January 2012 Manga Purchases

This post is quite late, but better late than never!

English Paperback:

• "The Guin Saga: The Seven Magi", Volume 1
• "Sumomomo, Momomo", Volume 1
• "Nabari no Ou", Volume 1
• "Durarara!!", Volume 1
• "Black Butler", Volume 5 & 8
• "Skip Beat", Volume 26
• "Black Bird", Volume 12
• "Dengeki Daisy", Volume 8
• "Oresama Teacher", Volume 6

Japanese Paperback:

• Hana to Yume Platinum
• "Joousama no Shiro Usagi:, Volume 1
• "Natume Yuujincho" Winter 2012 Special
• "Sayonara Chocolate"

January 2012 Statistics

In January, we made a big push to release chapters from some long neglected series and a couple of new series.  We introduced "Ojou-sama no Untenshu" and "Ore to Atashi no Kareshi-sama".  Both series were received well.  We also welcomed a new image editor, Kayori.  Kayori has been providing some of the wonderful banners you've been seeing on the blog lately.  Let's all welcome Kayori to the group!

Now onto the numbers!

Top 10 Visiting Countries:

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

January 2012 at Omari's Sister

Recruitment:  WE NEED REDRAW ARTISTS!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are now ready to attack a new year.

I'm happy to have 2011 over with.  It's not that it was a bad year, it's more like I hope 2012 is a better year. Mostly, I would like the economy to come back so it will be easier to find a job.  I've pretty much accepted that I'm not going to get an engineering job like the one I used to have, but I'm still hopeful.  I would really like to get back into doing R&D for consumer electronics.

That said, let's get on to the business of January.  For the past 3 months we've been blowing out one-shots, so now it's time to catch up on our series.  We still have a few one-shots that are closed to being done, so we will release those as they are ready.  Here's what we have planned: