While ITW6 is still in progress amidst of chaos that is Jo's life, we are aware that ITW7 may not be out by end of May as we projected.  But we also don't want to be empty handed at Fanime either.  So, going off from a survey from looooong ago about what kind of side story would interest people from FB, a portion said they would be interested in Katsuya's backstory.  Although we planned quite a few of them, they are in the ITW timeframe and we couldn't post them until more of the story's revealed.  Pre-ITW time frame of Katsuya in NY was an interesting discovery we've had.  The character David had good feedbacks (maybe because he's not an asshole and he genuinely liked Katsuya... not in the unreciprocated way as seen in ITW).  Developing a story pre-ITW avoids any kind of spoiler, which is a plus.  However, we are still working this character and can only hope David is up to par of carrying a story with Katsuya.

And Jo promised that David will be a very good looking. ^_-

So, this is part 1 of 2 of this unnamed story now that we are developing as an illustrated short story (it may be up to 20-25 pages) along with ITW liner notes and working sketches, etc.  We'd like to put this out as a companion with ITW vol. 1 manga DMI will be releasing then.  DavidXKatsuya pairing's also a focus for us for Summer Comiket,  We would like for you to read this (and NY Minute if you haven't already -- link HERE ).  We want to gauge general interest in this pairing and the storyline since this is very different from ITW.  Katsuya's also younger and not as jaded.  Not quite a queen yet.  More of a princess.

You can send us comments via the LJ or email if you don't want to leave it here.  At this point, we just want to collect information from our readers on this storyline.  At the least, we want to fix characterizations if Krause or Katsuya read very irritating.  The 'squishy romance', as one of my friends called it - I hope wasn't too much either.  Well, I didn't think so.  I've seen more make-out at a grocery store.