Hello everyone! While we are all confined here in France since a week, I think some news about Kaori Yuki would lighten the mood and bring some good times to those sharing the same boat. :3

As you may have read on Twitter, the volume 1 of La Belle et la Bête du Paradis Perdu, Kaori Yuki's new series started in October 2019, was released in Japan on February 13, 2020. The subtitle is in French (yay!), I translate it as simply as "Beauty and the Beast of the Lost Paradise".
On Kodansha's site, as usual a preview of 24 pages is available, which represents about half of chapter 1. This series is 100% digitally made and its prepublication occurs only online, on "Palcy".

The cover is dark and detailed, unlike Alice in Murderland, its rich hues remind of the style used for Devil's Lost Soul (example). Sensei uses French words in the table of contents, most likely some little reminder of the French origin of the tale. By the way, you can read it on the site here (French only).

Kaori Yuki has given us several pretty illustrations on Twitter (like here) that I have added into the gallery.

To those among you who can read French... I thought of offering a little something for Winter Holidays, a present that you will hopefully enjoy: a scanlation of the Parasite oneshot written 5 years ago by Kaori Yuki sensei. The series is already available in English since 2016 but not yet in French. I translated the title into "Le Dieu des Petits Secrets", quite different from the English version, The God of Never Never, or from the original Nainai no Kamisama.

Another little surprise, a nice recent illustration from Count Cain / God Child. Sensei published it on Twitter at the end of October 2019 when the series was made available online on the Japanese site manga-park.com. Enjoy ^^

At last, the work Beauty and the Beast has its very own page on A Yuki Kaori Shrine, in Manga. ^__^ It took me some time to get hold of the Palcy app, I hope I made no mistakes in my explanations and that they are not too confusing either (French only).

The series is titled Rakuen no Bijo to Yajuu, that I dare translating into Beauty and the Beast of the Fallen Garden (La Belle et la Bête du Jardin Déchu in French). For now, 4 chapters of about 40 pages are available on the mobile app, mostly not free. Chapter 5 is currently in progress. Still, to tease us, the first 14 pages are online here for free, thank you Kodansha x Palcy x Pixiv. ^^ 10 pages are published per week, meaning 40 pages per month just like Alice in Murderland or Demon From Afar.

On the 17th of October 2019, almost one year after the publication of the last volume of Alice in Murderland (Oct 5, 2018), Kaori Yuki sensei will have her Beauty and the Beast manga published on Palcy (パルシィ), Kodansha and Pixiv's Japanese app for manga reading on phone, which is not available in France. The Japanese title of the manga is Rakuen no Bijo to Yajuu (落園の美女と野獣), the protagonists are an antipathetic Beauty who thinks she's ugly and an awkward asocial Beast (source: her tweets). This is the story that Kaori Yuki shared on Pixiv earlier this year.

In the meanwhile, you may still read the latest postscripts of Alice that I finally uploaded. In French though, sorry...

Now sharing a quick overview of the French releases. There is one volume only to be released then Alice in Murderland is over in France! The dates:

• Alice in Murderland volume 11 - 22nd May 2019 (EAN 9782811648824)
• Alice in Murderland volume 10 - 23rd January 2019 (EAN 9782811646851)

Also, since the beginning of March 2019, Angel Sanctuary is available on the Japanese online reading website of Hakusensha: manga-park.com, with 2 free chapters (an app is also available for smartphones). Kaori Yuki made on the occasion two new pictures of Setsuna Mudou and his sister, hence we can see her first digital works "officially" used.

Like me, maybe you've been wondering what was preparing Kaori Yuki sensei since the end of Alice in Murderland in October 2018 in Japan? Well, as usual she's not having any true break and is learning digital painting instead. She recently finished her own version of Beauty and the Beast (微女と野獣), in 10 pages that we can read online for free on her Twitter and Pixiv accounts only. She introduced this oneshot as a training for the use of digital screentones.

Since February, we can also witness her latest digital paintings "homeworks" on Twitter and Pixiv. She explains this is quite hard for her as there are loads of functions to remember (well, I guess every cg artists know the feeling).

Today I speak about doujinshi: maybe some of you have already seen my recent findings on Twitter. These dojin are Kaori Yuki's recent productions: all of them being about Osomatsu-san, successful anime in two seasons aired in 2015 and 2017. She signs under a new pen name: ラピス ("lapis") of the circle 深海ゼリー ("shinkai jelly").

We can find 7 doujinshis that are sold on Toranoana and Mandarake and of course at Japanese cons. Or else, we are still very lucky to have access from our chair from everywhere in the world, to her roughs and more on her second Pixiv account. Her latest doujinshi has been printed in November 2018.
=> More on my dojinshi page.

Alice in Murderland and Angel Sanctuary, for your greaaatest pleasure while waiting for Xmas. ÔwÔ

1920x1080; Alice avaiable in 1920x1200 here...

~Made by me~

A large update awaits you today: over 200 new drawings by Kaori Yuki sensei! I gathered in the Gallery > Divers ("misc") 2 years 1/2 of tweeted pictures. Mainly, you'll see roughs, sketches, digital colouring attempts, fan art showing her various interests.

More below: my selection, sort of a best-of...Etc...

Now a classic, a limited card is avalaible with Alice in Murderland volume 11 when buying the book in an Animate store in Japan. It displays the pretty cover of the manga.

Moreover, a lottery is led by the publisher of Kaori Yuki, in Japan only, offering to win a unique autograph in colour made by Kaori Yuki ♡_♡ *drools* To participate, one must follow the Shonen magazine Edge twitter account and RT this tweet before November the 5th at 23:59, as explained here.