Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 4

Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 4

Wheeew, we made it, here is Division Chief volume 4! Seriously, this manga is a lot of work, like you wouldn’t believe. It’s so exhausting and the last few days getting everything typeset and double-checked and finalized is the worst.

So, a few chapters into this volume and we finally reach the end of the wine industry arc. I gotta say that arc was even harder than usual for this series. There was so much terminology and so many French words I had to figure out on top of the usual industry-specific business jargon it made it a real slog to get through, so I’m pretty happy it’s now finally finished.

This arc also begins the Sunlight Records/Record Industry arc! This one is pretty exciting and I hope you all enjoy it. It has different parts to it so it sort of has sub-arcs. The first of which goes from here in volumes 4 to the end of 5. Then there’s uh, more. I won’t spoil it here. But the record industry arc makes up a good chunk of Division Chief. So I hope you’re all looking forward to it. As before, I’m trying to sort of figure out how much time I want to spend on this project and I need to balance it with other stuff I have going on in my life, so I dunno how long each of these will end up taking. But I hope you stick with us, a lot of really great stuff is coming up.

If anyone would like to volunteer to help out with checking/editing/cleaning/typesetting any of that for this project, please feel free to email me at kewl0210@gmail.com about it. We could always use more help on this series because of how much gosh-darn stuff there is in every single volume.

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 4 (Ch34-46)
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The JOJOLands Ch. 9

Aaand after a break last month, here is The JOJOLands chapter 9! If you haven’t seen it yet, please check out the volume version of volume 1 we did a little while back. This chapter continues right where we left off right in the midst of things so you may wanna reread chapter 8 if you forgot what was happening there. Volume 2 comes out in Japan next month on December 19th. So once the volume is out we’ll be working on our scanlation of volume 2 which will probably take a bit because it’s coming out right in the middle of the holidays. Chapter 10 should be coming out at the same time on December 19th Japan time as well.

Otherwise we’re almost done with Division Chief Shima Kōsaku volume 4. I’m hoping we can get that out within the next week possibly. Anyhow that’s it, see you next month!

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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 204

If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

And here we have 204! The way 203 and 204 work I’m fairly sure they’re chapters that will be combined once we get to volume 18, since 203 doesn’t really have an “ending”. Also there’s only 16 pages between the two of them. Also these were in two issues of Young Animal in a row. The next chapter isn’t in the next consecutive issue so it’s probably gonna be in the issue after that in early December.

Otherwise I’m around half way through translating the next Shima volume and there’s a new Jojo chapter next week. Until then, see ya!

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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 203

If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish.

Ok here we are, chapter 203! This one’s pretty short but there’s another chapter next issue that comes out in two weeks.

Otherwise I’m not doing much besides working on Shima while I have time between non-translation stuff in my life. Anyhow enjoy!

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Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 3

Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 3

Aaand we’ve made it, here we are at Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 3. This volume took a while because we had multiple individual chapters and entire volumes to scanlate between when we finished the last one and now. But at last, it’s all done. This is in fact our 20th finished volume of the Shima Kōsaku series at this point, so I’m pretty proud of that accomplishment. This series is REALLY hard and takes a lot of effort to translate as well as all the other jobs.

I talked a bunch about what’s happening in the Division Chief arc in the volume 1 and volume 2 posts. This volume mainly continues the arc in the wine industry that was started in volume 2. That arc is pretty much over by the end of this volume but a bit more in that industry happens in the first half of volume 4. Then we’re off to the next one. I’ll be pretty happy once that’s done because all the French terms and technical discussion of the wine industry have been quite a slog to understand well enough to translate. Timeline-wise we’re in the middle of 1999 now.

Besides that, some pretty climactic events happen in this volume. You can kind of tell the beginning of Division Chief here is sort of course-correcting from the “happy end” we had at the end of Section Chief, where the series was originally going to end, maybe. So things can’t go THAT well, there have to be downs along with the ups. Also starting in this volume the story starts to pick back up on old plot lines that were introduced earlier on in the story, something that happens every once in a while as the story moves forward. Anyhow, uhh that’s all I can think to say about this one. Much shorter than the last two I guess. Enjoy, everyone!

If anyone would like to volunteer to help out with checking/editing/cleaning/typesetting any of that for this project, please feel free to email me at kewl0210@gmail.com about it. We could always use more help on this series because of how much gosh-darn stuff there is in every single volume.

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 3 (Ch21-33)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) Volume 17


Whew. Ok, and now at last, here’s this. 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 17. For those keeping track, this is the first volume since we released the last one in October 2021. As time has gone on these volumes have been spaced out father and farther. I figure that’s due to Umino-sensei getting older but also because of how much time she’s spending polishing the story. This volume has a good number of little changes from the magazine versions, including being much better resolution. (We made this one a bit higher resolution than volume 16 in exchange for it taking up a bit more space).

Like last time, Umino-sensei has combined some chapters together, likely so they don’t end so abruptly. Also the chapter numbers have shifted back a bit so the volume numbers don’t skip any numbers (Though there’s still no volume chapter 153).
Magazine chapter 184 is now volume chapter 194 (Shifted to the end of the volume.)
Magazine 185 and 186 are volume 180.
Magazine 187 is volume 181.
Magazine 188 is volume 182
Magazine 189 is volume 183.
Magazine 190 and 191 are volume 184.
Magazine 192 is volume 185.
Magazine 193 is volume 186.
Magazine 194 is volume 187.
Magazine 195 and 196 are volume 188.
Magazine 197 is volume 189.
Magazine 198 is volume 190.
Magazine 199 is volume 191.
Magazine 200 is volume 192.
Magazine 201 is volume 193.

