Blogroll and General stuff and Manga stuff and Random Uploads and Request/Question thread and The List... 1:25 pm
Boy Howdy! I did some spring/summer/seasonal cleaning of the site (meaning I deleted all the old comments, seeing as there were hundreds).
So if anybody has any questions or download requests, request them here. That’s HERE! In this thread.
That is all – have a tops new year all!
Manga stuff and Review stuff 2:44 pm
‘Natsuki Takaya, hmmm… that name sounds familiar…’
Well so it should, seeing as she’s the fantastic mangaka that created ‘Fruits Basket’ which ended either late last year, or early this year depending on your sources.
But what of her other works? According to Manga Updates she’s done 6 manga’s in total, and only 4 of them have been scanlated into english. Also, in my shopping adventures, the only one I’ve been able to find for sale in english is ‘Fruits Basket’.
Boku ga Utau to Kimi wa Waraukara was published as a series of 5 one-shot stories in 1999. Shoujo Magic was good enough to scanlate it for the general populace, and for this we should pour kudos all over them.
Phantom Dream was a 5 volume manga (unknown publication date) of which only the first 2 chapters of volume 1 are available (Yay, Entropy!)
Tsubasa Wo Motsu Mono was published in 1996, before Fruits Basket, and was complete at 6 volumes. Currently, the first volume and most of the second volume have been made available to us by K2less and Red Butterfly, who rock!
So far, nobody has picked up Hoshi wa Utau or Komogomo which were the last two manga’s on her publication list ( http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=3 ) even though I’ve seen the raws for Komogomo and it looks pretty damn cool.
‘Why am I posting this?’ You may well ask – here’s why: Fruits Basket is over. But that doesn’t mean we should turn our back’s on Natsuki Takaya, seeing as she’s written loads of other great stuff which just hasn’t made it into english yet. I’m just hoping that someone from some great scanlating team finds this post, sees the manga listed here, and decides to start a scanlation project for Komogomo and Hoshi wa Utau!
Not just for me, of course – but for the entire english reading manga community! 
(This has been a public service announcement on behalf of Natsuki Takaya fans who are desperate for fresh manga since Fruits Basket finished – end transmission!)
Manga stuff and Random Uploads 2:53 pm
http://catherineg.badongo.com/
Have updated again!
Manga stuff and Random Uploads 1:13 pm
Yup! I’ve put more stuff on there!
And the Bloody Kiss One-shots:
Plus some other cool stuff:
Just keep checking back, I guess
Manga stuff and Music stuff and Random Uploads 8:51 am
http://catherineg.badongo.com/
I updated it again today, hoorah! So now, on the badongo page there’s:
Anime:
Manga:
Music:
That’s it! Enjoy All
Manga stuff and Random Uploads 6:43 am
http://catherineg.badongo.com/
Right now, I’ve got:
Enjoy, and please drop me a line if the links expire!
Catherine G
General stuff and Manga stuff and Random Uploads 7:18 am
Something I decided to set up, on a whim. I’ve uploaded some cool-ish manga that I’ve ‘acquired’. I’m still not sure if I’m gonna take requests or not, because it’s been taking upwards of 40 minutes a file to upload! Still, here’s what’s on there so far:
If the mood so takes me, I might add some more to that soon – anyways, enjoy!
Manga stuff 11:10 am
Arina Tanemura is an awesome lady, and an excellent mangaka – that’s all there is to it! The reason I haven’t posted in a while is because I’ve been on an Arina manga-hunt for, ooh, ages now, and I think I’ve got most of them now! I started at the end and worked backwards though, which was kinda dumb, but here’s what I managed to get (through various sources…):
Shinshi Doumei Cross (The Gentlemen’s Alliance) is her latest work, and is still being scanlated by the talented folks at Enchantment (Yay!). And the first paperback of ‘Shinshi’ is due out in march this year (according to amazon.com) Wow – it somes out in march – and my birthday is in march… Coincidence? I think not!
Anyways, check out Arina Tanemura’s stuff – it’s all good!
Manga stuff 5:19 am
Today I’ll be sending all my love out to the Vampire Knights scanlation group for releasing two of the niftiest christmas download packages ever!
These guys slaved away to bring us the entire volume 8 of ‘Ouran’, new chapters of ‘Trinity Blood’, ‘Saiunkoku Monogatari’, ‘Little Witch’s Diary’ and some new projects such as ‘Rustblaster’ and ‘Kaze Hikaru’ which are both awesome!
Thanks everyone at VK! You guys are the best!
Manga stuff 3:06 am
I was looking through my manga shelf a couple of days ago, thinking ‘Gee, I haven’t bought a copy of Fruits Basket in ages…’ So I got online and headed over to the Madman website (www.madman.com.au) to see when the next release date was.
Fruits Basket Volume 21 doesn’t come out until March 10th next year…
I think my screams of horror could be heard a couple of suburbs away – the last Volume, #20, went on sale on the 11th of October – that’s two months ago, for those of you actually following along
So why the five month gap? Generally there’s been a month between volumes, and in the beginning they were actually releasing 2 volumes a month, one at the beginning and one near the end.
Then I decided to check out some of the other release dates on stuff I’m interested in.
Vampire Knight (Chuang Yi edition):
Volume 01 and 02 – 10th February 2007
Ouran High Host Club (Chuang Yi edition):
Volume 01 and 02 – 6th December 2006 (me = happy!)
Volume 03 and 04 – 10th February 2007 (me = dealing in my own way…)
Volume 05… – 10th March 2007 (me = seeing a pattern)
Ah ha! So it doesn’t actually look like it’s Madman’s fault after all – it’s the bloody publisher’s fault!
And next year it looks like things are going to be released on (or close to) the 10th of every month – which, as I mentioned earlier, I’ll be dealing with in my own way (download sites are bookmarked and ready to go – I use them as previews before I actually buy the real thing!)
But still, 5 months wait for Vol 21 of Fruits Basket! Why?! Why?!
*goes off depressed and has a little sleep* Ooh, mars bars!
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