Lapis Lazuli no Oukan by KAWASE Natsuna
This was licensed and published in English as The Lapis Lazuli Crown. I started reading this over a year ago, but the scanlating group dropped it and only recently were the remaining chapters uploaded, so I thought I might as well post a short review. :3
Before the series review, a note about the new category.【Spotlight】is where Kyfni (or one of her partners-in-crime) will review completed series, since there’s no point in creating a category for them when they aren’t going to be used again, right? So of course, spoilers abound. (:
Also, updates to the fanart will be late this week because my thumbnail-creator (i.e. Photoshop) doesn’t like me. :/
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. 
Click for artist’s pixiv. ^^
Reviewing a couple songs on the ranking today~ ^^
Starting with the 24-hours list (at least, I think that’s what first tab is).
What better way to re-open than by blogging five episodes of Hetalia? We don’t know the answer to that, so here we go~ (:
We apologize for the time skip~ but due to our relocation, we didn’t have time to catch up before season two started (like we originally wanted to). But, no worries! We’ll go back, because we can never get enough Hetalia. ;D
Fufufu. Hetalia is pwnsome. =D