#mihona fuji

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Does anyone know where I can find mihona fuji’s gals!! sequel in english? I just found out the sequel was published in 2019, but with no translations to date…gals! was my favourite manga in high school and I really want to read the sequel

I’d love you forever if you can help!

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gals! official line stickers!

from here!

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Come to think of it, i never have revealed the star signs of Ran-chan and company, have i?? And star signs are the are only ''mystery'' i could think of right now!! i hope this'll do!!

Writer by Mihona Fujii

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News - Shoujo manga GALS! will be returning after 17 years! Originally serialized in 1998 in Ribon magazine, this continuation of the original manga will be running in Japan on Shueisha's Manga Mee app starting on November 5. No news yet if this will eventually be picked up in English.

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This sounds better than saying "noone will talk to me" haha

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Great PriMagi episode. To be honest, part of me still can't believe they're showing a girlprince who presents masculine 100% of the time without doing the "wait, she's actually a GIRL!?" thing even once. I'm not saying it's always bad to show masculine girls being mistaken for boys (after all, it's common irl!), but it's nice to see one whose gender isn't made a fuss of, who's allowed to just Be.

Her stage aesthetics, of course, are an homage to the Takarazuka Revue, which after all is the original inspiration for the "girl prince" trope in anime and manga. The episode was also chock-full of yuri tropes, not just the traditional all-girls' Catholic school setting, but especially the way the student council president just appointed Amane to be her successor instead of having a vote, which is reminiscent of Maria-sama ga Miteru.

The last thing I have to add could be a coincidence, because flower theming is common in yuri, in Takarazuka, and in classic shoujo in general, and because the work I'm thinking of is rather obscure (unlike Marimite). But one of my favorite shoujo yuri classics is an old one from the 1990's from Mihona Fuji, the creator of the series Gals! (adapted into anime as Super Gals!), which is called Himitsu no Hanazono, which translates to... The Secret Garden. It involves theatre, roses, a girl prince, and wings, but CW for child abuse, incest, and homophobia (none of which are romanticized).

I said that was the last thing, but then I thought of something else. Midoriko's surname actually means a public flower garden. So that potentially gives Amane's performance another layer of meaning for the two of them.

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cyan, peach, and teal for the ask meme please!

Thank you! (Sorry I’m late!)

cyan: one fact about your hometown?

Well, is hometown the town near where I live to or the town (city) where I’ve been born but moved away? Okay I pickt the town where I live near to now: it was (is) a famous hanseatic city in germany well known for it’s sald in the middleages. For me (I study history) is it not that interesting because we have no castle or ruler family here. And if there is no princess it’s not interesting for me ;D

peach: 5 favorite characters of all time?

This is so hard. If I’d choose historical persons I couldn’t choose only 5 so I only take fictional characters here. Oh and there is no order in how I like them I’ll just name them 1,2,3,4,5 but it has nothing to do with an order!

1. Yamazaki Miyu: So this is the only manga character I’ll mention here. Actually my manga time is over but I wanted to mention Miyu-chan here. The character is from the manga GALS! by Mihona Fuji and I still enjoy reading this crazy stuff. Miyu is a very sensitive character with a sad past and sad situation according her parents. She was neglected by her parents since they divorced. Because of this she felt always lonely, and became what children with no attention becomes: a gang leader, thiev and problem-child. When she was 14 she was kind of rescued my a policeman who she fell in love with and became best friend with his younger sister. From this time on she became a good student and a very sweet girl. I still cry when I read her story. The saddest thing is that her mother doesn’t care of her in ANY way. Those episodes are always very hurting and really touching. But even though she has this bad background she is such a nice and sweet and cheering girl. I admire this.

