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2023 Yuhki Kamatani fans gift exchange

AKA "Oh God I forgot to promote this until 3 days before the fact so I'm moving the deadline back a few days !!!" If you are a fan of any of the following series...

Nabari no Ou

Our Dreams at Dusk/Shimanami Tasogare

Shounen Note: Boy Soprano

Hiraeth wa Tabiji no Hate/Hiraeth the End of the Journey

And you would like to create and receive a fanworks related gift related to any of these anime/manga, I humbly invite you to join our 4th annual gift exchange over on the Kamatani Discord Server [link]

Sign-ups now close December 8th! (11:59 CST)

More information/application under the cut:

What kind of gifts will be exchanged?

Fanworks only; This could include digital or traditional art, fanfiction, curated music playlists, AMV/MMVs, colored edits of manga pages, translating extra materials, or anything else you can think of that can be exchanged online! Bought gifts are difficult to organize with fans being from all over the world and I don't want to exclude anyone based on age or financial status.

Do I need to know all of the series the artist has done?

Nope! Pairings for the exchange will be set up so that everyone will be creating for series and characters they're familiar with, to the best of my ability. I will also avoid matching people to each other, hopefully everyone will be sending a gift to, and receiving a gift from, two different people.

What is the timeline?

Dec 10- Assignments given out, work on the gift can begin immediately Dec 30- Server reminder Jan 10- Check-in Jan 25- Final check, Beginning of posting period announcement and drop-out deadline Feb 10- Final deadline for gift posting

Are there any other rules/requirements?

Discord will be required for contact purposes and ease of exchange, minimum for gifts is just to make sure that it's clean and finished work, playlists must be reasonable length (at least 8 tracks). There is thus far no word minimum or limit for fic, but please do not wait until the last minute to rush something! There will be reminders and the opportunity to drop out and have somebody else create a gift for your partner if you find yourself unable to finish.

Application: [link]

Any other questions, I will answer in replies or through ask! Thank you and I hope you're able to join us :)

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Digital+Print:

🎵Shonen Note: Boy Soprano, Volume 5🎵 By Yuhki Kamatani

🗣️The pressure mounts as the choir competition gets closer and closer. Tomoya is struggling to breathe in the choir and at home as his parents refuse to stop arguing

[saccharinescorpion]

Shonen Note: Boy Soprano - Yuhki Kamatani

[fykamatani]

Shonen Note, Volume 2, Illustrated English Cover

Shonen Note, Volume 2's official english release is hitting shelves this month on the 28th! If you haven't already pre-ordered your copy, you can support and purchase it here.

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Bunny Vladimir and Yutaka from Kamatani’s twitter

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Seinen Stories to Start With

You would not believe the insane amount of effort I went through to do this thing. Made from the results of this poll. All series here 100% guaranteed to stay wholesome/consistent through their runs. If you're looking for something sweet, a good story or a combo of both, you will find it here!

All series listed here are from the 2000s-2020s.

ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Dept.

Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter

Airmaster

Alice and Zoroku

The Apothecary Diaries

Arte

Barakamon

Binbou Shimai Monogatari

Blue Period

Bocchi the Rock!

Bokura wa Mahou Shounen

A Bouquet For An Ugly Girl

Boys Run The Riot

Chibisan Date

Chio's School Road

Chi's Sweet Home

Children of the Sea

Coffee and Cat

Dad, tthe Beard Gorilla and Me

Dance Dance Danseur

Delicious in Dungeon

The Demon Girl Next Door

Dinosaur Santuary

Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!

Dungeon no Osana najimi

Emma: A Victorian Romance

Engaged to the Unidentified

Fastest Finger First

Forest of Piano

A Galaxy Next Door

Gekikou Kamen

Genshiken

Getsuyoubi no Tawawa

Gingitsune

Girlish Number

Girls Und Panzer

Gohan no Otomo

Gochika

Go With The Wind, North-By-Northwest

Granny Girl Hinako-chan

Heaven's Design Team

Heterogenia Linguistics

High Score Girl

Himouto! Umaru-chan

Hinamatsuri

Hito Hitori Futari

Hoshikuzu Telepath

Hozuki's Coolheadedness

Hyakunichikan!!

Hyouga Mono

Ichigeki Sacchu!! Hoihoi-san

If My Favorite Idol Made It tto the Budokan, I Would Die

Insomniacs After School

Interviews With Monster Girls

In This Coner of the World

Is Kichijou the Only Place to Live?

I Want Your Mother to Be With Me!

