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Good evening!

More Nojiko, as promised -- but first, a corrigendum of the utmost importance. The lifers among you will no doubt remember Chapter 3 of Kurayami ni Strobe, where Glasses ("Sawa" to his friends) displayed a startling penchant for homophobia, declaring, as he passed Arata, "gays are disgusting."

.........Or did he? Come, walk with us a little. Our own Maria was recently revisiting the original work when she noticed something unusual about that particular moment. Compare our version with the raw page:

As you can see, we typeset those infamous words in the same typeface we used for the speech-bubble dialogue on the page, obviously creating the implication that they were actually spoken by Sawa. But if you look at the raws, you can see that the words are in a different typeface to the speech bubbles higher up the page -- and it's a sort of weak, hand-drawn font of the sort used to indicate thoughts, asides, etc. So it is very likely that we, via some very careless font selection, created something that wasn't Nojiko's intention: it seems that those words were meant to be Arata's imagination (either him picturing Sawa saying something like that, or flashing back to his getting bullied), rather than actual spoken dialogue by Sawa. So we have very possibly committed a grotesque defamation, by suggesting that Sawa is a giant 'phobe when he probably (...hopefully) isn't, and we would like to plead guilty at the first available opportunity. We hope this makes it a little easier for all of you to imagine Sawa as a homosexual leading man, seeing as that's where this story is probably going. The person responsible for this erroneous typesetting was, uh, myself, so rest assured I will give myself a stern reprimand as soon as I finish this post.

ANYWAY, that said, here's the release. Short little chapter but it's cute enough, hopefully. Enjoy~

Utsusemi ni Akari - Chapter 1.5

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And that's all for this post -- catch you on the flip-side, dudemeisters!!

PS The author's note for this chapter seems to indicate that Mme. Hayakawa is of insufficient means to afford air-conditioning -- maybe try to put one of her volumes on your list for Santa this year?

（：。）ミ

Good evening!

An extremely belated happy new year to everybody -- great to see you all back with us for 2016. Anyway we hope we can start proceedings off on the right foot with some guys you won't have seen in a while - the original Kurayami dudes, returning for a brief oneshot. This was originally published about a million years ago but we've gotten around to it now, is the main thing! (...we're fervently hoping). Just 15 pages, so for a Nojiko thing it's short, but it's a cute little episode and we're happy to finally be able to bring it to youse all:

Kurayami no Shutter Speed

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To get tedious for a second, this was published in Japan before Utsusemi ni Akari part 1, which we did a few months back. So with these two done we're back in the Japanese release order and the next thing we'll be bringing you in this series is Utsusemi ni Akari part 2, etc., and the story will go forward chronologically in the conventional manner (vide my rambling, incoherent explanation of all this in the post linked above).

Anyway that's all for now, we've got some good stuff currently underway so we hope you'll all stick around for that. Until next time, take it easy now~~

(*´ﾟд)(дﾟ｀*)

Good evening!

Now, if you cast your mind back you will of course remember Kurayami ni Strobe, Nojiko's classic tale of photography, basketball, etc. And you'll also, no doubt, remember Juicebox and Glasses, who took a pretty marginal role in the story but then got to be the stars of their very own pair of oneshots at the end of 2013. And now, a couple years later, they're back for more!! Here's the link first of all, then a fuller sort of explanation follows.

Utsusemi ni Akari - Part 1

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So yeah, Nojiko's drawing a few more chapters from the Kurayami well. There's three out so far, of which this is one (we, as ever, grovel abjectly for our slowness). Edit: I accidentally misled you all, sorry - pages 1-6 of this are a flashback which takes place immediately after Chapter 3 of Kurayami, and then the rest of the chapter comes after the two previous Glasses/Juicebox chapters. It's part 3 of the "secret room" story, basically. Whether Nojko is going for a full tankobon-sized story with the focus on Glasses and Juicebox we cannot tell: of the two other new chapters, one has the "Utsusemi ni Akari" title (and in this chapter Utsusemi is described as a "new series") but the other one has a different title and is entirely concentrated on the main Kurayami couple.* But anyway we'll release these as soon as we can and hopefully some clearer picture will emerge in due course.

