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Section Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 11

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Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 11

Hey everybody, we’re back with volume 11. This volume took a bit longer than the last couple because we did uh… Three 3-Gatsu no Lion chapters, an Ikoku Nikki chapter, and a whole volume of DRCL in between. Which really took a lot out of me to be honest, that DRCL volume. Compared to that, translating this volume where we there’s long sections about consulting companies and foreign aid and inter-company deal making around building factories was downright easy. Anyhow I’m glad to be back on doing this series and I’m thankful to all those that helped out. A lot of these projects are mainly just me doing all or most of the jobs so it can be a bit exhausting. Like I mentioned in some of the other posts here about Shima, I dunno how long a lot of these volumes will end up taking me since there’s no limit to how fast we could potentially do these since the series is already out in Japanese. I basically need to find my own personal equilibrium where I’m making progress on this but not going so overboard that I get burnt out or I’m neglecting some other part of my life. It can be tricky at times.

I should give a warning that this story does get a bit dark at times and one of the darker events happens in this volume, so be warned. This volume also takes place entirely in the Philippines, and has a lot more story talking about what it was like there in the early 90’s and Japan’s relationship with them. Anyhow, enjoy, everyone! Tell other folks about this series if you like it, I think it’s really something unique and unlike anything else I’ve ever read. I hope we can grow the English-speaking fandom somewhat.

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

Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://discord.gg/Nw45rfJYZF

Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 11 (Ch99-109)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 197

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Ooookay, here we are at this month’s 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter! We’re now back to the Kiriyama/Nikaidou/Shimada story. I hope you all enjoy! See you next month for the next one, probably.

We’re pretty far along with Shima Kōsaku v11 and we’re trying to get that done soonish. Though we had so many things in a row with working on that and DRCL I’m trying not to over-extend myself working on this stuff in all my free time.

If you didn’t see before we released our finished version of volume 16 with all the various changes and extras and updates here.

Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://discord.gg/Nw45rfJYZF

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#DRCL midnight children Volume 2

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Ok, so here is DRCL volume 2! This one was also a huge slog! I spent several hours a day on this almost every day for 3 weeks to get this finished! I had some help which I really appreciate but I ended up needing to do the majority of it myself and this was a huge, massively time consuming task. Thanks to PronouncedSmith for doing a bunch of redrawing of the last two chapters, Luigi for doing most of the typesetting, and them plus Su Shi and Ai for helping check and edit (Which was itself a huge task). I’m really hoping I can get more help by the time the next volume comes out or I may not be able to continue this project. Even after speeding up a lot after figuring out a good workflow from doing volume 1, this still took forever mainly due to all the redrawing, double-page spread joining, and getting the whites white and blacks black and all that to make it look good.

As last time, this is scanned at 1200dpi of the physical raw and manually has all the redraws and page joins and everything done. That’s on top of translating and typesetting and all that. So we have an uncompressed version that’s really huge (5.2GB) and the more compressed version which is still pretty big which is what goes on Mangadex due to filesize limitations there which is more like 500MB.

Uncompressed Volume 2

The next volume comes out in Spring 2023! I’ll see what the heck is going on in my life at that point. I just really can’t dedicate nearly a month of my time doing every job on each of these.

Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://discord.gg/Nw45rfJYZF

#DRCL midnight children Volume 2 (Ch. 8-14)
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Ikoku Nikki Ch. 49

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Oookay here we are with this month’s Ikoku Nikki! It’s a good one, hope you enjoy. Feels like it’s continuing its examination of the major themes of the story that have been building up for a while. There should be a regular chapter next issue where Ikoku Nikki has the opening color pages.

DRCL volume 2 is finally almost done. I’ve basically just been working on that every day for the past 3 weeks or so. And I’ve translated some of Shima volume 11 but mostly I’ve been prioritizing DRCL so that’s probably not gonna be done for a little while. 3-Gatsu no Lion isn’t in the upcoming Young Animal issue so the next chapter of that is probably in the following issue. I’m gonna feel good once DRCL is done because that’s just been a huge headache and every step has been a slog. Ok, well, enjoy this chapter, folks!

Also check out the new one-off series of short stories we just finished, Gishi Sanjinden! It’s awesome and took forever to finish.

Also, we have a new Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://discord.gg/Nw45rfJYZF

Ikoku Nikki 49
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