#natsumi mukai

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Rune Worth manga by Natsumi Mukai. Source.

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Artwork from Mukai Natsumi herself, posted on 24th Jan 2024. It was apparently drawn at the time of the serialisation.

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my favorite guy… this was the first manga i ever read!

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || June 4 || Precious Cinnamon Roll:  Cooro from +Anima by Natsumi Mukai

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Every time this post of mine gets a blast of hundreds of notes I always feel like I'm some kind of fandom archaeologist because 99% of the tags are people hit by nostalgia like the reblog above! It's very heartwarming 🤭💕

+Anima by Mukai Natsumi (volume covers)

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The (New) +Anima Au Guide!

A few months ago, I made a post about the basics of +anima, and now I realize it was kinda bad, so I'm making it again! So, here's a little guide to the basic world of +anima - mostly how anima work - in hopes to inspire people to create +anima aus!

What is +Anima?

+Anima is a ten-volume manga written by Natsumi Mukai. It is very good and cute, you should read it! It revolves around a world where certain people have something called an anima.

When a child is put into a life-threatening situation, there's a chance that they will get the abilities of a nearby animal - granting them wings like a bird, or tail of a fish, for example - in order to survive the situation. It's like if trauma gave you cat ears!

Nana, for instance, was running from her drunk and angry father in the woods at night, and got a bat anima. Natural anima only happen to children.

Getting an anima, or seeing someone with an anima, is rare enough that, even if people are aware of what anima are, those with bird or fish anima are often confused for angels or mermaids. Those with anima are usually treated poorly and feared as something dangerous and scary.

Those with anima are able to look like normal humans most of the time, accessing their anima and transforming back and forth at will. When appearing like a normal human, however, there is still proof of being an anima by way of a marking(s) somewhere on their body. The marking reflects the animal/trait that they have, the location usually correlates with there or how the trait shows up.

As an anima is connected to survival, children with them usually lose their anima as they grow older and find themselves in better situations. In the manga, most of the anima are either kids or teens. There are a few cases of adults with natural anima, two being seemingly homesless men (one seems to be a rat anima, while another is a bison), and a few who are of the Native American-Coded group in the manga, the Kim-un-Kur, who are known to keep their anima through adulthood seemingly because 1. it's less ostracized against, 2. their life style probably is better with one, and 3. they're more in tune with nature and their anima.

(^this is the the buffalo anima and a crow anima)

There is also such a thing as 'fake' or 'manufactured' anima, but only in a sense. There's a way to extract the anima from a person, though if the person is not willing the anima will not remain after the procedure. When willingly extracted, however, the anima can then placed into another person, though the connection between human and anima seems to be tenuous, and the anima may choose to leave.

Outside of a 'manufactored' anima, in canon there is one instance of an anima hopping from one human to another, though in that case the anima was that of a vicious and vengeful bear.

While in-fiction it's mostly hinted at and a little vague, it seems that the anima - as in the animal power itself - seems to have some degree of sentience, as it seems its the anima that makes makes the choice when to leave the human. It seems to be that the spirit of the animal literally ends up in the human that gains the anima.

Those with anima also seem to be able to do a further transformation into a more animal-like form called metamorphosis.

As you may have noticed me doing throughout the post, those with anima are usually just referred to as ‘anima’, though the animal spirit in the is also called their ‘anima’.

In the world of +Anima, there is also a side of the continent that has big market in anima slave trade, so make of that what you will.

Anyway, I find the world of +Anima FASCINATING, please talk to me about +Anima and make aus I love it.

(These are the four main characters of the manga! Cooro (crow), Husky (fish), Senri (bear), and Nana (bat).)