Anyway if reading another chapter of Nojiko's beautiful yet strenuously chaste guys has you hungry for something a bit more explicit, you'll perhaps be happy to hear that we've also got the next Yoru to Asa no Uta ready. In this chapter the main dudes and the yakuza guy finally get to interact, and there's perhaps a man/man blowjob. For more details, please visit:

Yoru to Asa no Uta - Chapter 4

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And that's all for now! Please all have a great time, until we meet again~

*This chapter actually came out in Japan before the one we're releasing here, but we didn't obtain scans of it until after we'd started working on this one. It'll be the next one to come out, and as the two chapters have no connection to each other there's no meaning lost by the order being switched around.

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━ !!!

And we're back - good evening!

Alright so before we get into the releases we should mention that a few days ago was our group's second birthday! We didn't want to make a special post on the day itself for a couple reasons - first, a second anniversary isn't so exciting as a first one, and second, there's nothing really to say here that didn't get said this time last year. We're still having tremendous fun doing all this, and we all feel deeply privileged to have been able to bring you all another year of BL. We're still going strong and have absolutely no plans to quit or slow down, so here's hoping we'll be making another one of these posts in a year's time! Once again we would like to deeply thank our readers for their continued support, and all our friends for their extremely valuable contributions. And of course none of this would be possible without the poor mangakas themselves, so if you've seen a title you like here please think about buying yourself a copy. I'm sure none of the mangakas get paid very much so every little really does help!

Anyway onto the releases. First up we've got the final piece of Kurayami ni Strobe - the extra content in the Tankobon. Similar to the extras in the Yozora book we've got an omake and some 4komas - plus some really lovely colour bits (thanks to the appropriate people). There's no sign of any more Juicebox/Glasses oneshots at this point so this could be the last bit of Kurayami content you ever get - so enjoy!

Kurayami ni Strobe - Extras

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And next up is the return of something you haven't seen in a while. You may remember a while ago we did a three-chapter story by Kevin Komine - Bikkuri. This story was published in the same volume as another three-chapter story, Bitansan Danshi, and we'e finally gotten around to having the first part of that ready. If you liked Bikkuri you'll probably like this, so there you go:

Bitansan Danshi - Chapter 1

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And at long last we've got the final story from the Syrup anthology. This one's a bit more elaborate than most, taking in mysterious libraries and similar things. But at its heart it's a good honest story about dudes dressing like ladies. Please enjoy:

Syrup![Bitter] - Decode Library

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Finally an administrative announcement: extremely hard-working team member KG is going to take a well-deserved holiday from the group to focus on more useful pursuits. One of the things she does is take care of the acmedanmail email address, and I'm now going to be the one responsible for that. I'll try my best to settle into things as quickly as possible but there might unfortunately be a delay in my responses while I work out what's what - if you've asked us for something and haven't had a reply in about ten days from now, please email us again because I'll have missed the original message accidentally or something like that.

Anyway that's all for now! Thanks for sticking with us for another year, have a good week, and we'll see you next time!

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Good evening!

Now we've had a few series finishing up lately (and there's a couple more will be done soon), so here's the first chapter of a new story - Itsuka Tomodachi ja Nakunaru to Shite mo (which we're going to truncate down to 'Itsuka Tomodachi' for convenience) by Iuka Kasa, who is a pretty new artist on the BL scene. Anyway we've got a very cute story here about two childhood friends who live next to each other. There's some tension in their relationship because of a past incident between them - but how will this affect their friendship (or romance...??) in the present day? There's only one way to find out, dear readers, and that's to download the chapter below. And, of course, all the subsequent chapters as we complete them. Enjoy!

Itsuka Tomodachi - Chapter 1

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Next up - to our own amazement - we've managed to haul sufficient ass to get the next Kurayami extra ready for distribution. We rejoin Glasses and Juicebox much where we left them last time, and get to see them annoy each other some more. As we said last time, there's no word yet on whether there'll be any more of this but we'll try to keep you posted. But for now, please to be clicking:

Kurayami ni Strobe extra story - Utsusemi ni Tomoru

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edit: minor re-phrase to the author's note on the last page. For those that don't want to re-download the rar, you can check out the new page here

Note: this isn't the extra story found in the tank, but rather an extra story that featured in Cab 29. We're working on the tank extras now and we'll try to have them out as soon as possible!

