Princess Party!

Breaking news!! Italian fans, you just got your wish! Futago Hime has been licensed in Italy by Licensing Italia and started airing on the 19th of January, 2009, on the channel Italia 1! You can view Licensing Italia's properties page and this article for more information.

The series has been renamed Twin Princesses - Principesse Gemelle ("principesse gemelle" means "twin princesses" in Italian, so it's a reiteration of the title). The new theme song is done by Cristina D'Avena (remember "Magica Doremi"?). Check out the opening! I have no doubt that this show will be well-received in Italy. Hopefully Futago Hime will expand its franchise in Europe! It doesn't look like Germany could pass this show up.

In other news:

• Honobono Fansubs has released up to episode 25 in English subtitles!


• I also have tons of fan goodies donated by Stormy, but I have not had time to upload them yet as my files are on a different drive. Look forward to it, though!

Pretty small update here.

• Princess Party was having some downtime recently, but the site should load just fine now. The reason for the off-time was a rather weird one, but I guess that's just how the ball rolls (or what happens when your host decides to update its system).

Small updates. As college starts rollin' around the corner, please expect updates to be less frequent. Our apologies.

• The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet, by Stormy, has been updated with two new chapters. Go read it!


• Stormy has also submitted two new fanfiction! Worth the read. ♥


• Honobono Fansubs has released episode 19 in English subtitles!

This update's pretty small, but I hope to get the scans section up pretty soon since I have Photoshop installed on my laptop! (I also plan to update my Shade fan site too, so look forward to it!)

• The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet, by Stormy, has been updated. Go read it!


• Honobono Fansubs has released episode 18 in English subtitles!

More small updates were made around the site, of which prominently included the manga and the fanstation. While more information about various international versions of the manga are now online, we are missing some important information such as ISBN-13 numbers, the website of the publisher of the Chinese version of the manga, and the ISBN numbers for the Chinese volumes. If you have any of this information, please contact us!

• The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet, by Stormy, has been updated. Go read it!


• The manga information has been updated a little bit about the English versions. Unfortunately, this information is very limited; I do not images of the covers, nor do I have the ISBN-13 numbers. Since I have too little information about the Chinese version, I chose not to add it. If you have any of this information, please contact us!


• FAQ has been updated with information about the licensing of the manga.


• Links page updated, and only resulted in the removing of nonexistant links. All the fanlistings we've linked to have closed down, so the page was updated accordingly. I'll miss the website fan community!!

Here goes to the first week of summer break with an update! Most of our files have been restored from the server transfer; I'm going to do a briefing soon to look for any corrupted or unuploaded pages prior to the transfer, but so far, I have yet to find one. Please notify us if you do!

Also, apologies to Stormy for getting up his fanfiction and revisions so late.

• All revised chapters of The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet: The Floodgates of Hell (submitted by Stormy) have been uploaded. The story is complete! Read about the wacky adventures of the workers of the Water Drop Kingdom to restore Milro, Auler, and Sophie's original forms!


• A new story called The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet, by Stormy, has been uploaded. The first two chapters are online and details a special training Milro has to go through to become a better queen. As misleading as the title is, it is not of the same continuity as the original fanfic posted above. Read all about it!


• Honobono Fansubs has released episode 17 in English subtitles!

Hidey-ho, folks! Hope your weekend is going well.

icysnowdrop mentioned ruby-eye.net changing servers. The downtime was only about twenty minutes on Wednesday evening, so I doubt anyone would've been deprived of Futago Hime goodness for too long. Nothing overly complicated happened. In fact, I think the site loads a bit faster than it used to, but that could just be me. However, I have some, erh, "bad" news.

I changed the DNS about the same time I started manually downloading files from my old server. I was quite confident the process would take fifteen minutes or so, when, in reality, the DNS changed within a few minutes.

With that said, not all of the files from April's update made it. From the looks of the site, I think the March stuff stayed.

I already closed my old account, and the backup I made was a full one and not a home directory one. Effectively, PP's updated files are locked in a useless backup. I talked to icysnowdrop about it, and she said she would try and upload anything that's missing because of the transfer. In the meantime, I'm going to try and figure out a way to get those files back... right after I survive the GRE subject tests and summer classes.

I apologize for this cycle of events and hope this will not hinder our site's quality in any way. I'm contemplating about organizing a contest or making a temporary media dump to make up for this. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to tell me!

Hey, all! Since orthoflame will be switching servers for ruby-eye.net, please expect some downtime for Princess Party! As Princess Party! is one of our highest priorities, we'll try to bring it back as fast as we can. Thanks!

Also, if you haven't been keeping track of fansubs, Honobono Fansubs has released episodes 14-16 subtitled in English!

Hey, guys, sorry for the inactivity! As a reward for being so patient with both the lack of updates and ruby-eye.net's downtime, here's a rather massive update for you!

• The CD discography is complete with images to all CD covers! The last two OST covers (Music Lesson and Best! Music Lesson Sotsugyou Special) have been donated by Azurea @ lazuli_reikou. Thanks!


• A new page detailing the original concept has been added in the series section. Read about what was included and what was left out in the show than how it originally was in the original concept!


• The page about the Wonder Planet has been rewritten to include detail on all kingdoms of the Wonder Planet, more specifically their purpose and what creatures dwell there.


• Four new chapters for the fanfic The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet: The Floodgates of Hell (by Stormy @ al1701) has been added! Located in the fanfiction section, read about the perils that one weather-creating team must endure to save the Wonder Planet, Milro, Sophie, Auler, and their own jobs!


