#Mariko Ohara

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Hybrid Child: A Novel

By Mariko Ōhara.

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Maybe it's nostalgia. Maybe it's because I'm sleepy. Maybe I'm just glad it's over, ha hah. But, yeah… there's something about Illusion of Gaia that always brings a tear to my eye once I get to that final part.

I had this game as a kid. I had the full package, too. It came with a really cool T-shirt and everything. I guess Nintendo really wanted people to buy this game. Shame it's actually not that good.

The gameplay is awesome. Varied locations, lots of different monsters, a fantastic soundtrack by Yasuhiro Kawasaki… But the story… The story is where it all falls apart. I don't know what Mariko Ōhara was trying to go for, but her sci-fi writing skills really did not translate well into a fantasy setting. The entire plot of the game felt rushed and disconnected more than anything. But, even so… that ending always gets to me. It's really beautiful.

Well… I hadn't played this game since 1994 or 1995, and now that I've finally replayed it from start to finish, I can honestly say that even with the awful storyline, it's still a pretty solid 4-out-of-5. I just wish the plot made more sense. Maybe I'll take a whack at it, sometime… I can't do much worse than Ōhara-san.

[imasallstars]

INTERDIMENSION FESTIVAL: IDOLM@STER★♥LOVE LIVE! UTA GASSEN

Information regarding the first IJIGEN FES 2023 live has been revealed! The live will occur in the TOKYO DOME on the 9th and 10th of December 2023. This first fes will feature three branches of IDOLM@STER performing with four branches of Love Live!

The voice providers participating in this stop are as follows:

DAY 1 ONLY

IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS 　Kotomi Aihara (Shiki Ichinose), Hiromi Igarashi (Anzu Futaba), Asami Takano (Frederica Miyamoto), Yuki Nakashima (Yuuki Otokura), Yuko Iida (Kanade Hayami), Honoka Inoue (Nanami Asari), Sumire Uesaka (Anastasia), Aya Suzaki (Minami Nitta), Miyu Tomita (Akira Sunazuka), Ru Thing (Syuko Shiomi), Teru Ikuta (Natalia), Hina Tachibana (Nagi Hisakawa), Nanami Yamashita (Yui Ohtsuki) IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE 　Haruka Yamazaki (Mirai Kasuga), Azusa Tadokoro (Shizuka Mogami), Machico (Tsubasa Ibuki), Momo Asakura (Serika Hakozaki), Kotori Koiwai (Tomoka Tenkubashi), Atsuki Nakamura (Roco Handa), Emi Hirayama (Reika Kitakami), Yui Watanabe (Nao Yokoyama) IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS 　Karin Isobe (Kogane Tsukioka), Chisa Suginuma (Mamimi Tanaka), Anna Yamaki (Sakuya Shirase), Shio Watanabe (Yuika Mitsumine), Yuina Mizuki (Kiriko Yukoku), Honoka Kuroki (Amana Osaki), Ryoko Maekawa (Tenka Osaki), Noriko Shibasaki (Chiyuki Kuwayama), Yuu Wakui (Toru Asakura), Rio Tsuchiya (Madoka Higuchi), Saran Tajima (Koito Fukumaru), Miho Okasaki (Hinana Ichikawa), Azusa Shizuki (Nichika Nanakusa), Aya Yamane (Mikoto Aketa)

