#KAZU.

[anonbinaryweirdo]

never forgetting how scared I was of, I'm not kidding, ALLLL of my mutuals

like tf.

look at them.

I wanna pop them with a little pin.

I was SCARED???? of these CUTIES???

bitch.

[mybirthstoneisemerald]

Would it be nice if Miri comes home from school with a stray cat in her arms?

[389]

saito kazu, swaying in the wind (2023)

[rmsebi]

THE JUICE WAS KRAZY BRO

credits to loser @schyrosoreffs for a better shogun kai design 🔥🔥

[flower-of-assiah]

★ { Ao no Exorcist / 青の祓魔師 }  ★

➨ AOEX EXHIBITION: main visual.

[zegalba]

Saito Kazu: Swaying in the Wind (2023)

[kugisakiss]

bonus to this

does it count as a date if they always end up working?

[ao-no-exorcist-blog-blr]

From Kazue Kato's Twitter

[murcielagozz]

kazutora is my favorite tr character but i barely draw him 😭

[hootiee]

JumpFesta 2025 Shikishi

[kazu-le-dork]

The Masters account had just released a new Submas comic as part of the event releases celebration, and one of my favorite little details is the difference in Ingo's and Emmet's body language!

As seen above, Emmet with his wider body language, emoting with both arms, often extending forward or the side as if out of the frame of his body and having at least one hand resting on his hip often.

Whilst Ingo always keeping one arm behind or on the side as the other arm carries what he's expressing, making it much more of a narrow body language, keeping it within the frame of his body as much as possible.

I do believe these small quirks of them are also seen present in their character model poses as well, as seen below :

It's really nice with how the comic expanded on that aspect, I love how uniform they are in poses BUT I ALSO LOVE the small subtle differences of their body language and behavior, it's really a neat aspect and bits of characterization to keep in mind!!!!

[gongal]

Cawaii June 2000 (Available on my website in the pinned post)

[rmsebi]

yuh

[flower-of-assiah]

★ { Ao no Exorcist / 青の祓魔師 }  ★

➨ AOEX EXHIBITION: new illustrations from Kazue Kato, featuring the main cast and others!

[2001hz]

Kazu Toki: 'Wind, Moon and Flower' (1989)

Five layers of fabric been woven on a handloom (opposite), using the five different colored threads traditional in japan together with fiber optic, used in the industry as a transmitter of light. 'Pushing', 'polishing'or 'slashing' the fabric shifts the fibres to create the ambiguous shimmenng shapes. The artist worked on this piece in collaboration with the weaving studio Nozakiorisho Inc. and the textile company Toray Inc.

[midnight-in-town]

Ao no Exorcist is a Shonen series written by a woman and it shows

Since the latest chapter, I've been thinking about how several usual Shonen tropes are written rather differently under Kato-sensei's pen. No judgement or anything, it's just cool to observe. Some examples :

1) Rin's mentor is a woman

2) Rin's secret, despite being the MC, was revealed in ch13 to the entire cast, meanwhile Shiemi, The Main Girl, who was introduced to be so helpless is only starting to be explained.

3) Also, the Mysterious plot-relevant Shonen Parent is actually the twins' mother. (Of course Shiro is super plot-relevant too, but Satan is still angsting over Yuri and she's a huge part of the reason why he's the big bad)

4) Rin also changed his view about his future throughout the story: from dropping out of school, passing by hoping to become the Order's Paladin (probably to cope with Shiro's death and also to antagonize Arthur), to finally showing way more interest and potential in the (less epic and heroic in appearance) field of talismanic cooking.

5) When it comes to arcs, mental illness is a valid reason to build a character arc around...

6) And so is making an arc about girls being "cursed" to basically "get married and have children before they hit 30, the age where their beauty fade thus they become useless" :

7) ANE is a story about women becoming traitors to protect their loved ones, like Mamushi

or becoming overwhelmed because men toyed with their feelings like Tamamo

8) Older women can be absolute badasses like Shiemi's grandma

or Lucy.

9) Complicated mother-daughter relationship and girl friendships are given as much focus as complicated father-son relationships and sweet bro friendships (like Bon and his dad during the Kyoto arc, as well as the complicated but deep bond between the Kyoto Trio)

10) And one of my favorites: full time single dad, asking for help to do the job as well as he can and finding his true purpose in life by doing so :D

Hmm and now that I think about it, the only other Shonen series written by a woman I've been as invested in is Kuroshitsuji, by Yana Toboso, and similar examples can be found in it too, namely:

1) If Ciel ever finally admits needing a mentor, his aunt Frances will probably play that role

2) Girls can be super strong & skilled (Elizabeth, Mey Rin) and clever (Sieglinde)

3) (one part of) the Big Bad is a woman (Queen Victoria)

4) maybe Ciel's entire revenge stems from a conflict between Queen Victoria and Ciel's maternal grandmother, Claudia.

5) the Undertaker has been a continuously freaking pain in the ass because he probably fell in love with that same maternal grandmother and couldn't mourn properly

TL;DR we love our boys and their spectacular growth and development under women's pens a.k.a shonen series written by ladies are hella fun to read. :D