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98! We’re almost at 100 now.
Bracketier is working on the typesetting for volume 7 now. Uh… that’s it. I’m very tired from spending all last night translating this. Go read it.
JoJolion 98
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Here we are at chapter 97!
Ok so, volume 23’s out, 97 is out, everything’s all good.
Like I said we’ll try to get those 5 older volumes done as the staff has time to get the rest of them done.
I should mention in a previous chapter I had Jousuke saying “I can’t pursue him, but I can be made to pursue him”, it really should’ve been “I can’t pursue him, but I can make him do the pursuing”. Which doesn’t mean exactly the same thing, it was a tricky grammatical structure I haven’t seen too often that I screwed up. In this chapter it calls back to that chapter and that line has been fixed in volume 23 now.
JoJolion 97
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Woo! Here’s 23.
We’re now once again caught up (with new volumes). There’s still 5 old volumes to finish, which the staff will get to as they have time between other stuff.
This has chapters 91-94. And the newest chapter is 96. 97 should be out soon, whenever we get it done. It comes out in Japan tomorow. Uh, so, as usual, everything’s nicer looking. That’s about it. Hope you like it!
JoJolion Volume 23 (Ch91-94)
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Ok, here is 96! More things happening! Calamity for all!
Volume 23 is out in Japanese now. So we’re gonna get that and work on it sometime soon, along with the other volumes.
Innocent Rouge v12 is almost done too.
Uh, most other stuff is the same, so that’s it for now!
JoJolion 96
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And here we are, the next old volume, volume 8.
This one is the one where Joubin is introduced! Sure is interesting looking back on those given recent events in the story…
For those unaware, we’ve been slowly redoing the old volumes working backwards, replacing the old lower-quality magazine versions. But at the same time also doing the new volumes as they come out. These old ones are basically the same as the original versions but the image quality is better (They’re scanned from the physical printed versions), we’re trying to get the best versions of any color pages we can if they’re out, and the typesetting is improved to match our current style and have all the sound effects typeset (Which we skipped the first time around due to time constraints). I’m also trying to find any mistakes I made and improve the prose in my translation a bit if I can.
I mentioned this in the last couple posts, but we’ve got volumes 3-7 all scanned, cropped, cleaned and redrawn. So we just have the process of updating the lettering styles and checking through the translations to improve them left (These are edited versions of the typesetting the JoJo’s Colored Adventure Team used, which are based on our magazine versions). I’m hoping we’re able to get through them pretty soon and have the whole series done in high-quality volumes finally after all these years, but it’ll depend on when folks have time between their other projects and all that. (Also we may update volumes 1-2 after that to use more up to date lettering, too. Just updating the old volume releases.)
Enjoy, everyone!
JoJolion Volume 8 (Ch31-34)
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Ok, and here’s this. Volume 22.
We are now caught up with new volumes again! And will be for like 3 weeks.
I mentioned this in the last post, but v3-8 are all cleaned and redrawn. It’s just the process of editing and transferring the text for those 6 volumes. I finished cleaning and redrawing v8 so everything is at that text-transfer step now. That part requires multiple people checking in addition to transferring the text over so it’ll still be some time. We’re gonna try to get them out fairly frequently if we can, cause really I just want this backlog out of the way (That’s why I spent the last like 2 months scanning/cropping/aligning/redrawing them). And I’m still doing all that other stuff.
JoJolion Volume 22 (Ch87-90)
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There’s a calamity and it’s not ending any time soon.
Uh, sorry a lot is taking a while. A lot’s going on.
Right now I’ve been focusing on getting the old Jojolion volumes done and getting the new Innocent volume translated. Jojolion v3-8 and 22 are all cleaned and redrawn (except one that’s almost done) and we just need to update the typesetting styles and update the translations to be a bit better, which shouldn’t be TOO long a task per volume.
And Innocent I only have like 1 and a half chapters left to translate. Though it’s still gotta be cleaned and redrawn and typeset. I’m about done with my tasks on those for a bit so I’m going to try to get more Takeshi and Ikoku Nikki chapters translated soon. Once those partially-done things are done, my next focus is to get the remaining 12-ish Ikoku Nikki chapters and get caught up. And then at some point we’re gonna do Neko ga Nishi Mukya v2. Also we’re working on the next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter and Dascalon is almost done with the v15 scanlation using the high quality volume raws. So yeah there’s a lot going on, and I’m just trying to get something done every day.
Anyhow how are ya’ll doing? I hope you’re reading lots of manga during your social-distancing.
JoJolion 95
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Ok, here we are at 94! First JoJolion chapter of 20202.
Everything else is the same, still working on getting more volumes done. Innocent Rouge v11 is almost finished.
Also there’s no new chapter of JoJolion next month in Ultra Jump. The next chapter (chapter 95) should come out March 19th Japan time.
JoJolion 94
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93! This one’s fairly quick but there’s a lot going on.
Sorry there haven’t been a lot of releases as of late. I’ve had a lot of IRL stuff going on and it’s made getting releases done difficult. But that’s finally starting to settle down, hopefully. I’ve been focusing on getting Innocent V11 translated and Bracketier is cleaning it. I’ve got about one chapter of that left to translate, and I’ve translated a bunch more Ikoku Nikki chapters that need to get cleaned and typeset. I’ll be trying to get more Takeshi done soon too, and hopefully start getting them out a bit more regularly.
Also Volume 22 of JoJolion is out now. So we’ll try to get to that soon. I’m trying to sort of get the remaining 6 old volumes scanned so we can collectively slowly chip away at all the work that needs to be done for them a little at a time as time permits apart from that other stuff. Plus Bracketier and MistaL and the others all have a bunch of other projects they work on and they’re working on those JJL volumes when they can.
JoJolion 93
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Here we are, chapter 92! Some big stuff in this chapter.
I should mention that in this chapter there’s a place where “Rokakaka” is romanized differently than we’ve been doing it. So we’re going to use that romanization in that context (It’s a specific proper name there), for now, but use “Rokakaka” everywhere else. Even the Italian and French versions have been using Rokakaka, so I feel like that’s more or less how it’s expected to be read (In katakana as ロカカカ for Japanese speakers), and this is a specific context where it’s stylized differently. Also it’s been like that for 5 years without an “official” romanization. But if you’d rather just call it by the romanization this chapter has, that’s fine with me too.
JoJolion 92
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