The Kawai Complex to Manor and Hostel Behavior

Keep Your Hands of Eizouken!!

Kokou no Hito

Kotaro Lives Alone

Kowloon Generic Romancey

Kuro (Somato)

Kutsuzure Sensen

The Last Uniform

Love Me For Who I Am

Love Roma

Magical Meow Meow Taruto

The Magical Revolution of the RReincarnated Princess

Manga ni Tsukurikata

Maomarimo

March Comes In Like A Lion

March Story

Memories of Emanon

Mimia Hime

Minami-ke

Miss Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles

Mokke

Momokuri

Mushishi

My Brother's Husband

My Girl (Sumomo Yumeka)

My Neighbor Seki

Natsuiro Kiseki

Nicoichi

Nobunage no Chef

Noramimi

O/A

Odd Taci

Oh, My Sweet Alien

One Punch Man

Otome Youkai Zakuro

Our Dreams at Dusk

Pan de Peace!

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (Literally the only ecchi magical girl parody I'll allow on the list)

Penguindrum

Please Tell Me! Galko-chan

Pluto

Police In A Pod

Pop Team Epic

Psycho Staff

Read or Die

Re-Kan!

A Room For Two

Run with the Wind

Saint Young Men

Saturn Apartments

Sekai Maou

Shadows' House

Shiharu Genesis

Shiori Experience

Shounen Note: Boy Soprano

Shrine of the Morning Mist

Silver Nina

Sing "Yesterday for Me"

Sketchbook

Skip and Loafer

soianin

Sora no Manimani

Space Brothers

Space Patrol Luluco

Steins' Gate

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Suicide Girl

Sweetness and Lighting

Tadakoro-san

Tekkonkinkreet

Thermae Romae

This Art Club Has a Problem!

Tiger & Bunny

Tonari no Kashiwagi-san

Translucent

Twin Spica

Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari

UdUmi Monogatari

Uncle from Another World

Under Ninja

The Unpopular Mangaka and the Helpful Onryo-san

Velvet Kiss

Wa ga Na wa Umishi

Wakako Zake

Wandering Son

Wave, Listen to Me!

The Way of the House Husband

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Whispered Words

Wife and Wife

Witch Hat Atelier

Ya Boy Kongming

The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting

Yasashii Sekai no Tsukurikatta

Yomigaeru Sora - Rescue WingsY

You Are Being Summoned, Azazel-san

Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games

Youth Forger!

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pet peeve

I'm reading "Shounen Note: Boy Soprano" by Yuhki Kamatani... I like the lettering for the translated sound effects, but I do wish the translation could have removed the original sound effects, too. Keeping both versions creates awfully cluttered panels. 😔

[intomybubble]

I finished Kimi to Boku last night (I still plan to post a quick after thoughts at some point, hopefully i dont forget), and now I’m reading Shounen Note!

Shounen Note is about a 1st year middle schooler who loves singing and joined the choir club as a soprano. He is a precious boy who can hear music from everyday things and gets moved to tears quite easily. He’s adorable. I love him and I will protect him.

The premise reminds me of Dancing in the Evening Lull With My Ribbon - a story about a young boy who lives in the Japanese countryside and falls in love with rhythm dancing.

I’m only a few chapters into Shounen Note so idk how things’ll progress but, the main similarity is that they’re both pretty young (elementary -> middle school), and both want to excel in something that is generally considered for girls (for Shounen Note, the MC’s voice hasn’t broke yet and most of the choir members are girls).

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Nuevas licencias de la semana en USA 15~21/11. •Kodansha USA -Wistoria: Wand and Sword. Serie de 2 tomos abierta. -Go, Go, Loser! Serie de 3 tomos abierta. -Shounen Note: Boy Soprano. Serie se 8 tomos completa. -Run away with me, Girl! Serie de 2 tomos abierta. -As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World. Serie de 5 tomos abierta. -The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World Art. Serie de 6 tomos abierta. -In the Clear Moonlit Dusk. Serie de 3 tomos abierta. -Shangri-La Frontier. Serie de 6 tomos abierta. -I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince, So I'll Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability. Serie de 5 tomos abierta. -PTSD Radio. Serie de 6 tomos abierta. -Avant-Garde Yumeko. Tomo único. -Miss Miyazen Would Love to Get Closer to You. Serie de 4 tomos completa. -NOiSE. Tomo único. -No Longer Human Complete Edition. Serie de 3 tomos completa. -Don't Toy with me, Miss Nagatoro! Serie de 11 tomos abierta. -Disolving Classroom Collector's Edition. Tomo único.

