Ok, here’s the next one. Another super-long 53 page chapter.
Next month is the last one possibly. Sources say. Certainly looks that way. Maybe. Who knows. Anything can happen.
Our HQ scanlation of V76 is moving along and we’re hoping to finish that up soon as well. Right now I’m sick and getting work done is hard, but we’re getting there.
Gintama 700
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And we’re back!
Gintama will be running monthly in Jump Giga for 3 issues. Jump Giga is a side magazine that runs 6 issues a year in the pattern of 3 months in a row, then takes 3 months off. It’s mainly used to show off one-shots of new authors. It also usually has extra chapters for existing Jump series. So this is 2019 Winter Volume 1.
Gintama will have the cover for all 3 of the issues it’s in. And we think that’s when the series will finally end? Maybe? This is the first of those 3, and it’s 54 pages long. So I hope you all enjoy, working on this chapter was exhausting. So now that Innocent, Neko, and Gintama are done, I’m gonna get back to work on 3-Gatsu v14 and Sensei no Shiroi Uso.
Gintama 699
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And here’s volume 75! With that we’re all caught up again on re-scanlating the newest Gintama volumes.
This includes some stuff from Sorachi-sensei regarding the whole “not really the last chapter” thing, as this came out a couple weeks after chapter 698 was published.
Otherwise, it’s like before, it’s a slightly higher quality version of the same chapters.
The next volume, 76, is slated for January. By then new chapters should be coming out. Volume 76 should cover ALMOST all the currently released Jump chapters but not all of them, so we’ll need to wait for V77 for that, which should include some Jump Giga stuff too.
I’m gonna be working on Volume 34-35 at some point soon, but I haven’t started them yet. Next I’m going to be focusing on translating the next Innocent volume and 3-Gatsu no Lion volume so they’re fully or mostly translated by the time their volumes come out. And of course we’ll do the new Gintama chapter in Jump Giga as soon as that comes out, regardless of where those other projects are.
Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this, everyone!
Gintama Volume 75 (Ch676-685)
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Ok, whew. This was a ton of work. I’m so glad it’s finally done.
K so for those not aware, originally we had translated Gintama V33-35 (some of 35) back when this group was first starting, but a lot of those chapters never got scanlated because we didn’t have staff to work on it at the time. So that’s why we have like one chapter from V33 released, 2 from V34, and none from V35. There’s a couple others Rufi translated and I edited back when I was editing his scripts and not doing them on my own, that were done by other groups, also. It’d been a long-held goal of mine to EVENTUALLY, when I felt like I wouldn’t be overworking myself, go back and do these 3 volumes. Now that we don’t have weekly Gintama to work on, I thought now would be a good time to do that (I had actually given up on ever doing it for a while, it had been so long. But recently I felt like doing it again, since this is my last chance to get them done before Gintama ends).
Now, that’s easier said than done. I had to redo all the translations from scratch because our translations in those days weren’t very good, as we were just starting out with Gintama and were way less experienced as translators. The reason we waited SO long to do this is because Gintama is a massive amount of work even at the best of times. Even after I’ve been translating Gintama for 8 years since I first did these, they’re still hard as nails to translate because there’s just so much text and so many colloquialisms, comedy, and references in these chapters. It takes more effort to get one of these wordy, comedic chapters of Gintama done than like 2 or more of most other series I work on.
My goal is to eventually do volume 34 and 35 as well, and then we’ll have done everything from volume 33 to the end, whatever volume that ends up being. We also won’t have any “loose” couple chapters not part of a full volume. Doing this one took me about a month from beginning to end. While it’d be really fun to do even MORE than those 3, it would be really nice if the entire series of Gintama had high-quality translations available beyond where Viz stopped (V24), it’s at the point where I don’t think I can really justify the time and effort I would need to spend on trying to do more, so I don’t think that’s gonna happen. I’m not sure how much people are actually going to read these ones I am doing, a lot of this is me just trying to accomplish my own personal goal. Especially when these are pretty old and mainly things people have read already and watched the anime of and such. This one is actually the equivalent of right where the ORIGINAL anime ended at 201 episodes. Remember back then when we all thought the anime might be over for good? Then it came back like 18 times. Looking back on Sorachi-sensei’s messages about what would happen to the manga with the anime “being over now” is kind of quaint in retrospect.
So yeah, this covers the Weather/Onmyouji arc (Except the first chapter which is the last chapter of V32) and the first 2 chapters of the Santa Arc. I hope at least some of you check this out, because we did our best with it and it was seriously a massive task that took a lot of hours nearly every day to get it done in this timeframe.
