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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This volume felt a little goofier than normal. Not completely comedic but I suppose after all the twists, turns and melodrama of the Sunlight arc, Hirokane decided to go inject some levity as a pallette cleanser.
Honestly I found it hilarious that every appearance of Konno was sort of caricaturesque just to double down on how irredeemably dumb he is.
Always so excited when I see a new volume of this series drop! Please keep up the good work.