And here’s 64. We’ve got 18 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the one where the Joui Four finally reunite. Also it’s got Kamui’s fight against Umibouzu and Kagura. It has the rest of the Kouka flashback/backstory, too.

I’ve been working on this stuff a lot in hopes of eventually finishing this before I die. So far, in addition to what we’ve released, we’ve cleaned/redrawn everything in volume 60-63. I still have to do the extras for all those though. It really takes a while and it’s pretty tedious but doing some of it every day is working. I still have to do the vast majority of volumes 46-59 though which is still a ton. I probably will need to take some breaks though. My head is melting from spending so many hours going through these. The typesetting and translations are all done but I do need to adjust the text somewhat, do the inline sound-effects, and clean and redraw everything and fix the edges of the pages which differ from the digital and physical raws as an artifact of the automation process by lining up the physical raws with upscaled digital ones.

Meanwhile, there’s another 3-Gatsu no Lion in a couple weeks. I’m translating Shima volume 6 too. Anyhow I hope you all enjoy these. The Gintama Yoshiwara in Flames movie is coming out soon, anyone seeing that?

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Gintama Volume 64 (Ch572-580)
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Okay, here we are at 65. We’ve got 19 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is primarily the main closure/battle with Umibouzu, Kagura, and Kamui. It also has one of the Utsuro fights. Volume 64, the next one we’ll do, is the one with the flashback about Koudka, Kagura’s mom, for the most part. This has a little of it. The most annoying thing with this volume was they included one of the popularity poll results but they rearranged it slightly so the whole thing had to be re-redrawn and re-typeset from scratch.

I’ve been working on this project at least a little every day. So now every volume has at least a little bit done. But I think for the most part at this point I’m gonna focus on just going through them one volume at a time rather than trying to do all of one thing or another in each volume. Like I did the first and last page of each volume, I did the title pages and ending pages of all the chapters in some volumes, I looked up bits and redid them because I knew there were parts of the translation I wanted to change, I did a whole bunch of quick gimme-pages, stuff like that. But now pretty much all that’s left is hack away at each volume which is gonna take like 10+ hours of work each and there’s 18 more of them. But even with all the progress we’ve made, and I think it’s gone really well so far, we still have a long way to go and I’m gonna have to take breaks to go back to Shima and stuff like that. Also volume 64 is almost done I just gotta translate the extras.

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

Gintama Volume 65 (Ch581-589)
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Hey here’s another one, here’s Gintama 66. We’ve got 20 volume versions left to do now. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume has a bunch of stuff about Utsuro’s origins and motives. This is the first part of the story where Sorachi-sensei started acting like “Ok the series is really heading for the end now” and then it went for 11 more volumes. There’s an extra page added. Page 125-127 were originally just one page in the original chapter 595. That little speech was expanded somewhat.

Anyhow I’m really glad we’re making progress on these at a fairly good pace now. In the past few weeks I worked on all the re-cleaning and re-redrawing and re-typesetting of SFX for a bunch of random pages or little chunks of volumes in an attempt to get every volume “partially done” rather than do an entire volume done at once. Like I did all of the title pages and tables of contents and character-intro pages in the beginnings of these. I was gonna keep going with that and do something like “do all the title pages of every chapter” but we’re doing all the way back to volume 46 remember so any time you do anything like that it’s 20-something times, and if it’s in every chapter it’s like 180+ times. And if you’re gonna do all that you might as well just focus on getting something out/done while you have time, because I dunno if I’ll still have time to work on these things months from now depending on how my schedule goes. So I think from here I’m mainly gonna stick to just working on “the next one” and working backwards.

Uh besides that I’m still working on Managing Director Shima 6. That’s about it at the moment. Well, enjoy, everyone! We’re just slowly making our way up this mountain of Gintama chapters.

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

Gintama Volume 66 (Ch590-598)
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Hey, we’re back, first release of the new year, here’s Gintama volume 67. We’ve got 21 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. As usual this one has better resolution, more image on the tops and bottoms of the pages, fixes from the author, extras, made the fonts better, it’s got sound effects in-line, all that. With this volume we’ve finally done volume versions of the entire Silver Soul Arc. Man that arc was long wasn’t it? As always this project is sort of a side project where we just gotta get some of it done every once in a while until the whole thing is finished because it takes several days of work to do one volume and there’s a ton of them, so I can’t really marathon through them all. Maybe we’ll finish all the way to volume 46 eventually, we’ll see. After this is the arc about Utsuro and Oboro’s origins and then the arc with Kamui and Kouka.

Meanwhile, The JOJOLands volume 7 is almost done and we started working on Managing Director Shima volume 6 but I haven’t gotten too far in that yet.

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

Gintama Volume 67 (Ch599-607)
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