddle that not even she will reveal. Hmm.
Current Project(s): Kiyoku Yawaku
candymudkipz (Proofreader)
We’re still trying to get to know you better, but it won’t be long. 🙂 But still dependable as ever!
Weakness: We’re dying to find out.
Current Project(s): Basically, anything and everything. A true godsend.
Ayanime (Proofreader)
A college professor is now working on her dissertation. An extremely busy individual. But she still has a deep affinity for anime and manga. Everlong obsession with Escaflowne, Howl’s Moving Castle, collectible indie books and pizza.
Weakness: Any kind of mint and Bread
Current Project(s): Nina My Love, Toribako House, 3 AM, Sandaime
Retired/On Hiatus Staff:
Stiletto (Founder)
Wiped out an entire website without backing up the database. The first words she silently mouthed when this tragedy occurred was, “Oh, crap.” And then: (waving around a potato chip in her hand) “See, this is what happens when you ask me to work.” Laziest Typesetter on earth, but the best super-mom on the planet.
Weakness: Potato chips
Lilanar (Senior Editor)
OK, so there may not even be any shred of truth in this, but one can’t help but imagine her as some sort of beautiful, ninja assassin from the Middle East, or a traveling gypsy driving her oxcart along a dusty road. Why an oxcart, you say? Ask not what has no sane answer. Only note that she has an incredible knack for making the end product look just as good as it was in raw form. Just don’t go anywhere near Sekine, fellow editors. Such is the intense love that she has for this emotionally-stunted man, that one could almost say that Sekine is to Lilanar as air is to humans.
Weakness: Hats dangling projects in front of her
Project(s): &, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Nikotama, Paradise Without You, Shinkuu Katakoi Pack
Minelauva (Senior Editor)
We like to call her an “enfant terrible” with an addiction to tea, although the co-founders are possibly more enfant et terrible than she could ever be. This fujoshi lives, breathes, and eats films, it’s a wonder how she even has time to scanlate! But she does, and does it damn well. The senior-est of senior staffs, we absolutely adore her for her otaku tendencies, strong opinions, and borderline-obsessive love for Basso, and we find it even more adorable that she can deny all that in French.
Weakness: Netflix
Project(s): Futagashira, Omi-sensei no Binetsu, Principal, Teke Teke Rendezvous
Aerial (Typesetter)
Typesetting Ninja Extraordinaire. Pours her heart and soul into picking out fonts, only to have that tyrant Hatsumimi swoop in and limit her freedom. Currently dealing with the likes of Nishi Keiko, George Asakura, and Moyoco Anno – ALL of them SFX/text-heavy Queens. Deserves a crown for achieving that impossible feat, sanity intact.
Weakness: Having nothing to do
Project(s): Ane no Kekkon, Love Master X, Meoto Safari, Nikotama, Nobody Cry
Badzphoto (Proofreader)
Faceless Grammar Nazi who brandishes a red pen like a fencing sword. For the past several years has never forgotten a comma, period, or the English language, but constantly forgets to upload a profile picture. We imagine badz as a penguin, one that takes secret pleasure in highlighting, underscoring, and especially crossing out.
Weakness: Bad grammar
Project(s): Ane no Kekkon, Hakkoiri Musume, Kiyoku Yawaku, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Principal, Teke Teke Rendezvous
Filli (Typesetter)
A whimsically artistic typesetter who doesn’t know that we stalk her on twitter, or that we have now come to the belief that she is obsessed with amateur artwork and whimsical stuff because we stalk her on twitter, and especially doesn’t know that we can’t read Greek and uses BabelFish to interpret for us. Never mind that we have a hard time pronouncing her name, or that we mistakenly thought she aspired to be a teapot, Filli churns out some good stuff for the team.
Weakness: Pretty artwork
Project(s): &-and-, Nina My Love, Torch Song Ecology
Jel (J-E Translator)
A superhero(-ine) in our eyes. Possibly owns a cape, though it may be kept hidden. Swooped in to rescue a dying project, swooped out to work on it, and then swooped back in to drop it off.
Weakness: Bad translations.
Project(s): 3 AM Terrible Zone, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Omi-sensei no Binetsu, neglected anything!
Megan (Cleaner & Proofreader)
Ah, Megan! Our overly optimistic, wonderfully apologetic, and eager cleaner. Who else could we depend on, if not her? If Heels Team were a depressed teenager standing under a dark cloud, she would be our silver lining, our ray of sunshine. If Heels Team were the bumblingly quiet and aging Matthew Cuthbert, she would be our Anne. Megan, we love you!
Project(s): 3 AM Terrible Zone, Ane no Kekkon, basically whatever Hats pleads with her to help with…
skippyskippy (Typesetter)
If every army needs its loyal soldier, then skippy would be ours. About the damned finest typesetter a scanlation team could ask for. ‘Nuff said.
Project(s): Sekine’s Love, Torch Song Ecology
Tiffu (Editor)
Our very own Heels’ kouhai/maknae/rookie. We’re still trying to dig up some dirt get to know you, but it won’t be long. 🙂
Project(s): Anata no Koto wa Sorehodo
zakkyliar (Typesetter)
Poor zakky. We continually drum up your hopes, and then dash them to the ground.
Project(s): 3 am Terrible Zone
amatsu (Typesetter) Funky Typesetting Diva who disappeared into the strobe lights of Seoul. We had a hard time retiring her… JUST IN CASE.
CanaryBlue (Cleaner) Earned herself the title of Ninja Cleaner. She stepped in all fresh-faced and new – a rookie, almost – and we handed her one of the most DIFFICULT authors to edit. (Read: George Asakura.)
Gracie (Typesetter) We hope you come back so we can get to know you better.
Jyu viole grace (Typesetter) Mysterious typesetter that arrived in mysterious circumstances, requesting mysteriously to work on Otoko no Isshou, when hardly anyone else wants to touch it with a 10-foot pole, and then mysteriously pops up here and there to mysteriously hand in work. Now if only we could less mysteriously give her something to do before she mysteriously runs away from boredom!
octopus (Proofreader) We’re not sure what this animal trend is with staff, but where there is owl and fowl, there is also a place for octopuses. While her cold and slimy relatives live in the sea, or are cloistered inside piping hot puffs of cooked wheat dough on Hats’ plate and smothered in Kewpie mayo and bonito flakes, she has managed to escape from the ocean, surpass hungry human detection, and somehow learn American English. It’s her eagerness to do so much that we think is so, so, so cute. If only we didn’t love to eat takoyaki so much, and pose less of a threat to her very existence on the team.