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Name: Rena Kobashigawa

Arcana: Temperance

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Skin Tone: Tanned

Eyes: Deep Green

Hair Style and Colour: Slightly wavy, shoulder length, deep blue hair, pushed back from face

Star Sign: Taurus

Birthday: May 3rd

Height: 6'2"

Weight: 146 Pounds

Personality: Focused, driven, strict yet caring, happy to listen or lend a hand, has a habit of frowning without realising, a little out of touch, tends to get lost in thought

Weapon: Chemical bombs (Random chance of giving enemies status effects)

Persona (Based on myth, legend, or folklore): Jekyll

Persona Weakness: Psychic

Persona Strength: Nuclear

Persona Can Nullify: Nuclear

Character Biography:

Rena is a college student currently studying biochemistry at the local university. She is well known as one of the most hard working students in her sector, and most efficient as she manages to balance her schoolwork, lab work and part time job with few issues. Rena acts as an older sister figure to the rest of the group, being happy to listen to any problems they may have and answer any questions they have about college life since some of them will be going to college within the college. However, she is not very helpful when it comes to more creative problems as those subjects were never her specialty. Rena hopes to become a chemist that specialises in creating drugs for illnesses that have yet to find cures. She gained this goal after a childhood friend lost their mother to a rare illness. Despite moving away, she still keeps in contact with this friend and has their full support.

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Happy birthday Miku Kasai!!!!

26th of August!!

Extra comic under the cut

Miwa burnt the cookies😔

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Dunno, thought it was cute.

Minato is Akatsuki's older brother who was raised by their maternal relatives, with Akatsuki being raised by their paternal family, and is technically apart of the madness that is Mankai, by virtue of being Izumi's boyfriend of three years in most of my drafts, (they got together during college, which was before Mankai for them), and their music nerd with the degree to put it to use.

Akatsuki knows jack shit about him, and the last time either of them saw each other was when they were three and eight, Minato on the other hand has been looking for her since she hit eighteen, and their paternal grandmother, Hinata, threw the mother of all bitch fits when she grabbed her shit and left the moment after her high-school graduation.

As an aside, she's barely aware he's still alive, and Masumi's crush expands to both Izumi and Minato.

[Mammon has no fucking clue who he is because, surprise, surprise, Akatsuki hasn't ever made mention of the brother she may or may not have, who might not still be alive as of her merry jaunt into hell.]

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Skybound announces multiple staffing additions and changes including Ben Abernathy as Executive Editor; Arune Singh Upped to VP, Brand

Skybound announces multiple staffing additions and changes including Ben Abernathy as Executive Editor; Arune Singh Upped to VP, Brand #comics

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Kobashigawa Minato (she/her)

Bleach OC

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TDIH: Yeiki Kobashigawa's bravery in Italy

On this day in 2005, a hero passes away. Yeiki Kobashigawa served our country bravely during World War II, risking his life repeatedly on a battlefield in Italy. The Hawaiian-born Japanese American would eventually receive a Medal of Honor for his actions.

Kobashigawa had been working on a sugar plantation when he was drafted into the Army late in 1941. Just a few short weeks later, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. That attack made life difficult for all Japanese Americans, of course, but it created special difficulties for those who were already in the military.

“When Pearl Harbor was attacked,” the National World War II Museum explains, “[Kobashigawa] rushed from his baseball game back to his training base only to have his rifle taken away."

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-yeiki-kobashigawa-moh

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Hideo Kobashigawa 1944

Ukiyoe, or woodblock printing on paper, has been a popular artform in Japan for centuries. This print by Hideo Kobashigawa was signed by members of the Manzanar Senji Shishū-bu, the Manzanar Wartime Poetry Club, on February 20, 1944. Residents of the internment camps attended craft classes to pass the time.

Pigment on rice paper. L30.5, W 45.7 cm Manzanar National Historic Site, MANZ 7545

from the US National Parks Service's 'Treasured Landscapes' Collections.

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plots please ( if you'd like ^^ )

send me " plots please " | @cryopathiic gets some suggestions!

ofc i'd like to!! these are the most fleshed-out ideas i got rn, but no worries if none of them jump out at you -- we can always figure something else out!

she's freshest on my mind right now, so i gotta suggest a friendship of sorts between bronwyn and douma! i just think they'd be fun to write together bc of their respective personalities, and out of all my muses, she'd have no issue with the whole " being a demon who eats people " thing. after all, she eats human hearts on occasion herself. as for how they'd meet, i can see maybe one of douma's followers making a deal with her or bronwyn just waltzing into the temple like some kinda tourist asdfg given that that would be allowed, ofc! she doesn't have a kny verse yet, but i feel like it wouldn't be too odd for that universe if another type of supernatural creature existed.

i've also thought it could be interesting for an au in which either satsuki and hyouka or kaiya ( prior to becoming a demon, that is ) find refuge at douma's temple. the kobashigawa siblings lose their other family members to a demon, so i think it'd be :' )) so unfortunate if the haven they find is run by a demon, too. and i'm just a sucker for plots that involve being close to danger and needing to figure it out before it's too late. douma could be amused by them, but i dunno if he'd put up with them if they try to expose what he is.

