Well… uh… somehow, despite all the odds, and how this series turned out to be a monstrously difficult undertaking which I thought from the start we’d never get to the end… it’s done.
I worked on doing the vast majority of this in the last year and 4 months, but this project started back in November of 2016. So it’s been going over 5 years now. It feels surreal that after all that it’s finally done. Back at the beginning I thought “Well let’s just jump in and see how far we get” but this series is a gag manga with tons and tons of text, making it take an extremely long time to translate and typeset. That’s why we only got the first 3 wide-bans done in the first 4 years, because only from October 2020 on did I have enough time left to work on it seriously every day. And now it’s done!
I’ve talked about this series a lot in these posts and I dunno if I can think of much more to add. And I know doing manga that’ve already ended a while ago aren’t as popular, but seriously it’s awesome. It’s an all-time great comedic manga with lots of heart and lots of fun. I really hope more people check it out now that the whole series has been released. I seriously worked my ass off to get it all done. Thanks a ton to Joeabandonedmine, Pronouncedsmith, Luigi, and Rowan for their work cleaning and typesetting. Doing this huge thing alone would’ve really sucked and I probably would’ve given up a long time ago if that were the case.
Also coincidentally at the same time we finished the original 2002 one-shot of Toriko. By the same author, this ran in a 2002 issue of Shounen Jump before the Barbarian Arc started. Toriko himself appears in that Takeshi chapter that was in the same issue of Jump, which is chapter 210 from wide-ban 12. I wanted to do this for a while, but it’s kind of always been on the back-burner. But since Takeshi is all done we figured we’d do this too. It’s kind of a pilot episode to Toriko and it’s more or less the Galala Crocodile arc but you can tell Shimabukuro-sensei was still refining some things and some bits were taken out/changed/saved for later once it became a series and he had to setup stuff to be happening down the road. There’s ANOTHER Toriko one-shot that was released in Jump in 2007 which is sort of a refinement of this one, doing basically the same story again. We’ll try to do at some point.
SO, with all that said, if you count Toriko, I’ve been working on Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi’s manga from 2008 to now in 2022. Which is uh, like 13 years and change. We did all of Toriko, all of RING, and all of Takeshi. Any new manga he’s doing are likely already licensed and will have official releases (Support those if you can, Toriko already has one.) so I’m probably not gonna work on any other series by him (Though I do wanna do the 2007 Toriko one-shot and the two Takeshi original one-shots at some point.) So in a lot of ways this is the end of an era for me and HWMN. OH, and go check out Toriko if you haven’t yet, it’s a good series.
So, next I have a handful of shorter things I wanna get done in the coming couple months and we’ll be doing more of Shima Kosaku. But this is the last of a big list of manga I wanted to *get to someday*, so maybe I’ll take it easy a bit rather than spend 4+ hours a day working on scanlating. Anyhow, ba-bye! I hope you all enjoy this series!
Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://discord.gg/fxrmZufp
Edit: Some of the links seemingly didn’t get updated from the last post somehow. They should all be fixed.
Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Wide-Ban 239
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Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Wide-Ban 240
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Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! Wide-Ban 13 (Ch 229-247)
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Toriko 2002 One-Shot
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Well that was quite a ride, i admit that the series gets a bit tedious to read at times because of how wordy it was, but the visual gags really strike you whenever you least expect them, so it eventually gets you a laugh out of you.
I think he got way better at drawing and writing dramatic arcs on Toriko, the final arc with the barbarians felt more edgy rather than dramatic to me.
And Guts Island remains my favorite battle adventure arc so far.
So thank you guys for working on this manga, i can’t even think how much work it went into this.
wide ban vol 13 – wrong file uploaded.. only 20mb
Congrats on completing this leviathan of a task!
Congrats, I can’t believe how fast you translated this manga alone
thankyou and congrats for the hard work!
The mega-link to chapter 240 still points to chapter 241. Thank you for updating the links otherwise.
Definitely not an easy or obvious task to get done. Congratulations for your efforts and all those involved!
Take some time off if it feels needed
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