DAY 2 ONLY

IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS 　Ayaka Ohashi (Uzuki Shimamura), Ayaka Fukuhara (Rin Shibuya), Sayuri Hara (Mio Honda), Amina Sato (Arisu Tachibana), Tomoyo Kurosawa (Miria Akagi), Hana Tamegai (Risa Matoba), Makoto Koichi (Haru Yuuki), Asaka Imai (Chie Sasaki), Natsumi Haruse (Kaoru Ryuzaki), Misaki Kuno (Nina Ichihara), Yuri Komori (Koharu Koga), Mina Nakazawa (Yukimi Sajo), Maki Hanatani (Kozue Yusa) IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE 　Aimi (Julia), Miku Itou (Yuriko Nanao), Ibuki Kido (Kana Yabuki), Arisa Kori (Kaori Sakuramori), Yuri Komagata (Sayoko Takayama), Rie Suegara (Fuka Toyokawa), Saki Minami (Tsumugi Shiraishi), Rikako Yamaguchi (Rio Momose) IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS 　Hitomi Sekine (Mano Sakuragi), Reina Kondo (Hiori Kazano), Mayu Mineda (Meguru Hachimiya), Hiyori Konno (Kaho Komiya), Haruka Shiraishi (Chiyoko Sonoda), Mariko Nagai (Juri Saijo), Wakana Maruoka (Rinze Morino), Akiho Suzumoto (Natsuha Arisugawa), Yuki Tanaka (Asahi Serizawa), Eri Yukimura (Fuyuko Mayuzumi), Sayaka Kitahara (Mei Izumi), Rina Kawaguchi (Luca Ikaruga), Haruna Mikawa (Hana Suzuki), Rena Ozawa (Haruki Iketa)

DAY 1&2

AQOURS (LOVE LIVE! SUNSHINE!!) 　Anju Inami (Chika Takami), Rikako Aida (Riko Sakurauchi), Nanaka Suwa (Kana Matsuura), Arisa Komiya (Dia Kurosawa), Shukai Saito (You Watanabe), Aika Kobayashi (Yoshiko Tsushima), Kanako Takatsuki (Hanamaru Kunikida), Aina Suzuki (Mari Ohara), Ai Furihata (Ruby Kurosawa) NIJIGASAKU SCHOOL IDOL CLUB 　Aguri Ohnishi (Ayumu Uehara), Mayu Sagara (Kasumi Nakasu), Kaori Maede (Shizuku Osaka), Miyu Kubota (Karin Asaka), Natsumi Murakami (Ai Miyashia), Akari Kito (Kanata Konoe), Coco Hayashi (Setsuna Imura), Maria Sashide (Emma Verde), Chiemi Tanaka (Rina Tennoji), Moeka Koizumi (Shioriko Mifune), Shu Uchida (Mia Taylor), Akina Homoto (Zhong Lanzhu). 　Support Member: Hinaki Yano (Yu Takasaki) Liella! (LOVE LIVE! SUPERSTAR!!) 　Sayuri Date (Kanon Shibuya), Liyuu (Keke Tang), Nako Misaki (Chisato Arashi), Naomi Payton (Sumire Heanna), Nagisa Aoyama (Ren Hazuki), Nozomi Suzuhara (Kinako Sakurakoji), Akana Yabushima (Mei Yoneme), Wakana Okuma (Shiki Wakana), Aya Emori (Natsumi Onitsuka), Yuina (Wien Margarete), Sakura Sakakura (Tomari Onitsuka) HASUNOSORA SCHOOL IDOL CLUB 　Nirei Nozomi (Kaho Hinoshita), Kokona Nonaka (Sayaka Murano), Nina Hanamiya (Kozue Otomune), Kotoka Sasaki (Tsuzuri Yugiri), Kanna Kan (Rurino Osawa), Kona Tsukine (Megumi Fujishima)

[hybrid-child]

Name: Mariko Ohara

Age: 11

Ability: Hybrid Child - Allows her to take the physical form of things and people they kill. She always has a small tattoo on the palm of her hand through no matter the form (it looks like a circuit board), so she wears gloves almost constantly

Likes: Quiet things, rain, chocolate

Dislikes: Loud sounds, failure, vulnerability

Extra: She was orphaned at a young age and learned to kill from other kids and teens on the street, racking up a high kill count pretty fast, especially since people often try to take advantage of the weaker. Shes now staying in the house of one of her kills, since she can easily pretend to be him

Notes/rules

No nsfw, she’s a child

She/they pronouns for Mariko

Same mod as @city-of-c0rpses

If you message me on here and don’t get a response, please feel free to message me on @city-of-c0rpses (I don’t check my accounts that aren’t side blogs often)

[byneddiedingo]

Kinuyo Tanaka and Hideko Takamine in The Munekata Sisters (Yasujiro Ozu, 1950)

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, So Yamamura, Sanae Takasugi, Chishu Ryu, Yuji Hori, Tatsuo Saito. Screenplay: Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, based on a story by Jiro Osaragi. Cinematography: Joji Ohara. Production design: Seiya Kajima. Film editing: Toshiro Goto. Music: Ichiro Saito. 

