The JOJOLands Volume 3

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Hey folks! Here we are, volume 3! This contains the next four chapters and all in high quality. We spent a lot of work on this and now it’s finally all done. It takes a while because we need to scan it, align everything into images where the edges of the pages are the edge of the image, then re-clean and re-redraw everything in higher resolution. That’s in addition to checking for any differences from the magazine version. There are barely any of those in this volume besides “Charming Man” becoming two words and the titles changing. The price of the watch also changed to 80,000 dollars in every mention of its price. The rest are tiny things like fonts changing in a few places or a screen tone added or something. That and the intro pages and the little sketches between the chapters.

There’s no projected release date for the next volume, but it’s probably in around 4-5 months from the release of this one. The next one probably will have up to chapter 16, and 15 and 16 aren’t out yet. So maybe something like July-August or a bit later. 15 should be out this week when Ultra Jump comes out. Otherwise… we just released the new Shima volume and now this is all done so that’s all I’ve been doing since then. I just started on translating Shima volume 9 so I’ll be working on that. And since DRCL is done I have a couple other little projects I might wanna do sometime soon. I’m kinda debating what that should be still. Largely I’m trying not to overload myself with projects. Anyhow, enjoy!

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The JOJOLands Volume 3 (Ch. 9-12)
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Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 8

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 8

Whew, ok, we’ve made it to volume 8. As always, quite a lot happens in this volume, so it’s kind of hard to summarize anything without giving a lot away. But we continue our adventures in the record industry. Quite a lot of the status quo gets shaken up in this one. I hope you’re all ready.

This volume took a bit longer because we also had #DRCL midnight children volume 4 to do last month plus 3-Gatsu no Lion and Jojo and all that. Plus I had a lot of stuff at work requiring me to work late and so I couldn’t work on this every day. I have a couple ideas for some side projects I think I’d like to do now that we’re finished working on DRCL (More details about why we’re not continuing it in that post). Like I was thinking about redoing some older stuff I did years ago which I could now do in better quality that might not take TOO long because we found some ways to automate some cleaning steps. And of course we’ll be working on more Shima (We’ve got just 5 volumes left in Division Chief now, can you believe it?) and were in the middle of working on our volume-version of The JOJOLands volume 3. So a lot going on. I’m also trying to not overdo this and balance this hobby with the rest of my life, which is kind of always the case, so I need to set a reasonable pace for myself since I’m doing most of these projects myself besides usually some typesetting and cleaning and final checking. I hope you all check all this out.

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 8 (Ch86-98)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 207

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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.

Okay! Now Shimada is finally playing Kiriyama! It’s happening! There’s a chapter next issue of Young Animal, too. This is one of those chapters that comes off like it’ll be combined with the following chapter when they get compiled into the volume because it sorta just “ends” without any sort of real closure. So anyhow, go check it out! Unless something weird happens the next chapter should come out on May 24th Japan time (I think? I think it’s skipping one two-week-period after this one).

In the meantime we’re working on Shima volume 8 and The JOJOLands volume 3. I’m trying to balance doing these projects with the rest of my life and not overdo it. And I’ve just had a whole lot going on so I can’t be working on hobbies after a day stressing at work or running around doing other things. But yeah we’re in the middle of Shima volume 8 and I’m gonna keep working on it as I’ve got time.

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The JOJOLands Ch. 14

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Hey ya’ll! So this month’s chapter is much more lighthearted than the last one. I hope you all enjoy. The JOJOLands Volume 3 just came out in Japan so we’ll be working on our high quality scanlation of that. And the next Young Animal, which comes out a week from now, should have a new chapter of 3-Gatsu no Lion. And in all my other time I’m working on translating Shima volume 8. So lots of stuff happening. I hope you all enjoy!

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#DRCL midnight children Volume 4

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Hey so everyone, here it is, finally, DRCL volume 4! I talked about this a bit in my previous posts but this is gonna be the last volume of this series we’re doing as it’s been licensed by Viz and the first couple volumes are out now. I think they’re doing a fine job and I hope you support the official release going forward. They just released volume 2 and it seems like they’re coming out with new volumes every 6 months or so. Largely I wanted to get volume 4 done so we at least end on a high note, getting past the group that was sniping us a while back. This volume goes up to chapter 35 and also starting in this volume the series switched from being every-other-issue to every issue (in the bi-weekly magazine, Grand Jump), but with each chapter being about half the length. So as a result you get 14 chapters in this volume, whereas the previous volumes had around 7. That continues past this point but like I said we’re not gonna be doing any more. And as usual we’re releasing an uncompressed version at 1200dpi if you want that which is a way bigger filesize so it won’t fit on Mangadex.

This series was a LOT of work largely because of all the effort to do redraws at high resolution. Way moreso than translating which isn’t too hard. Though some of the translating is a headache because it’s quoting the Bram Stoker novel (in Japanese) but in different contexts than what was happening in the Bram Stoker novel. So you need to sometimes leave it so it worked exactly as the original worked and sometimes you needed to alter it slightly. I think we got it all reading quite well this volume. I did about half the redrawing in addition to all the translating and scanning so I’m quite happy to be done with this volume, it was a ton of work. This volume is mainly about Jonathan Harker and is more or less the equivalent to the chapters that the novel Dracula starts on (finally). I really appreciate the help from suibian who did half or maybe more like 60% of the cleaning and redrawing which is the only reason we were able to get this done.

