Monthly Archives: September 2023

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) Volume 17

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Whew. Ok, and now at last, here’s this. 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 17. For those keeping track, this is the first volume since we released the last one in October 2021. As time has gone on these volumes have been spaced out father and farther. I figure that’s due to Umino-sensei getting older but also because of how much time she’s spending polishing the story. This volume has a good number of little changes from the magazine versions, including being much better resolution. (We made this one a bit higher resolution than volume 16 in exchange for it taking up a bit more space).

Like last time, Umino-sensei has combined some chapters together, likely so they don’t end so abruptly. Also the chapter numbers have shifted back a bit so the volume numbers don’t skip any numbers (Though there’s still no volume chapter 153).
Magazine chapter 184 is now volume chapter 194 (Shifted to the end of the volume.)
Magazine 185 and 186 are volume 180.
Magazine 187 is volume 181.
Magazine 188 is volume 182
Magazine 189 is volume 183.
Magazine 190 and 191 are volume 184.
Magazine 192 is volume 185.
Magazine 193 is volume 186.
Magazine 194 is volume 187.
Magazine 195 and 196 are volume 188.
Magazine 197 is volume 189.
Magazine 198 is volume 190.
Magazine 199 is volume 191.
Magazine 200 is volume 192.
Magazine 201 is volume 193.

So now as a result volume 18 will probably start with chapter 194. But as of now we’re just gonna leave the magazine releases as-is and we’ll replace them once the volume comes out. This is all in addition to a lot of little changes to some lines and some art. Nothing quite so intense as last volume where entire panels and pages were added, though in the last arc of the volume focusing around Shimada some art was heavily altered/replaced. Also we left in the color pages from the magazine and like the last volumes we stuck back in the splash pages that started a couple chapters that were removed because the chapters were combined. And as usual it has a bunch of essays about shogi from Senzaki Manabu 9-dan and a bunch of extras between chapters and at the end.

At the end of the extra pages at the end, Umino-sensei says that 3-Gatsu no Lion is “in the final stretch”. So possibly it may be done relatively soon. But given how slow this series comes out it may still be a couple years at least. As of now, we don’t know when the next chapter will come out as it’s not listed in the “next issue” page on the Young Animal website. So we’re just waiting till the next one.

In the meantime, I’ve spent the last like… several months doing volume versions of stuff and I ended up having to do the vast majority of them myself in addition to scanning and transferring text and finding changes and such. So I’m really glad this is finally done and I can take a bit of a break. But also I can finally get back to volume 3 of Division Chief Shima Kōsaku which I keep getting pulled away from. There’s no Jojo next month, Ikoku Nikki is done, and there’s no more 3-Gatsu for a bit at least, so I hope I’ll be able to get more of that done soon.

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

3-Gatsu no Lion Volume 17 (Ch180-194)
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The JOJOLands Ch. 8

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Aaand here is chapter 8! This was a very Jojo-y week, with now this right after finishing volume 1. I really liked this chapter, it had some great character moments. There’s no new The JOJOLands chapter next issue of Ultra Jump, so the next chapter won’t be until the following month, and it set to come out November 17th Japan time. So after all that at once we’ll get a nice break and I can work on some other things and get normal human amounts of sleep hopefully.

Uhhh everything else is still at about the same stage as it was on Thursday. We’re working on 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 17 and Division Chief Shima Kōsaku volume 3. Also the next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter comes out soon on September 22nd Japan time, so pretty soon. Anyhow, enjoy!

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The JOJOLands Ch. 8
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The JOJOLands Volume 1

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Whew, ok well we finally have made it to a fully completed volume of The JOJOLands. This took a whole ton of effort to get everything as good as it could be and I am now totally exhausted.

For those that are unfamiliar, volumes of Jojo typically come out several months after their chapters come out. Usually around 2 or 3 volumes a year, generally containing 4 or 5 chapters. For all of our releases we’re scanning the physical raws which are the highest quality and resolution raw source, which takes a while to manually clean and redraw compared to the digital ones. That’s in addition to the fact that it has to be scanned and it’s about 200 pages all at once. Typically these volumes have more image data on the tops and bottoms of the pages and a little bit cut from the sides of the pages relative to the magazine version and also include any changes Araki-sensei decided to make after the release of the magazine versions. They also include the cover and extra pages between the chapters with little drawings. They’re generally considered the “definitive” or “archival” versions of the manga. At least until some sort of kanzenban/collector’s edition comes out. They also look slightly different from the digital versions due to how Shuueisha compresses their images. For some reason they tend to sorta blur them in a weird specific way that makes white dots on dark fields look sorta “more prominent” (It’s sorta hard to explain just through text). For these we’re using larger pixel dimensions for The JOJOLands than we did with JoJolion. These are 2560 pixels tall, whereas our JoJolion ones were 1400 pixel tall. So they’re a higher resolution than those were with the tradeoff of having a bit larger file size (Regardless both versions are way way higher res than the digital versions).

The next The JOJOLands chapter is slated to come out on the 19th Japan time, so only a few days from now. There’s also a new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter coming out next week and we’re working on scanlating 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 17 as well. I’m also working on Division Chief Shima Kōsaku volume 3 and I’m somewhere a little past the half way point in translating that right now. Between Jojo, 3-Gatsu, and DRCL volumes all coming out around the same time it’s taken up a lot of my time so Shima is taking a bit longer. Also a lot of these Shima chapters are really hard because of all the discussion about the wine industry. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy, everyone.

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The JOJOLands Volume 1 (Ch. 1-4)
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