I seriously feel like the only person who absolutely loves the series, at least not includingmy few friends who I've gotten hooked. It's my favorite manga and there are only ten volumes in Japan right now. Any idea when Higuri-sama's gonna continue with it? I only have what's been realsed by our loverly Go!Comi personas, but that means only 3 more volumes for them to continue with until the series is in magazines again. Next volume is released who knows when and I want to know what happens.

x.x Oh no! Does that mean I've been clinging on this long to encounter a cliff-hanger??

^o^ And no, you're not the only one who's in love with Cantarella. I began stalking it...long before Go!Comi but after the 10 volumes had been released in Japan (I waited about 18 months before the first translated vo. came out). It was a bittersweet moment when it got licensed (no more scans *sigh* and horrible fear of bad translating *shudder*) But the Go!Comi take has abated my fears, even if it's a little expensive x.x

Come to think of it, I wish Go!Comi had gotten its hands on Seimaden as well...

P.S.: I hope Higuri-sensei one day considers creating Cantarella doujinshi...

Needless to say, we also hope she resumes Cantarella soon! 

The problem is, she has become an extremely in-demand character designer for both anime and games.  Plus her series CROWN is proving to be *extremely* popular in Japan and keeps getting extended.  (She was talking about considering doing this series wheen we first met her -- Shinji Wada, the author of CROWN, is super-famous in Japan.)

Thanks for you kind words about our translation.  As you probably know, we deal with Higuri-sensei directly whenever questions of accuracy arise.  (Actually, getting the Japanese right is not as hard as getting all the Italian historical details right!)

Oh -- and have you seen this...?

BTW, my avatar is a drawing Higuri-sensei did of me in Cantarella 10.

-- David 

I absolutely love Cantarella! And I have from the very beginning ^^

 I 'read' the first volume years back in 2002. I actually found the first graphic novel in it's original Japanese release at my public library (random find!). I couldn't understand it unfortunately but I was already hooked and wanted to know what was happening so I was thrilled when GoComi got the rights to it :3

xD That's EXACTLY how I pick out manga to read. If the art is pretty, then I consider the plot; I know it seems a little shallow, but honestly, if I collected every manga that had just a great plot, I'd be in the poorhouse. What a lucky win though! *,*

*,* I saw the 'Read' poster and was hoping my library would pick it up, but alas. (And I have banned myself from posters or anything that involves the wall. I no longer have a ceiling, walls, or doors--just a sheet of posters) Your icon is quite cute ^_^. xD The way Higuri-sensei draws people in side panels is amusing (But then you look at the main part of the manga and go 'o.o')

xD I love all the little historical pieces that are put into Cantarella. I just finished a year-long course on Euro. history (Italy and France EVERYWHERE), so I definitely understand the trouble of trying to untangle the...interesting mass of early Italian history. (Never, EVER again!)

_ Ah, so that's what it was. I hunt for Higuri stuff on Y!Jap, but lately it's been flooded with Crown stuff @_@;

...o.o; That really is a random find! Even the few random Japanese volumes I'd found in the store were of already-popular series, so that is amazing to me o.o (Then again, I lived in an area that was not very anime/manga friendly, so it's not a big surprise nothing that wasn't already mainstream wasn't there.)

Well, you know, they also sell bookmarks of the illustration as well!  (For the record, we have no financial involvement in this -- all money from the posters & bookmarks goes to support the ALA.

Interesting thing about the poster.  When you see it in person, you can see that Cesare is reading "Il Principe" by Niccolo Machiavelli.  Machiavelli was a real person (he's portrayed as the moth-sorcerer in "Cantarella") and the book is known in English as "The Prince."  It's a very famous manual of ruthless tactics and is believed to be inspired by Cesare Borgia.  And the most interesting thing -- in the poster Cesare is reading the book right to left -- Japanese style! 

 Higuri-sensei shares a lot of her dojin stuff with me.  She still attends Comiket every year!  (Her line was out the door last year; I was so lucky I didn't have to stand in it.) I'll have to ask her if she has any dojin plans for Cantarella. 

 I should dig through the stuff she's given me and see if any of it is Cantarella-related (I don't think it is).  She did some stuff for Gakuen Heaven.  XD