Hey everyone we made it to Managing Director volume 5! This is probably the last release of the year, unless we finish the volume version of The JOJOLands volume 7 soon. Man I’ve done a lot of hours of working on this series this year. Most of this volume is a story arc about Chūfā CEO Sun Rui and Noriko.

With this, we’ve gotten 7 volumes of Shima done this year. Which I think is pretty good given that I spent a lot of the year balancing like 50 things and trying not to keep anything from dropping or falling apart. So I’m counting that as a win. As it stands we’ve got 3 more volumes of Managing Director and then 6 in Executive Managing Director and 5 in Senior Managing Director to finish the whole Director arc(s). We’ll see how much of that we can do next year, but as always I’m trying to make sure I don’t overdo it on this because I’m doing most of this project on my own and I need to save my energy for various other parts of my life sometimes. Also the volumes get shorter after Managing Director finishes, so each volume should go quicker. We really have gotten through a lot of it now, we’ve done 35 volumes of this series.

For the record, of the longer series we’ve done we’ve released:
45 volumes of Gintama (Plus the Koujien Fanbook stuff)
37 volumes of Toriko (Plus the original one-shot and some extras)
16 volumes of Innocent+Rouge
17 volumes of Kokou no Hito
16 volumes of Gash (Plus various bonus things)
13 wide-bans of Takeshi (Which is like 26-ish if it were regular volumes)
27 volumes of JoJolion + ~8 of The JOJOLands + 1 Rohan so about 36 volumes of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Plus two novels which are quite long)
31.5 volumes of 81diver

So Shima is creeping up towards being one of the series we’ve released the most volumes for. Which I think is pretty impressive for a series with a ton of complicated economics and business jargon on half the pages. I was just thinking about that, given we’re releasing it pretty quickly all things considered. Though also some of those series I worked on more volumes of it but with another group, like I did all of Innocent and 81diver but those were done with Utopia Scans and a few other small groups. So it depends on what you want to count it. (Also the typesetting on Shima is really simple which helps, we usually typeset a whole volume within a few days).

Anyhow I’m thankful to folks who’ve stuck with this series, I really love it. I’m gonna keep going with it for now, we’ll see how far we get. I appreciate all the staff who I’ve worked with to get everything released this year that we have. If we don’t release anything else this year, I hope you all have happy holidays and a happy new year.

Also, we have a Discord! Come hang out and talk about manga. https://discord.gg/Nw45rfJYZF

Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 5 (Ch53-65)
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