Venice, the latter half of the 16th century. Young Legare works as an apprentice to his father, an apothecary, but his real passion is the forbidden art of Alchemy. One day, a fortune teller predicts that he will meet four people with the power to change destiny and shortly after, his father is incarcerated on suspicion of alchemy. Legare, the real alchemist, is forced to produce gold for the person who arrested his father. Follow him through the mysteries of Venice, through his struggles, his encounters with powerful friends and enemies, and his search for the Philosopher’s stone.

Releases:

• Volume 1 – Being Translated
• Volume 2 – Being Translated
• Volume 3 – Being Translated
• Volume 4 – Being Translated
• Volume 5 – Being Translated
• Volume 6 – Being Translated

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a celebration held on May 5. It is celebrated nationwide in the United States and regionally in Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla, where the holiday is called El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (English: The Day of the Battle of Puebla). The date is observed in the United States as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride, and to commemorate the cause of freedom and democracy during the first years of the American Civil War. In the state of Puebla, the date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. Contrary to widespread popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day—the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico—which is actually celebrated on September 16.
~ Source: Wikipedia

Aaah, so it is an important day of freedom, similar to Independence Day. It is a special day of commemmoration on human’s sacrifices from history, to regain a sense of balance to live together in this crazy world. A special day indeed, to celebrate the past, and for current and future generations to remember.

It is a festive month and what better way to commemorate happiness but with some manga releases to uplift any down spirits! Be happy people! Life is short!

Before anything else, here are a few shoutouts for everyone:

• Looking for Japanese to English translators for some of our shoujo romance series and also our shounen ai series. Apply~
• Looking for Editors: experienced and even those willing to be trained~ Apply~
• Looking for Manga and magazine scanners~ Suggestions on new titles are welcome~ Please let us know~
• We currently need donations to buy and scan the latest volumes of our titles. Please consider helping out. Every little bit helps~ Thank you~

Before you donning your festive hats, you can view what releases we have here:

• Ludwig Gensoukyoku – A one-shot and extra from one of our all-time favorite series, Ludwig Kakumei! Rejoice is the Prince Lui love and sadism!
• Shounen Dolls chapter 14 – Meiji era bishies!
• Akuma no Puzzle chapter 4 – And we have another completed series! *stamps it*
• Yumemiru Koto chapter 4 – This is such a sexy series… XD
• Sora Log chapter 14 – Bishie wars!!!
• Xia Ke Xing chapter 4 – Is it just me, or are there a lot of “fours” on this week’s chapters…?
• Kaizoku to Ningyo chapter 5 – YES! We broke the curse of the “four” chapters on cinco de mayo! XD The link to chapter 5 has now been fixed~

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Demon brothers Tao Tie and Kui Long arrive at a village to prepare to recieve a ritual sacrifice that happens every 10 years. Kui Long introduces himself as Wu Chen to a girl named Tan Hua. Turns out Tan Hua actually died from an illness beforehand but her brother the doctor gave her a medicine that rivived her so that she would be the sacrifice and not him. Neither Kui Long nor Tan Hua know of eachothers role in the approaching ritual…

Releases:

• Tao Tie Jie Volume 01 Chapter 001
• Tao Tie Jie Volume 01 Chapter 002
• Volume 1 Chapter 003 – Being QCed
• Volume 1 Chapter 004 – Being QCed
• Volume 1 Chapter 005 – Being Edited

• Volume 2 Chapter 001 – In Translation
• Volume 2 Chapter 002 – In Translation
• Volume 2 Chapter 003 – In Translation
• Volume 2 Chapter 004 – In Translation
• Volume 2 Chapter 005 – In Translation
• Volume 2 Chapter 006 – In Translation
• Volume 2 Chapter 007 – In Translation

A lonely boy named Alza rescues an unconscious girl trapped in snow and tends her to health. Mystery surrounds the girl called Rhea who seem to come from the Magical City. Will Alza still help her once he learns that she practices magic that he despises?

Releases:

• Ginsekai

The good old AE site is back and you find me lounging on a pile of bearskins and supervising my slightly disoriented, bruised and half-drowned penguins working double-time on new releases.

But maybe you wonder why the bearskin on top is with a pirate’s hat and an eye-patch?

