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It was twenty years a year ago today...

All you need is (boys) love. Click for bigger.

Ok so we promised you we'd have a bunch of stuff, and we're pleased to say we actually do! First up is another of our new titles - the Syrup [Bitter] anthology. It's a collection of oneshots by various artists, each one taking cross-dressing as its theme (or having cross-dressing ensue at some point). We've got five chapters here, so if you've got a transvestite-shaped hole in your affections since Udagawachou finished, this might do nicely:

Syrup [Bitter] - Afuretara Saigo (Kojima Lalako)

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Syrup [Bitter] - Idol Junan (Nimoda Ai)

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Syrup [Bitter] - Jersey ga li (Fudagawa Waka)

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Syrup [Bitter] - Kimi e no Dakaisaku (Taki)

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Syrup [Bitter] - Koisou Hyouhon (Aoyama Toomi)
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Next up, as promised, Tsuda Memo by the consistently excellent Nojiko. We catch up with Endou and Tsuda and find them... not doing a whole lot. Still, it's very cute and the art is the usual standard.

Tsuda Memo

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And the next instalment in our very irregular magical girl saga:

Fresh Pretty Cure! - Chapter 4

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And finally, something one or two of you have apparently been waiting for:

Yozora no Sumikko de - Chapter 7

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We thank you again for your patience with regards to the last item.

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So it's been a year, then. Who would've thought it (probably not most of us). But we're still here, and the little acorn we planted last February has grown into a beautiful butterfly and this is a terrible metaphor. It's been an enormously fun time, and we'd like to extend our deepest gratitude to anybody who's helped us out - particularly our partner groups and those people, a lot of them anonymous, who gave us the inspiration in the first place and provided support and encouragement in our early days when we weren't really sure what we were doing. Thanks of course must also go to our wonderful readers: your comments are always lovely to read, and you've all been very patient with the various delays and complications we've had to force on you. We're not trying to achieve any profit or self-aggrandisement out of what we do: all we care about is whether our readers enjoy the stuff we're putting out, and you've very definitely let us know that you do. Thanks once again to all of you.

Finally, there's a tendency to regard scanlation as just a transaction between the groups and their audiences, but of course none of this would be possible without the mangakas themselves, toiling away in BL dungeons to bring us all the delicious content we enjoy. "Supporting the artists" is a phrase thrown around so often as to be practically meaningless by this point, but please try to remember it: you can still pick up most of our titles on Honto or wherever else, and while a few hundred yen from foreign buyers isn't going to make much of an impact on Hideyoshico's bank balance it's still a decent thing to do if you've enjoyed the material.

Anyway it's been a thoroughly excellent experience and we hope you've enjoyed reading our stuff as much as we've enjoyed working on it. There'll be a post on this coming Sunday and it'll be normal service after that.