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kewl0210

@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. https://hiwamatanoboru.com

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 4d ago

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 223 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/09/10/3...

The cover of 3-Gatsu no Lion 223

Hey everyone, welcome back to our 3-Gatsu no Lion, the series with around 10 pages a month or sometimes more or sometimes less. This chapter is all about Gotou and Kumakura! I hope you all enjoy. I suppose we’re just sort of wondering how long this series is going to go at this point and how much ultimately Umino-sensei will decide to go into each character. Any chapter could be the last we see of anybody at this point. Or maybe it ends up continuing way longer and this isn’t the last volume after all, who knows.

We’ve got Jojo next week and we’re working on more Shima and Gintama as usual. Like basically I’m focusing on getting the remaining Gintama magazine-to-volume volumes done at the moment which is very dull work. But it’s nearly almost done after around 10 months.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 6d ago

Executive Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 1 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/09/08/e...

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 6d ago

Gintama Volume 53 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/09/08/g...

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tiny Mori

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gintama Volume 54 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/08/22/g...

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our release of The JOJOLands 39 has been updated with the higher res raws, all the links on the site and the readers should be updated. Go check it out if you're into that sort of thing.

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 4w ago

The JOJOLands Ch. 38 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Cover of The JOJOLands Ch. 39

Give it up for chapter 39! In this chapter the gang discusses reading manga digitally as soon as it goes on sale at midnight Japan time while living overseas in a different timezone. Can’t imagine what that’s like. Anyhow next chapter releases on September 17th Japan time. Volume 9 also comes out on that day, incidentally.

In the meantime, we’re working on Executive Director Shima volumes 1-2 and I’m in the middle of finalizing Gintama volume 54.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · last mo.

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 222 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/08/11/3...

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 222

Hey folks, here’s this new chapter of 3-Gatsu no Lion. This caught us by surprise because this issue of Young Animal came out extra early this month, usually it comes out on the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month and this came out on a Wednesday due to a holiday in Japan. So we had to rush to do it today. The Young Animal website for some reason doesn’t actually list what day the next issue is coming out anymore, most of the time, so to know it’s coming out early you’d need to check either the actual previous issue’s pages or a listing on a retailer or something. And I don’t know when the last time, if ever, it came out this early so no one thought to check for that.

Regardless, this chapter has more of Kiriyama playing in the Shishi-Ou Championship tournament. This one just ends in “continues next time” again so we’ll see when it continues. It’s not next issue at least.

So besides this we’ve got Jojo next week and we’re working on more Shima and Gintama stuff whenever I have time for that. This week’s been kind of exhausting so I kinda of need a break.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · last mo.

Gintama Volume 55 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/08/10/g...

Gintama Volume 55

Okay, we made it to volume 55! We’ve got 9 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. So now we’re past the Shogun Assassination arc, which means now every volume has a lot more text generally speaking and they’re made up of shorter gag arcs and semi-serious arcs. This one contains chapter 487 which I think was never animated in the anime? I heard somewhere it wasn’t, I haven’t checked personally. It also contains the Saitou Shimaru arc and the Aizen Kou/Love Potion arc.

Because these last bunch of volumes have a lot of text it takes me longer to check them, and a lot of this I’m just doing on my own. One other person is helping but that’s it. So it’s a lot of dull work, it’s a really long slog, and it’s not particularly rewarding to spot typos and tiny translation mistakes or rewording lines I translated back in 2014 or so. But ya know I wanna get this done and there’s not a ton left now. All the cleaning and redrawing and all that are done. Now I’m reading through every line in English and Japanese and making sure it all looks good. Hopefully I caught all the typos. Oh also this volume had a popularity poll results announcement, one where in the magazine it only had like the top 15 or so, but in the volume it had all the rest of it, which took forever to do in addition to the rest of the extras for this volume. I hope somebody somewhere reads all that at least once, cause god, I’m getting a headache just remembering doing that a couple months ago.

