But that’s not what you’re here for! You’re here for RELEASES, and hobuddy ARE WE DELIVERING OR WHAT.

First up, Birdcage Manor is BACK! Which I’ve promptly decided to rename “The adventures of moe-moe Asai-kun and his significantly less moe living companions,” for reasons you’ll see there at the right. Where we last left our heroes, a power outage had Kiz’naw and moe-moe Asai-kun trapped in the elevator which, contrary to typical shoujo trappings, didn’t help them in the goddamn least. NOW COMES THE FALL-OUT.

Second! We’re rapidly approaching the conclusion to Wild Arms: Flower Thieves and with only one chapter after this to go, the tensions are high, and the standoffs are bad-ass. Oh, and you can’t have a western without a good ol’ fashioned train-jacking, and Wild Arms, let’s face it, isn’t one to betray tradition. AND THERE IS NOT A THING WRONG WITH THAT — I just wish more of you read it! ;__; Besides, Guy is badass. I mean, come on. Look at that. Unf, unf.

NEXT! We continue on with the much-neglected Lost Universe! (Hah. Slayers joke? Perhaps. CAN YOU TELL I’M OBSESSED) Since I continue to feel obligated to recap each preceding chapter because it’s been SO LONG since we released anything, where we last left off, Raile had convinced Kain & co to taxi him to the U.G. satellite database center, where he sets about collecting security against his “employers” — and appropriately enough, practically any Slayers fan knows the meaning of what he finds. THEN HE SETS THEM UP THE BOMB.

And rounding up our releases for the day, all I can say is please… please, don’t kill me. Because instead of the much, much anticipated ch. 32 (I know you guys are foaming at the bit for it), we have… THE EXTRA CHAPTER THAT CAME AT THE END OF VOL 7. This rounds up volume 7, so now you can download the whole thing in one go. =D On that note, SURE MUTSUKI YOU SLEEP IN A COFFIN AND YOU GET MAD WHEN PEOPLE THINK YOU’RE A VAMP. UH HUH. OKAY.

So lately I’ve been caught up reading the Wheel of Time series. I won’t say it’s the best ever with the same drooling fanaticism that some of our crew would claim (NANNERS. MELLY.), but it IS enjoyable as hell when the characters aren’t fawning over one another. But that’s neither here nor there – we’re here to talk about MANGA, and today, we deliver — count ‘em! — not one, but TWO releases for your reading pleasure, both of which have been an eternity in the making (due in no small part to my own procrastination and preoccupations OTL), but hey. You don’t want to hear me rant. You want to READ COMICS.

Where we last left off, Kizuna and Yuki had made up about their past, uh… transgressions, inasmuch as two people who weren’t even really fighting to begin with can make-up, and Kizuna leaves us with the thought that, “Boy howdy, do I wish I could figure out how to make Asai not so bloody irked at me.” And then it starts raining. The question is, what next? ENTER THIS CHAPTER. Editing duty pulled this time around by c0de_da1sy, with QC magic in deft command by Melfra and Clov3r. Translation and typesetting (and the majority of delays OTL) by yours truly.

And yet another fans have been clamoring for, Barajou 30! Where we last left off in THIS one, Idel and Anis had a hardcore bromance moment that made me ship them pretty friggin’ hard. And it only gets better in here! Join with me, Rhodecia fans: IDEEEEEELLLLL! Ahem. Typeset and translated by THIS GUY, RIGHT HERE, QC’d by Clov3r and Melfra, andedited WITH MASTERY WORTHY OF A HERON BLADE by c0de_da1sy! Oh snap! It was edited by Shinigami, not Daisy. SORRY BB ILU D= Anyway. ENJOY IT, PLEBES.

On that note, we’re still hurtin’ for typesetters and editors, so if you’ve got the time, head on over to the forum and take the tests.

Download The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor ch. 12 (ver. 2)
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Thanks to Ezoya for pointing it out.

Any other picture would kind of be a spoiler. BUT HELL YEAH, YUKI!

The turtles are here to interrupt your regularly scheduled Tuesday activities for a special delivery of AWESOME. No Flower Thieves or Lost Universe today, sadly, but we’re still talking about as awesome as girly comics can get — and that’s BIRDCAGE. That’s right, we’re finally bringing you the follow-up to that BOY HOWDY horrible ending to volume 2. ENJOY, TURTLE-DUDES.
This chapter is brought to you by the stylish editing styles of Shinigami, typeset by the BLAZING FINGERS of ZippyZippy, and QC’d by the Clov3r and Melfra P-P-P-POWER COMBOOOO!

Download The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor ch. 12
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Someone’s started translating the novels too, so go drop by sometime and check those out to get a different (rather, the original) perspective on the series. It’s good times, y’all.

