Okay, here’s volume 13. We’re honestly pretty close to the end now. It’s probably obvious reading it but a lot of pages have no text at all and a lot that do have text have not much. Sakamoto-sensei really comes into his style of expressing things very purely with visuals here at a more extreme level than he did earlier on where it was just an occasional panel or page and now it’s more than half of them. Also I’m including all of the color pages here which I think weren’t included in all the old releases. I still had them then but I think they sometimes included them and sometimes just sort of ignored them and didn’t put them in the release. These are all from when I bought the physical Young Jump magazines at the time because there was no digital version. Also this is the last volume that was originally done by OMFGG scans, which stopped responding to me and existing at a group all together shortly after they released volume 13. So past this point we’re doing a fixed up version of the bunch of volumes done by Easy-Going Scans.

This is the point in the story where Buntarō has finally established a happy home life where he’s not escaping to mountains to get away from the misery of the rest of his life but then he’s being pulled in the opposite direction of finally getting his chance to climb K2 which has been his life’s goal up to that point. He’s dealing with the inner conflict of passion VS family. Or maybe one “home” VS another “home”. Or two different identities. The identity that wants to feel free and experience all these powerful things on mountains and an identity wanting to be with people and form emotional connections with them. I made sure every time it’s in the background I typeset the “Climb the number one mountain in the world” sign which kind of looms as this symbol of his “passion” identity and past self from when he was totally alone.

So our scanlation of this series, or “fix-up” or “re-scanlation”, is almost done. I mentioned in previous posts I went ahead and cleaned/typeset all the way to the end because it was easier due to the lack of text. Now I’m almost done typesetting, too. I’m in the middle of volume 17 now, which is the last one. Mainly I’m just waiting on the QC team to check these over and we’ll be all done. I’m not gonna rush them to do it but I wanted to get my part done and then I can go back to working on other stuff. But volumes 14, 15, and 16 are being checked now, and I’ll probably finish typesetting volume 17 sometime in the next few days, so the rest of the series will probably be released in not *too* long. Once I finish typesetting v17 I’m gonna go back to translating Shima volume 12. Besides that, we also have the new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter this week and we’re working on The JOJOLands volume 5. So I’ll definitely continue to be busy for a bit. I hope you all enjoy!

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Kokou no Hito Volume 13 (Ch. 123-132)
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