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

Saturn Apartments 5

Administrator — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:37:20 +0000

Is out as well.

Black Butler 9

Administrator — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:20:54 +0000

Is out as welll.

Volume 14 will be out here this month.

Skip Beat 3-in-1 Vol. 2

Administrator — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:13:29 +0000

Is out already.

Thousand Sunny

Administrator — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:14:59 +0000

On disembarkation, I was given a card which proves that I did ride the Thousand Sunny, and that I’m now a special crew:

My card was a Chopper card:

There was a onepiece-themed restaurant named Shabondy House:

I had the “Luffy’s straw hat pirates plate”:

and the “Thousand Sunny” mango mousse:

Thousand Sunny

Administrator — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:14:32 +0000

Here’re photos I took on board:

Thousand Sunny

Administrator — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:03:27 +0000

Earlier this year I went to Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki, and rode the Thousand Sunny. Here’s what the ship looks like:

You could also ride the Mini Merry:

And nearby was:

The cruise was about 20 minutes. I’ll post photos of the inside later.

Yomemoe Omake

Administrator — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:46:57 +0000

Koge-donbo sensei’s “Yome-san wa Moe Mangaka”, her manga essay about how she met and married her JGSDF husband came out Apr. 14. Six different versions of illustration sheets and “message papers” come with the tankobon depending on where you buy your copy.

I initially got my copy at Toranoana, because it came with a color illustration sheet the size of the book (A5 size):

About a week later, Koge-sensei twittered that she’d taken 50 signed copies to the Shinjuku head store of the Kinokuniya book chain. I did manage to grab a copy:

At Kinokuniya the extra is a b&w message paper:

Plus an extra message paper drawn just for the Shinjuku head store:

Kamisama Kiss 7 Notes

Administrator — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:18:40 +0000

Mizuki’s sake crocks say “Yonomori”, and the kanji mean “forest of the night”.

Kamisama Kiss Fanbook

Administrator — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:21:34 +0000

Volume 12 came out here last week, and there’s an announcement in the back about a Kamisama fanbook coming out sometime this fall.

Black Butler 9

Administrator — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:52:20 +0000

Is out.

Vol. 14 is scheduled to come out next month here.