And that's all for this post. Have a good week and we'll see you next time!

へ(゜∇、°)へ

Good evening!

And here is the rest of Kurayami! This is it, the end of the thing. The final chapter. Nothing more needs to be said really - if you're here then you'll know what this is, and if you don't then I will say that it's a pretty decent story and you should probably consider checking it out. So enjoy!
edit: fixed a typo in KnS ch5. Links have been updated accordingly.

Kurayami ni Strobe - Part 5 [end!!!]

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Now, when you were reading this story, did you ever think "gosh, the main fellas are alright and all, but I think the real interesting characters are juicebox guy and glasses guy"? No, obviously you didn't. But if you had, you would be very excited to know that they've been promoted to leading characters and given their very own oneshot, in which they explore and develop their relationship with each other (and speak some very elaborate sentences). We originally thought this was going to be one-off but the raws for a second part have just come across our desks, and we hope to convey that to you in due course. Anyway, enjoy:

Kurayami ni Strobe extra story - Utsusemi ni Akari

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And for your information, the tankobon is in our possession and we're about halfway through getting it ready, so you can expect that hopefully not too far away in the future. 

And so yeah, there's the end of Kurayami. It's been a really fun series to work on and we hope we didn't try your collective patience too much in bringing it out to you - if we did then please accept our most fulsome apologies. Anyway that's all for now - have a good week and we'll see you next time!

(❁´◡`❁)*✲ﾟ*

Good evening!

If you like the fourth chapter of things beginning with K then you're in for a treat tonight, because we got a couple of that. First up is the long-awaited next instalment of Kurayami ni Strobe, wherein things get even more deliciously awkward. Also they take their shirts off at one point. So enjoy that:

Kurayami ni Strobe - Part 4

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And we've got the next Koketsu Dining as well, back after a little break. Here some drunk shenanigans ensue.

Koketsu Dining - Chapter 4

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That's all for now. Enjoy yourselves and we'll see you next week!

( ´_ゝ`)∂

Toot toot! After numerous delays, detours, derailments and a couple bodies on the track, the Nojiko train has finally arrived at the station! We've got the next part of Kurayami ni Strobe here, and it's a real beauty, so we'll just get to it:

Kurayami ni Strobe - Part 3

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And we've got one of the last parts of the Dame BL anthology.

Dame Bl - Column 2

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That's all for this week. Enjoy yourselves!

PS the links should all be working now, including in the old posts, please let us know if any aren't.

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Two oneshots this week. The first one deals with twin brothers, one of which is a stuttering shut-in who claims he's getting punished for seven sins. By Kojima Lalako.

Nanadome no Gomenne

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V2 here!

And here's some Nojiko! This is a direct sequel to Kurayami ni Strobe, which can be found here:

Kurayami ni Strobe

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Kurayami ni Strobe 2

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Many thanks to yumesuki@LJ and deidre@aarin for the scans and read the FAQ before sharing.

(`･ω･´)ゞ

EDIT: eep, I seem to have forgotten a page in Watashi no Kishi-sama wa Minarai-chuu! I've replaced the links and upped the missing page for anyone who do not want to re-download the whole thing.

Really sorry about this!

Happy belated Valentines Day! This week, we have two charming little oneshots:
Kurayami ni Strobe by our very own Hayakawa Nojiko and a shoujo story; Watashi no Kishi-sama wa Minarai-chuu! by Kouzuki Rin.

Kurayami ni Strobe

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Watashi no Kishi-sama wa Minarai-chuu! version 2

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Missing page from v1: Mediafire

We also have chapter 2 of the ever amusing shoujo title: Ant & Grasshopper, which I highly advise must not be read whilst eating a Nutella sandwhich, because you will choke:

Chapter 02 of Ant&Grasshopper ~Assortment~ 

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And last but certainly not the least, is a small collection of translated goodies from Endou-kun no Kansatsu Nikki's website:

Extra goodies from Endou-kun no Kansatsu Nikki

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A very big thank you to clock_tower and yumesuki for providing their respective raw scans! As always, please support the author by buying your own copy, stop distributing our release when it gets licensed and read this before sharing it anywhere.