Anyhow, there’s new 3-Gatsu and The JOJOLands coming out soon. I’m working on more Executive Director Shima as well. I have to take breaks between these Gintama volumes because it’s just like torture doing lots of it in a row. Anyhow, enjoy folks. We’re almost there!

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · last mo.

Gintama Volume 56

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Okay, we made it to volume 56! We’ve got 10 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the one where the Shougn Assassination Arc starts and it also has a bunch of gag chapters in it. Because now we’re back to the regular arcs before the series became a bit lighter in text, there’s more stuff to check so I’ve been putting it off. And working on Shima and other stuff the last few weeks. But all that’s left in the last 10 redo volumes is to check them over and fix any mistakes we can catch. This is mostly comedy chapters but also includes a few serious arcs and some kinda-jokey but kinda-serious sort-of-important-to-the-overall-plot arcs.

Anyhow, there’s not much work left ultimately. Each of these volumes takes a few hours to check and finalize maybe, and it’s just me and Teppy doing it. So I’ll try to get one done every week or two, something like that, unless something really takes up all my time and I can’t for a while. But I’d like to finish this project of doing volume versions of all the Gintama releases done with only magazine raws in the near future. Once it’s done we may do volume 32 or release some of the other volumes in higher resolution where we just transfer things over, maybe also redo the sound effects, or something like that. I dunno it kinda depends on my mood at the time. We’ll see! I do think I generally prefer working on new manga though rather than doing this perfectionist, making all my old stuff perfect stuff.

𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 🥀 The Big Cheese @uhmcheesedtomeetyou.com · 2mo ago

idk why but this silhouette reminded me of him

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vic! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ@gizmouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

jodio be fighting anything dawg what the fuck is this

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We've uploaded the higher-res version of the JOJOLands 38 if ya'll wanna check that out.

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The JOJOLands Ch. 38

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Hey, here's chapter 38! Please go check it out. This one's got lots of fun songs and dances. Meanwhile, working on more Shima and Gintama. Same thing as a couple days ago.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 8 (End of Managing Director Arc)

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 2mo ago

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 221

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 221

Hey there everyone, there was indeed a new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter in this week’s Young Animal. What will happen with Kiriyama’s game with Kumakura? How many chapters are there even left in this series? We’ll find out I guess.

This one just ends in “continues next time” again so we’ll see when it continues. In the meantime, there’s Jojo next week. Managing Director Shima V8 is almost done, and I’m working on Executive Director V1 and also trying to check over more of the old Gintama volumes. I really should just take a couple hours and check them over, that’s the only step left on those.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 7

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The JOJOLands Ch. 37

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And we’re back! Here’s chapter 37. Will Jodio and friends survive the lion pit and get those silly skull stickers off? Find out. Lots of stuff happens in this one. And remember, don’t put lithium batteries in lions mouths in real life. The lions do not like that.

In the meantime, I’ve almost finished translating Managing Director Shima volume 7 and I’m gonna go back to finalizing more Gintama once that’s done. The Gintama thing is almost done it’s just checking them left which is kind of dull work, going through every line looking for mistakes. But I think it’s worth it cause we’ve already done so much else, everything else is finished. And there’s been no new announcements about 3-Gatsu no Lion.

Next The JOJOLands chapter comes out July 17th Japan time, so see you again then!

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gintama Volume 57

Gintama Volume 57

Here we are, the next one, volume 57! We’ve got 11 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the middle part of the Shogun Assassination arc, which is basically the 2nd half of 56, then all of 57 and 58. This one is the climax of Zenzou’s story in the arc and also the beginning of the fight with Takasugi and Kamui.

Like I said in the last post, everything is done but checking over the remaining volumes. Me and Teppy are working on that. These last couple didn’t take very long because this part of the story is very action-heavy. From the first half of 56 and earlier there’s a lot more text because it’s largely more of the comedy arcs.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gintama Volume 58

Gintama V58

Hey, we’ve made it to volume 58! We’ve got 12 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the last volume of the Shogun Assassination arc, it’s the one with the big Gin VS Takasugi fight with a bunch of Shouka Sonjuku-era flashbacks.

