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Hi blogger Shiz here.

I finally got around and started working on the HUGE backlog of the dust jacket committee work.

Several notices for those who bought Murder Princess vol 2, Koi Cupid vol 1, sola vol 1 and Nui vol 1.

We never got around to printing the stickers for these books, so we will be sending you alternate items. Koi Cupid & Nui readers will receive Pita-Ten and Di Gi Charat stickers. Murder Princess and sola readers will receive a Galaxy Angel mousepad.

We apologize for the inconvenience & disappointment in not getting you the proper stickers. It’s impossible at this point to get the OK from the licensors to print the stickers for these books.

The dust jackets & stickers will be mailing out tomorrow and the rest of the week!

Hi blogger Shiz here.

I missed a review that was sent to us by ComicMix. Whoops.

Comic Mix reviewed Koi Cupid vol 1 in their 8/22/08 issue of Manga Friday.

Happy reading!

Hi, blogger Shiz here.

I just got the Koi Cupid vol 2 PDFs from graphics assistant Cno, so I sent them over to Broccoli Japan for approval. We should be getting a response in a week, so we can send the files over to the printers.

Meanwhile, it’s being copy edited by freelance editor Dee for one last look-through.

Hmm, this one is ahead of schedule. Freelance editor Hope is really kicking my butt to move on this project.

Now I really need to get my butt moving on Honoka Level Up vol 1.

Hello, blogger Shiz here.

Graphics assistant Cno printed out the newly fixed pages of Koi Cupid vol 2, so I went through the packet along with the Japanese manga in hand to make sure all of the translations are correct.

I had forgotten how long this process takes!

It took me over 3 hours to go through the entire book!

I read the page in spreads (2 pages at a time) in Japanese first, then read them in English. Back and forth between both books. And my right eye got infected over the weekend, so my right eye is teary and mucus-y too. Bad timing!

Anyway, a lot of phrases in Japanese are vague. So when the translator translates the line & doesn’t include a note saying “this is what character XX is feeling as she says this,” then the re-writer interprets the translation as something else… and it starts to not make sense. Or it makes sense, but it doesn’t make sense in the whole story.

Take for example, this page I worked on.

The girl character says “I see… (noun) will forget for sure.” in Japanese. This (noun) isn’t written out in Japanese, because it’s not necessary in the Japanese language. So in the final text in English, it was written “He’ll forget about me.” But actually, she’s talking about herself.

I don’t want to give out spoilers on why she’ll forget, so you’ll just have to read the book when it comes out (probably in October/November?).

Oh, for those who are Tokyo Mew Mew fans… cupid Koi puts away a book called Petit Mew Mew in the school library. Cute, huh?

So did I get any other work done today?
No… time to rest my poor eyes.

PS. Graphics assistant Cno & freelance editor Hope will be working on the rest of the edits & fixes for Koi Cupid vol 2 this week. I need to scoot this book off to a copy editor too.

Hello, blogger Shiz here.

Since we’re working on Koi Cupid vol 2, graphics assistant Cno reminded me that we need a synopsis for Koi Cupid vol 3 to include with the preview pages.

So I read through the book once again… altho I had just read it a few days ago, but you tend to remember less as you get older… anyway, I wrote up the general storyline & tossed the synopsis task to re-writer Jason.

Hmm, I wonder if we have the cover materials for Koi Cupid vol 3. Cuz we’ll need that for the preview page introduction too.

This is blogger Shiz.

I hope everyone had a great weekend. And watching the Olympics.

Graphics assistant Cno printed out the layout pages for Koi Cupid vol 2, so I’m handing them over to freelance editor Hope to start working on the edits.

I also read through Koi Cupid vol 3 today to pick out pages for the preview page that goes in the back of volume 2. Although there’s only 2 pages allotted for the preview pages, so it was a bit hard to pick the pages.

There are four new major(?) characters that make an appearance in Koi Cupid vol 3, and I didn’t know which one to feature. In the end, I picked the devil… but maybe girls would have appreciated the bishounen more. Oh wells.

Hi blogger Shiz here.

Freelance layout staff Brian emailed saying he uploaded the files for Koi Cupid vol 2. So I downloaded the file, and will have graphics assistant Cno print out the first draft of the book tomorrow.

I also recruited a new freelance editorial staff to work on this book.
Of course I’ll be taking part in the editing as usual… like looking over the translation & language nuances.

Maybe photos tomorrow~

Hi this is Yukiko!
How are you all doing?

We finally received our copies of Koi Cupid Volume 1 today!
I will start sending samples to the reviewers.

The cover for this book is very cute!
I hope everyone will enjoy reading this book.

Please look for it at your local bookstores.
Or buy from dot-anime.us

Hi this is Yukiko!
How are you all doing?

We received the proof for Koi Cupid Volume 1 arrived!
As usual, I took several pictures to put on this blog.

When we approve the proof, our printer can go to print.
This book will be available late May!

Pre-order on dot-anime.us

Hi this is Yukiko.
How are you all doing?

Yesterday, our designer Chris uploaded the data for Koi Cupid Volume 1 for our printer.
It is finally going to print!
We are now waiting for our printer to give us the proofs.

This is very exciting :)

Pre-order on dot-anime.us