Citron 13 excitement!
I am still a little bit on hiatus but I’ll probably officially get off hiatus in a week or so when my BL order for February arrives! But for now I figured I should post all this here because well… I can only spam twitter so much before everyone unfollows me.
oh godddd they put up the page for Citron 13 and now I am SUPER EXCITED. I wasn’t very excited for the last issue because there was no Itoshi no Nekokke so I was kind of disappointed and actually… probably haven’t even read it yet… so I wasn’t really all that giddy about this issue (even though I knew it was another issue dedicated to Kumota Haruko) but now that I’ve seen the page I am super super super super excited df;lhjdfh’dfhdf
For one, it’s not just another issue about Kumota Haruko but actually a ‘tribute issue’ to Itoshi no Nekokke in particular.
With illustrations and commentary by artists like ANIYA YUIJI (!!!!!!!!!!!), Est Em, Psyche Delico, Shimura Takako (!!!!!!!), Kusama Sakae, Morozumi Sumitomo, etc. So pretty much all of Kumota’s twitter BL family and then some. Then it comes to a ‘White Day Card’ that is supposed to go with the special Valentine’s Card (which you can see here)—this time it will be Kei-chan giving a gift to Mii-kun! Unfortunately there is only one new chapter of Itoshi no Nekokke in the newest Citron but it’s a flashback to their time in high school so I can’t be too upset! Obviously this is a good set-up to head into volume three with.
All this excitement over ItoNeko aside, Jaryuu Dokuro is in this issue! I’m pretty shocked, since iirc they didn’t list her in the ‘upcoming’ category initially. (However, Psyche Delico is listed yet is unfortunately absent. orz;;) But it’s… the final chapter of Coyote? But there was all this build-up in the first two chapters that made it seem like there was still a lot of story left to go. ;w;) I can’t help but wonder if Jaryuu forced herself to finish up, or if perhaps Libre asked her to do so. I guess we’ll just have to see how well Coyote ends—if it seems perfectly normal or forced.
Aside from Jaryuu, you can see the rest of the lineup here on Citron’s official issue page! It also has Kusama Sakae and a continuation of KUJIRA’s story and Uno Zinia and Yamaomi. It looks like a really promising issue!
Then you can also view the NEXT page for volume 14, and I can’t help but get kind of pumped for that issue as well! The theme is “Boys Love NEW AGE” with a cover by Ishikawa Kei. Her getting the cover pleases me greatly since it’s kind of my pet peeve when magazines/anthologies feature cover art by artists that don’t even run in their publication, which seemed to be a turn Citron was starting to make. orz;;; Plus, she deserves it—her tankoubon is coming out this next month and the story is really quite good! Especially if you, like me, are a sucker for awkward teenage romance. Highly recommended!
“Ijiwaru na Hito” cover!
my Aniya Yuiji doujinshi still hasn’t arrived so I figured there was nothing to get me out of this winter-hating, I-just-want-to-stay-in-bed mood. But great things always come when you’re least expecting them, and Daria has blessed my pissy ass with something very worth getting up and going to work for:
I think this cover is really beautiful! tbh I do generally like all of Ootsuki’s covers, but they never really blow me away or anything. My admiration of them is generally on the level of “this cover is illustrated by Ootsuki Miu and is thus pretty because her art is pretty.” This one, though—this one, I’d say, is her best cover. It’s so beautiful—the coloring is stunning and it has such great sexual tension and matches perfectly with the title to make you want more. Also hnnnggg pretty disheveled boy with glasses. ;A;)/ Yes please!
Ahhhh and here I thought there was nothing that would make me want this book now as much as the preview already did. orz;;;;;
upcoming releases!
well that didn’t last long. But hey, here’s something I can talk about without the necessity of a camera: books that are coming out soon.
♔ → first off, as many of you likely know Ootsuki Miu will be releasing a new book later this month through Daria called Ijiwaru na Hito. As if the fact that it’s Ootsuki Miu and the title that hints at adorable love-love bullying didn’t already leave you impatient for the book to be in your hands now, Daria has since posted a preview! It looks ridiculously cute and I can’t wait to get the book so I can actually read it. ;; Unfortunately, I have yet to find a cover illustration.
♔ → Shockingly, Uchida Tsuchi already has a new book lined up through Hanaoto for late April! It feels like just last month that she released her second book, Barairo Melancholy, and yet it’s already time for book number three! I really can’t say how glad I am that she’s not turning out to be one of those BL artists who releases one cute book and then disappears off that map. That happens all too often in the BL genre and it makes me super sad.
♔ → Then through Dear+, Miike Romuco has a March release. The world can really never have too much Miike Romuco.