Anyhow, even though we’re not gonna be working on this series anymore, I really enjoyed the work we did on the first four volumes. I think it’s a good series and I’m interested to see where Sakamoto-sensei goes with it. It’s starting to get kind of weird in the chapters in the current issues of Grand Jump.

I’ve got a couple ideas for smaller projects I might wanna do since I’m not longer working on this one, but for now I’m gonna focus on doing more Shima. I might do some short 1-2 volume manga or try to make improved versions of projects I worked on years ago or something along those lines (I think about doing that a lot but then when you start doing it you realize how boring it is to redo stuff, so who knows if I’ll actually do that this time). Anyhow, until then, enjoy!

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Uncompressed Volume 4

#DRCL midnight children Volume 4 (Ch. 22-35)
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 206

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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.

Man, I went and checked and this is the first chapter since early December. It really has been a while. There were multiple times since then where the magazine and website listed 3-Gatsu no Lion as being in the next issue and it just wasn’t. Well anyhow now begins the arc of the match between Shimada VS Kiriyama. This chapter just ends with a “continues next time” so there’s no 3-Gatsu in the very next issue, but in theory the next chapter will be around a month from now but we’ll see. In the meantime we’re still working on DRCL volume 4 and the beginning of Division Chief Shima volume 8.

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3-Gatsu no Lion 206
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The JOJOLands Ch. 13

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Hey everybody, quick content warning. This chapter contains: forced-feminization, psychological torture, sexual assault, gender dysphoria, self-loathing, broken marriages, childhood trauma, childhood guilt, arson, and probably a bunch of other stuff I don’t know the name of. (This sort of thing is pretty par-the-course for the stuff our group works on at this point but I figured I’d mention it here cause it’s kind of a lot. Though this is all pretty tame compared to The Book: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure 4th Another Day which I hope you all read.) Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

We just released Shima volume 7 and we just started on volume 8. We’re working on DRCL volume 4 still. And next month The JOJOLands comes out on April 19th Japan time, same as usual. Volume 3 is set to come out at the same time so we’ll be working on our HQ scanlation of that once it’s available. Also there SHOULD be a 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter this week, fingers crossed it’s actually in the magazine this time. That’s it for now, see ya later!

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Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 7

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 7

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Folks, we’ve made it past the half-way point of the Division Chief arc. Holy shit. We’ve come such a long way. Oh also this is the first one we’ve done were we used the scanned zenshuu raws for ALL of the black and white pages. Previously we only did it for pages that looked kind of awful in the digital raws. Not sure if we’ll keep that up or not (and at a point the digital raws stop being over-leveled and look normal and are at good resolution) but we’ll probably keep doing it for a bit.

Ssssso there was no 3-Gatsu no Lion in the last issue of Young Animal despite the preceding issue’s next-issue-preview page saying there would be. Supposedly there’s one in the next issue, but I dunno what’s going on over there because this has happened multiple times now. And there’s a new Jojo next week and we’re still working on #DRCL midnight children volume 4. That’s about it. I hope you enjoy this folks, this volume’s one of the great ones (They’re all great but maybe this one is particularly great?).

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 7 (Ch73-85)
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The JOJOLands Ch. 12

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I just love these freakin’ goofs. They’re just a fun bunch of weirdos hanging out, that’s what this manga is. It’s great.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our HQ scanlation of volume 2 we finished a little while ago. Volume 3’s release date was just set for April 18th, by the way. This chapter, 12, is probably the chapter that volume 3 ends with.

In the meantime, I’m working on Shima volume 7. DRCL volume 4 is out in Japan now, and I think that’s the last volume of that series we’re going to do. I’m also working on that but it’ll take a while, I’m not really in a rush to do it. Next chapter of Jojo comes out on March 19th Japan time. Enjoy the chapter, folks!

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Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 6

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 6

Uuuuuuuhh we did it! We made it to volume 6! There’s really so much in these volumes man, there’s a lot happening. Well anyhow after the devastating end of Volume 5 I hope you all learned a valuable lesson. In a manga that runs for 40 years and everyone ages in real time, everybody dies. They’re all just doomed. Most of them. Some of them. A lot of them.

Anyhow, on that note, this volume has like a sort of epilogue to the Yatsuhashi Shinko arc, then a bunch more corporate intrigue and on to the next part of the record industry arc. The record industry arc as a whole is quite long (I think the last bit of it ends around volume 10). And there’s a bunch of emotionally devastating stuff in this volume so be advised. And it’s only going to get more devastating.

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.

Uh, there’s been no new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapters in any of the Young Animals that’ve come out recently. Next possible one would be the one that comes out on February 22nd Japan time. And the next The JOJOLands is set to come out on February 19th Japan time. Also volume 4 of DRCL midnight children is coming out later this month, and I think that’s gonna be the last one we work on because it’s licensed. And it’ll take a while to do after it’s out anyhow to get the volume, scan it, and clean the whole thing. For now, I need a bit of a break because I’ve been working on this every day for like… a while now. Enjoy, everyone!

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Division Chief Shima Kо̄saku Volume 6 (Ch60-72)
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