New Series Coming Soon...

"Pochama ni"...coming...in June...

And if you're wondering what this is about...well...this guy has a things for women with a little meat on their bones ^^...ah, yeah...meaty girls rejoice!

Actually, this is a special and thoughtful series, and I'm looking forward to translating it.  Haha! It takes a pretty special first chapter to make me want to take on something of unknown length...

Taking Piggyback Orders for Aoi Lala

More news about Aoi Lala from Comic Natalie (Link)

• One-Shot: "Natsu Yasumi 00 Hi" ("Summer Vacation Day 00") by Akidzuki Sorata
• One-Shot: "Kono mama ja Damemitai desu" ("Leaving it alone is no good" (rough translation -- will come up with something better after I see the one-shot)) by Hiro Fujiwara
• One-Shot:  "Hatsu Koi Nikki" ("First Love Diary") by Tokeino Hari
• One-Shot:  "Chuuichi Problem" ("7th Grade Problem") by Matsumoto Tomo
• One-Shot: "Mahou no Yubi" ("The Magic Finger" or "Magic Fingers") by Nakano Emiko
• One-Shot: "Toro" ("Speak your Mind") by Saito Ken
• Short Series:  "Tri-Color God Project" Chp 1 by Kure Yuki
• Fujitsuka Yuki
• Hayashi Mikase
• Ishihara Keiko
• Ike Junko
• and more!

Akidzuki Sorata will do the cover art :).

I'm taking piggyback orders for Aoi Lala (Blue Lala).  It will be released in Japan on July 10th.  I will be sending them out on July 13th.   Here are the prices with shipping included!

• US $17 (Media Mail + Confirmation)
• Canada $22 (International First Class)
• International $32 (International First Class)

If you would like a copy of this special Lala, please send me an e-mail via the contact link at the top right of the blog.  Please include your country.  If you are purchasing multiple copies, let me know.  Shipping on multiple books is not linear.

My Manga Purchases for May 2012

Here's what I bought manga-wise this month.

English Language

• "Oresama Teacher" Volume 8

Japaneses Language

• "Magnolia" Volume 4 + Drama CD
• "Tempest" Volumes 1 & 2 by Aniya Yuiji
• "Hebi to Maria to Otsuki-sama" by Uno Sanae
• "Unknown" by Shiwase Yuki
• "Joosama and the White Rabbit" Volume 2 by Oto Hisamu
• "Paradise Pirates" by Yamaguchi Miyuki (Avoid this one! It's stupidly cliqued.)
• "Sakura no Himegoto" Volume 1
• "Wannin" Volume 1 & 2 
• "Hachimatsu to Batafurai"
• "Kanojo no Namida ga Yuki dato Shitara"
• "Ramune Bannouyaku" by Matsuzuki Kou

Electronic English Language

• Nura Volume 8
• Blue Exorcist Volume 7

I haven't gotten through all the stuff in Japanese yet, by I can tell you that I didn't like Paradise Pirates and I could only get through the first chapter before I had to put it down.  It's like an old-timey Disney Princess ended up on a jolly pirate ship.  Yuck!

Omari's Sister is Recruiting!

Omari's Sister Needs You!

We need new blood!  Omari's Sister is recruiting!  We need additional staff to maintain pace after June.  Here's what we need.

• Cleaners/Redraw Artists/Image Editors -- I would prefer experienced volunteers, but if you have access to Photoshop and some experience using it, I'm willing to train you.  People with experience clone stamping and redrawing are most desired.  The minimum time expectation is one project per month.

If you are interested in volunteering for Omari's Sister, please send me an e-mail via the "Contact" link at the top of this blog.

People who are new to cleaning, consult this tutorial first to make sure you are familiar enough with Photoshop:  http://senbonzakura.kageyoshi.net/beginners-start-here/

"Magnolia" Chp 22

Update:  If you are having problems viewing this file, please upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 8 or above).  Just this once, I have re-crunched the file so it is compatible with version 6 and above.  If you are using some other PDF reader, all bets are off moving forward. This is the last time I will crunch a file to be viewed by an ancient version of Acrobat.

This seems like a bridge chapter to the next story arc.  Not much new is revealed in this chapter, but it's necessary to cement some of the ideas introduced in the last chapter.  The end of the chapter, though is pretty significant.  The question for me is whether what happened means that Ayato has accepted matters and has decided to be pro-active.  And what about Hugo? I'm gonna be so mad if he rips Ayato's heart out. Well, we'll know his initial reaction in a week or so.

Anyhow...onto the link!

The Ghost Apartment Manager Chapter 9

It's been about 6 months since we released the last chapter of this series.  I think it just got lost in the shuffle.  This is actually one of the easier series to translate and clean, so there really is no excuse other than it slipped through the cracks. We should have chapter 10 ready in July soon after our month long anniversary celebration :).

In this chapter we begin to explore Crook's past.  He's as emo as he looks and it's pretty sad.  I don't want to say too much about this chapter because it's a good read.

On to the chapter!

Thank you Silver Lunar!!!

Thank you Silver Lunar!!!  I love it :)!

