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nodnod that makes a lot of sense. I've been in danmei fandoms for over 5 years, and I've bought every single English edition I could get my hands on since I found out English editions existed so... all the Peach Flower titles, all the Via Lactea ones tho I'm dealing with the shipping issue in reverse - they're in Canada and they have a couple pre-orders right now and because of shipping I flat-out cannot afford them right now, I'll have to wait until I get holiday money of some kind - ofc all the 7S, and the Rosmei, and I've gotten Chinese editions from like six different sources, including GOs, so I've ended up with a decent amount of experience (this makes it sound like I have a lot of money lmao, when in fact this is like... every spare penny I've had this entire time. other hobbies? what other hobbies?) AND I'm quite active on Tumblr and other platforms, so I tend to be relatively looped, and I often forget that a lot of people... aren't. Which is reasonable! I've hyperfocused on this as a special interest and not everyone gonna do that lol.

The publisher I'm currently pissed at is Aloha - they've got some manhua - Nirvana in Fire, Link Click, the donghua-made manhua for Tian Guan Ci Fu (as opposed to the manhua by Starember), and they recently announced they got the first two volumes of Little Mushroom - and I spent like $250 to pre-order TGCF and Link Click in like January, they said they'd be out during the spring, and there hasn't been a *peep* since then, and I'm slowly going from annoyed to "maybe I'll just never buy from you again" because that is a LOT of money to just get. nothing. not even an e-mail suggesting when they WILL be out. It's especially frustrating because I've seen the physical books at Kinokuniya and I know some are out. So why haven't pre-orders been fulfilled???

Re: the volume numbers, the Rosmei website is - as you said - a nightmare to use. I only have the progress update link because I found someone else had it. It's here: https://rosmeihey.top/pages/progressreport and as far as I know it's basically accurate. In addition to the list I keep up-to-date, there's also this one - https://licenseddanmei.carrd.co/ - the person who maintains that one is a HUGE LHJC fan so they follow the Rosmei updates pretty closely; I follow them on Bluesky and also get some info that way.