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Sheena Ringo and Kentaro Kobayashi promotional pictures for the NHK Special 「SWITCHインタビュー 達人達」, aired on November 30th, 2019.

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Berserk (1997) Art by Kentaro Miura and Shichiro Kobayashi

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What I've been reading: August 2024

I know I haven’t been posting much about the reading I’ve been doing this month, but now that August is coming to a swift close, I guess I should talk a bit about my reading list...

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Little gremlin

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Weekly Shonen Jump 55th anniversary appendix in Weekly Shonen Jump 2023 issue #33

1968 Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #1 Otoko Ippiki Gaki-Daisho by Hiroshi Motomiya 1969 Dr. Toilet by Kazuyoshi Torii 1970 The Gutsy Frog by Yasumi Yoshizawa 1971 Tezuka Manga Award 1st Edition Samurai Giants by Ikki Kajiwara & Ko Inoue Boy of the Wilderness Isamu by Soji Yamakawa & Noboru Kawasaki 1972 Astro Kyudan by Shiro Tōzaki & Norihiro Nakajima 1973 Play Ball by Akio Chiba Hochonin Ajihei by Jiro Gyu & Jo Big 1974 Akatsuka Manga Award 1st Edition 1975 The Circuit Wolf by Satoshi Ikezawa Doberman Deka by Buronson & Shinji Hiramatsu 1976 Toudai Icchokusen by Yoshinori Kobayashi Kochikame by Osamu Akimoto 1977 Ring ni Kakero by Masami Kurumada Susume!! Pirates by Hisashi Eguchi 1978 Cobra by Buichi Terasawa 1979 Kinnikuman by Yudetamago 1980 Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama 1981 Captain Tsubasa by Yoichi Takahashi Cat's Eye by Tsukasa Hojo Stop!! Hibari-kun! by Hisashi Eguchi 1982 High School! Kimengumi by Motoei Shinzawa 1983 Fist of the North Star by Buronson & Tetsuo Hara Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin- by Yoshihiro Takahashi 1984 DRAGON BALL by Akira Toriyama 1985 City Hunter by Tsukasa Hojo Miraculous Tonchinkan by Koichi Endo Sakigake!! Otokojuku by Akira Miyashita 1986 Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada 1987 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki The Burning Wild Man by Tadashi Sato 1988 Bastard!! by Kazushi Hagiwara Jungle King Tar-chan by Masaya Tokuhiro Rokudenashi BLUES by Masanori Morita Magical Taluluto by Tatsuya Egawa 1989 Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 5.000.000 copies in circulation Dragon Quest: The Great Adventure of Dai by Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada Video Girl Ai by Masakazu Katsura 1990 SLAM DUNK by Takehiko Inoue Chinyuki by Man Gataro Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi 1992 Hareluya II Boy by Haruto Umezawa 1993 Tottemo! Luckyman by Hiroshi Gamo Hell Teacher Nube by Makura Sho & Takeshi Okano 1994 Midori no Makibao by Tsunomaru Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki 1995 Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 6.530.000 copies in circulation Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san by Kyosuke Usuta 1996 Hoshin Engi by Ryu Fujisaki Yu-Gi-Oh! by Kazuki Takahashi Kochikame 20th Anniversary & Chapter 1000 1997 I's by Masakazu Katsura Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi! by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro ONE PIECE by Eiichiro Oda 1998 Rookies by Masanori Morita Whistle! by Daisuke Higuchi HUNTERXHUNTER by Yoshihiro Togashi 1999 Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta & Takeshi Obata The Prince of Tennis by Takeshi Konomi NARUTO by Masashi Kishimoto 2000 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean by Hirohiko Araki BLACK CAT by Kentaro Yabuki 2001 Bobobobo Bobobo by Yoshio Sawai BLEACH by Tite Kubo 2002 Strawberry 100% by Mizuki Kawashita Eyeshield 21 by Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata 2004 Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata Gintama by Hideaki Sorachi Katekyo Hitman Reborn! by Akira Amano D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation by Yoshiyuki Nishi 2005 Neuro: Supernatural Detective by Yusei Matsui 2006 To Love Ru by Saki Hasemi & Kentaro Yabuki 2007 Sket Dance by Kenta Shinohara 2008 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan by Hiroshi Shiibashi Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro Bakuman. by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata 2009 Kuroko's Basketball by Tadatoshi Fujimaki Beelzebub by Ryuhei Tamura Medaka Box by Nisio Isin & Akira Akatsuki 2010 ONE PIECE New World Begins 2011 Nisekoi by Naoshi Komi 2012 Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. by Shuichi Aso Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma by Yuto Tsukuda & Shun Saeki 2013 World Trigger by Daisuke Ashihara Isobe Isobee Monogatari by Ryo Nakama 2014 Hinomaru Zumo by Kawada My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi 2015 Black Clover by Yuki Tabata 2016 Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs by Tadahiro Miura Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge BORUTO by Mikio Ikemoto & Ukyo Kodachi The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu Kochikame 40th Anniversary and Serialization End 2017 We Never Learn by Taishi Tsutsui Dr. STONE by Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi 2018 Jujutsu Kaisen by Akutami Gege

