Not that there’s ANYBODY interested in Tanemura Arina or the new Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne tankoubon releases… but here are the scans just in case. ;) Volumes 5 and 6 will appear in late October. Enjoy!

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Janice had me bouncing off the office walls all day because of this news: the Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne manga will be rereleased in Japan, in deluxe tankoubon form with all-new covers!
A quick translation of special features included in KKJ Kanzenban:

All color splashes used during Ribon releases
Each volume will have a brand-new cover drawn by Arinacchi [...]

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I spent the weekend (mostly) offline. Saturday I spent the day with Mom in Medford, which was (very) surprisingly pleasant for both of us. I came home with two new cacti, two new cds and a few household odds and ends. The more I drive her Subaru Outback, the more I want one for our [...]

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Auctions, part six are up — the Shinshi Doumei Cross drama CD, a Shinshi & KKJ Strawberry Lunch doujinshi from this summer, and a complete BSSM Graffiti 8 card set.

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Auctions round three are now on eBay. (And at this, Danielle takes a small break, shrinking away from the giant box of Ribon Magazine furoku that needs to be split into multiple lots.) Large lot of KKJ items, a Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle promo postcard, Ribon & Nakayoshi backissues….

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I’m still adjusting a few things here, but the layout seems to be settling out nicely. (Among other things, I need to figure out how to get the li items to be the same size as the regular text. T_T; ) I’m digging up all my old Hoshichan and Twinkling layouts to provide enlargements to [...]

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For anyone that actually *uses* that section, I’ve updated the Tanemura Arina Buy Guide with three upcoming volumes of translated Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne manga (3-5), one upcoming translated volume of Full Moon wo Sagashite (6), and (joyjoyjoy!!!) I have added the english anime section with the first DVD release of the Full Moon wo Sagashite [...]

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