#happy birthday eh

[kuroshitsuji-wiki]

It's Yana Toboso's birthday! (January 24, 1984)

Yana forgot her birthday this year...

... so there's even more reason to congratulate her and celebrate!

Some trivia:

She chose her penname "Yana Toboso" to indicate what kind of manga she wanted to create: Because there are so many mangas whose central themes are dreams, hope, friendship, and love, she wanted to make a manga whose focus is the opposite. "Yana" derives from "iya" (unpleasant, detestable, disagreeable; here: unpleasant/nasty child), and "toboso" is meant to signify importance: a "toboso" is a cavity in the frame of a door used as part of a pivot hinge; as doors wouldn't work without hinges, hinges are important objects. "Yana Toboso," therefore, is meant to mean "the hated/bad child is in the middle" (憎まれっ子がど真ん中にく る). (Character Guide, page 146)

Yana once stated that Ciel resembles her the most out of her characters. (Character Guide, page 147)

*cough* Obviously.

Exhibit A:

(Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji VII, from Volume 17)

(Chapter 76)

Exhibit B: The iconic Pancake Saga from 2018!

Yana's grandmother encouraged her to become a mangaka, and her mother pushed her to submit her work to a publisher when she was 20. Both have since passed away. (sources: akumadeenglish, The Japan Times)

She is a fan of the band L'Arc-en-Ciel (source). HYDE, the vocalist of that band, wrote the opening for Season 5. Yana was obviously very happy about that!

Yana contemplated making "fluffy spin-offs" to Kuroshitsuji, e.g., "a gourmet manga featuring the canteen of the Shinigami dispatch association HQ, or a manga where the Indian butler cooks curry or the black butler makes sweets, or where the servants make small discoveries." However, she dropped those ideas because her "fluffy concepts" kept becoming ominous after a few chapters. (source)

Kuroshitsuji was not meant to be set in 19th-century England from the beginning. Mr. K and the chief editor eventually suggested England as the setting. Yana, who did not know much about England (and could not find many materials early on; source: Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji II in Volume 2), especially not about 19th-century England, and did not believe the manga would be a hit anyway, then cooked up the wonderfully anachronistic Volume 1. Since then, Yana has become more knowledgeable about Victorian England, got a historical advisor (Rico Murakami) who also, sometimes, translates sources for her (source: Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji Special in Volume 15), has been (re-)learning English, and visited England twice. The manga has, thus, become significantly more historically accurate over the years. Still, as it's a fantasy manga, Yana likes to incorporate anachronistic elements for story purposes (e.g. Grim Reaper tech and possessions, Wolfsschlucht) anyway (or simply because she wants to; e.g. the idol groups, I suppose). Anachronisms have, thus, shifted from accidental to deliberate.

Sebastian's mobile phone will be forever iconic, but it has been retconned for over a decade now.

And The Wild Earl lost more than his head was cancelled when all TVs were thrown out of the continuity with the end of the Indian Butler Arc (TVs are last mentioned in Chapter 23).

May we learn many Victorian things alongside Yana in the next years too!

(Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji II, Volume 2)

And may she have a happy, restful birthday so that she doesn't forget it again^^' (And the best of health^^)

[lenteur]

for my dear maaike @hoongjong 💛🌻

[lebones]

Late happy birthday to @clarissasbakery Im a little late but happy birthday!! kdhdjdbd I love all your designs sm i just had to draw someone!!

[redbean-nom]

din djarin, age 10: clone wars refugee child

boba fett, age 11: in federal prison for destroying an entire venator while trying to kill mace windu

[helvidius]

happy day, dj i mean sj

[funtime918]

birthday doodles for Cross and Jakei!! happy birthday, y’all!! :D

close-ups below the cut ^^

Cross: @/jakei95

by the way, yes, the last drawing here is an Underverse redraw! here’s the original frame (art by @/jakei95):

[afamiliar-presence]

More headcanon time because I just saw something relating to ecto :p

So ecto. That skin thingy given to skeletons because why not!!! Anyways I produce my uhhh very practical reasons.

1: Comfort. I feel like just having bones isn't the most comfortable especially on hard surfaces so ecto would be a LOT more helpful there so you're not sore after sitting on a chair for more than 3 minutes. I was going to put artists rendition but I'm too lazy.. anyways uh yea so imagine Ink trying to draw on a chair and shifting every 5 seconds because he is in DISCOMFORT!!!

2: Protection. This is easier to understand I think but PROTECTION!!! That's the main reason for skin!! To protect our muscles and bones!!! Give these skeletons some protection!!!!! Plus it makes them look cool in their armor (Swap..!!!)

3: Style. I don't think.. most clothes are are created for just bones.. I mean it can look good but I'm just thinking of one of them looking stupid with a crop top on I'm sorry. So ecto so their clothes fit!! Or don't fit idk how you want to draw these skeletons. Anyways yea the other two before this were more important but this can go here to.

I'm just not the biggest fan of ecto but I like my silly uses for it. Ehe.. also ecto so Cross can get his top surgery.

