Kimi(hime) no Tamenara Shineru

Well, this hit us as quite a surprise. We were actually working on getting some chapters on this manga done this month - in a new resolution, too - but it's licensed.

By JManga no less.

Well, it is in more capable (and hopefully faster!) hands now, so consider it dropped here, and please consider getting it on JManga instead if you liked it, once they release it.

This was the last project we were doing, so we have nothing on our plate now and don't really know what to do next, if anything. Maybe we'll put out a one-shot or two. We honestly don't know yet.

Take care, and thanks for following this little blog.

~Zefiris

Kimi no Tame Nara Shineru, chapters 0-5

Here it is, finally. Sorry for the long wait.

This turned out to be a really wonderful thing to begin working on. I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I am myself.

As mentioned, this manga bears an extremely tenuous connection to the life of the historical Sei Shonagon, who served then-Empress Teishi. As such, there are a few things to clarify:

1. Teishi is referred to as a "princess", but although she is of the powerful Fujiwara house, she herself is not of royal blood. At the time, any daughter of a high noble house could be referred to as a "hime", and although we translate that as "princess", the meaning is not the same.

2. As you hopefully read in Shonagon's wikipedia entry, in the Heian Era it was customary for court ladies to be referred to by pseudonyms. This is also the case for Murasaki and Kou, both of whom have the title of "shikibu". Hopefully this will clear up any confusion about both of them being called such.

Well, I could go on, but it would be too easy to get bogged down in explanations. There's no real need anyway - at bottom this is a fun and fluffy work that is far from sweating the historical details. We should take the same attitude.

In any case, it's our pleasure to present this to you! Please enjoy.

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Upcoming New Project: Kimi no Tame Nara Shineru

We are pleased to announce that we are taking on a new project, Kimi no Tame Nara Shineru (For Your Sake, I Would Die).

This is a charming work very, very, VERY loosely based on the life of Heian-era author and poet Sei Shonagon. The 27 year-old Shonagon, depicted here as a sort of medieval NEET, manages to land a job as the private tutor of the beautiful and refined teenage princess, Teishi. (Yes, age-gap romance!) There are also a number of other quirky court ladies, some of whom have their own eye on Shonagon...

Zefiris really liked this one, and I'm quite taken with it as well. Please look forward to the first chapters soon! (And don't worry, we won't be neglecting Choir. We intend to alternate releases.)