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Shin Kurosawa - Saikyou Densetsu 98

Hello everyone!

 

 

Hope you are doing fine.

 

Today we present you with a new Shin Kurosawa chapter. Thanks to Portal, the new letterer Beefpork and to Davigdor for working on the chapter, and the remaining patrons for the spiritual support.

This chapter is interesting in my opinion, because it introduces a new dynamic to the story, we are finally moving away from the pure Kuro vs Koinosuke 1v1 narrative and it feels refreshing in my opinion. And the lettering also feels fresh.

Not much else to say, hope we keep up the pace now, feels nice.

Hope you enjoy the chapter, see you soon :).

 

 

Chapter Link

 

 

Took them long enough ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°,)

 

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.

Shin Kurosawa - Saikyou Densetsu 89 & 90 + Kirinji Gate 55

Greetings!

Now this one has to make the Kuro fans happy, the Kirinji fans happy and the both Kuro and Kirinji fans super happy! All three of you!

But only... if the chapters don't suck! Well, I hope they don't! I hope you enjoy! Me, personally, I love them! Well, I wish this Kirinji Gate chapter was a whole volume instead of a single chapter, but... hey... The spirit is there.

Thanks to Portal, Davigdor, Caitao and the patrons!

See you soon.

Shin Kurosawa 89

Shin Kurosawa 90

Kirinji Gate 55

Now these are two very different drawing styles.

Kirinji Gate 54

Hey folks!

Happy to present you with another Kirinji Gate chapter!

You will notice this volume is very wordy, and every chapter is so dense, every frame, full of action. This was obviously meant to be told over many more chapters. I guess the plan was to have at least 2-3 more volumes for this match alone.

Well, I am still happy we get the story to end as planned, with all the key points being told, even if very briefly.

Hope you enjoy the chapter, see you soon :).

Chapter Link

Ahhh... Three Monkeys... That brings back memories...

Kirinji Gate 53

Hello,

I don't feel good to be honest, I have nothing to say.

Hope you enjoy the chapter, see you soon.

Chapter Link

I wish I could afford a Kotatsu.

Kirinji Gate 52

Greetings!

Happy to present you with another Kirinji Gate chapter!

All I have to say about this volume really, is that it was definitely rushed, but everything was foreshadowed and nothing is really coming out of nowhere.

The problem is that people have forgotten all of the different plots, characters and story elements over time, so that all of this appears kinda random and forced. That is why I was suggesting that it is a perfect time to re-read all of Kirinji.

I know that this was the ending that the author had in mind for a long time, but he had to make it short.

But then again, brevity is the wit of soul, so it might have its own charm.

That's it for now, hope you enjoy, thanks to the patrons and Caitao, see you soon.

( the donation button is depressed no one touched it in a long time :( but who cares hehe :') )

Chapter Link

Kandata <3 Omg, this is so nostalgic~~~

Kirinji Gate 51

Welcome to 2024!

As promised, we continue with Kirinji Gate.

This is a chapter full of surprises, so for once I will keep my mouth shut and just let you enjoy the chapter.

Thanks to the patrons and Caitao, see you soon.

Chapter Link

For some reason I feel sad posting this volume cover...

Kirinji Gate 50

Hello dears,

I am happy to present you with the last chapter of Kirinji Gate Volume 7.

I wanted this chapter out before the end of the year, before new years, because of the contents of the chapter. I hope some of you will get it.

One more volume to go. I will take another break until next week, and then let's start off 2024 with the final volume of Kirinji Gate, may it bring us all luck and good fortune in the following year.

Thanks to the patrons as always, thanks for reading, wish you all a good start in the next year.

Stay strong, let's positive thinking, love you all.

Chapter Link

I like that hat actually, and Kanon's ribbon is <3

Kirinji Gate 49

Heeey!

Welcome back, hope you enjoyed the holidays, and just as promised, here is another Kirinji Gate chapter!

I also started my own translation commentary on the whole Tetsunaki no Kirinji series.

Video Link

That's part one, and I plan on covering all of the series once I am done with Kirinji Gate. No one has talked seriously on camera about the series before, so I feel some responsibility there, considering how much I love the series.

So... That's it for now. Hope you enjoy, see you soon.

Chapter Link

Finally, a normal chapter title.

Kirinji Gate 48

Hello!... Again!

I am sorry for spamming you guys with Kirinji Gate chapters.

I am trying to stop myself, but I am addicted to the story, art, characters, theme, message, mahjong and everything about it. It is a problem.

I am going to Kirinji Gate rehab during Christmas, will be back next week.

You guys enjoy Christmas, stay positive, spread love, if you are bored while waiting for the Finale, I suggest rereading the series, at least from Kabukichou Seiatsu Hen, because it's all coming together now.

Thanks to Caitaokweh, thanks to the patreons, if you win the lottery or find a fortune or your bitty crypty coins suddenly spike, don't forget ol' struggling Rinshy-chan and remember that donate button, (we only made 12eur so far) I promise my e-begging will stop in 2024, my next job should be a stable one, where you can't get fired without notice.. finally... for once in my life. 

Or just hook me up with some remote work, I am a EU resident now.

Sorry for personal stuff, feel really bad about it, wouldn't do it if I had a choice! Love you all!

That said, enjoy the chapter, enjoy the holidays, see you soon :)

Chapter Link

One thing I miss about old Kirinji... The 1st page of the chapter wouldn't be a spoiler >_>,

Kirinji Gate 47

Good evening!

Yes, we are doing it! Another Kirinji Gate chapter!

This series brings back so many memories to me, I am getting emotionally involved again. No worries, that can only increase the effort I put into it!

Thanks to Caitao Kweh for the proofread and the patreons.

Hope you enjoy the chapter, stay strong and see you soon :).

Chapter Link

That TV is huge.. and nice... I don't even have a TV...

Kirinji Gate 46

Hey there!

Happy to say, another Kirinji Gate chapter today!

And yeah, I'm still reflecting on the series, like yesterday.

8 years man, 8 years.

And it's not like I was just lazy about it, it was only a few months ago that the series was fully scanlatable. I'm so happy to be the one to finish the series.

What a journey. 8 years ago I really didn't think I'd be alive today. 

Life is truly... magical. Thanks to the patroens and thanks to James for the €2 tip!

Hope you enjoy the chapter and see you soon :)!

Chapter Link

I never thought a burn victim could look this cool.