I’m not even sure if you guys remember our promise to pick up another series made a ton of months ago, before the whole new job debacle, but here it is, finally! haha. Qualia the Purple, also known as Murasakiiro no Qualia, is a sci-fi story adapted from a light novel with the same name, written by Ueo Hisamitsu. The story revolves around a cute girl (always good!) named Marii Yukari who was a quite special peculiarity about her — she sees everyone else (including animals) besides her as robots! Even though she’s treated as a sort of mascot by her fellow classmates, there are definitely mysteries surrounding this weird situation!
So, yeah. The first chapter is pretty funny/cute, but from what my buddy who translates says, this is quite a crazy ride! The genres are mainly Sci-Fi, but it has some bit of shoujo-ai, too, so if you’re not into that, sorry! Nothing explicit so far, just regular romance you’d find in other manga, but between two girls. However, the focus is definitely the sci-fi aspect of it, so give it a look!
About this chapter, just one note. There’s one dialogue bit where Gaku talks about her family running a “Naginata Dojo”. If you, like me, don’t know what a Naginata is, please click here and let Wikipedia enlighten you!
Also, as you all know, I’m not really good with editing/typesetting. MAJOR thanks to powha, who helped us so much getting those spread pages redrawn in all of their glory! You rock, man!
Anyway, this one’s ongoing but it’s already way into its 3rd volume (it’ll probably have 4 total). We’re treating it as a pet project of sorts, so the releases might be a bit more sporadic. Adachi/MIX will still come out as soon as possible, just like every other month, and we’ll be releasing more Qualia from time to time!
With all that said, head to the side-bar and pick your preferred way of reading it as always (MediaFire’ll only be up tomorrow, sorry!). Hope you all enjoy it, and leave a comment with your impressions! Cheers!