We use an approval process for new members, After you register you will be reviewed by an Administrator and accepted into the group. We only reject people if they are obviosuly here to cause trouble, so don't worry if you are truly a fan of Arina Tanemura. You will write a short thing about why you wish to join that we will review, basically to prove that you are a human and not a spambot. This is simply to ensure that our users are actual fans of Arina Tanemura, or hoping to become one It is also used to prevent spambot registrations.

We are all Arina Tanemura Fans!

Affiliated Topics

I came up with this idea the other night and have decided to implement the idea. Basically what it is is topic-sharing between us and our Affiliates (Recommended Sites, the ones that are forums anyways).

These topics will be created with the same topic title as on the other forum except the sign (AFF) will be appended to the end to let you know that it's an affiliated topic. Once you get in the topic it will be simply a link to a topic on another site that you can post in as long as you have an account on that site. After making a reply on the other site's topic feel free to make a post that says simply: Posted on Site. This will do two things: Raise your post count here on ATFC, and secondly, bump the topic here on ATFC so people can easily see that there was a new reply. But please keep the reply to simply that.

This is primarily intended to increase the community strength between various sites in the Tanemura fan community, and to show our support of their sites.

I may create a specially designated forum section for these topic types depending on how well this is received by the community

P.S. Feel free to create your own affiliated topics as well.

New Forum: Images & Videos

Since the Testing Area was beginning to become mainly a place for posting random images and videos I decided to make a new forum just for that purpose, it is called Images & Videos and can be found on the list of forums near General Discussion and Forum Sunstuff

A direct link also follows: Images & Videos

ATFC Convention Trip

I am looking into getting as many of our members to attend a certain upcoming anime convention as possible. The convention is AnimeNebraskon 2009 in Omaha, Nebraska on November 6-8, 2009. One of the themes of the convention is "World Domination" and part of this idea is getting various clubs to bring "war banners" to the conventions, so what better convention to bring our club, and war banner to? To see more information, and for discussion go here: Let's Go To A Con

Hosting Space

I have created an FTP account that members can use for hosting various files, from images to amvs. It can be accessed for uploading using the FTP protocol. There will be a tutorial on how to access this feature here

Extra Chapter and Internet Radio Drama

The official Japanese website of The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross school romance manga has announced that Arina Tanemura is drawing a new 30-page side story in the expanded October issue (on sale on September 3) of Shueisha's Ribon magazine. The website adds that the story of Haine and the other main characters of The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross is not over, even though the manga completed its main run this past June. Tanemura has just ended her Zettai Kakusei Tenshi Mistress Fortune manga — as planned — with its third installment in the September issue on Saturday. However, the same issue has announced that this manga will be adapted as an Internet radio drama.

Sakura Hime Kaden

Update

Here is a preview image, page 10 from the first chapter of Sakura Hime Kaden!

Image courtesty of Shion

Full Moon wo Sagashite Artbook Released

VIZ Media LLC said that they would release a translated to English version of the Full Moon Wo Sagashite Artbook this fall, and it is now in stock at most bookstores.

VIZ Media LLC is a subsidary company of Japanese companies Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co. Ltd., and are planning on officially translating all work of Tanemura Arina into the English language. All of Arina's works have been published by Shueisha Inc.'s Ribon division. Because VIZ Media is a subsidary of the Japanese publisher, they automatically hold the English Licensure for all her works.

Besides artwork from the Full Moon wo Sagashite series, it also contains artwork from the Time Stranger Kyoko and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne series. There are also some bonus artwork from short stories of Tanemura's and other artwork she has done. Artist Tanemura Arina also has made commentary on the artwork on each page.

Included in the back of the artbook is a 2 page-span double-sided poster featuring artwork of Route L a fictional rock band from the Full Moon wo Sagashite series on one side. On the other side is a four shot of title character Kouyama Mitsuki and Shinigami Kira Takuto, Yui Meroko, and Izumi Rio

Time Stranger Kyoko vol. 2

The second English translated tankoubon of Time Stranger Kyoko was released on October 7th, and should be in stock on most bookstore shelves by now. The third tankoubon is set to be released January 6th, 2009