Marui one in Shinjuku has started displaying their Black Butler collaboration items starting yesterday, so I went to take a look.
ALICE & the PIRATES has a Ciel set while Black Peace Now has a Ciel set, a Mey-Rin set, and an Elizabeth set. (Elizabeth’s dress is dark red. Maybe she wore it in the anime?).
Atelier Boz has a Ciel set and a Sebastian set, both in women’s and men’s sizes:
Artherapie has a number of bags with the Phantomhive coat of arms and the mark of the covenant on them.
Is already out as well.
This is the end of Part One, and the last volume I worked on.
I also worked on the Official Fanbook, which will be out in October.
Is already out.
I’ve finished translating all 23 volumes. Guess that’s short for your average shonen manga :)
Is out as well.
Is out already.
Vol. 9 will be out here next month.
A Vampire Knight artbook is scheduled to come out July 5, together with Vol. 12.
A woman’s entertainment weekly here has a short article on Yazawa-sensei. The article starts out by catching her in front of a Tokyo hospital, looking visibly unwell, barely able to walk as she gets off a cab.
They then catch her in front of her house, and quotes her as saying that “she has no idea yet when she’ll be able to resume NANA”, that “she’s concentrating 100% on getting better, and that she hasn’t held a pen since she’s last collapsed”, that “people seem to be worried because she hasn’t disclosed what illness she’s suffering from, but it’s something that can be cured, and the doctors have said that she will get better as long as she spends time on treatment and recuperation, so will fans please trust Ai Yazawa and wait”.
Is already out.
I got Vol. 2 of the Pandora Hearts reproduction illustration:
This is a new illustration drawn just for the collection. Mochizuki-sensei’s comment in the ad said “The surface of the water where they entrust themselves is transparent, tranquil, but always unstable.”
This is a new anthology by Hakusensha. I happened to pick up the first issue earlier this year, and the second issue came out end of February.
The works included are more josei than shojo, and there are some girls’ love manga as well. In Vol. 1 for example has a “childhood friends in love” manga by Unita Yumi, a girls’ love manga by Nakamura Asumiko, and Kazuma Kowo (a Comic Yurihime regular) drawing her first (!) heterosexual shojo manga.
Some of the works continue on to Vol. 2. There’s even a short work by Tsuruta Kenji.
Three issues will published a year, and the next issue will be out in June.