Oh snap. I hope I didn't tip someone else off here. (looks around) It literally was just there. I had the diner postcard swiped out from under me. They even billed me and had to refund. There is a slight pause between Buyee clearing your money and actually making the purchase for you.

Try to get one or two, but don't let it stress you out if that's all you get. These are hard to nab even domestically. And from my experience yuri extras like this usually stay expensive so even one at or near retail is a win.

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Oh snap. I hope I didn't tip someone else off here. (looks around) It literally was just there. I had the diner postcard swiped out from under me. They even billed me and had to refund. There is a slight pause between Buyee clearing your money and actually making the purchase for you.

Try to get one or two, but don't let it stress you out if that's all you get. These are hard to nab even domestically. And from my experience yuri extras like this usually stay expensive so even one at or near retail is a win.

Hahaha maybe is someone watching ha! but is all okey, I sure they are happy ~ And oki doki too all, plus I made a preorder so the manga itself is already purchased, so it's better if I search the magazines (really difficult but I can try).

Edit: I shall break the F5 these days(?

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I was looking at the replies to one of the author posts and seeing this: https://twitter.com/si9Psydu9/status/1648712055887904769

Then Koga is the younger one, that is cute~

I got mine in the mail today. The publisher must love her because they got every detail right. It's a larger format, printing under the dustjacket, several color pages (I'm not going to spoil the hair and eye colors), and of course the green throughout. Textured cover and matte pages even for the color pages, but the ink took really well. Very good value for the price.

I didn't immediately notice any large corrections or changes to the art so I assume whatever cleaning up she did was cosmetic. It ends with a new story called Rhythm B which is 13 pages of new content that answered several of my ongoing questions so to me is necessary to the story and not mere bonus fluff. Eventually it will show up online, but it's good to let people have a chance to buy their copies. She's been doing everything for free until now so I'm hoping everything is very successful with this first volume.

I have three bookstore benefits versions still coming and a couple books I'm going to put up on Mercari here in the US. If anyone is interested I can give a shout when I list those in like 10 days-ish. I closed my Buyee box so no more than that coming. Hopefully Kinokuniya in the US stocks them soon too. I want it to do really well.

I got mine in the mail today. The publisher must love her because they got every detail right. It's a larger format, printing under the dustjacket, several color pages (I'm not going to spoil the hair and eye colors), and of course the green throughout. Textured cover and matte pages even for the color pages, but the ink took really well. Very good value for the price.

I didn't immediately notice any large corrections or changes to the art so I assume whatever cleaning up she did was cosmetic. It ends with a new story called Rhythm B which is 13 pages of new content that answered several of my ongoing questions so to me is necessary to the story and not mere bonus fluff. Eventually it will show up online, but it's good to let people have a chance to buy their copies. She's been doing everything for free until now so I'm hoping everything is very successful with this first volume.

I have three bookstore benefits versions still coming and a couple books I'm going to put up on Mercari here in the US. If anyone is interested I can give a shout when I list those in like 10 days-ish. I closed my Buyee box so no more than that coming. Hopefully Kinokuniya in the US stocks them soon too. I want it to do really well.

So nice!!! And glad to know all that <3 Here in the end got the one with manga + 4 magazines. It's already purchased so now to wait, the time already is a 4-7 days to send so I dont have a rush; plus I can't really can ask to send it here until past first week of May because I will not be able to take the delivery~ But the important thing is already done ~

I got mine in the mail today. The publisher must love her because they got every detail right. It's a larger format, printing under the dustjacket, several color pages (I'm not going to spoil the hair and eye colors), and of course the green throughout. Textured cover and matte pages even for the color pages, but the ink took really well. Very good value for the price.

I didn't immediately notice any large corrections or changes to the art so I assume whatever cleaning up she did was cosmetic. It ends with a new story called Rhythm B which is 13 pages of new content that answered several of my ongoing questions so to me is necessary to the story and not mere bonus fluff.

Mine arrived today as well, albeit a day late due to Amazon forgetting one of the import documents. Luckily easily rectified via a simple email. Book looks great indeed, both in terms of the colours and the general print quality. Also some of the clearest and easiest to read text I've seen in a while; might even try brushing up on my very rusty Japanese reading skills for it. Hair and eye colours are a surprisingly close match to what I had in mind, so took me a moment to realise that we actually hadn't seen them before.

Now that I'm going through comparing page by page (as one does on a Friday night) she actually has changed a lot more than I first noticed.

