Saiyuki/Minekura update

[telophase]

I think most of the people on my LJ/DW who read Saiyuki read enough other people to know this already, but in case not...

Minekura-sensei has a serious bone disease and is going into surgery before too long to correct some of it (it is incurable - treatment focuses on reliving symptoms). snarp has translated her most recent blog entry about it.

There is also an LJ community, cranes4minekura, devoted to getting 1000 paper cranes folded and sent to her to embody the well-wishes of her international fans. The first deadline is, er, today, but it looks like there's overwhelming support for collecting more and sending a second batch later on, so keep folding!

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[octopedingenue]

...fortunately, I wasn't exactly a great beauty to begin with, so I'm unlikely to be traumatized by this (laugh)

Oh, god, Minekura, way to make me sob.

I wish there were more I could offer than prayer and paper cranes. Or that I could send her soup. Soup that can sipped through a feeding tube. :(

Between Minekura, Ai Yazawa, and the omnipresent reports of overwork and exhaustion in manga author's notes, I think everyone in Japanese comics needs to take a nice, long rest break and eat lots of fruit. It will give me time to catch up on my backlog!

[morineko]

I read Saiyuki, but I don't read enough fandom-specific manga people so I didn't know this. Thanks for posting it.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the signal boost! ♥

Today is technically the mailing deadline for round one, but as I've mentioned elsewhere I'm not going to be strict about checking postmark dates or anything -- if someone wants to send in a crane for the first senbazuru but can't get it into the mail before the weekend, that's OK too. As long as incoming envelopes and packages make it into my hands by the second or third week of October, those cranes will be used for stringing the first set. (We're over a thousand already, but a few contributors were especially prolific and made a hundred or more; I'll be setting aside some extras for Round Two from those larger parcels as needed to make sure there's enough space for everyone's work to be included.)

I'll be leaving the poll open for a few more days before making an official announcement and setting dates for round two, but right now the popular vote is overwhelmingly in favor of continuing the project to make more senbazuru to send in the future; we're already a quarter of the way towards the second thousand, and I haven't even checked today's mail yet. It sounds like Minekura-sensei is in for a very long and difficult haul with testing and surgery and recovery and could really use the encouragement, so I'm perfectly willing to keep collecting and cheerleading as long as people are interested in keeping the project going.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No prob! :D