#Kumi Nakamura

[kmexk]

Koda Kumi fue con su familia al SuperShow Summer Tour

Aquí con Cody Rhodes, Shinsuke Nakamura y Bull Nakano.

Fotos de arreglos florales que Kenji y Kuu enviaron al evento.

[soda-gremlin]

Thea Sisters Book Reviews: Part 2

Here are the next three reviews, Secret City, Mystery in Paris, and Cherry Blossom Adventure

Secret City: 6/10, it's a book that exists, and I don’t hate it. So the girls go to Peru with Paulina to attend to her sister Maria, and they need to find a family friend, a professor, and his son, who went missing. This leads them on a trip to the Andes and a discovery of the Secret City (hehe title insert go brrrrr). However, they’re not the only ones after the secret city and the treasure that’s inside.

I have pretty much nothing to say about this book. Like I said, it exists, and I don’t despite it. The characters were fine, the conflict was fine, the villains were fine. If you wanna read this book, go right ahead, but if you don’t, you’re not missing much.

Mystery in Paris: 6/10, Definitely not a bad book, I personally just didn’t find it entertaining. The girls are taken to Paris, France for a “relaxing vacation”, their words not mine, by Colette to stay with her cousin Julie. Julie is in a fashion academy, currently producing a line of clothing for a fashion show, based on an old map she found and concepts of treasure hunting. Unfortunately, when the girls find her, she tells them her workspace has been searched through. Nothing was stolen, fortunately. After a day out, the girls and Julie go to bed. The next morning, they get a call from Julie, who went to the academy early. Her entire line has been stolen! And their number one suspects are the other students in the academy. Which is entirely plausible because they’re all a bunch of dickheads. And their clothes look like shit. After some investigating though, it doesn’t seem like any of the students are at fault, as bitter as they act. But then they discover a new lead, which is the map itself that Julie used. They chase that lead until they identify that the thief is after the map, not the clothes themselves. But they don’t have all the pieces of the map. Colette’s shawl, a gift from Julie, is the final piece. They use it to bait the thief, and they catch him in the act. It turns out to be her professor, Professor Le Blanc, trying to find valuable dresses from long ago. But as soon as they find the dresses, they crumble to pieces… So now both Julie’s clothes and Le Blanc’s plans are ruined and on the day of the show no less.

There’s nothing really wrong with this book, the conflict is interesting, the villain has an understandable motivation, and the side characters are fine. However, the characters felt duller than the other books, and not as memorable. The students, while assholes, only appear for a few pages and then are never seen again. The villain is somewhat sympathetic, and his motivation works, but it doesn’t really leave a strong impression.

In conclusion, if you do decide to read this book, you wouldn’t be wasting your time, but you wouldn’t be missing anything if you didn’t.

Cherry Blossom Adventure: 7/10, I liked it! It was a good read! The Thea Sisters as well as a few other Mouseford students go to Kyoto, Japan for an exchange program with Yoshimune Academy. There they meet a new friend, Kumi Nakamura. She’s very passionate about dancing, but her family has deep roots in the dying art of bunraku, a form of puppet theatre, and they want her to continue the legacy. They also meet Sakura, who seems not to like them at all. Then, Kumi’s father gets mysteriously taken by a gang of ninjas, but why? And by who?

Fun fact about me, I’ve lived in Japan for five years, and have been to Kyoto multiple times. I don’t wanna say I’m an expert but I do know a thing or two. Luckily though, this book didn’t make me tear my hair out, but there were a few details that were off. First off, usually in East Asia (or at least China and Japan), people introduce themselves with their family name, then you call them by their first name when they’re comfortable enough. The Thea Sisters call Kumi by her first name right off the bat. It doesn’t bother me that much, since Kumi is younger and also probably trying to accommodate them, but still, just a little discrepancy. The writing itself was pretty good! Sure the ninjas were a bit on the nose, but it wasn’t a bad decision. I also like the inclusion of a less popular Japanese art, instead of the easy (and very tacky) option of making it about origami or some shit. The characters were also good! Kumi was a bit plain other than her passion for dance and her generic struggle between family and passion, but I digress. Sakura is also a good active antagonist. She basically hates the girls on sight because she sees them hanging out with her girlfriend best friend. Then she realizes she’s being jealous and hurting Kumi in the process, so she apologizes, which I thought was nice.

Definitely worth reading! That is if you’re able to get past Colette being aggressively white in this part:

Also a pic of Kinkaku-ji I took :D

[dollshobby]

Nu.Face. AudioVisual collection by Integrity Toys!

Integrity Toys surprises collectors again with the innovative AudioVisual doll series. This collection combines futurism, cutting-edge fashion trends and luxurious style. The main characters are the digital model Novae, as well as the mysterious twin sisters Kumi and Yuri. Each of them is the embodiment of a unique image and new design solutions.

Novae is the first digital model from Nu. Face Tokyo, distinguished by her impeccable style and modern vision of fashion. She is created based on the Ayumi Nakamura 3.0 mold and uses the Nu. Face 3.0 body, already known to collectors. In turn, Kumi and Yuri are presented with updated new (based on old) molds (Kumi 2.0 / Yuri 2.0) and improved Nu. Face 3.5 bodies, which feature a more elegant neck and improved anatomy.

[dare-g]

Eyes of the Spider (1998)

[clemsfilmdiary]

Eyes of the Spider / Kumo no hitomi (1998, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

蜘蛛の瞳　（黒沢清）

8/6/21

[profqlasses]

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan  ·  岸辺露伴は動かない —  Episode 3  「D.N.A.」

"There's a lot that we still don't know about DNA. What if it contained memories of the soul?"

[lucas-lopes-santos-07]

High School DxD seiyuus and characters wallpapers part 6

[allicaj]

P U R P L E

01 chay | LAVENDER

02 AYUSE KOZUE | LOL

03 FLiP | LOVE TOXICITY

04 fonogenico | ねがいごと

05 Yasuda Rei | Re:I

06 Maiko Nakamura | 春色COVERS

07 Ayumi Hamasaki | A BALLADS 2

08 KODA KUMI | TRICK

09 YAYOI DAIMON | GIRLS -STRONG-

[chororine]

The Who's Who of Hipipo

("Open Image In New Tab" highly recommended!)

one of my favourite scenes in "Osomatsu-san: The Hipipo Tribe and the Glistening Fruit" was the climactic chase featuring cameos from many reoccuring and one-off characters (some of whom also appeared in the film's opening) from all three seasons of the anime - some well-known among fans of the franchise, others not so much.

in an attempt to fill in those "not so much" gaps, I proudly present a project I've been looking forward to posting for three months: a visual guide to the name and origin of every character who cameos in the climax and/or opening. see the list in text form under the cut!

Nanmaiders (season 3 episode 16: "Nanmaider Attacks")

Potato Kingdom citizens (season 3 episode 17: "Imoni")

Tatsunami/"Tacchan" (season 3 episode 23: "Friend")

Satozaki (season 3 episode 5: "Well, Yeah...")

Drunk couple (season 3 episode 2: "Let's Be Quiet At Night")

Sanematsu/Sanecop and Kaoruko (season 1 episode 13: "Sanematsu-san", season 2 episode 14: "Sanematsu-san Episode 9" and season 3 episode 16: "Sanecop")

Jyushi-senpai (season 3 episode 3: "Magical Angel Magi Lunatic Icchi")

Kouji Murakami (season 3 episode 1)

Shonosuke Hijirisawa (season 1 episode 2: "Aesop's Fables That Are Actually Terrifying" and others)

The New Sextuplets (season 3 episode 1)

Dobuko Busujima/"Dobusu"/"ugly flower fairy" (season 1 episode 15: "The Life of Chibita's Flower" and others)

Sukeroku (season 3 episode 12: "AI")

Tortoise and Hare (season episode 15: "Cosplaymatsu" ("Mister"))

