Here we are!
Ok so, we got some people helping out so I think we may be ok generally speaking getting these done, hopefully. Though some chapters are way more difficult than others.
Uh, there’s no new chapter next issue (The October 9th issue). So the next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter will be… sometime after that. So, until then!
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29! Yeah!
Ok so the next chapter is the last chapter of volume 6. And as it turns out there was no chapter of Ikoku Nikki in this month’s Feel Young magazine which came out on September 8th, so 31 is the newest chapter out in Japan and will be until next issue which DOES have Ikoku Nikki in it. So it’s POSSIBLE we can catch up by then but we’ll see. Like I said I have a lot going on and I dunno if I’ll have space for two chapters in 2 and a half weeks. We’ll see how that goes, but either way, we’re almost caught up (finally).
Ikoku Nikki 29
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Ok, so here’s this. There’s a bit of a backstory on this. I originally worked on the 2nd half or so of the Konjiki no Gash!! manga back when I had first started scanlating/translating (I also worked on fansubbing the anime, which was how I got into fan translating in the first place. I started with timing the anime when I was around 15). Some of it was translated by other folks too I think. I added those to the downloads page if anyone wants to check them out, but the translations are probably phrased pretty badly given how I did them back when I had only just started.
Recently, Makoto Raiku, the author of the series, released kanzenbans (complete/collector’s editions) of the series with slightly better paper quality and resolution and with all the color pages and such restored. He released them digital-only at first and then physical versions which finished coming out around February of this year. For these kanzenbans he created these little 7-ish page long extras where a couple of the characters from the series talk at a cafe. So that’s what this is. I really loved this series growing up, so I thought it would be fun to do this. It ended up taking WAY longer than I expected though. It’s about 150 pages long in total. That includes the covers and back-covers that were newly-drawn for the kanzenbans. It’s pretty fun, but I recommend only reading them once you’ve read the rest of the series first. It adds some character and personality to a lot of the characters. (I should mention a lot of these characters have no real canonical or agreed-upon name romanizations so we basically just used what *seem right*. They’re not necessarily the ones we used before.)
Raiku-sensei also released a “special book” for those that bought all the kanzenbans. It mostly just contains the extra epilogue chapter in kanzenban form plus an interview and some pages that weren’t in the other kanzenbans. I got that too and we plan to scanlate it at some point. But we’ve only just started on that so it might take a while.
Uhh, so this took way longer than I thought (I didn’t realize how many pages it was in total when I set out to do it) but it’s all done. I hope you all check it out if you like this series. Enjoy!
Konjiki no Gash!! Kanzenban Extras
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Here we are with the next one!
So, we now have exactly 200 chapters to go. Woo. It’s probably gonna take a while if we ever get to the end but I’m gonna keep going as long as I can. Basically I’m doing these whenever I have free time between other real life stuff and the ongoing series.
So, here’s what we have coming up for Takeshi. 48 and 49 are a two-chapter short arc. Then 50-53 are one-off chapters. Then at chapter 54 the Mummy Arc finally starts, which is one of the major arcs. This one spans alllll the way through Wide-Ban 4 and a bunch of Wide-Ban 5, and doesn’t end until chapter 79. A lot of the major characters in the series first appear in that arc, so I’m excited about getting there soon. I hope you’re all looking forward to it. I’m gonna try to get therough these other 6 chapters so we can start that soon.
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Whew, here’s 28. This one’s fun. We’re closing in on the “being caught up” point now.
Also the next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter is coming out in the next issue of Young Animal which comes out on the 25th in Japan. So we’ll bet trying to get it done around then, depending on folks’ schedules. A few people volunteered to help clean and typeset so we may be ok on that front, we’ll see how it goes.
Ikoku Nikki 28
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Ok, here’s the next one! This one’s a goofy little formula-change one where it takes place entirely inside a storybook.
We are now technically into volume 6 if you’re going by the original volumes. And we’ve just got… 201 chapters to go.
Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! 46
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Ok, here’s the next one. I’m basically just trying to find time to translate these between everything else suddenly going on in my life. Thanks to Lap, Huldra, and Schwabbel for all their work on it as always.
Ikoku Nikki 27
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