Well, it’s actually past midnight where I live, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. We have a new joint project with our good friends from Omanga: A Revolutionist in the Afternoon is Jirō Matsumoto’s latest short story collection and maybe his best one yet. While it doesn’t contain nearly as much sex and violence as his previous outing Keep on Vibrating the author makes up for it with a much more varied and eclectic array of stories and themes that are both fun and exciting to read. Thanks to the hard work of zzled and Jinchi, we are able to release the book in its entirety tonight.

What? A volume-worth of new reading material is not enough to satisfy your manga hunger? It’s a good thing then that we have prepared a few more chapters of our other projects for your consumption. Check out chapter 17-19 of Historie which conclude the second volume, chapter 47 of Chokotto Sister, chapter 28 of Hourou Musuko and chapter 11 of The Hour of the Mice.

Happy reading and see you next week!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first two releases of Happiness. It’s a collection of one shots by the one, the only, Furuya Usamaru. Some of you may remember a couple of one shots of his that Kotonoha released a while ago, Happiness and A Room of Clouds. These can both be found in the One Shots section of the site. Both of these are a part of the Happiness collection, but aside from them there are six (!) other stories, bringing the total to eight.

Today we’re releasing the first two in the collection. The first is called “Teased and Stepped On, What Blooms is a Passionate Flower,” and it is about a relationship between a girl and her teacher. It may seem straightforward enough, but there’s a lot of deeper things to think about that it displays very well.

The second story is “Lolita #7,” and it is also about a relationship. This one between two cousins. An older male and a younger girl. They both go to the same school, except one is an actual teacher there, while the other is a student. When the elder doesn’t come to class for a few days, the younger is sent over to his place to find out what’s going on. It’s humorous and thoughtful at the same time, something Furuya does so well.

That’s all for today, but hopefully we will have four more of these one shots out for you guys soon. Enjoy.

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Nomad Soul: It would seem we have saved all our good projects for the final quarter of the year. In addition to Happiness, we bring you Historie, the breathtaking historical epic by Hitoshi Iwaaki of Parasyte fame. And since it’s so insanely good, we launch this project not with just one or two chapters, but five! We owe this remarkable feat to Reiu who is translating this manga in record time. Hopefully our next update will see the completion of volume 1.

Completing our Triple-H-release is Hourou Musuko, whose 26th chapter kicks off the 4th volume.

I have some good news regarding Chokotto Sister and Binbou Shimai Monogatari. Btr, a new translator who recently joined us, has taken over the translation duties for both projects, which should improve their release pace dramatically (heck, BSM was dead before this ;)). As the first fruits of this collaboration I present you the first three chapters of the 6th volume of Chokotto Sister.

I wish I had something to show for BSM as well. Alas, due to lack of time I can no longer continue editing this project, which is why we’re now looking for a dedicated editor to help us with the volumes 2-4. Check this thread in our forum for more information.

One other thing: I have been informed that some of you have been using download managers to get files from our http mirrors. Please don’t do that. These softwares tend to open up dozens of connections at the same time, causing a huge server load and generating heavy traffic for the hosters to the point where their servers become unresponsive. This is simply unacceptable. Be warned that if you continue using these tools your IP will be banned by certain hosters for good. Be reasonable and use torrents if you want to download a large number of files at once. Thank you.

As some of you may remember, we used to have a little forum back in the days, until it died (to be fair, it was never really “alive” to begin with). Some time has passed since then. Kotonoha grew a bit older, picked up a few more projects and members and I decided it’s time to bring back the forum. The old posts are gone (sorry), but the forum is still the same (more or less) so come on in and make yourselves at home.

Take me to the forum!

To celebrate the launch, we give you a new chapter of Hourou Musuko and Seizon - LifE (yes, it’s been a while ^^; ).

Enjoy!

• Girlfriend V4 Ch17
• Kiichi!! V1 Ch3
• Milk Closet V4 Ch20 (End)
• Shigurui V1 Ch4
• SWWEEET V1 Bonus
• What a Wonderful World V2 Ch10-11