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Purchase Queue

Lest I forgot what I'm buying and make a dreaded repeat purchase.

From Barnes&Noble:

• [Yen Press] Void's Enigmatic Mansion Volume 1
• [Yen On] Sword Art Online: Aincrad Book 2
• [VIZ Shojo Beat] Sweet Rein Volume 2

From Amazon:

• [Hyperion Books] The Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus Book 5
• [VIZ Shojo Beat] Oresama Teacher Volume 17
• [VIZ Shojo Beat] My Love Story!! Volume 1-2

Summer Update

Anime Expo & LA Trip
Anime Expo just ended over a week ago. I bought items of course. The most notable purchase would be a Crunchyroll Backpack, which I am totally utilizing right now. Before that, I mostly shoppedh around in the Artist's Alley. A notable purchase from the Artist Alley would be the Croconana t-shirt. I bought little sheep hairclips from them a year prior. I also went to Kinokuniya in LA and bought Hirunaka no Ryuusei volume 9. They didn't have the tenth volume when I went there even though it should've been out already ]= Ah! And now that I remember it, I forgot to look for P to JK while I was there!! I knew I forgot about something...

Other than that, I had a good time eating 8D I even cosplayed at Super Bun from Oresama Teacher on Day 3 of Anime Expo.

Manga Purchasing/Selling
Now, I'm looking into more manga purchases to complete some series that I've been reading, such as Otomen (17 volumes) and Sweet Rein (3 volumes). I'm also VERY interested in buying the full manga set for W Juliet (14 volumes) on ebay. I think I found a good and cheap seller, so let's hope I get the deal closed =]

At the moment, I'm unsure, but I'm thinking of buying the full Yakitate!! Japan set (26 volumes). The price is very reasonable on ebay for the full set. A little over 5 dollars per volume, but I happen to live in California where there's a 9% tax on all online purchases. Lame!! If I want to buy, I should buy it while I'm still in Indiana with my relatives.

In the future, I'm thinking of purchasing the Bakuman box set (20 volumes?), because it would about the same price as if I bought all of the missing volumes at full price. Each volume would be about 5 dollars per volume at the discounted price at the moment. And of course California tax.

For many series, I'm seeing that more publishers are offering more box sets. So for many series, I'm waiting before I buy them in hopes of a box set =] It saves my time and money. It also works on my patience haha. This is a technique I use on series that I know have a definite end in Japan or is one of the long running shonen series that may or may not have a definite end. This is what I'm doing for Voice Over: Seiyu Academy, Nisekoi: False Love, and My Little Monster.

In light of the Bakuman situation, I will probably have to sell my old volumes online. This is a good opportunity to sell my extra The Magic Touch volume 3? I think.

Light Novel
I bought hand read my first translated light novel from Yen Press! I bought Sword Art Online. It was interesting and a pleasant read. I'll probably buy more as they come out. They are a nice, light read. Especially for the summer.

Non-Anime/Manga Related
Last month, I finally got my copy of the PJO/HOO fanzine! It's so cute and packed with full colored awesomeness.

This month, I've been reading The Chronicles of Narnia series. I'm also going to try reading The Seven Wonders series. It from an author who contributed to The 39 Clues series. I'm sure it'll be fun. I'll talk about these more (maybe) after I finish reading them.

Of course, I'm keeping up and trying to catch up on my daily Bible reading =D

Hello! Hola Bean Happy Holidays

Yes...
Check it out. The hola-bean is now an Hola Thing.

Here's the Facebook page...
https://www.facebook.com/theadventuresofholabean

Download it here...
PDF -- http://www.4shared.com/office/jX4gNqijba/Hola_Bean_Happy_Holidays_pdf.html
JPEG Files -- http://www.4shared.com/zip/udrRvCHeba/Hola_Bean_Happy_Holidays_jpegs.html

Winter Vacation

I am currently restructuring my bookshelf to fit more manga than it has ever fitted before. It also gives me more "desk" space.

I recently bought the whole Kodocha series from BookOff and reread it. And then... I decided to reread Deep Clear (Honey BitterxKodomo no Omocha spinoff). And so obviously I have re-fallen in love with Sana and Akito, Naozumi breaks my heart, and I wish there was more.