Some very non-Ozu things happen in Yasujiro Ozu's The Munekata Sisters. For example, the camera actually moves in one scene. Granted, it's only a brief pan across the setting at the end of the scene, but it was enough to startle anyone used to Ozu's locked-in low-angle points of view. But more unusually, there is actual physical violence in the film: A man slaps his wife repeatedly, and a few scenes later drops dead on the floor. The most contemplative of filmmakers, Ozu rarely deals directly with violence, preferring to show us the emotional consequences of disturbing events. The man, Ryosuke Mimura (So Yamamura), is unemployed. During his desultory search for a job, he is supported by his wife, Setsuko (Kinyuo Tanaka), who runs a small bar with the help of her much younger sister, Mariko (Hideko Takamine). The two sisters are very different: Setsuko, brought up before the war, is quiet and reserved and dresses in traditional Japanese style. Mariko reflects postwar attitudes in dress and manner: She's outspoken, with a spunky carefree manner, and sharply critical of her brother-in-law, whom she sees as an idler and a drunk. Then an old flame of Setsuko's, Hiroshi Tashiro (Ken Uehara), returns to town. Setsuko might have married him, but he decided to go to France before the war, so she married Mimura instead. Hiroshi is handsome and successful, and Mariko immediately sets her sights on reuniting him with her sister. Ozu develops all four characters with great finesse. Mimura is something of a dead-end case, and his outburst of jealous rage at Mimura's seeing Hiroshi again is frightening, but he has a softer side that he shows with the clowder of cats that he apparently fosters. There is something of the too-detached sophisticate about Mimura that shows in his scenes with Mariko, who falls in love with him while she's trying to reunite him with her sister. As a whole, The Munekata Sisters is more melodramatic than Ozu's films usually are, including the ending, which involves one of those renunciations that movies typically rely on as a plot resolution. But it's beautifully acted, especially by Tanaka and Takamine. 

[heavyretro]

🌎 ✨+————-••••• Episode 08 // Illusion of Gaia Review + Drinking Game DROPS TOMORROW ON PATREON! +———————-••••••••••••• Illusion of Gaia was written for the Super Nintendo by Japanese Sci-Fi Writer, Mariko Ohara in the early 90s. It is the unofficial second installment to the SoulBlazer Trilogy. This game is set in the 1600s on Earth [ with some added reimagining of our Earth and Ancient History / some Fantasy elements ]. The protagonist, Will, travels to real life locations, like The Great Wall of China and Angkor Wat. There are also mystical locations like The Land of Mu [ Lemuria ] and Sky Garden [ The Hanging Gardens of Babylon ]. Will must uncover the “secrets” of the mysteries of these landmarks and ancient ruins. This game is steeped in the occult, esotericism, religious lore, and spirituality. +———-•••• Every time the above subject matter is referenced, I take a drink 🥃 ☕️ ✨ +———————•••••• Illusion of Gaia is my favorite game to play, and will always be tangled in some emotional ties with better times 🥺♥️ +————••••• #giallo #gialloaesthetic #vhsaesthetic #snes #retrogames #illusionofgaia #esoteric #occult #witchy #spirituality #marikoōhara #heavyretro #varietyshow #monthlycontent #host +———•••• 📸: @astralstereoproject (at York, England) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clhc_AEIGkR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[apkfanda]