The voice actors: Takahiro Sakurai, Yuichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Kamiya, Jun Fukuyama and Daisuke Ono (season 3 episode 1)

Miyu Irino (season 3 episode 24: "A-1 Grand Prix")

The director: Yoichi Fujita (season 3 episode 1)

Kumi and Miwa (season 2 episode 7: "Osomatsu and Todomatsu")

Sextuplets as "kill the cacao" demons (season 2 episode 19: "Valentine's Day")

Shoei (season 2 episode 3: "Totoko's Challenge")

Kinko Inuyama (season 2 episode 16: "The Cutie Next Door")

Devil Yeti (season 2 episode 17: "UMA Expedition Team")

Eitaro (season 2 episode 12: "The Eitaro Family")

Eitaro's mother (season 2 episode 12: "The Eitaro Family")

Michaelmatsu (season 2 episode 13: "Discharge Notice 2017: The Youngest Brother Who Got Fired")

Osoma (season 2 episode 17: "Inn")

Matsuzou as "Cherryzou" (season 2 episode 4: "Matsuzou and Matsuyo")

Sousou (season 2 episode 7: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms")

Giant oni/demon (season 2 episode 25: "Osomatsu-san in Hell")

Regular oni/demons (season 2 episode 25: "Osomatsu-san in Hell")

Chupacabra Deluxe (season 2 episode 15: "UMA Expedition Team"

F6 (season 1 episode 1: "Osomatsu-kun Returns" and others)

Super Mongolian Death Worm (season 2 episode 14: "UMA Expedition Team")

Chanto Shitaa/"Propershitter" (season 2 episode 1: "Osomatsu-san Returns")

Aida and Sacchi (season 1 episode 2: "The Melancholy of Osomatsu", season 1 episode 7: "Todomatsu and the Five Demons" and others)

Dayon girl/"Dayoko" (season 1 episode 23: "Dayon Tribe")

Black Factory supervisor (season 1 episode 2: "Let's Get A Job")

Sutabaa Coffee manager (season 1 episode 7: "Todomatsu and the Five Demons")

Dayon Tribe members (season 1 episode 23: "Dayon Tribe")

Totoko's parents (season 1 episode 4: "This Is Totoko" and others)

Flag Corporation employees (season 1 episode 6: "It's A Birthday Party, da jo")

Kamimatsu/Godmatsu (season 1 episode 21: "Kamimatsu")

Jiguzou (season 1 episode 3: "Tidbits Collection" ("OAW/OSO"))

"Christmas couple" (season 1 episode 11: "Black Santa" and season 2 episode 5: "Summer Kamen")

"Fheeeh" master (season 1 episode 22: "Final Sheeeh")

Shaorin (season 1 episode 22: "Final Sheeeh")

Atsushi (season 1 episode 22: "The Star of Hope, Todomatsu" and others)

Oil magnate (season 1 episode 24: "Totoko's Huge Panic")

Coachmatsu (season 1 episode 25: "Osomatsu-san, Such As It Was")

"Kanojo"/"Homura" (season 1 episode 9: "Jyushimatsu Falls In Love" and season 2 episode 8: "Jyushimatsu and the Dolphin")

Akumatsu/Evilmatsu (season 1 episode 21: "Kamimatsu")

President of France (season 1 episode 6: "Iyami Has Arrived")

Musashi Ironworks baseball team (season 1 episode 25: "Osomatsu-san, Such As It Was")

Fourth Galactic University Affiliated High School baseball team (season 1 episode 25: "Osomatsu-san, Such As It Was")

Oguri Overbite (season 1 episode 6: "Iyami Has Arrived")

Wanta (season 3 episode 19: "Dogs")

PHEW 💦

[angela-addams]

Police/mystery/crime BL recs that are just *chef's kiss*

•Takahashi Hidebu Stigmata Seikon Sousa and the sequel Stigmata Aikon

A bit bloody but the premise is amazing. A young rookie police investigator has an exceptional gift - he can relive the last dying moments of the victims and help with the investigation, his somewhat cold superintendent is the one who believes in his gift and supports him. Despite the mystical premise this manga is surprisingly realistic.