with an au involving kaiya, i'm thinking perhaps her husband is a member of douma's temple, and she gets roped into it once they marry. it comes down to whether you think douma would find her interesting enough to care about her situation, but tbh, at this point in her life when she's very much struggling emotionally and mentally, if her husband " disappeared, " kaiya would be grateful and incredibly guilty about feeling that way : ) she's normally a sweet, bubbly bean, and ofc i gotta put her through something that makes her question her own moral standing and whether she should trust the person who saved her from a monster when that person turns out to be a monster themself <3

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These images were made with this

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TW: minor suicide mention & gun (not that bad, dw)

Kobashigawa’s had enough :(

Fun fact: he does not know how to use guns but he has a whole collection

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We're Back, A Blog Story?

Hey, long time no see, huh? 

I'm back from the longest hiatus this blog's ever gone on. And for today's entry, I'm just going to briefly recap what's been going on because I think it'll touch on a lot. 

Last time I updated, I did the second part of a big ask me almost anything and we covered a lot of ground, both fun and the sort of questions that're burning for upcoming  creators. That week, I was thinking about what was next and how to follow it up. And then IDW underwent significant layoffs and it threw things off for me and plenty of other folks. I am still at IDW, but a lot of my friends and co-workers suddenly were not.

For what it's worth, I know a lot of them are still seeking employment. This includes, among others, Anna Morrow, Megan Brown, Devon Ashby, Zac Boone, Julia Borden, Keith Davidsen, Alex Hargett, Greg Gustin, Blake Kobashigawa, Jonathan Manning, Shawn Lee, Jack Levesque, Hanna Lafferty, Topher Alford, Nachie Marsham, and seriously, so many folks. I apologize to anyone I missed. If you're looking for experienced sales, marketing, production, foreign licensing, or editorial folks, there're a ton of good ones still on the market (as an aside, my pals Chris Mowry and Caleb Goellner are also fairly freshly available). 

That was pretty freshly on my mind for Becca's next event, Fangaea, that weekend. I had mentioned that last post. It went alright. I did not stay for very long because even a little one day show like that was a lot in light of what had just happened. 

Within the next week, the Writers Guild of America went on strike. Currently, they are still on strike. You can check out what they're asking for here. Unsurprisingly, a lot of it boils down to fair wages, especially in the newer forms of media that have become commonplace over the past 15 years. There's more, like treating each writer in a writing team as an individual and, hey, not using AI. At the end of their negotiation table, the WGA points out that the benefits and raises they're asking for come out to about $429 million per year across all members of the guild and split between all negotiating companies. That may sound like a LOT of money, right? I checked. As of today, with it available for home release, you can still see the Super Mario Bros. Movie in theaters in San Diego. It's box office is over $1.3 billion. Even when you remove the budget for the film, approximately $100 million, the proceeds of just this movie could fully fund everything the writers are asking for, multiple times. (Also, again as an aside, while the Writers Guild is performing a strike action, they can do that because they're a union and other places are increasingly seeking unionization, like SEGA of America). 

So, all of that is happening BEFORE Free Comic Book Day. As you may recall, we went to Geoffrey's Comics in Torrance, CA. Becca and I both exhibited with a bunch of our friends. It was a good time, though it made for an exhausting weekend with me spending a near-sleepless night in the ER before we drove up (I was fine, best guess is some nasty inflammation, but we'll come back to this). And then the next day, we went back up to the greater Los Angeles area for a California Independent Booksellers Alliance event and the launch of Girl Taking Over: A Lois Lane Story by Sarah Kuhn, Arielle Jovellanos, and Olivia Pecini at the Ripped Bodice (trips to LA will also come up again). It made for a very busy weekend. And then...

ER time again, bay-bee! I try not to talk about this stuff publicly too much because I do believe it's our private biz, but Becca's been dealing with an ongoing health thing for over a year now and most days it is under control and better, and last month, it was pretty regularly bad for a bit. There're appointments scheduled, but it's a whole thing because the American healthcare system sucks eggs. To that end, if you are sick in San Diego, if at alllllll possible, I really don't recommend Scripps Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest. An ER so bad, we had to go twice in one day! And, as you can imagine, it also hasn't been great to our finances, nor our time, nor our mental health dealing with all of that on such a regular basis. Just a reminder that I've got a shop here and Becca has one here and a Patreon and we probably have other channels we're on. We're doing okay, and Becca's certainly in a better place with their health now, but the occasional plug probably doesn't hurt. Plus, you can get lots of cool stuff in return! 

From dealing with that stress over a couple of weeks, I left Becca at home (and fortunately everything was fine that weekend) and flew off to Atlanta to go do Editor's Day at SCAD Atlanta. It was my first time on campus in a few years and, as every time I've done it, I was supremely impressed with all the amazing work of the students in the program. A big part of the day is doing portfolio reviews and it's so interesting to see the wide array of styles and interests in different parts of sequential storytelling. While I was out there, got to see my best friend in person for the first time in years and confirmed they'll be in the wedding party, so that was nice.

