For 25 years I have been mocking the baritone to the opera “Barber of Seville.” There’s even a home video of 8-year-old Hatsumi with with a bowl cut, dressed in floral knit shorts and a loose blouse, hands on my belly, and shouting, “Piccolo! Piccoloooooo!”
It wasn’t until two years ago when the “Barber of Seville” opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Figaro, the Barber of Seville, belted out “Figaro! Figaro!” that I realized what I had been singing to all this time was a green-skinned Namekian created by Akira Toriyama. (Read: Dragon Ball)
My Canto bf will never let me live it down. When we walked home to my apartment a pair of hispanic boys came pedalling toward us. The pink-cheeked boy sitting behind was singing a song we couldn’t catch. When they pedalled closer, we picked up the words, “Figaro! Figaro!” We followed that voice as it disappeared down the street…and then he burst out laughing.
So what does this have to do with anything, you say? Well, in the same vein as me singing, “Figaro!” instead of “Piccolo!” now, I’m re-releasing some fixed chapters ALL OVER AGAIN. Sorry, guys, but I get very anal about mistakes, especially when I’m the one who makes them, and there were plenty of mistakes in our 3 am release to warrant an arrest!
Minelauva (our editor) suggested I just put out the QC’ed chapter with the next release, and after a few days of fidgeting, I am taking her word for it.
So here is the actual QC’ed release of 3 am Dangerous Zone (for any of you who still care): Ch.1 + 2 [Fixed Release]
And both a revised and new chapter of Sekine’s Love:
Ch.1 [Fixed Release] + Ch.2
We’ll be back on Tuesday to wrap up the month’s releases. Enjoy the Memorial Day weekend! 😀
Thanks for the information :)!
Hi, thanks for the release!!! I was wandering, when is the next one, ’cause you said there would be, for instance, a Bitou Lollipop release at the end of the month (being May, I understood…), also, there was the futago thing, a weekly release, if I didn’t hear wrong… Please, don’t take it as criticism, I mean, I know you are the ones that work hard to bring us manga, not me (useless fan Y_Y), I just want to know for sure, without expecting other things, when will there be releases…
No problem, stteret. We are releasing tomorrow, 6/14/2011, because our joint group requested we wait for their anniversary. I hate to make too many release posts and prefer to release in mini-batches. See you then. ;D
Thank you so much for the releases! Not that it’s so erroneous that it needs a fixed release, but just read Heartbroken Chocolatier and when they described one of the chocolates as “cafe ole” (pages 18 and 20), I’m pretty sure it was supposed to read “cafe au lait”.
Haha, thanks, Rexy. That was a total “D’OH” moment.
I love you guys mistakes or not… Thanks and love for all the hard work!! Love the releases’ posts / rants too… <3<3
Thanks for you dedicated work 😀 I also like fixed releases but you really don’t have to push yourselves so much since your releases are generally of high standards^^
YAY! Sekine!! 😀 😀
Thanks for the release!
Sekine’s Love is the most interesting manga I’ve read in a very long time
You’re all so damn sweeeeeet. But you’d better stop with the compliments. (It might go to my head.) (Heh heh.) We’ll be releasing more 3 am and Sekine next month, so come back and visit us, ya hear?!
you guys are made of awesome
seriously ilu
sorry to double post, but I forgot to add – big thanks to the whole Stiletto Heels team for the great work…
and yes 3am and Sekine are my favorite stilletoheels projects so I’m super pysched about the release!
i still care! grabbed the fixed releases, with many thanks for the great work you do…
i enjoy your writings about your life… always a joy to read. lol on piccolo!! and he repeats his name so many times ^^
Figaroooooooo! Sekineeeeeee-Kuuuuuuun! Thank you for the releases!! I’m so happy! Even with the small mistakes, your releases are still excellent quality and hugely appreciated. ^_^
Thank you very much for the new chapter of Sekine’s Love!
Even when you think they’re bad, you guys still have top quality releases.
i swear, your blog/release posts are the best 😀