Whew, ok! We’re now nearly at the end, folks. There’s just 9 chapters to go. We’re here, in the final battle. These chapters are comprised entirely of more of the Barbarian Arc. We go all the way to the last chapter that ran in Jump (237) and the first of the final 10 chapters which ran in Super Jump (238-247). So there’s about a 3 year gap in the publication between 237 and 238 because, as mentioned before, the author was arrested for paying a 16-year-old sex worker. But anyhow, we’re nearly there. It barely feels real but after 5 years we’re nearly at the end. We might be able to finish next week, we’ll see. I hope anyone waiting for the whole series to be out before they read it will check it out.

Uhh basically any summaries will be a spoiler if you haven’t read them yet because it’s all one arc. But basically these chapters comprise everything leading up to the final battle and also includes some of that final battle. For a bunch of characters, this is their last major appearance. Though everybody comes back with a cameo in the final chapter. But these chapters include the last major character-related event for basically everybody besides Takeshi, Grandma, Andou and C3. Though there’s a 2-chapter long gag arc at the end of the series where we see Tendou, Eiji, Gonzou, and Legman again.

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I’m gonna diiiiiiieeee!!!! Ok well here’s all of wide-ban 12. At once, at the same time. All 20 chapters. Don’t… expect this sort of thing to happen often. The only reason we’ve got this much at once is A. Because a bunch of chapters were partially or nearly done next last. B. 217 is the last gag chapter before it gets into the more action-focused Barbarian Arc which takes a lot less time to typeset. And C. Because I way over-did it and spend many hours every day this week on it.

BUT thanks to all that we’ve reached a huge milestone and now we’re, at long last, after several thousands of hours of work on this project, are heading for the end. There’s only 1 wide-ban, 19 chapters, to go. And then this project will be done, English-speakers and enjoy this masterpiece series in its entirety, and I can relax. I’ll probably work on one of several other things but I’ll definitely slow down.

Ok so let me try to give a few remarks about each chapter here.
209: This is a silly gag chapter about Shimabuu. It’s kind of a meta chapter about not having any ideas so you make a chapter about a mangaka who’s out of ideas. It’s honestly lots of fun.
210: This is a VERY silly chapter about kids who want new years money (otoshidama). Takeshi’s kind of even dumber than usual here. I got kinda lucky here in that we’re releasing this right near New Year’s. Also Toriko makes a cameo in this one! It came out the same issue of Jump where the original 2002 Toriko chapter came out. We’re gonna try to scanlate that soon.
211: This is a Kaori-sensei chapter! The second and last one. It’s a gag chapter about her going to driving school. And honestly it’s a good change of pace having a female main character.
212: This is a school gag chapter about kids needing to submit their notebooks to their teacher. After we’ve had arcs about characters fighting evil cabals, other-dimensional demons, and heavenly gods, we have a chapter that could fit snugly with the first handful of chapters of the series where they were ALL about this. In that way it’s kind of a fun throwback. Though it is a reminder about how this series isn’t really about the story “progressing”.
213: This is a fun event-based one-off chapter that’s a bit more sentimental than funny. It’s also the last Baba-focused chapter, though he does appear a bit in the Barbarian Arc.
214: This is a Valentine’s Day chapter! Also sort of lucky that it’s coming out sorta close with Valentine’s Day. It’s the last Nana-focused chapter I guess, though there’s only a couple of those. It’s pretty heartfelt and down to earth.
215: This one on the other hand is way less down to earth. It involves the world getting buried under tons of snow and aliens. This one’s a silly sorta sci-fi chapter where the kids don’t take it very seriously.
216: This one is very silly and involves Takeshi and the kids going after a flasher and for some reason they get super-muscular. I kinda wonder if Shimabuu wanted to get more usage out of his practice drawing muscular guys which he’d learned for Toriko.
217: This is a relaxed, gag chapter about Kojirou. I like i because there’s very little text. You could read the whole thing in like 30 seconds.
218-228: These chapters make up what is a little less than half of the final major arc and the climax of the series, the Barbarian Arc. I know a lot of folks have been looking forward to this, and I honestly really love it, too. The unique thing about the Barbarian Arc is that it’s basically entirely serious. There’s hardly anything you could really call a “joke”, so much so that it can feel eerie sometimes. Like Takeshi’ll show up and he won’t say anything funny and you’ll be thinking, “Aren’t you gonna get someone’s name wrong or downplay the seriousness of the situation?!” but he never does. All the characters are drawn in what is generally speaking a much more realistic style than they have before with more human proportions and more detailed clothing and facial features. Nobody’s a little two-heads-tall chibi dude wearing a t-shirt. Everything has a much more realistic physicality. This kind of feels like an arc out of Fist of the North Star. There’s also a lot of graphic violence. They go up against the final and biggest villain of the series, Andou Jinichi. The arc revolves around a number of mysteries about this villain and his identity and abilities, and his organization the Barbarians.
This arc concludes all the major themes of the series and all the lore elements that have been brought up before this point. Everything there’s left to know about the leaders, Takeshi’s dad and Grandma, Mummy’s backstory, and a bunch of other stuff I won’t spoil. Wide-ban 13 contains 16 more chapters in this arc, then there’s 3 gag chapters and the manga ends. So buckle up! It’s lots of things! Read it, you’ll enjoy it!