2019 Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto Mission: Yozakura Family by Hitsuji Gondaira 2020 Undead Unluck by Yoshifumi Tozuka MASHLE by Hajime Komoto Ayakashi Triangle by Kentaro Yabuki Me & Roboco by Shuhei Miyazaki BURN THE WITCH by Tite Kubo SAKAMOTO DAYS by Yuto Suzuki 2021 The Elusive Samurai by Yusei Matsui WITCH WATCH by Kenta Shinohara Blue Box by Kouji Miura 2022 Akane Banashi by Yuki Suenaga & Takamasa Moue

[yaminerua]

A CLAMP School Timeline

I want to preface this by saying that I know the CLAMP School timeline isn’t following real world rules for the school year (much like those gags in the Ouran manga where they acknowledge that there have been many Springs but no graduations lol). We would expect grade changes to happen if it was following those rules but for the sake of convenience they have been kept in the same grades. Lately, I’ve been plotting the rough timeline of events across 20 Mensou, Duklyon and CLAMP School Detectives and noticed that the school year seemed to be too long so clearly CLAMP share the same sentiment of ignoring all otherwise anticipated graduations.

BUT for the sake of plotting a realistic timeline that DOES take the school year into account I decided to rework some ages to allow for the movement up into the next grade that would otherwise happen in the middle of 20 Mensou and Detectives.

For the purposes of this I have aged down everyone in the Kindergarten and Elementary School divisions by One Year (this is to allow for characters like Nokoru and Utako to remain in their respective divisions because otherwise they would have moved up into the next division in the middle of their respective manga series). However, because of Duklyon’s position in the timeline taking place BEFORE the grade change would occur I have NOT altered the High Schoolers’ ages.

This means that to begin with Akira is now 8 years old and in 3rd Grade, Suoh is now 9 years old and in 4th Grade and Nokoru is now 10 years old and in 5th Grade and they will then move into 4th, 5th and 6th Grade in the April which occurs sometime in the middle of Detectives and 20 Mensou.

I also believe that the events of the CLAMP School series are taking place during the same time as Tokyo Babylon so this timeline also includes Tokyo Babylon events. I’m basing this on what looks like kindergartener Utako in the background of a page in early Tokyo Babylon, plus the mention of Duklyon and the Imonoyama Shoutengai in Shoten, which is not strictly 100% canon to manga Tokyo Babylon but several things that ARE canon to the manga were also originally present in Shoten so I choose to believe the time setting to be carried over as well).

I’ve also included known birthdays in this timeline as well (with amended ages marked with *). Any additional notes or explanations I want to make will be included at the end bc this is already long.

I’ve used stated dates where they are known, and assumptions for others based on where they fall between stated dates and whether the summer or winter uniforms are used etc…

So without further ado, here is the TB/CLAMP school timeline as I see it:

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1990:

January 21 1990 - Erii Chusonji’s 16th Birthday

February 11 1990 - Kentaro Higashikunimaru’s 15th Birthday

February 19 1990 - Subaru and Hokuto Sumeragi’s 16th Birthday

March 31 1990 - Suoh Takamura’s 9th* Birthday

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APRIL 1st 1990 - School Year for 1990/91 Commences with everyone entering the following classes:

1st Year High School: Kentaro, Takeshi, Sukiyabashi, Ryusuke, Subaru, Hokuto

2nd Year High School: Erii Chusonji

Kindergarten: Mako** [see Notes], Utako, Nagisa

3rd Grade Elementary School: Akira Ijyuin

4th Grade Elementary School: Suoh Takamura

5th Grade Elementary School: Nokoru Imonoyama

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Unspecified date in presumably April 1990 - Seishirou and Subaru meet again. Unbeknownst to Subaru, the One Year of The Bet begins

April 15 1990 - Ryusuke Kobayashi’s 16th Birthday

Unspecified date in May 1990 - High School Sports Event after which Kentaro and Takeshi are invited to form Duklyon

Unspecified date in Summer 1990 but definitely placed before late August - 20 Masks steals the curtain from Gamera Hall

Unspecified date in Summer 1990 but definitely placed before late August - Utako confesses to her kindergarten teacher and later meets 20 Masks when he hides from police

June 16 1990 - Nokoru Imonoyama’s 11th* Birthday

July 10 1990 - Kotobuki Sukiyabashi’s 16th Birthday

August 24 1990 - Utako Ohkawa’s 5th* Birthday. 20 Masks steals the ice sculpture at her party but gifts her a hair bow in apology

September 28 1990 - Nagisa Azuya’s 5th* Birthday

Unspecified date in presumably October 1990 (5 months after May high school sports event) - Utako kidnapped by Imonoyama Shopping District Association and rescued by Duklyon

