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Sweethearts of 1989: a LGBT / Trans Positive Romance Series!

Created by Kale Jeffery (kalematsuba)

Sweethearts of 1989 (1989年の恋人たち) (1989nk) is a LGBTQ / Trans* positive slice of life romance story featuring a retro manga aesthetic!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

the kickstarter edition T-shirt is finished!!
over 6 years ago – Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 08:34:47 PM

 

 

Im so pleased to finally reveal this! 

Thank you all for being so patient waiting for another update from me. I realize I've been a little quiet this past month. I went through one of those dreaded artist slumps and nothing I was drawing was coming out any good for a few weeks. xP Don't you hate that?

So, as all of you probably know, this shirt is already included automatically in the Collector's Box Set since we reached the stretch goal!! but I had a ton of people ask me if they could get the shirt separately from the kickstarter and the answer is YES! Anyone who wants the shirt who's tier didn't include it can now preorder it here!

http://kalematsuba.tictail.com

All the details about the preorder and whatnot are in the product page - but if you have any questions about it that arent answered there, please do not hesitate to send me a message.

Honestly.... I;m so proud of this design. i'm digging it a lot. I can't wait to get one of these shirts for myself, even. Lol. Is it too conceited of me to wear my own merchandise..? ;;;;;

I'm also in the process of getting those chibi hiroki keychains into production (just have to finish negotiations with the supplier on those!) and the next thing in the line of merchandise will be Jirou bara tiddy arm rest mouse pads.. yes, those will be a thing. lol. Look forward to those soon. I"m actually able to MAKE these with the money you all helped me raise - which makes me very ecstatic. This was something I could never do on my extremely frugal budget before.

As for the actual process of the book itself - I"m still in the writing stage. I've got a small sneak peak of a few scenes for you in writing form if you want em! - but those will come in the next update very soon. Let me know if you're okay with a few light spoilers ;D

See you all soon!

THANK YOU!! WE DID IT!!
over 6 years ago – Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 09:22:19 PM

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STRETCH GOAL UPDATES!! New Goals Added!!
over 6 years ago – Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 08:50:07 AM

The stretch goals have been UPDATED!! Thank you SO MUCH for making the initial funding goal a resounding success after only 1 week!! You're ALL AMAZING!! but lets keep the ball rolling, shall we?
(the campaign page has been updated with these new stretch goals as well!)
I still need to figure out the details for including the chapter 2 book as a buy-in / add on to the physical book rewards, but if this goal is reached, there WILL be a way to be able to get the Chapter 2 book as well as Chapter 1! This goes for the collector sets as well. Just give me a bit more time to organize how that will happen.

(and for those who were curious what that really hard to see t shirt design is, here's the work in progress!)


 thanks so much again for your patience while i figured all this stuff out and got it all updated. lets push for those stretch goals!! 

2 DAYS TO GO!
over 6 years ago – Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:33:10 AM

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FIRST STRETCH GOAL REACHED! we did it!!!
over 6 years ago – Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:04:03 PM

 thank you all so much!!

forgive all my exclamation marks i'm just so excited!!! 

Now everyone who pledged to any one of the tiers with a physical book gets this adorable hiroki keychain to go with it! no extra purchase necessary!!

next up is the t shirt tier at 23k, lets go for it!