Very Humble 2024 Christmas + New Years Special

Hello folks,

 

 

I am very well aware that we have some kind of "Christmas Release" tradition here at Lion's Ridge, however, this year I unfortunately didn't make it. Sorry to disappoint anyone if anyone was actually looking forward to it.

Nonetheless, we managed to get a Shin Kuro and a Muteki chapter out for this occasion. Thanks to the team and the few remaining patrons for making this possible.

In other news, we really haven't given up on this project and hobby, nor lost passion for it. I am personally overwhelmed a bit right now due to me going back to my IT science studies + resuming my Japanese studies + working a shitty job at the same time.

However, I can't complain too much about it, compared to my life before, where I genuinely didn't know if I would survive the next day, this right now is heaven for me, and damn it, I will find some way to work on scanlation too. I will probably combine it with my Japanese studies which I am resuming now.

In some good news: We might have found a new letterer to help out with Shin Kurosawa, which means we should be able to have it completely translated within your lifetime! (Joke, will be finished sooner)

 

 

With all of that said, thanks for sticking with us, thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years, love you all. Stay safe, stay smart, stay strong in 2025. See you soon :).

 

Shin Kurosawa 97

Muteki no Hito 20

These two series have so much in common.

Shin Kurosawa - Saikyou Densetsu 94, 95 & 96

Hello everyone!

I've been looking forward to this month, and to this day... It is my favorite month of the year, because of many reasons. We made it just in time to present you with a triple release of Shin Kurosawa on the 1st day of the month of December! Hopefully we will be getting snow over here soon too.

 

Thanks to the amazing job done by the team, I hope this makes up a bit for the months of inactivity this year regarding this series. The year was long, and we had some difficulties organizing ourselves properly, and there was a big lack of time. But we will always find time and come back eventually, since this is our passion. Thanks for sticking with us!

 

Okay, enough of that, thanks to the team and any remaining patreons for making this possible.

 

 

Hope you enjoy the chapters, and see you soon :).

 

 

Chapter 94

Chapter 95

Chapter 96

"EKUSERENTO!!!"

Muteki no Hito 19

Greetings,

Today we bring you a new chapter of Muteki no Hito. Thanks to The Pizzalist and Portal for working on this.

New Shin Kuro chapter will be soon out and there might be a surprise. If anyone is still a patreon, thanks a lot, we will make new content for you exclusively soon enough.

Hope you enjoy this chapter, see you soon!

Chapter Link

"Thoughts"

 

Shin Kurosawa - Saikyou Densetsu 92 & 93

Greetings,

 

 

 

Sorry for the big break we took, bad timing for all of us in the team. Long story short, I am legal now. I am a legal human bean, finally.

 

 

Of course Lion's Ridge continues and perseveres. Today, we present you a Shin Kuro double release. We will try to make up for the months of inactivity. Thanks to the team and the patreons for making this possible.

Without further ado, hope you enjoy, see you soon.

Chapter 92 Link

Chapter 93 Link

Chapter Title "Wiles" is a reference to Dr. Wily, or better known as "Dr. Wahwee"

Shin Kurosawa - Saikyou Densetsu 91

Hi folks!

Happy Easter holidays!

I'm glad to present you with another Shin Kurosawa chapter! Sorry for the delay, we will make up for it, like always. I am preparing a surprise for mahjong manga fans ;).

Thanks to Portal, Davigdor and the patrons for supporting us.

Hope you enjoy, see you soon :).

 

 

 

Chapter Link

 

 

 

 

The Talk.

 

Muteki no Hito 18

Greetings!

Today we present you with another Muteki no Hito chapter, thanks to all the beautiful people in the credits page. This one is a true team effort.

It is an interesting contrast to other mahjong manga, because here it's more about the psychology than the actual moves and strategies of Riichi Mahjong. Hopefully the next chapter will be a bit faster out.

