3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) Volume 18

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Hey all, we’ve finally made it to volume 18. It sure has been a while, hasn’t it? The last 3-Gatsu no Lion volume we released back in September of 2023. This includes all the chapters released over those two years. This series has really come out pretty slowly, but it’s really been great. There’s so much emotion packed into these pages even though it’s only like 170 pages released over 2 years. This is a huge effort to do these, cause we need to re-redraw and clean all the pages, transfer the text over, find all the differences, update everything, etc. I hope you all enjoy, we’re doing our best to make the final version of all of this as high quality as possible. As usual this volume contains a bunch of little changes. Umino occasionally slightly alters lines or removes things or adds some visual changes. Though unlike the last few volumes this does NOT combine any chapters so the volume chapter numbers are still 7 chapters behind the magazine chapter numbers.

Magazine 202 is volume 195
Magazine 203 is volume 196
Magazine 204 is volume 197
Magazine 205 is volume 198
Magazine 206 is volume 199
Magazine 207 is volume 200
Magazine 208 is volume 201
Magazine 209 is volume 202
Magazine 210 is volume 203
Magazine 211 is volume 204
Magazine 212 is volume 205
Magazine 213 is volume 206
Magazine 214 is volume 207
Magazine 215 is volume 208

Besides this being higher resolution and containing all the changes, this volume as usual contains little new drawings and a couple pages of an afterward at the end where Umino-sensei updates us all on how she’s doing (though I guess she also has a twitter she does that at sometimes too). She says her plan is to make the next volume, volume 19, the last volume. So far we just have one chapter that’s been in that so far which is the one that came out last month. So far we don’t know when the next chapter comes out, as they only get announced one issue in advance (And sometimes those announcements end up being wrong). So we’ll see what the future holds! We’ll keep translating it, and hopefully Umino-sensei is able to draw the ending to the series she’s happy with.

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 3

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 3

Hey folks, we’re finally done with Managing Director Shima volume 3! Lots of stuff going on in this one as the China arc continues. A fun thing about this one is there’s a lot of discussion about how China was a growing economy and developing fast when this came out in 2002 and 2003 and they were at the time speculating about where the country would be in 10-20 years. And that’s where we’re at now! So you can see how accurate their predictions were. Anyhow I sure hope you all like manga about economics because there’s plenty more where that came from in this series.

In the meantime, we’re working on 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 18 now. We’re in the process of re-cleaning and re-redrawing the whole volume’s worth of chapters. Plus making all the changes that were made for the volume and all that like we did for the previous ones. I’m hoping that doesn’t take too long. And there’s no The JOJOLands this month so the next thing I’ll probably do is start on Shima volume 4. And I’m still scanning Gintama volumes when I have time among everything else (I spent a ton of free time getting all our stuff uploaded to Cubari recently so I need to take some time to do other stuff). Anyhow, go tell all your friends Shima Kōsaku is the best manga ever and tell them to read it.

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 3 (Ch27-39)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 216

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Hey everybody, we FINALLY have another 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter after… shit 3 months? It’s been a while. Volume 18 finally goes on sale on the 29th, so once it does we’re gonna get that and do a volume version of it. That’s going to compile together magazine chapters 202 to 215. So the whole Shimada match. It’ll likely combine some chapters again and cause the magazine’s numbering to be even further off from the volume versions. It’ll start at volume chapter 195 and go to what will be called 210 or so. With 3-Gatsu no Lion a lot tends to change between the magazine versions and the volume versions, so that’ll take some time. There’s no 3-Gatsu next issue. Who knows when the next one is, but probably soon.

Otherwise, everything else is basically in the same place as a few days ago. We’re working on finishing up Director Shima volume 3. And still working on getting more Gintama stuff done when I can. That’s all I have time for at the moment. After ComicK went down, we’ve gotten our whole release library backed up on Image Chest/Cubari now, and I’ve added links to the Reader page and the tops of all the Downloads pages so I’m hoping those are easy to find. For now I’ll keep uploading new chapters to MangaDex even though a bunch of series were taken down from there and more could be taken down at any time. We’ll see if folks choose a new site to move everything over to at some point, for now I’ll be using those 2 and also I might use bato.to as a reader site to upload new releases to. See ya’ll later

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The JOJOLands Ch. 29

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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.

