Sable Prince by Nesumi Chisato; a shounen-esque shoujo, but it's actually the romance (?) that's holding me (normally I'd go for the plot more) :D
Sable Prince by Nesumi Chisato is being scanlated by Scarlet Carnival, and they recently finished volume 1. I’ve been following this for a while (since the second chapter, I believe) but didn’t really find a reason to blog it until this one. :3
The story is basically about an heir to the demon throne (Vilof) who is travelling alongside a “mysterious” companion (Pierre). Despite it being “shoujo” and not “shounen-ai” I honestly thought it’d be one of those subtle friendship mangas at the very least. (Okay I lied; Hetalia has corrupted me, I was kinda thinking shounen-ai…)
Was I ever wrong. 
FWAAAH PIERRExGIZELO! Click for the full version, if you're like me and can't handle mere thumbnails of such panels. *A*
Eff yes! Knight/princess love, and I’m loving it. Uh yeah, he’s a guy with really long hair (he untied it to give the ribbon thing to his lady teehee).
I want to know their back story; forbidden loves are always interesting, so I’m looking forward to this one. Vilof won’t seem to care though, so I think things’ll work out (save me the typical shoujo drama of a girl caught between two guys, please). He says he’ll write her “another” letter, which means he’s in regular correspondence with her? 
Makes you wonder though, whether or not Pierre has an ulterior motive. :/
Otherwise, so far it’s been a series of stories about their encounters with random villages etc., so I’m hoping everything will culminate in the second volume and that little flesh-eating girl will come back. I kinda liked her, she was fun. 
The cast of Chibisan Date! We have four males and four females, hmm~ :)
Trying a slightly different collaboration style; summary on top (click the pink link for the collapsable text block!) and commentary at the bottom. Hopefully this’ll help churn out our posts faster; and let us actually follow our schedule. ^^;;
Chibisan Date is written and drawn by Himaruya Hidekaz, mangaka of Axis Powers: Hetalia fame. We love APH, and the same holds true for this new series; and the art is amazing. Scanlations by an anon on 4chan, retrieved from the LJ community. :)
Impressions of the first three-and-a-half chapters, click the jump!
Fate seems to be quite a predominant theme, and these red strings really tie things up */shot*
I quickly merged the colour spread, and let me say this from an editor’s perspective: despite the two sides actually matching up, the quality was… atrocious to work with.
Still though, lovely chapter. Thanks to raw-paradise for the scans! Won’t even attempt to translate this time (except once…), much too wordy. Just cleaned up some scans to make this post sparkle.
Yuka looks so sad. ;~;
My impressions/interpretation of the chapter, based on raws and minimal understanding of kanji. (I’ll probably revise the post when the actual scanlations come out.)
Disclaimer: I can’t read Japanese; I just wanted to edit the scans but empty speech bubbles don’t look nice– online translators are (kind of) my friends. 
Never mind that. I need to learn Japanese lol. 
That’s right, I’m happy for the new 2009 InuYasha Final Act. Because we finally get to see a proper ending, instead of the junk that they passed as an ending before. XD So imagine how happy I was to find the OP & ED on Youtube. C:
Hit the jump for the embedded videos. ^^