(Ms.) Tomo Kimura’s Translation/Tokyo Notes

Yagari Toga - Yasumoto Hiroki

I’ve - さよならを教えて (Shizuka’s theme)
(The spoken lines of the second verse)
soft ballet - Jail of Freedom (Ichiru to Shizuka)
soft ballet - final (Zero to Shizuka)
(The power of his master’s voice that binds him, even though he hates her so much. Love and hate.)

Visual-kei CDs come with all sorts of extras, and the omake you get may differ depending on where you buy your CD. Some visual-kei/indies CD shops offer their own omake too. I wonder how many fans buy multiple copies to get the different extras…

I usually go to 自主盤倶楽部 in Shinjuku for new CDs, and to the nearby closet child for used CDs.

An Cafe’s new album came with a set of photo postcards:

Neu’s new single came with an autographed photo:

I hope people don’t mind these non-manga entries. Not every tankobon has notes that need to be written up, so I’ve decided to write a bit more about my life in Tokyo.

This was an exhibit of customized Blythe dolls at onejuku (marui one) in Shinjuku. Brands that have shops in onejuku participated, and you could get the same clothes that the dolls were wearing at the shops.

I liked the Peace Now Blythe with the cute rabbit ears. The Sexy Dynamite London Blythe was a mad hatter all in black, while the Victorian Maiden Blythe was wearing a gorgeous hat decorated with lots of flowers.

LaLa now has a novel series, and the first two novels are an Ouran and Vampire Knight novels.

The book is the same size as the manga tankobons.

The VK novel is titled “Vampire Knight - The Ice Blue Sin”, and is about an incident that occurred shortly after the NIght Class was set up. There’s also a short story involving Zero, Ichiru, and Yagari.

According the latest issue of Cookie, Vol. 19 will be out May 15th.

Seems to be out already as well.

The way human character names are handle have changed from this volume. Since the change is not mentioned in the tankobon, I’ll explain it here.

Characters that first appeared in Vol.1-5: western name order
Characters that first appear in Vol. 6 on: Japanese name order

Seems to be out already.

I have yet to receive my copy though…