Unspecified date in presumably October 1990 (5 months after May high school sports event) - Imonoyama Shopping District Association attacks the CLAMP School cafeteria

Unspecified date in Autumn 1990 - Sukiyabashi meets Erii and is enamoured. He later attacks a classroom she happens to be in

Unspecified date in Autumn 1990 - Erii gets a cold but arrives to help Duklyon battle Wooltar

Unspecified date in Autumn 1990 - High School Taste of Autumn trip to the greenhouse. Sukiyabashi nervously gifts Erii the pears he has collected. Erii develops a crush on him

Unspecified date in presumably Autumn 1990 - Subaru exorcises the Chanel suit

Unspecified date in November 1990, a few days before the 11th - Subaru and Seishirou help the spirit haunting Tokyo Tower to pass on

Unspecified date in November 1990, the day after the Tokyo Tower exorcism - CLAMP School Kindergarten class seen on a trip to Tokyo Tower

November 11 1990 - Subaru returns to Kyoto to visit his grandmother

November 12 1990 - Subaru helps Mitsuki awaken from her coma

Unspecified date in presumably November 1990 (3 months after Utako’s birthday) - Utako makes a fake declaration that 20 Masks will target her in order to have an excuse to see him again

Unspecified date in presumably November 1990 (3 months after Utako’s birthday) - Utako and 20 Masks begin to see each other every Friday

November 22 1990 - Seishirou Sakurazuka’s 25th Birthday

November 28 1990 - Mako Ohkawa’s 6th** Birthday

Unspecified date in Autumn or Winter 1990 - 20 Masks steals a rose but misses a date with Utako

Unspecified date in Autumn or Winter 1990 - 20 Masks steals the royal chef

Unspecified date in Autumn or Winter 1990 - 20 Masks steals glass bowl

Unspecified date in December 1990 - List of next year’s faculty compiled by the Chairwoman

Unspecified date in December 1990 (shortly before the 23rd) - Nokoru, Suoh and Akira consider Tokyo Tower as the location for the Christmas party. They meet and help a lady who is being pressured by her brother-in-law to give up her house

December 23 1990 - Nokoru, Suoh and Akira join the Tokyo Tower lady on the anniversary of her wedding to her missing husband

December 24 1990 - Akira Ijyuin’s 9th* Birthday. Akira meets his father disguised as Santa Claus

December 31 1990 - Takeshi Shukaido’s 16th Birthday

1991:

Unspecified date in presumably early January 1991 - A bird accidentally steals the microdisk containing the faculty list

Unspecified date in presumably early January 1991 - Nokoru & co investigate the missing faculty list. Nokoru momentarily misplaces the creative plans for Duklyon vs 20 Masks theatre performance. CLAMP School Detectives officially founded

Unspecified date in January 1991 - Subaru and Seishirou get an affinity test done. Subaru calls the Dial Q2 line to confront the 1999 girls

Unspecified date in January 1991 - Duklyon vs 20 Masks theatre performance. 20 Masks kidnaps Duklyon

Unspecified date in January 1991 - Detectives help find a missing pet peacock

January 21 1991 - Erii Chusonji’s 17th Birthday

Unspecified date in presumably January 1991 - Subaru stops a grieving mother from creating an Inugami and is distressed at having to lie to her about her daughter’s pain

Unspecified date in presumably late January/early February 1991 - Sukiyabashi invited to join Erii at the cafe terrace. The Imonoyama Shopping District Association attacks without Sukiyabashi leading it

Unspecified date in presumably February 1991 - Imonoyama Shopping District Association attacks home economics class. The female leader is first seen

February 9 1991 - Subaru’s grandmother does a reading on the twins and is concerned by what she sees

February 11 1991 - Kentaro Higashikunimaru’s 16th Birthday. Subaru is given the job to investigate the MS Institute and warned by his grandmother not to be seduced by the sakura

Unspecified date in February 1991 - Subaru joins the MS Institute to investigate. Subaru witnesses Hashimoto being bullied and gives her a handkerchief

Unspecified date in February 1991 - Subaru is informed that Hashimoto has been stabbed. He confronts the MS Institute lady but Seishirou interrupts them and kills her for a job

Unspecified date in presumably February 1991 - Duklyon cast watch the X movie. Imonoyama Shopping District Association attacks. Sukiyabashi gets injured protecting Erii

Unspecified date in presumably February 1991 - Erii issued a challenge by Sukiyabashi’s fiancée. Later that day the fiancée tells her of Sukiyabashi’s identity as the leader of the Imonoyama Shopping District Association

Unspecified date in presumably February 1991 (3 or so days after finding out Sukiyabashi’s identity) - Erii reveals that she knows the truth and also reveals her own identity as an alien. Inuko gets turned gigantic and Duklyon are made gigantic to handle her. Erii and Sukiyabashi decide to elope together

