Okay, volume 51! We’ve got 5 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here.

So, one thing I did between this volume and the last one is I found a couple of tools I could use to help automate checking a little. I found a python library I could use to extract the text from the PSDs and then take that extracted text to find spelling mistakes and typos of the sort you’d get a squiggly green underline under in Microsoft Word, this way it’s a lot easier to find mistakes. I’m using this in addition to a Github project we’ve been using for a while called PanelCleaner which you can use to get basically accurate OCR’d text from the manga into an excel file. So it becomes a lot easier to then check the Japanese text against the translation for each page. I’m hoping this speeds things up a bit and makes checking easier, not just for this series but for doing checks on other ones too. I mentioned this in the last few posts but basically this project is a giant mountain of busy work, the sort you’d like to automate but even automating as much as we can it still takes a good few minutes per page and there’s about 4,500 pages total across these 25 volumes. Anyhow using that seems to have helped, hopefully everything was caught and I found all the jokes I had slightly wrong cause I misread them or whatever, but if anyone notices any other mistakes in these let me know and I’ll try to fix them.

This volume is the latter half of the Snot Diamond’z idol group battle, the short arc about Hijikata winning the lottery, the whole Kurokono Tasuke and Gin-Katsura-Sakamoto reunion arc, and then a single gag chapter about hiding erotic books. I’m not sure about you all but I basically forgot some of these arcs existed. Well I would have probably if I didn’t spend so many hours on this series that a blur of every chapter I worked on is permanently seared into my brain and will be for the rest of my life.

Besides this, all the other of V46-50 are in progress and being finalized. I’m also using the tools mentioned above to find any mistakes from the volumes we already released and fixing them which requires some manual work to check. And I’ll be doing that for a bunch of our other series, too, once I get to it. It makes things a lot faster but I still need to go through every suggestion and make sure the typsetting didn’t get messed up. Also The JOJOLands volume 9 and Executive Managing Director Shima V3 are almost done. And there’s a 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter in the next Young Animal and the next new The JOJOLands chapter comes out in 8 days. So a lot going on at the moment. But we’ll get through it all.

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

Gintama Volume 51 (Ch446-455)
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