Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Ch. 133-135

Here’s the next 3! We got 3 done this week. I’ve finally finished the massive amount of volume-scanlating I’ve done the past 2 months so now I can do… other things. I’d really like to get through the rest of this series in the near future, even if it seems unlikely to finish within this year at this point (We’d have to get something like nearly 2 chapters out per day to do that). But regardless, there’s 112 chapters left to go!

This arc continues with the Ultimate Duo Battle thingy. It’s really a fun little tournament arc before it expands bigger into the full Devil Black arc. These chapters contain some of the more standard battle-manga-y battles and also some good silly comedic ones. I hope you all enjoy it!

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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) Volume 16

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Yay ok so here’s this! We did it. I finally finished all 3 HQ volumes that came out all around the same time in the last 2 months. This is the volume version of the last… bunch of chapters.

I should note here, Umino-sensei combined a bunch of chapters (Likely so they don’t end so abruptly) resulting in this:
172 and 173 and 174 were combined to just 172
Old 175 is now 173
Old 176 is now 174
177 and 178 were combined to be the new 175
Old 179 is now 176
Old 180 is now 177
Old 181 is now 178
182 and 183 were combined to the new 179

So, she did this once before in volume 14 and now has done it several more times. So likely volume 17 will just start on chapter 184, the next chapter in the magazine, and mysteriously be missing a bunch of chapter numbers. By doing this she removed the intro title pages and instead either moved them later or used small sorta thumbnail-sized versions as spacer pages between other chapters. I included the magazine versions as extras after their “thumbnail version” appears.

Also as usual there are a lot of little alterations. Some lines are shifted on the page or reworded slightly. That’s in addition to the articles by Senzaki Manabu 9-dan and extra pages at the end and some visual changes like adding highlights and different screen tones. Here’s a pastebin of my whole translations of all the extras/changes if you want to know in extreme detail.

Because of ALL of those things in addition to redoing all the cleans and redraws and stuff, this was really a lot of work. And I’m completely exhausted. Very glad these are all done. Also I’m glad Umino-sensei only releases one new volume every year to year and a half. The last one we released was in August of 2020 (This volume was released September 29th, by the way. So we got through the whole thing in under a month.) Anyhow, I hope you all enjoy this. The next chapter comes out… sometime in the future, not next issue. Also we can’t upload this to Mangadex until they re-enable editing chapters. (Also I dunno how the hell I’m even gonna do that because the chapter numbers are all messed up now.)

Edit: A couple minor mistakes were found and fixed since we first posted this.

Edit 2: They finally added editing pages back to Mangadex so this is up on Mangadex now. Here’s a link. On Mangadex you need to upload things by chapter so if the author just skips chapter numbers you run into a problem, so I just added a filler page for chapter 153 with a note saying “There is no chapter 153”. For chapter 180-183 I’m going to leave the magazine versions up for now because I can’t say for sure there “is no chapters 180-183” until volume 17 comes out. But we have notes on the bottom of the table of contents and extra pages in this volume explaining the “combined chapters” thing.

Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://t.co/DgwRJE06j9?amp=1

3-Gatsu no Lion Volume 16 (Ch167-179)
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JoJolion Volume 3 & Volume 27

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Bwaaaah we did it! Here are our HQ releases of volume 3 and volume 27! And with that, we’ve released volume versions of all of JoJolion. We finally did it after a very long period of working out way back through the old volumes from when the newest volume was volume 15 back in 2017. I’m very happy about this as this was a ton of work from a ton of people.
Volume 3 should be much improved from the magazine versions we did back when they came out in like 2013-ish. Volume 27 is mostly just the high-res volume version but there’s also a couple extra pages between chapters and at the end (Though it doesn’t change the story really.)

So right now the plan is we’re still going to do a *slightly* updated version of volumes 1 and 2 which have a few fixes to be in line with our modern style. They’ll have fixed widths for the single pages, added in the other color pages they were missing, have the sound effects added, and I’ll fix any translation issues I find from when I did those back in 2014 and 2015. But they’re not gonna change a TON, we’re gonna use the same scans/cleans. Those are done besides the typesetting/lettering part. Anyhow I hope you all enjoy these!

(Also we can’t put these on Mangadex still because you can’t update them with new pages. We’ll put them there along with like 30 other things like this whenever that goes up.)

JoJolion Volume 3 (Ch10-13)
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Ikoku Nikki Volume 8

Ok, here’s volume 8! This actually contains all the chapters released so far, there’s been a few breaks because Yamashita-sensei has been doing some stuff for her other series, Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru (The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window) which got an anime recently. The next chapter is scheduled to come out in the next issue of Feel Young which comes out November 8th, Japan time.

Also as I mentioned back in volume 7, for this one we used the digital raw (Except for the cover and inside cover and black and white pages which are only in the physical version) becuase the digital raw is good resolution and the art is simple enough that there’s little (if anything) gained from scanning and cleaning the physical pages (thin white lines sometimes get lost in leveling and such) so we stuck with the regular digital volume. I think it turned out pretty good. (I still can’t upload this to Mangadex until they allow editing of pages of already-uploaded chapters.)