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+ANIMA (1999-2005) by mukai natsumi

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Inktober day 5: Deep

This piece is a panel redraw from one of my favorite mangas, +Anima by Natsumi Mukai. It’s on page 12 of the first volume where Husky is introduced. I’ve drawn him almost every Inktober I’ve participated in. If you haven’t read the manga I highly recommend it. There’s nothing quite like a manga that went out of print over 15 years ago. This wasn’t my first idea for the prompt Deep. I went through a couple before I settled on Husky in his pot. I suppose the opening to the well may be small but the water can go incredibly deep. You never know how far down the bottom is or what lurks in the water. Maybe it’s like Devil’s Hole, the bottom of that underground lake has never been mapped. The pupfish there are cute. You know, Husky kind of looks like the pupfish with his blue tail and fins. His tail is forked rather than rounded though.

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I've done it. I finished reading a manga series I started back in high school and I finally feel like I'm making progress on whittling down my currently reading comics list. Which means!! I now have room to start new stuff!!!!!! :D

Does anyone have manga recs? I read literally any genre except straight romance and even that has exceptions. I strongly prefer stuff that is officially released in English since I prefer physical volumes from the library. Queer stuff gets double points and finished series get triple points.

Also if any followers or mutuals are curious what series I am in the middle of, feel free to check out my goodreads and/or friend me there:

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Rune Worth manga by Natsumi Mukai. Source.

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THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT STAGE 10th ANNIVERSARY TOUR Let’s AMUSEMENT!!!

Further information regarding the STARLIGHT STAGE 10th ANNIVERSARY TOUR live has been revealed! The TOKYO stop occurring in ARIAKE ARENA on the 26th/27th of APRIL 2025

The voice actors participating in this stop are as follows:

Saya Aizawa (Hiromi Seki), Kotomi Aihara (Shiki Ichinose), Satomi Amano (Hotaru Shiraguki), Yuka Otsubo (Kanako Mimura), Asami Takano (Frederica Miyamoto), Natsumi Takamori (Miku Maekawa), Rika Tachibana (Sae Kobayakawa), Hiyori Nitta (Karin Domyoji), Shiki Aoki (Asuka Ninomiya), Yuko Iida (Kanade Hayami), Karin Takahashi (Nono Morikubo), Eriko Matsui (Nao Kamiya), Tomo Muranaka (Aki Yamato), Rana Morishita (Kako Takafuji), Ru Thing (Syuko Shiomi), Miharu Hanai (Tomoe Murakami), Yuko Hara (Takumi Mukai), Haruka Yoshimura (Mika Jougasaki) [DAY 1 ONLY: Ayaka Asai (Mirei Tachibana), Haruka Terui (Momoka Sakurai), Sumire Uesaka (Anastasia), Satsumi Matsuda (Syoko Hoshi)] [DAY 2 ONLY: Masumi Tazawa (Ayame Hamaguchi), Hina Tachibana (Nagi Hisakawa), Hana Tamegai (Risa Matoba), Yuki Nagano (Reina Koseki)

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French edition of +Anima

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your style is so so cute!! If you don’t mind me asking, what are your major style influences? Thanks!

THANK YOUU!!!

this is a bit of a hard question... i take inspirations from a loooot of places

some of my earliest inspirations were peach pit, moyoko anno, natsumi mukai and goushou aoyama ! i started out strongly on the anime side of artstyles, and it's still veeery obvious to this day imo

nowadays, i've been taking inspirations from simplistic, retro artsyles

i recommend shorts posted by this youtube channel ! and checking out mary blair, chris reccardi and lynne naylor !!

i also have to salute yoshihiro togashi, osamu dezaki, the anime series kare kano, cardcaptor sakura and mamoru hosoda that still inspire my storyboards and comics to this dayyyy

when it comes to contemporary internet artists, i'd like to shoutout my friends @patapoulpe-art and antn ! working alongside them has rlly changed my style for the better lol

other internet artists i get inspo from : jeluto , manaohu , poof malyakaet , pengu ... probably a lot more i can't name right now

i swear that if you look at some of these for too long you can see how my art is a frankenstein monster born from all of there

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+Anima Vol 1 Natsumi Mukai Manga +Anima Manga Mutant Book Alternative Universe

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Natsumi Mukai, the author of +Anima, just tweeted about Husky !! Surely this is because she saw the bracket and want to support her beautiful son. Husky sweep !

It would be wild if that was the reason lol. Love seeing more of this boy though!