And the blood spatter is just beautiful as well as the tentative relationship between the main characters. This is a manga that makes hand-holding the best part.

•CTK On Doorstep

A pickpocket gets caught by an ex-cop who suffers from PTSD and inevitably gets involved with the man. The art is amazing and it's a nice change from the typical frail bishounens.

•Kodaka Kazuma Hana to Ryuu

Oldie but goodie. It follows the story of Ryuuji whose family was brutally murdered by a rival kumi, he wants nothing to do with the yakuza, but turns out the person who swore to protect him is a member of a clan.

It has a compelling story and amazing artwork.

• Nakamura Asumiko Anata no Tame ni Doko Made mo

A definition of bacouple. An investigator has finally managed to track down an elusive con artist but the culprit doesn't mind being arrested at all. Hillarity ensues.

A great comedy from Nakamura sensei that I highly recommend

• Nishida Higashi Yoru ga Owaru Made

A prosecutor is looking into the disappearance of his colleague, a popular guy at work and a handsom fella, but his phantom keeps visiting him in his dreams.

I love the mystical elements in this manga and it has a gripping story.

[skippysartq]

HQ 2nd stories - Meet Everyone

Trust me I have lots I wanna write about these kids I created. It not all the fleshed out. I can tell ya I am not the best in that department.

But boy I have some stories to tell about them all.

Like how Kadashi, my first, became Kadashi.

Tetsuhana saga of crushes. And his teasing family.

The Kageyama Twins. Fights.

Dai's found family in all the kids she gets to know she treats them as if her own siblings.

Reiko accepting, self worth, selfishness and bravery.

Kento learning to listen to other and not only himself.

Shun finding friends and a passion on his own. No longer in the shadows of his brother.

Uta meeting his soulmate and Thier dad on the first day of knowing them.

Oba-Joben learning to be helpful.

Kuniko growing to protect his baby sister.

Sota meeting Kinhoshi and after a rivalry with Ena, they get together.

Not in that order persay.

There are more to be thought of but it'll be quiet awhile before this book will be finished. So enjoy them as they come out.

Slow updates as they are big stories.

Now here they are; Meet everyone of my 2nd gen kids. Pictures of them in Thier respected chapter and later a chapter just to show some pictures.

(First name, Last name)

9 - Shun Kageyama

10 - Kento Kageyama, the Karasuno 1st year Twins.

11 - Kadashi Tsukishima, 1st year

Daia Sugawara, 3rd year Manager

4 - Yuuma Nishinoya, 3rd year Captain

Miki Nishinoya, 7 years old

5 - Kiyoryuu Tanaka, 2nd year

Aiya Tanaka, 2nd year college

-Kuroo- Tetsuhana, Oldest graduated beauty school, 23?

Saihiro, 2nd kid, 1st college

3- Tetsuroyo, 3rd kid, 3 year high school

9- Toshihiro, youngest, 1st year high school

Ruka Haiba, 1st year

Cousin Suzuki Haiba, 3rd

Jun Sasaya, 2nd year

Asa Sasaya, 1st year college

Ena Aone, 2nd year

Kinhoshi Koganegawa, 2nd year

Sota Bokuto, 2nd year

Katashi Shirofuku, 1st year

Kumi Shirofuku, 1st year

Uta Oikawa, 2nd

Genki Kindaichi, 1st

Morina-Hana Mattsukawa, 3rd

Oba-Joben Kita, graduated High school

Sana Miya, 2nd year

Masa Miya, 2nd middle

Mairi Komori, 6

Asaya Michimiya, 7

Jakkaru Inuko, 3

Introduced in the twins 2nd year.