Scantalating To-do List

Moving into college dorms tomorrow, and I need to do these things hopefully before school starts.

• Fix a Corset ni Tsubasa 3 spread and update links
• Prep Stand Up! 5
• Finish redrawing Dream Fantasia ch20 and v5 bonus story
• QC Hirunaka no Ryuusei chapters and send MTLs to Subaru
• QC Chotto Edo Made

The Reading Wishlist

There are some official American releases of manga that I would like to read (whether it be buying or borrowing) one day.

• Yakitate!! Japan by Takeshi Hashiguchi
• Natsume's Book of Friends by Yuki Midorikawa
• Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
• W Juliet by Emura

Scanlation List

Let me see... what do I actually have on my plate right now...

• [OS] Typeset many 2
• [EF] Clean Dream Fantasia -- 5 chapters left
• [EF] Typeset Forget About Love -- 2 chapters left
• [SDS] QC Hirunaka no Ryuusei -- various chapters
• [SDS] Get Brave 10 rolling -- 2 chapters
• 3 Proofreader Applications
• Prepare a bunch of stuff for staff to work on

Gakuen Alice Fanart -- Tobita Yuu and Hotaru Imai

Need to Prioritize

So much scanlation, not enough motivation.

• [OS] Typeset "many" chapter 1
• [SDS] QC "Sukitte Iwaseru Houhou" story 1
• [EF] Typeset "Forget About Love" chapter 17
• [MI] Typeset "Kanpeki Kareshi Kanojo" chapter 5
• [SDS/EF] Oversee happenings with "Hirunaka no Ryuusei" chapter 22

To be updated... there's much more, but these things need to happen first.

Shiny Shiny Feels~

7 manga in total!! Lots of fun~

Narukou Skiikubu by Emi Fujino
Hirunaka no Ryuusei v6 by Mika Yamamori
Brave 10 S v3 by Kairi Shimotsuki
Toraware no Yajuutachi by Kiyoko Arai

Back covers!! Ohhh, scandalous, some of them~

Ootagawa Junjou Lovers by Akira Ozaki
P to JK by Maki Miyoshi
Saredo Itoshii Hibi by Aya Nakahara

Back covers!! These are super cute~<3 br="">

Should Have Treated You Better

Heh heh. I just love AJ's face in this album cover. So sweet and happy :'D Anyway, I love the song as well. Super catchy. Listen to it if you get the chance.

I also bought a bunch of May 7th Manga Releases!

• Strobe Edge 4 by Sakisaka Io
• Otomen 15 by Aya Kanno
• Bakuman 19 by youknowwho
• Pokemon Adventures 16 by youknowwho

By the way, all of these manga were bought at lower than cover price values online. Go ahead and check 'em out. It's pretty great =] You can also snag 'em on Amazon too if you'd prefer.
Fun!! I need a day to buy all my Japanese manga~

Some ranting

Okay, well here I go...

For Silent Dreams, I'm going to work with the team to try and get a release for almost every project we have. And somewhere down the lines get stuff scanned. My priority consists of a volume of Brave 10 S and then switch off with SIH.

For Evil Flowers, I'll continue typesetting Forget About Love, especially for their anniversary coming up. I'll also try to stave off my desires to typeset My Romantic Kumiho ><

For Matteiru, I'm gonna try to keep up with Hal releases and QC whatever needs to be QCed.

For Omari's Sister, until summer break, I think I'll just go back to PRing. I need to finish the Furou Kyoudai omake first.

Ahh... I hope people won't get frustrated with us ]= It's a tiring hobby to scanlate... But sometimes it's pretty fun, so... what can I say?

Marching Manga

Here's some recent stuff I bought lately =]

• Oresama Teacher 13
• Strobe Edge 3
• Bakuman 18
• Various Yotsuba&! volumes

Chocolat by Shin JiSang and Geo [complete]

I've wanted to post pictures of the complete set of Chocolat, the manhwa, for a while! :'D Here it is! It's beautiful when it's all together~

The front covers, but upside down, oops!

The back covers~

This is supposed to be the cover of the original volume 9.

This is supposed to be the cover of the original volume 10.

I need new manhwa to buy ]=

YesAsia! Can't say no!