In other news, we’re bringing you YET MORE SLH. Two chapters? In two days!? I THINK YOU KNOW WHERE I’M GOING WITH THIS, TURTLE-DUDES AND DUDETTES. Ren’s got his crazy sexy troll face on this chapter, and I couldn’t enjoy it more. GIVE IT TO HIM, BB. Hold on, I’ll go get my camera. =D (Also, IMAGE WRAP! Does that not look COOL AS SHIT!?) This chapter was brought to you by c0de_da1sy at the editing helm, typeset at the hands of Kaori, and Melfra and Clov3r did their best to make this look q-q-q-q-quality, and not QUALITY in the end. THERE’S ONLY ONE CHAPTER LEFT, YOU GAIS. GET PUMPED!

Download S.L.H – Stray Love Hearts! Room #19 here
Read S.L.H – Stray Love Hearts! Room #19 online

That does it for today’s releases! With all of our series starting to come to an end (Flower Thieves with only three chapters, SLH with one, and Birdcage with only a volume left), as you can guess, we’ve got some new projects in the works. But as for what they are, well…

That’s a secret.

Friends? I thought they were farkin’ married for how much they bicker… And tie each other up.

Edit: okay, so apparently the great, big “do not upload for twenty-four hours” text wasn’t big enough for mangareader. Seriously guys? What the fuck.

First stage: LA LA LA LA IT ISN’T TUESDAY I’M NOT LISTENING LA LA LA LA LAAAAA.

Second stage: Aw, forget it. It is Tuesday, and we are releasing. But at least our last release was on Thursday! See, guys? You DO get sped-up releases now! Can you feel the excitement in the air!? Oh… Wait, that’s just the humidity.

First off, is Barajou no Kiss, which we’ve woefully neglected as of late in favor of beating its redheaded step-cousin, SLH, out the door. Fear not, readers, for we are ready to push, instead, for more chapters of Barajou! HUZZAH~ FYI, this chapter takes place the day after the events that took place at Tenjoh’s house. Yes, all of it. I like the sense of continuity in this series. =D This chapter was touched by C0de_Da1sy’s nimble editing fingers, and beat over the head with Melfra’s QC hammer. GET TO IT.

Download Barajou no Kiss chapter 25: A Day in the Girl’s Life
Read Barajou no Kiss chapter 25: A Day in the Girl’s Life online

Also, that color page was a bitch to detext, and I’m kind of regretting not doing it at a larger size, just because it might be nice to have hanging around… As a poster on my wall. OH WELL. (Melly did Kaede’s trim. Looks friggin’ sweet, doesn’t it?) Also, this tropes entry describes pretty much everything I love about Barajou. (The last paragraph of the summary, at least.) HELL YEAH, SOMEONE GETS IT!

Second up, to help ease the pain of waiting for volume 3 (which won’t arrive at TP HQ until at least the beginning of June), here’s a special Birdcage Manor “Premium Book,” and premium it is… This prime piece of printing paradise ran us just over $80! But come on, it’s Birdcage. How can you expect us to resist? (Also, this is why I hate it when people refuse to support the industry – Melly and I spend around $50 in imports alone every month!) At any rate, included in this mini-book is a short comic, production sketches and notes from Takarai Rihito (Glee!) and a few pages of short four-panel gags. It’s awesome, and we hope you love it, too. Anywho, this one was edited (GASP!) by Melfra, typeset by Zippy, and QC’d by both Melfra and Clov3r.

Download The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor: Premium Book
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Thanks for the support last time, guys! I didn’t see anyone upload before our time frame was up. =D Appreciated. And as always, feel free to hit that “donate” button up at the top-left of the site if you’ve got the time/cash. All donations go towards projects both current and upcoming (and boy do we have a lot of those in the works- but more on that later!) and server costs for the site.

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR THINKING WE DROPPED IT

You know, I have to say I’m glad no one was scanlating SLH while it was still being serialized in Sylph magazine, because I don’t know how some of you would have been able to deal with the two-month wait in between chapters.

Welcome to Tuesday releases… On Wednesday? Ah, hell. FUHGITTABOUT IT.

As you might have figured out already, Mel and I have decided we’re ditching Tuesday release days, if not permanently then at least temporarily while we take care of family issues. Hopefully this might actually mean an increase in release rate, since, well… Hell, I don’t know! Don’t come into my place expecting me to justify my wholly unfounded claims of supposed future grandeur! Farkin’ A, man. Kids these days. That said, we have three hopefully biatchin’ releases for you today.

The first of which is SLH, which continues to tick our staff off more and more with each chapter. Trust me, it only gets worse from here. Don’t get me wrong, though — we’re not dropping it. That ain’t the Turtle way. The highlight of this chapter is the first color page. Redrew that biatch by hand myself. That’s right, shower me with your praises. I DESERVE IT.
Download SLH Ch. 13 here
Read SLH ch. 13 online

And did I mention that cliffhanger is pretty vicious?