Volume 75’s scanlation with the volume raws is almost done, that should be pretty soon, now I have time to help with it myself. Next I’m going to be translating Innocent and 3-Gatsu no Lion so most or all of the translations are done by the time the volumes come out. Innocent Rouge V9 comes out November 19th and 3-Gatsu no Lion V14 comes out December 21st. So I should have enough time to translate them both in advance, while still maintaining my sanity and not overworking myself (Remember, this stuff is a hobby). But that means it’ll be a bit before we get V34 done, which I haven’t really started on. The Jump Giga with the next NEW Gintama chapter should come out in December sometime, probably near the end. The next new VOLUME of Gintama is V76 which is scheduled for January, probably early January.
Hope you enjoy this, everyone.
Gintama Volume 33 (Ch283-291)
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Um?
Edit: So, now that this is out and there’s been some time for everyone to read it, turns out this is NOT the last chapter. And the series is going to finish off in Giga Jump. So we’ll be scanlating those, too, of course, whenever they come out.
Jump Giga has a very weird serialization. It’s the same magazine as Jump Next, Akamaru Jump, Jump Special. They rebrand it every once in a while. It’s mostly made up of one-shots or short series by newcomers as a way to test the waters and gauge what authors get new series. As of now it seems its schedule is they have 3 volumes in summer and 3 volumes in winter. It used to be once every 2 months, but now it shifted to one a month for 3 months, then 3 months off. I dunno how long the chapters are gonna be, but seemingly the first Gintama chapter will be in the one going on sale in December. They usually go on sale around the end of the month, like the 25th-29th. I’m sure they’ll advertise it a bit beforehand. And like before, we’ll keep doing volume versions as new one come out.
Gintama 698
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Okay, here’s volume 74! We’re now all caught up to the newest volume.
Ya’ll can go enjoy this while we finish up Gintama 698 which should be done pretty soon.
I’m thinking of maybe doing V33 next, because we did translate all the chapters in it back then when those chapters were new. It would also be nice to have all of the volume done rather than just one chapter. A bunch of the corrected versions never got scanlated, too. I’d have to go through all the translations to fix them up a bit, since it’s been like 7 years since then. If it doesn’t become too much of a huge frustrating chore, we might do more.
Gintama Volume 74 (Ch666-675)
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Only one chapter left after this one.
I don’t have any idea how it’s going to end, but I’m certainly interested to find out.
Gintama 697
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The flame of life…
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Hey, so now that we got all those other projects done we decided to try to do the last few volumes of Gintama using volume raws.
In an ideal world, we would’ve eventually redone ALL the volumes of Gintama that we worked on in volume form, but that’s just not how things panned out. I was originally trying to do that but lack of staff to work on it consistently made it impossible and trying to manage that on top of alllll these other projects I’m doing was more stress for me than it was worth, especially when I had to constantly fill in for jobs and remind people who weren’t working on it to get back to it a lot, replace people who’d just stopped working on it and ignored all attempts to contact them, that sort of thing. I wrote about this more back in 2015 when we did the last one. At this point there’s like 30 of those and it would be a massive project to tackle now, and I don’t think all that many people would actually read them at this point. Also I don’t really wanna spend like a year to redo chapters of a manga we’ve already released so they’re like 10% better quality. Just to be clear, I’d LIKE to do it if it weren’t for the fact it’d just take up all my free time for all that time, but that’s the reality of it. I’d rather spend my time working on new manga and that sorta thing. I have a bad tendency of overworking myself trying to do EVERYTHING and then this stuff can take over my life, which is something I really want to avoid in the future.
Soooo I decided on a compromise to just do these last few as HQ volumes. Everything from V73 to the end. There’s one more volume out now, so we’ll try to get to that one soon. The next one is scheduled for October. In total there’s gonna probably end up being around 77 volumes. The translation and typesetting are pretty much the same since we did these pretty recently. We added some typeset SFX to make it a little nicer. And of course it’s got Sorachi-sensei’s various Q&A sections and rants about this or that that are only in the volumes, his various little adjustments like added highlights and details and fixed-up artworks, and the quality is a lot better than the Jump magazine versions. I hope you all enjoy!
Gintama Volume 73 (Ch656-665)
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And here is 696.
Not much left.
I’m looking into maybe doing volume versions for the last few volumes, just as a sendoff kinda thing. There’s gonna be 30 volumes that we did only magazine versions of so I don’t think I wanna do all that since it would take like a year. But we could do the last few.
Gintama 696
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In this town where nothing ever changes…
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And 695. Not much left to go now.
Dang I love these characters.
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