Here’s 60! We’ve got 14 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is mostly the latter part of the Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc where they’re rescuing Kondou from Kokujou Island.

There’s not much to update since the last one, basically we’re just working on these a little every day in hopes to get this project done in not too long. We managed to find some way to automate some more busy work so I’m hoping maybe we get them all cleaned by the end of the month. There’s like 6 and a half volumes left to go through and clean and fix the typsetting and all that. I’m behind on translating the extras but we’re releasing them when they’re done and checked. And I’m working on Shima and other stuff when I have time amongst all this.

Mangadex is down right now, I’ll upload it there once it’s back up.

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Gintama Volume 60 (Ch534-542)
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Ok so here’s these two, 61 and 62! We’ve got 15 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. So working backwards like we’ve been doing, volume 62 is some stuff about Utsuro and setting up for the final arc(s) against him as he eliminates some of the other factions to become the most powerful person/organization/entity and the main cast going to Rakuyou. 61 is the end of the rescuing Kondou from Kokujou Island arc and it’s where Utsuro is first introduced basically (He’s in like a few pages of volume 60). It’s also the end of the Nobume and Sasaki Isaburou’s big story arc.

So, I’ve been spending way too much time on this project but we’ve got volumes 46 and then 55-60 fully cleaned and redrawn as of this morning. There’s only 8 volumes left to clean and redraw left, and that’s the vast majority of the work on this series. That’s including fixing the text in the transfer from the magazine chapters and fixing the edges of the pages which are different in the physicals VS digitals, adding in sound effects, fixing any mistakes I notice, and all that. So mainly I’ve been focusing on getting all those done rather than doing the extras and getting them released. But we’ve gotten all the way to the start of the Shogun Assassination Arc done so I’m gonna try to focus on extras for a while. Also the 8 volumes that are left to clean are full of gag chapters so they have a lot of text so they take longer. There’s more text and also more redraws per page. I’m trying to also check through all the text in these as well and fix any mistakes or awkwardness if I run into it but that’s on top of all this other stuff so I don’t have a ton of time to spare to also do that and I haven’t run into very much of it. So yeah, I’m happy with the progress we made on this, it no longer seems like something we’ll “never finish” I’m pretty sure we’ll finish just I’m not gonna be rushing through it as much as I have since November. I’ll be trying to get more extras translated and finalize everything and get those cleaned volumes out sometime soon and I’m also trying to get the rest of this Shima volume translated that I’ve already been working on for like 2 months now.

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Gintama Volume 61 (Ch543-551)
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Gintama Volume 62 (Ch552-551)
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Here’s 63.! We’ve got 17 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is mainly about Katsura, Sakamoto, and Gin fighting the three big Harusame division captains Neptune Shoukaku, Uranus Hankai, and Pluto Batou. This is also the one with the Pakuyasa in it.

Ok well anyhow nothing really changed from a few days ago when we released the last one. As usual I’m trying to fix any mistakes we didn’t catch the first time or make improvements when I do these, and there were a couple in this volume, but I only have so much time and we only have one person checking them. I’ve got a few more that are mostly done except translating the extras and at least a *little* of every volume is done but it’s still like 2-3 days of work each volume. I’m gonna be taking some breaks because of how mind-numbing this is, but I do really wanna get this project done in not *too* long given it’s really just “better version of a thing we did before” and I wanna get back to doing projects of stuff we haven’t already translated.

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Gintama Volume 63 (Ch562-571)
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And here’s 64. We’ve got 18 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the one where the Joui Four finally reunite. Also it’s got Kamui’s fight against Umibouzu and Kagura. It has the rest of the Kouka flashback/backstory, too.

I’ve been working on this stuff a lot in hopes of eventually finishing this before I die. So far, in addition to what we’ve released, we’ve cleaned/redrawn everything in volume 60-63. I still have to do the extras for all those though. It really takes a while and it’s pretty tedious but doing some of it every day is working. I still have to do the vast majority of volumes 46-59 though which is still a ton. I probably will need to take some breaks though. My head is melting from spending so many hours going through these. The typesetting and translations are all done but I do need to adjust the text somewhat, do the inline sound-effects, and clean and redraw everything and fix the edges of the pages which differ from the digital and physical raws as an artifact of the automation process by lining up the physical raws with upscaled digital ones.

Meanwhile, there’s another 3-Gatsu no Lion in a couple weeks. I’m translating Shima volume 6 too. Anyhow I hope you all enjoy these. The Gintama Yoshiwara in Flames movie is coming out soon, anyone seeing that?

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Gintama Volume 64 (Ch572-580)
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Okay, here we are at 65. We’ve got 19 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is primarily the main closure/battle with Umibouzu, Kagura, and Kamui. It also has one of the Utsuro fights. Volume 64, the next one we’ll do, is the one with the flashback about Koudka, Kagura’s mom, for the most part. This has a little of it. The most annoying thing with this volume was they included one of the popularity poll results but they rearranged it slightly so the whole thing had to be re-redrawn and re-typeset from scratch.

I’ve been working on this project at least a little every day. So now every volume has at least a little bit done. But I think for the most part at this point I’m gonna focus on just going through them one volume at a time rather than trying to do all of one thing or another in each volume. Like I did the first and last page of each volume, I did the title pages and ending pages of all the chapters in some volumes, I looked up bits and redid them because I knew there were parts of the translation I wanted to change, I did a whole bunch of quick gimme-pages, stuff like that. But now pretty much all that’s left is hack away at each volume which is gonna take like 10+ hours of work each and there’s 18 more of them. But even with all the progress we’ve made, and I think it’s gone really well so far, we still have a long way to go and I’m gonna have to take breaks to go back to Shima and stuff like that. Also volume 64 is almost done I just gotta translate the extras.

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Gintama Volume 65 (Ch581-589)
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Hey here’s another one, here’s Gintama 66. We’ve got 20 volume versions left to do now. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume has a bunch of stuff about Utsuro’s origins and motives. This is the first part of the story where Sorachi-sensei started acting like “Ok the series is really heading for the end now” and then it went for 11 more volumes. There’s an extra page added. Page 125-127 were originally just one page in the original chapter 595. That little speech was expanded somewhat.

Anyhow I’m really glad we’re making progress on these at a fairly good pace now. In the past few weeks I worked on all the re-cleaning and re-redrawing and re-typesetting of SFX for a bunch of random pages or little chunks of volumes in an attempt to get every volume “partially done” rather than do an entire volume done at once. Like I did all of the title pages and tables of contents and character-intro pages in the beginnings of these. I was gonna keep going with that and do something like “do all the title pages of every chapter” but we’re doing all the way back to volume 46 remember so any time you do anything like that it’s 20-something times, and if it’s in every chapter it’s like 180+ times. And if you’re gonna do all that you might as well just focus on getting something out/done while you have time, because I dunno if I’ll still have time to work on these things months from now depending on how my schedule goes. So I think from here I’m mainly gonna stick to just working on “the next one” and working backwards.

Uh besides that I’m still working on Managing Director Shima 6. That’s about it at the moment. Well, enjoy, everyone! We’re just slowly making our way up this mountain of Gintama chapters.

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Gintama Volume 66 (Ch590-598)
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