anime manga guys: October 2011

October 2011 Statistics

Here's a wrap up of the statistics for October 2011 at Omari's Sister.

Top 5 Releases

Akagami no Shirayukihime Chp 26
Magnolia Chp 15
Yukarism Chp 8
In the Mirror of Death
The Doll Rebirth Workshop

Top 10 Visiting Countries

US (CA, NY, TX, MA, WA)
Canada
France
Phillippines
UK
Australia
Singapore
Indonesia
Malaysia
Germany

Operating Systems

Windows
Mac
iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)
Android
Linux

I'm still seeing a steady uptick in tablet and mobile users. Android suddenly showed up this month. I wonder what product is propelling this.

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Angelina Jolie Biography

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Black Rose Tattoo

Without doubt the rose is admired the flower of the race in the world. One might assume that the popularity of this exquisite flower to the romantic connotations that roses have between lovers brought here. Each woman should receive a beautiful bouquet of pink even one of their lover as a token of their love and affection. The Black rose in particular undoubtedly the most popular colour and relies heavily on relationships and sex.....

Pink Rose Tattoo

You’ve probably seen hundreds of tattoos with a rose in it somewhere. There are many tattoos that is passed to drops of blood were bleeding. There are drawings that include a rose and the cross. There are some who do Rose and beauty in full bloom. What kind of tattoo designs pink is your favourite and you know what they mean?

Gentle Shoujo Halloween Manga Recommendations

I've been listening to podcasts and reading various manga critics' blogs and this week's popular theme is Halloween manga. Unfortunately, most of the title mentioned are just sick, literary, or sick and literary. Who the hell wants to read a bunch of highbrow manga with graphic violence perpetrated on humans and animals!? And since when has Halloween, other than the movies, been associated with serial killers!?
Ugh...so...I decided to make my own list of Halloween manga for us folks who prefer gentle shoujo manga with a little bit of the spooky and the supernatural. Here it goes!

Available in Print

"Recipe for Gertrude" by Nari Kusakawa
"Sugar Sugar Rune" by Moyoco Anno
"Black Butler" by Yana Toboso
"Chibi Vampire" by Yuna Kagesaki
"Shinjuku Kiss" by Kazuko Higashiyama
"Ghost Hunt" (there's an anime series too)
"XXXholic" by Clamp

From Omari's Sister's Archives!

"The Ghost Apartment Manager"
"The Scarecrow of Oz"
"Furou Kyoudai"

What are some of your favorite manga series to read during Halloween? Please leave a comment with your recommendation.

Halloween One-shot #2: "The Grim Transfer Students"

Here is our second Halloween one-shot. I've been holding onto this one for about a year. It came out just after Halloween last year, so I waited an entire year to put this out at the right time. The title of this one-shot is "Kuro Tenkousei" or literally, "The Black Transfer Students". To my American ear, that title sounds very wrong and totally misleading, so I decided to use a synonym for black that captured what the story is truly about. The word "grim" seemed to fit best, so "The Grim Transfer Students" it is.

I was originally going to post this to "Bakeneko's Lair" because it's not very shoujo-y and it's kinda freaky. But I did release "The Doll Rebirth Workshop" on OS, so...I figured this was in line with that kind of freakiness and psychological drama. Anyhow, the villain in this one-shot is bat-sh** insane. I think that's what drew me to this one-shot. It seemed very out of place in "The Hana to Yume" magazine. Beyond that though, there is a nice underlying of friendship between the main male characters. I really like the dark haired boy, Atori :). And now onto the links:

Links to "The Grim Transfer Students": (Zip) (PDF)

Some thoughts about this one-shot
I don't like adults either who think they know what's best for children who aren't their own. My parents weren't the type that shielded me. They felt it was important for me to experience life and to draw my own conclusions, so anyone touting the argument "it's for the children" is offensive to me and quite frankly, I don't understand those people. Haha! I know that sounds weird considering how constrained Omari's Sister is. But it's more of a branding issue than censorship. People come to OS with certain expectations and that's what we deliver. Folks wanting other kinds of manga are free to find that content on other websites. That is also why I set up Bakeneko's Lair as an offshoot for content that lies outside of what OS does.

As for Ayabe -- uh...I think she the scariest villain in all the OS releases. I really don't lie her. She hella creepy.

Up next...We will release the teaser preview of our newest series "Ore to Atashi no Kareshi" and to work on the last chapter of "The Scarecrow of Oz". We'll see...I vowed to myself to do some housework this weekend and to dig out from under the mail in my office,

Ore to Atashi no Kareshi-sama Chp 0

This is surprise confection that showed up in Asuka magazine. I waited until the first chapter actually came out before committing to give this series and try. The first chapter is pretty hilarious, so I'm looking forward to starting this series. This will probably be a series that we will release every other month because it's got crazy redraws that rival "Fushigi no Maria-kun". We will release the first chapter in December.

About the title --
I'm still working of a proper translation. Since there are no female/male distinctions in English for the words "I" and "me" there is no direct translation for the Japanese title. The basic idea is "My, as a male, and My, as a female Exhalted Boyfriend". When this happens, it's best to give a series an English title that's not a direct translation but captures the idea of the series. For now I'm going with "Me, My Boyfriend, and I".

Anyhow...here's the short teaser chapter 0 that ran in Asuka: (PDF)

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Glitter Eyes makeup 2011

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Halloween One-Shot #1: "In the Mirror of Death"

Here is our big Halloween one-shot! It's "In the Mirror of Death" by Fujiwara Hiro, the same artist who draws/writes "Kaichou wa Maid-sama". This feels very different that KWMS which was a pleasant surprise. Oh! And this one-shot debuts our newest Omari's Sister translator! Let us welcome Jade! She did a wonderful job on her first project. Haha! It was rather brutal of me to give her a 72-page one-shot as an introduction to this group. I'm such a bad kitty! I would also like to thank Holanio for typesetting. This gave me time to catch up on some other projects that needed some attention.

And now onto the links!

Links to "In the Mirror of Death": (Zip) (PDF)

Some thoughts on this one-shot:

The mid-30 pages are a bit awkward, but I think this part really makes the story the interesting. I kinda want to see a few more one-shots with these four characters. The idea of Miyako going at Ryuu really seems entertaining to me.

Next up is our second Halloween one-shot, "Kuro Tenkousei" ("The Grim Transfer Students") (note: decided that "The Black Transfer Students" is too provocative and misleading, so I went with a synonym.)