Happy Birthday to the Champion of Justice!

Today’s the beloved heroine’s (and her sweet bby, too) birthday. It’s also the last day of June which means it’s time for me to share the next designs for July! And who better to feature than the Moonlight Guardian herself on her birthday?

As we’ve designed all the senshi in their fuku up to this point, it was high time we featured our main heroine! And for our baddie, we have mean, manipulative Rubeus to follow up the adoring Koan. I can’t stand how he treated the Ayakashi sisters, but he does look a bit like a bad boy hottie here. 😂

For the Mugen club design, July will feature the lotus, or hasu. For the mugen club in general, if you missed it in the last update, we’ve upgraded the sticker sheets from 2x3” matte to a larger 4x6” glossy sticker sheet. We will have extras available in the shop as well and will continue to do these sticker sheets at this size. ♥️

I should have the vectors finished up by the end of the weekend! :)

PRODUCTION UPDATES

Also, good news, although I’m still drowning in all the pins I got this month, we just got news that most of May and June’s mugen pins are already done, with just S@turn waiting on screen print. I did notice that the manus made a mistake while filling in the “color spectrum” variant for the hydrangea so they will be remaking that one. 🥲 As always, I’m unsure when they’ll ship the pins our way, but hoping it will be sometime in early-mid July assuming they don’t try to hold onto our orders til more pins are done. 🙄

PACKAGES HEADING OUT

I’ve finally wrapped up all grading of the pins we got in June, and slapped em all on their backing cards. So packages should begin going out Thurs-Saturday! I’m really excited for you all to get the pins as always. :)

TAKA HEADING OUT

Packages aren’t there only thing leaving soon—in just 5 days Taka will be heading to Japan for almost 3 weeks. 😢 on one hand I’m really happy for him to get to go back, but also I’m sad I’ll be missing him (and also sad I still can’t go to Japan since they’re still being strict about who can go in). Except for when I went to Boston for the convention last month, this is the first time in like 3 years we would be apart for more than even like 8 hours. And Boston I didn’t have to miss him as much because I was with family, but this time he’ll be gone and I’ll be home alone! 😭 I don’t talk about it much here, but much like crybaby Usagi, a classic cancer, I too am a hopeless romantic who is slayed by any moment apart from my beloved! Haha ok, maybe that’s a little dramatic, but it’s true, if I could trade all the days I existed without Taka for ones that I did, I’d gladly do it.

That said, I am looking forward to spending a lot of July mostly undistracted so I can focus on getting ahead on all our designs, time for sketching my own work, and doing some more behind the scenes about the work we do I can share with you all. June we spent a lot of time getting caught up and, of course, celebrating my birthday. So July I’m really looking forward to getting ahead—I even got Taka to design August pins already since I won’t be around to nag him in July. 😂

Anyways, I’m really looking forward to everything I’ll be able to show you all and will be back with another update in a couple days! Thank you all for continuing to support us! ♥️

- Mandy & Taka