My family isn’t really big on X-Mas and never have been. We’re the kind that, when parked near a house with a friendly Christmas display that other people would be Ooh-ing and Aww-ing about, would get super-cynical.
MIMI MAMA (one arm sweeping across windshield): ラスベガスへようこそ! (Welcome to Las Vegas!)
MIKE-SHINODA-WANNABE-12-YEAR-OLD BRO: I think I’m going blind.
MIMI: I bet these people starve their children to pay for the electricity bill.
MIMI PAPA: No…No, those kids look pretty well-fed to me.
(I know. You probably hate us, right?) Still, Mimi Mama’s hosting some sort of luncheon for her friends and therefore has her excuse to spend hours in front of the mirror prepping her hair. This morning was another exciting day in the neighborhood.
MIMI MAMA (checking out her bangs, which are coiffed into a design the family dubs “Blooming Rose in Winter”): What do you think?
MIMI: Oh, my god!
MIMI PAPA: Hm, looks good to me.
MIKE-SHINODA-WANNABE-12-YEAR-OLD BRO (licks his fingertips and pinches the top corner of Mimi Mama’s bangs): If you put some gel right here, you could shape it into a reindeer and hang lights on it.
MIMI: What are you doing? Quit giving her ideas!
Anyway, I’m sure you’re all like, “C’mon, c’mon! Where are they?” and while I regret to say that it’s only two releases, I’m sure you’d still want them anyway, right?
Natsuyuki Rendezvous Volume 1, Ch.3 – Oh, Hazuki-kun… *Swoons like a Victorian princess*
Sekine’s Love Volume 2, Ch.6 – Sekine tries to make spaghetti, keep a pet, and…buy a sewing machine?
You’ll find all these releases and more on the Heels’ Reader. Enjoy! 🙂
There were a few other intended releases slated for this week, but that was just an ETA, and everyone and their great-grandmother’s uncle’s aunt’s ex-wife knows that I’m terrible at following schedules and deadlines. There’s just no way all that’s going to get done in time for Christmas, so what I’m going to do is give you a mass update on what to expect:
1) These will be released next week after the holidays:
– & (and) Volume 1, Ch.1 [Fixed Release]
– & (and) Ch.2 (may show up the second week of Jan 2012)
– 3 AM Dangerous Zone Volume 1, Ch.5
– Amato Amaro # 5
– Junai Rosen Ch.1
– Principal Volume 1, Ch.1
– Teketeke Rendezvous Volume 1, Ch.1
– Tokyo Alice Volume 2, Ch.6
2) Status of current projects (in alphabetical order):
& (and) Ch.2: Cleaning & Translating
Amato Amaro Ch.6: Cleaned & Translating
Balancing Toy Ch.1: Cleaning.
Bitou Lollipop Ch.9: Cleans received from FG & currently translating.
Even Children Become Adults Ch.1 & 2: Quality-checking.
D no Maou Ch.1: Cleaned & Translating
Futago Ch.14: Translating & raws being prepped
Heartbroken Chocolatier Ch.3 & 4: Checking over cleans.
Junai Rosen Ch.1 – 3: Typesetting.
Kiyoku Yawaku Ch.4: Translations sent to Perfect Illusions
Love Master X Ch.1: Typesetting.
Natsuyuki Rendezvous Ch.4: Typesetting.
Natsuyuki Rendezvous Ch.5 + Omake: Just need to translate the 8-page extra chapter where Kawachi Haruka bombards us with kanji and messy handwriting. (Urgh.)
Nina My Love Ch.7 + Omake: Translating & Cleaning
Principal Ch.2-3: Cleaned & Translating
Sakamichi no Apollon Ch.2: Translating
Sekine’s Love Ch.7 – 10: Scanning.
Tokyo Alice Ch.7: Translating
Teketeke Rendezvous Ch.2: Cleaned & Translating
Toribako House Ch.3 & 4: Cleaned & Translating
What Revolves Around Aru and Neri Ch.1: Translating
KAWACHI Haruka is AMAZING! Thank you for introducing her to me!
KAWACHI Haruka is AMAZING! Thank you for introducing her to me!
Thank you so much for the releases! 😀
Thank you so much for the releases! 😀
Thank you so much for the releases!!! I’m growing very fond of Kawachi Haruka’s mangas, esp. Natsuyuki Rendezvous <3 But I read it ended in the 1/2012 issue 🙁
Thank you so much for the releases!!! I’m growing very fond of Kawachi Haruka’s mangas, esp. Natsuyuki Rendezvous <3 But I read it ended in the 1/2012 issue 🙁
Oh my god.. I just read this off ANN but Sakamichi no Apollon will be animated and going to be air in Spring 2012 on the noitaminA block! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-26/sakamichi-no-apollon-anime-to-air-on-fuji-tv-noitamina) Just when I’m losing faith in noitaminA with series like Guilty Crown (it is getting on my nerve lately), and Black Rock Shooter (I watched the OVA for all the hype but no, I’m not impressed at all. So no, I’m not going to watch the TV series..)
