Forbidden Garden

Happy hot-as-hell month! I swear just stepping out of my front door strips all the water/energy out of my body. It's exhausting ( whiiiiine! ) Beyond the scorching sun (that will never let up), life is chugging along. The other day my son and I was at the park and a male runner comes running toward us wearing only a pair of shorts and no shirt. My son stops and points at this dude and yells, "Mommy, he's NAKED!" We need translators! Please~~~! Also, some of the staff and I have been thinking of shutting down the forum. Most of you awesome readers use the site anyway and it's just another thing that I have to update. So I'll give it a week and then we'll be closing it down. I hope this doesn't disappoint anyone too much - but on the upside if there's just one thing that I have to update then it's more time to do releases! {RELEASES} 1. Half & Half volume 02 chapter 08 - One more chapter till the end~! Second Link 2. Par...

I would like to begin by saying - I love my friends but I hate bridesmaids. I love my friends but I HATE BRIDESMAIDS! I'm lucky enough to be in a very tight-knit group of girls. Some of us are going on 12+ years together. And throughout these years we've faced boyfriend/girlfriend troubles, being roommates, lesbian crisis, "stealing" boyfriends, going slightly crazy , and babies. And thru all of that we've held strong with being friends. I must say that my friends are wonderfully understanding and loving people and I truly feel blessed that each of them are in my life. But then these wonderful smart AMAZING women become bridesmaids and these same ladies morph into snarling treacherous beasts! It happened with my wedding and I thought surely this was just some fluke. I was the first of our group to be married and obviously the girls just didn't know proper protocol. So now that we all have that under our belts wedding #2 will be a breeze right? ...

"... Our latest evil plan and create an army of giant ants to take over the galaxy..." --Dark Helmet from Spaceballs: The Animated Series I'm currently under attack by ants. These beings are mean, strong, and they have no conscience for anything else's life. They have a plan and they will carry it out - big 'elfin poison be damned - they are coming through. Every time I get bitten (on my couch, in my bed, EVERYWHERE ) I suddenly have traumatic flashbacks to when I was a freshman in high school. My group of friends always sat outside during our lunch period. And being the social outcasts that we were, we sat as far away on the ground from everyone else that we could. On this particular sunny day I remember vividly having an EXTREMELY difficult math test the next period given by the worst teacher I have ever encountered. (We'll call her Ms. B) I mean this was the type of woman that I believe got her jollies by making everyone around her miserable. S...

And this belle has to go to the ball. And just like Cinderella we've a new carriage, fairy godmothers, loads of sparkly make-up, and a pretty new gown. (But unlike Cinderella the changes will last longer than midnight.) I want to start by introducing the amazing fairy godmothers who worked so hard to change our lovely Cinder…FG to what she is. *brings spot-light around* SO LET'S ALL GIVE A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR… our amazing Ba-Banana, our lovely toppichu, and our ever speedy sekushibijin84!!!! These three not only worked tirelessly with the coding on the site, gave Cinderella new graphics, gave you a new a way to read our releases, and took over a lot of the editing work so that I could have more sanity. ^^ Thank you to all three of you for really going the extra mile to make this anniversary the best! Also I would like to thank woxxy from FoolRulez for helping me with the coding for the reader but also being so patient with all of my extra requests. You really ...

Time to catch up on project status and do a little recruiting - join us now! :D

We're almost done with the first volume of Half & Half! So I guess you could say we're almost half (& half) way there!! haha...errr...*crickets*

ThunderCats picture by Oddabeish From Rexy: I have vague memories of The Chipmunks, but if you watched Mighty Max, TMNT, Batman: The Animated Series, or Animaniacs then we've got more nostalgia to explore! Yep, I was a bit of a tomboy when I was a kid ^_^ In the  last post  I talked about a huge nostalgia trip I took while finding a Chipmunk video.  Rexy pointed out though that in my post I completely left out the whole other demographic of 80's cartoons - and for that I am so sorry. ^^;; So here I am to rectify the situation! X3 (Thank you Rexy for bringing it to my attention - otherwise I wouldn't have found my new something awesome -- see below!)

Today I would like to talk about manga viewer sites and hosting.  We at Forbidden Garden have a strict no hosting policy  that has been active since June 16, 2010.  And of course our releases have found their way onto these same reader sites.  And for awhile we've overlooked them and thought that that's how it goes, and after sending emails and getting no response I went on with my life. BUT this past week while looking around I've found these sites who are not only making money off of our group's hard work but also are removing the credits so that they can claim it as their own.  And it's just wrong. And yes, I can understand the hypocrisy of the situation - the 'rules among thieves' so to say.  But I do like to think that maybe there is a small silver-lining in that we don't make money off of this and we immediately remove links of and then advertise anything that we do that becomes licensed (see Toshokan Sensou: Love & War ).

Updated!! Issho ni Neyou yo V2C9 By: Takao Shigeru Synopsis : Is Ichiko and Kohaku's relationship becoming more than friends?? Hmm... And just what is Kohaku's relationship with his mother? Finally, we get some insight into why Kohaku wears masks! <download > NEW SERIES!! Half & Half V1C1 By: Nanami Mao Synopsis : Hina is a quiet college student who lives in a small town. One day her long lost best-friend and first crush, Itsuki-chan, moves back to town! The only problem is that Hina remembers Itsuki-chan as a man and now he's a WOMAN!! Sounds strange, eh? How does Hina deal with this new turn of events?? Does Hina still have a crush on Itsuki-chan??? Read and find out!! <download > As a side note, Forbidden Garden would like to thanks all it's readers for their continued support. If you express any interest into scanlation at all, please feel free to contact one of our admins! We're always looking for new ...

Author: Nanami Mao Genre: gender bender, romance, shoujo Status: 2 volumes (complete) Year: 2008 Summary: Hina is a quiet college student who lives in a small town. One day her long lost best-friend and first crush, Itsuki, moves back to town! The only problem is that Hina remembers Itsuki as a man and now he's a WOMAN!! Sounds strange, eh? How does Hina deal with this new turn of events?? Does Hina still have a crush on Itsuki??? Volume 01 Chapter 01: Released || Read Online Chapter 02: Released || Read Online Chapter 03: Released || Read Online Chapter 04: Released || Read Online Extra         : Released || Read Online Volume 02 Chapter 05: Released || Read Online Chapter 06: Released || Read Online Chapter 07: Released || Read Online Chapter 08: Released || Read Online Chapter 09: Released || Read Online