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The JOJOLands Ch. 28

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Here’s more of this! Ok see you next month! Please go check out our scanlation of volume 6 from a week or so ago. Next month’s chapter comes out on the 19th as usual. In the meantime I’m working on Director Shima volume 3, that’s about it right now. I’m constantly trying to just balance everything going on in my life so that’s it right now.

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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.

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The JOJOLands Volume 6

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The JOJOLands Volume 6

Okay, here we are, volume 6! As usual, this is mainly just a more-final version of these chapters. They’re using the physical volume scans which have the highest resolution, more image data on the top and bottom of the pages, and have all the little additions and changes Araki-sensei makes after the magazine versions. We made a few tiny adjustments to the text but it’s nothing much. And it has those couple extra pages in between chapters with descriptions of Stands and all that. I spent like the last two weeks of my time working on this every day so I hope you all enjoy it.

Meanwhile, there haven’t been any new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapters. Volume 18 is still scheduled for September 28th. And I’m working on Managing Director Shima Kōsaku volume 3. The next regular The JOJOLands chapter comes out the 19th Japan time. And I’m very exhausted from too much happening in my life so I’m trying not to overwork myself with this stuff. Anyhow, enjoy this.

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 2

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 2

Hey everybody, here we are. Managing Director Volume 2. It’s been about 2 and a half months since we finished the last one. Sorry it’s taken so long but the last couple months have been difficult in like 5 different ways and I haven’t had energy after work to work on these a lot. Also, as I’m sure you’ll see as you read it, the subject matter is pretty difficult and took a while to get right.

Several chapters in this volume are about the economic state of China relative to Japan and the West when this volume was published in 2002. I learned a lot working on this. They go into detail about how China was changing at the time and what working as a foreign company competing with domestic Chinese products and companies is like alongside being a joint company working in China and also competing against Chinese company as a Japanese company. It’s a lot, and it talks about both the macro and microeconomic areas. Also there’s a bunch of kung fu fighting in it. It’s fun to look back on this and see them talking about “where China will be in the nest 5-10 years or so” and realize you’re now 23 years on from when this was published so you can now go about finding out that answer if you so choose!

I’m looking forward to translating more, as this sort of thing happens all the time in this manga. Just sort of learning about a snapshot of the state of the world at a certain time.

In the meantime, I just go The JOJOLands volume 6 and I need to scan that and work on doing the volume version of those chapters. I’ve got like 15 more Gintama volumes to scan also and then we’re gonna start trying to finish volume 70 and work backwards and see how far we get. And there’s uhhhh 6 volumes left in Managing Director! So we’ll be working on more of that. Probably for a while. Until next time, everyone!

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 2 (Ch14-26)
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The JOJOLands Ch. 27

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Hey so here’s this month’s The JOJOLands! More of that same fight happens! Uhh it’s 36 pages long! See you again next month! Also volume 6 came out today in Japan. So we’ll be working on that. But it takes some time to get the physical raw, scan it, and then re-clean and re-redraw the whole thing.

There was no new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter this month. It said there was going to be one in the next-issue-preview but then there wasn’t one. I’m almost done translating Managing Director Shima volume 2 but I’ve had just all sorts of other things on my mind so I couldn’t work on this every day. I also got a bunch more Gintama volumes scanned.

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Edit: This is now updated with the higher-resolution Chinese raws from Bilibili like we did for the last few chapters.

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The JOJOLands Ch. 26

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Hey all we’re back. Here’s this chapter. Lots of action in this one. We’re back to the usual page length. And next chapter comes out on the 17th Japan time. So like slightly earlier. And that’s along side volume 6 which we’ll work on after that.

Besides that, it’s basically working on the same stuff as from a few days ago. Working on Managing Director Shima volume 2 and scanning more Gintama volumes. When I have time to do this sorta thing. I’m pretty tired I was busy all day the last several days and now I can take a break sorta. Besides, ya know, working at my job.

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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 215

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Here’s the new 3-Gatsu chapter, everyone! We’re now out of the match and doing other stuff for a bit
There’s no new chapter next issue probably so the next one will be in July probably.

In the meantime, I’m working on translating Managing Director Shima volume 2 and scanning more Gintama volumes. JoJo comes out next week. So yeah see ya later!

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