February 14 - 18 1991 - Nokoru challenged to find a buried item or else he must resign

February 19 1991 - Subaru and Hokuto Sumeragi’s 17th Birthday

Unspecified date in presumably late February/early March 1991 - Subaru meets an old man and begins to meet up with him regularly

Unspecified date in presumably late February/early March 1991 - The old man is hit by a vehicle on the way to bring his daughter some bananas. Subaru delivers them to her instead

Unspecified date in presumably March 1991 - Subaru helps a ghost pass on at karaoke

Unspecified date in March 1991 - Subaru meets a boy receiving dialysis treatment and begins to come visit him regularly

Unspecified date in March 1991 - It has been 1 month since Erii and Sukiyabashi eloped. They return and rejoin Duklyon

Unspecified date in presumably late March/early April 1991 - Seishirou loses his eye getting in the way of Yuya’s mother trying to attack Subaru

March 31 1991 - Suoh Takamura’s 10th* Birthday

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APRIL 1st 1991 - School Year for 1991/92 Commences with everyone entering the following classes:

2nd Year High School: Kentaro, Takeshi, Sukiyabashi, Ryusuke, Subaru, Hokuto

3rd Year High School: Erii Chusonji

Kindergarten: Utako, Nagisa

1st Grade Elementary School: Mako Ohkawa**

4th Grade Elementary School: Akira Ijyuin

5th Grade Elementary School: Suoh Takamura

6th Grade Elementary School: Nokoru Imonoyama

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Unspecified date in presumably April 1991 - Subaru meets a blind man and his seeing-eye dog and realises that he is in love with Seishirou. The One Year of The Bet ends. Seishirou breaks Subaru’s arm and heart but does not kill him

Unspecified date in presumably April 1991 - Hokuto can’t bear to see Subaru in the unresponsive state Seishirou left him in. She takes Subaru’s robes and leaves

April 15 1991 - Ryusuke Kobayashi’s 17th Birthday

Unspecified date in presumably May 1991 - One month after Hokuto disappears, Subaru sees her death in his dream and wakes up

June 16 1991 - Nokoru Imonoyama’s 12th* Birthday

July 10 1991 - Kotobuki Sukiyabashi’s 17th Birthday

Unspecified date in mid July or August 1991, around the Obon festival - Obon dance preparations are being made. The detectives investigate reports of a ghost during the art department’s preparations for an Autumn exhibition

Unspecified date in August 1991, before Utako’s birthday - Akira angers Utako by saying he would love to be invited to her future wedding

August 24 1991 - Utako Ohkawa’s 6th* Birthday. Akira tells Utako he loves her

Unspecified date in Autumn 1991 - The dance party being planned by Nokoru and co receives numerous threats. Suoh is injured saving Nokoru when he is pushed over a railing

September 28 1991 - Nagisa Azuya’s 6th* Birthday

Unspecified date in Autumn 1991 - Suoh first catches a glimpse of Nagisa playing the flute amongst the wisteria. Preparations for the Autumn Cultural Fair are being made

Unspecified date in Autumn 1991, presumably early November - Suoh rescues Nagisa from being injured at the cultural fair

Unspecified date in Autumn 1991 - Akira helps a university student confess to her crush

Unspecified date in Autumn 1991 - Mako’s missing stocking that she uses for a citrus bath is found by Nokoru

November 22 1991 - Seishirou Sakurazuka’s 26th Birthday

November 28 1991 - Mako Ohkawa’s 7th** Birthday

Unspecified date in presumably Autumn 1991 - Nokoru leaves a decoy at his desk which causes Akira and Suoh to search the campus to try to find him

December 24 1991 - Akira Ijyuin’s 10th* Birthday

December 31 1991 - Takeshi Shukaido’s 17th Birthday

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Notes:

TB running alongside CLAMP School

When trying to confirm whether TB and the CLAMP School stories take place around the same time I used the TB panel of what looks like Utako and her kindergarten class on a trip to Tokyo Tower in the background as a starting point.

The girl in front of who we assume to be Utako could easily be Nagisa, and the teacher with the light hair behind Utako could be Shiva, the teacher she initially has the crush on. So TB absolutely takes place during the time Utako is in kindergarten.

But there can be multiple years of kindergarten, as many as 3, so this shot of Utako could be from anywhere during that time so there was a possibility that the CLAMP School stories don’t even take place in the 1990/91 school year at all. Knowing Seishirou and Subaru’s birth years and ages we do know that Tokyo Babylon starts in 1990 and that assuming 3 years of kindergarten, Utako could be in her first, second or third year of kindergarten when we see her cameo.

Taking the CLAMP School stories into account, it looks like 2 school years elapse and although it’s not shown in any of the stories, the characters ought to move up a grade for the next school year. This is why I assume these stories start with Utako in second year of kindergarten and move into her third year where she would turn 6 (the English release I’ve seen of 20 Mensou accidentally has her turn 6 twice but I must assume only the second instance of it is correct).

