And so, we have finally make it to the final volume, volume 8.
This one’s packed with Natsume Souseki references, for which being a Japanese literature nerd really paid off.
I should mention there was a line a couple chapters back where I wrote “Sensei isn’t you” and that’s apparently a colloquial phrase I wasn’t aware of that should’ve been more like “Sensei isn’t the one for you.” So I’m going to edit and reupload those.
Again, this story has themes of infidelity, rape, suicide, gender inequality, blackmail, and murder. So be aware before reading.
Ok, ok, oook, I think I finally did it.
Here we are, 3-Gatsu no Lion volume 14.
I’m real exhausted. I translated this all in advance in the weeks leading up to the volume coming out (on 22nd of December). Then spent most of my free time after that getting it cleaned, redrawn, and typeset. Thanks a ton for Huldra and Lyndis helping out on one of the cleaning and typesetting respectively.
Oh and check out these commercials of animated scenes from this volume that Shaft did to advertise the volume!
So, if you just wanna go read the series, go check it out. There’s one thing unrelated that I wanted to address that I’m going to mention here. If anyone’s wondering, the reason we don’t try to do these with issue chapters is a few things. They should be fairly obvious but I’ll post them here in case anyone isn’t sure.
1. I don’t have time. I’m doing this all mainly by myself and it’s a huge amount of work. Doing that would be even more work and time and it would be another thing I’d need to focus on all year, rather than just once at the end of the year.
2. There are issues with getting the raw magazine chapters. The physical magazine comes out before the digital magazine by 2 weeks. So if we wanted to do it AS SOON as it was available in Japan it would be very time consuming as we’d need to go physically buy the issues of Young Animal and scan them. And the physical magazine’s print quality is worse than the digital versions. Also the series also doesn’t run in every issue, and it’s sort of random which issues it does run in. You’d need to check the official website’s preview for the next issue every issue to know if it had 3-Gatsu in it so you know whether to get it or not.
3. The volumes are the highest quality version by a long shot. Besides the much better resolution from scanning the physical volume, Umino-sensei makes a number of edits on every chapter, so there’s textual differences (Both character lines and artwork gets changed). Plus the extras added in between chapters and at the beginning and the end. You could consider the volumes the “finalized, archival” versions. We’d rather work on the best version possible. Also trying to do both volumes AND the magazine versions would be exceedingly more time consuming, as you’d need to clean and redraw everything twice on top of getting both raws. Plus you’d need to transfer over all the old typesetting and add in any and all differences.
That said if someone wants to do all that, take responsibility for getting the magazine raws and cleaning and typesetting them when they come out, I could do those as well, but otherwise I won’t have time. And I really don’t expect anyone to do that at this point.
Ok, and with this, volume 7 is done! There’s only 1 volume left!
I’m very tired from doing all this stuff these last few weeks but I’m almost done now. 3-Gatsu no Lion is almost finished. I got someone to help out with typesetting so it’s sped things up a bit, though I’m still mostly translating, redrawing, and typesetting by myself. Almost there…
And now Sensei, too, is getting close to the finish line.
Again, this story has themes of infidelity, rape, suicide, gender inequality, blackmail, and murder. So be aware before reading.
Oook, here we are with chapter 42. Just one left in volume 7 now, and then there’s just one volume to go. So not much left.
Sorry this took a bit longer than usual. I had… let’s see, finishing Innocent Rouge, Christmas stuff, the 54-page Gintama chapter, scanning, redrawing and typesetting 3-Gatsu no Lion (And translating the stuff that’s exclusive to the volume), and New Years stuff taking up my time. So I had to drop something for a bit.
But anyhow, enjoy this! I’m still debating what project I wanna do once this is done but I’m sure I’ll do *something*. I do want to do those 2 old Gintama volumes but I’m not in a rush to do those as they’re a pretty big project that’s mainly just for “completion’s sake”. And I’m gonna try to do some more Takeshi chapters too.
Anyhow, Happy New Years, everyone!
Again, this story has themes of infidelity, rape, suicide, gender inequality, blackmail, and murder. So be aware before reading.
And we’re back!
Gintama will be running monthly in Jump Giga for 3 issues. Jump Giga is a side magazine that runs 6 issues a year in the pattern of 3 months in a row, then takes 3 months off. It’s mainly used to show off one-shots of new authors. It also usually has extra chapters for existing Jump series. So this is 2019 Winter Volume 1.
Gintama will have the cover for all 3 of the issues it’s in. And we think that’s when the series will finally end? Maybe? This is the first of those 3, and it’s 54 pages long. So I hope you all enjoy, working on this chapter was exhausting. So now that Innocent, Neko, and Gintama are done, I’m gonna get back to work on 3-Gatsu v14 and Sensei no Shiroi Uso.
And here we are at chapter 6! If you didn’t see the introduction I wrote up for this project, check it out here.
In this chapter they finally announced when volume 1 is releasing! So that should be cool. That comes out in February.
We’ve got a lot going on this week and it’s pretty exhausting because it’s the same week as Christmas so a lot of staff is busy. We’ve got this and Innocent done, and we’ve got the new Gintama chapter later this week. So sorry we won’t have Sensei no Shiroi Uso out until next week probably. But I hope you enjoy all this other stuff.
This chapter’s pretty good! More of that style only Urushibara-sensei can create.
Ok, we finally got this all done.
Here it is, the execution that everything’s been leading up to in this series for quite some time.
Also now Innocent Rouge is officially longer than the original Innocent! The original Innocent series had 9 volumes and this is the 9th volume of Rouge, and the series is still going.
There’s a bunch of other stuff this week with Neko ga Nishi Mukya and the new Gintama chapter, plus we’re working on the new 3-Gatsu no Lion volume that just came out. It’s all translated but we still need to do all the redrawing and typesetting. So there’s a lot going on and it’s eating up allllll my time. But once it’s done I can finally sleep. Hope you’re all looking forward to it!
Ok, here’s this month’s chapter.
Just so you know, we’re writing “Uu Tomoki” as “Wu Tomoki” now because that’s how Araki romanized it in a display at the Jojo Ripples of Adventure Exhibition. It’s a Japanese name written in hiragana so normally it would just be written as a direct romanization (There’s no “wu” sound in standard Japanese), but how Araki writes stuff in official stuff is usually seen to supersede that.
Ok I got all of 3-Gatsu translated in advance. Innocent is almost done. Jojolion tomorrow. Neko ga Nishi Mukya a few days after that. Gintama a couple days after that… I’m pretty exhausted. 8 more chapters of this series to go.
Again, this story has themes of infidelity, rape, suicide, gender inequality, blackmail, and murder. So be aware before reading.
