Whew! Well we did it, we made it to volume 8. When I first read this series I think it was around here where I knew I had to work on it. The drama in this volume is so good. Volume 8 in its entirety is one long arc where the plotline happening in the background about the Oizumi faction and the Tomapechi faction comes to a head. Though it doesn’t quite end here, it finishes in volume 9. But this is most of it. And it’s great. Just a lot of stuff happening here with a lot of interesting plotting and a lot of emotions all around. I’ve made a thousand of these posts and I’m still not good at summarizing these things. But seriously come check this out, you’ll love it. And soon we’ll reach the big conclusion to this arc next volume.

We’re nearly half way through Section Chief now with 8 of the 17 volumes done. I love working on it but I dunno what pace it’ll come out as since I’m always in a desperate struggle to manage my time properly between this and the rest of my life. This one got done a bit faster since there was no Ikoku Nikki this month, and there’s none next month either it looks like. The next 3-Gatsu comes out August 26th Japan time. And they just announced that #DRCL volume 2 is coming out October 19th. So lots of stuff coming up.

Check out my summary here of what this series is about if you haven’t seen it yet.

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

Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 8 (Ch65-75)
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Okay! Here we are at volume 7. Man, this series is a lot of work. It’s been about a month since the last one now and man did that take a lot of effort to finish a volume in a month. I probably can’t keep getting them all done this fast. Thanks so much to all the staff that helped work on it.

This volume takes a bit of a break for the most part from the company political intrigue parts of the story to focus more on the interpersonal aspects of the story. It finishes off the introduction to Ōmachi Kumiko, introduces the long-running character Manager Konno, and a bunch of other stuff happens. It’s really got a lot. That sorta always happens when you’re releasing a whole volume at once. Really we get a lot of insight and a lot of emotion in the lives of all the major characters more or less. A lot of examining of different forms of love and weird types of humans and their lives. I hope you enjoy it!

Next volume, whenever we end up getting that done, has lots of company political intrigue for the whole volume, so look forward to that if that’s a thing you’re into. See ya later everybody!

Check out my summary here of what this series is about if you haven’t seen it yet.

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Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 7 (Ch56-64)
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Whew! We made it to volume 6! Finally, after working on this for about 9 months now, we’ve made it to this volume where a bunch of the main characters are introduced. I won’t go too much into it but this volume is one of my favorites and it starts up a bunch of the best plotlines of the story which will continue for the next few volumes. Plus it’s also got a ton of good shorter episodic stories in it.

Check out my summary here of what this series is about if you haven’t seen it yet.

Anyhow, I’m doing this series whenever I have time so I dunno how frequently new volumes will end up coming out. Regardless, I hope you enjoy it! I’m glad folks are enjoying this series so far.

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Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 6 (Ch47-55)
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All right, here we are with Shima Kōsaku volume 5! The last one was about 7 weeks ago. But we’re still going at a pretty good pace I’d say. DRCL took up all my time for a while plus the Ikoku Nikki stuff. But now finally I’m all that and now I can relax a bit. Which I probably won’t do anyhow I’ll probably just work on translating something else. Probably the next Shima volume.

Check out my summary here of what this series is about if you haven’t seen it yet.

Ok so uh this volume is made up of the rest of the Kyoto arc. As in most of this series, it’s made up of a lot of episodic events with a few changes in some larger plotlines. A lot of the Shima Kо̄saku series is about examining different types of people and different parts of life. Seeing personal struggles in the world from different perspectives. That’s part of what I really like about it. But as a result there is a LOT of text to translate and a LOT of subject matter that you need to understand well enough to word properly in English. So each of these is a lot of work. I’m sure if you read a lot of manga you can tell a lot of the word bubbles have a lot more text than most other series. The vast majority of the effort with these goes into translating as opposed to something like DRCL which was easy-ish to translate but then took forever to clean and redraw. Anyhow if you’d like to volunteer to help at one of the jobs (cleaning or typesetting or proofreading mainly with this series) out you can feel free to email me kewl0210@gmail.com.

Next volume is one of my favorites because it’s where two of the main characters of the series finally show up. So look forward to that.

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Section Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 5 (Ch37-46)
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