• Fansub news: Honobono Fansubs has released episodes 13 and 14 in English subtitles! Go watch it!

Some pages have been edited for consistent information. Also, a new lyrics translation and information about the game are now online!

• Some lyrics have been updated. First off, the translations for Princess Christmas Night have been touched upon, and now the translation for Zettaiteki ni Miracle * is now online! If you are curious as to what this cute song about friendship means, check it out!


• There's now a page with information about Style Book: Fushigiboshi no * Futago Hime Gyu!, the first and only video game of the series released for the Nintendo DS.


• The fanfic, The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet: The Floodgates of Hell, by Stormy @ al1701 has been updated! Read on to find out about Milro and the others' plight!


• The links page has been updated with a link to the BANDAI's Style Book website.

Well, there's been a little inactivity with school and everything, but here's a significant update! Also, if you want to have lively discussions about Futago Hime, feel free to join us at the Dress Up Forums!

• If you haven't noticed, the CD covers of Oshare Fantasy (first ending single) and Ongaku Kai Stage 2 (second OST) are now displayed on the CD discography. Many thanks go to Azurea @ lazuli_reikou for donating them! However, the CD covers for the last two OSTs are still missing. If you have them (preferably in high quality, or at least over 150 x 150 pixels), please contact me to donate them!


• The manga section has been properly rearranged. Turns out there was only 11 chapters, and I counted incorrectly. My mistake!


• There's a new fanfic online in this nearly fanfic-less community! The Weathermakers of the Mysterious Planet: The Floodgates of Hell by Stormy @ al1701 is sure to shake you up with adventure!


• Fansub news: after our last update, Honobono Fansubs has released episodes 11 and 12 subtitled in English. Can't wait until episode 13 gets subbed — that's one of my favorites! ♥

I'm also going to add a page about Style Book: Fushigiboshi no * Futago Hime Gyu!, a game for Nintendo DS that was released before Gyu!'s run. If you have any additional information on what the game is actually about, please contact me! From the looks of it, all I can deduce is that it seems to be like a personal planner with mini games of some sort.

Tell all your friends this: after almost a year and a half of being offline, Princess Party! is back, and better than ever! Compared to the older version of this site, Princess Party! has more extended and up-to-date information than ever!

Here's the breakdown:

• BRAND NEW LAYOUT! I'm pretty sure a lot of you were sick of looking at the disorganized layout from before. The new one offers a refreshing look and its coding is significantly tidier. The layout looks best at 1024 x 758 on Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, so please refer to these standards if you have trouble viewing the site.


• Both the CD and DVD discographies all have complete information and listings. The covers for the CD page have recently been replaced with better quality versions scanned from my collection. However, I am missing the covers for the last 3 OST albums and the first ending single on account of not owning them. If any of you have the cover images and would like to donate, that would be greatly appreciated!


• All episode titles for Gyu! are translated and placed on the website. When the summaries will come is when I'll have time to rewatch all 52 episodes.


• There is now a name notes section featuring what names are official and what are fan preferences.


• The manga section now has individual chapter summaries. I am fairly sure that my ordering of chapters is incorrect because according to some sources, the last chapter of the manga was released in February of 2006, not March of 2006. If anyone could elaborate on which chapter is which, that would be very helpful!


• All lyrics are now transliterated, except for Naginyo's love ballads we hear in a couple of episodes, which were never released on CD.


• The media section has two new sections: 100 x 100 icons and a RadioBlog! You're now able to listen to select samples of the music from the show! There are no plans of any type of music rotations at the moment.


• All updates and additional news will be listed on this LiveJournal community. Feel free to watch the community for updates and post comments!

While there are newer sections up, the pages from the older sections have only been updated with extended content, but have gotten no new additions.

If I had to calculate the percentage of our site progress, I'd give it about a good 60-70%. A lot of pages have been touched up, but the media section has nothing yet, and there are still pages that need to be recoded.

I am having trouble ripping songs off of my CDs, as Windows Media Player rips them as WMAs. I am curious as to how this is because I've used the same program and did rip songs as MP3s. I'm too paranoid to download any new programs seeing as my computer is really old and has limited HD space.

I really want this site to be up by approximately February. I hope this goes well.

After more than a year of hiatus, Princess Party! is going to return to the World Wide Web! As expected, many changes will take place on the site.

Updates and news for the site will be listed here (on this LiveJournal community) instead of the site itself. This is because it is more convenient to update via LiveJournal and CuteNews has become inefficient as there have been some spam problems. The advantage of having this community is that it is convenient for you to watch and look out for more news about Futago Hime as well as updates to Princess Party!

Since we lost the fanlisting listed at animefanlisting, we will no longer have a fanlisting section. I, for certain, am not planning to renew it (though I'm not sure what Amritam @ orthoflame believes). If you linked Princess Party! via a fanlisting code, please remove it.

I've finished revamping most of the pages in the info section today, and most of it was just recoding to make the structure of the pages a bit more organized and less cluttered. A little bit of the paragraphs were rewritten for better grammatical structure and less spoilery context. I've tried my best to hide spoilers, but some pages (i.e. about Boomo, magical items) couldn't really be extended without such, so I've only touched the surface of the context.

Later, I plan to rip some songs from my CDs to include on our streaming music section. Once I finish watching some Gyu! episodes, I'll finish up the character bios sections.

Oh, and feel free to watch this community for more site updates! Feedback is also appreciated. ♥