Okay, we made it to volume 55! We’ve got 9 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. So now we’re past the Shogun Assassination arc, which means now every volume has a lot more text generally speaking and they’re made up of shorter gag arcs and semi-serious arcs. This one contains chapter 487 which I think was never animated in the anime? I heard somewhere it wasn’t, I haven’t checked personally. It also contains the Saitou Shimaru arc and the Aizen Kou/Love Potion arc.

Because these last bunch of volumes have a lot of text it takes me longer to check them, and a lot of this I’m just doing on my own. One other person is helping but that’s it. So it’s a lot of dull work, it’s a really long slog, and it’s not particularly rewarding to spot typos and tiny translation mistakes or rewording lines I translated back in 2014 or so. But ya know I wanna get this done and there’s not a ton left now. All the cleaning and redrawing and all that are done. Now I’m reading through every line in English and Japanese and making sure it all looks good. Hopefully I caught all the typos. Oh also this volume had a popularity poll results announcement, one where in the magazine it only had like the top 15 or so, but in the volume it had all the rest of it, which took forever to do in addition to the rest of the extras for this volume. I hope somebody somewhere reads all that at least once, cause god, I’m getting a headache just remembering doing that a couple months ago.

Anyhow, there’s new 3-Gatsu and The JOJOLands coming out soon. I’m working on more Executive Director Shima as well. I have to take breaks between these Gintama volumes because it’s just like torture doing lots of it in a row. Anyhow, enjoy folks. We’re almost there!

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Gintama Volume 55 (Ch487-496)
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