And here we are with this month’s Ikoku Nikki, chapter 47! By the way Ikoku Nikki has sold over 1 million copies as of the last one and volume 9 is getting an additional printing, so it’s doing pretty darn well. Anyhow, see you for the next chapter next month! I’m gonna go keep working on Shima Kosaku stuff.
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And here we are with volume 9. Like last time, this is the volume versions of all these chapters we original did using magazine raws. They’re slightly upgraded/corrected with some added screentones and stuff but generally speaking they’re pretty similar to the magazine versions. This series isn’t that much work to do these for because the digital raws are generally good quality so the more annoying stuff from physical scanning and manual cleaning isn’t needed. And also there’s just not many changes. The biggest change is the cover, inside cover, and extra page at the end. The volume versions of this series are much easier to do than all the other series we do two versions for. The next chapter is scheduled for next month at the usual time on the 7th Japan time. I’m gonna get back to working on Shima Kosaku v5 now. See ya later!
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Ikoku Nikki Volume 9 (Ch. 41-45)
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Here ya go ya’ll. Chapter 46. There was no chapter last month so this is the first one in a bit. There’s another regular chapter next month. Our volume-version scanlation for the new volume, volume 9, is almost done. So that should be released whenever the last couple things get finished. Meanwhile now we’ve finally got DRCL released I can get back to working on Shima Kousaku. Sooo that’s what I’m working on. How are you all doing?
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Whew! Here’s 45, I’m beat. Ya know this series is seriously hard to translate and I hope reading this folks can kinda see why. It’s a lot of wading through a lot of conversations about abstract nebulous ideas and trying to make sense of them in a language that doesn’t require noting the subject or topic of the sentence. Especially with in-media-res conversations and when word bubbles are just stuck on a page with no clues as to who’s saying what. You need to a ton of careful parsing to find the common thread of the theme or the unsaid-ideas in order to be able to understand what’s actually going on in order to create anything like a coherent translation. Also this had nearly the most text of any chapter in this series. I’m exhausted! I hope ya’ll enjoy it because it’s definitely a good chapter. See ya same-ish time next month.
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Here’s this month’s one of these! Fun chapter this month. Anyhow I’m working on more Shima Kosaku and we’re trying to get those redone versions of JoJolion v1-2 done soon. Otherwise same as usual. How’s everybody, you all good?
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Ok, here’s the next one! This chapter’s good. I’m tired so I’m gonna go sleep. There’s another chapter next month. See ya!
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Okay ya’ll, here’s the next one of these. There’s uh, not much to say. Still working on all the same stuff. There’s another chapter next month. See ya then!
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Whew! There hasn’t been a new chapter of this in a while. The last one came out in August I think. Anyhow, Ikoku Nikki has the cover of Feel Young next month, so there’s more coming!
Oh also apparently Mangadex made some sort of workaround so folks aren’t having issues if they’re using Verizon as an ISP and don’t have a VPN, apparently. So that’s good.
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Ok, here’s volume 8! This actually contains all the chapters released so far, there’s been a few breaks because Yamashita-sensei has been doing some stuff for her other series, Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru (The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window) which got an anime recently. The next chapter is scheduled to come out in the next issue of Feel Young which comes out November 8th, Japan time.
Also as I mentioned back in volume 7, for this one we used the digital raw (Except for the cover and inside cover and black and white pages which are only in the physical version) becuase the digital raw is good resolution and the art is simple enough that there’s little (if anything) gained from scanning and cleaning the physical pages (thin white lines sometimes get lost in leveling and such) so we stuck with the regular digital volume. I think it turned out pretty good. (I still can’t upload this to Mangadex until they allow editing of pages of already-uploaded chapters.)
As I mentioned before, a lot of volumes came out at once. Jojolion v27, 3-Gatsu no Lion v16, and Ikoku Nikki v8 came out within a 2-week period. We’re also finishing up Jojolion v3. This is the first one we got done because there’s a lot less work that goes into cleaning and redrawing and typesetting/lettering for this series than the other ones. Though JoJolion is almost done and we’re hoping to get that released soon. And 3-Gatsu no Lion is MOST of the way done. After those are finished I’m gonna work on the next Shima Kosaku volume. Anyhow, enjoy this, everyone!
Ikoku Nikki Volume 8 (Ch. 36-40)
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And here is the new chapter of this! Uh, it’s been a while as there was no chapter last month. Also there’s no new chapter of this NEXT month either, so… we’ll see you in September, probably. Also they announce in this issue that Volume 8 will come out on October 8th.
I was away on vacation the last few days so I’m working on getting caught up with stuff now. This chapter took a bit because everyone who could work on it was away for one reason or another.
Also, I should mention there’s no new 3-Gatsu no Lion in this issue of Young Animal that just came out and also they haven’t listed it in the NEXT issue either which comes out a month from now on September 10th Japan time. So the next time there MIGHT be a new chapter will be around September 24th.
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