End Of An Eriko
The manga I've been translating about the girl baseball player, "Koukou Kyuuji Zawa-san" by Mishima Eriko has just come to an end it seems. The dread Sigil of Extinction "完" appeared on the last page of the latest magazine chapter I downloaded a short time ago. That's 198 chapters and, I presume, 12 collected volumes of slightly weird high-school baseball manga that wasn't much about baseball or high school or even the titular character Zawa-san, really. Funny and poignant and slightly off-kilter all the way.
Here's the last page of the manga, as Zawa-san says farewell to the baseball ground she's spent so much of her high-school life on.
Her exclamation is, I think, a formal wish for well-being (the online dictionary I use suggests "health and wisdom" for "ちゆ"). Being Zawa-san of course her bow, hands at her side is that of a man, not a woman...
The text on the bottom right is a message from the mangaka, thanking the readers for their attention to the series and ending with "until we meet again". I look forward to seeing what she does after this and who knows it might even become an anime some time in the future.
Here's the last page of the manga, as Zawa-san says farewell to the baseball ground she's spent so much of her high-school life on.
Her exclamation is, I think, a formal wish for well-being (the online dictionary I use suggests "health and wisdom" for "ちゆ"). Being Zawa-san of course her bow, hands at her side is that of a man, not a woman...
The text on the bottom right is a message from the mangaka, thanking the readers for their attention to the series and ending with "until we meet again". I look forward to seeing what she does after this and who knows it might even become an anime some time in the future.