It’s hard to believe it’s been six years since this blog came online. While updates here have been dwindling for a long time now, I think it’s time for this journey to officially come to an end after 55 chapters and over 2,500 panels.

I started this blog when I was in college. I was so productive because I’d rather be doing this than homework! But now, with work and real life, it’s become hard to set aside time for it. I want timely releases of this manga to continue no matter what, so it’s only right the responsibility gets passed to people more capable of fulfilling that.

And how fitting it is that Hidamarisoumi’s new independent release is the third sports festival chapter when the Natsume scene in the second back in volume 7 was the first manga strip I ever edited. You can say we really passed the baton!

Thanks for all the memories. Special shoutouts to:

Everyone who offered/provided raws throughout the years

Mr. Nutbladder for his invaluable guidance that helped me become a better translator

The duo at Hidamarisoumi for all their help

Those who gave me the opportunity to do professional translations

Everyone who participated in the yard sales

The Hidamarers

People who emailed me with cool things they made

People whose emails I never saw because they got stuck in the spam filter (the actual gmail account is rarely checked, only what it considers non-spam is forwarded)

The “leaker” who linked me to my own leaks

Although scanlation efforts will not continue, there are a few things left to be posted here:

Another caveat list for YP’s volume 9 when it comes out later this month. This one should be extra interesting because the number of wordplays in volume 9 was absolutely insane even by Hidamari standards.

A list of all the artwork adjustments made in volume 8. There are so many it would take days to get screenshots of all of them, so I may publish this without images as-is

My top-secret pilgrimage report so secret it’s been withheld from the public for almost two years… yes, let’s go with that

A now-old interview with Hitomi Harada and Chiaki Omigawa somewhere in my files

Rest & Love in Piece 2012-2018