Here’s this! More goodness! This chapter was less of a headache to translate but this series is still quite hard despite not having tons of words.

This chapter is about feeling like a “supporting player” in life and the causes and implications of that! So that’s a thing! Check it out!

Uh, it looks like there’s no chapter next month as it’s not in the preview of next chapter page. Unless that’s a mistake. So probably the next chapter is in August.

Also Mangadex is back up but currently (now both a front end and back end) they haven’t enabled uploading, using the API or otherwise, so I still can’t upload there. But whenever they DO enable that I’ve got like 40-something chapters we’ve done or edits we’ve made I need to put on there.

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Whew, ok here’s volume 7. Uh so this is really basically not different from the chapter releases at all. There’s a couple of screentones added, an extra page at the end, and the cover. And there’s no insert texts. It took a while because it’s sort of… barely an upgrade over the magazine version if at all. The proportions of the pages change slightly for the volumes so some image data is removed and some is added (Sometimes) on the edges. I think in the future we might just use the digital volumes for the volume releases for Ikoku Nikki because Shodensha’s digital volumes are basically the same quality as we would end up after cleaning and compressing these (Unlike Shueisha’s). For a couple of screen tones and stuff they actually look better in the digital volume versions as a result of the really thin white lines in Asa’s hair and some things like that which can get slightly lost due to the noise that results in the texture of the physical pages (Unless we made the output scans like, uncompressed super-high resolution). And obviously using the digital versions is less work.

Anyhow I hope y’all enjoy this! Uh, there’s probably 2 more chapters before we get a release date for volume 8.

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Here’s this! It’s a good chapter! And was a HUGE headache to translate. This series is really quite hard despite not being super heavy on text. There’s a lot of emotional stuff and things said in non-straightforward ways. The next chapter is in next month’s Feel Young. And also I’m trying to get the volume version of volume 7 done at some point but I need to like, balance it around all the other stuff I’m doing.

Hopefully Mangadex gets back up soon. They’re public testing the backend API now so it can’t be too long.

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Here’s this! After a month off, here is now another chapter. I really like this one, it’s all about identity.
Uh, otherwise not much else happening. There’s another chapter next issue of Feel Young, as usual. There was no 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter in the last Young Animal magazine (I double-checked) and there is one in the next one that comes out on the 23rd Japan time. The next Jojolion chapter comes out on the 18th. We’ve got more Takeshi typeset we should be releasing soon, and I’m just trying to get as many chapters translated as I can as fast as I can in hopes to finish the series sometime in the near future hopefully.

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Here’s this! Yay.
Ok so volume 7 is out now, this is technically the first chapter that’ll eventually be in volume 8. I still need to buy it and scan it and stuff at some point. I’ll try to do that soon, but I’ve been pretty busy with work and stuff. Uhh, we got more 3-Gatsu no Lion later this week so look forward to that.

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Here is 25! The 35th chapter! This is also most likely the last chapter of volume 7, which comes out next month. Next issue is also gonna have the cover and opening color pages for Ikoku Nikki. We’ll try to get the volume version done not too long after the physical volume comes out. But it’s gonna look nearly exactly the same, probably. But we’re also doing like a bunch of other volumes around the same time with JoJolion, Neko ga Nishi Mukya, and this. And we should have more Takeshi done pretty soon. I’m making good progress on the translations, too.

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Ok, here’s chapter 34! Another good one. Another chapter with lots of talking over abstract backgrounds with constantly switching subjects making it really hard to translate but I think I got it all down, hopefully. Uh, so volume 7 comes out in February, and the plan is to do a volume version once we get there. Aaanyhow, enjoy!

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Ok, here’s this month’s new chapter. There’s another chapter in the next monthly Feel Young, so see you all in a month for that. As of now, the next Young Animal with 3-Gatsu no Lion comes out in a couple days so that’s next. I’ll be working on more Takeshi until then probably.

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Wheeeeeew! We did it everybody! We’re finally caught up. It took a while, but after about a year and 7 months we got through this whole series up to the current chapter in Japan. So yeah, from here we’ll be trying to do them fairly close to when new chapters come out in the monthly magazine Feel Young. It comes out on the 7th or the 8th in Japan every month. Keep in mind, Ikoku Nikki doesn’t appear in every issue, it skips issues fairly frequently, but it’s usually there most of the time. And we’ll try to do volume versions down the line when volumes 7+ come out. Now I’m gonna try to get back to doing more Takeshi and stuff, which I’ve neglected a bit recently.
As for this chapter, it’s a fairly heavy chapter about toxic masculinity, so I hope you’re all up for that. Enjoy, everyone!

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Whew, ok. Here is our first magazine chapter of Ikoku Nikki, chapter 31. We’re finally almost caught up now. There’s only ONE chapter left, which is the one that just came out in this month’s issue of Feel Young. I’m like half way through translating that now, and I’m gonna try to get it all finished soon so this series is finally all caught up. There’s a chapter of Ikoku Nikki in next month’s Feel Young, too, and that comes out on November 8th. So the goal is gonna be to try to keep up and do magazine chapters as they come out, and then do volume versions down the line when the volumes come out. We’ve also got a new JoJolion, 3-Gatsu no Lion, Neko ga Nishi Mukya chapter coming out in Japan soon too, so look forward to all that.

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