Then let me tell you the story of a fearless, but undignified one-eyed bear pirate with bad drinking manners who invaded the sacred home of the cute, harmless and always busy AE penguins. This bad, bad bear overtook their site, enslaved some of them and forced the rest to walk the plank, usurped their fans and even stole their manga… But that wasn’t enough for him, oh, no. Drunk with power and non-alcoholic beer, he made one fatal mistake – instead of hoarding his gains and leaving, he stayed and dug deeply and greedily into the dark, mysterious underground mazes of Aerandria, hoping to find even more manga goodness, not heeding the rumors of a dark, all-powerful ancient evil sleeping somewhere in the depths, one that terrifies even its own people, the penguins. And thus, he stumbled upon… ME.

Imagine my heart-felt dejection upon awakening when I crawled out of the depths to find my penguins hanging from the coconut trees, tied up like squishy salami, their cute capital Penguinville brought down to smoking ruins! I thought I had taught them better. I thought I had trained them to withstand even rabid smut fangirls and yet… *sadly shakes head*

The skies darkened with my fury and thunder rolled over the heads of the doomed bear pirates, while I stretched out my giant black wings, together with my endless arsenal of curses, voodoo, instruments of torture, poison princesses and rock-heavy Japanese dictionaries…

But let us skip the gory details, much as I like them. Suffice it to say, my penguins were reminded of my wrath, hence the amazing speed of the new releases, the enemy was defeated and the website back to its normal white cuteness and proper grammar!

Also, because of the damage to the ship and goods that the One-Eyed Bear inflicted on our unsuspecting penguin crew, repair funds are needed so please consider helping us out with our dilemma! Every bit counts! Our cute penguins will do a dance number for you with joy! XD

Before anything else, here are a few shoutouts for everyone:

• Looking for Japanese to English translators for some of our shoujo romance series and also our shounen ai series. Apply~
• Looking for Editors: experienced and even those willing to be trained~ Apply~
• Looking for Manga and magazine scanners~ Suggestions on new titles are welcome~ Please let us know~

You can enjoy a cup of delicately brewed tea and proper literary grammar with me while flipping through these series:

• Phoenix Flames chapter 1 – A very aptly named chapter on the day we take back our site from those drunken pirates!
• Kurobara Alice chapter 23 – Warning! This chapter is a shocker!!! Make sure you’re seated~
• Ginsekai – A very nice one-shot from one of our favorite mangakas! ^_^
• Iiki no Ki chapter 5 – What do you expect from the apocalypse? A bloody mess, that is! Many thanks to angelicvoice.fr for the colored magazine scans~
• Purple Eyes volume 8 – An entire volume release~ 2/3 of the series done~ Almost there!
• Tao Tie Jie chapter 1 and 2 – A new series featuring a couple of bishies~
• Oh! My Prince chapter 2 – Who wouldn’t have a hot guy best friend? >D

We be so sick ‘n tired ‘o hearin’ ’bout ’tis site bein’ all spit shine, cute ‘n happy! What th’ heck be wit’ that?! It makes us sick! No one be allowed to be that cute! ’tis against humanity! So our own artists redecorated while drinkin’ lots ‘o ale ‘n sin’in’ drunken songs, ‘n belchin’. We threw away that spit shine white ‘n replaced it wit’ an elegant black color! Isn’t it full ‘o awe? It has our extra beautiful handwritin’ too! We were goin’ to use some really spiffy colors too like bloody red ‘n neon green doodles all around th’ site but them damn ta hell resistin’ penguins took off wit’ all our colored markers! >O Slime-encrusted critters! We’ve since tied them as prisoners awaitin’ th’ plank!

Aren’t ye in awe ‘o our greatness yet? Our rowdy group be also currently recruitin’ more members! We need sturdy bodies that lust th’ sea ‘n harrrd set the sails! Ones who dream ‘o becomin’ great band ‘o pirates like us! Join our lives explorin’ th’ seven seas!

‘n them precious releases ye’ve be waitin’ fer? HAH! We’ve gotten rid ‘o them too ‘n made our own version! Our own version be much more a ruckas! It has more band ‘o pirates! Ale! Guts! Our releases have hidden surprises waitin’ fer ye readers! We changed lots ‘o thin’s! Heartly enjoy, heartly enjoy!

Read our own releases full ‘o belchin’ ‘n merry sin’in’!