I’m also assuming that CLAMP School’s school year begins on April 1st and that Japan’s system of starting 1st grade the April after your 6th birthday applies too.

Considering the old Shoten versions of what became Tokyo Babylon, in which Subaru mentions Duklyon interrupting class to fight the Imonoyama Shopping District Association, this would also place those events firmly in Utako’s 2nd kindergarten year because by her 3rd the Imonoyama Shopping District Association has ceased attacking and a new enemy has appeared and it can be no earlier than that because Duklyon is only formed in May of her second kindergarten year (we know this because of the placement of events matching up, notably the Duklyon vs 20 Masks theatre show mentioned in both Duklyon and CLAMP School Detectives, shown here (the Japanese on the paper in the first picture reads the same as the translated banner from Duklyon):

as well as the discussion of the location of the Christmas party in CLAMP School Detectives and 20 Masks and recalling the previous year’s event shown here:

as well as the flashback in Duklyon that shows Kentaro and Takeshi being invited to form Duklyon in May of the same year).

I know Shoten is not canon to the Tokyo Babylon that was eventually released but if we take at the very least that time setting to be accurate then we can assume Tokyo Babylon is also happening during Utako’s second kindergarten year. This places the events of 20 Masks, Duklyon and CLAMP School Detectives in 1990-1991, therefore happening alongside Tokyo Babylon.

The Bet

I’m also assuming the timeline for The Bet to start some time around April or late March at the earliest, basically not long after the twins move to Tokyo ahead of starting at CLAMP School. The old Shoten stories have the same setting for Seishirou seeing Subaru falling in Ikebukuro station as the manga release, and the available translations for those stories say he’s “just been accepted” into his first year around this time. Assuming the time setting was kept roughly the same for this meeting as well, that’s why I place the commencement of The Bet’s year to be around this time.

Ages and Grades

For this timeline, as mentioned, I chose to change the ages of Nokoru, Suoh, Akira, Utako, Nagisa and Mako* so that they are a year younger because the stories encompass summer 1990 through to presumably autumn/winter 1991 which would have resulted in everyone moving up a grade midway through the stories.

The overall CLAMP School series timeline starts in Summer (in 20 Mensou and the Duklyon flashback), moves into winter which is where CLAMP School Detectives begins, and then continues on through Summer again (where 20 Mensou ends) and on to Autumn of the next year where Detectives ends. It is clear that more than a year passes and there should realistically be a point where the characters move up a grade at the start of the school year.

Because of the grades they are spread across, this would have moved Nokoru out of the Elementary Division and Utako out of Kindergarten in the middle of the stories. To keep them in their stated divisions, aging them down a year at the start allows them to age up into the grades we are familiar with for them.

As mentioned before, Utako has her 6th birthday twice by mistake and there are even inconsistencies in what grade Akira is in at first, with it starting with him in 3rd grade and mysteriously switching to 4th around Christmas, before the grade change would naturally happen.

This adjustment of ages I’ve made effectively returns to the setting of him starting in 3rd grade and moving up into 4th over the course of the stories’ timeline. This would also change the birthday Akira celebrates in the manga to be his 9th instead of 10th.

There was an omake CLAMP made once where the Detectives discussed their future appearances in X and they state they would be adults (大人) by then. With my adjustment of ages, Akira would now technically be in his final high school year instead while Nokoru and Suoh are university age instead of them all being out of high school, but ah well.

I would like to note that I did NOT age any of the high schoolers down along with the younger characters because it would have moved the 1st years down into middle school for the 1990/91 school year which wouldn’t work with Duklyon. I’m reasonably certain Duklyon takes place entirely BEFORE April 1st of the 1991/92 school year so their story wraps up before the grade change and therefore their ages didn’t need altering. This does now mean that there’s an extra year age difference between the elementary schoolers and the high schoolers.

*One note about Mako, however, since changing her age is the only thing that doesn’t quite line up clearly. In the original stories she is in 1st grade during Christmas 1990 in 20 Masks but also still 1st grade by autumn 1991 in CLAMP School Detectives. To keep her age difference with Utako the same, aging her down with everyone resulted in Mako now starting in her final kindergarten year before moving into 1st grade, when she has always been shown in Elementary uniform in her manga appearances. But it could also be reworked to have her start in 1st grade and move into 2nd, although that would of course change her to being an extra year older than Utako.

Also, regarding Subaru and Hokuto’s ages, in Tokyo Babylon we see a document which states Subaru to be a high school 1st year at CLAMP School, despite the fact that his official birthday 19 February 1974 makes him 16 before April 1st and would therefore mean at first glance that he ought to be a 2nd year like Erii Chusonji. He’s also stated to be 16 and in first year in Shoten too.