Fate/Grand Order

Familiar on TV, TYPE-MOON's Fate RPG! You can enjoy a full-fledged RPG even on your smartphone. A story where you can enjoy an overwhelming volume of over 5 million characters! In addition to the main story, we have prepared a story for each character, and the content is enough to satisfy both Fate fans and those who are experiencing the world of Fate for the first time. 2015 AD. Chaldea, which observes the future of the Earth, has confirmed the fact that human history has collapsed since 2017. The "promised future" until 2115, which had certainly existed until yesterday, suddenly disappeared without warning. why. Why. who. how. A provincial city in Japan in the year 2004. "An unobservable area" that had never existed before appeared here. Chaldea hypothesized that this was the cause of human extinction, and decided to carry out the sixth experiment, which was still in the experimental stage. "It's time travel to the past." A forbidden ritual that transforms humans into spirits and sends them to the past, intervening in events to reveal or destroy singularities in space-time. "The name is Human Rights Protection Order, Grand Order." It is a general term for those who fight against fate and confront human history in order to protect humanity. An easy-to-use command order battle optimized for smartphones! The player becomes a master and manipulates the spirits to defeat enemies and solve mysteries. "Whether you fight with your favorite Heroic Spirit or a strong Heroic Spirit, the battle style is up to the player." ◆ Gorgeous voice actors participate one after another Shiki Aoki, Himika Akaneya, Kenji Akabane, Satomi Akesaka, Yu Asakawa, Maruka Asahina, Kana Asumi, Akina Abe, Sora Amamiya, Satomi Arai, Yuka Iguchi, Shiori Izawa, Kaito Ishikawa, Yui Ishikawa, Mai Iwami Naika, Haruki Ishitani, Mariya Ise, Ayasa Ito, Kanae Ito, Kento Ito, Shizuka Ito, Miki Ito, Toru Inada, Kikuko Inoue, Marina Inoue, Sumire Uesaka, Kana Ueda, Reina Ueda, Maaya Uchida , Yuma Uchida, Koki Uchiyama, Hiroo Egawa, Aya Endo, Rumi Okubo, Akio Otsuka, Yoshitada Otsuka, Sayaka Ohara, Hitomi Owada, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Ryotaro Okiayu, Yui Ogura, Ari Ozawa, Daisuke Ono, Chiaki Omigawa, Yumi Kakazu, Ai Kakuma, Jun Kasama, Yasuyuki Kase, Mai Kadowaki, Hisako Kanemoto, Shinichiro Kamio, Ai Kayano, Ayako Kawasumi, Kengo Kasai, Taketoshi Kawano, Nobutoshi Kana, Akari Kito, Ryohei Kimura, Takuya Kirimoto , Rie Kugimiya, Misaki Kuno, Takaya Kuroda, Yuki Kuwahara, Marika Takano, Aoi Koga, Ami Koshimizu, Chiaki Kobayashi, Yu Kobayashi, Mikako Komatsu, Takehito Koyasu, Rikiya Koyama, Rena Kondo, Mitsuki Saiga, Tadahisa Nishimae, Soma Saito, Chiwa Saito, Maaya Sakamoto, Ayane Sakura, Takahiro Sakurai, Satomi Sato, Rina Sato, Miyuki Sawashiro, Noriko Shimoya, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Yu Shimamura, Umika Shoji, Kei Shindo, Rie Suegara, Tomokazu Sugita, Noriaki Sugiyama, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Ryota Suzuki, Kenichi Suzumura, Ayaka Suwa, Junichi Suwabe, Toshihiko Seki, Tomokazu Seki, Yu Serizawa, Ayaka Senbongi, Mie Sonozaki, Ha Daichi, Rei Takano, Naoko Takano, Karin Takahashi, Rie Takahashi, Shunsuke Takeuchi, Ryota Takeuchi, Hana Takeda, Atsuko Tanaka, Minami Tanaka, Rie Tanaka, Kisho Taniyama, Atsumi Tanezaki, Risa Taneda, Yukari Tamura, Sakura Tange, Shigeru Chiba, Kenjiro Tsuda, Satoshi Tsuruoka , Yuka Terasaki, Takuma Terashima, Nao Higashiyama, Nobuo Tobita, Haruka Tomatsu, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Kosuke Toriumi, 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alphabetical order) Overall composition, main scenario, scenario, general director Nasu Mushroom ◆ Lead character designer Takashi Takeuchi ◆ Art direction TYPE-MOON ◆Main scenario/scenario writing Yuichiro Higashide, Hikaru Sakurai Minase Hazuki, Hoshizora Meteo (TYPE-MOON) ◆ Scenario writing OKSG (TYPE-MOON) ◆ Part 2 Chapter 3 Scenario Guest Writer Urobuchi Gen (Nitroplus) ◆Guest writer amphibian, acpi, experience, Ukyo Kodachi, Makoto Mita, Koshi Tachibana, Ten Tanaka (Flagnotes Inc.), Ryogo Narita, Hiroshi Hiroyama, Enki, Jinroku Myogaya, Shunsaku Yano (Flagnotes Inc.), Lyot (in Japanese syllabary order) ◆ Character design I-IV, Takao Aotsuki (TYPE-MOON), AKIRA, Azusa, Tofuyu, Wilderness, Makoto Ikezawa, Akira Ishida, Chika Umino, Aoi Omori, Takeshi Okazaki, okojo, Yo, Itsuwa Kato, Takeshi Kawaguchi, Ki Badori Liu, Kotori Kirihara, Gingka, Chinatsu Kurahana, Kouhaku Kuroboshi, Otsushi Konoe, Rui Komatsuzaki, Hirokazu Koyama (TYPE-MOON), Hiroki Saito (LASENGLE), saitom, Mineji 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[oldtypenewtype]

