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Bought some stuff. ;) Some stuff from previous months not pictured.



( Legend of Sun Knight )

( No Hero )

( Half Prince and Kill No More )

( Key of the Sunken Moon )

( fishbones )

( Detective Conan, Akatsuki no Yona, and Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun )

( miscellaneous )

Spoilers for Kill No More? (I'm not sure how far translations are.)

Just read Liola's side story that was bundled with manhua V2. (The side story is the one on the right) The name of the story is SuiYin, which is the name of the weapon Gele (Gle) gives Liola. Broken Silver/Fragmented Silver/however you want to translate it. The story details events just as Gle is about to throw Liola to the wolves at age 10. Gle takes away Liola's weapon and makes Liola fend for himself without a weapon. (Yasha was jealous that Gle gave Liola the weapon, so she whined and made Gle take it away. She suggests giving it back after Liola "earns" it by accomplishing his mission. Except, Yasha thought it was just a simple mission. Not going up against a few dozen wolves).

Gle....!!!! OTL

From Kill No More, I always came away with the feeling that Gle is like an out of control Neo with no Chasel to reprimand him. See, Neo, this is how you would have turned out if you didn't have a trustworthy Judgment Knight taking care of you! If Chasel rolls his eyes at eight out of ten of Neo's teaching methods and angrily reprimands Neo for the ninth one, calling it maltreatment, then... Well, I think Gle's teaching methods would probably all count as maltreatment. Then again, he is the leader of an assassination organization. Compared to Gle, Neo is actually quite mild... Grisia, you really lucked out! Mizerui too. A bored Gle is one you definitely want to avoid...

I was quite amused at how many times Gle kept thinking that Yin Yue (Silver Moon/Liola) might be a demon or a heavenly being because of how strong he is at such a young age, and how he might be bringing doom to the world (and himself) from training Yin Yue. Hey Gle, you're the one who brought up such a child! It really breaks my heart, because all throughout the side story, Yin Yue just wants to get closer to Gle and will do pretty much anything to gain his approval. D: Imprinting, I say... Anyway, we get a lot of focus on Yin Yue's ethereal pale skin and silver eyes, hahahaha.

Liola needs a nice long talk with Grisia about their teachers, seriously.

(It seems that we'll be getting a short story with each volume of the manhua. <3333 So, we'll probably see more of young!Liola, kind of like seeing the 38th gen Twelve Holy Knights in training, huh? The side stories for LSK also focus on their training days.)

Apparently, today was a day of updating translations for me. ;) Finally posted the monthly update post over at Prince Revolution and LSK V6C8 (Boy, do I love the chapter title and where the title comes from in the chapter~). I also finished QC for Kimi to Boku V7C29 for Chocobanana Scanlations. It involved a lot of re-cleaning of scans... Some of the pages were too blurry, or the gutter was still visible. I almost gave up. :'D

( Read more... )

Welp, there goes my one day vacation. :'D

I really wanted to scanlate Kill No More, but it looks like it has been picked up by EasyGoingScans! Ahhhh, both the novel and the manhua now have takers. Well, probably a good thing, and they're in good hands. (Even though I moped around for quite some time after I found out, and my motivation for my current translations really plummeted, whoops...) Less work for me, haha... but now I don't know what to do with my two copies of volume 1. (Thankfully, I haven't damaged my extra copy to scan it yet.) I can just play in the writing side instead of the translation side then, as I would like to write a KNM fic or two sometime. Maybe. XD;; Truthfully, the reason I joined PR was for fic purposes because I really wanted more people to know later events so I could have more content to work with. :'D (It has also helped me with characterization and detail. Never have I studied a series as closely as I have LSK, haha. Side benefit from having to read chapters at least 3~4 times and pouring over every single sentence.)

But yeah, go read Kill No More. :D Liola is amaaaaazing, and the plot is crazy. XD I need to reread it, as I don't nearly know it as well as LSK.

Review Responses
Some review responses for anon/non-signed in reviews for Long Live the Sun Knight! I'm not too sure if these will be seen, but from what people have been saying, many people seem to check both here and also at ffnet!