For Subaru to be able to enter 1st year in 1990 (which he would ordinarily need to be 15 to do), I am assuming the year of training Subaru spent honing his onmyouji skills interrupted his education by a year which therefore explains how he would be a 1st year despite turning 16 before April 1st. Being in homeroom Z also means he would be in the same class as the Duklyon boys.

Also a final note on possible inconsistencies in translations, the English release of 20 Masks says that Ryusuke is a sophomore, so in his 2nd year of high school (which would make sense at a glance since he’s stated to be 16) but online on Japanese sources I’ve seen him stated to be in first year.

I checked which date CLAMP gave him for his birthday and it is apparently April 15th so it actually does make sense for him to be a first year if he entered first year still 15 and then turned 16 after April 1st. There are also bits of old fan scanlations of 20 Mensou floating about that I’ve seen that translated the Ryusuke profile to say he was in ‘tenth grade’ which aligns with 1st Year high school. So I assume the original Japanese says he’s in 1st Year and the English version got it wrong. Also being in first year he would be in the same class as Subaru and the Duklyon boys. What a chaotic class.

[perfecttenth]

Perfect Origin submissions and beta designs

Or at least what's known about them.

Starting at zero, The Man's concept art has been uploaded to Pixiv by his creator, Seiji Tanaka, here and here. He was originally submitted as "Zeusman", based on the Greek deity of the same name. Even back then, he was supposed to be the true identity of Strong The Budo, except that in this rendition, he is a choujin cloned from the cells of Neptune King.

While Goldman was likely created by Yudetamago themselves, his Akuma Shogun identity is a refined version of "Vikingman", who was submitted by Kobayashi of Tokyo. Early color illustrations of Shogun tend to depict him with pure red armor, which may have been a leftover from his submission.

Silverman's redesign process for his appearance in the 2011 run was extensively documented and released in the "JC55巻 56巻 発売記念品 2016 夏" booklet. His first rough design is completely different from the finished product, mirroring Shogun even moreso than his final design.

Mirageman is one of the two Kenichi Ishii-submitted Origins, the other being Justiceman. Both him and Thingman, designed by Ken Hiroshima (who also worked on Painman together with Kentaro Sakamoto), were first shown as choujin submissions in Vol. 25 of Nisei Tag, named "Mirage" and "Doppelman" respectively. Thingman is nigh identical to his submission, but Mirageman used to somewhat resemble a circuit board, with PCB traces and pads covering his body.

Abyssman is credited to Masashi Omori and Takamasa Minato, presumably being a combination of multiple submissions, as the Fan Book commentary implies.

Ganman is famous for not only being a combination of two submissions, but also having his appearance modified after his initial reveal. His moose features were taken from a currently unknown submission that were applied to WANI's "The Cyclone".

Yudetamago later clarified in the Vol. 47 Q&A that his design was upgraded to make him look more dignified, as he's supposed to be on the same level as Akuma Shogun. I've uploaded a catbox album with all the panels I could find of Ganman's original appearance here, but the original WEB version of the chapter can't be found in its entirety anymore.

Crowman/Karasuman was submitted by Takayuki Wakisaka. His name and design have stayed exactly the same, except he's way thinner here than in the manga.

The same Takayuki Wakisaka also appears to have submitted Psychoman's Grim Reaper identity. His new white priest-like design was probably refined by Yudetamago, since an Instagram post by Takashi Shimada shows what looks like concept art, as well as an alternate design.

As of right now, this is all that is known about the design processes of the Perfect Origin. Feel free to add or correct anything if you happen to have more information.

[acorpsepartyfangamedevilsfeast]

Corpse Party: Devil's Feast

What we have so far:

All Characters that make an appearance in game or on the steam icons plus a couple original designs.

What we're missing:

34 female student designs;

9 male designs;

6 Teacher designs

Also, Azusa Takai, Ran Kobayashi, Kentaro Oshio, Toshihisa Goto and Kuon Niwa because I forgot to make them.

[imasallstars]

THE IDOLM@STER SideM PASSIONABLE READING SHOW ～天地四心伝～

Further information regarding the SideM PASSIONABLE READING SHOW has been revealed! The event will occur on the 10th and 11th of February in the MAKUHARI MESS EVENT HALL in CHIBA

The voice actors participating in this stop are as follows:

DAY 1

Daichi Kanbara (Hokuto Ijuin), Shunichi Toki (Kei Tsuzuki), Tomohito Takatsuka (Minori Watanabe), Yoshitaka Yamaya (Kyosuke Aoi), Kentaro Kumagai (Hideo Akuno), Kento Hama (Ryu Kimura), Yuya Nakada (Kuro Kiyosumi), Hiroshi Watanabe (Natsuki Sakaki), Yusuke Shirai (Haruna Wakazato), Toshinari Fukamachi (Genbu Kurono), Sho Karino (Yukihiro Kamiya), Daiki Kobayashi (Saki Mizushima), Shogo Yano (Nao Okamura), Yoshiki Nakajima (Jiro Yamashita), Shohei Komatsu (Ren Kizaki), Takehiro Urao (Daigo Kabuto), Jun Kasama (Amehiko Kuzunoha), Yuri Ise (Shu Amamine), Masaya Miyakaze (Momohito Hanazono)