Portal has this to say:

Surprise! It's been a while, huh? One last Muteki here before I go ahead and soft-drop it for now. Please DM me on Discord at "theportalninja" or find me through our Discord server if you're a good typesetter and I can provide you with scripts through our translators. Otherwise, if anyone wants to continue this, be my guest. I'm focusing only on Nikaidou Hell Golf and Shin Kurosawa for the time being so I don't have a lot of time to typeset this series anymore... sorry about that. Worst case scenario I'll come back for it eventually.

In other news, just a heads up, I am working on a new project now that Kirinji is done, hope you will like it when it's ready.

That said, hope you enjoy, see you soon :).

Chapter Link

Manga Mahjong Crash Courses are cute.

 

Kirinji Gate Finale

Hello,

So the day has come. If someone told me more than 8 years ago when we released this:

https://lionridge.blogspot.com/2015/10/tetsunaki-no-kirinji-1.html

That I would live to the day where Kirinji would end, AND be the one to finish it as well, I would have laughed at the ridiculousness of such a claim.

But here I am. And that's why I love Kirinji so much and why it is and always will be part of me.

I couldn't have imagined the future ahead of me, it was a very dark and hopeless spot I was in, but the beauty in both life, and mahjong, is that you cannot know what is going to come and you cannot predict the future. So no matter how hopeless and dark the future looks, you don't know. You can't know. I am living proof of that.

The same way Rinji proved that just by struggling, new paths will open, somehow they will, I struggled my way too, to a brighter future. That is why I feel so emotional writing all of this.

Instead of writing a wall of text about how I feel, I'll continue the Tetsunaki no Kirinji commentary I started on youtube. No one reads walls of text nowadays anymore, the attention span just isn't there. So I will give all of my thoughts on the whole series in the coming videos.

Tetsunaki no Kirinji Commentary Part 1

Regarding the future of Lion's Ridge, I will continue translating. Which series, how frequent, I don't know yet. You'll know as soon as I think it all through.

One thing I have to say and get off my chest is: Thank you to every single one of you who read my translations, it not only meant the world to me when I was a lonely shut-in in a 3rd world country, but some of you also financially supported me in times I really couldn't even pay my bills. No exaggeration, I was in that desperate of a situation. I owe my life to you guys. I love you all forever.

From my lowest point back then to now, I struggled by working as a waiter, working on a cruise ship, working in call centers, cleaning raccoon shit from people's attics for a few bucks, giving math lessons to kids for 5 dollars a day, sold anything of value I had to pay the next bills, stealing food from company parties, shoplifting a few times until I got caught, rummaged through trash a few times to find food, picked up half smoked cigarettes from the ground to salvage the tobacco at home... But hey... It was all worth it.

Because I am a happily married man today with a relatively stable life.

Thank you all, again, and forever, also to manga in general and the author of Kirinji: Uhyosuke. Please support his official releases as well.

Whoa, didn't want to write this much. That's enough! I- I'm not crying, s- something fell into my eye.

Hope you enjoy... Thank you and see you soon :).

Chapter Link

It's not as bad as I feared, it is bittersweet.

Kirinji Gate 56

Good morning/afternoon/evening/middle of the night!

It feels so unreal to me that this is the second to last Kirinji update post I might ever write. For a series which had such an impact on my life, which I am so intimate with, to just end like this...

Without another Kirinji chapter waiting for me to translate and release... I don't know how I will feel. This series has been with me for more than 8 years at this point, followed me from my lowest point in life to a point in my life where I finally feel safe and secure.

Reading this chapter I am very, very confident that the author planned a very in-depth and revealing past for Majin, where we would see that he, just like Kiriya, was a poor father who decided to try making money through mahjong for his wife and daughter.

We'll never know. I can already feel some kind of phantom pain. But I am trying to think positively about it. Translating this series over 8 years and releasing every single chapter on this blog, I at least have some kind of public pseudo-diary where I can always go back to some old blog post and kinda figure out what was happening in my life at that point when I released that particular chapter.

I am also trying to find to find solace in the fact that this ending is the ending which was imagined by the author many years ago and has been hinted at from the very first series... Even if criminally shortened.

With that, I hope you enjoy. See you soon.

Chapter Link

Whoever said in IRC 8 years ago that there's a supernatural element to the series... You were right. Good job.