Then we had a couple more casual weeks. Becca's folks came into town as a late Mother's Day/early Becca's birthday celebration. Becca and I went up to LA again to celebrate their birthday with some of our friends (and, as it turns out, it feels like we're increasingly knowing folks in LA over San Diego, which is kinda weird). That was all a nice reprieve from all the comics busyness--mostly because we told our friends no business talk at the party--but was no less busy than the rest of our recent weeks. 

Again, as an aside, right around then, the Screen Actors Guild authorized their own strike, joining the WGA. The Directors Guild, to my understanding, was able to enter reasonable negotiations, though many directors are still of course standing by the strike action and on the picket line. Meanwhile, many entertainment companies, be they movies, video games, or comics, have continued/started layoffs, not in reaction to any of the strikes directly, but certainly inspiring more reasons to be on the line.  

Which brings us to a little over a week ago. You may be familiar with the works of cartoonist Ian McGinty. He's done licensed and original comics and animation work. By all accounts, an incredibly kind person. The sort of artist who brings out the best in his peers, going back to his SCAD days. He unexpectedly passed away on the 8th of this month and because he had been prolific and because he worked so much and because he worked in comics, the conversation did turn to how it happened. 

The conversation turned to #ComicsBrokeMe on Twitter. It's a hugely important conversation for anyone in this industry to really let sink in. It is stories from creators--often young, often marginalized--talking about the ways in which the comics industry has at least mistreated and at worst physically ailed them. I've read many of them. If you can sort through the less favorable responses of "that's the way it is" or "comics has only made me stronger" or "sometimes it seems bad but then it isn't" or what have you, like I said, these are important reads of stories that're all too common, too similar. And, it isn't about dwelling on the negative--which some of the ultra-positivity I've seen about comics in it's wake seems to have misinterpreted--it's about an industry without unions, unable to go on strike, trying to come to terms with and negotiate in much the same manner that the WGA is. 

Also, I went to Sonic Revolution last weekend and that was fun. And my final LA trip for a while (fingers crossed). 

That's what I've been up to. That's what the industry has been up to. It has been busy and stressful for me and seemingly for lots of folks all over. All I can say is do take care of yourself to the best of your abilities, if you have the means, take care of others, and keep an eye on all of this because it is a shift waiting to happen. 

Next week, if I'm actually back, we'll get back to the regular features. For now, I am going to pick Becca up from work, we're going to see Across the Spider-Verse, and I think they'll be streaming on Twitch tonight, though maybe a little late because of the movie? 

P.S. I've been so busy, I haven't like, written anything in weeks. Here's hoping that changes soon.  P.S.S. I also haven't read Void Rivals yet. Best of luck to Skybound with the TF and Joe licenses.

Pic of the Week: Solidarity! 

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UNPROMPTED ASK || ALWAYS ACCEPTING @tvrningout said: “ oh! ” hyouka notices the suspicious plant dangling above them only thanks to her crow drawing her attention to it. “ mistletoe! guess that means you gotta kiss me haru, ” she grins, offering her cheek… before surprising her friend with a big ol’ smooch on his cheek!

large influx of patients have been arriving at the estate in recent weeks at the butterfly estate, likely something to do with the longer nights during this cold month, giving an advantage & most importantly time to hunt their victims. the attendants' daily lives have certainly become a lot of busier & rarely had time for leisure. therefore, as he was about to rush into the kitchen to carry back the patients' meal for lunch for that day, haru did not notice a suspicious-looking plant dangling from the top of the door frame.

❝ hyouka-chan, what are you doing out of bed? i thought aoi-chan told you to stay in the infirmary to rest. your scars still haven't healed yet. ❞ it appeared they were both clueless about the plant as the flame breather did not see it was dangling above them either. he looked above & saw the suspicious plant was no other than mistletoe! ❝ well, i suppose those are the rules, aren't they? i'm not that familiar with foreign traditions... ❞

the sudden kiss on the cheek took the young male by surprise, but a bold action like that was not entirely unexpected or unusual from someone like kobashigawa hyouka. he offers a soft smile in return, ❝ oh, thank you, hyouka-chan, hehe. i did not notice someone put mistletoe up there earlier. i'll go grab your lunch & lead you back to the infirmary.❞

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Nachie Marsham joins Skybound Entertainment as Senior Editor

Nachie Marsham joins Skybound Entertainment as Senior Editor #comics #comicbooks

Skybound Entertainment has announced the hiring of comic book industry veteran Nachie Marsham as Senior Editor.   Marsham’s hiring underscores Skybound’s commitment to growing its editorial output and is Skybound’s fourth strategic executive hire this year in the Editorial division, joining recent hires Ben Abernathy (Executive Editor), Blake Kobashigawa (Senior Director, Business Development),…

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A Japanese American soldier poses with his M1 Garand in Italy. Caption below photo on album page: "'Kobie' Kobashigawa"