Notes: I've been lurking here for a few weeks, since I didn't just want to jump in without having anything to offer.
I'm one of the CMX newcomers. I discovered the first volume by accident, bought it in lack of anything else to read/buy, read it and fell in love. A very dear friend then gave me some scans while I waited for the next two volumes to arrive. I read them as well, fell even further in love, waited and ordered volume four, then decided that CMX was too slow for my taste, fought my way through amazon.jp and ordered the first 15 volumes in Japanese. Not that I speak one word of Japanese, but the manga summaries at eroicafans.org and my very vivid imagination makes more than up for that.
Of course, being German and having a husband that worked for NATO for a very long time increases the amusement factor even further. I just love all the lovely clichés Aoike includes in her stories. It's the only manga that made me laugh out aloud in the middle of the train (and in return gained me many strange looks :)).
Well, since my inner fangirl is very difficult to satisfy, I'm also working on a story, but it will still take some more time until it is finished, since it just gets longer and longer. One thing that I have realized while writing it - these two are the most difficult characters to keep in-character that I have ever written. And a lot of fun to play with, too, of course :)
Anyway, I scanned a few images from this book (a friend told me that it is a kind of making-of book?) for my friendslist, to spread the Eroica joy, and want to share them here as well. Most of you will probably know them already, but here you go:
(click on the images for the full-size versions)
You know, I fell in love with Dorian first and he's still my favorite, but Klaus is just too sexy:
The 'Solo Eberbach' amuses me very much:
Two cleaned up b/w because of cuteness and for giggles: