So folks, here’s the new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter! This was the first one in a while. The last one was in August if you can believe it. Also as we’re nearing the end of the year and there doesn’t seem to be a new chapter next issue, it looks like there was only 5 chapters of 3-Gatsu no Lion this year. Which isn’t too many. But the series does seem to be nearing the end so maybe Umino-sensei is taking her time to figure things out. Here’s hoping we have more next year. Regardless, it’s another good chapter and I hope ya’ll enjoy.

In the meantime, I finished cleaning and redrawing the ENTIRE rest of the series of Kokou no Hito and now I’m making my way through typsetting. Volume 12 is almost done. Then the last bunch of volumes should get done pretty quickly. And we have Jojo in the upcoming week. And I’m focusing on Kokou no Hito now but once that’s done I’ll be getting back to Shima Kosaku. Hopefully all goes well with that. Enjoy, folks!

Edit: Ok so according to the website which updates when the magazine goes live, there IS a new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter in the last issue of the year after all. So the next chapter should come out December 27th Japan time unless it turns out not to actually be in the magazine despite being in the next-issue-preview again.

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Whew, so here’s the first 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter since May. I really liked this one! It’s 12 pages long so a bit longer than the last good few have been. There’s no chapter next issue of Young Animal so the next chapter will be some time after that, which is in late September.

Meanwhile, Kokou no Hito volume 5 is almost done and we’re still working on Shima volume 10. And we’re gonna be starting working on The JOJOLands volume 4 soon as soon as the book I ordered gets to me. Until next time!

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If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

Ok here’s this! There doesn’t SEEM like there’s a new chapter next issue. But Umino-sensei was seemingly hard at work on it and posted some drawings of names (storyboards) on Twitter. Meanwhile I’m overdoing it working all the time as usual. Anyhow, see you next time!

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If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

Okay! Now Shimada is finally playing Kiriyama! It’s happening! There’s a chapter next issue of Young Animal, too. This is one of those chapters that comes off like it’ll be combined with the following chapter when they get compiled into the volume because it sorta just “ends” without any sort of real closure. So anyhow, go check it out! Unless something weird happens the next chapter should come out on May 24th Japan time (I think? I think it’s skipping one two-week-period after this one).

In the meantime we’re working on Shima volume 8 and The JOJOLands volume 3. I’m trying to balance doing these projects with the rest of my life and not overdo it. And I’ve just had a whole lot going on so I can’t be working on hobbies after a day stressing at work or running around doing other things. But yeah we’re in the middle of Shima volume 8 and I’m gonna keep working on it as I’ve got time.

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If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

Man, I went and checked and this is the first chapter since early December. It really has been a while. There were multiple times since then where the magazine and website listed 3-Gatsu no Lion as being in the next issue and it just wasn’t. Well anyhow now begins the arc of the match between Shimada VS Kiriyama. This chapter just ends with a “continues next time” so there’s no 3-Gatsu in the very next issue, but in theory the next chapter will be around a month from now but we’ll see. In the meantime we’re still working on DRCL volume 4 and the beginning of Division Chief Shima volume 8.

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If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

Ok, here’s the newest one of these! This issue’s chapter is 10 pages long and it’s a fun nicey-nice one. This seems to conclude the uhh… current high-calorie thing happening and then maybe next chapter the Kiriyama VS Shimada match begins. Or maybe something else. Anyhow, there doesn’t seem to be a chapter next issue so it seems like the next 3-Gatsu chapter will be in January 2024. It’s been a great year of 3-Gatsu-ness, I hope you all enjoyed it. There were 6 regular chapters plus volume 17 in 2023, though it looks like the series is back to a regular pace with volume 17 all done so hopefully there’s more new chapters in 2024. See you then!

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Edit: Apparently there IS a chapter next issue despite it not saying “the next chapter is next issue” at the end of this chapter, so we’ll see you again on the 22nd Japan time.