Wide-ban 13 will probably take longer than this before it’s done, but hopefully not too long. I’ve seriously put like, way too much of my free time into working on this series but I’m nearly at the finish line now. Also I’m not making individual chapter links for this because… why would you download 20 links when you could just download 1? I’d imagine there’s no much of a demand for making these into individual folders but I guess you could do that on your own if you really wanted to.
Okay, enjoy, everyone!

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Okay, here’s the rest of wide-ban 11! We’re already working on wide-ban 12. Doing a million of these every week is totally exhausting but I’ve been spending most of my free time getting the rest of the series cleaned and typeset and we’ve got a couple people helping now so hopefully we get the rest done smoothly. But now we’ve just got 2 wide-bans left! Not that much in the grand scheme of things, though it’ll probably take till around the end of January probably. There’s 39 chapters to go!

Anyhow, here’s what these chapters are about. They’re all one-off gag chapters.
203: This one’s one of my favorites. This one’s about Takeshi and the gang forming a band. And all the bandmates are like, extremely weird and bizarre and it’s all very silly. I love it.
204: This one’s another great one. It’s the battle of good faces! It’s just chocked full of good faces. Really the faces are the main highlight here, I love them. There’s a million super-memorable faces.
205: This is a fun one, in this they go to a weird bowling alley where they need to bowl a perfect game. But it’s like a weird sorta game where every frame has different rules. It’s pretty fun.
206: This one’s another storybook chapter starring Gon. So it has the same sorta theme as the other ones where the storybook-version of Gon goes through some sort of emotional change. This ain’t the best one but it’s still pretty interesting I thought.
207: This one’s just silly and makes no sense but it’s still pretty fun. This is more in the vein of that Mitsuru’s Resolve chapter where they’re just sorta… doing stuff.
208: And this one is the final of the Old Santa Dude chapters. It’s a pretty heartwarming story about him wanting to deliver a gift to this kid who may or may not exist.

So, okay. We’re almost at the end now. Just to give you some perspective, we’ve got 9 more gag chapters, then the Barbarian Arc which is 25 chapters, then 3 gag chapters at the end, and the series is done. So I hope you’ve nearly got your fill of gag chapters because the Barbarian arc is almost entirely serious and has basically no gags at all. We may get up to it next week depending on how things go. Anyhow, enjoy, everyone!

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Phew! Ok, and here we are in the new year bringing you the ENTIRE sky world/heaven arc! (You could kind of translate the area they’re in, 天界, as heaven, but then there’s a second place above that called 天上界 which really means more like heaven as in the abode of heavenly beings so I changed the first to Sky World like the stage in Smash Bros.) This release is all just one 10-chapter arc. I hope you enjoy it, it’s a pretty good one. It starts out with the results of the last popularity poll of the series and then goes into a story where the main cast of kids go up into a cloud world in the sky and there’s a bunch of weird crises and mysteries and stuff to solve up there. It’s kind of like the Skypeia arc of One Piece but it came out before that by just a bit.
Anyhow I can’t really give much more of a summary of each chapter since it’s all one arc. But we’re now finally past chapter 200 and we’ve got 45 chapters to go! I’m gonna try really hard to get the rest of the series done soon-ish. I hope you like this, everyone!

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