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I had a look through the style guide section on chapter numbering and I'm still not sure what to do in this situation so I figured I should ask. I will apologize in advance, this is a long story.
Lucky Star finished/went on hiatus/however you want to put it in 2013 with chapter 288 in volume 10. Then in 2022, new chapters (only a page or two long) started being published sporadically in the magazine 'Mitaina!', these chapters were unnumbered. Since the last previously known chapter number was 288, this chapter was uploaded as 289. A year later, a user uploads a translation of chapter 290.
Since it's been over a year since that chapter and I knew more chapters have been released in 'Mitaina!' since then, I planned to translate and add those chapters. I figured if I was going to do it, I wanted to translate the entire 'Mitaina!' run myself from 289. So I scanned 289 from 'Mitaina!' volume 3, then went to scan 290 from volume 4. Except, the chapter in volume 4 was completely different to what had been uploaded as 290; In fact I couldn't find that chapter anywhere in any volume of 'Mitaina!' published before the upload date. So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find where 290 had come from. After about 3 hours of searching, I found a partial photo of the page in a Japanese Tweet from 2017. The Tweet credited this chapter to the May 2017 issue of 'Comptiq'. I found the contents of the issue on this website and, yes, Lucky Star is listed in the manga section at the bottom.
So now we have about as close to proof as we can get (short of tracking down and checking an 8 year old magazine) that there are definitely chapters that were published between volume 10 and 2022 in other magazines. And without extensive research (which I'm not personally prepared to do), we can't pin down a correct number for any of these post-288 chapters. The preceding and following issues of 'Comptiq' didn't have Lucky Star but we know that Yoshimizu Kagami has missed issues of 'Mitaina!' already, so the same could be true here. We have chapters but we don't really know what we should be numbering them.
If I could offer a suggestion of a solution, could we just start a new title? Name it something like 'Lucky Star (2022)' and put the chapters published in 'Mitaina!' there? It seems like the cleanest solution to the numbering problem rather than trying to chart the last 12 years over who knows how many random magazines may have had an odd strip here or there. But at the least, we would need to swap the chapters labeled as 289 and 290, because currently 290 appears to have been published 5 years before 289.
Lucky Star finished/went on hiatus/however you want to put it in 2013 with chapter 288 in volume 10. Then in 2022, new chapters (only a page or two long) started being published sporadically in the magazine 'Mitaina!', these chapters were unnumbered. Since the last previously known chapter number was 288, this chapter was uploaded as 289. A year later, a user uploads a translation of chapter 290.
Since it's been over a year since that chapter and I knew more chapters have been released in 'Mitaina!' since then, I planned to translate and add those chapters. I figured if I was going to do it, I wanted to translate the entire 'Mitaina!' run myself from 289. So I scanned 289 from 'Mitaina!' volume 3, then went to scan 290 from volume 4. Except, the chapter in volume 4 was completely different to what had been uploaded as 290; In fact I couldn't find that chapter anywhere in any volume of 'Mitaina!' published before the upload date. So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find where 290 had come from. After about 3 hours of searching, I found a partial photo of the page in a Japanese Tweet from 2017. The Tweet credited this chapter to the May 2017 issue of 'Comptiq'. I found the contents of the issue on this website and, yes, Lucky Star is listed in the manga section at the bottom.
So now we have about as close to proof as we can get (short of tracking down and checking an 8 year old magazine) that there are definitely chapters that were published between volume 10 and 2022 in other magazines. And without extensive research (which I'm not personally prepared to do), we can't pin down a correct number for any of these post-288 chapters. The preceding and following issues of 'Comptiq' didn't have Lucky Star but we know that Yoshimizu Kagami has missed issues of 'Mitaina!' already, so the same could be true here. We have chapters but we don't really know what we should be numbering them.
If I could offer a suggestion of a solution, could we just start a new title? Name it something like 'Lucky Star (2022)' and put the chapters published in 'Mitaina!' there? It seems like the cleanest solution to the numbering problem rather than trying to chart the last 12 years over who knows how many random magazines may have had an odd strip here or there. But at the least, we would need to swap the chapters labeled as 289 and 290, because currently 290 appears to have been published 5 years before 289.
