#miuchi suzue

[classic-shoujo]

Glass Mask (1976) by Suzue Miuchi

[hakonohanayome]

Glass Mask - Suzue Miuchi

[shinhonkaku]

[ayilings]

anthy himemiya scribbling

[whitewoodbosca]

straight girls behavior: looking at the sky while thinking about your rival <3 i need to kms

[nakamorijuan]

芦部真梨子 - ガラスの仮面 Mariko Ashibe - GLASS No Kamen (村本玲奈 - Reyna Muramoto) GLASS No Kamen - Opening Theme

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[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Bessatsu Hana to Yume (別冊花とゆめ) / Hakusensha (白泉社) / Oct 2009 issue

[devilsrains]

eroica 35th anniversary book

by lemon haruna, maya mineo, suzue miuchi & mimori

[scrimblospectrumdisorder]

I found like 2/3rds of Miuchi Suzue's "13 Gatsu no Higeki" online... so heres a few screenshots. (it's not scanlated so i just did these few things myself to post here for fun.. sorry if theres any mistakes!)

I'm a big fan of how on the paper here the "english text" is just japanese written in the alphabet .

it's of course set in a christian boarding school, this is a 70s shoujo manga, but the twist is that the nuns all worship the devil.

Unfortunately I'll never know how it ends until i can find the rest of it somewhere, but oh well, it was fun to skim through what I did find.

[classic-shoujo]

The Witch Medea (1975) by Suzue Miuchi

[hakonohanayome]

Glass Mask - Suzue Miuchi

[shinhonkaku]

[tikuo2007]

『月影不気味』

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[boymagicalgirl]

[littleeyesofpallas]

pulling a random paper sleeve from the trash bag they've been sleeping in, my first salvage of the day is... The original 1984, "Glass Mask"/GLASS no Kamen, adapting the classic 1970s manga of the same name, by Suzue Miuchi. (And right behind it two DVDs of the 2005 remake)

The original manga started running in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume/"Flowers & Dreams" shoujo magazine(and later its, now defunct, supplementary magazine, Bessatsu Hana to Yume) in 1976 --The magazine itself started in 1974-- and ran until 2012 (with a little gap between 2006 and 2008) when it was put on its now indefinite hiatus. With over 50million copies sold across 49 volumes, it is one of the best selling shoujo manga of all time. Especially impressive considering Hakesensha is a bit of a runt of the litter in terms of big manga publishers; they're not exactly "small" but they don't stack up anything close to the big hitters like Shueisha, Kodansha, of Shogakukan.

The 1984 anime was by Studio Eiken, whom are kind of all but forgotten these days. They really peaked between the 80s and 90s, but were responsible for a handful of real foundational classics. They did Tetsujin-28 and 8-Man, which were of course the basis for early American anime imports Gigantor --one of the early giant robot series-- and Tobor The 8th Man --which would go on to influence the creation of Robocop, and get a shout out in Big O.(the electric eel episode is an almost shot for shot remake of an 8-Man episode.)

The director of the original TV series was Gizaburo Sugii who is himself a real monolith of the early anime industry. He was an animator on White Snake Legend/Hakuja-den(Panda and the Magic Serpent in English) an early anime film adapting the Chinese Lady Whitesnake myth, often cited as part of what inspired Hayao Miyazaki to become an animator. Gizaburo, like Osamu Tezuka, for whom he worked, was himself inspired by the Japanese theatrical release of Disney's Bambi. He was also an animation director on the original Tetsuwan Atom/The Mighty Atom (aka Astroboy in English). He's been a key figure behind a bunch of classics, often sports series, and in Mushi Production's Animerama film trilogy, as well as a few iterations of Lupin III and Street Fighter, but perhaps his most uniquely enduring work was as the creator behind Night on The Galactic Railroad, adapting the 1934 Kenji Miyazawa novel.

The 2005 series had a different kind of big name behind it: Mamoru Hamatsu. He may not have been a godfather to the art or the industry, but he was no slouch as far as pop culture hits go. He's the director behind the original Dirty Pair and Urusei Yatsura, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers aka Ronin Warriors, all of which had substantial success in English release, and some big but slightly B-list giant robot series like Giant Gorg and King of Braves GAO GAI GAR.