#People: Kenta

[maruren]

Children do their children's things

[menherafication]

gonna draw the whole cast eventually =w=

[yongi]

normal non-psychotic matching photocard ideas..... LOL

[maukiki1]

Masamune live reaction to the sudden masamune slander or something (IDK WHY I MADE THSI I GOT BORED)

[jumpscaregoose]

is this anything

[namelessprince]

this song and whatever the fuck is going on with chip and the abyss

[jalapenobee]

kenta kanata and ryu as a shuffle team. yeah

[beybladefanboy]

Any Beyblade character: I will never forgive you!!! You're completely irredeemable and beyond forgiveness!!!

Me, a pedantic asshole who's seen this series way too many times: OKAY BUT LIKE A MILLION CHARACTERS SAY THIS ABOUT A MILLION OTHER CHARACTERS. THIS SENTIMENT MEANS NOTHING.

[saotome-michi]

I can’t believe this video exists. It’s a discussion between not two, not three, but FOUR mangakas who’ve had works serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump, as well as in Jump SQ and Jump+; Shinohara Kenta (Sket Dance, Kanata no Astra, Witch Watch), Asou Shuuichi (Boku no Watashi no Yuusha Gaku, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan), Aimoto Shou (Hokenshitsu no Shinigami, Kemono Jihen), and Ooishi Kouji (Inumarudashi, Tomatoypoo no Lycopene).

It is SO rare for something like this to be recorded on video and uploaded on Youtube. Ooishi, who seems to be the organizer, mentions in the beginning that they’re doing this without the editorial department’s permission. They don’t talk about anything scandalous (there’s even one part where they start talking about the Jump Survey results and get a bunch of interference and they joke that it’s the editors jamming their feed), but also this video is part 2/3, it’s been a year since and part 3 still hasn’t been uploaded, which makes me wonder if the editors found out and forbid him from continuing this... (though in that case, this video should’ve been deleted)

Some funny things in the video:

Asou is married to an idol. Meanwhile, Shinohara Kenta’s wife and Yabuki Kentarou’s (the mangaka of Black Cat and the artist of To Love-Ru) wife are sisters?! Making them brother-in-laws

Around 10 years ago, Ooishi, Asou, and Aimoto went to a coffee shop. Since Ooishi was the senpai of the group, he paid the bill, which somehow totaled to more than 10,000 yen (about $100) despite them only having consumed coffee. Now that both Asou and Aimoto have become successful, Asou with Saiki K. and Aimoto with Kemono Jihen, Ooishi jokes that they should pay him back. Shinohara asks how did the bill get so expensive. Aimoto replies that it really was just regular coffee, no more than 500 yen per cup ($5), but that she by herself had drank around 8000 yen ($80) worth of coffee which like... girl... 0-0 that’s around 16 cups

From 2009 - 2010, all four of them had serializations in Weekly Shounen Jump. Shinohara mentions that he doesn’t really have memories from the time he was working on Sket Dance (because he was in a “strange” frame of mind, probably meaning he was so focused on making sure Sket Dance wasn’t canceled that he blocked out everything else)

Aimoto asks if they remember the survey results. Shinohara says that he remembers the results for his own manga, but not others. Aimoto says the same. Ooishi then asks them what’s the best survey ranking they ever got. Shinohara asks if they’re allowed to reveal that, which then leads to everyone wondering if they can. Ooishi says that since they’re talking about really old results it should be fine. Aimoto starts talking about it, but then there’s so much interference you can’t tell what she’s saying, causing Ooishi to joke that the editors are jamming their feed. Everyone laughs and decides to change the subject.

Asou asks if they read comments from readers. Shinohara and Ooishi say that they do. Shinohara says that for a mystery story like Kanata no Astra, he would get nervous before reading the comments, because he was always afraid that someone would figure out the mystery and reveal it to everyone else. Asou says that for gag mangas, a lot of the comments were tsukkomi rebuttals to the jokes.

Ooishi asks about everyone’s method on choosing character names, as he feels this is something he’s bad at. Aimoto says that recently she was told, in order for her characters’ names to be easily searchable on the internet, she shouldn’t pick out names that are commonly used. Asou remarks that that’s how he chose his pen name, by finding something that wasn’t already used on the internet.

On that note, while Asou Shuuichi and Aimoto Shou are both pen names, Shinohara Kenta and Ooishi Kouji use their real names, something that they both regret now. They remark that their generation of Jump mangaka didn’t really use pen names. Shinohara says that whenever he gets a package delivered from Shueisha, he gets worried that the delivery person would find out his identity and address, so now he has a “pen name” just for package delivery. Ooishi says that he uses a different name for haircuts and food delivery, and that when the hairstylist asks about his occupation, he just says that he works at home remotely.

All four remark that signing stuff for fans is hard, because they can’t just write their names they also have to draw something, and they feel a lot of pressure to make sure that drawing is good for the fan. Shinohara comments that although the requests make him very happy, he also gets worried because he’s slow at drawing. Whenever he watches videos of Kubo-sensei drawing (Kubo as in Kubo Tite, the mangaka of Bleach), he’s in awe because he produces such wonderful drawings so quickly and without sketching a rough draft or any guidelines.

Ooishi asks them when did they decide on their autograph, recounting that Hamada Kousuke (mangaka of Hanebado!) already had his autograph ready when working as an assistant at 19 years old. Shinohara says that he only decided on his after Sket Dance got serialized. Ooishi comments that he hesitated thinking about his autograph because there was always the possibility that his manga wouldn’t succeed, which Shinohara readily agrees with, stating that with Jump, the risk of cancellation always loomed overhead.