Shiratorizawa

Setsuko Shirabu, 1st

His cousins; Reo, 2nd middle

Kana, 1st middle

Nozomi, 3rd middle

Ayako, 10

Kuniko Ushijima, 1st year

Yuatori Ushijima 1 month, 3 weeks.

6 - Nori Akakura, 2nd year

7 - Kiyoshi Akakura, 1st year

9 - Saro Nakashima, 1st

12 - Gorogen Saito, 1st

-New Karasuno -

8- TakeTame Ennoshita, 1st year

9- Mainazii Yonezawa, 1st year

10- Reiko Narita, 1st year

Sara Amanai, 2nd year

Original OCs - Karasuno

2 - Midori Kiboken, Setter Captain 3rd year

Dekinii Shimiza, 2nd year

Shiratorizawa

1 - Khace Tomas, Captain 3rd year

2 - Akemi Taroda, 3rd year

3 - Touma Chai, 3rd year

Annaisha Eichi, 3rd year

Haru Daicho, 1st year

8 - Hiro Kichikawa, 1st year

Itachiyama

1 - Yukino Takishima, 3rd year Libero

O OCs - from Animo's help.

Nekoma

6 - Aoi Kirishima, 2nd year Libero

Itchayama

7 - Haru Nakamura, 2nd year Setter

Pictures off most of my characters are here on this page.

[suuzaa]

And some comment from me now

I just can't with Kumi being all cutie (is it even okay to call her that?) with her "it's a secret~" when Sajou found CD Kusakabe made for her. Like she treasures it so much and wants to brag about it, yet she wants it to be her little secret.

Then their phone call. They're still so awkward and in love with each other, getting butterflies in their stomachs just from hearing each other breaths on the phone... Yet it's so hard to close the distance that appeared between them.

I love how Kusakabe casually said that his vision of flashback was not of a high school GIRL. And his laugh right after, like whooops, I just said it... whatever, what you're gonna do now, buddy?

Last thing (probably), I hate the fact that it's Kumi's health that brings the change. Like, earlier it was because of her hospitalization that Sajou reached out to Kusakabe after the ring incident. And now? What it's gonna bring now? I feel so sorry for her and want her to get better 😭

A quick summary of blanc chapter 7 for those who can't wait to know what happens next (and I can't wait for 8th, but what can I do?)

So Sajou and Kusakabe talked on the phone and decided to meet once Sajou comes to Tokyo (unfortunately not in this chapter ;_;). Sajou visited his mother in hospital. She asked if they made up already and told him that he should treasure things (and people) he holds dear because nobody knows what future can bring us.

Meanwhile Kusakabe was visiting some place with guy from music company (I guess?) to see if it fits for his MV. On the spur of moment (deciding what should be in MV) Kusakabe reveals his orientation. After a moment of confusion guy says that it's Kusakabe's song and it would be wrong for it's MV to be different than he imagined.

And the last scene (YES, OF COURSE CLIFFHANGER): condition of Sajou's mother has gotten worse. 😭 💔

[chibisunnie]

Blanc Ch 8 Translation

EDIT: BLANC HAS BEEN LICENSED IN ENGLISH!! :D It is now released and can be ordered from all the places listed on Seven Seas’ site here: https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/classmates-vol-6-blanc/ Since deleting a tumblr post from my page won’t delete it everywhere on tumblr, I figured the best thing to do would just be to delete the pictures from my translation and then whenever anyone clicks the read more they’d see this update and the link of where to buy it. So if you want to read it, go buy the official version or request it from your public library! :D Under the cut is my translation for Blanc Ch 8! ^_^ Thank you as always to @aliciacentolla​  for letting me use her pictures of the raws for this post! :D Also thank you to Kai for answering my “is this an idiom or a grammar thing I haven’t learned yet?” questions so that I could ensure this is as accurate as possible! ^_^

I’m still working on Ch 7 (this semester killed me @_@) but Ch 8 was so intense that I ended up translating 20 pages the weekend it came out. ^^; So I figured I might as well just finish it up and post it before Ch 7. ^^; I advise you read this chapter somewhere where it’s okay to scream and cry. @_@ Seriously. Have tissues ready. You will need them. T_T

