#italian mangaka

[angelatabatadm]

Roronoa Zoro

[angytaby1991]

Altri personaggi in stile Winx Club

[gemwolfz]

this would have been posted like half an hour later if i wasnt so suddenly compelled to draw the rest of the platoon as #girls so giroro could have friends to go to the mall with :), anyway the rest of todays frog doodles

[soul-sketch-art]

fumetto manga

qualcuno ha un fumetto manga da propormi? vi prego...... voglio disegnare un bel fumetto, preferirei essere commissionata......Se avete delle domande anche anonime da farmi fatemele pure, ad alcune potrei non rispondere.

[cinnbar-bun]

hi hello sorry to bother you (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞ but i've been meaning to watch jjba but i watched s1 a few years back nd didnt really like it :< so i was wondering if you have any advice

You’re not bothering me at all, darling! Thank you for asking me 💖 First off, hey, don’t worry if you didn’t/don’t end up liking it! Jojo is definitely … bizarre and not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s not an easy thing to recommend because Jojo will throw lots of things at you and you just gotta accept it real quick.

My advice is honestly, just bear with Part 1 (Phantom Blood with Jonathan and Dio). I firmly believe Jojo gets better with every successive part and Part 1 doesn’t do the best job of delivering at first (deadass I think you could skip the episodes after Jonathan meets Zeppeli towards the final few episodes and miss nothing). I think Part 1 is one of those things that gets better/more appreciated on later rewatches, but it can be a slog the first time around. So don’t worry, it’s kind of a usual feeling for many (I know it took me about my third try before I finally finished and it clicked). Part 1 was the first part and Araki was just getting started, things eventually pick up speed.

The subsequent parts in Jojo also follow a different pattern or style, so if you don’t necessarily enjoy one of them, you might enjoy another! Part 2 is definitely more of an action packed adventure, Part 3 is a monster of the week story across the world, part 4 is a murder mystery, part 5 is a mafia export mission, part 6 is Orange is the new black, etc etc. You probably get the picture.

I can’t really force you to enjoy Jojo, but I can just say that it gets way better and more creative as it goes along. Getting past the first one or two parts can feel like a slog but I believe it’s worth it. And if you feel like it’s not something you can enjoy, then by all means, don’t continue! It’s meant to be fun, not a chore 😊💖 I hope this could somewhat help??

[kvaradonaa]

Hottest players of Euro 2024: Group A and B

1. Germany: Emre Can

Okay, bro looks like my next mistake. If he wasn't a footballer, he'd be a pop musician. And I don't mean your shitty American pop. He would be like Tarkan for the Germans.

2. Switzerland: Granit Xhaka

Okay, this one is obvious. I had to choose his earrings era photo, they really complimented his unemployed Balkan boy swag. He is my ex-boyfriend who stole my wifebeater and my golden chain from me. He listens to the most cringe rap imaginable. He drives a BMW. He will ruin your life.

3. Hungary: Dominik Szoboszlai

Another obvious choice. Look at his pouty lips, massive brown eyes and hairy legs. He is sexy and he knows it. He will thirst trap the camera whenever it focuses on him. He is a whore. He is a gay pornstar. It's a wonder he isn't banned by the Hungarian constitution.

4. Scotland: Kieran Tierney

I didn't really know who to choose. In all honesty, I know very little about this national team. But he seems neat.

5. Spain: Pedri

Sorry for being baaaaasic. To be honest, I don't really find Spain NT that attractive. If I have to choose one, it's gonna be Pedri. I love how flushed his cheeks become after playing for a while.

6. Italy: Giacomo Raspadori.

It was a difficult choice, because most of Italian players are insanely hot. But I let the Napoli fan within me win. Look at his golden eyes and Bambi eyelashes. He deserves a special mention here.

(alternative choices included Di Lorenzo, Meret, Scamacca, Calafiori, Fagioli and Pellegrini)

7. Croatia: Luka Modrić

I don't think I will surprise anyone here. Yes, I love Luka Modrić. I chose this pic of him to tell you what I'd love to do with him. It doesn’t do justice to the full scale of beauty, but we all know how Modrić looks like. Like an angel. Like an 80s mangaka's wet dream. Even as a grandpa with weird facial hair, he still has that flair to him.

8. Albania: Jasir Asani

Okay, I actually fell for him during qualifiers for one and one reason only. I won't lie to you. I mean, he is a pretty guy, but...