As I mentioned before, a lot of volumes came out at once. Jojolion v27, 3-Gatsu no Lion v16, and Ikoku Nikki v8 came out within a 2-week period. We’re also finishing up Jojolion v3. This is the first one we got done because there’s a lot less work that goes into cleaning and redrawing and typesetting/lettering for this series than the other ones. Though JoJolion is almost done and we’re hoping to get that released soon. And 3-Gatsu no Lion is MOST of the way done. After those are finished I’m gonna work on the next Shima Kosaku volume. Anyhow, enjoy this, everyone!

Ikoku Nikki Volume 8 (Ch. 36-40)
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Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Ch. 131-132 (Wide-Ban 7 Complete)

And here’s 131 and 132! We continue with the Ultimate Duo Battle part of the Devil Black arc! WE have 115 chapters left to go! Also we’ve now ended wide-ban 7 and 132 is the fist chapter of wide-ban 8! The Devil Black arc keeps going for all of wide-ban 8 and ends in wide-ban 9 so we’ve got a while to go here this is sort of still the beginning of it.

Besides this we’re trying to finish volume versions of the new volumes of JoJolion, Ikoku Nikki, and 3-Gatsu no Lion. They’re almost done, though 3-Gatsu no Lion may take a bit because it has so many redraws. But I’m hoping the other ones get done within the next week-ish.

Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://t.co/DgwRJE06j9?amp=1

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Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Ch. 129-130

Okay, and with 129 and 130 we are finally into the Devil Black arc! And not only that, I am finally finished translating the whole series! 0 chapters left! I’m pretty proud of that as basically getting to that point involved translating several chapters a week for nearly a year. Now we’re just counting down the finished chapters! There’s 117 to go! I’m right now trying to finish some volume versions of stuff but once those are done I’ll shift to doing more cleaning and typesetting of this series in hopes we get it 100% done in the near future (117 chapters is still gonna take a while to do, though.)

So, the Devil Black arc is the longest arc in the series and goes for 30 chapters. 129 is a gag chapter, 130 is the first chapter of that arc. But it’s a lot of fun and has lots of interesting shit in it. The arc gets kind of Dragonball-ish as it goes on. Depending on if that’s something you’d be into or not.

Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://t.co/DgwRJE06j9?amp=1

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Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Ch. 127-128

Okay, here is 125 and 126! These are two fun goofy one-off chapters. We’re finally nearly at the Devil Black arc.
The last chapter I finished translating is 242 so there’s 5 left to translate. I basically had no time to work on it this week because I had a lot of other IRL stuff going on. There’s 119 chapters left to scanlate.

And Mangadex has FINALLY allowed uploading new series. So I was able to add Mugen Tengoku, Yuugai Muzai Gangu, and Section Chief Shima Kōsaku on there. Though I still can’t edit chapters so all the fixes and better-quality versions of a whole bunch of chapters are still waiting on that feature to exist.

Oh also we made a Discord. I hadn’t made one before because I didn’t have time to moderate it but someone volunteered recently so we’re gonna give it a try. Come hang out and talk about manga. https://t.co/DgwRJE06j9?amp=1

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Here’s this one!
There’s no new chapter next issue, so the next one will be in maybe a month or so (or longer, we dunno).
We got volume 16 and we’re working on that but it’s gonna take a while.

Meanwhile I’m still working on Takeshi, JoJolion volumes, and there’s no Ikoku Nikki chapter this month but the new volume is coming out soon. So I’ll have that too. But I’ve been overwhelmed with IRL stuff this week and haven’t gotten a lot done, gonna try to get some of that done over the weekend.

Oh, also we have a Discord now, if anyone wants to join! I should really mention it in these posts. We recently got someone who volunteered to moderate it so I started on. You can click “connect” on the sidebar or use this invite link https://discord.gg/fr3MjupA

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Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Ch. 125-126

Okay, here is 125 and 126! The first one of these is a goofy silly tournament/competition one-off chapter and the second one is a flashback chapter to the days of the Leaders’ preschool! The one and only of such chapters. They’re great, I hope you enjoy them! The first one is one of the wordiest chapters in the entire series so I hope ya’ll appreciate this!

I have 6 chapters left to translate. After working my ass off to do this whole series for the past year I’m finally nearly done. I’m gonna try to finish it this week if I can. So then I’ll have to go back to counting down just how many chapters are left to scanlate until the end. There’s 121 now! Once I’ve finished translating and finished some other immediate stuff, I’ll be able to use that time to clean and typeset this series so it should come out faster.

Speaking of immediate stuff right now we’re working on: Cleaning and redrawing JoJolion volume 27 to release that soon and finish up the series. 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 16 which just came out (I need to translate all the extras and differences between the magazine chapters and the volumes, too.) The next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter comes out on Thursday, so there’s that to do soon. Then there’s the new Ikoku Nikki volume coming out this week (Though there’s still no new regular chapter as Yamashita-sensei is working on her other series this month again.) Plus there’s finishing the last couple OLD JoJolion volumes and then doing more of Shima Kousaku, so really I’ve just got tons of stuff to do all at once so I hope ya’ll are looking forward to all that. I’m gonna try to keep pacing myself and not overwork myself.

Oh also we made a Discord. I hadn’t made one before because I didn’t have time to moderate it but someone volunteered recently so we’re gonna give it a try. Come hang out and talk about manga. https://t.co/DgwRJE06j9?amp=1

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