This is a reply to a friend on email that I wish to post. Dated 20031214 12.33 :

sorta busy at the moment, so i'll just ans your Q regarding the YnM thing. I did some research on Matsushita Youko [the mangaka/artist] and found out that YnM has been suspended for over a year now. Apprently Matsushita-sensei got obesessed over video games, even made fan webbies of them, but because she used her real name, she was flooded w/ Qs like 'how's the series [meaning YnM] doing', so she closed them down. She did expressed in her webbies that she doesn't want to be a mangaka anymore, so there might be a chance that YnM will end w/o an ending and vol 12 will never come out.

btw, i don't know her webbies [wish i did], i got these info by searching 'matsushita youko' on google.

it's really sad and i was sad to hear this news. i honesty hope that she would continue YnM. She's amazing because YnM is her first series [i heard she did 2 other short stories, but i have not read them], and it got into a two-digit volume. that is amazing because usually artists, when they first draw as pros, they start w/ two/three volume stories. this shows her skills and potential to become sucessful. it's dissapointing to hear that she lost interest.