Size kink 😭

part 2 part 3

[portal-patters]

okay okay FUNNY POLL TIME:

[thenixkat]

I also like how the 'Kabru isn't ambiguously brown you swine' crowd apparently uses room-surprise' theory on Kabru being some kind of South East Asian based on them deciding to go all anthropologist on character's name origins (which don't necessarily line up with where they're from with other Dunmeshi character's names being examples of that) and like one two low detail pictures from one of the art books of like some generic looking sweets that his birth mom used to make him.

Like, outside of stans treating bread crumbs like their gospel and getting in a tizzy about anyone who rightfully points out that Kabru is just ambiguously brown b/c if the mangaka wanted to she could have made shit explicit in the main story like she did with Toshiro and his party being mostly fantasy Japanese and Marcille being half fantasy Italian on her father's side.

Outside of that, I have room-surprise blocked for saying racist shit and defending colorist tropes so I'm even more disinclined to believe fuckers when they use room-surprise as their source.

[raisinchallah]

sorry guys still really thinking about the fujoshi vs hirohiko araki tete a tete where she keeps coming up with more insane and dastardly concepts of jojo yaoi and hes like hmm idk about that most fascinating point in the conversation was when they both agreed that johnny and gyro were actually the least yaoifiable of the main jojo duos because they are slightly more developed characters and clearly very close to each other so it makes it somehow harder to imagine yaoi there because you know how they care about each other and u see too much downtime to imagine a secret yaoi lifestyle inserted between scenes perhaps tied to her later point where she says that manga like bleach?? that are made with an eye to the doujin market and community people who write with the awareness of yaoi lose the central heart and spirit of the classic shounens and it breaks what makes them so yaoifiable in the first place because there is an awareness that i guess to this woman its actually the raw material to bend and mold thats important and one cant just eat up the slop the mangaka serves you because the story is about their relationship thats like the easy way out and without strife one cannot appreciate anything they have which ok fascinating fujoshi thesis statement but then actual funniest part of the interview was araki flipping between claiming he had no idea anyone could interpret anything he was writing thru a yaoi lens and saying things like italian fashion is inherently gay.. or dio is tom ripley and other things that betray a level of knowledge of the matters that keeps catching the fujoshi off guard truly a game of wits rarely seen before.. and then to wrap it up the editor is like as a moderating voice on the yaoi debate is like i actually believe that yaoi is the most interesting lens with which to view shounen battle slop and the only way to elevate such works to unique art

[saint-vagrant]

Oh I forgot to ask a question!

😂

Ok, here it is: Who’s your inspirations for your artistry?

Big question, I know.

^__^

hmmmm you're right, that is a big question! since you asked "who" i'm going to assume you mean other artists?

for painting i'm particularly inspired by Anthony Cudahy, Alex Beck, Sterling Hundley, Ashley Wood (all contemporary,) Euan Uglow, Joaquin Sorolla, Sargent, Arkady Plastov, Ivan Shishkin, Konstantin Yuon, Ferenc Pinter, and a number of names in the Brandywine school like Mead Schaeffer and NC Wyeth.

i reformatted my brain a little in 2021 by reading Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man. Other mangaka are Hirohiko Araki, Kosuke Fujishima, Otomo, Inoue, Urasawa, Miura. the 2S artist Brandon Hoax is a HUGE inspiration to me. same for Chase Conley, Peter Chung, Freddy Carrasco, Xia Gordon, Ron Wimberly, Chris Kindred, Mel Tow, Hiro Isono, mozame_mo, Yoshitake Yamane, @maxbanshees @potogawaryuiki @coshkunz @cparrisartand @fourcorneredgod @newjackcole @choodraws @doctop @hirosemaryhello @nocturnalwalkr @fanficciera @oak-n @purenonsens @juangeedraws @plaest2k @blackblobyellowcone @turndecassette2 many more friends and strangers whose work i'm delighted to spend time traveling thru (and whose names i'll add in once i publish this enormous reply lol. rn i'm afraid of tumblr eating it!!)

most importantly, my partner Anka @kingfisher-cove charmed and captivated me from day one. the personality and dynamism of their work, specificity of place, time, body, personal effects, there's always been so much life in their art. i have little to no interest in stories/characters without limits, where mobility is never a concern, especially featuring the wealthy. stories where people don't sweat or pee or have "bad" teeth or talk too loud. Anka's always portrayed peeling paint and rusted metal as a fact of life. you get a sense of dimension/volume in their art— the way material hangs off a body, and that body's form, how gravity and weight conform feet to the ground— and the same goes for the personalities and ideas populating it. the viewer too has a home here beyond "representation." it's not just window-dressing, nor ponderous hyperrealism. there's cartoon whimsy and cartoon stakes. i wish i could describe the extent it's meaningful to me. i feel lucky to see it! plus i really making them yell and art is a good way of accomplishing it.