♔ → One I’m personally reaaaaaaally excited for is volume two of Sakura Sakuya’s Oinarisama no Honey Bunny for release in late March. Even though I initially side-eyed the series after I finally gave it a chance I got pretty hooked. orz;;; I really can’t help it—Sakura Sakuya’s sense of humor and sex appeal are both ace!
♔ → Another Chara release, the final volume of Nanahikari is coming out in late March as well! It’s kind of weird to see this one end, because it’s one of the few series I got into fairly early on and then saw through to the finish. I really thought this one would never end. I’m kind of nervous to know who Hikaru ends up with! /o\ I wonder if I should buy it and take the chance.
♔ → basso has a new book, Naka-san no Nagare, coming out through Edge Comix on March 24th! This one caught me by surprise since iirc basso hasn’t even been in opera for a while now?? Perhaps it’s stuff that ran between all of her related series… Or maybe stuff that was originally published as doujinshi? I guess we’ll just have to see!
♔ → The HertZ/Craft releases are looking pretty glorious! For HertZ it’s SHOOWA in early March followed by Towa on the 22nd. If you go here and check it out SHOOWA’s release already has a cover and Towa’s POP is really cute. (You can also see Kano Shiuko’s and Yamamoto Kotetsuko’s covers now!) Then CRAFT’s release for late March is Okuyama Puku! Her POP is also adorable, and you can view it here.
♔ → Another one of my personal favorites, Koiwazurai Shibito, has a book coming out through Aqua in mid-March! The title definitely leaves me a bit curious: Wakaresaseya no Koi. Koiwazurai’s art and stories have yet to disappoint me so I’ll definitely be picking this book up.
♔ → Perhaps saving the best for last, a book I know many other people will also be excited to hear about: Junko’s annual Gush release has been placed for March 10th, Kasa no Shita, Futari! I’ve only gotten to see the Chinese scans for this one, unfortunately, so I don’t even know what it’s about aside from that there’s a teacher and three guys and sex. Though there seems to be less cute sexiness than Junko’s previous stories, I’m still pretty damn excited!
Hiatus!
Hello readers!
I hate to do this right after I officially hit 100 wordpress followers but I have an unfortunate problem: the lens I generally use on my camera to take pictures of BL offed itself the other day. I’ve seen it coming for a while so I can’t really say it was surprising, but it is depressing. This wouldn’t be a big problem but the only other lens I have is a long-range and you have to be like three or so feet away from everything you’re taking pictures of in order for the thing to even focus. I don’t know about you guys but unfortunately I don’t have three-foot-long arms (such is the life of a squat short person) and so it’s almost impossible to take pictures of BL without the book slamming shut on me and I can only ask my sister to hold the books so I can take long-distance shots so many times before she tries to lock me in the basement.
So even though I recently have lots I want to talk about I’m going to instead start scheduling posts until I 1) get out of this weird ‘boo hoo I don’t feel like updating….’ funk and 2) get a new lens so I can actually take pictures of the books I want to talk about without making my sister want to kill me. This is pretty good for me anyway tbh since I have a lot going on these next couple weeks and I need a chance to stop feeling guilty about letting this blog collect dust.
But anyway thank you so much for 100 followers!!! ;; Thank you for sticking with me even though I’ve been a horseshit blogger these past few months. If you still want to see me be stupid about BL I still have iamfujoshi (which I’m trying to get back on track with for updates) and my personal account chaizer and also twitter but idk if you would want to follow me there because that’s where I usually just rant and whine uhhhh. Yeah.
This really sucks because I wanted to talk about the second volume for Itoshi no Nekokke. ;; Siiiigh I guess it can wait. I promise to be back in a few weeks!!
Lots of love,
fuuko
P.S. I did get a couple of the DameBL contest prizes in the mail the other day!! The final one I’m still waiting on (sorry Wensleydale, I’m just trying really hard to track down the limited copy of Familiar!), but the other two I should ship out later this week when I have a day off work. So if you haven’t sent me your addresses, please do!
cover for Itoshi no Nekokke 2
oh wow look it’s been less than ten days and I actually have an update!!
Anyway as I was properly raging/crying/sleeping through the State of the Union Kumota Haruko was nice enough to post a little gift to her followers: a picture of her cover for volume two of Itoshi no Nekokke. And it’s ridiculously cute!
(I guiltily cropped it a bit for easier viewing on this blog but you can see the full size here!)
