Dear Friends of L'Heure Bleue

The whole barricade gave vent to a cry;

but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy;

for the gamin to touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth;

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again;

he remained in a sitting posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face,

he raised both arms in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began to sing:

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Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than elsewhere.

He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch.

The two friends lived together, ate together, slept together.

They had everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were,

what the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, bini.

From Les Misérables

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If you enjoyed it, I would really appreciate it if you could share your thoughts on Tumblr or other social media,

or tap the “like” heart on the episode page—your support truly means a lot and keeps me motivated!

Thank you very much for your kind message!💙

Once the LHB manga serialization reaches its final chapter,

I plan to gradually start selling the digital comic and new merchandise.

Of course, I will prepare it so that people outside Japan will also be able to purchase them.

Since the ROCK version was well received, I’m thinking of including it in the merchandise lineup as well, so I hope you’ll look forward to it!

It’s still a little way off, but I’m planning to start working on the merchandise projects within this year.

Right now, in addition to LHB,

I’m also serializing another manga with a Japanese label

(I’m currently working on a manga adaptation of the novel The Amberglow Candy Store!).

Because I’m working on two manga series at the same time, it’s difficult for me to create new LHB artwork at the moment.

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Thank you very much for reading my question about social media 🙇

Although I update less frequently there than on X and Tumblr,

once my serialization settles down I’d like to start posting more actively on other platforms as well.

If you’d like, I would really appreciate it if you could follow me on Instagram and BlueSky too! 🙏

I’ll leave the links below.

https://www.instagram.com/akiyadena?igsh=eTJ1OXgxb2tsaG5h&utm_source=qr

I have a question for you.

I’m thinking about increasing the opportunities to share my manga,

and I was wondering which social media platforms your friends in your language community use the most.

If possible, I’d really appreciate it if you could tell me where it might be best to post and share my work.

I’ve created an article featuring an interview with a French language coach about the origin of the name “Friends of the ABC”!

It also includes insights into my manga-making process.

The article is in Japanese, but if you can use a translation tool, I’d be very happy if you gave it a read!💙

Citizens,

the nineteenth century is great,

but the twentieth century will be happy.

Then, there will be nothing more

like the history of old;

we shall no longer, as to-day,

have to fear

a conquest,

an invasion,

a usurpation,

a rivalry of nations, arms in hand,

an interruption of civilization

depending on a marriage of kings,

on a birth in hereditary tyrannies,

a partition of peoples by a congress,

a dismemberment because of the failure of a dynasty,

a combat of two religions meeting face to face,

like two bucks in the dark,

on the bridge of the infinite;

we shall no longer have to fear

famine,

farming out,

prostitution arising from distress,

misery from the failure of work,

and the scaffold and the sword,

and battles,

and the ruffianism of chance

in the forest of events.

One might almost say:

There will be no more events.

We shall be happy.

And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras’ marble cheek.

One of the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle.

The particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance.

But the bourgeois of the epoch of la Minerve estimated so highly that poor de, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it.

M. de Chauvelin had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette.

Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself plain Courfeyrac.

Among the two unnamed characters who appear in Les Misérables,

the artillery sergeant shot by Enjolras is named after Julien Sorel from Stendhal’s The Red and the Black.

The other one—previously pointed out by a Korean-speaking reader—is the boy whom Combeferre watches over at the hospice, whose name comes from Rousseau’s Émile.

Even though only a Japanese version has been released so far, I’m truly grateful that readers notice details like this. 🥲