so because this is veering into WHAT inspires me...

other than like, transness and communism and everything that entails, i'm inspired heavily by pornography and leather culture, and (mostly vintage) magazines like Honcho and Juggs, 70s italian erotica/nunsploitation. relatedly, the lush scenes of Pierre et Gilles and Tarsem and Christian Riese Lassen. i'm also deeply inspired by hyperlink/multimedia art, such as that by Olia Lialina of @oneterabyteofkilobyteage or projects like Ted's Cave. places and delights of my childhood like Myst/Riven, Fin Fin, rural river water, rocky beaches, soft glowing glades, sharks in coral outcrops. autonomy and dissociation, too.

with a lot of the artists i mentioned, there is a handiness, a presence in their work, a dedication to indulgence and/or experimentation, in subject, setting, medium, whatever. an interest not feigned. i also love maximalist colour and texture... in drawings, in textiles, anything! worldwide and through history. i'm inspired by golden age illustration and Iranian turquoise and carpets. miniatures. iconography. lotuses. magnolia.

you can fake sincerity of course. when it comes to making art that seems like a waste of precious effort. when i get a sense that the artist really loves People beyond serving up a telephone game of vibe-mood-aesthetic... that is cool to me. if the art isn't well-lived, then it's well-cared for. a lot of the nostalgia fodder is based on a memory of a memory that was sold for mass market consumers, so i'm a bit distrusting of it. which isn't to say that i don't love a tone poem (i do-- Legend is one of my favourite films) nor that it requires "realism" to accomplish either. i love being sold on the ridiculous. i respond well to like, an artist (in whatever respect) showing me something absurd with 100% unbridled earnestness and fearlessness about being silly. my top 3 favourite series are JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Metal Gear Solid, and Ace Attorney. these are objectively as exaggerated in their drama as they are serious about their intent, and populated by straight freaks. one of my favourite directors is Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Manhunter, Heat, Thief, Collateral) who is known for his obsessive, even illustrative details but also, Audioslave plays during an emotional night drive. they don't let Audioslave play during an emotional night drive anymore. all these things are related lmao. let me go on a further tangent

there's an internal logic, right? and when it's flipped? that's the best. i don't mean a "twist," either. it's something else-- the author/artist revealing that, emotionally, things were always more complex than you were lead to believe, and it recontextualises the entire piece. if surprise is the best part of comedy then i think the same goes for melancholy. i love when the rug is pulled out from under me through something as simple as the reimagined N'doul episodes of the JJBA OVA. (YES! YES! I'LL TALK ABOUT IT FOREVER! I'M CRAZY! BUT I'M RIGHT!) is it a twist? nothing's actually changed about where the story is headed. you know where it's headed. but the meaning of that story has-- by creating an emotional trapdoor like that, it establishes a particular sense of suspense.

i'm mentioning these because i rewatched them recently-- films like Solaris and Sunshine and... you know what? Terminator are bigger to me than their subject matter because the emotional space they create is unnerving, where hope is fragile if it's present at all. something hard to accomplish... the bittersweet potency of ironic regret.

i'll keep adding to this. i could go on and on lol

[goblin-the-clown]

OK I FINALLY HAVE MORE STUFF ON THE DANGANRONPA REIMAGINING.

I wanted it to be more diverse so I made most of the characters be from different places, based on which country is the best at their certain skill. So here are their new names, nationalities and ultimates (because I changed some of those too) in no particular order.

Allison (Ally) Andrews - American, ultimate swimmer

Bernhard Toman - German, ultimate businessman

Celestia Ludenberg (Chunhua Leng) - Chinese, ultimate gambler

Chunyu Fei - Chinese, Ultimate programmer

Hifumi Yamada - Japanese, Ultimate mangaka

Jovanni Endrigo - Italian, ultimate fashionista

Kiyotaka Ishimaru - Japanese, ultimate student council president

Katharina Keilholz - Swiss, ultimate detective

Liam Knowles - American, ultimate baseball player

Mason Navarro - French, ultimate lucky student

Marcello Oddono - Italian, ultimate motor cyclist

Shilin Ouyang - Chinese, ultimate martial artist

Sayaka Maizono - Japanese, ultimate idol

Yamar Hafez - Egyptian, ultimate fortune teller

Uhhh I'm not a danganronpa fan but I really like the concept so I thought I'd reimagine the game if it was written by me with my style of writing, character writing and character designing. I'll probably be making their designs and rewriting the actual characters soon but just bear with me cause it might take a while. Thanks!

