#female mangakas

[cosmicrhetoric]

despite whatever the fuck is happening with me now there were several years where i didn't watch/read any animanga at all. and while i genuinely believe i was put on this earth to judge people's boyfriend's taste in shounen i was at this party in college once (during said anime dry period) where someone in passing said they couldn't stand girly shoujo like inuyasha and i was like "ok putting aside the misogyny wtf are you talking about" and he said "you know inuyasha" and i was like "yeah i know inuyasha i had a heart n soul in the 7th grade. that's shounen" and he said "no it's not it's like a romance" and i go "well yeah. i know these classifications get really arbitrary im just saying it's technically listed as shounen" and he's like "kagome." and im "just bc the pov character is a girl doesn't mean it doesn't follow shounen structure/conventions" and he goes "well were there iconic fights" and im like "YES! what the fuck are you talking about fr it was serialized in shounen sunday" and he goes "what's shounen sunday" and that's when i was like i think we should stop talking for a while

[deafeningblazeturtle]

:3

[celestialjellii]

Insomnia is kicking my ass, so I wanna just word vomit about Marcille, and just Dungeon Meshi as a whole.

Spoilers for the Dungeon Meshi manga, and trigger warning for mentions of Suicide.

I find myself relating to Marcille in a lot of different ways. One of these way is her relationship with her dad. Ask any of my friends and they'll confirm that my dad was one of the most important people in my life. I lost him in 2020 to cancer; I got genuinely so emotional when I saw Marcille reminiscing about her dad to the others. And how she wishes she got more time with him

These kind of stories always seem to rewonate with me because I feel like my dad was taken from me too soon as well. Marcille's facial expression in the bottom panels is an expression I'm all too familiar with making. When talking about my dad (especially with people who never got the chance to meet him) its always really bittersweet. Its great because I'm able to talk about the greatest man I've ever known, but painful too because I know I'll never be able to talk to him again, be able to cry in his shoulders, be able to turn to him for help. And it hurts.

Theres also how Marcille views death inregards to herself, and her loved ones.

This part made me genuinely cry because, in a way, I know how it feels. While its not necessarily in regards to death (I have had some harsh deaths in my life, like my dad's passing, and two friends of mine taking their own lifes) I do know how painful it can be to say goodbye to people, which is how Kui expresses Marcille's fear of death in Dunmeshi. With Marcille's long life she's going to likely outlive everyone she loves and thus have to say goodbye to them. I also have had to say goodbye to people I didn't want to: be it because of death, ending a toxic friendship,or other reasons. I also just love this part because you can see how badly everything that transpired in that chapter affected her, after bringing everyone back her first instinct was to chew them all out for being so reckless, but when ahe finally verbalizes what had happened her emotions catch her, and all she can do is fall back against the wall and begin crying.

I also just love how immediate Laios and Senshi is to comfort, and apologize to her, as well as promising that they won't put her through that again.

I remember I was texting my friend Terra and we were joking about Marcille being my favourite because she's a "silly gay elf" but my love for Marcille can be summed up with "I came for the silly gay elf mage, but I stayed for the beautifully written character who struggles with issues that I frequently find myself struggling with.

Additionally I just love how Laios and the others talk Marcille downfrom the edge after she's become the master of the dungeon, it reminds me of all the times my friends have talked me down from my own edge (I love you guys 💖)

Marcille's sexuality is another thing I resonate with. I know that Kui never explicitly states anything, but as a queer person I had a hard time reading Marcille and Falin's relationship as anyother other than romantic, like, we've all seen horny Marcille's "whoa hey!" reaction to Chimera Falin tearing her own shirt off (honestly such a valid reaction from her), but the part that really got me was how tender and loving Marcille is with Falin after she's been resurrected.

My sexuality is something I've been struggling with a lot recently. A little over a year ago my boyfriend of nearly 8 years left me, and up until recently I was identifying as bisexual. However within the past few months I've found myself caring less and less for sex, and a strong desire for the roamntic aspects of a relationship, specifically with women. So seeing Marcille look at Falin with such adoration really resonated with me; I just really love their relationship.