Anyways silly things for the twins because it's their birthday.

Nightmare can't summon ecto because he's basically a walking corpse in my head so... yea just goop.. I guess he can shape the goop though? The goop is his ecto trust /j

Dream only summons his during battles or training for protection!! I think he's just immune to comfort because SLEEPING UNDER A TREE FOR 6 YEARS AND THEN BEING IN STONE FOR 500-

Okay I'm done have a good day/night/evening :3

[swimming-karyss]

'a long-awaited dawn'

hihi a late art for Dragon's b-day

[gaycrittercentral]

Ayyyyyy guess who missed Max’s birthday lmaoooo ^^; and after I missed the first one too godDAMNIT

Welp anyway I thought it’d be reeeeal funny if they both just forgot it was happening the same way lmaoooo

[honing-skills-for-the-end]

Happy Birthday, Spica!

"Spica. Here, coffee."

"Summoner? Oh, thank you. ... Did you try to copy my recipe? I can tell. It's good." ♡

[magicalgirlsandcerulean]

It's 14 days until the movie comes out and today's shikishi is Komata's. Follow the official X account and repost this tweet by 10th Jan. 2025 at 23:59 (JST), but remember shikishi will only be sent to those within Japan.

Movie tickets are currently selling with either can badges (5 designs total, random) or ticket holders. The tweet suggests there might be more than 5 designs, though...

Quiz time: "While Kusatsu was studying overseas, which of these is wrong regarding the reasons behind him getting a bad feeling something has happened to Atchan?" (options from top to bottom: his shoelace broke, he crossed paths with a black cat, his chopsticks broke, the flower he used for decoration wilted)

The lottery has been drawn for the stage greeting. Check your emails if you entered to see if you won.

Here's movie merch. The can badges are randomly given out, while the acrylic stands and acrylic keychains are sold individually. Note the secret designs on the can badges complement the designs of the first lot of theatregoers' can badges. The keychain designs have spoilers.

The pamphlet has 20 pages and includes new illustrations done especially for this. It includes interviews with Takamatsu and the LOVE! quintet. It's A4 size and full colour.

Tokyo Dome City Attractions is teaming up with Boueibu for a movie collab from Feb. 5th - 24th 2025. There will be special illustrations, collaboration attractions, an AR RPG experience where you'll be guided by the characters' voices, minigames with original prizes, collab food and so on. More info will drop on Jan. 17th 2025.

Draw a heart before Feb. 13th 2025 to go into the running to win one of 5 scripts signed by the LOVE! quintet. See here for more details. That's the 1st phase of the T Joy campaign. The 2nd phase of that campaign is cinema pass stamps from Jan. 24th until Feb. 20th 2025 which will change daily between the Battle Lovers and Wombat, while you can leave movie impressions from Jan. 24th - Mar. 2nd 2025.

Here's another look at the En and Atsushi art for Animedia Feb. 2025.

The LOVE! quintet are going to be doing a live screening on Jan. 26th 2025.

[harmonicawizard]

[littledecth]

›  𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘  ‹          BEATRICE AMELIE ZHANG !

                                                      ❛ i need to forget, so take me to florida. i've got some regrets, i'll bury them in florida. tell me i'm despicable, say it's unforgivable.  ❜ 

para BEE, uma FILHA DE FOBOS, o universo inteiro é uma página aberta. com um salto de fé, sua habilidade de ABSORÇÃO DE MEDO fica um pouco mais forte. por VINTE E SETE anos, ela sobreviveu a um mundo de caos com sua DETERMINAÇÃO e PERSONALIDADE IMPREVISIVEL. fora da barreira ela era ESTUDANTE DE ADMNISTRAÇÃO, e esperamos que logo mais, ela possa voltar a sua vida ! se uma música pudesse a definir , certamente seria FLORIDA !!! , de taylor swift. vamos esperar por suas conquistas ! o que pode te salvar ? amor ou glória ?

[cheeweburgev]

i did this on ms paint :)

[danieyells]

before I went to bed I popped open the game and was reminded that it was, in fact, my birthday lmao

("Maeve" is my PC's name btw, not mine if it was somehow unclear.)

SO MANY BIRTHDAY WISHES. I think Yuri's is my favorite simply because he's like "your birthday present is that you get to be my lab rat for the day now come on" lolol and Taiga's because he says you can take any one thing from his room and

my guy just has a loose pile of gold coins in his room can i say "a stack of gold coins" is one thing and pocket a few of them or. . . .

I also love that Haku is like "hey. c'mere." like he's trying to sell you drugs in a back alley. like why do you have to be so subtle about this? who is hunting you down?

also Jiro who just DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO so he's like. I'll spend time with you I guess? Is that good? LIKE YES BBY YOU'RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE. . .and Leo who's either going to use you to spy in on something or actually give you some kind of cool present. Or give you a birthday livestream.

JUST. GOOD SHIT ALL AROUND. I was really startled when I got the birthday message because my brain had not processed that it was Friday yet lol

[dragonpigeons]

Sakazuki is bored alone on his birthday. Who will join him?