So today I finished translating and typesetting the last of the extras. And as I mentioned in the last post, we finished all the cleaning/redrawing a few weeks ago. So all that’s left for the remaining 12 volumes is to check them over and finalize them. So I’m hoping to get these all out pretty soon and get back to doing some other projects. Once I’m done with these I’ll probably at some point scan the other 9 volumes of Gintama after Viz stopped (Their last volume is volume 23) and I’ll try to get one of those done every once in a while, but it’s not gonna be my primary focus for months like this project has been. I’m probably mainly gonna go back to trying to finish Managing Director Shima Kousaku immediately after at least.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The JOJOLands Ch.36

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Welcome back, folks, here’s chapter 36. It’s full of more horrifying pain and suffering for all of our heroes.

K so, otherwise mainly I’m working on doing all the extras in the remaining volumes of Gintama. There’s around 7 volumes left, and once those are all done we’ll probably get the remaining volumes out pretty fast. There may or may not be a 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter in the issue coming out this week? It said at one point that there was on the “next issue preview page” back in April but now it’s not there so maybe not. Also I’m working on Shima volume 7. Mainly I’m trying to get Gintama done but I’m taking breaks to work on that a little too. Also we released the volume version of The JOJOLands volume 8 a little while ago if you haven’t seen that yet.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gintama Volume 59

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Hey, here’s the next one of these, volume 59. We’ve got 13 volume versions left. I wrote a recap of what’s going on with this project here. This volume is the one right after the Shogun Assassination arc ends and the beginning of the Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc.

I mentioned this in the last few posts but we finished cleaning and redrawing all the remaining volumes and I’m working now on translating the rest of the extras and then checking through the volumes to see if we can spot any mistakes or anything we think we can improve over the original versions. I already made all the major changes I wanted to do so besides that we’re just gonna have a couple people giving these a once-over and releasing them. So the remaining ones should hopefully be done in not too long. Translating the extras is kind of dull work because it’s mostly translating Sorachi-sensei’s long jokey rants that take up whole pages of text but I’m getting it done. Right now I’m in the middle of volume 55 working backwards, so there’s like 9 and a half volumes of extras left to do and I’m finishing one every few days. Once they’re all done we’ll probably end up releasing the remaining volumes pretty quickly.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The JOJOLands Volume 8

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Here we are, volume 8! Man, 8 volumes already. It feels like it’s flying by sometimes despite the fact that it’s a monthly manga so it comes out way slower than any of the weekly series we’ve worked on. As usual this is the final version of these, scanned from the tankoubons, and has more image on the tops and bottoms of the page and all of the bonus pages and all of Araki’s changes. He changes a bunch of screentones in this one compared to the original.

Ok so besides that, I’m working on finishing up translating the extras in the remaining Gintama volumes. There’s not too many left and then we’re just checking them over and trying to fix any mistakes I didn’t see when cleaning/redrawing them. And I’ve done a few chapters of Director Shima volume 7, I’m doing that a little at a time. Mainly I’m trying to finish this Gintama project. Besides that, the next The JOJOLands comes out May 19th and volume 9 comes out in the summer.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 5mo ago

3-Gatsu no Lion (March CoSmes in Like a Lion) 220

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Hey yall, it’s more 3-Gatsu no Lion! We are now getting into Kiriyama Rei’s match with Kumakura. The series is probably nearing its end, so who knows how many chapters are left, or when they’ll come out. This issue *says* there’s another chapter next issue that comes out May 22nd, but also sometimes they print that and then there isn’t one in the actual issue when it comes out. So we’ll see what happens there.

In the meantime, The JOJOLands volume 8 is almost done and the other Gintama volumes are all cleaned and redrawn so we’re working on getting the extras translated and fixing up anything we can. And I’m also working on translating Director Shima volume 7. Might get some of that out sometime soon.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The JOJOLands Ch. 35 hiwamatanoboru.com/2026/04/16/t...

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The JOJOLands Ch. 34

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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.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Gintama Volume 60

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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.

kewl0210 @kewl0210.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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