I think bsky was down earlier? But we released this like 12 hours ago.

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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 6 Hey everybody, here we are, finally, Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 6. Sorry it took so long, it’s been about 3 months since we finished the last one. Mainly that’s due to be foc…

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The JOJOLands Ch. 34 Cover

Here’s the new The JOJOLands, everyone. This chapter, like a lot of chapters in this series, is full of unspeakable horrors both mental and physical so reader be advised. Also that rascal Kishibe Rohan is in it. Besides this, I’ve got a couple of Shima chapters left to translate and volume 6 should be done. Sorry about the delay on that, I’ve been trying really hard to get all these Gintama volumes cleaned so that’s mainly what’s been finished lately. There’s 4 and a little more volumes left to go, and I’m doing the extras when I have time among all these other things. Once they’re all cleaned I’ll probably speedrun through translating the extras for all the volumes that are left. And then once that’s done I’ll probably focus on Shima for a while cause we haven’t released a lot of that lately. Oh also Volume 8 of The JOJOLands just came out so we’ll be doing that in the near future as well. I really have like way too much stuff to do at the moment lol. I’ll get through it all eventually. Oh and the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7 – Steel Ball Run anime is starting finally! I translated the end of that manga. It’s pretty good I recommend it. Hopefully the adaptation is good.

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Gintama Volume 60 Here’s 60! We’ve got 14 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is mostly the latter part of the Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc whe…

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Gintama Volume 60 cover

Here’s 60! We’ve got 14 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is mostly the latter part of the Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc where they’re rescuing Kondou from Kokujou Island. There’s not much to update since the last one, basically we’re just working on these a little every day in hopes to get this project done in not too long. We managed to find some way to automate some more busy work so I’m hoping maybe we get them all cleaned by the end of the month. There’s like 6 and a half volumes left to go through and clean and fix the typsetting and all that. I’m behind on translating the extras but we’re releasing them when they’re done and checked. And I’m working on Shima and other stuff when I have time amongst all this. Mangadex is down right now, I’ll upload it there once it’s back up.

Gintama Volume 60

Gintama Volume 61-62 Ok so here’s these two, 61 and 62! We’ve got 15 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. So working backwards like we’ve been doing, …

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Gintama Volume 61-62

Ok so here’s these two, 61 and 62! We’ve got 15 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. So working backwards like we’ve been doing, volume 62 is some stuff about Utsuro and setting up for the final arc(s) against him as he eliminates some of the other factions to become the most powerful person/organization/entity and the main cast going to Rakuyou. 61 is the end of the rescuing Kondou from Kokujou Island arc and it’s where Utsuro is first introduced basically (He’s in like a few pages of volume 60). It’s also the end of the Nobume and Sasaki Isaburou’s big story arc. So, I’ve been spending way too much time on this project but we’ve got volumes 46 and then 55-60 fully cleaned and redrawn as of this morning. There’s only 8 volumes left to clean and redraw left, and that’s the vast majority of the work on this series. That’s including fixing the text in the transfer from the magazine chapters and fixing the edges of the pages which are different in the physicals VS digitals, adding in sound effects, fixing any mistakes I notice, and all that. So mainly I’ve been focusing on getting all those done rather than doing the extras and getting them released. But we’ve gotten all the way to the start of the Shogun Assassination Arc done so I’m gonna try to focus on extras for a while. Also the 8 volumes that are left to clean are full of gag chapters so they have a lot of text so they take longer. There’s more text and also more redraws per page. I’m trying to also check through all the text in these as well and fix any mistakes or awkwardness if I run into it but that’s on top of all this other stuff so I don’t have a ton of time to spare to also do that and I haven’t run into very much of it. So yeah, I’m happy with the progress we made on this, it no longer seems like something we’ll “never finish” I’m pretty sure we’ll finish just I’m not gonna be rushing through it as much as I have since November. I’ll be trying to get more ext…

Gintama Volume 61-62

I really love walking around Central Park when it's all snowy. It's a real winter wonderland at the moment.

The JOJOLands Ch. 33 Hey everybody he’s a new The JOJOLands chapter and it’s the first chapter of a new arc. A new “act” even. And man did this have a lot of text, I hope you appreciate all we d…

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The JOJOLands Ch. 33

Hey everybody he’s a new The JOJOLands chapter and it’s the first chapter of a new arc. A new “act” even. And man did this have a lot of text, I hope you appreciate all we do for you guys, we did all this in one day. In the meantime, we have like a whole bunch of Gintama volumes cleaned but I still need to translate the extras for them. There’s 10 volumes left to clean and they’re all at least partially cleaned. I’m gonna try to get some of those finished soon and then also get back to finishing the next Shima volume. But mainly I’m trying to finish Gintama because spending hours and hours cleaning pages and fixing text is really boring and I just want it to be done so I don’t have to think about it anymore, tbh.

The JOJOLands Ch. 33

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 219 Hey there everyone, so here’s the new 3-Gatsu no Lion. This one is sort of the start of a new arc maybe? Or maybe it’s the same arc that was going last chapter depending on how you look…

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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 219 cover page

Hey there everyone, so here’s the new 3-Gatsu no Lion. This one is sort of the start of a new arc maybe? Or maybe it’s the same arc that was going last chapter depending on how you look at it. This one just ends in “to be continued” so we’ll see when it continues. In the meantime, there’s Jojo next week. I’ve got a whole bunch of Gintama that’s like almost done as we slowly make our way through a couple thousand more pages to clean, and I’m working on Shima in the spare time I have outside that.

