Holy shit we made it. Man, after about a year and a half we’ve finished the whole Section Chief Shima Kōsaku series. It kinda felt like we’d never get here for a while, it’s a seriously difficult series and I probably went overboard working on this, but we got all the way to the end of the first part of the series. All seventeen volumes and the entire run of Shima’s journey from “regular guy” to where he is here which is sort of a “super salaryman”. This volume contains uhhh the whole climax of the major elements of the Section Chief story. So not much to say without spoiling it, but a lot happens.
In a lot of ways this first series is a complete story. It has a bunch of story arcs and a clear through-line of the journeys of all its major characters. So I’m pretty proud of the fact that we got through all this. This was my original goal, to at least get the first series done. I think “Section Chief” is a great series even if you feel like at that point you’ve “had enough” and don’t want to continue past that.
Uhhh so I guess we’re gonna start on Division Chief Shima Kōsaku next! From here I don’t really have a plan beyond “Well I still feel like doing it so I’ll keep doing it.” I dunno about trying to do the whole series or anything because that would basically mean this is the one series I work on for several years, even if I went really, really fast. So I dunno about that. But let’s start on Division Chief and see where that goes. That series is pretty hard, by the way. As the story progresses from here it becomes more about economics and different industries and how they work, since the protagonist is less of a “regular guy” and more of a “major guy”. But all the various human drama, slice of life stuff still continues. So I hope you all look forward to it.
Enjoy the finale of Part 1 everybody! See you in Part 2!
Check out my summary here of what this series is about if you haven’t seen it yet.
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Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 17 (Ch165-175)
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