DAY 2

Takuma Terashima (Toma Amagase), Yusuke Nagano (Rei Kagura), Shun Horie (Pierre), Takeru Kikuchi (Yusuke Aoi), Takuya Masumoto (Seiji Shingen), Yutaka Balletta (Shoma Hanamura), Chiba Shoya (Hayato akiyama), Takuma Nagatsuka (Jun Fuyumi), Sho Nogami (Shiki Iseya), Takeaki Masuyama (Suzaku Akai), Takuya Kodama (Makio Uzuki), Keisuke Furuhata (Shiro Tachibana), Junta Terashima (Takeru Taiga), Daiki Hamano (Michiru Enjoji), Yuko Sanpei (Ryo Akizku), Shunya Hiruma (Kazuki Tsukumo), Fumiyoshi Shioya (Sora Kitamura), Takeo Otsuka (Eishin Mayumi)

[hadukilina]

機関紳士 (Caballero institucional (Karakuri Shinshi))

🤍Nobel (CV. Nojima Kenji)

💚Ruma (CV. Shunichi Toki)

🖤Einsatz (CV. Kentaro Kumagai)

D.M.A.

🤍Bora (CV. Daiki Hamano)

💚Xyo (CV. Shioguchi Ryohei)

💗Rhodi (CV. Tatsuyuki Kobayashi)

[ulkaralakbarova]

Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Leon S. Kennedy (voice): Paul Mercier Claire Redfield (voice): Alyson Court Angela Miller (voice): Laura Bailey Curtis Miller (voice): Roger Craig Smith Frederic Downing (voice): Crispin Freeman Senator Ron Davis (voice): Michael Sorich Ingrid Hunnigan (voice): Salli Saffioti Rani Chawla (voice): Michelle Ruff Rani’s aunt (voice): Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Greg Glenn (voice): Steve Blum WilPharma CEO (voice): Michael McConnohie U.S. President (voice): Kirk Thornton Various (voice): Cindy Robinson Various (voice): Dave Wittenberg Various (voice): Kari Wahlgren Various (voice): Kyle Hebert Various (voice): Barbara Goodson Various (voice): Keith Silverstein Various (voice): Yuri Lowenthal Various (voice): Megan Hollingshead Various (voice): Skip Stellrecht Various (voice): Troy Baker Various (voice): Karen Strassman Various (voice): JB Blanc Various (voice): Johnny Yong Bosch Greg Glenn / G-Curtis (motion capture): Derek Mears Film Crew: Executive Producer: Masao Takiyama Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga Director: Makoto Kamiya Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka Editor: Ryuji Miyajima Layout: Nobuhito Sue Sound Designer: Koji Kasamatsu Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama Costume Design: Kuniko Hôjô Compositor: Naoyuki Fujii Stunts: Satoshi Hakuzen Executive Producer: Haruhiro Tsujimoto Executive Producer: Keiji Inafune Original Music Composer: Tetsuya Takahashi Co-Producer: Hidenori Ueki Story: Hiroyuki Kobayashi CGI Director: Atsushi Doi Casting Producer: Michelle Ladd Stunts: Naohiro Kawamoto Storyboard Artist: Shinji Nishikawa Casting Producer: Thom Williams Producer: Taro Morishima Associate Producer: Scott Dolph Video Game: Shinji Mikami Stunts: Jersey Maki Itosu Sound Editor: Yoshiki Matsunaga Casting Producer: Hiroyuki Yoshida Compositor: Hiroki Ando Storyboard Artist: Kiyoshi Okuyama Production Manager: Sareana Sun Associate Producer: Daisuke Gomi Stunts: Koji Kawamoto Video Game: Kenichi Iwao Story Editor: Father Video Game: Tokuro Fujiwara Video Game: Takahiro Arimitsu Modelling Supervisor: Yoshiaki Hirabayashi Producer: Seiji Iseda Associate Producer: Aki Kiuchi Executive Producer: Ivan C. Shih Co-Executive Producer: Toshi Tokumaru Associate Producer: Mareo Yamada Production Design: Shiho Tamura Production Manager: Alena Fang Production Manager: Kumiko Oguri Second Assistant Director: Kentaro Fujisawa First Assistant Director: Gaku Nagao Prop Designer: Takumi Sakura Storyboard Artist: Hiromitsu Soma Dialogue Editor: Les Claypool III Character Designer: Kazuhiro Asakawa VFX Artist: Wu Bin Lighting Artist: Zhang Bei Modeling: Stacy Chang Lighting Artist: Peng Chao Modeling: Hsin-Che Chen Modeling: Soyoung Cheng Modeling: Chaucer Chiu Lighting Artist: Liu Dexin Compositor: Nobutaka Emoto Lighting Artist: Le Gao Compositing Lead: Tsubasa Harikae Lighting Artist: Yifang He Lighting Artist: Zhang Hongkun Animation: Ni Hongtao Stunts: Nobuhiro Inohara Post Production Producer: Yuuki Hashimoto Assistant Editor: Narihiko Kôno Movie Reviews: Andre Gonzales: It’s just like if I was watching the video game. Pretty cool movie. These are the 2 characters I remember the most because I loved Code Veronica so much.

