Today is m5c's birthday, so as per MA custom, we have a release today to celebrate! Grab the file on IRC as usual. Happy birthday m5c! Thanks for sticking around with us for yet another year :)

• Andante v03 c012

I'm very happy and pleased to be able to release this chapter since it's my favourite (well, one of them XD)~. This project is also immi's favourite (yes, there's a "u" because I'm from down under!)~.

We loved this manga so much that when we first started this project, we've already bought all the possible volumes out there. ^^ Like 5+? :o

We're only sorry that we took so long to get this out - immi had to edit it twice! (Poor immi!) She pretty much had it all edited before her HDD died. :(

Oh well, let bygones be bygones and we'll just keep on moving forward! :D I am so excited on how well we're progressing now that we're active again. Would even be better if we had more dedicated staff though *hint hint~*. ^^

Special thanks to Gari at Solaris-SVU, who we've previously joint with, for translating this chapter as well! Please don't forget to visit him~. :)

Enjoy~ I know I would. XD

*immi knows about this posting and has been kind enough to help me with uploading the chapter and updating the IRC (where you can download this chapter~) topic~

• Seigi no Mikata v02 c006

Sigh, I was supposed to get this chapter released about a week ago for Suyara's birthday, but Photoshop wasn't cooperating :( Anyway, happy birthday Suyara! Grab the chapter on our channel on IRC. As usual, it's a really fun chapter. So now we know why Dorothy is so messed up. Poor Dorothy...

• Akazukin Chacha v04 c020

If you don't have fireworks to entertain yourselves with this July, enjoy yourselves with another chapter of Hime-chan no Ribon instead! From this chapter on, we're going to be doing a joint with the cool people over at FoOlRulez!. Go say hi to them! Hopefully with their help, we'll be able to quickly finish up this series :)

Also, special thanks to our editor cutiepie, who's been the one editing all of these past couple of chapters for us! Without her help, we wouldn't have been able to bring out this many releases this fast since our revival. Thanks cutiepie! You're awesome! ^^

• Hime-chan no Ribon v08 c033

Yay! We managed to get out another release!

So quick update on the current affairs of MangaArt for the curiously inclined. It seems we are lucky to still have some staff willing to stick around despite all the chaos, so we will hopefully be able to continue on our way. I'm still slowly reorganizing and sorting through all the files and crying over all my lost work and time. (I will probably continue to rant about the cursed drive until I release everything that I had already worked on before it all disappeared, so bear with me.) But anyway, it seems we'll manage. We lost a lot of good staff along the way, so it'll be a big hit towards our work, but hopefully we can replace that with some fresh blood! *hint hint* Of course, any old staff are more than welcome back too!

Currently, we plan to release at least once a month, but hopefully as we get well on our way, we can maybe reduce the wait to bi-weekly, or even back to the pace of our weekly releases before the epic hit. Our current plans are to just try to finish as many of the projects as possible and maybe do a short fun project once in awhile to spice things up/keep us from being bored. I'd like to just clarify that whatever is on our active project *is* currently active and we have plans to release. The pace of each project is just what will vary since we have very few staff at the moment, and all of our old members are pretty busy with real life.

Btw, if you haven't noticed, downloads have been down. They will still be down for awhile until I can gather all of the releases again and put them up on a new host. Please bear with us. Our main IRC hoster is also busy in Japan right now (yeah, it just keeps getting better, right?), so... I guess we won't really have an archive of all the old releases available at the moment until I gather everything. But we will make sure to have the newer releases available. So please come on IRC to grab the stuff.

Lastly, shout-out to the old staff.
ALL OLD MA STAFF: If you're still around and want to continue with the crazy ride that is MangaArt, please contact me! You should know where to reach me! If you forgot how, just send a us a message through the contact form to the left. Even if you don't want to work anymore, please come back and have fun with us! We miss you all and are lonely without you~ T_T Hope to hear back from you all!

• Hime-chan no Ribon v08 c032