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The Delinquent and the Transfer Student volume 2 is out now! I adore this series, and lettering it was a huge challenge. I'm incredibly proud of the results, and wake to display some comparisons of the Japanese and English lettering. Here are some, with more in the thread below!

Fujichika-sensei drew tons of great signage and packaging in this series, none of it looking too uniform. It was a lot of fun trying to replicate that style and figure out how to arrange the text.

Layering of text into the image is so much fun. Same with doing block letters that overlap with each other. And when we need to use more characters in English, there's a bit of a puzzle for how to situate each character. Gotta keep the overall balance the same and fit in the margins.

The standout difficult pages in volume 2 were these festival shots with singing. Lots of retouch to be safe. The English text has more characters and needs to read horiziontally. The music notes were left in place, so text had to go around them. I drew guides and then traced in the original style.

Now That's What I Call Localization

The series is full of asides, and I wrote them all by hand. It takes a long time, but I felt that Fujichika-sensei put so much love into that hand-drawn look that I needed to as well. This is volume 2 of 3, and it's such a delight. I hope you check it out!