Please support Nakamura-sensei and buy the mangas if you’re able! Vol 1-3 of Doukyuusei are available in English (they call it Classmates) at pretty much all places that sell mangas, and you can buy the rest of the series and the current issues of Opera that contain Blanc on amazon.jp or CDjapan (they even have ebook versions, but they’re always at least 1 issue behind for the magazine)! Also Seven Seas has a survey on their website where you can request titles you want them to license. So if you haven’t yet requested them to license the rest of Doukyuusei (Sora to Hara, O.B., and Blanc), let your voice be heard and fill it out! :D

Pg 1: Panel 1 Box 1: ------------Huh? Where is…   Panel 2 Box 1: …that song? Box 2:  I thought I included that song. Box 3: Let me see… Box 4: Huh?   Panel 3 Box 1: What song was it again?   Panel 4 Box 1: Uhhhh… Box 2: No. Box 3: Wait. Box 4: Wait!

Pg 2: Panel 1 Box 1: Wait!   Panel 2 Middle of Page: Nakamura Asumiko Right side text line 1: A thing we can’t go recover, a thing we’re unable to turn back. Right side text line 2: Continually spilling, the time flows moment by moment…

Pg 3: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Gasp Bubble 2: ------------We’ve arrived.   Panel 2 Bubble 1: That’ll be 2620 yen.

Pg 4: Panel 1 Top part: Past Issues:   Main Box: Three years since graduation, Kusakabe and Sajou have been in a long-distance relationship where they haven’t been able to see each other and became distant. In this situation, Sajou’s mother Kumi has been hospitalized with cancer, and Kusakabe offered to help her. Kumi said, “I want to listen to music chosen by you, Kusakabe-kun,” and when he gave it to her, the final track included a song he had made himself about Sajou. That lead to him getting inspired to start afresh, but meanwhile……….

Pg 5: NO TEXT

Pg 6: Panel 1 Bubble 1: ………….. Bubble 2: How did………….   Panel 2 Bubble 1: …They said it was pneumonia.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Because last time they had to perform a small surgery on her lung, Bubble 2: it was quite frail. Bubble 3: And because of that… Bubble 4: Um….

Pg 7: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Well, umm… Bubble 2: There’s really not much…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: But…   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Still, I’ll try to do absolutely… Bubble 2: ...everything I can…   Panel 4 Bubble 1: -----------Who is this?

Pg 8: Panel 1 Bubble 1: What the heck are you--?   Panel 2 Bubble 1: No one except family can be in here! Bubble 2: Dad!   Panel 3 Bubble 1: This is improper, you know that, right? Bubble 2: Get out of here!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: No! Bubble 2: He’s-- Bubble 3: I…

Pg 9: Panel 1 Bubble 1: …I’ll go home. Bubble 2: You’re allowed to stay! Bubble 3: Rihito!   Panel 3 Bubble 1: He’s…   Panel 4 Bubble 1: He’s my partner!

Pg 10: Panel 1 SFX: Shaaa   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Rihito!

Pg 11: Panel 1 Bubble 1: I know that…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: …I shouldn’t have said that last thing.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: But… SFX: Tremble SFX: Tremble Bubble 2: …I couldn’t stop myself.     Panel 4 Bubble 1: Those things Bubble 2: he said to you…   Panel 5 Bubble 1: …are unforgivable…!!

Pg 12: Panel 2 Bubble 1: …………….. Bubble 2: What…?

Pg 13: Panel 2 Bubble 1: …What are you saying?   Panel 3 Bubble 1: You’re…   Panel 4 Bubble 1: …Mom had known everything.