Newtype Press section in the 11/1985 issue of Newtype. 

-a couple of translations through Google of the first 2 pages-

page 1 - “Akio Etori’s Newtype Science. Experience the Future Society, Epcot Center.”

“Maria Kawamura’s Strawberry Field. A kitten cat. Buko-chan, the idol of my home.” With an illustration of Buko-chan by Haruhiko Mikimoto. (Maria Kawamura is Mamuro Nagano’s wife)

page 2 - “Ryohei Takahashi’s Overseas Library. Introducing SFX movie novelization, which is a hot topic in America.”

“Mariko Ohara’s a beautiful Newtype. I had a dream like an SFX movie.” With an illustration of Mariko Ohara by Mutsumi Inomata. Markio Ohara is a SF nerd extraordinaire who still writes novels to this day.

“Female animator circulation board, Narumi Kakinouchi’s Volume” I forgot my work! It was summer vacation. The talented Narumi Kakinouchi has done it all. Do yourself a favor and look up all of the cool projects she has been apart of and created herself. She is also married to Toshiki Harano.

[bunyehz]

mwah

[studentofetherium]

Revue Starlight may not be sci fi but the impression I got was that the in universe book The Starlight Gatherer was, and that’s where the widescreen baroque reference came from.

also this:

“widescreen baroque” was coined by the writer Brian Aldiss to describe a sci-fi subgenre characterized by elaborate, over-the-top plots, a preoccupation with metaphysical ideas, and a taste for the dramatic. Books that fall into this category “…obey a dictionary definition of baroque; which is to say that they have a bold and exuberant rather than a fine style, they are eccentric, and sometimes degenerate into extravagance. They like a wide screen, with space and possibly time travel as props, and at least the whole solar system as their setting.”

source: https://readeratlarge.com/2019/08/08/hybrid-child-by-mariko-ohara/

i actually never got that impression from The Starlight Gatherer. it feels a lot more subdued than the descriptions of wide-screen baroque that i've seen. if that's the connection, then it feels like a rather tenuous one...

[teamfreewill2pointo]

Ok, honest question, and please don’t call me homophobic, but why are 90% of the shippers SO invested in seeing Dean/Jensen hooked up with another man, are in fact hetero or gay women? Never realized so many women were turned on by gay men. Especially, gay women. Is this a thing?

This is a great question and I love these discussions. Sometimes the "women" in question are exploring their gender identities and come to realize that they aren't cis. However, it's super common for cis women to enjoy real or imaged queer male romance and sexual relationship.

It's existed in fandom as long as fandom has been around. Before the internet, women were exchanging print media about Spock/Kirk. It's also cross cultural. For example, Yaoi/Boy's Love is a genre of media about men in same-sex relationships.

