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Since I think it bears pimping dammit, this is not pimping, spreading the word is important and, um, revolutionary and shit. You should read

this,

but please be let me caution you that it made me shaky and weird with all the GAR ANGRY. Oh, I won't pretend this is a big surprise and poor me, just...god, it really sucks. That poor son of a bitch.

The Gentlemen Alliance

My Tanemura Arina binge is (sort of) going to start one month early, thanks to the wonders of preview crap. This month's issue of Ribon, fresh out of my mailbox, has a little color page in the front with stuff about Tanemura Arina's next series. It's name is Shinshi Doumei (The Gentleman Alliance), and, true to Arina's word, it's a gakuen mono. To explain that again, that means Saved By the Bell with school uniforms antics at a big shiny school that kids like going to, with uniforms that kids like wearing. In other words, *total* fantasy.

The main character a is a first-year (10th-grade) girl named Otomiya Haine who is bats about The Emperor, a.k.a. Touguu Shizumasa. Shizumasa is a cool, tough first year who is also somehow president of the student council. He has a ton of power, whatever that is at this school, and people call him "The Emperor." Haine's current goal is to be prettier and more feminine, presumably to be a suitable partner for that Emperor; failing that, she at least wants him to notice her.

Whatever Arina's doing, she's getting closer to writing a "normal love story," something she's been aiming for for a long time, though how long it'll last and how good it'll be is anybody's guess. Clearly I am excited. My new AIM screen name is Otomiya Haine (HAHAHAHA I GOT IT BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE ^^^^^^)

Soooo.

New layout. New colors, actually. I haven't had any new ones in a while. And for the first time, I realized I can get away with claw-your-eyes-out red because everybody who reads this diary reads it from their friends list---just like me. Uh, well, I think they do. Not much to see here, anyway.

I'm not looking to make The Gentleman Alliance my favoritest series EVAR, I'm just in the mood for a new layout. I should stick to the golden oldies. The best part of waking up.

Yang, I see you took that icon I put out. Good job. Now set up the colors in your diary and WRITE SOMETHING.