[yaoisex]

Highlights from the cast interview for the Dom/Sub BLCD - Sub-sama Shitsuke no Jikan desu 1:

Kuma: "It's my first time appearing in a Dom/Sub universe work..."

Koma: "It's also my first time being involved in a Dom/Sub universe work..."

ChibaSho: "It's my first time learning about the Dom/Sub universe..."

Chiaki: "it's just me. Among these, there are Dom/Sub experts who have experienced Dom/Sub universe works..."

Everyone (and me): LOL

That was so funny and precious!! Obv he's referring to his BLCD with Seii-chan - Hizamazuite Ai o Tou. He's an expert among the uncultured ones XD (ChibaSho said it was a culture shock at first. Oh, you innocent child <3)

Koma said that he researched stuff before the recording, like commands etc. I wonder if he only read stuff or also... watched~ (well, he probably listened to stuff in order to know how to say it).

Remember how I mentioned on my original post that ChibaSho's and Chiaki's characters might be partners?? So Chiaki said that based on the bonus track, it seems like they have some kind of a relationship (!!!). All four of them said they'd love to record a 2nd vol! (since this one is titled '1', all of them assume there'll be a '2' in the future).

In the PV, we can hear some of the commands. Koma says them in English but on top of that we hear it in Japanese as well. We hear both but the Japanese is overpowering. I find it quite odd. I'd very much prefer hearing the commands in one language only and not overlapping. Maybe because I'm basing my thoughts and experience on Seii-chan's commands. His first command to Chiaki was 'Kneel' in English and it sounded amazing. The rest of his commands throughout the BLCD were in Japanese, and he really made them all sound super hot/emotional. In this interview Koma wondered if the representation of the commands are similar in other works, and Chiaki replied that they were pretty similar in his previous work. I wonder about that, because as I mentioned, at least based on the PV - we hear the commands in Japanese over the English, not solely in one of the languages... hmm...

ChibaSho said: "for me, the word 'kneel' was so erotic that it shocked me." I think ChibaSho would like to play a sub next ahaha.

In short (that wasn't short at all), I enjoyed this interview very much~

[cat-entusiast]

Boy, my boy

[ryotarox]

ユーザコメント Olympics ceremony boss sacked over Holocaust joke - BBC News - YouTube

This is so crazy. He said it while he was acting as a mad man in his play, and he said only one joke about Holocaust. Only one joke. So he apparently knows saying a joke about Holocausts is a mad thing. I really love his work because ironically, he have changed his mind from 2000s, and his faith in his work was “Comedy that hurt no ones feeling and just entertain the audience”. I’ve never seen such a kind and talented creator like him. They just ruined his career by condemning only one joke he made in his 20s😭

DeepL訳

これはとてもクレイジーだ。劇中で狂人を演じている時に、ホロコーストに関するジョークを1つだけ言ったのです。たった一つのジョーク。彼はホロコーストについてのジョークを言うことが狂気の沙汰であることを知っているようだ。 皮肉なことに、彼は2000年代に入ってから、「誰も傷つけず、ただ観客を楽しませるコメディ」という信念を持って作品を作っていたので、私は彼の作品がとても好きです。 こんなに親切で才能のあるクリエイターは見たことがありませんでした。20代の頃に作ったたった一つのジョークを非難して、彼のキャリアを台無しにしてしまった😭。

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小林賢太郎氏の解任に寄せてーキャンセルカルチャーはホロコーストの夢を見るかー｜LiT_Japan｜note

今回の件に関する海外報道で最も再生されてる（7月25日時点）英国系メディアBBC Newsの動画だ。

一見「日本けしからん！」的なリアクションを反映しているのかと思いきや、コメント欄を見てみるとその低評価の真の理由が分かる。

英語に自身が無い方でも、やたら「23」だとか「1998」という数字が目立つのが分かるはずだ。お察しの通り、コメント欄は「え？23年前のジョークで？しかも彼はコメディアンだったんでしょ？」という内容のもので溢れかえっている。「コント全編を英語字幕付きで観てから判断させてくれ」というコメントも多かった。疑わしく思うなら、該当のコメント欄を”日本語に翻訳”して確認するのをオススメする。

[ringoarchive]

Sheena Ringo with Kobayashi Kentaro (小林賢太郎) for InRed magazine Okimono Club, October, 2005.

[kanna-official-30]

Elma..