Fortress of Perpetual Midnight - September 15th, 2007

I've just done one, but just keep clicking and you'll get an idea of how many icons those crazy people are making.

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Another one on in this batch was Na*na*ki!! Vol. 1, which I chose to read early on so I could decide whether or not to buy the sequel before it goes out of print. Upon looking it up, it turns out that the illustrator started out as an assistant to the famous Ms. Minekura Kazuya, but judging by this (and the fact that she's also published another series), she's graduated fully to professional status. The heroine uses "friendship" as pretext for her glomping, but the badass upperclassman (who doesn't have a cover shot yet because she's only the heroine's third-best friend) has quite a following as well, with one groupie in particular having dropped the "k" word in an emotional moment. I am indeed looking forward to more.

Meanwhile, you may have noticed from things like Ran, Sakura no Kiwa, Shimai no Hōteishiki, and Project Homuncupunk that Japanese names often include numerals, and these are often used to denote the order of birth of siblings. However, today's comparison is a bit more specific.

You'll also notice that only one of these three actually has the numeral character in her name—In the other two cases, the seventh is the exception. Also, it's only natural that the ending character is different in the case of the Kinjō family due to the differing genders, but the -nami family all have names ending in the same character, and at least one of Ms. Mar[k]ioka's elder sisters' names also ends in the same "-ki."

Edit (2007.09.15): Ah yes, and Ms. Marika has a very affectionate elder sister, but she seems to see her as an annoyance.

Edit (2007.10.01): Upon closer inspection, the odd-numbered Makioka sisters all end in 「姫」, while the even-numbered all end in 「葉」. I can't make any judgments about the previous generation, as only one example appears so far. You might think that this wouldn't work, as the mother would have been born into a different family, but judging by the heavy X-chromosome-bias of the current demographics, I imagine they might have used this method. Also, I've updated the information on the Sasano family above, resulting in slightly less correlation—although they still have a big-ass house and at least one servant.

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