Bijou Blade

Changes Coming to the Scanlation World

Osukaru — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:13 +0000

This is from a few days ago (6/17/10) over a month ago now and might be old news to some of you, but I feel like this is important. Japanese, U.S. Manga Publishers Unite To Fight Scanlations Summary: They’re shutting you down man! Japanese and American publishers are teaming up to shut down the large manga scanlation aggregation [...]

Introducing a New Series: Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken

Osukaru — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:38:44 +0000

NEW SCANLATION SERIES SHORT PREVIEW: Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken Migawari was supposed to be Bijou Blade’s first and only scanlated series. Due to my own perfectionism it took two and a half years to get this far. After working on this scanlation I have so much respect for everyone who works on releasing manga, both the original [...]

Guess Who’s Back?

Osukaru — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:57:08 +0000

Yo! Sorry to abandon the site for so long. I’ve been busy with real life, and haven’t had the same kind of free time as when I started this site. >_.>), there are a few more recent dealings in there too. ^_^;; I figured I better post something before I get another crazy dream that some [...]

BeruBara Kids 5 Just Released

Osukaru — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:42:39 +0000

BeruBara Kids 5 was just released today! Ok, ok, so I guess it’s already yesterday in Japan. But it’s still news!! I *heart* the cover. Everyone is assigned their own cat(s), for better or for worse heehee. It’s so adorable! Just look at all the pretty little bijoux!! My one weakness~ hahaha~ There will be one of [...]

Coming up…

Osukaru — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:31:59 +0000

I'm back with the next page of BeruBara Kids! The theme this time seems to be about dressing in drag... sort of. Hopefully it will make more sense if once the article translation is finished.

Oscar in Disguise (alternate: Oscar in Drag)
Endure in Silence

November was a pretty hectic month. After seeing how things went last month, I guess it's not always possible for me to update every week. Especially since this is a (mostly) one-man group.

As for the near future

BeruBara Kids 3 and 4

Osukaru — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:06:33 +0000

Here are the next two strips for BeruBara Kids! André’s Anguish Masque Lovers You may have noticed in these first few strips that the larger SFX are not being translated. Well, in those cases I consider them to be more part of the drawing than dialogue, based both on complexity and visual space, with the comics better for [...]

BB Recommends: Rose of Versailles

Osukaru — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:36:21 +0000

Since Bijou Blade's first release is BeruBara Kids, I think it only makes sense that the first series recommendation should be the original Rose of Versailles 「ベルサイユのばら」 manga and anime. Now, since you've found this site at all, you are probably already familiar with The Rose of Versailles (aka. BeruBara) in one of it's many incarnations, or perhaps you've only seen references to it in discussions or lists of "classic" anime and manga.

First Release – BeruBara Kids

Osukaru — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:42:16 +0000

Hey there! Welcome to Bijou Blade!

Today is the release of our first scanlation series: BeruBara Kids!

BeruBara Kids is a 4-panel parody comic strip based on The Rose of Versailles. It's quite cute and funny, and the chibis are adorable! This is one of my favorite series so I'm very excited to work on this project!

And the first two panels are:

You can expect updates at last once a week once things get rolling. Enjoy!