Phantom just released a new album a few days ago. I listening to two of the songs before I decided that I MUST HAVE THIS ALBUM. Let's get this straight, I am NOT a CD person. But Phantom and Monkey Majik can definitely take my money. SO in order to reach the $50 minimum purchase for free shipping and handling, I bought the rest of the volumes of Sukitte Iwaseru Houhou. It worked out pretty perfectly.

I would love to take pictures when I get my hands on them!!

I'm just waiting on my last volume of Shinigami to come in before I take some snapshots of all the English manga I bought this month =]

Oh yeah, did you know... VIZ is publishing Pokemon Adventures HEART GOLD SOUL SILVER this year!? It's SOOO awesome!! What an exciting year, I'm going to be very broke and very bad at money managing, I can see it coming -sigh-

Final Manga Binge Purchase Until AX 2013!

So I've decided that today I'm going to do my last manga binge purchase (from Amazon) until July. The only purchases I'll be making after this will be for Hirunaka no Ryuusei and stuff that's on sale in Barnes&Noble because I have gift cards to burn there P:

So I bought a total of 9 tanks...

• Strobe Edge Volume 2
• Oresama Teacher Volume 12
• Otomen Volume 14
• Bakuman Volumes 9-10
• Love * Com Volume 11
• Ballad of a Shinigami Volumes 1-3

Now I need to be patient and wait until Anime Expo and hope to fully update my Bakuman collection ^^ I'll probably buying Pokemon Adventure Boxsets from Barnes&Nobles because it's pretty cheap, but later xD I spent a lot of my birthday money on the above purchase, so... yeah!

This'll be a true test of patience...

BOOYAH! PokeSpe is gonna be bomb!

I am totally excited to blow some money on PokeSpe hahaha. VIZ finally got the memo and is publishing the Ruby and Sapphire arc. PLUS, they're going back and publishing Black and White into some REAL volumes (not those mini volumes). Now that they're getting serious about PokeSpe, I think I might snag myself those two box sets even though they switched Blue and Green's names, and censored some stuff.

(I think I'll buy myself some white-out and awesome ink marker to fix them hahaha) Perhaps when I grow up, get a job and still find that I love PokeSpe, I'll get myself a Japanese set too -nods- Haha. But whatever, I'm just caught up in the excitement that is Pokemon Special 8D

What the Games!?

Like woah! Can I totally update my wishlist?? Haha. There are some really awesome sounding games that I totally want to get now. Like uhh... first of all, I totally want a PS Vita now. That way I can get my hands on, let's see, PERSONA 4: THE GOLDEN? Yes sir! And then there's this other game I just looked at that looks really cool... Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. Plus there's a sort of pre-cursor game called 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors for the DS.

By the way, I also snagged the first 5 volumes of Penguin Revolution from BookOff. Sakura Tsukuba is one of my favorite authors, and I've only now decided that it would be a good idea to start buying her series :| ... Well, the company who published them before is out of business, so it's going to be hard to get a complete set (especially the last few volumes as usual). This means I'm going to start investing in The Land of the Blindfolded soon.

Save the Deadline!

Heeey! So I received Oresama Teacher volume 8, Bakuman volume 17 and Chocolat volume 8 omnibus last weekend ^__^ They look beautiful, but I only got a chance to read Oresama.

Oh yes and my long awaited package from Omari's Sister arrived, so now I've got The Day of Revolution! It was great re-reading the short series =] It just reminds me how much I adore Mikoto lol.

Anywho, I'm here to rant about scanna-lanna-lation~

• QC Nostalgia Oneshot (due by 12/14)
• Release Runway Produce!! ch.5 (12/16)
• CL Runway Produce!! ch.7 (due by 12/18)
• CL Be My Sweet Darling v.3 ch.4 (due by 12/22)
• CL Be My Sweet Darling v.3 ch.5 (due by 12/22)
• TS Game Over ch.4 (due by 12/22)
• Release Runway Produce!! ch.6 (12/24)
• Release Runway Produce!! ch.7 (12/25)
• QC Kimi Daruma Oneshot (due 12/26)
• CL He Was Cool ch.10 (due by 12/28)
• TS Hirunaka no Ryuusei (due by... sometime in that month...)
• TS Game Over ch.5 (due by 12/30)
• QC ~asterisk~ Oneshot (due by 1/1)

Hooooo... sounds challenging lol.