[angelatabatadm]

Usopp of One Piece

[angytaby1991]

Here I’m

[vahvah]

Well, I think the situation around the perception of iranian history and greek history in fandom is quite similar.

Let's be honest, for most people there is only Ancient Greece (by which they mean the history of the classical greek city-states + hellenistic period + roman period, we are not particularly touching on the dark ages and bronze age Mycenaean Greece, not to mention earlier times), which they - following the manga/anime canon - separate from modern Greece. And there is modern Greece, which, in general, began its independent existence in the first half of the nineteenth century, when a small piece of territory in the southern Balkans gained independence and was called “Hellas”. At best, they have ottoman rule as a kind of “preparatory period” when the canonical Iraklis grew up, did not understand anything and did not really decide anything. And at the same time, modern Greece is the son of Ancient Greece, who loves to be nostalgic about his cool mother, who did something great there more than two thousand years ago. Cool, yeah.

Likewise, for most people there is "ancient Persia" (before the conquest of the Islamic Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries AD) and "modern Iran", which they count from the Islamization of the Iranian plateau. In the manga canon, we have a character called "Persia", who people unthinkingly identify with the Achaemenid state, the Parthian Arsacid state, and the Sassanid state. In fanon, he (“Persia”) actively interacts (at war) with Rome, interacts with China and India in much rarer cases, and the mangaka also mentioned that he has descendants, one of which is “modern” Iran, yes. And, of course, there is an incredible amount of time devoted to the Achaemenid period (but not the greco-persian Wars, which shocked me when researching the fandom). Cool, yeah.

But you know what's surprising? None of this makes any sense.

If we take Greece... no, we take greek culture, we will understand that it has continuously developed, without gaps, from the time of the classical polis until the present moment, BUT, if you really want to find a watershed, then this is late antiquity. Why? Because in late antiquity, the pagan hellenes, living in their separate city-states as citizens, became christian rhomeans, subjects of the vast Eastern Roman Empire (which in fact is still perceived as a Republic). The roman "imperial" identity replaced the greek polis identity - although the greek language still dominated in the East, especially after the Avar conquest of the Balkans, when the Empire lost the latin-speaking provinces. The perception of “hellenic” identity was very complex, it experienced a revival, especially in the 13th century, when the roman/latin identity began to be associated with the germans/italians/franks, enemies of the Eastern Empire, but this is if we are talking about intellectuals - the people considered themselves rhomeans. And guess what? The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 did not change anything! There was no break or fracture! The Church of Constantinople continued to be the guardian of this identity even in the absence of christian imperial power! And the people who started the Greek Revolution in the 19th century did not strive to create a small national state, no, in their eyes ALL of Anatolia and the Balkans were the historical lands of the Eastern Roman Empire, which they considered their country. The fascination with ancient pagan Greece is something that was brought from the West, which despised “Byzantium”.

And if you look at Iran, the real boundary between "ancient" and "modern" history is the conquest of Alexander the Great. Because - this will amaze many - but until the second half of the 19th century in Iran itself they knew nothing about the ancient history of the country! The first historical event preserved in chronicles and art, say, the "Shahnameh" of Ferdowsi, is the conquest of Alexander, which has nothing to do with the real one (I will only say that Alexander is considered a descendant of the iranian royal dynasty there). In Iran, they knew almost nothing about the greco-persian wars, about the Seleucids, about the parthian Arsacids and the roman-parthian wars! The real history in Iranian perception began only with the Sassanids, who were at enmity with “Rum” - but, first of all, not with Western, decrepit Rome, but with Eastern Rome! It was “Byzantium” that was “Rome” for the Iranians and for the entire Middle East until the 19th century, while the Western “latins” were the “franks”. Moreover, I want to note that the complete forgetting of the history of the country before Alexander in Iran began even under the Sassanids - largely because ancient persian was a cuneiform language, and cuneiform was forgotten (as for the iranian epic, its oldest part is eastern iranian in origin, western iranian, persian, it becomes only from the time of Ardashir the First). But the arab conquest and adoption of islam did not have such consequences! And when the revival of iranian culture and the new persian language began in the 9th-10th centuries A.D., it was a revival, albeit rethought, of Sassanian identity.

In short, while it makes sense to separate Ancient Greece from "Byzantium", it makes no sense to separate "Byzantium" from modern Greece. And the history of modern Iran begins with the Sassanids, not Islamization.