This series is just so amazing, and it resonated with me in so many different ways from everything I've mentioned in this post about Marcille, to things like how Laios is such an amazing allegory for living with autism, to how Senshi has helped myself get a better, healthier relationship with food. Itw just an amazing series and easily in my top 5 anime/mangas.

That is all, I'm gonna try to get some sleep now, here have a dancing Marcille as thanks for reading.

[isolatedcorner]

I was lurking on Weibo and I found some really interesting satosugu crumbs that I won’t be able to stop thinking about!!

I’m not gonna translate everything, but the gist of this post is that Geto seems to be intentionally written as queer or at least not straight. OP is talking about the “Inoue Waka” scene where Geto asks Gojo if he changed his wallpaper. This is funny because most straight guys would probably engage in some locker room banter upon seeing a popular actress’s photo on their friend’s phone screen. Especially with Inoue who is a “gravure idol” AKA a type of model who primarily models for men’s magazines? Yet Geto’s first reaction was to point out that Gojo changed his wallpaper. Aside from the fact that Geto was observant enough to notice Gojo’s phone wallpaper, it’s interesting how Gojo… had to tell him who she is? Like OP suggests most boys who routinely read men’s magazines would know Inoue. For your reference this is the type of media Inoue typically appeared in:

I don’t think this scene alone definitively proves that Geto isn’t interested in women. IMO it seems like Geto’s “model student” status is being emphasised here more instead, as he isn’t the type to consume celebrity content. But when you add this to the other list of moments that hint at Geto’s non-straightness (See: him avoiding Yuki’s question TWICE)… Gege definitely made some interesting choices with him.

[amethystsoda]

(There’s been a fun woman-authored manga x chappell’s femininomenon trend going around on tiktok so I made one too 🥰)

[funkypunknyc]

This is a piece I did of Hobie Brown aka Spider-Punk before I had seen the movie.

I intend to make more at some point, cuz Spider-Punk is just.... everything, lol

[troythecatfish]

Another sad news, we have lost another great artist, a woman who dedicated her life to art: Mutsumi Inomata. Main Character Designer of the "Tales Of" series and many works in Dragon Quest series.

At the beginning of her career, she also worked as an animator on numerous animated series, including Lum, Saint Seiya (for which she even took care of the illustrations for a celebratory article on the legendary "Masami Kurumada" published in the "Newtype" magazine), City Hunter. 🕊️🕊️

[kustas]

Have you ever read/watched House of Five Leaves?

No and I never heard of it before today! A quick search tells me it's from a female author (who did some BL apparently? lol), rather short, and about a tough shy guy all of sound great. I'll add it to my read list!

[hydrasaura]

when i said that mha ripped off naruto (which i said only to piss off mha stans anyway) I didn't mean to sound like i was praising naruto. it was actually more like a sigh of disappointment, a reaction to seeing that all the problems that naruto had as a show transpired trough mha too and i was tired because watching naruto was enough for me but then i realized that my problem actually is that i can no longer stand watching shonen anime and i chose not to tire myself by cringing at the repetitive tropes and cliches anymore

[1pcii]

she's so cute 😭

[deafeningblazeturtle]

[officialpenisenvy]

for five dollars name a female mangaka

[mysticdragon3md3]

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My list of women who write the best manga /most popular anime is usually:

Rumiko Takahashi

Hiromu Arakawa

Ryoko Kui

Now adding the mangaka of Frieren, Kanehito Yamada.

[itskenickie]

stealing this from @kokonutcat lol (hope you dont mind 💕)

Put your 4 favourite characters from 4 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one best suits your vibe then tag 4 people

tagging: @cregan-starks @cest-la-vie-ma-copine @cforbes @arkgoz and anyone else who’d like to try 🥰

[funkypunknyc]

More wrestling art! A piece I did of The Queen, Jade Cargill 😁

Pen & ink, w/ alcohol based markers for the colored version

[whalehouse1]

Did Hitman Reborn get a new rise in popularity or something? I keep seeing it randomly on social media, but I don’t know if it’s a small group or if ppl managed to get past the long intro and mostly poorly written females and read it and love it now. I hope so, I’m still trying to get ppl to watch and or read it.