#Legend of Kamuy

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Manga News from AnimeNYC 2023

Starfruit Books announced several new titles, including Hideshi Hino's 90's horror The Red Snake, and 90s shoujo horror manga Clan Under The Moon by Tsukimori Masako. Both of these will be released under their Blood Orange horror imprint in 2024.

Drawn & Quarterly also announced that they'll be releasing Shirato Sanpei's iconic 1960s manga, The Legend of Kamuy!

A hugely important work of "alternative" manga that ran in the famous underground GARO magazine, which was in fact named after one of Sanpei's characters! One of the spinoffs of this series, Kamui Gaiden, was one of the first manga titles to be published in the United States (by Eclipse & Viz Comics), as The Legend of Kamui in a flipped edition to read American-style. Kamuy will be released by D&Q in the fall of 2024.

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The legend of the Freischütz is a German folk tale that centers on a marksman who makes a pact with the devil to ensure his bullets never miss. He receives seven of them, with six hitting any desired target and the seventh controlled by the devil himself.

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Social Commentary, Horror Manga and the Left: From Ero-Guro to Junji Ito

Content Warning: gore and body horror

Horror manga has always had ties with revolutionary politics. Its beginnings, in fact, start with a Marxist-oriented magazine in the 1960s. Garo, an early gekiga magazine for avant-garde art, was one of the most important magazines for the development of horror manga. Its publication lasted almost 40 years (starting in 1964 and ending in 2002) and the earliest works of horror manga can be found in its pages, as well as a career starting point for the majority of early horror manga artists. Aside from this, horror manga has ties to the ero guro nansensu movement of the 1920s (arguably earlier if certain woodblock prints are considered “ero guro”), which has a clear revolutionary bent. Horror manga today may be more detached from this history, but there are still traces of this revolutionary ethos in modern works.

Garo, The Legend of Kamui, and Burakumin

Garo was an alternative magazine published in kashi-hon stores during the 1960s which became the center of the Japanese counterculture movement. At the time, manga’s main distribution channels were weekly magazines made to correspond to TV series, such as Astro Boy or Speed Racer. Because these magazines’ main demographic was children, stories catering to mature audiences had to find somewhere else to be published. This is where the kashi-hon’ya industry comes in; kashi-hon refers to a for-profit rental service for books (similar to the old video rental stores in the U.S.). These stores allowed for the publication of more mature stories and the rise of gekiga, a form of graphic novel that dealt with more explicit themes.

Garo was the most popular magazine distributed within this network. At its peak in 1970, 80,000 copies of the magazine were published. Its main artist, Shirato Sanpei, had notoriety because one of his stories, Ninja Bugeicho, received a film adaptation in 1967. Shirato was a Marxist known for his social commentary; Ninja Bugeicho itself is a story about a left-wing uprising among the peasant class.

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The Following Pics Are Without Context Spoilers And Observations Concerning The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom

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I'm back here's everyone's favorite pupy doge from Legend of Dragoon

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Kamui: And I feel pretty sorry for the next AI that looks at me funny!

Haseo: Hmmm... what about that guy? Points to Azure Kite.

Kamui: gasps and stammers

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Resharing my comms sheet because I needed to clarify that I only charge for detailed backgrounds.

The amount of stuff I won’t draw for money is very low; please consider it. 🙏

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When they were Yaushikep, they would terrorize the village of Rebunge, however fervent prayer was answered by the sea god Repun Kamuy, who dragged Yaushikep into the sea, transforming the red spider into an octopus. Now, as Atkor Kamuy, they act as the ambivalent god of Uchiura Bay, equal parts protective and merciless, capable of swallowing passing ships and whales with ease.

When Atkor Kamuy appears above the waves, both the sky and the water are coloured red to reflect the scale of the deity's massive manifestation.

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どうか貴方の未来へと 陰落とさぬ様に

reference and progress pictures below

redraw of the Golden Kamuy OP

WIP pictures

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