I just wanted to post a note saying that I won’t be doing any posting this week due to my wife being in the hospital. She caught a bad case of food poisoning after we ate out at Fatz Cafe late Friday night and I had to rush her to the emergency room at 4 am in the morning. She’s been there ever since. Hopefully, she’ll be home today, but I just don’t know at this time. Considering how sick she’s been, I expect most of my free time to tied up to tending to her and spending time with my lovely wife as she gets better.

Thanks for understanding.

Sincerely,
LC1

In move that can only be described as “indescribable,” the magazine and book publishing company, Yen Press, has chosen not to use the original Japanese cover art for their upcoming release of the Spice and Wolf light novel series by Isuna Hasekura. Instead , the book will use artwork created specifically for the American marker. In an apparent effort to appeal to a broader fantasy audience, the new artwork ditches the manga style artwork original used in favor of photograph of a nude woman with a badly photoshopped wolf’s tale and buckteeth. After careful examination of the new cover, I have yet to turn up any dragons or unicorns in the in the background, but I’m sure there’s still time to add them in sometime between now and the book’s release date. I mean they already have the generic fantasy font down pat…

According to the original post at Yen Press, all the original interior illustrations have been left intact and the only artwork that has been raped changed is the cover art. In an unexpected bit of generosity, Yen Press has magnanimously chosen to extend an olive branch to the more hardcore Horo fans out there by making a limited edition dust jacket containing the original cover art available to them around the same time as the book’s release. The catch is that you have to buy a copy of the December issue of the Yen Plus magazine if you want it. Early reports from the field describe the move as being similar to having a big fat guy crap on your chest and then hand you a roll of toilet paper afterwards. Sure, it cleans up most of the mess, but you’re never going to be able to forget that it happened in the first place =-_-;;=

View the original article.
Originally spotted via Sankaku Complex
Learn more about the Spice and Wolf series.

I thought it was worth mentioning that the DS game “A Witch’s Tale” was released yesterday. Published by the good folks over at NISAmerica and developed in conjunction with HItMaker, A Witch’s Tale tells the story of a young witch apprentice who accidentally releases an ancient evil on the world and must now make amends by correcting her mistake. With her pedophile-in-training vampire companion Lou in tow, the plucky young lass set out to fight evil armed with only a handful magical runes and her supple young body favorite dolly.

To learn more, you can check out the spiffy website that NISAmerica put together or if you’re the type who buys just about everything that Nippon Ichi produces, you can pick up the game for the around $29.99 at your game shop of choice.

Hey, everyone. Sorry for the lack of the updates the last two weeks. I caught a bad virus and I’ve been down for the count. I’m much better now and I’m hoping to get back to work on the website soon. I’ve just got to get settled back in at work first (for some reason, bosses don’t like it very much when you miss an entire week of work =^_^;;=). Updates will be light for the remainder of this week and I probably won’t be back up to any sort of regularity on posting until next week.

-LC1