She's made a lot of the greens more dynamic with fades and screens that weren't there before early on. Mainly in the earliest chapters when she was still getting the feel for it. She did a transparency on Koga's mask at work for several key moments early on too so we can see how she's reacting vs the black mask originally. She slightly changed Aya's eyes/expressions a several times in the early chapters. To a more precise emotion. Koga too sometimes. Mouths cleaned up. I'd say their iconic moment expressions were the same though so no worries there. One thing I really like as a change is when she used to have a washed grey panel of someone like in a memory she now drew it as her normal style or uses a more balanced screen. That grey just never jived. Most of these changes are early on and balance the pages more or be more intentionally with Aya. It really refined her signature tight transitions even more from the beginning now.

I did see album art, tshirt art, and posters made more generic. They still specifically talk about the bands/show playlists, which is actually nice compared to other manga that Great Value Brand even band names to avoid trouble, but she can't get away with the album art in the published version 99% of the time it looks like. Unfortunate, but I don't think it ruined anything. Oddly the album art at the festival booth stayed branded Gun's N Roses but it's a different cover. Wonder if they got permission for one instance like that? I'm not familiar with the new cover, but it still had their name on it. Not sure if this is tighter or looser than what a US publisher would require. Hopefully they aren't forced to get goofy with the band names.

All that would have taken a lot of work to do so no wonder she was busier than she thought. Editor-san stuck with it. Plus the extra story (just noticed the first few pages were new material too and perspective bookending the new story at the end between Aya and Koga with her foot tapping connecting it...I was too stunned by the color to catch on first reading how literal that tapping linked it.) and bonus boolets.

She's made a lot of the greens more dynamic with fades and screens that weren't there before early on. Mainly in the earliest chapters when she was still getting the feel for it. She did a transparency on Koga's mask at work for several key moments early on too so we can see how she's reacting vs the black mask originally. She slightly changed Aya's eyes/expressions a several times in the early chapters. To a more precise emotion. Koga too sometimes. Mouths cleaned up. I'd say their iconic moment expressions were the same though so no worries there. One thing I really like as a change is when she used to have a washed grey panel of someone like in a memory she now drew it as her normal style or uses a more balanced screen. That grey just never jived. Most of these changes are early on and balance the pages more or be more intentionally with Aya. It really refined her signature tight transitions even more from the beginning now.

I did see album art, tshirt art, and posters made more generic. They still specifically talk about the bands/show playlists, which is actually nice compared to other manga that Great Value Brand even band names to avoid trouble, but she can't get away with the album art in the published version 99% of the time it looks like. Unfortunate, but I don't think it ruined anything. Oddly the album art at the festival booth stayed branded Gun's N Roses but it's a different cover. Wonder if they got permission for one instance like that? I'm not familiar with the new cover, but it still had their name on it. Not sure if this is tighter or looser than what a US publisher would require. Hopefully they aren't forced to get goofy with the band names.

No wonder she was working so much, from the bio page I saw in one post that already was changed, I did expect something like that but I didn't know at what "level".
And true....I didn't thought about it, but with brands when it's a comercial product you can't just "put them there" because you can have problems of copyright; so yeap same, that will something that is not really her choice in reality

Classmate-kun is every Dynasty lurker in the nutshell.

In Aya's defense, she has to face a barrage of smooth charisma on a daily basis, it takes a toll on a girl :P She'll find her courage soon, I believe in her!

Im still unsure if she knows herself why she is running away or not.

What a cute chapter. You can’t keep running away forever! Hahaha
I hope we get to see Mitsuki’s POV

Unbelievably normal. :D

Im still unsure if she knows herself why she is running away or not.

Yeah I don't think she's put two and two together yet.

Aya “if i keep running the gay thoughts won’t catch me” Oosawa

"the story will not be yuri"
Yeah, uh-huh.

when koga ... :P so cute TToTT

I love these two dorks...

Totally not a yuri, just NORMAL reactions.

Classmate-kun is every Dynasty lurker in the nutshell.

Narita-san is our mood

Is it just me, or did the timeline jump around a bit?

Unbelievably normal. :D

but not as NORMAL as this manga which is the total opposite

Aya “if i keep running the gay thoughts won’t catch me” Oosawa

Aya: must run away from gay thoughts
Gay Thoughts: Mitsuki

You can't run away from the Gay Feelings

Is it just me, or did the timeline jump around a bit?

It goes... failed RHCP concert events, school goes on break and they don't see each other for a while, they run into each other on the return to school with the cherry blossoms where Aya gets flustered again, and now they are back at school and Aya is realizing she has an ongoing "problem" with being around Koga since the bedroom event.