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Some new stuff I got last year and took pics of last year... but never posted here, I think? :'D (If I did, then eh, here's a second post about this stuff) I have a lot of photos like these around, whoops. Anyway, after I read ILTv5, I was in the mood to read/reread some Yu Wo stuff and remembered that I never did get around to reading this one. Was going to take pics of the cover but went digging through my files instead and found these that I already took. XD;;

Bought these last year. Pictured above:
*Royal Beast (王獸), a self published BL novel by Yu Wo from last August
*A Gong Hua illustrated storybook
*Sunken Moon doujinshi featuring Naerxi/Yui Tui

I've been accumulating several Sunken Moon doujinshi that I haven't read lately, now that Shui Quan has moved on from Jin Shi. I want more Jin Shi. :3;; But I never know if I'll end up liking another character a lot, so I've still been buying some Sunken Moon doujinshi here and there. Didn't buy the latest one though. Bit behind on S2, so I don't know those characters much at all...

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( spoilerish summary of Royal Beast )

For the first two weeks of August, I went off to Taiwan~. Been back from the trip for around a week (busy busy trying to settle in with work and catch up with stuff). It's been 17 years since I've traveled there. Boy, do I remember very little of Taiwan. Some things haven't changed though, while some stuff has changed a lot. But what's different about this trip is that I had places and events I wanted to cram in, with a shorter stay than any of my previous trips to Taiwan, so it was a trip with a super full itinerary. Went out bright and early every day and didn't get home until around 11 pm every night. Walked my feet off. XD There was no rest at all. I became very familiar with the public transit. I also got to see my relatives who I haven't seen in just as long as I haven't been back to Taiwan. 17 years!! (I was so tiny back then.)

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Yes, that's the actual title of the doujinshi. XD I received Shui Quan's Sunken Moon doujinshi this week~~~. My first of her doujinshi of her own series! She must have a lot of fun writing doujinshi of her own series. It just seems like a lot of fun to be able to do that.


The doujinshi was 159 pages, featuring the Yiye x Naerxi pairing. Also included in the bundle was a bag, a colored 4-koma comic about Xiu Yelan inviting everyone to the hotsprings, and a 2016 calendar featuring everyone having just taken a shower.

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I tried to pre-order Sunken Moon s2 v3 so I could get the limited poster, but the poster ran out within 3 minutes of orders opening. DDDD: (I wanted the second poster, which has art that isn't included in the book). Kingstone ran out of posters within 3 minutes... The books.com.tw poster was available for a day or so before running out (I didn't really want that one though). The last poster is the convenience store one. I'm going to try for that one. -____-;;

Bought myself Human Doll Contract v1 (manhua version) and Dominion's End V4. I got HDC earlier in the month. DEv4 arrived on Thursday. Will put pics up. I thought they would get shipped together after DE got released, but they shipped HDC to me separately.

Cai Hong Zhong, the artist of HDC, sounds so tired and burned out! He also recently fell sick, so there was no new chapter published in December's magazine. I wish him good health. He has an autograph session during February's convention on Feb 14. Pics of the autograph board. I'm amused that the illustration for the body pillow of Ziya was used for the autograph board as well. :'D

I finished reading Dominion's End V4 in three hours. Oops.

Dominion's End V4 was much more relaxing and lighthearted compared to V3. V3 was all the feels. V3 felt like a conclusion. V4 is pretty much the start of another chapter in their lives, building from the ground up. A very transitional volume too. Yu Wo even says that she wants to attempt to write a long story. She's aiming for 15+ volumes. :OOOO As a result, there can be volumes like V3 and V4 where we spend entire volumes away from characters I thought were main characters. Instead, Shuyu spends the majority of the volumes by himself, with side characters, and new characters. The cast is going to be huge. Like, we met a new character in V2 that I thought would be fairly prominent, and they haven't shown up again yet in 2 volumes. We met a new character in V3 that seems fairly important too, but they didn't have a single scene in V4, except for the side story at the end. We're in for a long, long ride.

Recently, I also finished reading Key of the Sunken Moon season 2 volumes 1-2. The new character, Jin Shi, is pretty cute. There's a huge sidestory printed at the end of v2 that's dedicated to his backstory. It paints him in a very different light. At first, I was disappointed that it was a side story and not a continuation of V2. It was seriously a huge chunk of the novel! But as I read the side story, I grew more and more interested in Jin Shi and also the world he came from.

Apparently, Shui Quan's other novel, 異願洛恩斯, is related to Key of the Sunken Moon. It details a world that is connected to Fan Tong's world but separated and can't be reached. One of the characters is even the younger brother of Puhahaha. I went and read everything of what Shui Quan has posted in her blog. She usually posts the beginning of each volume. So, I read the beginning chapters of all 9 volumes. :'D

...I have the general story, but I'm sure missing all the climaxes. In the end, I bought the series. Hoping to be able to read it next week. Same artist as Sunken Moon's artist. Such pretty art~.