Silver Lunar made the wonderful avatar I'm now using for Twitter. I was only gonna do a short-term change from the Kuroneko, but I like the pink fox so much that it's here to stay for the time being :).

BTW, I did have my fill of cheddar biscuits at the local Red Lobster tonight.  They were delicious!

"Rex Fabula" Chapter 6

If you haven't read this series, then I hope you give it try because it's one of my favorite Shounen-for-girls series.  The first 4 chapters are here and chapter 5 is here.

There are no crazy monsters in this chapter. Actually, there is much more dialog than there has been in the other chapters so far.  It's kinda of a nice break, but at the same time it's the setup for the first real arc in the story. The next chapter introduces a bunch of new characters, so get ready for it.

This chapter introduces Kurumizawa Kotoko as a love interest for Homare,   I won't say much about her accept that she's surprising and I like her a lot :).  I'm very eager to see how this romance plays out, though I imagine it's going to be very, very, slow.  Still, I think Kurumizawa will be a great moderating force to keep Homare from going out of control.

And now onto the link!

"Rex Fabula" Chapter 5

This is our first Omari's Sister release of "Rex Fabula"!  A little warning about this chapter: the monsters in this series run around naked and have human breasts. It's a weird artist choice, but I didn't think it was indecent because there is nothing sexual about them.  It's distracting at first, but you'll get used it.

This chapter is pretty intense psychologically and action-wise.  We get to see Hamare in action as he figures out what his weapon is and how to use it. Though, by the end chapter, I couldn't really say what his weapon was, but it's quite effective.  I'd like to hear some reader's ideas on what went on with the "weapon". I don't think that it will be clear until we see Homare use it again. Haha! You'll see what I mean after you read the chapter.  It reminds me of what Rose did in the last episode of the first season of "Doctor Who".

Onto the link!

Manga I'm Looking Forward to! "Sakuran: Blossoms Wild"

Here's a title coming from Vertical on July 17th that I'm very much looking forward to.  It's from Moyocco Anno, the same mangaka who wrote/illustrated "Sugar Sugar Rune", but "Sukuran" is a mature title.  Anyhow, since reading series like "Yukarism" and "Oiran Girl", I'd like to see another interpretation of the Japanese courtesan world.  Here's a link to the synopsis (Link)

This book is available for pre-order through Amazon and there's currently a nice little discount.  Here's a link to pre-order through Amazon.

"Rex Fabula" Chapters 1 - 4

 

"Rex Fabula" is moving to Omari's Sister.  This series is more on the shounen side, but starting in chapter 6 some shoujo elements start showing up.  This series is a nice combination of horror, action, and mystery with a sprinkling of unrequited love.  The main character, Homare, is one of my favorites, so I hope this series finds a happy home here.  I also hope there's lots of conversation around this series.  It's a truly interesting series.  Here are links to the first 4 chapters:

I'm Thinking of Merging Bakeneko's Lair back into Omari's Sister

I created Bakeneko's Lair so we could keep some of the more mature and shounen titles away from Omari's Sister.  As a few people warned me, it is a bit more difficult to run two separate blogs.  My feeling so far is the only series I want to keep separate from Omari's Sister is "Servamp" because at times it is quite violent and gory.  "Kemono Kingdom: Zoo" is quite low key, "Seigi no Mikata" has some cussing and innuendo that will fly over the heads of the inexperienced, and "Rex Fabula" doesn't have anything more gory in it than some of the Kuro Lala one-shots, though one of the monsters has a "nice rack".  I'm thinking of moving these three series to Omari's Sister and leaving "Servamp" at Bakeneko's Lair to keep it separate and also to reserve the alternate blog for some mature series  (straight up 16+) from Itan magazine I've had my eye on. 

I'd appreciate it if you'd give me your opinion on the matter.  If there aren't too many objections, then the migration could begin today.

April 2012 Statistics

April...thank goodness it's over! Let us not have another month like that again! Anyhow...well, let's see what happened last month.

Top 10 Visiting Countries

1. US (CA, NY, MA, TX, WA)
2. Canada
3. France
4. Philippines
5. Germany
6. Indonesia
7. Australia
8. Singapore
9. Malaysia
10. United Kingdom

Top 5 Releases (Haha! There were only 5 releases)

1. One-shot: "The Most Beautiful Name in the World"
2. "Ojousama no Untenshu" Chapter 2
3. Magnolia Chapter 21
4. One-Shot:  "Bye Bye Rain"
5. "Akagami no Shirayukihime" Chapter 32

Top 5 Keywords

1. Omari's Sister
2. Vahlia's Bridegroom
3. Magnolia Manga
4. Ore to Atashi no Kareshi-sama
5. Junketsu + Kareshi Chapter 15

Haha! Wrong website for J+K folks.  Head on over to Turtle Paradise for that series. And we have no intention of resuming that series, so don't ask. It's rude to us and it's rude to Turtle Paradise. We aren't interested in it and Aya Shouoto has asked scanlators to quit scanlating her works.  We intend to respect the mangaka's stated wishes.

Anyhow...May is here and there are a lot of releases that are close to being done. Hopefully, we can make up for a craptacular April.