Dual Release: Akagami no Shirayukihime Chp 31 and the February 2012 Omake

First, a shameless plug for Akidzuki Sorata!  There will be a dual release of "Akagami no Shirayukihime" volume 7 and the "Vahlia Bridegroom" one-shot compilation on March 5th.  Copies have been pre-ordered for those who have already sent requests to piggyback on my late February order.  Also, the extra copies I ordered have been reserved.  However, it's not too late!  If you want your own copies of AnS Volume 7, "Vahlia's Bridegroom", and "Ao Rhapsodia" (the Akane Ogure one-shot compilation), I can piggy back your order onto my first order for the month of March (you will receive the books mid to late March instead of early march).  Also, if any of you want the OHSHC Perfect Guide, I can orders those too for you.  The books are $8.50 each and OHSHC Perfect Guide is $21.  Those prices include shipping from Japan.  There is separate shipping from my house to your on top of that.  Please see the Piggy Back ordering information page for more information about domestic shipping.

And now onto the chapters!

Obi looks very nice on this title page.  I would like to see a clean version of this drawing. Moving on, this is the "onsen" chapter.  It always amazes how manga and anime, regardless of the over arching nature of the work, manages to either throw in an onsen, umi (beach), or swimming pool chapter/episode.  Honestly, I never expected to see such a chapter in AnS. Back to Obi...this chapter continues Obi's character development.  He is quite the "merry trickster" and his pot stirring rivals my own husband's (shh!  Don't tell him I said that.  Hee!).  Fortunately, it's all in good fun and extremely funny to read.


A new character enters the scene and she has something to do with Obi's past. Who could she be and is the "sauciness" just an act?  There all some evil Kiki x Mitsuhide teasing...too cruel...way too cruel...

There's also a lot of talk about "change" in this chapter.  I found it rather strange since Zen and Shirayuki have already kissed at least a couple of times.  I would think that they would be beyond the point of timidly linking fingers.  I'm a bit confused because in my mind as soon as two friends kiss and confessed to one another, the relationship has moved beyond "friendship".  Seriously, they should go find a back shed, a barn, or some darkened dungeon to go secretly make-out in.  Linking fingers for 10 seconds is lame and a cop-out!  Obi and the rest seriously need to catch those two red-handed so we can cut the shy bull crap...meh...


Onto the links!  Futile as it may be, I beg you not to upload these to any of the online manga readers and aggregators.  The files are here!  There's no need to allow some sketchy company to make money off of work they didn't do.

Update 2/26/2012:  Fixed some minor typos
Link to Akagami no Shirayukihime Chp 31: (PDF)
Link to the Akagami no Shirayukihime February 2012 Omake: (PDF)

Next up!  Magnolia Chp 19 is currently being worked on along with the latest one-shot from Nari Kusakawa.  Lala 4 should arrive tomorrow with lastest one-shot from Kaoru Ichinose.  Any of those three could be our next release!

"Akagami no Shirayukihime" Chapter 28

I only got one proofread on this, but I wanted to put it out now before New's Year activities sweep me away.  Hopefully, we caught all of the egregious typos.  I'll update the file at a later time if more typos are discovered.

I'd like to thank Amrai for taking on the difficult task of translating this chapter.  The Akidzuki Word Salad was horrifically bitter and full of tear inducing onions this time.  I'd also like to thank Kotomi for helping me beat the script into shape.  This chapter was a challenge all around.

This is the last re-introduction chapter in Lala magazine.  The next chapter launches into the next arc of the story.  This is a cute chapter, but it's also a filler chapter.  It revolves around the relationship between Mitsuhide and Zen...and attempts, in a shirtless moment, to grow Zen up some more.


Chapter 29 and 30 are very special and it's a shame they were printed so poorly in Lala magazine.  Because I don't want to keep myself and the readers waiting, we will go ahead and do low quality releases of the two chapters.  I don't know when the tankoubon is coming out, but I know it's after February, and that is an unreasonably long time to wait.  So we'll put our effort into the translation and typesetting, but we will not do much in the way of cleaning and redrawing.  We'll put the effort into the images when get the high quality tankoubon.   That effort won't be wasted because it's very easy to transfer text layers.

Anyhow...onto the link for chapter 28!

Link to "Akagami no Shirayukihime" Chapter 28:  (PDF) (Best viewed at 65% zoom)

Next up!  We are continuing to catch up on our neglected series, so next up will be "Rex Fabula" Chp 4, "Fushigi no Maria" Chp 4, "Ore to Atashi no Kareshi-sama" Chp 1, and "Ojousama no Untenshu" Chp 1.  Are of these are in some stage of completion, so it shouldn't take long to get them all released.  We also have 2 one-shots that are being typeset.  They could be released any day now ^^!

Recruitment!

We desperately need redraw artists!  Please contact me here (link)