Let’s just hope whichever production house that’s going to produce Apollon won’t slaughter it. :p
that’s great news! thank you! love sakamichi no appolon
Oh my god.. I just read this off ANN but Sakamichi no Apollon will be animated and going to be air in Spring 2012 on the noitaminA block! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-26/sakamichi-no-apollon-anime-to-air-on-fuji-tv-noitamina) Just when I’m losing faith in noitaminA with series like Guilty Crown (it is getting on my nerve lately), and Black Rock Shooter (I watched the OVA for all the hype but no, I’m not impressed at all. So no, I’m not going to watch the TV series..)
Let’s just hope whichever production house that’s going to produce Apollon won’t slaughter it. :p
that’s great news! thank you! love sakamichi no appolon
Hahaha! You may be related to my husband’s family! They are the same way. My family is all about the lights and show. Happy Holidays and thank you all so much for the wonderful releases!!!
Hahaha! You may be related to my husband’s family! They are the same way. My family is all about the lights and show. Happy Holidays and thank you all so much for the wonderful releases!!!
Oh how I know there’d be another awesome release when I’m away to my parents’ (where there is no internet… sucks yeah I know…)
Anyway, (I know I said this before but) your mum’s sounds pretty funny!! (your whole family too…) For me, Christmas is pretty much beautiful decorations in those shopping malls where I used to strike a pose under one of those huuuuggggeeee tree. But now as I grow old, I’d just walk pass ’em without even stop to wonder how many hours did it took for them to bring in the trees and decorate them while the rest of us asleep. Lol.
Oh, but we brought our parents on a drive. And how much I hope I could wrap my ears with the oversize Sennheiser headphones, listening to anything but my mum’s rants (“I’m not growing any younger, so when the hell are you getting married?!” among others….)
Happy holidays and many thanks for the releases (and of course, your witty post too!) <3
Oh how I know there’d be another awesome release when I’m away to my parents’ (where there is no internet… sucks yeah I know…)
Anyway, (I know I said this before but) your mum’s sounds pretty funny!! (your whole family too…) For me, Christmas is pretty much beautiful decorations in those shopping malls where I used to strike a pose under one of those huuuuggggeeee tree. But now as I grow old, I’d just walk pass ’em without even stop to wonder how many hours did it took for them to bring in the trees and decorate them while the rest of us asleep. Lol.
Oh, but we brought our parents on a drive. And how much I hope I could wrap my ears with the oversize Sennheiser headphones, listening to anything but my mum’s rants (“I’m not growing any younger, so when the hell are you getting married?!” among others….)
Happy holidays and many thanks for the releases (and of course, your witty post too!) <3
Thanks so much for the great releases 🙂 Merry Christmas to you all!!
Thanks for the update!
Thank you so much for the releses!!
Thanks for your hard work this year, Stiletto Heels! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you! 🙂
For my family, Christmas is a very important event. That’s why today, my mother will spend her whole day preparing tomorrow’s lunch. 😀
Thanks for the new Kawachi Haruka chapters too! That’s a nice Christmas gift. 😀 I’m also looking forward to the upcoming release.
For my family, Christmas is a very important event. That’s why today, my mother will spend her whole day preparing tomorrow’s lunch. 😀
Thanks for the new Kawachi Haruka chapters too! That’s a nice Christmas gift. 😀 I’m also looking forward to the upcoming release.
Interesting anecdote. As a Christmas person myself, I love your family’s reactions nonetheless. :3
And wow, thanks for Kawachi Haruka updates. I really love this group’s josei projects.
Thanks for the releases. 🙂
Thanks for the releases. 🙂
OMG. I would love your family so much at the holidays, I bet.
I’m also one of those people who couldn’t give two hoots for Christmas and gets all cynical about the decorations. I mean, I can enjoy the holiday just fine and I love being a secret santa (especially for children or folks who otherwise expect nothing), but mostly I’m pretty “meh” about it (especially since I’m not Christian, I guess?).
I’m very very curious what “Blooming Rose in in Winter” hairstyle looks like. I can imagine so many things, all of them hilariously awful/cheesy. (the reindeer would’ve rocked, no lie. you know how the feathers are fashionable this year? i’ve a friend who glued tiny jingly bells onto some she’d dyed red+green and then put them in. it was terrible/awesome)