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Gintama Volume 63 Here’s 63.! We’ve got 17 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is mainly about Katsura, Sakamoto, and Gin fighting the three…

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Gintama Volume 63

Gintama Volume 64 And here’s 64. We’ve got 18 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the one where the Joui Four finally reunite. Also it&#8…

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Gintama Volume 64

And here’s 64. We’ve got 18 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the one where the Joui Four finally reunite. Also it’s got Kamui’s fight against Umibouzu and Kagura. It has the rest of the Kouka flashback/backstory, too. I’ve been working on this stuff a lot in hopes of eventually finishing this before I die. So far, in addition to what we’ve released, we’ve cleaned/redrawn everything in volume 60-63. I still have to do the extras for all those though. It really takes a while and it’s pretty tedious but doing some of it every day is working. I still have to do the vast majority of volumes 46-59 though which is still a ton. I probably will need to take some breaks though. My head is melting from spending so many hours going through these. The typesetting and translations are all done but I do need to adjust the text somewhat, do the inline sound-effects, and clean and redraw everything and fix the edges of the pages which differ from the digital and physical raws as an artifact of the automation process by lining up the physical raws with upscaled digital ones. Meanwhile, there’s another 3-Gatsu no Lion in a couple weeks. I’m translating Shima volume 6 too. Anyhow I hope you all enjoy these. The Gintama Yoshiwara in Flames movie is coming out soon, anyone seeing that?

Gintama Volume 64

If anyone else noticed a mistake in the Gintama chapters we translated a decade ago please feel free to reach out while you still can, lol.

Someone left a helpful comment on the HWMN website/blog back in January 2016 when we first did Gintama chapter 570 which I can finally incorporate now that we're redoing volume 63 a decade later. Thank you, Squish.

Gintama Volume 65 Okay, here we are at 65. We’ve got 19 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is primarily the main closure/battle with Umibouzu, Ka…

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Gintama Volume 65

Okay, here we are at 65. We’ve got 19 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is primarily the main closure/battle with Umibouzu, Kagura, and Kamui. It also has one of the Utsuro fights. Volume 64, the next one we’ll do, is the one with the flashback about Koudka, Kagura’s mom, for the most part. This has a little of it. The most annoying thing with this volume was they included one of the popularity poll results but they rearranged it slightly so the whole thing had to be re-redrawn and re-typeset from scratch. I’ve been working on this project at least a little every day. So now every volume has at least a little bit done. But I think for the most part at this point I’m gonna focus on just going through them one volume at a time rather than trying to do all of one thing or another in each volume. Like I did the first and last page of each volume, I did the title pages and ending pages of all the chapters in some volumes, I looked up bits and redid them because I knew there were parts of the translation I wanted to change, I did a whole bunch of quick gimme-pages, stuff like that. But now pretty much all that’s left is hack away at each volume which is gonna take like 10+ hours of work each and there’s 18 more of them. But even with all the progress we’ve made, and I think it’s gone really well so far, we still have a long way to go and I’m gonna have to take breaks to go back to Shima and stuff like that. Also volume 64 is almost done I just gotta translate the extras.

Gintama Volume 65

Big fan of the Dunk show so far

The JOJOLands Ch. 32 Hey ya’ll welcome to the first new The JOJOLands chapter of the year. A bunch of exciting stuff happens in this one so go check it out. Next one comes out February 18th Japan time. We release…

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The JOJOLands Ch. 32

Hey ya’ll welcome to the first new The JOJOLands chapter of the year. A bunch of exciting stuff happens in this one so go check it out. Next one comes out February 18th Japan time. We released our high-quality version of volume 7 a little while ago so go check that out if you haven’t yet. In the meantime, Gintama volume 64 and 65 are almost done and I’m in the middle of translating Shima volume 6. That’s about it right now.

The JOJOLands Ch. 32

Please check out the Gintama manga, everyone. Spending so many hours doing all these volume versions is sapping away my life force.

Gintama Volume 66 Hey here’s another one, here’s Gintama 66. We’ve got 29 volume versions left to do now. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume has a bunch of…

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Gintama Volume 66

Hey here’s another one, here’s Gintama 66. We’ve got 29 volume versions left to do now. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume has a bunch of stuff about Utsuro’s origins and motives. This is the first part of the story where Sorachi-sensei started acting like “Ok the series is really heading for the end now” and then it went for 11 more volumes. There’s an extra page added. Page 125-127 were originally just one page in the original chapter 595. That little speech was expanded somewhat. Anyhow I’m really glad we’re making progress on these at a fairly good pace now. In the past few weeks I worked on all the re-cleaning and re-redrawing and re-typesetting of SFX for a bunch of random pages or little chunks of volumes in an attempt to get every volume “partially done” rather than do an entire volume done at once. Like I did all of the title pages and tables of contents and character-intro pages in the beginnings of these. I was gonna keep going with that and do something like “do all the title pages of every chapter” but we’re doing all the way back to volume 46 remember so any time you do anything like that it’s 20-something times, and if it’s in every chapter it’s like 180+ times. And if you’re gonna do all that you might as well just focus on getting something out/done while you have time, because I dunno if I’ll still have time to work on these things months from now depending on how my schedule goes. So I think from here I’m mainly gonna stick to just working on “the next one” and working backwards. Uh besides that I’m still working on Managing Director Shima 6. That’s about it at the moment. Well, enjoy, everyone! We’re just slowly making our way up this mountain of Gintama chapters.

Gintama Volume 66