Aria: I'm so, so tempted to write more of this verse, but... probably not a smart idea! Too many projects going on already, so best to leave this "complete." But, if this were to continue, it'd be a series of Grisia visiting dream!Lesus each night, not understanding why it's happening, and it doesn't stop until Grisia helps dream!Lesus connect with the rest. We'd see more of Judgment!Roland and how he turned out, and the fic would probably end with Grisia managing to get Lesus, Roland, and Ceo to bond over hair-dyeing in the Judge's Complex. XD; Along the way, we'd see the "good, warm-hearted" faction's response to their Grisia's death, and their reaction to having Lesus become their Sun Knight instead of Grisia. Well damn, now I'm even more tempted to write this. -____-;
someone: Well, there's always the other two candidates! Especially the third candidate!
Feng: What, short? XD; I thought it was quite long for such a weird idea... XD;;; I was aiming for 1k or so, but it turned out to be more than 3k, and I had to wrestle it into a oneshot. Haha, thanks for speaking up! It's always great to hear from people who have been following my works and/or my blog! Talking with me is probably the best way to get me writing because it makes me excited, and when I'm excited, I'm more motivated, aaand the ideas come more easily. XD;; Oh gosh, you're right. With Lesus as the leader of the Holy Temple, it must be sparkling clean! Ceo would have less paperwork... But if he never learned how to wink... Oh dear. And now you've made me want to explore all this, ahhhhh.

OMG, I have gone full on spaz mode from seeing all this. I was just thinking to myself, "There hasn't been a lot of LSK merch lately..." And then, wham. (I guess I just haven't been paying close enough attention haha. Actually, Yu Wo has just posted about some of the stuff!)

Currently in stock stuff: (Might be out of stock now... I haven't checked again. They were in stock when I wrote this post two days ago. XD;;)

( already released stuff )

( yet to be released stuff )

Oh man, I had such a good laugh over this series of "scientific" analyses of Shin Tenipuri. If you know any Japanese, I highly recommend this. XD; These videos analyze things like how Tezuka zone works, how fast you'd have to move to hit 8 balls at once, what Atobe's eyes must be like for him to use Atobe Kingdom, how much Tanishi needs to exercise to lose that much weight in that little time, the speed Kenya needs to use to walk across water, and such. Can't say I understood everything, but I couldn't stop laughing. XD There are videos of other series as well, like an analysis of Midorima's full court three pointer from Kuroko no Basket.




I received my books today! \o\ No Hero v8, Human Doll Contract, and Kill No More manhua v1, which also comes with a short story. All Yu Wo stuff. XD; Haven't touched the two novels yet, but I read the Kill No More manhua. I wonder if anyone will be scanlating this? I'm somewhat tempted... but have enough on my plate. The adaptation is so-so at the moment, but I'm always in favor of more Kill No More. ;)

( a few more pics and lots of rambling )

Jenny Flint has translated the first 10 chapters of Bittersweet Sweetness into Spanish~. :D I read the first chapter and the reviews with my broken Spanish. (This will be good practice for me, heh)

♥ Dulzura Agridulce
En lugar de recibir un broche que lo disfrace de asesino, Sol recibe un dije que hace que intercambie cuerpos con Juicio. Ahora, Juicio debe descifrar el misterio tras el Caballero de la Muerte en lugar de Sol. El problema es que imitar la pobre esgrima de Sol no es nada fácil, ¿y quién podría decir lo que estaba haciendo Sol con el cuerpo de Juicio, mientras tanto?

I received my new edition of Legend of Sun Knight v1 last week, along with other stuff. The book is truly gorgeous. Have some belated squealing over all the stuff. XD;

An artbook of Taiwanese artists (I bought it for Kill no More), new edition of Legend of Sun Knight v1, 1/2 Prince manhua v13, and Zelda Hyrule Historia (only English thing out of all of these). Bought it because of the lovely pics kedi_kedi posted of it. :)

( pics of LSK v1 new edition )

( pics of Half Prince manhua v13 )

( pics of Kill no More from the artbook of Taiwanese artists )

I'm still in the middle of playing Fire Emblem Awakening, which is taking up any spare time I have outside of work. |D; I feel like I've reverted into being even more of a lurker than I usually am, OTL, since I haven't been around much or very responsive...

( more babbling about Fire Emblem Awakening )

Jenny Flint finished translating Behind Closed Doors Part 1~ (...I really need to finish writing Part 2, haha...)

