The flame of life…

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Hey, so now that we got all those other projects done we decided to try to do the last few volumes of Gintama using volume raws.
In an ideal world, we would’ve eventually redone ALL the volumes of Gintama that we worked on in volume form, but that’s just not how things panned out. I was originally trying to do that but lack of staff to work on it consistently made it impossible and trying to manage that on top of alllll these other projects I’m doing was more stress for me than it was worth, especially when I had to constantly fill in for jobs and remind people who weren’t working on it to get back to it a lot, replace people who’d just stopped working on it and ignored all attempts to contact them, that sort of thing. I wrote about this more back in 2015 when we did the last one. At this point there’s like 30 of those and it would be a massive project to tackle now, and I don’t think all that many people would actually read them at this point. Also I don’t really wanna spend like a year to redo chapters of a manga we’ve already released so they’re like 10% better quality. Just to be clear, I’d LIKE to do it if it weren’t for the fact it’d just take up all my free time for all that time, but that’s the reality of it. I’d rather spend my time working on new manga and that sorta thing. I have a bad tendency of overworking myself trying to do EVERYTHING and then this stuff can take over my life, which is something I really want to avoid in the future.

Soooo I decided on a compromise to just do these last few as HQ volumes. Everything from V73 to the end. There’s one more volume out now, so we’ll try to get to that one soon. The next one is scheduled for October. In total there’s gonna probably end up being around 77 volumes. The translation and typesetting are pretty much the same since we did these pretty recently. We added some typeset SFX to make it a little nicer. And of course it’s got Sorachi-sensei’s various Q&A sections and rants about this or that that are only in the volumes, his various little adjustments like added highlights and details and fixed-up artworks, and the quality is a lot better than the Jump magazine versions. I hope you all enjoy!

Gintama Volume 73 (Ch656-665)
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And here is 696.
Not much left.
I’m looking into maybe doing volume versions for the last few volumes, just as a sendoff kinda thing. There’s gonna be 30 volumes that we did only magazine versions of so I don’t think I wanna do all that since it would take like a year. But we could do the last few.

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In this town where nothing ever changes…

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And 695. Not much left to go now.
Dang I love these characters.

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Ok so here’s 694. A pretty fun chapter.
Also now officially the series is finally going to really end for reals this time with 5 more chapters. I’m not sure if this one counts in that but maybe?
I think it makes sense to me pacing-wise as everything’s wrapped up now except for the final confrontation and end to the Utsuro/Shouyou plotline. But I’ll still be sad to see the series go.
I think so far this denouement arc makes more sense to be the final arc than the previous one as it gives more to the main themes of the story and I think that makes it more satisfying. Though the last arc was longer and gave a kind of wrap-up to most storylines, this gives a good conclusion for all the characters and emphasizes what their mission statement is and such.
Anyhow I’ll definitely enjoy having the extra free time. This took forever to translate.
I’m excited to see how Sorachi-sensei finally ends things off.

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