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If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

And here we have 204! The way 203 and 204 work I’m fairly sure they’re chapters that will be combined once we get to volume 18, since 203 doesn’t really have an “ending”. Also there’s only 16 pages between the two of them. Also these were in two issues of Young Animal in a row. The next chapter isn’t in the next consecutive issue so it’s probably gonna be in the issue after that in early December.

Otherwise I’m around half way through translating the next Shima volume and there’s a new Jojo chapter next week. Until then, see ya!

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If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

Ok here we are, chapter 203! This one’s pretty short but there’s another chapter next issue that comes out in two weeks.

Otherwise I’m not doing much besides working on Shima while I have time between non-translation stuff in my life. Anyhow enjoy!

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Whew. Ok, and now at last, here’s this. 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 17. For those keeping track, this is the first volume since we released the last one in October 2021. As time has gone on these volumes have been spaced out father and farther. I figure that’s due to Umino-sensei getting older but also because of how much time she’s spending polishing the story. This volume has a good number of little changes from the magazine versions, including being much better resolution. (We made this one a bit higher resolution than volume 16 in exchange for it taking up a bit more space).

Like last time, Umino-sensei has combined some chapters together, likely so they don’t end so abruptly. Also the chapter numbers have shifted back a bit so the volume numbers don’t skip any numbers (Though there’s still no volume chapter 153).
Magazine chapter 184 is now volume chapter 194 (Shifted to the end of the volume.)
Magazine 185 and 186 are volume 180.
Magazine 187 is volume 181.
Magazine 188 is volume 182
Magazine 189 is volume 183.
Magazine 190 and 191 are volume 184.
Magazine 192 is volume 185.
Magazine 193 is volume 186.
Magazine 194 is volume 187.
Magazine 195 and 196 are volume 188.
Magazine 197 is volume 189.
Magazine 198 is volume 190.
Magazine 199 is volume 191.
Magazine 200 is volume 192.
Magazine 201 is volume 193.

So now as a result volume 18 will probably start with chapter 194. But as of now we’re just gonna leave the magazine releases as-is and we’ll replace them once the volume comes out. This is all in addition to a lot of little changes to some lines and some art. Nothing quite so intense as last volume where entire panels and pages were added, though in the last arc of the volume focusing around Shimada some art was heavily altered/replaced. Also we left in the color pages from the magazine and like the last volumes we stuck back in the splash pages that started a couple chapters that were removed because the chapters were combined. And as usual it has a bunch of essays about shogi from Senzaki Manabu 9-dan and a bunch of extras between chapters and at the end.

At the end of the extra pages at the end, Umino-sensei says that 3-Gatsu no Lion is “in the final stretch”. So possibly it may be done relatively soon. But given how slow this series comes out it may still be a couple years at least. As of now, we don’t know when the next chapter will come out as it’s not listed in the “next issue” page on the Young Animal website. So we’re just waiting till the next one.

In the meantime, I’ve spent the last like… several months doing volume versions of stuff and I ended up having to do the vast majority of them myself in addition to scanning and transferring text and finding changes and such. So I’m really glad this is finally done and I can take a bit of a break. But also I can finally get back to volume 3 of Division Chief Shima Kōsaku which I keep getting pulled away from. There’s no Jojo next month, Ikoku Nikki is done, and there’s no more 3-Gatsu for a bit at least, so I hope I’ll be able to get more of that done soon.

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And we’re back! Here’s another 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter. There haven’t been too many this year. Umino-sensei has been busy with finalizing Volume 17 and drawing various Oberons.

We’ll do a volume 17 scanlation though it’ll take a while because we’re currently working on a The JOJOLands volume 1 scanlation and also 3-Gatsu no Lion tends to have a lot of changes in addition to having to buy, scan, clean, and redraw the whole volume. That’s probably gonna include combining chapters, changing up lines, adding panels, adding pages, plus extras between chapters and the omake at the end. It comes out on August 29th, so we’ll release it… some time after that.

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