Just saw that on the first page, but just saying, sensei's alright. She isn't radio silent...

And pictures of her cats from the few times I saw it xD

Yess, the cats ehe.

There's also a picture of them in every single volume, save for the first one, on the dust cover where she rambles about wathever (most of the time actually about the cats :V) and thank people for buying the volume. I guess the English edition doesn't have it at all though? Or is it slapped somewhere else?

In any case, it's persian cats (and she thinks they look like badgers lol). Moemaru's the white one, Hikaru's the darker one. "Her new cat" (maybe Hikaru, but I'm missing volume 5 so can't tell if there was another one) got 4 babies when she was on volume 6.

Her cats will probably have four more litters before Asami and Akhito even get to that helicopter. :D Awww, bless her heart. ;)

No, we were quite ripped off with the English edition, I hear.

No color plates in the last volume. The others had them. No dust covers... ever (Really? You got dust covers?!), and I recently discovered that out of the seven books I have, there are two extras missing (the infamous 3p between Asami, Takaba, and Fei Long... and the extra where the panic room first appears).

I don't know what DMP has against English readers :( Maybe there isn't enough of a market to give us nice things too?

If this is true, she will soon be knee deep in fluffiness! Awww ... cute. *achoo* Erm, excuse me ...

For the dust covers, I'm pretty sure that's because of industry standards. Never seen a French manga without one. Never seen an English one with one. I could never imagine that English ones didn't have them, that always seemed to me like that was mangas' trademark since I was a child (they used to amaze me a bit too much lol). All the mangas I have have them! And they all have a author's note as well as some random picture. On the other side it used to be another random picture, but now they're putting pubicities there since a couple of years x). Though mangas are limit a part of France's culture, the market is really strong (that was in parallel with video games since 20-something years?).

I think they look really nice in any case, they're all glossy and they actual cover (that's in black and white) bends a lot as it's not really thick. So they look really nice at all times without much worry.

The extras you mentionned are for the limited editions (in a spearate pamphlet). Here we didn't have the Animate one either at all, since they had to choose only one (with Asami in his condo, the blueprints... sigh). It's the same in Japan, good luck finding them a year after their release.

Oh, you have allergies, girl! ;) I'm a cat person, too. You can never have too many fury fluffy bundles of joy in the house. :) A good friend of mine is currently going through chemotherapy and it's as if all her cats (she has eight of them) sense that she is not well. As soon as she sits down, they are ALL over her, lying on her legs, her stomach etc. It's their way of offering comfort and support.

Oh, now I'm REALLY jealous! Books here have always been done cheap and dirty. I started buying Sci-Fi books when I was 8. Sadly, the pages are all yellowed now and the glue binding is disintegrating (yeah, pulp fiction).

I would GLADLY spend extra for a quality limited edition of VF but again, maybe they don't think there's an English market for that.

They do have YA notes about writing the manga (her thoughts on the characters, hints on where the story might go and in the last one, her difficulty with dealing with her father's death) but nothing about her cats, lol. Do French editions also have advertisements in them?

Y-y-yeah, my cats do that to me too! Such sweet behaviour. :D But right now they are shedding their winter coats, and the air is full of fluff! Hehe. (I have two and that is more than enough this time of year!) But sensei's kitties are very cute!

Sensei made chapter more longer than severals months before, that's a great thing ^^ Ganbatte Kudasai Sensei o/

Sensei made chapter more longer than severals months before, that's a great thing ^^ Ganbatte Kudasai Sensei o/

*waves hands* Another cat lady here! :) Yes, mine do the same thing, tokidoki (including shedding their winter coats, ugh!"). My husband and I have "European shorthairs" (basically, they are the result of the baker's tomcat sleeping around with the miller's she-cat, or something like that. *grins* Except their hair is not THAT short. *sigh* I love Sensei's white cat, though I prefer a nice tabby. And our tabbies are huge, they almost look like wildcats.

Hello fellow cat lady! Mine are short hairs too - thank goodness - the long hair would be scary come shedding time - LOL. I do think sensei's cats are cute, but all that fur - I don't think I could handle it - and the cuteness would be too much (especially kittens) - I would want to just spend every day cuddling them (joke) But we can certainly see where Aki gets some of his cat-like gracefulness and agility if she has so many fluffies around! Hahahaha

Ah, I wish I could have a cat but we don't have the room nor time for big animals (that aren't in cage the majority of the time.) I make up for it by volunteering at a cat rescue center. ^^

Ah! Rescue me! I just ran off after a squirrel on the main page. LOL

On a more serious note, people like you are wonderful to help rescue cats! I wish I could do it, but my own cats get really angry and hiss/scratch at me if I come home smelling of other cats!

Sure, they have advertisements. And Asuka is quite generous with them to say the least aha. His Favorite, My Demon and Me, Junjo Romantica, Crimson Spell, etc...

Though it's Japan that has awesome quality printing, and the French manga industry mimicked it. Japan has dust covers everywhere. In bookstores they'd ask if you'd want one for free, even to put it over the one coming with the book lol.

You're not missing much with the notes, they're usually of little interest, but they have their charm. It's like some sort of cool manga tradition to fill up that part of the dust cover.

And just like that, you have become my hero! :) That is a lovely thing to do, Miyanoai. So proud of you for taking the time and effort to help them and care for them! *sending you lots of love and a ton of hugs.*

Tokidoki, I just read the cutest signature line on IMDB:

"I'm a cat-aholic. Cats are my religion."
:)

Cute! I have a fridge magnet that says "Warning: Cat Hair is a condiment in this house!" (My mother bought it for me - hehehehe)

Ah with school and work, I barely had the time. But now that it's summer, I'll be doing it more often. I actually hope to find an internship at a vet or my local zoo next year. Working with animals is kind of my career goal, lol.