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This is for Doukyuusei Week 2021 Day 1: Karaoke! :D Back when Nakamura Asumiko was taking suggestions for the Opera Subscriber Bonus Booklet comic, I suggested Sorano, Hara, and Koma at karaoke. She didn’t do that (although I feel like I still won because there was a Sorano, Hara, and Koma comic in it :D ), so I’ve wanted to draw such a scene ever since. This prompt seemed like the perfect time to do it! :D Hara strikes me as the type to get REALLY into karaoke, especially when drunk. XD 

Life had been so insanely busy in the time since they announced the prompts, so I only was able to get sketches done for each day. >_< But I do have a completed sketch for each day and will do my best to get at least some painted before they stop taking submissions! 

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Sora to Hara is out in English!! :D

EEEEEEE SORA TO HARA IS OFFICIALLY OUT IN ENGLISH!!! :D :D :D The story that features my favorite Doukyusei boy Sorano is finally here, I AM SO HAPPY! :D :D :D It’s called Classmates vol 4: Sora & Hara in the English release. I’m so excited that everyone can now read about this shrewd chaotic good goofball! :D

It has the same translator, Jocelyne Allen, as the previous Doukyuusei/Classmates volumes and once again she delivered an absolutely fantastic translation! :D Sorano often uses extremely casual masculine speech and slang, way more so than the other characters when speaking in regular casual speech or even regular masculine speech. It can be hard to translate into English, so many official translations kind of ignore it and just make it sound like it had been regular casual. I think she did an excellent job conveying that difference where it occurred!  I know that many people hate Hara for how horrible he was in vol 1-3. But this is the volume where thanks to Sorano pushing him, he starts to have a change of heart and a change of character. 

It’s also where we get to know Koma-chan, Hibiki, and Arisaka! And Kusakabe and Sajou appear in 2 chapters, one of which is a short chapter full of cute Kusajou moments. ^_^

So please support the official English release of Doukyuusei/Classmates by buying this and all the other volumes! It’s available at all the usual places that sell manga, both physically and digitally, and so far vol 1-4 are out. O.B. (vol 5 & 6) will be in an omnibus format released in April 2022, but some stores have pre-orders up already. If you take Seven Seas’ survey in November or December you can get a 30% off coupon to Bookwalker (although it only works if you’re a new customer) and suggest they license Blanc and Futari Gurashi while you’re at it. Rightstuf has frequent sales on manga (they’ve got a Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Holiday Sale coming up so it’s possible it’ll be on sale for one of those), so that’s another way to get it at a discount. You can also ask your local library to get a copy of it and then you can read it for free!

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This is the painted version of what I had drawn for Doukyuusei Week 2021 Day 1: Karaoke! :D I finally had a chance to paint all of these! :D Didn’t think it would take me until almost 4 months after the event. ^^; But I also didn’t think Murphy’s Law would be attacking me like it has been (especially when I was moving @_@) or that I’d be as busy as I’ve been.  So since it’s been such a long time, copy/pasting the description that I posted during the week itself: Back when Nakamura Asumiko was taking suggestions for the Opera Subscriber Bonus Booklet comic, I suggested Sorano, Hara, and Koma at karaoke. She didn’t do that (although I feel like I still won because there was a Sorano, Hara, and Koma comic in it :D ), so I’ve wanted to draw such a scene ever since. This prompt seemed like the perfect time to do it! :D Hara strikes me as the type to get REALLY into karaoke, especially when drunk. XD

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This was the other fun fluffy summery Doukyuusei Series fanart I made to relax after classes finished! :D It’s Sorano x Hara with a chocomint ice cream theme! ^_^ Chocomint is HUGE in Japan in the summer (it’s like how pumpkin spice is in the fall in the US) and I had fun trying to keep this in a chocomint color scheme! :D Koma-chan is right, Sorano really does look amazing with mint colors. ^_^ <3