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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.
https://hiwamatanoboru.com
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Oomfies which of these two translations of this famous song from Heike Monogatari do you think sounds better? The first one is from Helen Craig McCullough and the second is from Royall Tyler. There's characters quoting it in this Shima volume. I like this little poem.
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) Volume 18
The cover of 3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) Volume 18 Hey all, we’ve finally made it to volume 18. It sure has been a while, hasn’t it? The last 3-Gatsu no Lion volume we released back in September of 2023. This includes all the chapters released over those two years. This series has really come out pretty slowly, but it’s really been great. There’s so much emotion packed into these pages even though it’s only like 170 pages released over 2 years. This is a huge effort to do these, cause we need to re-redraw and clean all the pages, transfer the text over, find all the differences, update everything, etc. I hope you all enjoy, we’re doing our best to make the final version of all of this as high quality as possible. As usual this volume contains a bunch of little changes. Umino occasionally slightly alters lines or removes things or adds some visual changes. Though unlike the last few volumes this does NOT combine any chapters so the volume chapter numbers are still 7 chapters behind the magazine chapter numbers. Magazine 202 is volume 195 Magazine 203 is volume 196 Magazine 204 is volume 197 Magazine 205 is volume 198 Magazine 206 is volume 199 Magazine 207 is volume 200 Magazine 208 is volume 201 Magazine 209 is volume 202 Magazine 210 is volume 203 Magazine 211 is volume 204 Magazine 212 is volume 205 Magazine 213 is volume 206 Magazine 214 is volume 207 Magazine 215 is volume 208 Besides this being higher resolution and containing all the changes, this volume as usual contains little new drawings and a couple pages of an afterward at the end where Umino-sensei updates us all on how she’s doing (though I guess she also has a twitter she does that at sometimes too). She says her plan is to make the next volume, volume 19, the last volume. So far we just have one chapter that’s been in that so far which is the one that came out last month. So far we don’t know when the next chapter comes out, as they only get announced one issue in advance (And sometimes those announcements end up being wrong). So we’ll see what the future holds! We’ll keep translating it, and hopefully Umino-sensei is able to draw the ending to the series she’s happy with.
October 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Seated
October 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 216
The cover of 3-Gatsu no Lion 216 Hey everybody, we FINALLY have another 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter after… shit 3 months? It’s been a while. Volume 18 finally goes on sale on the 29th, so once it does we’re gonna get that and do a volume version of it. That’s going to compile together magazine chapters 202 to 215. So the whole Shimada match. It’ll likely combine some chapters again and cause the magazine’s numbering to be even further off from the volume versions. It’ll start at volume chapter 195 and go to what will be called 210 or so. With 3-Gatsu no Lion a lot tends to change between the magazine versions and the volume versions, so that’ll take some time. There’s no 3-Gatsu next issue. Who knows when the next one is, but probably soon. Otherwise, everything else is basically in the same place as a few days ago. We’re working on finishing up Director Shima volume 3. And still working on getting more Gintama stuff done when I can. That’s all I have time for at the moment. After ComicK went down, we’ve gotten our whole release library backed up on Image Chest/Cubari now, and I’ve added links to the Reader page and the tops of all the Downloads pages so I’m hoping those are easy to find. For now I’ll keep uploading new chapters to MangaDex even though a bunch of series were taken down from there and more could be taken down at any time. We’ll see if folks choose a new site to move everything over to at some point, for now I’ll be using those 2 and also I might use bato.to as a reader site to upload new releases to. See ya’ll later
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The JOJOLands Ch. 29
The JOJOLands Ch. 29 cover Hey ya’ll so here’s what’s going on. Here’s chapter 29 of The Jojo series part 9 – The JOJOLands. There’s more fun fighting over a magical rock action in this one. There’s no new chapter next month (October) and the next chapter comes out November 19th Japan time. So ComicK has closed down. And we were using that as our “main” place to upload to as an online reader new releases (You can still download them from this site same as always). So we need to move that somewhere else. This just happened a couple days ago so I’ll see where people ultimately move. For now I started a process of making a reader-mirror on Cubari.moe. There’s one URL for each series and I’m listing them all on the reader page you get to by clicking “Reader” in the site nav bar. If you’re not aware how that works, Cubari is just a reader not an actual host, it’s taking images hosted somewhere else and sticking them in a manga reader. We’re hosting images on a hosting site called Image Chest which uses a single file stored on a Github repo to create a JSON document to hold all the metadata which lets you make one big page for reading one series. Also you can then edit/manage those things with facaccimo and batch upload/update them with a python command line tool called Kaguya. So it’s using a bunch of different independently-made tools and I have to do this for like 1500-some-odd chapters of manga which require having the correct volume number, chapter number, and title, so it’ll take some time. (Though you can sort of quickly and easily change image hosts if there’s a problem with one once it’s all done, just by re-running all the batches with a different image host’s API). I put up all the manga we’ve done recently on there and I’ll be going through some older stuff slowly. I’m also going to upload to MangaDex where we still can (We can’t for chapters that were taken down specifically and they may take more down in the future) and I may look into uploading our whole library to bato.to as well but I haven’t had time to start on that yet. I hope you all can be patient with that, and hopefully another good safe place shows up. Most of the big aggregator sites don’t have tools for scanlators they’re just ripping from some other place and putting them up on their site and we can’t do things like upload when we want or edit them so we can put up the fixed/better raws versions of everything. So please support the sites that let us do that sort of thing. So that’s how I’ve spent my last couple days, sounds fun right? In other news Managing Director Shima Kousaku volume 3 is almost done, I have like a chapter and a half left to translate and then we need to typeset it and check everything. I have 7 Gintama volumes left to scan which I do whenever…
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A mysterious lump.