So now as a result volume 18 will probably start with chapter 194. But as of now we’re just gonna leave the magazine releases as-is and we’ll replace them once the volume comes out. This is all in addition to a lot of little changes to some lines and some art. Nothing quite so intense as last volume where entire panels and pages were added, though in the last arc of the volume focusing around Shimada some art was heavily altered/replaced. Also we left in the color pages from the magazine and like the last volumes we stuck back in the splash pages that started a couple chapters that were removed because the chapters were combined. And as usual it has a bunch of essays about shogi from Senzaki Manabu 9-dan and a bunch of extras between chapters and at the end.

At the end of the extra pages at the end, Umino-sensei says that 3-Gatsu no Lion is “in the final stretch”. So possibly it may be done relatively soon. But given how slow this series comes out it may still be a couple years at least. As of now, we don’t know when the next chapter will come out as it’s not listed in the “next issue” page on the Young Animal website. So we’re just waiting till the next one.

In the meantime, I’ve spent the last like… several months doing volume versions of stuff and I ended up having to do the vast majority of them myself in addition to scanning and transferring text and finding changes and such. So I’m really glad this is finally done and I can take a bit of a break. But also I can finally get back to volume 3 of Division Chief Shima Kōsaku which I keep getting pulled away from. There’s no Jojo next month, Ikoku Nikki is done, and there’s no more 3-Gatsu for a bit at least, so I hope I’ll be able to get more of that done soon.

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3-Gatsu no Lion Volume 17 (Ch180-194)
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The JOJOLands Ch. 8

Aaand here is chapter 8! This was a very Jojo-y week, with now this right after finishing volume 1. I really liked this chapter, it had some great character moments. There’s no new The JOJOLands chapter next issue of Ultra Jump, so the next chapter won’t be until the following month, and it set to come out November 17th Japan time. So after all that at once we’ll get a nice break and I can work on some other things and get normal human amounts of sleep hopefully.

Uhhh everything else is still at about the same stage as it was on Thursday. We’re working on 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 17 and Division Chief Shima Kōsaku volume 3. Also the next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter comes out soon on September 22nd Japan time, so pretty soon. Anyhow, enjoy!

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The JOJOLands Volume 1

Whew, ok well we finally have made it to a fully completed volume of The JOJOLands. This took a whole ton of effort to get everything as good as it could be and I am now totally exhausted.

For those that are unfamiliar, volumes of Jojo typically come out several months after their chapters come out. Usually around 2 or 3 volumes a year, generally containing 4 or 5 chapters. For all of our releases we’re scanning the physical raws which are the highest quality and resolution raw source, which takes a while to manually clean and redraw compared to the digital ones. That’s in addition to the fact that it has to be scanned and it’s about 200 pages all at once. Typically these volumes have more image data on the tops and bottoms of the pages and a little bit cut from the sides of the pages relative to the magazine version and also include any changes Araki-sensei decided to make after the release of the magazine versions. They also include the cover and extra pages between the chapters with little drawings. They’re generally considered the “definitive” or “archival” versions of the manga. At least until some sort of kanzenban/collector’s edition comes out. They also look slightly different from the digital versions due to how Shuueisha compresses their images. For some reason they tend to sorta blur them in a weird specific way that makes white dots on dark fields look sorta “more prominent” (It’s sorta hard to explain just through text). For these we’re using larger pixel dimensions for The JOJOLands than we did with JoJolion. These are 2560 pixels tall, whereas our JoJolion ones were 1400 pixel tall. So they’re a higher resolution than those were with the tradeoff of having a bit larger file size (Regardless both versions are way way higher res than the digital versions).

The next The JOJOLands chapter is slated to come out on the 19th Japan time, so only a few days from now. There’s also a new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter coming out next week and we’re working on scanlating 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 17 as well. I’m also working on Division Chief Shima Kōsaku volume 3 and I’m somewhere a little past the half way point in translating that right now. Between Jojo, 3-Gatsu, and DRCL volumes all coming out around the same time it’s taken up a lot of my time so Shima is taking a bit longer. Also a lot of these Shima chapters are really hard because of all the discussion about the wine industry. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy, everyone.

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The JOJOLands Volume 1 (Ch. 1-4)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 202

And we’re back! Here’s another 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter. There haven’t been too many this year. Umino-sensei has been busy with finalizing Volume 17 and drawing various Oberons.

We’ll do a volume 17 scanlation though it’ll take a while because we’re currently working on a The JOJOLands volume 1 scanlation and also 3-Gatsu no Lion tends to have a lot of changes in addition to having to buy, scan, clean, and redraw the whole volume. That’s probably gonna include combining chapters, changing up lines, adding panels, adding pages, plus extras between chapters and the omake at the end. It comes out on August 29th, so we’ll release it… some time after that.

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The JOJOLands Ch. 7

Here we are at chapter 7! The jungle warfare continues!
Volume 1 of The JOJOLands came out a day before this posted. As we did with JoJolion we’re gonna do physical scans and better-ized versions of the digital magazine versions with the much-better-quality physical volume raws. Though it’ll take some time as we need to scan and clean all 200-ish pages. But we’ll try to finish it in not TOO long.

The next 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter comes out in the next issue of Young Animal which comes out on August 25th Japan time. And then on the 29th, volume 17 of 3-Gatsu no Lion comes out. So we’ll be busy doing volume versions for both of these series. And as usual I’m working on Shima Kōsaku when I’ve got time. Still only at the beginning of volume 3 right now. Anyhow that’s it at the moment! Enjoy, everyone.

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The JOJOLands Ch. 7
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