Funato's publisher put up a little page promoting the manga, you can read an exerpt online if you install a DRM plugin from here first: http://www.dotbook.jp/crochet/download/ Also there's going to be a drawing for art boards signed by Funato for people who mail back a proof of purchase from the reprint. Surely people overseas can't get in on that...
The message from Funato is fun. "I wrote this manga when I was 23 and 25. Super Penalty Game Time!! Now I'm 36. What happened to Nostradamus' prophesies? Still nothing!?" It mentions some of the (already known) name puns, and how Funato carried them into her current manga, Under the Rose. The middle diagram shows boy Ghaleon 'splitting' into two Under the Rose characters labeled 'glasses' (on the left) and 'carrot' (on the right). While Glasses (William, actually) even looks like young Ghaleon, I'd need to think for a while about what Carrot (Linus, is that a Lunar reference?) has in common with Ghaleon. Hrm...
And finally, there's a preorder on Amazon.co.jp if anyone's interested.
