Monthly Archives: January 2025

Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 12

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 11

OK, finally, here we are, volume 12! It’s been about 3 months since the last chapter, which is kind of a while, largely due to the fact that I was working on finishing the end of Kokou no Hito, those 3-Gatsu chapters, and then all the The JOJOLands stuff including volume 5. But now finally this is all done. And with this, we have just 1 volume left in the Division Chief arc. We’re actually into the final bunkoban now (The bunkobans have more chapters crammed into fewer books). And then we’ll be off to Managing Director Shima Kōsaku.

You can kind of tell when you read it but this is the finale of a lot or else the setup for the finale for a lot. As this period marks a major checkpoint in Shima’s life. They talk about it in the volume, but very few salarymen reach all the way to being a director. A lot either retire at the division chief level or else leave the company even in old age. The Division Chief arc goes from 1992 to 2002, making it the longest arc in terms of time it took to come out. Though I should also mention a lot of Managing Director volume 1 is a sort of epilogue to the Division Chief arc so maybe I should be waiting to talk about all this. But we’re almost there! I started working a bit on volume 13 and I’ll try to get it done a bit sooner. I should have time as everything else is caught up at the moment. I hope you enjoy it!

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 12 (Ch138-150)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 212

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Ok here’s chapter 212! This is more of the sort of thing that was going on in chapter 211. I’m very exhausted from working nonstop everyday for the last while. Uh, so the next chapter is coming out later sometime, I dunno when. Doesn’t seem to be next issue. In the meantime we’re finishing up Shima volume 12. Sooo later.

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3-Gatsu no Lion 212
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The JOJOLands Ch. 22

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The JOJOLands 22

Hey ya’ll, here’s this month’s chapter. For this chapter we scanlated it from a physical raw because that’s the only raw we could get early this month. Which may happen more in the future probably because we’ve had a number of problems getting early raws recently. Possibly we won’t be able to do it early at all depending on how things go but we’re continuing to do that as much as a means of combating snipers, which always happens with this series, much to my personal frustration. Anyhow if you noticed it looks a bit different than usual, that’s why. We all worked really hard on this chapter. I worked nearly 24 hours straight on it. So I hope you all enjoy.

Besides this, go check out our scanlation of volume 5, I also worked super hard on that. I’m in the middle of translating Shima volume 12, which I should finally have time to finish now after all the stuff from the last few weeks. Really looking forward to doing that and maybe some other projects where I can do at whatever pace I want and don’t need to cram the whole thing into one day.

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The JOJOLands Ch. 22
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The JOJOLands Volume 5

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Hey everybody, I hope you’re having a good new year. Man we’re 5 volumes in already. Time sure flies. As usual this is mainly just a higher resolution version of the existing chapters with more image on the tops and bottoms and slightly less on the sides. And as usual this is done with scans of the physical raws which are way higher resolution than the digital ones. There’s also a handful of pages with new screentones and more blood spatter added and some things like that but they’re hard to notice if you’re not comparing the pages directly. I mentioned this in the last The JOJOLands post but also the name of the banker “Mack” has been changed to “Yokohama” and Acca Howler is now the 8th head of the Howler family rather than the 76th. Also a bunch of the numbers having to do with the loans and such changed for some reason.

This compiles up to the chapter that came out just a month and a half ago so there’s not much buffer between the magazine and volume chapters now. The next one is scheduled for just “Spring 2025”. The next chapter, which is chapter 22, is set to come out on the 18th Japan time. We’ll try to get it out as soon as we can as usual but stuff with raws has been more difficult lately so we’ll see what happens. In the meantime since Kokou no Hito’s been finished I’m going back to working on Shima volume 12. And there’s a new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter coming out in the next issue of Young Animal that comes out on the 24th Japan time.

Edit 1/16/2024: There was a page missing somehow, that’s fixed now.

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The JOJOLands Volume 5 (Ch. 17-20)
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