[tododeku-or-bust]

About Dungeon Meshi race and ethnicity coding…if you're interested I think this post covers the whole Kabru being coded as Indian thing pretty well (https://room-surprise.tumblr.com/post/741160292590960640/evidence-that-kabru-from-delicious-in-dungeon-is)

Besides him, the other Asian-coded characters are mostly Japanese as far as I know. Those are very obvious. Like, the physical appearance looks like an average Japanese person, the clothing is Japanese, the building, the culture, there are even times where one character has his name messed up and is seen as "exotic." There's even a joke about how a character is in love with a white character, and the manga shows other characters thinking about their marriage like the family's painting style changing from the old Japanese style to the typical European style lol

I've seen people comment on the fact that Holm is Jewish coded too. Izutsumi is apparently Asian but not Japanese since her Japanese name is not her birth name, her mother wears clothes that are not typical of Japan and her relationship with the clearly Japanese characters is really complicated (I saw her being more theorized as Mongolian, especially because of the clothes her mother wears). White characters are easy to perceive as white and the theorizing around them is more based on their nationality (for example Marcille being theorized as Italian)

And then there are the ambiguous characters that I don't really know if were supposed to be coded, like Cithis, Thistle, Kaka and Kiki (2 are elves. Elves in the manga mainly represents colonizing thinking). I really don't know about these...they're not white but I don't know what they are

Tbh, I didn't plan on getting into it, but I appreciate the effort you put behind the explanation! Really, as long as characters that are meant to be coded as Black (if any) are well drawn (and the brown skinned people have as much effort as the lighter skinned in their art), it checks my list off. I've heard nothing but good things about the story (at least, as much canon as Tumblr will deliver, fanon ignored) and the mangaka sounds like she loves it and is thoughtful. So. I just hope that extends to browner folk.

[zenkitsune]

Sweat & Soap Japanese Limited Editions are AAGHHHHHHH 💖💖💖

I have finally acquired all 7 volumes of the limited editions for Sweat & soap. If you don't know what this is- it's a cute mature romance comedy series! I'm bad at explaining stuff so here I pulled this from the Kodansha website:

"Asako’s living her dream, working at the toiletry maker Liliadrop. Little do her coworkers know, the reason she loves the company so much is that she’s ashamed of her body odor, and their soap is the only thing that does the trick. So when the company’s lead product developer, a perfuming genius, approaches her in the lobby and wonders what “that smell” is, she’s terrified… but could it be… that he likes it? And, even more surprising to Asako… does she like him? The hilarious ups and downs of an office romance at a personal care products company are the subject of this sexy, strange romp. Sweat and Soap combines the odd-couple chemistry of Wotakoi, the “too real!” workplace comedy of Aggretsuko, and a heavy dollop of office steaminess!"

I promise this series is amazing you guys should totally read it. It does have some spice at times too, but it's still so cute. The name of the mangaka is Kintetsu Yamada. They draw themselves as a carton of milk and I love that for them hehe.

I love getting limited edition versions of manga I love because of the variant covers, bonus stories, and sometimes cool merch! And even though I can't read Japanese... these special editions did not disappoint 😌 I wanna ramble about them~

First off, it's interesting they started doing special editions at volume 5. I wonder if that's when the series started to become very popular.

These collection of items are booklets with bonus stories and some extra stuff that are SO CUTE if you're a fan of the story.

Kind of a spoiler if you haven't read Sweat & Soap (AND YOU TOTALLY SHOULD) but there's a wedding near the end of the series and the the special items you can get are:

The marriage registry (I think, it looks like it)

AND THE WEDDING INVITATION

I ESPECIALLY loved looking at the wedding registry because you can tell which character was writing and stuff. AND REMEMBER I CAN'T READ JAPANESE. It's been a while since I've read the series, but I remember the moment in the story when they registered to get married and my heart just went AGGHHHH.

In another volume, a special item you can get are...

CUTE POST IT NOTES

I don't think I can get myself to ever use these- I love it so much. Stationary warms my heart aaaahhhhh 💖

NEXT This was one was an interesting bonus- In another volume you can get a cute cat washcloth!!

Will I use it? I don't know yet 〒▽〒

FINALLY the last thing I wanna share briefly is one of the booklets. I'm really lazy, so I haven't attempted to google translate some of these stories (or search for them online YES I'M THAT LAZY) BUUTTTT when I got the one story I had so immediately read it-

One of the bonus stories features a character name Keita. He's the younger brother of one of the main characters, Asako. He's one of my favorite characters!! For context, he works as a chef at a popular Italian restaurant and the other main character of the series, Kotaro invites his colleagues to have dinner there.

Even reading the struggle translation, I really enjoyed this short story. I always welcome more Keita features 😌✨

GO READ SWEAT AND SOAP!! I wish I had the box set, but Kodansha liked to release box sets after I'm very far into collecting a series u-u

KAY THAT'S ALL <3