Pg 14: Panel 1 Bubble 1: I’ve Bubble 2: always…

Panel 2 SFX: SLAP

  Panel 3 Bubble 1: RIHITO!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Are you okay?! Bubble 2: Cough Bubble 3: Haah

Pg 15: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Haah Bubble 2: What kind of… Bubble 3: What kind of plan was this?   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Haah Bubble 2: At a time like this…     Panel 3 Bubble 1: You…   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Mom just died! Bubble 2: What a perverse…   Panel 5 Bubble 1: HAVE YOU NO SHAME?!!

Pg 16: Panel 1 Bubble 1: SHOULDN’T YOU BE THE ONE WHO IS ASHAMED?!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Your own son said that he likes men Bubble 2: and because you don’t accept it…   Panel 3 Bubble 1: …you hit him! You’re a horrible person!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Rihito.

Pg 17: Panel 1 Bubble 1: I’m the one who should be embarrassed! Bubble 2: Since I was born to an old-fashioned bigot of a dad like you!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Stop it, Rihito!   Panel 3 Bubble 1: You work overseas and yet your worldview hasn’t expanded at all!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Because of that, you didn’t notice anything at all about your son! Bubble 2: Your wife as well! Even though you outlived her, Bubble 3: you left her all alone and made her last years Bubble 4: sad and lonely! Bubble 5: Rihito, stop!

Pg 18: Panel 1 Bubble 1: You’re queer! Bubble 2: You became queer!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Since when?! Bubble 2: It’s because of… Bubble 3: You became like this after going to that low-ranking school!   Panel 3 Bubble 1: WHAT?! Bubble 2: Don’t!!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: You’re in front of your mom!!   Panel 5 Bubble 1: …Is this your fault…?

Pg 19: Panel 1 Bubble 1: What a… Bubble 2: Your hair too. It’s so provocative because it’s a weird color and long…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: You don’t have any decency, do you?! Bubble 2: It’s you, isn’t it?!     Panel 3 Bubble 1: It’s your fault that Rihito is deviant!!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

Pg 20: Panel 1 Bubble 1: I WISH YOU HAD DIED INSTEAD!!

Pg 21: NO TEXT

Pg 22: NO TEXT

Pg 23: Panel 2 Bubble 1: …I’m going back.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Because there are things regarding the funeral service and such……….. Bubble 2: …Ahh. Bubble 3: Will you be okay? Bubble 4: Yeah………….   Panel 5 Bubble 1: …Sorry. Bubble 2: About saying that unexpected thing.   Bubble 3: Huh? Bubble 4: Introducing you as my partner.

Pg 24: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Right now we’re… Bubble 2: You know…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Umm… Bubble 2: For me, that’s…   Panel 3 Bubble 1: …that’s been Bubble 2: the plan all along.

Pg 25: Panel 1 Bubble 1: I’ve been waiting for you.   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Well then, Bubble 2: take care of yourself so you don’t catch a cold, okay? Bubble 3: And ice down your cheek. Bubble 4: Ah--   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Tell me when you’ve decided the date of the funeral service and such. Bubble 2: I will. Bubble 3: Umm….

Pg 26: Panel 3 Bottom text: Blanc #8 / End

[houkagokappa]

I read my English copies of Doukyuusei today and it made me love the series even more than I already do. I reread it quite a lot, but I usually skip the very beginning so it was fun to read the first volume again and discover some smaller details I had forgotten about (also to see just how much Nakamura’s artstyle has changed over the years!)

It broke my heart to read Kumi’s introduction and I almost started crying during her scenes, because I love her so much and I hate to be reminded of what’s going on in blanc (I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS OVER CHAPTER 8). The scene were Sajou comes out to her and she meets Kusakabe is one of my favourites in the entire series :’(

Overall it’s a really nice publication. There were a couple of instances were the translation could’ve been smoother, but that’s something I’m very nitpicky about especially since I’ve also read the Japanese volumes and know the language used there, but other than that it’s very high quality and something you should be spending your money on. I hope they’ll license the sequels as well!

[docrotten]

MATANGO (ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE, 1963) – Episode 135 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“I was confused. I couldn’t decide what to do. Then… I ate them!” Oh, oh. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr, along with guest host Dirk Rogers – as they journey to a Pacific island and attempt to resist the lure of the deadly mushrooms found in Ishirô Honda’s Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People, 1963) from Toho.

