Volume 24: Summaries Completed
Volume 24: Act 47, Junjou Mix 5, Act 48 and Act 48.5′s summaries are up on the Wiki! Act 48.5 has been translated and type-setted but it’s patiently waiting proofreading before it gets released on Tumblr. I’m in no rush to post it and the summary is up for anyone who wants a sneak peak of its content.
I have also taken the time to complete the Anime sections of Volumes 1 through 17 by matching each episode title with their corresponding manga chapters. Before I start summarizing Volume 25, I’ll create Manga sections for the anime. All of the anime pages has a 'Rating' category that's not even in use (all of the entries say Please give a rating between 1-5 *, 5* being the highest and 1* being the lowest, so I will switch that out for 'Manga' …
Volume 23: Summaries Completed
I thought that the biggest challenge when summarizing Volume 23 was going to be translating and typesetting 30 pages of the marriage booklet because it wasn’t on Manga Nelo or the Penicillin Shock JR Releases page but a good samaritan pointed out that those stories were already translated so talk about dodging a bullet. Though I did translate half of it and type-setted 10 pages, it’s a good thing that it did not fall into my amature hands because otherwise Risako would be calling her ex-husband Miyagi “quite a wonderful property” instead of “a total catch”.
Everything is going smoothly on the Wiki. If I had to make a to-do list for what will come next after I finish the summaries, it will definitely include making JR character pages for Kis…
Volume 22: Summaries Completed
Writing the summaries for Volume 22 has been the biggest challenge so far because unbeknownst to me, I was working on the DVD Extras that came out after Season 3 (between Volume 19 and a few months after Volume 20 was released) thinking that I was summarizing this volume. Thankfully I was able to course-correct with Tumblr user Sekaiichis' help.
The best part about this volume was that Act 44.5 was never translated in English and unlike Act 42.5 which was posted on Tumblr in Japanese, I discovered that Hibon BL (formerly known as Ninoo-chan scans) had the Spanish translation so it was simply a matter of typing the text in Google Translate and typesetting the text. For the first time ever anglophone fans were able to enjoy this act on Tumblr…
DVD Extras: Summaries Completed
While I was summarizing Volume 22, I thought that all of these bath themed stories were in that volume because Penicillin Shock titled them as Junjou Mix 3. However, Ninoo-chan's scanlation site gave me different information. After a quick search I learned that Tumblr user Sekaiichis owned Volume 22 and she kindly confirmed these stories were published seperately shortly after the release of Season 3 and she gave me the release dates too since it overlapped with her work on the amazing JR-SIH Timeline project.
DVD Extras
The page looks nice, but I don't know how to add it to the manga drop down menu. The goal is to have that done before I finish Volume 22's summaries.
Volume 21: Summaries Completed
For this batch of acts, I quickly realized that there was no English scanlation of Act 42.5. After a Google search, I discovered that Graymalkyn on Tumblr uploaded the raws on Tumblr back in 2017. I remembered that I have a friend in another fandom who knows Japanese and she kindly translated the text. After writing the summary, I thought it would be fun to actually do the type setting so I gave it a whirl and posted it on my brand new Tumblr to promote my summaries. Here's my Tumblr!
https://jrmangasummaries.tumblr.com/
Joining the JR Tumblr community has also been a new experience. I have yet to follow the active blogs since I'm not caught up yet, but I'm thrilled with everyone who has taken the time to Reblog, Like and read my posts.
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