Gintama Volume 65

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Gintama Volume 65

Okay, here we are at 65. We’ve got 19 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is primarily the main closure/battle with Umibouzu, Kagura, and Kamui. It also has one of the Utsuro fights. Volume 64, the next one we’ll do, is the one with the flashback about Koudka, Kagura’s mom, for the most part. This has a little of it. The most annoying thing with this volume was they included one of the popularity poll results but they rearranged it slightly so the whole thing had to be re-redrawn and re-typeset from scratch.

I’ve been working on this project at least a little every day. So now every volume has at least a little bit done. But I think for the most part at this point I’m gonna focus on just going through them one volume at a time rather than trying to do all of one thing or another in each volume. Like I did the first and last page of each volume, I did the title pages and ending pages of all the chapters in some volumes, I looked up bits and redid them because I knew there were parts of the translation I wanted to change, I did a whole bunch of quick gimme-pages, stuff like that. But now pretty much all that’s left is hack away at each volume which is gonna take like 10+ hours of work each and there’s 18 more of them. But even with all the progress we’ve made, and I think it’s gone really well so far, we still have a long way to go and I’m gonna have to take breaks to go back to Shima and stuff like that. Also volume 64 is almost done I just gotta translate the extras.

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The JOJOLands Ch. 32

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The JOJOLands 31

Hey ya’ll welcome to the first new The JOJOLands chapter of the year. A bunch of exciting stuff happens in this one so go check it out. Next one comes out February 18th Japan time. We released our high-quality version of volume 7 a little while ago so go check that out if you haven’t yet.

In the meantime, Gintama volume 64 and 65 are almost done and I’m in the middle of translating Shima volume 6. That’s about it right now.

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Edit 1/20/2026: This chapter has been updated using the higher-resolution raws.
Edit 2: Also I went and replaced all the instances of when Howler’s first name was spelled “Acca” and changed it to “Hacca”. That was in chapters 17, 19, 21, and 23. The one bubble where he’s explaining how to pronounce it I just made that “Acca” in italics so you can tell the H is silent. All the links on the downloads page and all the readers are updated.

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Gintama Volume 66

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Gintama Volume 66

Hey here’s another one, here’s Gintama 66. We’ve got 20 volume versions left to do now. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume has a bunch of stuff about Utsuro’s origins and motives. This is the first part of the story where Sorachi-sensei started acting like “Ok the series is really heading for the end now” and then it went for 11 more volumes. There’s an extra page added. Page 125-127 were originally just one page in the original chapter 595. That little speech was expanded somewhat.

Anyhow I’m really glad we’re making progress on these at a fairly good pace now. In the past few weeks I worked on all the re-cleaning and re-redrawing and re-typesetting of SFX for a bunch of random pages or little chunks of volumes in an attempt to get every volume “partially done” rather than do an entire volume done at once. Like I did all of the title pages and tables of contents and character-intro pages in the beginnings of these. I was gonna keep going with that and do something like “do all the title pages of every chapter” but we’re doing all the way back to volume 46 remember so any time you do anything like that it’s 20-something times, and if it’s in every chapter it’s like 180+ times. And if you’re gonna do all that you might as well just focus on getting something out/done while you have time, because I dunno if I’ll still have time to work on these things months from now depending on how my schedule goes. So I think from here I’m mainly gonna stick to just working on “the next one” and working backwards.

Uh besides that I’m still working on Managing Director Shima 6. That’s about it at the moment. Well, enjoy, everyone! We’re just slowly making our way up this mountain of Gintama chapters.

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Gintama Volume 66 (Ch590-598)
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The JOJOLands Volume 7

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The JOJOLands Volume 7

And here’s volume 7! So you know the deal at this point hopefully, this is the final archival version of these chapters with all the changes by the author and such. There’s not much different but it uses the scans of the Japanese volumes so this is the highest quality you can get. Man this series has been going for nearly 3 years now huh? It started back in February 2023. And now we’ve finished a whole 7 volumes of it. Ya know the earlier Jojo parts only ran for about 3 years but they were more volumes because it was weekly back in the 90’s. Part 1 was just 5 volumes and part 2 was 7 volumes so The JOJOLands is already longer than both of those also in terms of volumes. We’ve come pretty far huh?

Meanwhile I’m working on more Gintama and more Shima as usual. I’ve been trying to get a bunch of stuff in these Gintama volumes done quickly so this project doesn’t last forever but I think I need to cool it because it’s eating up all my time, there’s 4000 pages to go through and there’s just no way to do that all quickly, it’s a marathon.

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Gintama Volume 67

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Gintama Volume 67

Hey, we’re back, first release of the new year, here’s Gintama volume 67. We’ve got 21 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. As usual this one has better resolution, more image on the tops and bottoms of the pages, fixes from the author, extras, made the fonts better, it’s got sound effects in-line, all that. With this volume we’ve finally done volume versions of the entire Silver Soul Arc. Man that arc was long wasn’t it? As always this project is sort of a side project where we just gotta get some of it done every once in a while until the whole thing is finished because it takes several days of work to do one volume and there’s a ton of them, so I can’t really marathon through them all. Maybe we’ll finish all the way to volume 46 eventually, we’ll see. After this is the arc about Utsuro and Oboro’s origins and then the arc with Kamui and Kouka.

Meanwhile, The JOJOLands volume 7 is almost done and we started working on Managing Director Shima volume 6 but I haven’t gotten too far in that yet.

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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 218

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I said in that last post that “this should be our last release of the year” but I totally forgot about this. I guess because they oddly released it right on Christmas. Or technically midnight on the 26th Japan time. Because these are just 10 pages we managed to get it all done. But man I’ve done a lot of manga scanlating in the last couple months.

