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Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 11

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 11

Whew, ok! This time we finished in less than a month and a half so I’m pretty happy about that. This series is hard folks, I hope ya’ll are enjoying it. For this volume we head straight now into the next (and last) major arc of the Division Chief series, which is Shima’s time as Senior Managing Director at the Hatsushiba Sales Center in Hakata, Fukuoka. It’s got all sorts of stuff about working at a sales center and what life is like in Fukuoka around 2001. It’s got a lot of great stuff, I hope ya’ll enjoy it.

Believe it or not we’re now nearing the end of the Division Chief arc. We started on Division Chief in April of 2023 so it’s been about a year and a half to get 11 volumes done which is pretty good, imho, given we’re doing this and a bunch of other projects and also I don’t get paid for this shit. Also it has tons of text, different fields of subject matter, and every volume is over 220 pages long. But man it feels good to have gotten this far. I really do love this series. We’re 28 volumes into the overall series now, I think. We got the first volume out in September of 2021 so now this project is over 3 years old. Time sure flies, huh? Anyhow I’m gonna keep going as long as I feel like I can spare the time to work on it.

The last two volumes of Division Chief are pretty great ones where all the many plotlines across Division Chief, which came out over the course of nearly a decade. Well, except for the stuff that gets resolved in later parts of the manga. But quite a lot is concluded in those two final volumes and they’re some of the best in the series, so look forward to them! There’s been no Jojo or 3-Gatsu no Lion this month, and the next Jojo chapter is in late November on the 19th Japan time, so we should be doing that around then. The next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter is sometime in the future, no idea when. And I’m in the middle of working on Kokou no Hito volume 9 now. We’re getting through that series pretty fast but that’s mainly because I’m only editing the translation rather than redoing it from scratch. I’m hoping I can finish that series sometime in the beginning of 2025. Anyhow, see ya later!

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 11 (Ch125-137)
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Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Volume 8

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K so this one is all done too! This one gets to the climax of the K2 Simulation Training Ridge Traversal arc. Though there’s still a few more chapters of it in the first half of volume 9. This is 8 our of 17 so we’re now ALMOST half way through the series. I’ve had a bunch of time to do this this month since there’s no Jojo or 3-Gatsu to do. But like I said, it’s still gonna take a while cause I can’t just marathon through these. It becomes sorta mind-numbing at a point when you’ve been doing it for hours a day. And all the redrawing still takes a while every volume.

Shima volume 11 is coming along nicely, I’ve got about 3 chapters in that left to translate now. So that’s what I’m working on at the moment. Hope ya’ll enjoy!

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Kokou no Hito Volume 8 (Ch. 73-82)
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Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Volume 7

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Whew! So here’s volume 7. This one we got done pretty quickly. We’ve got 10 volumes to go now. As always I’m trying to work on this enough to get it done without taking too long because it’s already translated, but I’ve gotta balance it with other stuff. I’m trying to avoid any issues and do all the redraws and get all the fonts looking good and all that. I kind of don’t like the styles OMFGG chose for the most part. A lot of font choices weren’t great and the text was often not sized right (Usually it was too big and text had a lot of words with hyphens going onto two lines when that wasn’t needed). A lot of the I’m mainly trying to keep this project from being TOO long so I can move onto some other project I haven’t already translated sometime soon. I have a couple ideas for those. Anyhow we’ve already started on volume 8 at this point, too. There’s way fewer sound effects and less overall text at this point in the manga so it SHOULD take less time per volume from here. So I’m aiming for around one every 2-3 weeks, if all goes well.

Meanwhile I’m also doing Shima, and volume 11 is about half way translated now. I kinda feel better doing just these two things rather than juggling four or so projects at once so I feel a bit better. I’ve had a lot of stuff going on outside scanlating this year so it’s good not to do everything at once.

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Kokou no Hito Volume 7 (Ch. 63-72)
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