High School! Kimengumi: Chapters 6-9

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Yep, it’s been a while… again. To be frank, between trying to make a living and striving to maintain some semblance of a social life, I haven’t had enough time or drive to do any TL work and it’s been well over a year since I last even glanced upon this blog. I hate to leave projects unfinished, though, so here we are again. Don’t know if you can call it a comeback yet, but I intend to finish the first volume of High School at the very least before a nuclear apocalypse occurs so expect more releases in the near future.

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These 4 chapters cover the rest of the baseball mini-arc so in case you’ve forgotten what was going on I recommend re-reading everything from chapter 4 onward.

Sannen Kimengumi: Vol 1 bonus chapters

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So… It’s been some time. 2019 has unfortunately kept me far too busy to work on translation projects of any sort, but here’s hoping next year will be less hectic. Where did this year go? Or rather, where did the entire decade go? I’m not ready for the 2010s to end yet!

In any case, here’s at least one more update before the year’s over. These two chapters are chronologically the earliest Kimengumi material ever made; Shinzawa originally drew them for a contest held by Shonen Jump and it eventually landed him a full time job drawing comics, marking the beginning of the series we all know and love. As you would expect, the artwork here is fairly crude and basic compared to what it would evolve into, but despite that these early chapters have their own unique charm that makes them well worth a read.

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Many thanks to smathels again for providing us high quality scans. If time allows I might eventually redo some of the early 3rd Year chapters with better scans as the jpeg-compressed images we used back then don’t really do the art any justice. That and I hate my own typesetting already.

A quick status update

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Just wanted to chime in for a bit and let everybody following this blog know that the Kimengumi project is still very much alive despite how quiet we’ve been this year. Life has just been a bit busy and at times a bit hectic for us, but this is by no means the end of Kimengumi in English and there’s plenty more on the way.

We appreciate you following along with this manga for so long, folks, and I hope you’ll continue to enjoy it as we bring more chapters to you. We both have a lot of love for the material and we imagine that you do, too.

Thanks, folks, and stay tuned.

-Jing