Download The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor ch. 11
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Download Barajou no Kiss artbook: Jewel’s Rose
Read Barajou no Kiss artbook: Jewel’s Rose online

Also note that this artbook was only available for sale for a limited time via mail-order through Asuka Magazine, where Barajou is being serialized. (The promotion has long since ended.) Your only bet to grabbing a material copy now is hitting up Yahoo auctions… and that costs a pretty penny.

Phew! Well, how was that for wordy? INFORMATION OVERLOAD. Like I said, we are no longer sticking to the Tuesday-only release schedule. ANTICIPATE GREAT THINGS FROM THIS.

On that note, we’d like to thank everyone who’s applied for the typesetting position so far, but please, for the love of all that is good and right in this world, DON’T EXPECT TO HEAR BACK ON YOUR RESULTS FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF DAYS.

DESTROYER OF DREAMS

We spoil you people. Really, we do. But hey! That’s okay! Because if there’s any group of shoujo fanatics I’d prefer to cater to, it’s Birdcage fans, since, y’know, Birdcage is AWESOME.

Which reminds me. Slayers and Lost Universe fans have been getting the shaft lately too, huh. But that’s okay! Because it won’t be long before we rectify that…. OH HO HO HO HO HO~

Hot damn, WELCOME TO TUESDAY. And I happen to have a sinus thing going on, so I’m having a hard time staying coherent. That said, on to the release!

Today we have not only chapter 10 of Birdcage for your reading pleasure, but a second version of chapter 9, with, uh, no typos. WOOPS. This is what I get for being impatient. Har har.

A quick translation note on chapter 10, by the way – “Ebi” is Japanese for all types of crayfish (pretty much); shrimp, lobsters, etc. So when a few middle-aged hags are talking about chowing down on lobster and Kizuna suddenly makes the jump to lusting after fried shrimp, now you’ll know why.

Download The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor ch. 10 & chapter 9 ver. 2

Edited by Shinigami (Don’t look directly at her – YOU’LL DIE THE DEATH), typeset by Zippy (whose speedy fingers fear NO MAN), and QC’d by Melfra and Clov3r (The new Bonnie and Clyde! Which is to say, they robbed a bank after proofing this ch). And I don’t think I need to say “enjoy”…. IT’S BIRDCAGE. YOU’LL ALREADY ENJOY IT.

But for those of you who aren’t reading Birdcage (In which case, srsly, what are you waiting for?) have some skeevy Kitoh being skeevy.

Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the ambition to be either witty or DERPY DERR this release post, because I have to get my arse off to work post-haste. Instead, all I say to you is: Enjoy these new chapters of Birdcage and SLH because, well… Hell, I don’t know. Just take ‘em and go.

Download The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor chapter 9: “His and Her Awkward Sunday, Her and Her (?) Unexpected Saturday (Part I)

Download SLH chapter 12: Asukai and Kitoh confess their undying love for one another and live happily ever after (end vol. 3)

Birdcage has been brought to you by the magic editing fingers of Rainstride, typeset by the speedy Zippy Zippy, scanned and QC’d by Melfra, and translated by yours truly. SLH was edited by the FEARLESS Shinigami (death fears no man!), scanned and QC’d by (ol’ trusty!) Melfra, and typeset and translated by yours truly. Thanks for tuning in, folks, and see you next week!

But I suppose a blackmailed Hiyoki will have to do.

So, apparently it’s that asshole Cain’s birthday today. This is a sad, sad coincidence. Have a picture of Hiyoki being blackmailed by him to remind us all of what a dick that guy is.

I hate Cain. /end tirade But in honor of Hiyoki’s constant suffering at his hands, have a chapter of SLH instead, edited at the hardy and stalwart hand of Shinigami, and QC’d by Melfra. Enjoy it!

Download Stray Love Hearts Room #11
Read Stray Love Hearts Room #11 Online

And finally, what we’ve all been waiting for! New Birdcage! HELL. YEAH. We’re really, reeeaaally sorry about how long it took to get this chapter out. =X Hopefully the next ones should be more forthcoming. Typeset by ZippyZippy (in zippy fashion!), edited by Melfra (I’M SORRY BB, I LU D=), and QC’d by Melfra. ILU GUYS SO BAD.

Download The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor ch. 8
Read The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor ch. 8 online

That’s it for this week! We may or may not be going on hiatus for next week… It’s that (dreaded) time of the year again — THE TWELVE DAYS OF DOUJINSHI.

Little did Kizuna know, the true horrors waited inside…

I’ll keep this short because Melly says I’m breaching Tl;dr territory, SO ENJOY YOUR NEW CHAPTER OF BIRDCAGE, made possible by the typesetting prowess of Epikwonder, editing by Shinigami, and the people who make my scripts not suck, Clov3r and Melfra!

Download/Read The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor ch. 6 online

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