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Minekura-sensei updated her blog and on the first update she talks about the terrible earthquake of 11th March 2011.
She is close to the people hit by the earthquake and seems she is going to plan something to help the damnaged areas.

In the second update she talks about all the illustrations published in magazine in these latest months:
Saiyuki Dice of Destiny, Saiyuki Gaiden booklet, Saiyuki Season 12, Saiyuki Crossroaders.
About Crossroaders, Minekura-sensei explains that it will be a novel that will be published online for free on Ichijinsha website starting from May.
Then she talks about another novel 最遊記　紅楼天戯 (is someone able to translate the title?). It will be written by Yukiko Uozumi and illustrated by Minekura-sensei.
Yukiko Uozumi is the same novellist who in Saiyuki Omnibus wrote the novel dedicated to Hakkai.
Here some cutted illustrations about this new novel (it will be published on 26th April):

About the plot, here follows the japanese summary:

あの大人気コミック『最遊記』が、ノベルオリジナルストーリーで登場!!
西へ向かう三蔵、悟空、八戒、悟浄の4人が辿りついたのは、『赤』が尊ばれる、地,図に載っていない歓楽街。金のない一行は、スカウトされた劇団に厄介になることになり…。

Minekura-sensei talks also about Saiyuki Gaiden CD Drama 5 and shows a new illustration that will be within the booklet:

Here the full illustration of the two cards that is possible preordering thanks to ZeroSum magazines.



Then, she informed us that will come back to work for WINGS magazine for some novels.

Saiyuki Gaiden characters for the game of Gaiden!