All Dem Pretties

I’m afraid you might have to buy a copy for yourself or see if you can find an e-book version to download. The first five chapters have been released in tankoubon format, which should be easy to purchase and scan from places like cdjapan or amazon.jp. I’d scan my copies for you, but I only have a sporadic set of them because I don’t purchase Lala regularly anymore.

Thank you so much for your message, and I hope you’ll forgive me for not being able to respond sooner--I’ve been on an extended vacation from all things social media, which has been tremendously beneficial for my well-being.

Color widespread of Hino Matsuri’s Vampire Knight Memories #26.

The one I just posted of Yuuki and Ai? It’s the new color art for the title page of VKM 19, which just released in LalaDX on the 10th in Japan (some stores get early copies, which is what that preview picture was; I myself don’t have a copy yet). 

I haven’t done this in a while because I stepped down from VKM spoilers, but I noticed nothing has come out since the initial spoilers for VKM 18 yet. I’ve uploaded some very LQ speed raws of VKM 18 which can be viewed online or downloaded for anyone who is interested.

I will not be translating, but here are a few interesting bits from the chapter:

Kaien Cross has passed on and turns to ash like a vampire.

Ren is born, and she is Ai’s little sister. 

Zero is still alive and is raising Ren with Yuuki and Ai.

Kaname chooses not to look at the photo album and has not yet regained his memories.

The previews for the next chapter are:

Color Preview: Now that Yuuki and Zero’s child Ren has been born, what will Ai do now that she has a sibling? 

Black & White Preview: What will Ai do after losing precious people and meeting new precious people?

The previews include a new secondary series tagline, which is “the bittersweet past” popular series. It’s possible they’ll be using this more often in future chapters.

VKM 19 will feature at the front of the next LalaDX issue with a 2-page color spread.

Amazon.jp’s website updated, and it looks like Vampire Knight Memories will have special edition of volume 4 which will come with a drama CD! The release date will be on February 5th, 2019.

Amazon.jp’s advertisement says that this will be the first drama CD released for the series since the original Vampire Knight ended, and all the stories on it will be originals written by Hino-sensei. 

Earlier this month, Hakusensha’s website was pushing the advertising for the release of the first volume of Ishihara Keiko’s Itsuwari no Freja, a new series running in LalaDX I’m currently reading. A look at the stats piqued my curiosity about the sales of the two other series I follow (Tendouke Monogatari and Vampire Knight Memories). As a point of comparison, I also gathered what data i could find for Akagami no Shirayukihime’s sales from when it was running in LalaDX. What I discovered is perplexing to me, as I’m still not exactly sure what criteria Hakusensha uses to determine which stories from LalaDX get moved to Lala. 

The cover of this month’s Lala issue featuring Saitou Ken’s Tendouke Monogatari and the color widespread from the same issue.