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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

Yeah but then they keep bringing up wine again every once in a while. I think the author just likes wine a lot.

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...

Apparently I'd accidentally uploaded chapter 122 twice and one of them was here. It should be fixed now.

I wanted to do this for a while but didn't have time, I only had enough time recently because we dropped DRCL midnight children and caught up with volumes of The JOJOLands and a couple other things I was doing are done. Also we found some ways to automate some of the process so I can do one of...

I think the point was how they were so cold and uncaring about this person they loved. Not that Nakazawa hadn't done anything wrong.

I'm not really sure why you put this here. This isn't part of Doubutsu no Kuni it's part of Konjiki no Gash. We released an updated version of this in the Gash series. https://mangadex.org/chapter/2db6ac10-820e-4978-8331-9645e4cc517c/57

I added all the other Shima series as titles to Mangadex if folks want to uh, follow them or whatever. The rest of the main series plus the prequels. I'm of wary people won't understand the ordering of the series and think you're supposed to start with the "Young Shima Kōsaku" ones. But I think...

The first two chapters in this volume were released/take place in 1995, the third was in 1996, then everything past that was in 1999. Originally Shima had sort of ended after Section Chief and everything past that were sort of bonus "what's he up to now" chapters, but then Hirokane-sensei...

Yeah that's pretty much what happened. It was a series of one-off chapters or occasionally groups of a few in a row up until chapter 18. I wrote a bit about that on our website/blog here: https://hiwamatanoboru.com/2023/06/18/division-chief-shima-kosaku-volume-1/ I'm working on doing more but...

I made a title page for Part 2, Division Chief Shima Kōsaku. https://mangadex.org/title/61334d85-fb98-465a-8413-0f37f3c4f536/division-chief-shima-kosaku Obviously there's no chapters there yet. I've only translated like half of the first chapter of Division chief so far.

The plan is to do Division Chief next. I'm not gonna plan any sorta long-term thing because just doing that is gonna take over a year and I kind of probably over-did it with Section Chief with how fast we got it out so I might go slower. Also I wanna focus on the "main" series so people don't...

We finally caught up! Yay. Thanks for reading everyone.