BWAM here’s volume 12. A lot of big events happen in this volume and it starts setting up for the final arc which we get into next volume. As usual this volume has lots of great art and a lot of memorable scenes as Mori/Katō Buntarō starts to really change as a person and overcome some of the biggest personal obstacles he’s had up to this point.

So, I talked about this in the last couple posts, but at this point we’re down to the point in the manga where there’s VERY little text compared to early on. It sort of gets less and less as the series goes on and just occasionally has a wordy chapter or two then goes back to chapters where half the pages have no text. Because of that, there’s way less to do in these later volumes, so I’m trying to get this series finished up soon. I finished cleaning and redrawing the whole rest of the series to the end of volume 17. Volume 13 is typeset and being checked and I’ve typeset the beginning of volume 14. Besides the occasional wordy chapters where I need to double check every sentence, most chapters don’t take very long. Some of these take literally 10 minutes, though some take like an hour or two. At this point we have 48 chapters left to release. So I’m trying to get through a lot while I have some free time right now. As usual I’m trying to balance “I want to get this done” with “I don’t want to burn myself out and use all my free time working.” But I don’t think there’s all that many total man-hours of work left so I’m really trying to get it all done.

Meanwhile, we have Jojo this week. Volume 5 is also coming out so we’ll be working on that. And also there’s a new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter coming out later this month, and I’m working on Shima a little while I have some spare time (I’m mostly trying to finish Kokou no Hito before I get back and finish Division Chief Volume 12). So look forward to all that! Enjoy, folks!

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Kokou no Hito Volume 12 (Ch. 113-122)
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