• Hapi Mari chapter 31 – You love me. Real or not real?
• Yasashii Ryuu no Koroshikata chapter 11 – I love you THIIIIIIIIIIS much!
• Shinyaku Ookami ga Kuru! chapter 27 – Bishie vampire~
• Dokuhime chapter 23 – We want to recruit alpha Kait into the penguin side~ *runs away*
• Sora Log chapter 13 – Asou chibi cuteness!
• Tamashizume chapter 6 – Hail bishies!
• Gakkou no Sensei chapter 9 – Nekomimi!

Imagine living in a town where supernatural beings stalk the night for their next prey. Toukei Ibun takes place 29 years after Tokyo was established as the capital of Japan. Manzou is the owner of an inn in the town of Asakusa. His friend Hirakawa is a journalist who is investigating the bizarre crimes that keep occurring all over the city in the dead of night.

Releases:

First chapter released by Shinnen

• Tokei Ibun Volume 01 Chapter 001a – Released by Shinnen
• Tokei Ibun Volume 01 Chapter 001b – Released by Shinnen
• Tokei Ibun Volume 01 Chapter 002a
• Volume 01 Chapter 002b – Being Edited
• Volume 01 Chapter 003a – Being Edited
• Volume 01 Chapter 003b – Being Edited

• Volume 02 Chapter 003c – Being Edited
• Volume 02 Chapter 004a – Being Edited
• Volume 02 Chapter 004b – Being Edited
• Volume 02 Chapter 004c – Being Edited
• Volume 02 Chapter 004d – Being Edited
• Volume 02 Chapter 004e – Being Edited
• Volume 02 Chapter 004f – Being Edited

• Volume 03 Chapter 004g – Translated
• Volume 03 Chapter 004h – Translated
• Volume 03 Chapter 004i – Translated
• Volume 03 Chapter 005a – Translated
• Volume 03 Chapter 005b – Translated

• Volume 04 Chapter 005c – Translated
• Volume 04 Chapter 005d – Translated
• Volume 04 Chapter 005e – Translated
• Volume 04 Chapter 005f – Translated
• Volume 04 Chapter 006 – Translated

Excuse me for the not so dignified posture you are seeing right now. You see, in our part of the world, it’s the start of Summer. Meaning, last March 9, we reached a 40 degree Celsius around twelve noon. Anyone unfortunately out at that time, inclusive of me during lunch with workmates, the sun was scorching hot and will burn off any unwanted calories even if only standing on one spot.

Plus gaining the unfortunately gift of skin cancer is a high probability now.

Yet, the sun’s wrath is not enough to cease the AE staff from doing what we all love… to produce awesomely cool, downright addicting, and fan-love infested manga releases. Beats ice cream I might add. XD

Before anything else, here are a few shoutouts for everyone:

• Follow us on twitter! (If that’s your kind of thing) You can stare at our nifty avatar.
• Looking for Japanese to English translators for some of our shoujo romance series and also our shounen ai series. Apply~
• Looking for Editors: experienced and even those willing to be trained~ Apply~
• Looking for Manga and magazine scanners~ Suggestions on new titles are welcome~ Please let us know~
• Our recently launched bishounen wiki is waiting for your bishie loooooove~ The bishies are waiting to have their profiles made. Show the fandom!

If I may add, maybe we could also hire some penguins in grass-skirts to fan our beloved staff, who will still be working non-stop on releases despite the summer heat. That would be wicked!

On to the first Summer releases!

• Hapi Mari chapter 30 – Making your summer that much hotter with smut~ XD
• Dokuhime chapter 22 – And our dark bishies just get darker! Which fandom has more fangirls? Hal? Mao? Or Kait? XD
• Kaizoku to Ningyo chapter 4 – What kind of imperial army has all those bisheis?! >O Where do we sign up?!
• Akuma no Puzzle chapter 3 – This is what happens when you take in stray dogs people! XD
• Full Moon chapter 4 – Ghost! Vampires! Action!
• Mishounen Produce chapter 17 – Nearing the home stretch!
• Shinyaku Ookami ga Kuru! chapter 26 – Aquaria fans will LOVE this chapter! It’s all about her kicking butt!
• Toukei Ibun chapter 2a – A sneak release and a new joint with Shinnen~

The mysterious alchemist Lorenzo Lusignano, a descendant of the royal family of Cyprus, is searching for the ultimate secret of alchemy – the Philosopher’s stone “Elixir.” Rumors of this blood-red gem creep everywhere, but nobody seems to have seen it, so Lorenzo’s travels through Europe’s Renaissance are never easy. Follow him on his journey as he meets kings and queens, witches and wizards, pirates and gypsies, fairy-tale creatures and monsters, and even gods.

