Jan 12, 2015

Re-translation Policy Update

We no longer give permission for re-translation of our projects. We believe that it is best to translate from the original Japanese into your own language.
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Jan 5, 2015

Check out my Lovely Manga Blog

As some of you know, I transformed one of my old blogs into a new shoujo and josei manga focused (non-scanlation) blog. It's called "Lovely Manga". The URL is http://lovelymangas.com/ So far I've been posting reviews for both licensed and unlicensed manga, writing my perspective on Crimson Flower releases, posting manga related news and commentary, and posting highlights from the magazines I get. Within the magazine highlight postings, sometimes I post PDFs of the summary Tweets of the oneshots and series I read in the magazines, but do not scanlate.  I'm thinking about writing separate formal summaries for the series that I think are really good, but I won't scanlate because another group is already scanlating it, or it's too difficult to scanlate, or it's licensed, or I'm afraid it's gonna be endless shoujo. I'm also considering writing first chapter reviews for the new series that come out in the magazines I get.

Please head on over to the blog and let me know what you think. If you have content ideas, please let me know. I want to put out the information you want about the latest shoujo and josei series and oneshots. I also would like it to be a place for discussions about manga news and series.

Here are some posts that may interest you.
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Dec 30, 2014

Winter Holiday Gift Ideas for the Shoujo Manga Lover in your Life

I forgot to do this last year, but this year, once again I have compiled a list of gift ideas for the shoujo lover in your life.  The complete list can be found at the Crimson Flower Amazon Store.

In general I recommend:
For folks who missed getting the Vampire Knight Volume 19 limited edition with the bundled illustration book, Amazon still has some! Here's a link!

Also, if the person wants to read electronic versions of their favorite manga, then I recommend getting the person a 32 GB iPad mini or the Kindle Paperwhite.

Manga volumes are also nice. Some of my favorites are:
If you are unsure, there are always gift cards! Consider giving an Amazon Gift card or a gift card from the person's favorite bookstore. Also for the Amazon shopper, consider gifting the person a year of Amazon Prime so they can buy tons for manga with free 2-day shipping.
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Dec 15, 2014

Infrequent Series Announcement

With the ending of the Haruca anthology, the future of "A Pair of Blue Wings" is unknown. The series was already on a twice-per-year release schedule. Until the series is complete, we will put that project on hiatus. "Harapekona Majo" and "Tiny Mermaid Matters" are also infrequent series, so until those series have enough chapters built up to be coherent, we will put them on hiatus also. From now on, we will not take on any infrequent series until they are done because it's too frustrating to remember what happens from chapter to chapter while they are in serialization.
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Dec 3, 2014

New Blog -- Kuroneko's Lovely Mangas

I've decided to make the Crimson Flowers blog a scanlation only blog. Therefore I pulled all the non-scanlation posts over to a new blog and started posting on that blog tonight. The blog is called "Kuroneko's Lovely Mangas". Here's the link. The main focus of this blog will be anime and manga reviews, series and oneshot summaries, and shoujo and josei manga news. The first new post has just been posted here. It covers highlights from Betsuhana issue 1/2015.
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