Girlfriend fans can rejoice. Your wait is finally over. Tonight we bring you the first chapter of the series’ latest volume. Expect to encounter new faces in familiar situations, but also interesting story twists not yet seen in the previous volumes.

To sweeten the experience, we’ll throw in two new chapters of Hourou Musuko and another gripping chapter of Seizon – LifE as well. Now if that ain’t a great way to start your week…

Since my previous post already gave away most of the details, I’ll try to keep this one brief. Today, we are launching two new projects which, once again, demonstrate how broad Kotonoha’s scope of interest can be. Both Hourou Musuko and Shigurui (there, now the cat is out of the bag ) are among my favorite ongoing serializations in Japan despite the fact that they are almost polar opposites of each other. On one hand, we have a sweet and endearing story about coming of age with an irresistibly charming cast of characters, on the other hand, we have a bloody and disturbing exercise in human cruelty. However, once you get past the palpable differences, you’ll soon discover that both stories are equally compelling in their own way. If you want to learn more about the craziness that is Shigurui, I suggest you try this link (the text in question is a bit down the page).

I realize that I’m terribly late with this announcement, but we have started a new joint project with Lililicious. Double House is written by one of my favorite josei authors, the wonderful Nanae Haruno. I once harbored the wish to scanlate Papa Told Me, her magnum opus. Alas, its sheer length was enough to crush a fanboy’s fanciful dream. Thanks to Sailor Avalon and her team, I can now at least work on one of her books. *sniff* *Thank you!*

Speaking of gratitude, mine goes out to all the proofreaders and copy editors who recently joined us and helped make today’s releases possible. Here they are, in no particular order: Drake Rain, Demus, The Postindustrialist, Jiji and Daniel. I strongly hope you all will stick with us for many months to come.

P.S. I feel rather weird to point this out, but Dirk Deppey from The Comic Journal mentioned Kotonoha and a few of our projects in a recent entry of his blog Journalista (you’ll have to scroll down to the entry’s bottom to find the passages in question). While I’m flattered that he compared us with Dark Horse, I’m not sure if that was adequate, seeing that Omanga would be a much better candidate. If I have to seek out an English publisher to associate with, I’d rather choose Del Rey (with a touch of Fanfare/Ponent Mon).

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