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 135 – Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People, 1959)

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Synopsis: A group of pleasure-seeking young people is stranded on a mysterious island when their boat crashes. One by one they succumb to the lure of the deadly mushrooms.

  Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeshi Kimura (screenplay); Shin’ichi Hoshi & Masami Fukushima (adaptation); William Hope Hodgson (story by, “The Voice in the Night,” Blue Book Magazine, November 1907); Sakyo Komatsu (uncredited)

Music by: Sadao Bekku

Cinematography by: Hajime Koizumi

Director of special effects: Eiji Tsuburaya 

Chief assistant special effects director: Teruyoshi Nakano

Special effects unit production manager: Shigeru Nakamura

Special effects art director/Special effects set decorator: Akira Watanabe

Costume Design/Art Department: Shigeru Komatsuzaki

Selected Cast:

Akira Kubo as Kenji Murai – Professor

Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi – Singer

Kenji Sahara as Senzō Koyama – Sailor

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurō Yoshida – Writer

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai – Owner

Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuta – Skipper

Miki Yashiro as Akiko Sōma – Student

Takuzô Kumagai as Doctor  (billed as Jiro Kumagai)

Yutaka Oka as Doctor

Keisuke Yamada as Doctor

Hideyo Amamoto as Skulking Transitional Matango

Haruo Nakajima as Matango

Toku Ihara as Transitional Matango

Kuniyoshi Kashima as Transitional Matango

Masaki Shinohara as Matango

Kōji Uruki as Matango

Tokio Ōkawa as Matango

In this episode, your Classic Era Grue Crew is joined by Dirk Rogers, a special effects artist with KNB EFX Group and a long-time friend of the show. As the guest host, Dirk chose Matango for this episode’s topic and with the movie’s use of effects – miniatures, suits, prosthetics, set dressing – it’s easy to see why this is one of his favorites. 

Dirk was originally drawn to Matango because it featured a lot of the same players from the Godzilla films. He loves the damp (shall we say moist?) atmosphere, the use of color reminiscent of Mario Bava, the sets, and the miniatures. He’s always loved Matango and feels the English title, Attack of the Mushroom People, doesn’t represent the depth of what you get from the film. Dirk also provides valuable insights into the effects work and the documentation of who did what during the production.

Matango is probably Chad’s first exposure to body horror and the horrors of fungus. He loves the way the story ramps up the terror and the cringeworthy fungus-filled sets. As one of Toho’s best, Matango still holds up for him. Daphne is blown away by the colors and the textures of the mushrooms and the fungi, loving it all over again. Jeff agrees that “Attack of the Mushroom People” sounds kind of hokey and doesn’t represent the depth of the story told in Matango. He loves the concept, the story progression, the creepy and downright icky creatures and fungi, and the movie’s cultural and historical relation to the horrors experienced by the Japanese from the atomic bombs of World War II.

Dirk was turned onto the writings of William Hope Hodgson by this movie as it is developed from Hodgson’s short story, “The Voice in the Night.”  During the episode, the crew discusses several versions of this story, all of which are provided through the following links:

Story: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Voice_in_the_Night

Audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASIfPcyTAH0

Suspicion (TV series, 1957-1958), Episode 24: “The Voice in the Night” (aired 24 March 1958); from the story by William Hope Hodgson; starring James Donald, Barbara Rush, Patrick Macnee, James Coburn. This is a very poor resolution but the Classic Era Grue-Crew still enjoyed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssi6_YWrrxc

If you have been motivated by this episode to catch Matango (and you should be), at the time of this writing, it is available to stream from Classic Horror Movie Channel, Tubi, The Criterion Channel, and various PPV sites. In terms of physical media, Matango is available on DVD.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule is one chosen by guest host, the one and only Dave Dreher: The Return of Dracula (1958). 

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