I can't believe it's already almost the end of July. Honestly, I felt I haven't done much except process FL and clique applications. I originally intended to have a fanlisting ready for the beginning of July. However, through a series of irritating circumstances and foreseeable future, I've found myself without Photoshop! Hence, I was unable to do anything until I got the problem sorted out.

Strong Women Updates
Before this month ends, I want to announce on starting a new project on FLs regarding strong women. This will mainly apply to fictional characters for either a game or an anime. Unless another subject out of this idea strikes me, I will also include them on the updates.

1. Resident Evil: Jill Valentine
   The first strong female spotlight has to hand down to Jill Valentine, one of the main protagonist to the Resident Evil franchise. Jill's personality is generally pretty serious. She's eager to make a difference and protect people. Despite going through so many horrors in her life, she continues to try to make a difference.

As mentioned, I want to stay true to my words about the unfinished 2024 roadmap. Future content plans will be announced separately in upcoming updates. Stay tuned!

I'm back from vacation, and it feels great to be in my cozy space again! No big updates for this entry yet, but I did process fanlistings/cliques and replied to some emails—so if you messaged me, don't worry, I'm not ignoring you!

Clique Reminders
Quick reminder: please make sure the clique code is up on your site before or right after you submit the form. Even if your site is under construction, coming soon, or on hiatus, the clique link needs to stay visible. Lately, more people haven't been reading the rules. It only takes a minute or two, and sending a form means you've read them. If your link isn't up when I check, your form will be rejected or your membership removed.

That's all for now, more updates soon!

A new fanlisting is now online to wrap up the ending of April. I wanted to make sure I get this up to avoid getting listed in the troubles section. I have also processed members for all my cliques!

1. CLAMP
   This design is rather simple because I wanted to emphasize more on CLAMP's artworks without doing too much editing. As you can see, I have quite a collection of fanlistings based from CLAMP and to be granted to own this subject is quite a blessing! I love CLAMP and their works. Please don't forget to join on your way there if you're a fan of this Mangaka group!

No new updates will be made until some time towards the end of May. I will be on 3-week vacation starting 2 days from now and I'll have a bit of email backlog to tackle. So if you're waiting on a response from me, I'll be getting to that as soon as I return from my trip.

Hey all, happy April! I just finished a design for a new fanlisting that I got approved for. Please check it out!

1. Gokinjo Monogatari (Neighborhood Story)
   If you love Yazawa Ai and her works, then this manga is worth the read. The series depicts the main protagonist, Mikako Kouda, who delves into her journey to achieve her dream for fashion while navigating the complexities of teenage life, friendship, and love.

This layout did not take too long to design. There were many colorful images that were carefully hand-picked that they inspired and motivated me to complete the layout in one day! Yazawa Ai's illustrations always leave me with a good impression—fashion remained an integral part of her's life and artistic works as she has masterfully woven fashion into the very essence of her manga through her iconic characters. The finished design turned out how I wanted it to be without the high contrast colors breaking my eyes.

My schedule once again got the better of me, so this update it more delayed than I would have liked. Still, it's probably better than delaying any late updates like I usually am!

The first order of business is that fanlisting I promised last December. For this design, I thought I'd try something a little different, since my normal blends wouldn't have suited the design very well. And I've been missing green—I think it's showing. I used to hate green. I guess something changed somewhere along the line?

1. Gohou Drug (Legal Drug)
   One of my favorite CLAMP series publications, but was put to hiatus in 2003. This mystery series depicts Kudo Kazahaya and Himura Rikuo hard at work doing their part-time job at a drugstore. You can usually find them there, but sometimes they aren't around when you need them. See, they have a secret job, too. And that's where their story begins.

Fun fact: The manga has nothing to do with the marijuana used for this series. Not sure why CLAMP decided to associate the object with this, but it's probably due to the title name.