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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