All right, here we are with Shima Kōsaku volume 5! The last one was about 7 weeks ago. But we’re still going at a pretty good pace I’d say. DRCL took up all my time for a while plus the Ikoku Nikki stuff. But now finally I’m all that and now I can relax a bit. Which I probably won’t do anyhow I’ll probably just work on translating something else. Probably the next Shima volume.

Check out my summary here of what this series is about if you haven’t seen it yet.

Ok so uh this volume is made up of the rest of the Kyoto arc. As in most of this series, it’s made up of a lot of episodic events with a few changes in some larger plotlines. A lot of the Shima Kо̄saku series is about examining different types of people and different parts of life. Seeing personal struggles in the world from different perspectives. That’s part of what I really like about it. But as a result there is a LOT of text to translate and a LOT of subject matter that you need to understand well enough to word properly in English. So each of these is a lot of work. I’m sure if you read a lot of manga you can tell a lot of the word bubbles have a lot more text than most other series. The vast majority of the effort with these goes into translating as opposed to something like DRCL which was easy-ish to translate but then took forever to clean and redraw. Anyhow if you’d like to volunteer to help at one of the jobs (cleaning or typesetting or proofreading mainly with this series) out you can feel free to email me kewl0210@gmail.com.

Next volume is one of my favorites because it’s where two of the main characters of the series finally show up. So look forward to that.

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Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 5 (Ch37-46)
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