Hey everybody, here we are. Managing Director Volume 2. It’s been about 2 and a half months since we finished the last one. Sorry it’s taken so long but the last couple months have been difficult in like 5 different … Continue reading →
Hey everybody, here we are. Managing Director Volume 2. It’s been about 2 and a half months since we finished the last one. Sorry it’s taken so long but the last couple months have been difficult in like 5 different ways and I haven’t had energy after work to work on these a lot. Also, as I’m sure you’ll see as you read it, the subject matter is pretty difficult and took a while to get right.
Several chapters in this volume are about the economic state of China relative to Japan and the West when this volume was published in 2002. I learned a lot working on this. They go into detail about how China was changing at the time and what working as a foreign company competing with domestic Chinese products and companies is like alongside being a joint company working in China and also competing against Chinese company as a Japanese company. It’s a lot, and it talks about both the macro and microeconomic areas. Also there’s a bunch of kung fu fighting in it. It’s fun to look back on this and see them talking about “where China will be in the nest 5-10 years or so” and realize you’re now 23 years on from when this was published so you can now go about finding out that answer if you so choose!
I’m looking forward to translating more, as this sort of thing happens all the time in this manga. Just sort of learning about a snapshot of the state of the world at a certain time.
In the meantime, I just go The JOJOLands volume 6 and I need to scan that and work on doing the volume version of those chapters. I’ve got like 15 more Gintama volumes to scan also and then we’re gonna start trying to finish volume 70 and work backwards and see how far we get. And there’s uhhhh 6 volumes left in Managing Director! So we’ll be working on more of that. Probably for a while. Until next time, everyone!
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Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 2 (Ch14-26)
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