there was also some earlier crackish freeform rp in google chats with friends from middle school but i don't really count that bc we were just kind of throwing all our current faves in a blender and seeing what stuck
First volume was published in 2005 iirc Volumes 1-7 are floating around on the net for free at this point, but the last one was only ever released as an ebook bc of Tokyopop going under