Releases:

• Elixir Volume 1 Chapter 001 – Released by Night Exile
• Elixir Volume 1 Chapter 002 – Released by Night Exile
• Elixir Volume 1 Chapter 003 – Released by Night Exile

• Elixir Volume 2 Chapter 004 – Released by Night Exile
• Elixir Volume 2 Chapter 005 – Released by Night Exile
• Elixir Volume 2 Chapter 006 – Released by Night Exile

• Elixir Volume 3 Chapter 007 – Released by Night Exile
• Elixir Volume 3 Chapter 008 – Released by Iskultrip
• Elixir Volume 3 Chapter 009 – Translated

• Elixir Volume 4 Chapter 010 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 4 Chapter 011 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 4 Chapter 012 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 4 Chapter 013 – Translated

• Elixir Volume 5 Chapter 014 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 5 Chapter 015 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 5 Chapter 016 – Translated

• Elixir Volume 6 Chapter 017 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 6 Chapter 018 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 6 Chapter 019 – Translated
• Elixir Volume 6 Chapter 020 – Translated

…That day, I swore to myself that I would never dig my own grave and suggest doing a mass release… ever… again. OTL.

Ease my workload by joining our staff!

• Follow us on twitter! (If that’s your kind of thing) You can stare at our nifty avatar.
• Japanese to English translators for some of our shoujo romance series and also our shounen ai series.
• Editors: experienced and even those willing to be trained~ Apply~
• Manga and magazine scanners~ Suggestions on new titles are welcome~ Please let us know~

-Eve of Valentine’s Day release-

Adrift: Wait, what do you mean we’re doing a mass release? I thought we were doing our usual release week… thingy.
craxx: Yes, it should be safe to do a mass release. I think. -Looks at pile of finished chapters from Laca and Co.-
Adrift: Er… uh… -looks at her unfinished chapter- When are you releasing?
craxx: Couple hours.

-Adrift races to finish her chapter.-
-craxx makes the tedious preparations to update the site. -
-jojo flails around in the channel and attempts to memorize vocabulary.-

craxx: Adrift! Boink won’t let me in again, how do I reset it? Oh, wait, nevermind. We’re good.
Adrift: GUYS, does this sentence make sense to you?! Blah missing translations blah grammar blah future perfect tense blah blah
jojo: para – near, beside, resembling, abnormal / Per- through, by, or completely / dia – through, between, across/ trans – across/through
craxx: Adrift, make comments on a few of the released chapters for me? Oh, double check the new series project pages I just made, too.
jojo: I actually have a story made up for Adrift to help me memorize one of the prefixes/suffixes!
jojo: Ad- (Adrift walks TOWARD me.) lol
Adrift: And here I thought it was going to be a 300 page novel all about little ole me…

-Several hours later, the site is updated. Chapters in. Everything is uploaded.-

craxx: I will never… suggest a mass release ever again.
Laca: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… and all the while I kept thinking… “She suggested a mass release… pffft… Ok… she doesn’t know what she’s asking…”
Adrift: Well, at least that’s over. Time to eat Valentine’s Day chocolate and nap!
Jojo: YEAH! –flails-

On to the releases~ Enjoy~

• Gakkou no Sensei chapter 8 – If only I wasn’t scared of cats.
• Kimi wa Boku no Toriko Nare chapter 13 – Guess who among the maid is actually a guy? XD
• Ruri no Kaze ni Hana wa Nagareru chapter 10 – Finally…
• Shinyaku Ookami ga Kuru! chapter 25 – He’s so dense! XDDDD
• Mishounen Produce chapter 16 – craxx: What’s with her eyes looking so weak when she’s not wearing glasses? She’s supposed to look pretty! *runs from Laca and fans* Adrift: I like her better with glasses sometimes, too! *Adrift runs away with craxx* craxx: Hail, megane! *runs*
• Chikutaku Bonbon chapter 3 – This is my pet series! Just so you know. XD Love the series name~
• Yumemiru Koto chapter 3 – Grahhh! Why so short?!