In an interview with a famous scifi writer, Mariko Ohara says,

As for me, I started writing yaoi, not as an imitation of others, but as a narrative (in those days, we called this kind of fiction simply the homosexual novel) necessary for the description of sexual love in my imagination. Probably I was not able to enjoy the conventional pornography, which had been made for men; I feel impatient with its patriarchal form. This is why I could not help but produce a new style of sexual love. And I was not the only one who thought this way. It is the female imperative that produced yaoi fiction in Japan and other countries simultaneously.

She wrote Kirk/Spock as a way to explore herself and the world around her.

There are some queer men who see this fascination as no different than straight men who enjoy lesbian porn. Just as most lesbian porn is made by men for men and is rarely seen as authentic by actual lesbians, so it is for a lot of content produced about queer men in fandom.

This article talks about how a woman admitted to enjoying gay porn on tiktok and was harassed for it. The article notes that women represent more than 1/3 of the views on Pornhub's gay male videos.

Lots of different theories have emerged as to why this exists. The article notes

[T]he majority of heterosexual porn is created by men, for men, and is therefore not reflective of female desire. In turn, these women resort to watching porn created for a demographic that’s been similarly marginalized, since gay men, too, have historically had their desires ignored and their representation in erotic texts co-opted.

...Dr. Lucy Neville has interviewed more than 500 women over five years on this very subject. In her research for the book, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica, Neville found that, similar to what Layla, Kirah and other likeminded women shared with me, women’s reasoning for liking gay porn was more about what they didn’t like about straight porn than what they enjoyed about gay male porn. 

Since fandom is often composed of women, especially queer women, women feel more free to share their sexual desires.

What's more, often people kink on what they fear. Tumblr's fandometrics showed that fandom leans left. If you look at A/B/O, which was created in the Supernatural fandom, it's basically kinking on the patriarchy. By using male characters and subjecting men to extreme patriarchy, it can be easier to enjoy the story as a fantasy.

Wish I could dive into this topic more, but it's huge to the point where multiple books have been written on the subject and there's lots of essays and studies examining the subject.

[twinkubus]

tagged by @papika to post 9 books i want to read in 2022!

majority are trans-authored, i’ve been reading a ton of lgbt contemporary fiction recently (and even some str8 stuff too). if you’re interested in those, the list is lote (shola von reinhold), manhunt (gretchen felker-martin), tentacle (rita indiana), 99 erics (julia serano), and a country of ghosts (margaret killjoy). (bonus trans-authored book i haven’t read yet either: tiny pieces of skull, roz kaveney).

other books on this list: hybrid child (mariko ohara), devil house (john darnielle), the creamsickle (rhiannon argo), and sword, stone, table (eds. swapna krishna & jenn northington) honorable mention to grievers by adrienne maree brown

...also i got this done and realized i hadn’t even touched nonfiction, might have to do one of those too!

tagging @fellas-its-gay @anodynerhyme @nihilnihil @librarycards @interstellarhitchhiker @femsebastiane @kollapstradixionales to do the same if u feel like it, and anyone else who sees this and wants to, just say i tagged you! edit: also tagging @danishprince hehe not sure if this will show up or not

[we-say-nosoro]

Flower Crowns

MariRiko angel AU!

"Look!" comes a voice from behind Riko. She turns around, and sees Mari standing there, flowers cupped in her hands.

Riko sighs. She should have expected Mari to continue breaking the rules, but there was still some hope in her that she wouldn't. "You went back down to Earth again, didn't you?"

Nodding, Mari drops the flowers onto Riko's head, sitting down next to her. She leans her head back, smiling. "The human world is so cool. They have a ton of really pretty flowers!"

"And you don't care that Dia-san will get really mad at you," Riko replies.

Mari shrugs. "I'll deal with her when it happens. Believe me, I can be really persuasive."

Picking up one of the flowers, Riko studies it carefully. As much as she disapproves of Mari constantly going down to the human world to pick flowers and take whatever else they have, she still finds it interesting. It's not like she can order Mari to go back down to put them back, anyway. She may as well enjoy them.

Mari interrupts her thoughts with a clap of her hands. "I've got an idea! Let's make flower crowns for each other!"

"What?"

"They'll look super pretty and we'll have something cute to wear with our dresses!"