There’s no new chapter of 3-Gatsu next issue of Young Animal so the next one will be… some time after that. Maybe late January or after. In the meantime the next things we’re doing are The JOJOLands volume 7 and Managing Director Shima volume 6 and Gintama V67.

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 5

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 5

Hey everyone we made it to Managing Director volume 5! This is probably the last release of the year, unless we finish the volume version of The JOJOLands volume 7 soon. Man I’ve done a lot of hours of working on this series this year. Most of this volume is a story arc about Chūfā CEO Sun Rui and Noriko.

With this, we’ve gotten 7 volumes of Shima done this year. Which I think is pretty good given that I spent a lot of the year balancing like 50 things and trying not to keep anything from dropping or falling apart. So I’m counting that as a win. As it stands we’ve got 3 more volumes of Managing Director and then 6 in Executive Managing Director and 5 in Senior Managing Director to finish the whole Director arc(s). We’ll see how much of that we can do next year, but as always I’m trying to make sure I don’t overdo it on this because I’m doing most of this project on my own and I need to save my energy for various other parts of my life sometimes. Also the volumes get shorter after Managing Director finishes, so each volume should go quicker. We really have gotten through a lot of it now, we’ve done 35 volumes of this series.

For the record, of the longer series we’ve done we’ve released:
45 volumes of Gintama (Plus the Koujien Fanbook stuff)
37 volumes of Toriko (Plus the original one-shot and some extras)
16 volumes of Innocent+Rouge
17 volumes of Kokou no Hito
16 volumes of Gash (Plus various bonus things)
13 wide-bans of Takeshi (Which is like 26-ish if it were regular volumes)
27 volumes of JoJolion + ~8 of The JOJOLands + 1 Rohan so about 36 volumes of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Plus two novels which are quite long)
31.5 volumes of 81diver

So Shima is creeping up towards being one of the series we’ve released the most volumes for. Which I think is pretty impressive for a series with a ton of complicated economics and business jargon on half the pages. I was just thinking about that, given we’re releasing it pretty quickly all things considered. Though also some of those series I worked on more volumes of it but with another group, like I did all of Innocent and 81diver but those were done with Utopia Scans and a few other small groups. So it depends on what you want to count it. (Also the typesetting on Shima is really simple which helps, we usually typeset a whole volume within a few days).

Anyhow I’m thankful to folks who’ve stuck with this series, I really love it. I’m gonna keep going with it for now, we’ll see how far we get. I appreciate all the staff who I’ve worked with to get everything released this year that we have. If we don’t release anything else this year, I hope you all have happy holidays and a happy new year.

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 5 (Ch53-65)
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The JOJOLands Ch. 31

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The JOJOLands 31

Hey everyone, I’m very tired after working on this all day. I hope you enjoy! This one has more of that whole West Side Girl fight. Volume 7 of The JOJOLands just came out so we’ll be doing a volume version of that sometime soon (It needs to ship to me and I need to scan it and all that first). Next month’s chapter comes out January 19th Japan time.

Meanwhile we’re working on more Gintama volumes. I’m trying to finish up this Shima volume. That’s what’s happening right now. Anyway if you’re reading this it’s on a timer cause I have to like work at my job now it’s 10AM on a Wednesday.

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Note: The guy who was getting us the higher resolution Bilibili raws says the method he was using to get them at that resolution no longer works so we won’t be doing that anymore unless he finds some other way to get them. We’ll still release high res versions from the volume scans as usual when those come out.

Update 12/19/2026: Ok so this has been updated with a higher resolution version from Bilibili. But this is only a LITTLE better than the original Japanese one. Seemingly they shut off the thing that was allowing folks to get it at 2850px height pages and now it’s more like 1600. (Now I’m thinking maybe that was not supposed to go out and they only realized it like a year or two after the fact.) But it is noticeably better quality than the regular Shueisha raws, it’s those big ones but scaled down a little so it doesn’t have all the weird compression artifacts Shueisha had. I figure it’s still worth doing these since doing these versions only takes like an hour of work per chapter. Ultimately we’ll update them all with the volume raws once the physical volumes come out anyhow and those will continue to be the final versions.

Update 12/23/2025: OOokay so NOW we updated these to have the full-sized 2800-ish px in height versions. Apparently there was still a way to get them, but it was just more complicated? This is all for getting a reader to serve a high res version of something that we’ve already paid for and has been released normally, so I dunno why it was so complicated, but eventually we figured it out, the system just changed a bunch. Hopefully everything goes more smoothly next chapter. All the links are updated.

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Gintama Volume 68

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Gintama Volume 68

Ok here’s the next one, volume 68. We’ve got 22 volume versions left to do now. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. Nothing’s really changed since the last one, we’re just gonna keep going at some pace or another. I don’t think we’re gonna keep up this pace of like one a week because it would drive me insane doing this all the time. Even though these are a few days apart I’m working on them for probably more of my time than is reasonably justifiable for this project. I’m gonna go back to doing the other stuff for a bit.

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Gintama Volume 68 (Ch608-617)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 217

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Hey yall here’s a new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter. Kiriyama is playing Tsujii in this one. Will it be Good Tsujii or Bad Tsujii today? The next chapter comes out next issue of Young Animal, (This is the first time two chapters came out in a row in like… a while) which comes out on December 26th Japan time so I’m probably gonna be busy then because that’d be Christmas in the US where I am. So that may be a day or two at least after it comes out in Japan, just so ya’ll know.

Next week is the next The JOJOLands chapter. I’m going back to working on Managing Director Shima volume 5.

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