Key of the Sunken Moon pics! I bought all of the first series and the side stories. I'll probably start buying the 2nd series sometime. There are 2 volumes of that out so far. I finished reading the whole series plus the side stories~~


KSM is 11 volumes in all, plus 3 volumes and an extra volume of side stories. V1 is on the upper left. The art of KSM is very pretty and dynamic! The colors are a bit washed out because I batch adjusted these pics I took under terrible lighting (ahaha) but the actual color is actually quite vibrant. After I read the series, I finally knew all the characters in the KSM artbook I bought. And the comic finally made sense to me too. XD

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SilverManjusaka updated the Chinese translation of My Friend, the Pope (in-training) with chapter 2! You can read it below.

♥ 我的好友——（實習）教皇陛下

I really need to update this fic. :'D;

Recent stuff I bought! Well, not so recent anymore, but I finally got around to taking pics~. LSK fanfic doujinshi "Second Life", Key of the Sunken Moon artbook, several Japanese manga, and LSK V3 (new version).

There's this really popular crossover fanfic between Legend of Sun Knight and Unique Legend called "Second Life." There's even fanfics of this fanfic about! I bought the first 5 volumes. They're super thick. (So so epic. I wish I could write like this). You can find the fanfic over here. The basic premise is that Grisia and all the others died and reincarnated in the Unique Legend world. The first part of the story has them finding each other, while later parts of the story incorporate more of the Unique Legend world.

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( recent manga )

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A few days late, but it was Yu Wo's birthday on 4/29, so she finished writing When Teacher Wasn't Teacher Part 3 and posted that. Here it is! She also received some birthday art which she posted in the same post. First pic features our 3 Sun Knights (37th, 38th, and 39th gen) and our 3 Judgment Knights drawn by J.U. Second pic features Sun and Charles from No Hero drawn by Neko Kreuz. Basically our current two official artists for LSK. XD;

J.U. is hard at work with drawing for the new edition of LSK. I wonder if this means we'll see volume 2 soon. *___*

I've started reading Key of the Sunken Moon, which is another famous Taiwanese light novel, but so far I haven't gotten into it yet. Hope I'll end up liking the characters, since it's usually the characters in a story that win me over. :3;;

Fanime is this month (so soon!), so I really have to get started on my cosplay! Not much time left. I'll be cosplaying Henry from Fire Emblem: Awakening. I might also rewear Bossun from SKET Dance, and I might do a brief stint as Kirihara from Prince of Tennis (U-17 version), though I need to fix my wig... Dang, all guys this time? Not sure how that happened, haha. Recently, it's been fairly hot, so I'm already regretting choosing Henry. Long sleeves, plus that cape, which is black... *dies* Usually, it's never this warm in May. =/

absolutehymn007, I received a lot of postcards from you today! ♥ They're lovely.

No Hero
I recently bought No Hero v7. (The guy on the cover uses pens as weapons. How badass is that? XD;;;) Finished reading this! It was supposed to be the end of the series, but Yu Wo wasn't able to finish the entire series with that volume, so now there will also be a volume 8. Volume 7 concludes nothing! I've read some complaints about volume 7, about how it made things more confusing than necessary, and how too many characters have been introduced or only briefly mentioned. It feels kind of like a transitional volume, and it brings in a lot from Eclipse Hunter, which readers were told wasn't necessary to read to enjoy No Hero. I liked volume 7 though, and was ecstatic when these characters got more of the spotlight (and when the other characters were mentioned, even though only passingly). Also, since I've read Eclipse Hunter, a lot of what happens in this volume reads as dramatic irony to me. At the same time, I feel that readers who haven't read Eclipse Hunter (the prequel), will have fun learning things along with the protagonist. I don't know about the other way around though, reading No Hero before Eclipse Hunter. No Hero pretty much spoils a lot of the plot from EH. Only later volumes though.

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Key of the Sunken Moon
I also bought 5 volumes of Key of the Sunken Moon by Shui Quan. Another Taiwanese light novel series~. I hadn't read any of it before purchasing, so I don't know if I'll like it yet. I hope so, since I already bought 5 volumes of it, haha. Branching out on authors now! \o\ Her writing seems to be fairly humorous too. I like having a dash of humor in my reading. <3


Just checked Yu Wo's plurk. The first volume of the Legend of Sun Knight spin-off/sequel will be out on August 28! \o/

Writing-wise, I've been flitting all over place, trying to write several things all at once, from Bittersweet Sweetness to Invincible to a new LSK fic (hopefully a oneshot). @__@ Currently, I'm going through Memories of the Future again and editing what's currently up of it (some of the grammar is just... *shakes head*). I don't actually have an editable copy of the entire fic! Must change that.

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