Turning back to the flowers, Riko thinks it isn't a bad idea. She would like to have a cute new accessory. Angels really don't get too much to wear apart from their mostly plain white dresses. This would be a nice addition.

"Ok, but don't get carried away and go down to Earth again," she warns.

Mari ignores her as she gleefully takes a handful of the flowers, beginning to thread them together.

There's a pleasant silence that follows as the two of them sit there for a while, carefully putting together their flower crowns. Riko picks out the colours that she thinks will look the best on Mari, having a good eye for fashion.

There's eventually a satisfied sigh from Mari when she's finished, holding the crown high up in the air to look at it. Riko takes her eyes off her own work so she can see the one that Mari has made.

"That looks really cute!" she says, reaching over to lightly touch it.

Mari grins. "Isn't it?! Here, I'll put it on for you."

She gets closer to Riko, sitting the crown on her head like she's a queen at a coronation ceremony, and then she kisses her forehead before she moves away.

"You really are an angel!"

Riko blushed bright red, hastily turning back to the flower crown that she's making so she can finish it.

Mari giggles like a little girl when she puts it on her, fidgeting happily.

The thing is, once the rest of their friends catch on, they also make flower crowns for themselves. Riko can't help but admit it loses some of the romantic value that hers and Mari's has, even though she'll always treasure it.

[gnetophyte]

why is there no internet fandom for mariko ohara’s hybrid child :( i feel like the fanart would b cool

[jpf-sydney]

Hybrid child

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A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child. Until he escaped, he had been called "Sample B #3," but he had never liked this name. That would surprise them—that he could feel one way or another about it. He was designed to reshape himself based on whatever life forms he ingested; he was not made to think, and certainly not to assume the shape of a repair technician whose cells he had sampled and then simply walk out of the secure compound. Artificial Intelligence is all too real in this classic of Japanese science fiction by Mariko Ohara. Jonah, a child murdered by her mother, has become the spirit of an AI-controlled house where the rogue cyborg once known as Sample B #3 takes refuge and, making a meal of the dead girl buried under the house, takes Jonah's form. On faraway Planet Caritas, an outpost of human civilization, the female AI system that governs society has become insane. Meanwhile, the threat of the Adiaptron Empire, the machine race that #3 was built to fight, remains.  With the familiar strangeness of a fairy tale, Ohara's novel traverses the mysterious distance between body and mind, between the mechanics of life and the ghost in the machine, between the infinitesimal and infinity. The child as mother, the mother as monster, the monster as hero: this shape-shifting story of nourishment, nurture, and parturition is a rare feminist work of speculative fiction and received the prestigious Seiun (Nebula) Award in 1991. Hybrid Child is the first English translation of a major work of science fiction by a female Japanese author.

Shelf: 913.6 OHA [Haiburiddo chairudo. English]. Hybrid child : a novel. by Mariko Ōhara ; translated by Jodie Beck. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018. 343 pages ; 22 cm. (Parallel futures). First published in Japan as Haiburiddo chairudo, 1990. Translated into English from the Japanese. ISBN: 978-1-51790490-6 (paperback)

Table of contents:

Hybrid child.

Farewell.

Aquaplanet.

Epilogue.

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do you have any ability ideas for some Japanese authors? Fumiko Enchi, for example, is someone I’ve seen but don’t know a lot about, and I can’t seem to make a decent ability out of the works of hers that are available

I actually spent a while making oc’s for Japanese authors a while ago for a series I was working on but eventually canceled (if you would like me to attempt to start it back up, I’d give it a shot.)

Fumiko Enchi, Ability: “The Waiting Years” It allows her to slow/speed up time for up to one minute. The more movement, the harder it is. (One person falling? No problem. A large group of people running? She’s gotta get ready for a killer headache or maybe passing out)

Among the 5 or 6 others, I thought of, I had Mariko Ohara, “Hybrid Child”. She can take the forms of things/people she’s killed. She’ll always have a small tattoo on the palm of her hand through no matter the form (it looks like a circuit board), so she wears glove almost constantly. When you know what to look for, that makes it easier to identify her.