"Hakamori Majo Bianca" Chapter 4

Bianca’s back with two more chapters! Having read both of the new chapters, it seems that the story isn’t over yet. Hopefully with encouragement from readers in Japan, we’ll get a few more chapters to complete the story. (It seems to me that a chapter or two more ought to be enough content to publish in a tanakoubon.) We pick up the story with Bianca more confused than ever and poor Nelo clumsily trying to play cupid.  I truly like Nelo.  She’s a sweet girl. I’d like to see a spinoff where she finds magic success and a love of … Continue reading "Hakamori Majo Bianca" Chapter 4

New Series: "many" Chapter 1 by Kakeru Tsutsumi

Tonight we are debuting a new short series “many”. It’s only three chapters long, and we anticipate releasing the next two chapters within this month (though I’m not promising that). Thanks to Peonine for a lovely translation, Suzume and Yoriko for cleaning and redrawing, and lastly to Holanio for typesetting. Retranslation Partners:La Noche de los Caidos — Spanish On to the release!Links to “many” Chapter 1: (Zip) (PDF) My thoughts on the first chapter:The lovely and delicate artwork attracted me to this mangaka. This series has a nice summer feel.  Typically, I don’t like high school love trains, but the … Continue reading New Series: "many" Chapter 1 by Kakeru Tsutsumi

"Magnolia" Chapter 33

With this chapter, we are caught up again to the Japanese release of this series.  Just to set your expectations correctly, this is a monthly series that runs in Aria magazine. Aria releases every month on the 28th. The story takes a big leap forward with this chapter.  Thank goodness, because I was getting tired of  beating around the bush.  Now that we’ve spent time exploring each possibility for Ayato and establishing that Ayato has no interest in girls, we can move onto the next arc.  What that will be about is tough to say because there are many possibilities.  … Continue reading "Magnolia" Chapter 33

"Magnolia" Chapter 32

I am crazy sleepy, so everything I write after this point might be gibberish. I’m sorry.  Anyhow… we’re starting to get somewhere with this chapter of “Magnolia”.  I totally ship Alexandra x Ayato…but well… that wouldn’t make things interesting. Still I like Alexandra and Robert and I hope they still have a role in the story moving forward, or maybe they’ll get a little spinoff like “Lily”. I would really like that.  Hugo, Hugo… what will we do with you? Damn men like him. He so infuriating, but at the same time overwhelmingly sexy. But we’ll get to more about … Continue reading "Magnolia" Chapter 32

New Series: "Kanojo ni Naru Hi" ("Becoming a Girl Day") by Akane Ogura

At last we are introducing a new series! It’s not the series I expected to debut first, though. Rather, this series came out of the blue, and I liked it so much that I jumped on it immediately. (Akane Ogura gender-bender — how could I resist?) I don’t want to say much about the story, because I believe it’s best to go into this knowing nothing.  So instead I will talk about how Hakusensha is distributing the series. The first chapter ran in Lala DX and the rest of the series is being released as a tankoubon rather than continuing … Continue reading New Series: "Kanojo ni Naru Hi" ("Becoming a Girl Day") by Akane Ogura