True story: all month I’ve been waiting for Citron to post the cover or teasers or something to their blog, since they’re usually really good about that. But I guess they were a little late to the game this time around and Kumota had to do it for them. Oh well, it was definitely worth the wait—the cover is ridiculously cute, following the simplicity of the first volume, and definitely has that great ‘old married couple’ atmosphere that makes Itoshi no Nekokke so wonderful. I’m super pumped about the extras for this volume (I wonder what the color illustration will be?) and also also also I’m reaaaaally excited for the next volume of Citron (March 1st!) since it will be a volume dedicated to this great series.
So great. ;; I wish there was a fandom surrounding this series. Actually I want Hacchan and Nana-san plush toys. /wishful thinking
(also yay this is my 500th post! Thank you everyone for following. ;w;)
exciting upcoming releases! \o/
I don’t have much today but I was putting together my purchase for January and came across a bit of exciting release news!
First is for Kisaragi Manami’s Junketsu Drop! Just a week or so ago I answered an Ask on tumblr saying they were hoping Junketsu would be released soon since they’re interested in purchasing and reading it—and if it wasn’t released soon they were thinking of just buying the anthology issues. Well, lucky for them it’s coming out soon!
February 27th, to be precise—just over a month from now! I’m super excited to see the cover, and any extra content the comic release might have. *w* Not so secretly hoping for a reversible sex scene! Or even just some more tsuntsun makeouts.
Then another one I’m definitely excited for is unfortunately a release I’ll have to wait all the way for March to get my hands on: Snae Hata’s official second release through LYNX!
March 24th ahhh. ;w;)/ Why can’t you come faster!! I definitely recommend this book—especially if you’re a fan of Snae’s cute story-telling in the first place—since her stories through LYNX are especially adorable.
Now I just have to try to be patient and wait it out for Kojima Lalako’s book through LYNX. ;; If I recall correctly it’s been almost a year now since she was last in their magazine. Hopefully she’ll get in there a few times in 2012 so I can finally have a compilation of all her sweet stories through them.
today in BL manga (or “life of a fujoshi”)
Long time no see, yet again! This post is going to be kind of unusual, because though I really do want to post here I’ve been kind of infatuated with P3P and haven’t been able to set aside the time to properly talk about any of the BL-related stuff I’ve been doing/into lately. So it will be a journal of sorts, I suppose, with a mish-mash of things that have happened recently as well as some things I’ve been meaning to talk about for a while.
Obviously if you read this blog mostly for news you can feel free to skip this post. But if you don’t mind reading the boring ramblings of a random fujoshi feel free to read on! Plus if you’re interested in me as a person (god only knows why you would be) I guess this will give a little insight into how this sad little blogger lives her life. This might get long, though, since I’m the type to get obnoxiously long-winded when I don’t have an outline in front of me.
Ootsuki Miu “Vanilla Resort” chapter 2
Hello! Sorry for the lack of updates and comment replies lately. orz;;; Actually, for Christmas I got a bunch of video games and since my BL purchase is taking forever to arrive that’s what I’ve been spending all my time doing. But one book did come early: drap! And drap means new chapter by Ootsuki Miu, so I figured I could at least talk about that!
In this chapter things are starting to get more heated and awkward between Mutsumi and Haruaki. It starts for the most part with a big scene of inner dialogue for Haruaki as he thinks about what Mutsumi means to him and what exactly sex is and should be about. It seems his previous (first? idk) girlfriend left him because he never really showed any physical desire for her and she assumed he was just pulling her along. So he seems to perhaps have somewhat of a complex because of that.
DameBL Contest Winner!
First off, thank you so much to everyone who participated, whether through email or twitter or tumblr or a comment here! I honestly enjoyed reading your replies so much. 8) Sorry I still haven’t gotten a chance to reply to many people, but there are definitely some I plan on replying to. And there are definitely some stories you guys thought up that I would love to see. So thank you all for playing along with me and letting me peek inside your minds to look at all your wonderful ideas.
But unfortunately I am too broke to give all of you a prize, so the winners are as follows:
1st | Wensleydale | “a lonely lighthouse-keeper”
2nd | Yeesoo | “artist obsessed with drawing beautiful hands”
3rd | Snakey | “X never finds out”
Please go here to read the full ideas, as well as everyone else’s! For those interested in knowing how I chose the winners, I made a list and used a random number generator. No favoritism, I promise! Trust me, there were a few where I was like “why isn’t this person my best friend?!??” and wanted close the contest early and give them first prize right away.
Though of course, you were all great. ♡
Anyway, for the winners: please contact me at mochamojo at gmail dot com with the book you want by January 20th! First prize gets an anthology or a regular-sized comic in Japanese or English, and second and third prize get a regular comic.
Sorry about the lack of proper posts lately. /o\ I’m still trying to get back into normal life after the holidays sob. Lots and lots of love, and thanks again to everyone who participated!!
ふう子