2 Narcissa Black/Malfoy: Omg I love her so much. For everyone who doesn’t know, she’s from Harry Potter . What I pretty much like about her is that she is SO caring about her family. For sure she’s on the evil side (but I don’t think that she would have chosen that side if she had the choice). She hasn’t much “screen time” in the books and even less in the movies (which is a pity). However she was described as breathtaking beautiful however since Harry always tells the story (except for some extra chapters) she was referred to be very cold at the same time. In one of the extra chapters is shown how she. followed by her sister Bellatrix, secretly meets Snape and asks him to watch over Draco. Actually every time she appears in the books (or movies) it’s shown how important her family is for her and that it’s even more important than loyalty to the dark Lord and his plans. When Harry was “kept” in the last book by Voldemord and his companions he only survived because Narcissa lied to Voldemord, telling him Harry was dead (after she asked Harry if Draco was still alive and Harry replied with yes). So actually it was her fault that the death eaters failed at last, well she didn’t care. It was also obvious that she cared a lot about her sister and had a strong bond to her. Anyway when it came out that Bellatrix’ loyalty for Voldemort seemed to be as strong or even stronger than her love for her little sister Narcissa focused on her “real” family, which means Draco and Lucius. This is why I think that she is a very adorable and sensitive character too. I guess mothers play a big role in Harry Potter and she is definitively one of them. I’d love to read more about her youth. I imagine her as a sweet and shy but very pretty girl which is always protected by her stubborn elder sister… it would be nice if we’d get a story of the Harry Potter protagonist’s parents once too (ok, we know a bit about James and Sirius but honestly..they weren’t very likeable characters in their youth). Well it got long sorry, but I love her and have to write a lot^^

3. Mephis SaDiablo from the Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop. Probably most women or girls who read the series will either fall in love with Daemon or Lucivar, or probably with Saetan too. They are all POV-characters and very important and very cool and very hot and so on. From his first appearance on I loved Mephis. It’s a bit hard to tell the story because it’s a bit confusing. A little summary: The world where the story takes place is parted in 3 parts: Tereille, Kaleer and Hell. So Tereille is for all who are alive, Hell is for the dead (and demon-dead) people and Kaleer something in-between. Well Mephis is (I guess the eldest) son of Saetan the high lord of hell and Hekatah (bitch) the high priestess of hell. Compared to his half-brothers Daemon and Lucivar Mephis seems to be calmer and less hasty. However it is referred that he likes reading and theater. Idk why but I love him. He is a nice variety to the stubborn super hot playboy types who are the protagonists of the story and I like this. I can’t really tell more. Every girl who is in love with a book character will understand my feelings I guess.^^

4. Myrcella Lannister: Omg just another cute character! Please keep in mind that I talk about the book-Myrcella here (rather the A song of Ice and Fire Myrcella and not the GoT Myrcella). In the books Myrcella is a little girl which is even younger than Arya at the beginning of the series (so Myrcella is about eight). I actually liked her from the beginning. In the first book when the King and the rest arrived at Winterfell Myrcella had to sew together with Arya, Sansa and Jeyne while Septa Mordane watched over them. However Sansa and Jeyne, bitchy as always, backbite about Arya’s sewing (and appearance) and also the Septa was really mean to Arya, telling her that her sewing was awful (while Myrcella’s wasn’t better) so that Arya began to cry and ran away after asking Myrcella if it was okay if she left. It was obvious that Myrcella felt very uncomfortable with the situation and wanted to help Arya in any way but Arya was already off before she could say any more. Probably people will ask: So she’s the princess why didn’t she do anything? And I’ll answer: because she was the youngest person in the room with her being eight, Arya nine and Sansa and Jeyne eleven. I think she tried to and felt sorry for Arya and this is what was touching. Her uncle Tyrion said once about Myrcella that she had the beauty from her mother but not her nature. So Myrcella is a calm and sweet and kindhearted girl, referred to be very intelligent and brave too if we look at her time in Dorne. What I want to say is that I like kind-hearted innocent girls and I think in real life there are less of them (but I include me to be one xp).

5. James Pimplebottom from Rubyred, Sapphireblue and Emeraldgreen by Kerstin Gier. In the books as well as in the movies James is my favorite character. He is a ghost (which he doesn’t know) and lives in the school of the protagonist Gwendolyn Shepard because the school building was his parent’s house in the 18th century. Like I mentioned before, he doesn’t know that he’s dead and thinks that he only has fewer dreams because of a sickness he has (he actually had smallpox and also dies because of them which he doesn’t know). James is about 20 years old and still behaves like living in the 18th century (fanning with his fan and walking like he was the king): he’s very polite but also very annoyed that for example Gwendolyn who can see him, isn’t behaving like a lady from the 18th century should (the story mostly takes place in the 21th century). However when she asks him to teach her things from the 18th century he’s really happy about it and helps her. Because he’s very finical he always seems a bit gay (which he isn’t) and that makes the situations even funnier. So everyone read these awesome books and watch the movies :D they’re so good (the books are better though but the movies are great too and they are available with an english dub too).

teal: what mythical creature would you want to be?

It’s random but - a vampire.

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See how i'm doing this? Actually, i haven't gone so far as to think when their actual birthdate are... sorry!!!

