#art by kawamoto mariko

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Today's translation #662

Pash! 2017/3, Pash! arts history

2016/11 Artist: Kawamoto Mariko

The highlight of this art is 'Yuuri and the others in private setting, that you normally don't see'. When drawing arts for magazines, I always think of composition that you can look on, without getting bored, so in case of this one, my idea was that you can enjoy the art imagining why these three and Makkachin are positioned like this. I've drawn a lot of illustration so far, but this is my first 'all naked sitting in an onsen' art. When I was working on this art, the production of the show had just started, so I wasn't sure if that's the right way to draw it - I was groping around for the right way to draw them, and it taught me a lot.

2016/12 Artist: Hiramatsu Tadashi

It's one frame showing a training session. That Yurio let his guard down is because perhaps it's Yuuko who took this photo. I was working on this art around the time of episode 3., so it was the period when Yurio was very open with his hostility, but this art was to be used on the cover, so I drew him with a soft expression. The highlight of this illustration is Victor's disheveled hair, that flows against the laws of gravity.

2017/1 Artist: Chikaoka Sunao

This show has a lot of female fans, so it was difficult for me to draw an art that they would enjoy [it's a guy, if you haven't guessed]. I was careful not to make an art, where just Yuuri and Victor are enjoying themselves, but you feel bad for Yurio because he's having a bad time (laugh). The idea is that he's not a part of the conversation, but he's enjoying himself.

[Notes: This time, a series of short comments about official arts that appeared in Pash!

A little bit of very interesting YoI fandom history is included in them, imo - these comments are very Yurio-centric. Like with many other things, the context is key. Normally, you would think that well, maybe the artist just likes Yurio the most, who knows? (Or most likely, not even notice, although in the next portion, we will hear about how the artist wanted to make the interactions between Victor and Yurio appear full of love, and somehow, she didn't even mentioned Yuuri's name in her comment, so it's a rather strong '??'). While this is of course possible, there was reaaally a lot of dog-whistling going on during this time period... The overall 'Yurio > Yuuri' tendency made a portion of Jp fandom really hate Yurio and gave rise to such lovely nicknames for him as 'Yellowed Trash' or 'the Nipple'... ]

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Art for the January 2017 issue of Spoon.2Di 

Victor and Makkachin by Sawada Tomoyo, art of Yuuri and Makkachin by Kawamoto Mariko. 

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