Christie is an amateur writer who shows up at her first anime convention with her artist boyfriend, ready to promote the manga they created together. But when she unexpectedly falls for a mysterious cosplayer, things get a little...well...complicated. What do you do when the person you're falling in love with is going to be miles away in just a matter of days? Relive Christie’s three-year adventure at the Yatta Anime Convention with this ultimate collector's edition! In addition to all the hilarious, embarrassing, heart-racing and nail-biting moments that got you hooked the first time, this three-volume compilation also includes a previously unpublished interview, early story concepts and a bonus comic that follows Christie and Matt on their first date! Svetlana Chmakova's funny, romantic, behind-the-scenes look at an anime convention will leave you thinking that in love sometimes even two's a crowd.

Christie Leroux
5'7", 17 years old. She is a cheerful and outgoing person, as well as a complete pushover to someone who knows which buttons to push (like her boyfriend). She is somewhat naive and trusting, but intelligent and fast to learn from her mistakes. Christie is a budding writer and is trying her hardest to be a success.

Derek Hollman
Christie's high school boyfriend. 5'11", 17 years old. He likes playing basketball and draws fairly well, though still need much improvement. He is not really serious about anything and does things while they are fun. Derek mostly looks out for himself and it wouldn't occur to him to extend the same courtesy to others.

Matt Green
6'2, 19 years old. Reserved and withdrawn, he has a biting sense of humor and is very cautious of forming emotional attachments to people, having had a very hard time amoung his peers. Matt has a very strong personality, bordering on harsh, though there is some softness left in him, still. He detests being weak and will never admit to his insecurities. Most likely to say: "Your village called--their idiot is missing."

Sandra Green
The mysterious beautiful cosplayer that hangs around Matt a lot, acting very familiar. She is a cheerful, sarcastic, no-nonsense and assertive type of girl.

Brett Thomson
Derek's cousin, 26 years old, he studies criminal psychology at a nearby university. He is quite pleasant and a gentleman, though with a very odd sense of humor. He is full of morbid crime stories that he relishes in telling every chance he gets.

Greta Huff
5'6", 23 years old. The girl sharing Matt's table in the artist alley. Sweet and kind, as well as very mature for her age, she is quiet unless she is with people she likes/trusts. She is studying to be a nurse.

Opal Maydew
Brett's girlfriend, 24 years old, she is majoring in Animal Sciences at the same university as him. Outgoing and afraid of nothing, she's had some wild times before she met Brett. She cleaned up since then, but has a lot of stories to tell.

Svetlana Chmakova was born and raised Russian, and moved to Canada at the tender age of 16. She slept through Sheridan College but they still gave her a three-year Classical Animation Diploma (yeah, she's still waiting for them to figure out they made a mistake and come back to take it from her). Svetlana is currently a freelance artist, working on stuff that mostly has nothing to do with animation. Oops. She suspects it has something to do with the fact that comics now own her soul.

Svet has drawn for how-to-draw-manga books, RPG manuals, toy designs, animation, book covers and illustrations. Her current works include two manga-style online comics--Chasing Rainbows on http://www.girlamatic.com and Night Silver at http://www.wirepop.com.

Favorite hobbies are: sleeping, reading more comics than is healthy for her wallet and fighting with the family cat over chair territory.

To find out more please visit her website at http://www.svetlania.com (while you're there, tell it she says hi... >.>).