Writer by Mihona Fujii

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Super Otohata has always been a super mystery!!! (LOL). At some point along the line, he became a regular at ''My Big Brother's Little Room'' and a surreal sensation where he came from and where he's going reman a mystery, maybe even to my brother...

Writer by Mihona Fujii

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Virgin bimbo?

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Reading currently (Gals)

[jewlwpet]

what are your top 10 favourite anime ever? what about manga?

Ooh!!

Anime:

Revolutionary Girl Utena (I’m including the movie in this, along with the series). This is just a no-brainer; it’s such an artistic masterpiece, in addition to being perfectly suited to my sensibilities.

PriPara. This one has serious flaws, I’ll admit (the biggest being the portrayal of Aprica in season 3 and the issues surrounding the Aprican character, Pepper). I still think it’s a great show, and it’s very, very important to me, particularly because of the character of Sophy. Whenever I’m feeling inadequate, I remind myself that someone as cool as Sophy was made to feel the same thing for similar reasons, but when she stopped listening to those voices and embraced her whole self, including the parts of herself she had always been told to hide, she was able to flourish as her true self, and even became a Divine Idol while being openly disabled, something she’d always been told was impossible. Plus, it’s SO zany and fun, and there are so many important messages even in addition to the one I wrote about.

Princess Comet. I’ve actually only seen about half of it due to the subs being only half-complete, but that’s how strongly I feel about this masterpiece. People have compared Princess Tutu to a more child-friendly Utena, and there’s some truth in that, but I think, based on what I’ve seen of Princess Comet, that it’s actually closer to Utena in the spirit of its themes. The anime version, specifically, is about a princess who was sent to earth to search for a prince she was supposed to secure a marriage with, except the princess doesn’t care about the prince at all… she just wanted an excuse to visit earth. It’s basically a comedy about her going on adventures while having to deal with adults who want her to constantly be on the lookout for a potential husband and look for him in every guy she meets (since she doesn’t even know what this prince looks like). Idk how it ends, but it’s amazing.

Simoun. This one also has serious issues (mainly… the time the protagonist… told a victim of incestuous sexual assault that she must have done something to lead the assaulter on, and this was… never shown as wrong). However, it’s one of my favorites because it depicts the experience of being a nonbinary lesbian in a way that just… really, really resonates with me, so I can’t dislodge it from my heart.

I’m gonna cheat and list PreCure (Pretty Cure) as one entry rather than having 4 separate entries for the last 4 PreCure seasons, because I want to be able to list more anime.

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight.

Oh man, now things get hard. Even with PreCure compressed into one entry, I can’t fit in Princess Tutu and Jewelpet Kira Deco and Dear Brother and Maria-sama ga Miteru and Sweet Blue Flowers and Ojamajo Doremi and Sailor Moon… so hard… I guess for this entry I’ll go with… Ojamajo Doremi.

Sailor Moon. I’m not specifying a version because the real Sailor Moon, to me, is the version that lives in my heart, which is truly an amalgam of the manga, the ‘90′s anime, the live-action TV series, Crystal, and all the movies and musicals. Every different version has its own strengths and weaknesses; all of them contribute to whole of Sailor Moon, which I think is greater than the sum of its parts.

Sweet Blue Flowers.

….Princess Tutu, because the heroine is amazing and so is the storytelling, although I wish Ahiru had ended up with Rue.

Manga:

The Utena movie manga and the first two chapters of After the Revolution (I don’t acknowledge the main story of chapter 3).

Terumi Nishii’s scifi yuri manga Crown of Ourobouros. It’s a work-in-progress, and only one chapter has an English translation so far, but the author’s friend is working on translating the rest, which will be freely available on the Internet. Meanwhile you can support the artist by buying merch and contributing to her Patreon.

Uko Nishi’s josei manga Collectors, about two women, lovers, who find common ground in their very different interests: fashion and book collecting.

Himitsu no Hanazono by Mihona Fuji, author of the famous Gals! series that’s been licensed in English and has an anime (sadly, her yuri manga Himitsu no Hanazono remains unlicensed).

Pietà

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (I haven’t yet read the sequel).

Everything that’s been scanlated from Phryne Magazine, especially Mori e Kaerou.

Sailor Moon, of course.

Going to put Pretty Cure on this list too because I can, even though I admit I haven’t read all of it.

Chiho Saitou’s Kakan no Madonna. This is straight but a feminist masterpiece imo, as well as an exciting and delightfully anachronistic adventure story. It was either this or the Yuri Kuma Arashi manga…

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