September 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Big ups to rowan for handwriting this bit to give off the same vibe as the Japanese text
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The JOJOLands Ch. 28
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I'm reading The Loser by Thomas Bernhard now and I think every writer should live in such a way that they have a translation note like this at the start of their books.

"Yeah none of this follows any sort of convention so we preserved it that way in the translation."
August 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The JOJOLands Volume 6
The JOJOLands Volume 6 Cover Okay, here we are, volume 6! As usual, this is mainly just a more-final version of these chapters. They’re using the physical volume scans which have the highest resolution, more image data on the top and bottom of the pages, and have all the little additions and changes Araki-sensei makes after the magazine versions. We made a few tiny adjustments to the text but it’s nothing much. And it has those couple extra pages in between chapters with descriptions of Stands and all that. I spent like the last two weeks of my time working on this every day so I hope you all enjoy it. Meanwhile, there haven’t been any new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapters. Volume 18 is still scheduled for September 28th. And I’m working on Managing Director Shima Kōsaku volume 3. The next regular The JOJOLands chapter comes out the 19th Japan time. And I’m very exhausted from too much happening in my life so I’m trying not to overwork myself with this stuff. Anyhow, enjoy this.
August 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Ha look her ears are all squished look how silly she looks.
August 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 2
The cover of Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 2 Hey everybody, here we are. Managing Director Volume 2. It’s been about 2 and a half months since we finished the last one. Sorry it’s taken so long but the last couple months have been difficult in like 5 different ways and I haven’t had energy after work to work on these a lot. Also, as I’m sure you’ll see as you read it, the subject matter is pretty difficult and took a while to get right. Several chapters in this volume are about the economic state of China relative to Japan and the West when this volume was published in 2002. I learned a lot working on this. They go into detail about how China was changing at the time and what working as a foreign company competing with domestic Chinese products and companies is like alongside being a joint company working in China and also competing against Chinese company as a Japanese company. It’s a lot, and it talks about both the macro and microeconomic areas. Also there’s a bunch of kung fu fighting in it. It’s fun to look back on this and see them talking about “where China will be in the nest 5-10 years or so” and realize you’re now 23 years on from when this was published so you can now go about finding out that answer if you so choose! I’m looking forward to translating more, as this sort of thing happens all the time in this manga. Just sort of learning about a snapshot of the state of the world at a certain time. In the meantime, I just go The JOJOLands volume 6 and I need to scan that and work on doing the volume version of those chapters. I’ve got like 15 more Gintama volumes to scan also and then we’re gonna start trying to finish volume 70 and work backwards and see how far we get. And there’s uhhhh 6 volumes left in Managing Director! So we’ll be working on more of that. Probably for a while. Until next time, everyone!
July 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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July 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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The duality of translating Shima Kōsaku. It's half the first image and half the second image.
July 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Also the real-life island of O'ahu has been renamed to now be a fictional place called O'huhu apparently. This is in addition to Araki-sensei making "Charming Man" one word half the time and two words the other half of the time. (The moral is don't take these names too seriously)
July 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Fun fact about today's Jojo chapter is that Laem Chabang's name was previously all one word in Japanese (We write it as two words because the city is always written as two words) but in this chapter it's changed to be two words.
July 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The JOJOLands Ch. 27
The cover of The JOJOLands chapter 27 Hey so here’s this month’s The JOJOLands! More of that same fight happens! Uhh it’s 36 pages long! See you again next month! Also volume 6 came out today in Japan. So we’ll be working on that. But it takes some time to get the physical raw, scan it, and then re-clean and re-redraw the whole thing. There was no new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter this month. It said there was going to be one in the next-issue-preview but then there wasn’t one. I’m almost done translating Managing Director Shima volume 2 but I’ve had just all sorts of other things on my mind so I couldn’t work on this every day. I also got a bunch more Gintama volumes scanned.
July 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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That's just kind of a weird thing to do but I suppose the people writing the English lyrics wanted a more familiar term? It's got a lot of translations and they used none of them.
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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They translated "tjukurpa" an aborigines Australian word for a complicated spiritual idea as "songline" in this Death Stranging 2 song for some reason. Except in Portuguese where they left it.
June 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Cat
June 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The JOJOLands Ch. 26
The cover page of The JOJOLands chapter 26 Hey all we’re back. Here’s this chapter. Lots of action in this one. We’re back to the usual page length. And next chapter comes out on the 17th Japan time. So like slightly earlier. And that’s along side volume 6 which we’ll work on after that. Besides that, it’s basically working on the same stuff as from a few days ago. Working on Managing Director Shima volume 2 and scanning more Gintama volumes. When I have time to do this sorta thing. I’m pretty tired I was busy all day the last several days and now I can take a break sorta. Besides, ya know, working at my job.
June 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Route was something like this-ish. Mostly on the West-most edge or a few blocks from it.
June 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM