Hey ya’ll so here’s what’s going on. Here’s chapter 29 of The Jojo series part 9 – The JOJOLands. There’s more fun fighting over a magical rock action in this one. There’s no new chapter next month (October) and the next chapter comes out November 19th Japan time.
So ComicK has closed down. And we were using that as our “main” place to upload to as an online reader new releases (You can still download them from this site same as always). So we need to move that somewhere else. This just happened a couple days ago so I’ll see where people ultimately move. For now I started a process of making a reader-mirror on Cubari.moe. There’s one URL for each series and I’m listing them all on the reader page you get to by clicking “Reader” in the site nav bar.
If you’re not aware how that works, Cubari is just a reader not an actual host, it’s taking images hosted somewhere else and sticking them in a manga reader. We’re hosting images on a hosting site called Image Chest which uses a single file stored on a Github repo to create a JSON document to hold all the metadata which lets you make one big page for reading one series. Also you can then edit/manage those things with facaccimo and batch upload/update them with a python command line tool called Kaguya. So it’s using a bunch of different independently-made tools and I have to do this for like 1500-some-odd chapters of manga which require having the correct volume number, chapter number, and title, so it’ll take some time. (Though you can sort of quickly and easily change image hosts if there’s a problem with one once it’s all done, just by re-running all the batches with a different image host’s API). I put up all the manga we’ve done recently on there and I’ll be going through some older stuff slowly.
I’m also going to upload to MangaDex where we still can (We can’t for chapters that were taken down specifically and they may take more down in the future) and I may look into uploading our whole library to bato.to as well but I haven’t had time to start on that yet. I hope you all can be patient with that, and hopefully another good safe place shows up. Most of the big aggregator sites don’t have tools for scanlators they’re just ripping from some other place and putting them up on their site and we can’t do things like upload when we want or edit them so we can put up the fixed/better raws versions of everything. So please support the sites that let us do that sort of thing. So that’s how I’ve spent my last couple days, sounds fun right?
In other news Managing Director Shima Kousaku volume 3 is almost done, I have like a chapter and a half left to translate and then we need to typeset it and check everything. I have 7 Gintama volumes left to scan which I do whenever I have some time to do that, once those are all done I’m gonna get back to trying to do more volume versions of that once they’re all digitized. Though I don’t know how frequently I’m gonna do them, how much work I’m going to do in every single one, etc. So all that’s happening. How are you all doing?
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Edit: This is now updated with the higher-resolution Chinese raws from Bilibili. All the links should have the latest version.
The JOJOLands Ch. 29
Catbox.moe
Mega
Online Reader (Cubari)
Online Reader (MangaDex)
Online Reader (Bato.to)
