The third kidnap

It's a story around early Jan., shortly after Moko's death.

Free kindle manga campaign is going on.

The Isolated Zone (Japanese) vol.1 and vol.2 (not vol.3) If you are waiting for vol.3's free campaign - sorry, it will be when vol.5 is published. It's from 26th to 30th. 

　　　　　

Snivel

Moko was not so long after this. This is the last 4koma of his illness, at least so far. I might draw more in someday, but not now. I'll draw more about him, but it will be about in his younger days. About a funny energetic idiot cat.  :)

Free kindle manga campaign is going on.

The Isolated Zone (Japanese) vol.1 and vol.2 (not vol.3) If you are waiting for vol.3's free campaign - sorry, it will be when vol.5 is published. It's from 26th to 30th. 

　　　　　

Free manga campaign has started

As I posted, KDP free promotion campaign has started since a few hours ago. This time, Shinku Chitai (The Isolated Zone) Japanese edition vol.1 and 2. It's all in Japanese, but there is English edition(vol.1) you can compare it with English edition and see how vol.2  goes. ( the product processes of Vol.2 and 3 are going on ) Anyway, it's free, having the original one is not a bad idea, right? 

 Then, because a new book has been released, I'll have a free book campaign as usual. In this time, The Isolated Zone (Japanese) vol.1 and vol.2 (not vol.3) If you are waiting for vol.3's free campaign - sorry, it will be when vol.5 is published. It's from 26th to 30th. 

　　　　　

The campaign is end at 30th. 

Vol.4 is the latest one. The guy on this cover names Naoya Saotome, 早乙女直也, my favorite character. His name came from mine, Nao. :)

Shinku Chitai : The Isolated Zone vol.4 (Japanese) is available on Amazon now.

A small litter box neither...

It's an old story from the stock... I drew it around the end of January. It's a sequel of  A Syringe, Don't throw away things. I missed the timing to post because of my trip to Toronto. 

Shinku Chitai The Isolated Zone ４

It's been 2 months since vol.3 was published. I finished the lettering (and done some extra pages) at last of vol.4 and compiled the file at last.

Shinku Chitai : The Isolated Zone vol.4 (Japanese) is available on Amazon now.

Then, because a new book has been released, I'll have a free book campaign as usual. In this time, The Isolated Zone (Japanese) vol.1 and vol.2 (not vol.3) If you are waiting for vol.3's free campaign - sorry, it will be when vol.5 is published. It's from 26th to 30th. 

　　　　　

At the moment, The Isolated Zone Japanese e-book is KDP version only, but the series will be released from some Japanese publisher. After that, I can't keep this low price (100JPY, about 1$) and I can't have any free campaign,  so if you are interested in, hurry up. ;) 

About the English edition, it's stopped for a while, but I had got the dialogue translation vol.2 and 3 recently and sent back the doc.files with my comment. There are still many things to be done before the release, but it's started finally, at least. ^_^

Moon and Blood German edition

I've done the quality check of Moon and Blood vol.2 German edition. DMP said vol.1 will be released soon!

Because I don't understand German, there is not so much things I can, but I appreciate that they sand to me the PDF file. (Unfortunately, you can't check right and left of the page with the pdf file. I mean, in right to left reading style, even-numbered page should be placed in right, but they do it wrong sometimes. )

So I can't read it, but I can understand this one.

The hero Kai says "え E (uh) " again and again, then he thinks "俺　「え」しか言ってねー　All I said was 'uh' though". It's a kind of a punch line to this sequence.

German edition use "ÄH" instead of E, the same as Japanese. In English edition, the translator use "Wh..." and "What" for the first and second "E" because of the meaning. 

Maybe it's right in English-wise, makes sense. Still...2 times "Uh"  is not enough for the dialogue "All I said was 'uh' ". 

I saw the effort of translator, and it pleased me. 

Back from Toronto (last)

I have a problem with Canadian coins. Why the digit on it is so small? I hate quarter...it makes me confused!

Japanese wear a mask on when you catch a cold....it protects your throat from cold & dry air.

Back from Toronto 4

The products of UNIQLO and MUJI in Japan work in Toronto.

My friend Japanese Canadian said he bought clothes of Uniqlo every time when he comes to Japan. He said it's inexpensive but the quality is good.

JF officer let me use her earmuff of MUJI.(I'd lost my woolen hat) 

Back from Toronto 3

People in Toronto.

Just from my impression, I didn't take any note(sketch) at all so I don't remember well. ^^; I can't memorize things as a picture.(It would be fatal as a manga artist...^^;;)

A group of Japanese in a long coat reminds me penguins...for some reason. 

Back from Toronto 2

The inside was warm, very warm. In buildings, in underground mall. (Someone said that the room temperature was not hot in Toronto, compare with USA. Yes, it's not hot enough for a T-shirt, ...still too warm for a coat, though)

I went to a supermarket sometimes in underground mall to buy daily foods, and it was ... 

Back from Toronto 1

It's been a while since the last blog post...I've back home from Toronto on 3rd March with a cold. ^^; I brought my note PC to Toronto, so I could wrote something. But all I did were some simple FB posts you could do with iPhone. Well, I use my note for make a couple of additional materials for the workshop, so taking a heavy note PC were not in vain, anyway....

They said this winter was unusually cold. They have such a cold winter in 20 years ago, but not recently.  If only my visit was in the last year... ^^;;

The cold air was rather painful. >///<