When Opposites Attract!

Finally, here's Amber, the last one-shot by Ayumi Komura. Mio Hasekura is a helpful high school girl who looks after her workaholic mother and others at her school, which has earned her the nickname "Mom" among her classmates. Mio is very fond of her late father who died when she was younger, and hopes to find a guy like him someday. On her way to school one day, she comes across a man collapsed on the side of the road who is very different from her father and Mio helps him out.

The smaller color illustration above is from the preview posted on Margaret's website. Interestingly, we are unsure why Komura called this one-shot "Amber". There's no indication in the story why she gave it this title, so if you have any guesses after reading it, please tell us in the comments.

Getting a chance to work on something other than Usolily (or Kenjutsu Komachi for a time) by Ayumi Komura has been a lot of fun since we get to see other sides of her when she does one-shots like these three, which seems to be pretty rare since most of the time she focuses on her serializations, or at least that seemed to be the case during Usolily's run. Maybe one of these one-shots will get a serialization someday, since remember that Usolily also began as a one-shot. Of the three, Hatsukoi Harinezumi would seem the most likely to get a series, and if so, we'd be very happy about scanlating it. But for now, there's still Full Dozer to look forward to, which begins serialization in about a month.

Also, speaking of Kenjutsu Komachi, we finally got around to doing the bonus content from the volume release and...it's very very small. I'm talking two pages here. Yeah, we expected Komura, who loves adding in tons and tons of bonus content in her Usolily volumes, to include at least an afterword or something, but she only included a few comments at the end of the volume, not counting the comment she did on the cover. So the extras below include the outside and inside covers and the aforementioned whopping two pages, so it may not be much, but it's something, at least.

Amber one-shot: Mediafire, Dropbox
Kenjutsu Komachi volume extras: Mediafire, Dropbox

That Which Brings Us Together

It had a good run, but this is the seventh and final chapter of Kenjutsu Komachi. A volume contained all the chapters will be released in August, and we'll be releasing any bonus content from the volume later this year. Although with the current count at over 210 pages for all 7 chapters, there might not be very much room left for bonus content beyond a page or two, but we'll see. Hope you all enjoyed this little series, and we'll be looking out for any new manga by Ayumi Komura in the future (as well as finishing up Usolily later this year, of course).

Kenjutsu Komachi ch. 7: Mediafire, Dropbox
Kenjutsu Komachi ch. 1-7 batch: Mediafire

With Great Power...

And now for chapter 6 of Kenjutsu Komachi. It looks like the series may be about to end, but either way, the next chapter will be released in late June.

Kenjutsu Komachi ch. 6: Mediafire, Dropbox

It Takes Two to Swordfight!

Okay, so chapter 5 of Kenjutsu Komachi is done, so we're once again all caught up with it until the next chapter is released in late April.

Kenjutsu Komachi ch. 5: Mediafire, Dropbox

The Eyes are the Windows to the Soul!

It's more than month late, but here's chapter 4 of Kenjutsu Komachi. The next chapter should be available later this month, and we'll try to maybe get it out by the end of the month. Also, here's a nice color image we found on this news piece:

Kenjutsu Komachi ch. 4: Mediafire, Dropbox

Sword Art Offline!

Here's chapter 3 of Kejutsu Komachi, released about a week ago. The next chapter comes out in late December.

Kenjutsu Komachi: Mediafire, Dropbox

Further Down the Rabbit Hole!

Our other release today is chapter 2 of Kenjutsu Komachi. As expected, this series appears to be on a bimonthly schedule, as this chapter was released two months after chapter one. So, every even-numbered month should see a release, the next one of which will be in late October.

We still plan on starting up Usotsuki Lily v12 next month as well.

Kenjutsu Komachi ch. 2: Mediafire, Dropbox

The Queen of Swords!

We're back! And with a new series! This is chapter 1 of Kenjutsu Komachi by Ayumi Komura, and it's a spin-off of Usotsuki Lily. Readers of that series may remember that Komachi's father is known for drawing a manga called "Sword Fighter Komachi" (Kenjutsu Komachi), and much to our surprise, Komura started a series for it in June. In the story, Komachi Mizuno's family runs a shrine and a sword fighting dojo, but she doesn't like fighting and often skips out on practice. On Komachi's 16th birthday, she is mysteriously transported to another world similar to classical Japan.

As of now, only the first chapter has been released, and the series is being released on the Margaret Book Store app, currently available only on iOS, but once you have the app, the manga is free to read (although there are other manga you have to pay for). The app has seen 3 updates to its content since it launched in June, but there's still only one chapter of Kenjutsu Komachi, so it's unknown exactly when the next chapter will be released. Maybe Komura is drawing it on a bimonthly schedule, and if so, chapter 2 should be out in about 9 days; we'll see.

Also, we were recently sent some raws for the bonus content that was included in the Josou Debut volume (retitled as Haruno to Natsukawa). It's very short though; only the back cover, and then another 3 bonus pages were included.

Next up, Bokura no Hentai volume 3 begins, soon to be followed by Kuragehime volume 12.

Kenjutsu Komachi ch. 1: Mediafire, Dropbox
Josou Debut omake: Mediafire, Dropbox