#josei mangas

[zozoubbb]

I fucking love Helter Skelter, so i decided to make a review (kind of?) of the manga because why not.

Helter Skelter is a 90s manga that was written and illustraded by the feminist mangaka Kyoko Okazaki. It is a psychological horror story and it centers around Lilico, a famous japanese model who undergos multiple plastic surgeries to ''perfect'' her body. She slowly starts losing her mind because her body starts getting worse and worse after every surgery. Lilico looks for every product, every medication and possible surgery to mantain her beauty, because that is what makes her ''valuable''.

What i personally love about this manga is that its characters arent made to be likable, but they still can capture what it is like to be a woman or an AFAB person too. How Lilico is taught that her only value is in her physical attractiviness, in her looking young and sexy, shes not alowed to just be. It also really gets me on how we are taught that we need to buy and buy and buy and consume and consume a wild variety of beauty products, we need to use all these products till we dont even look human, at all.

It is also quite awesome that even tho Helter Skelter is a 90s manga, it is still relevant nowadays and has many topics that are important to be looked at. Even with modern day feminism (or liberal feminism) which tell us that self care is consuming, self care is making us look appealing but you do all this FOR YOURSELF. also user @mclennonyaoi has a interesting post about this. so yeah, i definetely reccomend reading Helter Skelter, of course search about the trigger warnings first, but i think it is a very important read. ( that manga also reminds me of the song artificial by x-ray spex, which is a great band btw)

[vixvaporub]

Love of Kill | Koroshi Ai – File 75 ▪️ Like a Cat

[escapeoclock]

When Jinshi is such a mood.

Sauce: The Apothecary Diaries

[festive-bug]

[shoujoteatime]

My favs <3

[sleep-tight-pupper]

reblog if your blog is actually unbelievably boring

[katabay]

WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully

this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki

it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)

✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨

the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!

[shoujo-dump]

Kimi wa Petto

[unacuentasecreta]

“No matter who I’m in love with, you’re my only hero, Nana.”

Nana, Ai Yazawa.

[whatisthepointinthisworld]

The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague - Chapter 23.5

[manga-meow]

[mojinchiimanga]

[missmouseeyes]

I’ve been waiting to get my hands on the third volume of She Loves To Cook And She Loves To Eat (TsukuTabe) just so I could read this conversation between Yako and Nomoto. I’ve noticed several recent yuri manga have been discussing asexuality lately, and I’m glad to see more.

I admire author Sakaomi Yuzaki, not only for putting these topics in TsukuTabe, but for also using their audience to try and bring about some positive change for actual members of minority groups in Japan.

[shoujo-dump]

Chuuken Bodyguard ga Nisemono Reijou no Uso to Karada wo Abaku made.

[unacuentasecreta]

If I die, I’ll bring you with me. Then... kill me.

Nana, Ai Yazawa.

[violetearuby]

i love every side of him<3