Ooishi asks when did they decide to be a mangaka. Asou and Ooishi decided around the age of 20. (Aimoto does not state exactly when, but given that she debuted at 19, probably at least a year before then.) Shinohara is the outlier who decided at 28/9, after quitting his job at a video game company. He submitted works for the Jump 12 Outstanding Rookie Manga Award and did not win, but he was a finalist. After that he debuted in Akamaru Jump with “Red Panda Puppet Show”, which Asou says he found really entertaining. Aimoto was also writing for Akamaru at around the same time, her debut work “Hanasaka Hime”, which Shinohara says he remembers very well, because the art was so good. Ooishi says that she was probably the youngest person to have debuted, but Aimoto says that she thinks Yabuki (Black Cat and To Love-ru Mangaka) was the youngest, because he debuted at the age of 18. Shinohara laughs and remarks that he must be the oldest and Yabuki the youngest. They have a funny relationship where Yabuki is his senpai even though he’s the “younger brother” (remember, they’re brother-in-laws lol) 

Shinohara mentions that when he visits his wife’s family home for the new year, Yabuki is also there. Ooishi jokes, presenting a To Love-Ru scenario where Yabuki’s in the bath and Shinohara enters the room. Shinohara finishes the joke saying, “I slide on a bar of soap and then, ossan on ossan, we bash our crotches together.”

[agendratum]

continuing my rating of pit babe boys, kim is definitely getting up there

i enjoy so much that he seems to be this pretty honest person, like he's set on winning but he intends to do it with his own abilities and nothing else, doesn't take any shit, doesn't tolerate cheating.. which is great cause he's ended up being placed in the middle of the alpha super powers baby trafficking sims ass plot where everyone is everyone's adopted brother and the most terrible dishonest person in the world is his boss, this will go fantastically

[gaiaxygang]

no matter how many times i watch pit babe i will always be making confused faces at my screen and missing out on plot details. there is a reason i stick to studying characters under a microscope!!!!!

[yongi]

michel + henchman 1, henchman 2

[johannepetereric]

"And since Bro lost to Gingka, I thought I could prove myself by defeating him. But I failed!!!" Seething face and eyebrows pset and scrunched with one eye closed.

Kenta smiling "You didn't really lost, you obtained a tie! 😃"

Kyoya patting his cheek proud smile "He's right. Slowly but steady you're catching up to me 😃"

Gingka widest smilest, "Let's have another match in the future, ok?"

Open eyes like Character Growth Revelation

[jupiterjunebug]

Honestly funniest thing the wrestler could do is surprise challenge Kenta and beat his ass for the defy championship

[gloomforrestrunes]

I have a Visual I'm putting in the ask box because it's been bouncing in my brain and I Can't Draw at the moment

Trans Laxo moment, the boy crying a bunch when he comes out (it's probably a little terrifying for the guy) and for the effect, the tiny lashes he has kinda wash away with the tears as well

He's out, but it's RUNES, he's far from outta the woods just yet 💔

ahhh oh my goodness i love this. i need to be more annoying about laxo being trans bc of how much comfort it brings me. <3

i imagine both coming to the realization that he's trans as well as realizing that he also now has to come out about it is very terrifying given the environment he grew up in! also coming from my experience alone, you tend to assume the worst when it comes to coming out to others, especially about gender stuff because people do not know how to be normal about it! i imagine he told huxley and pepper first (pepper already had a Feeling given their first interaction with him but they didn't say anything due to wanting him to figure it out himself) and then told kenta. (who would've been around 9-10 at this time and her reaction was just "oh i have a brother now :) thats cool :)") and honestly i think he'd try not to tell raven and thistle just out of genuine fear of how they'd react- though i imagine they catch one due to kenta being a child at the time and not fully understanding that its a secret. ive spoken more about raven's stance on laxo's identity in an answer to an ask a bit ago but her reaction is basically "ok. 😐 whatever. 😐 fine. 🙄" and thistle doesnt really. see him as his child anyway so he just really couldnt care less.

the last sentence is very true as well. laxo still has an overwhelming amount of horrors ahead of him, but at least he'll be experiencing them as his true self. <3

the lashes falling is a good idea as well, and got me thinking about how i treat eyelashes in my designs. because i LOVE drawing big lashes on characters but also dont really wanna be associated with the "hyper-feminized animal character" trope. so i think its more of a design/story-telling choice that the characters themselves aren't really aware of which just indicates whether a character is choosing to present themself more feminine, masculine, or somewhere in-between, and isnt really meant to accurately indicate their gender!

[lady-lazagna]

something silly you say... whats your silliest crack ship? (in mfb and outside of mfb)

Hmmmm… silliest crack ship… I have quite a few, but almost all of them involve Tsubasa lmao (spreading my “everyone is a little bit in love with him” propaganda)

Not sure if it’s because of Shogun Steel or my beyblade Sims 4 save, but I’ve been thinking a bit about Tsubasa x Benkei recently (SummerShipping? BurgerSummerShipping? Idk). I just think they’re funny little guys, with my version of Tsubasa being a romantic and Benkei being easily flustered. They could cook together and cuddle and bond over their struggling self-worth after Fury🥲 And why not make the two dads of the Shogun Steel gang date? (I have watched only the first episode and the This is Summer compilation but that’s all I really need to see)

Maybe I should make a more in-depth post about them later…