♥ A Puerta Cerrada
Cuando Sol pasó frente al cuarto de oración, escuchó unos sonidos muy... sospechosos. (Sol x Adair x Juicio)

I should read all of these to brush up on my fail!Spanish. |D;; I've been reading Leeris' reviews and can mostly understand them! \o\

Also of interest to Yu Wo fans:
LSK, 1/2 Prince, and Kill No More styled hotel rooms - I cannot stop giggling over this. There are even cosplayers in the room too. I wonder if they're always there or not. One of the pics show a set of novels. Maybe the rooms come with the novels so you can enjoy the novels while you're there? XD;
New merchandise for LSK, 1/2 Prince, Kill No More, and No Hero (also at Kingstone)

But most of all, I find this, this, and this to be hilarious. LSK brand facial cleanser, hand moisturizer, and lip balm. XDDD Oh Grisia. You are indeed very good advertisement for beauty products. A career he can consider after he retires. Then he will never have to worry about money ever again.

Bought a whole bunch of merchandise from various Yu Wo series. :'D A whoooooole bunch. I totally splurged. General pics for now of new stuff I bought. Previously bought stuff isn't included. I think I'll do separate posts for each of these series in detail...when I get around to doing that.

Super bad quality pics ahead.


Ughhh, blurry. LSK first~. Posters, mousepad, playing cards, clearfiles, cards, etc... includes volume 3 of the manhua, Cloud's side story, and the new manhua chapter that covers the beginning of the 2nd novel~

( more LSK, Half Prince, No Hero and Eclipse Hunter, Kill no More, GOD, Female Warrior, Gong Hua )

Eep, reading novels is so dangerous. I start reading and then I just don't stop (or if I do... then I never finish). I finished reading all 13 volumes of Kill No More (不殺) in less than a week. Kill No More was Yu Wo's second series, and she's been posting it in her blog. I tried reading it before but couldn't get very far with it as a lot of things feel very arbitrary and somewhat forced (I again got bored with volume 1), but after getting past a certain point, the characters grew on me, and the plot started coming together. I ended up liking the main character a lot.

Kill No More is about an assassin who swears never to kill again because of a promise. (Kenshin, anyone? XD;; ) In the midst of a fight with another assassin, he falls into an alternate dimension into the apartment of a lazy young man. This suits his needs, as he was attempting to run away from the assassin organization of his world. Where better to run than to an entirely different world? Except in this world, his promise never to kill is tested over and over again.

Translation of official summary:
"Killing is for survival; not killing is for a promise."

An assassin who promised never to kill - Liaula, falls into a different world while he's being chased for his life. In this chaotic and lawless world, can Liaula truly keep his promise?
The world's laziest guy - Kaiser, who knows if its misfortune or fortune, picks up an assassin who doesn't kill. A lazy guy plus an assassin who doesn't kill - what kind of muddled story will result from this?
The world's last hero? The courageous, evil-slaying Silver Mask? What the heck is that? Isn't our protagonist the cool and handsome assassin who doesn't kill, Liaula? Hey, hey, my god, don't tell me, Silver Mask, that righteous do-gooder with such a lame name is actually...
Anyway, this is the story of a downhearted assassin + a lazy guy who wouldn't move a finger more than he has to to make money as long as he is able to survive. This is the first page of their story.

What neither summary covers is that there are dragons. XD; Dragon mounts! The powers in this world are divided into three types - knights, mobile suits (mecha), and warlocks. Magic has fallen to technology and is often looked down on. There are three strong powers - the empire of the Dragon Emperor, the Aklan Empire, and the Commerce Alliance. The main character of course gets himself involved with something that sweeps across the world, pfft. Even though this is a futuristic world where trees are rare and valuable, I often get a medieval vibe from the setting with all the knights and dragons and magic. It's like Yu Wo took guns and machines and magic and dragons and smushed them all together. I don't think anyone rode a vehicle after the first volume...

( more talk on the series, and mostly non-spoilerish character introductions (with pictures!) )

Might blab about more spoilerish stuff in another post~. And expand the character list. But anyway, whoot, I caught up with Kill No More. Now I can read the side stories for it that's being updated right now. :D

Ahhh, it's already 13 days into 2012 and I've yet to post any fic... looks like 150k as my word count goal this year will be...very hard. (I jotted down 6 new ideas for Legend of Sun Knight fics this week, but nooo, I'm not going to start a new story! Must finish Bittersweet Sweetness first!) Reading Kill No More makes me want to work on my original stories some more... maybe I can make something out of my messy beginnings too? XD;