This is it. After nearly five months of work (excluding almost the entire month of March when we didn't work on it, so it's really more like four months), Stop!! Hibari-kun! comes to an end with the 27 pages of extras included with volume 3. Included is a short afterword with the author's final comments regarding the ending, and a bunch of pages of the manga that seem to have been published when it was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump, but were never republished in the volumes that came later, or else were left out when certain chapters were redrawn or recompiled. The above group image was one such page that, unfortunately, wasn't kept in the main story, but was thankfully at least republished at the end of this volume.
We would like to offer a big thank you to Hisashi Eguchi for creating this manga. I somehow doubt Eguchi would have thought that 30 years after he "finished" it that people would still be reading it and calling for him to continue the story, or that people would get a chance to read it in English someday. Eguchi may be relatively unknown in the west (as far as we can tell, Hibari is one of the only one of his manga ever scanlated into English), but despite the generation gap, at least Hibari has managed to stand the test of time. And despite it taking over 30 years for it to get an English translation, it's better late than never, we always say. Farewell Hibari!
Stop!! Hibari-kun! vol. 3 extras: Mediafire, Dropbox
Series batch available on the Stop!! Hibari-kun! page.
Awesome, thanks a lot!!
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna miss this q.q
ReplyDeleteThanks for translating it. I liked it a lot.
ReplyDeletethanks for doing this! it's a little sad to see it over, and unfinished at that, but page 26 was a great note to end things on, imo.
ReplyDeletebesides, (though the genre/gag setting has a lot to do with it) it's easier to let this story go because i have no doubt that hibari is going to keep blossoming in the future, whether eguchi keeps drawing it or not. :)
what? why's so sudden? i want to read more.....
ReplyDeleteanyway... thanks you guys so much for translating this.......
Awesome work! I'm so glad that yall translated this awesome series. I was not expecting my original plea to work at all but yall always seem to exceed expectations! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for translating this! I wanted to read stop hibari-kun as soon as I heard of it, but I assumed I'd never be able to. Then I saw one day that you guys were picking it up. Thanks for the opportunity to enjoy this awesome manga.
ReplyDeleteBravo!! Great work, a true public service! Thanks to you guyz.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the release. This series is great as much as yours.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I really enjoyed this series :D
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your continued hard work on this wonderful series, I'm happy to read!!
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm french and I often read scans from your website since I started Kuragehime. French scantrad are very view, and slow, so I managed to learn english with manga, haha...!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I have to thank you too for the hard work. I liked this serie like old ones (it reminds me Ranma and works of Mitsuru Adachi at the same time), and I'm glad you gave me a chance to read it.
Anyway, I specified that I'm french because sometimes english is still difficult for me to understand... like why did Hisahi Eguchi sunddendly stopped to write the serie ? Can someone explain it to me ? It was so funny...!
Hisashi Eguchi says that he simply lost interest in working on the series, although ch. 52 (and various other chapters at that) seem to imply that he had a hard time thinking up new plot points, so he found it hard to continue it after a certain point.
DeleteThank you for seeing it through!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the translations.
ReplyDeleteIt's really weird, because when I finally found a title that's not depending on fan-services/ecchi scenes, but full of lovely charms & creativity, it just ends on early... :(
I was hoping Hibari would go double-digit numbers of tankoubons...
I really enjoyed this manga. Can't belive that it's this old.
ReplyDeleteThank you for translating it. Cheers.
I just finished reading the series and thought it was hilarious. Really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your hard work <3
I know you will probably never read this, but is it possible that you also translate the anime? i fell in love with the series and i just cant get enough of it.
ReplyDeleteWe read every comment, even if we don't respond to all of them. Anyway, we don't plan on working on the anime, sorry.
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