Hey everyone if you didn't see it we've released the next volume which is the start of Executive Managing Director, here: https://mangadex.org/chapter/72a96448-3531-405c-a8fe-03c48368e47b
Most delays are sort of me feeling like working on it or not for the most part. Or maybe the next chapter being really difficult and me putting it off for a while. If for some reason I were super motivated we could probably finish like one or two volumes a month but life typically doesn't go...
Well that's cause it's not really the end of anything it's just the end of this part. The story keeps going and all the same characters are still around in the next part.
There's like a whole bunch of these and occasionally there's another company mentioned that's only in like one panel as where some guy is from. But these are the big ones (I think some of these haven't shown up yet):
ソラー電機 Solar Electric (Based on Sony)
電報堂 Denpōdō (Based on Hakuhōdō)
東立...
Yeah we're including the bunkoban covers at the end of the first volume that has any chapters in that bunkoban. The bunkobans don't have the same numebr of chapters as the volumes so they don't line up exactly. In this case the bunkoban has this chapter, chapter 65, and nothing else from volume...
Yeah when I was translating this volume and the last few I kept thinking about how they were making these various estimations about the future and how accurate they turned out to be, but also there's various problems like the aging societies and all that that both countries are dealing with. And...
If anyone's not aware you can download the rest of the manga and any future manga we do on hiwamatanoboru.com and we're also uploading to ComicK as an online reader.
I figured I would try uploading these here and hope nothing bad happens even though they did takedowns of a bunch of our other series. Seemingly some groups are just continuing to post the stuff that wasn't taken down as usual, and I'll just hope nothing bad happens.
Hey folks I'm no longer uploading here because of the various takedowns so it doesn't look safe to upload here now. But we're putting these on our site and on ComicK. We just released Managing Director volume 2. https://hiwamatanoboru.com/2025/07/26/managing-director-shima-kosaku-volume-2/
If you're not following it, we just released volume 1 of the next part, Managing Director Shima Kōsaku over here:
https://mangadex.org/title/1604836d-696a-4a2b-9ec8-e6e23f70cbef/managing-director-shima-kosaku
I don't really know much about what folks in Japan think of it. From the searches I did it seems to be mainly that people remember the Section Chief arc and you see references to it if they reference the story at all. And less so as it goes on, as probably fewer and fewer people read that far...
I think the author kinda thinks you can read it however you want. I'm not planning to work on any of the "Young Shima Kousaku" prequel things right now (That ran in Evening until 2018). I'm gonna just try to keep going with the main series that runs in Morning. If like years from now I feel like...
I'm glad you liked it, folks! I'm super proud of this and it's definitely one of my favorite series. I really wanted to do this for years but didn't have time. In all it ended up taking around 7 months to redo the whole series from just my old scripts. I think I found all the mistakes and...