Ok, here’s 43! Sorry these are so spaced out. I’ve been trying to get caught up on Ikoku Nikki so that’s no longer hanging over us. We’re almost there on that. But I really should find some time between those to do more Takeshi translations. And JoeAbandonedMine is doing his best typesetting them when he’s free and he’s doing a great job I think.
I should mention that we were able to find 3 of the 4 color pages for this chapter somewhere online. So one doesn’t have it. I talked about this before but it’d be pretty expensive to buy them all, I’d be buying dozens of Jump magazines from 1998 which is the only place they were printed in color. So basically this is our plan for now.

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Here we are at 42! The 8th string team arc continues. This arc goes to chapter 45 by the way.
I’m focusing mainly on Ikoku Nikki right now so Takeshi releases will be a bit slow. I’m gonna try to get more out once Ikoku Nikki is caught up. Were getting there!

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Here is 41! The start of the 8th string team arc thing!
I’m working on all sorts of stuff at the moment and trying to keep my sanity. So I hope you check this out and any upcoming stuff.

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And here is 40! Ok, just 207 chapters to go. So if we got 1 a week out on average that’d take 4 years… Uh, we’ll see how that goes.

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Here is 39! I really like this one, and I worked really hard on getting the comedic timing and stuff down to make it work well in English. I hope ya’ll like it. As usual I’m basically just trying to get more of this series done whenever I have time between other stuff. I’m gonna keep trying my best to make my way through it, and hopefully get through them more frequently once my schedule is a bit more cleared up. Only 208 chapters to go…

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Whew! Ok here is chapter 38. This is a really good one IMO. A real heartfelt chapter.
Sorry it took a while since the last one. I’ve been trying to get a lot of things done and had a lot going on in my life (I mean I think there’s a lot going on in everyone’s life right now). I’m mainly focusing on getting the rest of Ikoku Nikki translated as there’s not a TON of that left. But I’m switching back and forth between different projects as stuff gets done. And I’m waiting on some folks for the volume versions of stuff I keep talking about in these posts, and once those are done I need to go over and edit and help finalize those. So, yeah. Plenty to do as usual. But with Innocent done and more stuff getting caught up I should have more time to work on Takeshi. So hoping to get a lot more done soon.

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Ok, here we are finally at Wide-Ban 3. Only 11 wide-bans to go.
I should mention we’re changing things up a bit for wide-ban 3, we’re gonna put the extras from the volumes right at the end of he chapter they correspond to and label them _extra1 at the end of the filenames. I think this may be a bit better than saving them all for the end of the wide-ban, though it makes each individual chapter take a bit longer. This is also the first chapter of volume 5 so it’s got the volume 5 cover and stuff at the end.

For a while I was considering just stopping once we got to the end of Wide-Ban 2, but I think I just love this series too much to stop now. I still dunno if we’ll go all the way to the end though, as that’s going to take like 1000 hours of work just to translate. The last chapter is chapter 247, so there’s 210 chapters to go. For those unaware, Takeshi eventually becomes more like Toriko, in that it involves long arc where they go to some fantasy-style place and there’s lots of big battles. There’s a few mainstay characters that appear in each arc, and sometimes they’ll just be absent for a while and show up in a later arc. That sort of thing. I’d like to get these out at a faster rate, and once a few other things are done I should be able to. We’ll see how that turns out.

Right now there’s a ton of things ALMOST done so expect them sometime soon. But it depends on when people are free to work on them. There’s a lot going on in the world right now, obviously. But we’ve got the next Neko ga Nishi Mukya chapter almost done now, Innocent Rouge 12 almost done, we’re working on the 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter that just came out, I got a few more chapters of Ikoku Nikki translated and I’m gonna try to typeset and release the next one soon, and there’s 5 old volumes and 1 new volume of JoJolion to get finished sometime in the near future. And Dascalon is working on getting the volume version of 3-Gatsu v15 done soon. So, yeah I’ve got a lot on my plate at the moment. Plenty of manga for folks to enjoy. Now if I can just find some time to read some manga myself…

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Wow. We did it. We finally finished Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi wide-ban 2! Yay.
We finished the last one in December of 2017 so… it’s been a while. But keep in mind we only did like 3 chapters of Wide-Ban 2 then I had to take a break from this series to finish other stuff, and then we resumed last July. Still, it’s been a while and I’m glad this is finally done. It’s a big milestone.

So, this chapter itself is a nice fun one-off chapter. Also included is all the extras from volumes 3 and 4 of the tankoubons (volumes). These extras are the various things Shimabukuro-sensei stuck between chapters in those volumes, including him writing little essays about him life. They’re kinda fun, not excluding because they’re about life in 1998 and before. Like he talks about his favorite manga growing up and that sorta thing. Plus a bunch of random artwork. Wide-ban 2 actually ends EXACTLY at the end of Volume 4, which I think is the last time that happens. Generally the wide-ban 19 chapters long and the volumes are 9.

Ok, yeah, so, moving forward we’re gonna continue along to wide-ban 3. Wide-ban 3 is where the Mummy Arc starts, which is the first arc where Takeshi starts feeling less like a random slice-of-life manga and more like an adventure manga which parodied battle manga. So I’m looking forward to getting there.

Sorry this series has taken so long to get released. Obviously I had to take a break for a year to finish other stuff so that didn’t help. But my hope is that once these other few projects are all caught up (Back JoJolion Volumes, the other 2-3 volumes of Ikoku Nikki, and the last volume of Innocent) I’ll have a lot more time to make sure these get done on a more regular basis. I still can’t guarantee I’m gonna do this WHOLE series because it’s 13 wide-bans long (The last chapter is chapter 247, so we’ve still got 211 more to do). But I’m gonna keep at it. If my schedule really clears up, maybe I can do them a lot faster. Also the battle manga chapters are way easier than the comedic ones which tend to very wordy and require a lot more time and thought in the translation.

Regardless, check the chapter out! Tell your friends! I love this series and it’s a lot of fun. It’s a great series from a generation ago which I really want English speakers to be able to enjoy.

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Ok, here we are at chapter 35. Chapter 35 is a fun one because it’s a sort of proto-Toriko chapter. It’s about cooking, and you can tell it’s an interest of Shimabukuro’s.
Next chapter we are FINALLY at the last chapter of wide-ban 2. Which also happens to be the last chapter of regular-volume 4. So we’re gonna try to include all the extras from volumes 3 and 4 that weren’t in the wide-ban in that release.

Also I’m working on all the other stuff I mentioned in the last few posts. The next 3-Gatsu chapter is about done. v15 is almost done. I’m working on helping with Innocent Rouge v12 so that gets done sometime soon. And I’m trying to get more Takeshi and Ikoku Nikki chapters done as those things finish up. JoJolion v3-7 are cleaned and redrawn so we’re trying to get those out as time permits to update all the text. Also the next Jojolion chapter comes out a bit earlier this month, on the 17th in Japan. So a whole lot going on, and I’m trying my best to get it all done.

Read manga everybody. It enriches the soul. THE SOUL.

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Here’s 34! This one’s just a fun gag one-off. We found an okay-quality version of one of the color pages.
I forget if I mentioned this before, but for most of the color pages, we’d need to buy the old issues of Jump from 1997-2002. Which would be really expensive and isn’t really worth it. But occasionally you can find one online that someone scanned.

Right now I’m focusing on getting Innocent Volume 12 and the volume scanlations of Jojolion volumes 3-8 and 22 done. So stuff’s a bit slow going as those are all pretty big projects. We’re making good progress on them though.
The next 3-Gatsu chapter should be done pretty soon and Dascalon is making good progress on volume 15.

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