Aaand we’ve made it, here we are at Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 3. This volume took a while because we had multiple individual chapters and entire volumes to scanlate between when we finished the last one and now. But at last, it’s all done. This is in fact our 20th finished volume of the Shima Kōsaku series at this point, so I’m pretty proud of that accomplishment. This series is REALLY hard and takes a lot of effort to translate as well as all the other jobs.
I talked a bunch about what’s happening in the Division Chief arc in the volume 1 and volume 2 posts. This volume mainly continues the arc in the wine industry that was started in volume 2. That arc is pretty much over by the end of this volume but a bit more in that industry happens in the first half of volume 4. Then we’re off to the next one. I’ll be pretty happy once that’s done because all the French terms and technical discussion of the wine industry have been quite a slog to understand well enough to translate. Timeline-wise we’re in the middle of 1999 now.
Besides that, some pretty climactic events happen in this volume. You can kind of tell the beginning of Division Chief here is sort of course-correcting from the “happy end” we had at the end of Section Chief, where the series was originally going to end, maybe. So things can’t go THAT well, there have to be downs along with the ups. Also starting in this volume the story starts to pick back up on old plot lines that were introduced earlier on in the story, something that happens every once in a while as the story moves forward. Anyhow, uhh that’s all I can think to say about this one. Much shorter than the last two I guess. Enjoy, everyone!
If anyone would like to volunteer to help out with checking/editing/cleaning/typesetting any of that for this project, please feel free to email me at kewl0210@gmail.com about it. We could always use more help on this series because of how much gosh-darn stuff there is in every single volume.
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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 3 (Ch21-33)
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I just want to say how much I appreciate what you are doing. I read the few scanlated chapters of section chief many years and had given up hope of someone picking it up. When I saw you were doing I was very happy. Thank you.
Uh, there weren’t any scanlated chapters of Section Chief besides the ones we did. Unless you mean those two volumes of Young Shima Kosaku a group did 10 years or so ago. Did you mean non-translated chapters? Anyhow, glad you’re enjoying it! We’re gonna try to keep up a good pace.
You might be right. My appreciation still stands.
My favorite series that I’m currently reading! Always excited when I check and find y’all updated us with a new volume. Please keep up the good work.
Hey Kewl this is gonna be incredibly random but I was watching a Gash Bell amv randomly and I remembered watching the [A-Destiny] subs you did for Konjiki no Gash Bell all those years ago and loving every bit! Your fansub let me dive into a fun world of demons and magic spell books and I just wanted to personally say thank you. You don’t know how much anime saved my life back in the days. I’m an adult now but patiently waiting for a batch or a just a few new episodes was everything to me back in the days. Bless you and the hard work you put into these fansubs. I hope this reaches you well and again thank you for everything!
I’m so glad to hear folks still remember that! I worked for years on that series, it was the first fan translation project I did. (Though I wasn’t really translating at the time I was doing all the other jobs) It was a real difficult project for teenage me having to figure out how to run everything. Since I couldn’t translate or encode we were always in danger of the project falling apart until the end. But I love that series too, that’s what kept me going through it. I’m so happy it helped you!