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He/Him. I translate manga, anime, novels, and such. Mostly fan projects. Worked on Jojo/Toriko/Gintama/Kokou no Hito + a bunch of others. Also a software dev. hiwamatanoboru.com
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Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Volume 6 hiwamatanoboru.com/2024/09/23/k...

The cover of Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Volume 6
Okay, here we are, volume 6. Man this is a really good one. I love this series. It’s just got such powerful expression of emotion. You really feel Buntarō here as he’s dealing with the rejection and hazing and competition from his other teammates. We’re now in the middle of the Northern Alps All-Mountain Traversal arc which goes until the beginning of volume 9. It definitely has gotten easier to do these because there’s less text and less redrawing. But there’s still a considerable amount of work in each of these so I don’t think I’m ever going to get to the point where I can bang out like one a week (until maybe the last couple, maybe?). So now we’re a little more than a third of the way through the series and I’m glad we’re making good progress on this but it’ll probably take a few more months at least to finish. So in the meantime, I’ve done a bunch of cleaning on volume 7. I’ve translated the first like 3 chapters of Shima volume 11. And I’m also trying to get some of the other Gi
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The JOJOLands Ch. 19 hiwamatanoboru.com/2024/09/18/t...

The JOJOLands Ch. 19 Cover
Here’s chapter 19, folks! The battle in the hospital continues. There’s no new The JOJOLands next month. There’s a message at the end of this chapter saying as much. The next chapter will be out on November 19th Japan time. There’s another Jojo magazine coming out so possibly Araki-sensei will be writing another one-shot of some sort for that or maybe he’s just taking a break. Anyhow, we just released The JOJOLands volume 4 and Division Chief Shima Kōsaku volume 10. I’m in the middle of Kokou no Hito volume 6 and just started translating Shima volume 11. So that’s what we got going on! Go check all this stuff out! They take forever and I’m exhausted!
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Looks like I was #199,628.

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Probably going to preview Zelda Echoes of Wisdom r-right? Nothing else going on... right?

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Thanks! Yeah I think I found a pretty good place for the most part. I'm really glad folks are reading it!

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Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 10 hiwamatanoboru.com/2024/09/16/d...

The cover of Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 10
Ok, here we are, volume 10. This one took about two months because I’ve had a lot of things going on in life besides scanlating and couldn’t really focus much on this volume until the past two and a half weeks. But anyhow, this one’s a great one and it has so much going on in it. With this volume we finally, finally reach the end of the record industry arc which started way back in volume 4. It also finishes up a whole bunch of other stuff. It’s a volume where a lot changes and we head into the final arc of the Division Chief series. We’ve got just 3 volumes left now. It feels kinda crazy we’ve come this far. But man these volumes are hard. There’s just so much in each of them. Besides that, we have The JOJOLands this week and I’m working on Kokou no Hito volume 6. Kokou no Hito is cleaned and I’m working on typesetting it and fixing up the translation now. And then I’ll be starting up on Division Chief volume 11. As usual I’m constantly trying to figure out what is a good balance bet
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The JOJOLands Volume 4 hiwamatanoboru.com/2024/09/06/t...

The cover of The JOJOLands Volume 4
Aaand here is volume 4, folks! Man, volume 4 already? It feels like it wasn’t that long ago when the series just started. Like usual, this is a higher quality version of the magazine version done by scanning the physical volumes. There’s like a couple tiny details and screentones and stuff added and a few pictures in between the chapters but besides that it’s pretty much the same. Also they added Charming Man to the intro pages where the characters are introduced. The next volume is just scheduled for “winter” of this year. That should contain up to chapter 20 probably. And only up to 18 are released so far. So that means maybe December or January I’m guessing. Right now I’m in the middle of working on Kokou no Hito volume 6 and I’m trying to get Shima volume 10 done which has been taking a while, but I’m finally most of the way done on that. I’ve had a bunch of stressful stuff going on IRL which has made it harder to get through all this stuff quickly. But yeah I’m gonna keep going o
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I keep forgetting to post stuff here so here's a picture of my cat sleeping.

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Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Volume 5 hiwamatanoboru.com/2024/08/23/k...

Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Volume 5 Cover
WHEW, here’s volume 5! Now we’re well into the real meat of the manga. The speech at the start of chapter 52 here is one of the highlights of the series. It feels like it’s where Buntarō really feels like he’s got firm opinions about his life and how he’s living it that he lets the reader in on. And now we’ve finally got underway with the Northern Alps All-Mountain Ridge Traversal. This volume was a bunch easier because the amount of text is letting up and the amount of sound effects and fonts is going down. So hopefully these don’t take too long. There’s still 12 more volumes to go now. These don’t take a lot of focused concentration but they do take a lot of hours regardless to get the whole volume done. And we’ve got a few people quality checking now which helps. I’d really prefer this “spruce up” of this series didn’t end up taking many months, because it’s taking up my time for everything else I wanna do. But the hardest volumes are behind us now. In the meantime, we just releas
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 209 hiwamatanoboru.com/2024/08/22/3...

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@kewl0210.bsky.social
He/Him. I translate manga, anime, novels, and such. Mostly fan projects. Worked on Jojo/Toriko/Gintama/Kokou no Hito + a bunch of others. Also a software dev. hiwamatanoboru.com
249 followers1.2k following81 posts
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