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

i think there’s something really fun about making an incredibly niche au. everytime i listen to a podcast i think up a digimon au but i think i can go even more self indulgent. lets make a shounen note au. which character is the boy soprano & which character is their cool drop out nonbinary older sibling

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Shimanami Tasogare - how to support the series, and a guide to Yuhki Kamatani’s other works

Lately, there’s been a surge in posts and threads recommending the manga Shimanami Tasogare, a slice of life LGBTQ+ manga that centers around the life of Tasuku and other members of the LGBTQ+ lounge that have entered into his life, which has recently reached its final chapter. The series is written and illustrated by Yuhki Kamatani, an x-gender and asexual mangaka best known for their debut series Nabari no Ou.

If you’ve read Shimanami, or are considering it, there are a number of ways you can support the series and the mangaka by buying copies of the original Japanese volumes and/or its localizations, and by supporting Kamatani’s other series as well.

There are currently 3 volumes published in Japan, with the fourth (and last) volume set to publish in August. Right now, in addition to the Japanese and Chinese versions of Shimanami Tasogare, the series is currently being localized in an additional 3 languages, and will be localized in English for next year:

Spanish: Sombras sobre Shimanami (”Shadows over Shimanami”) published by Ediciones Tomodomo

2 volumes. Comes with a special bookmark if you order it online through the publisher.

(I’ve also heard that it has additional colour pages that are in b&w in the other versions, and possibly also the online omakes?)

French: Éclat(s) d’âme (”Soul Shards”/”Radiance of the Soul”/”Sound of the Heart”/etc etc) published by Editions Akata

2 volumes (volume 3 releasing in August, volume 4 likely near end of this year, if the pace they’re going keeps up. Delay of ~1 month for publications in Canada (difficult to order online, but physical in-store copies should be easier to track down if you live in Quebec...? you can order it online from renaud-bray, but they don’t tend to have the volumes in stock on the release date so far (vol 3 set to release in CAN oct 1, so we’ll see) chapters only has the ebooks online and seems to have given up on the physical copies, but has phys copies of vol 1 available in QC))

You can read the first chapter in French here.

Italian: Oltre le Onde (”Beyond the Waves”) published by J-POP

1 volume (volume 2 releasing in October)

English: Finally got licensed! Yay! And is scheduled to released on May 7, 2019!

In addition to the physical copies, you can also buy ebook versions for about half the price, which would also save you on import costs if you don’t live in a country it’s readily offered in. You can find these via the amazon sites for each country, and physical copies are also offered by other local bookstores.

Kamatani has also been colouring special versions of the covers for the French release:

While there is no word of any English localization right now, Seven Seas Entertainment (the same publisher that localizes My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, My solo Exchange Diary, and The Bride was a Boy) does monthly consumer surveys asking for titles people want localized. However, they’ve also tweeted that “As a Shogakukan title, it's very unlikely [Shimanami Tasogare is] available to anyone other than Viz for publishing.“ But that doesn’t mean it’s not impossible, so requesting it is still worth a try, and hey, you’ll be entered into a raffle to win a free book from them anyway. You can also suggest Kamatani’s other titles which haven’t been localized into English yet either, which are published by a different publisher than Shimanami in Japan. They haven’t put up their June survey yet though, so keep an eye out. edit: the survey is now live!

Shimanami is now licensed in English by Seven Seas!! Please consider suggesting their other series (Shounen Note, Busshi no Busshin) for licensing in the future as well!!

The Storytelling Style of Yuhki Kamatani

If you’ve read Shimanami, you’re no doubt familiar with their stunning use of imagery and visual metaphors in their work. Their visual storytelling brings a whole other level of intricateness and emotion to their pieces. These visual metaphors often carry over multiple pages, and return in later story arcs. Their visual storytelling also makes up some beautiful spreads.

(Shimanami Tasogare, Busshi no Busshin / Shounen Note, Nabari no Ou)

When it comes to plot, Kamatani tends to focus on the grey, rather than black and white stories of morality. There is never any distinct good or evil --- everyone has their own motives that move them, and these motives lead them all to take actions that affect everyone else. Everyone has their own shortcomings, their flaws, and everyone has their strengths, and the ability to either help or hurt the people around them. And the potential to grow. Their stories focus on topics like self discovery, personal growth, and the many definitions of family and friendship, and span many genres, from slice of life, action, and historical fiction, and include LGBTQ characters and arcs!

Other Works

Brief introductions to Nabari no Ou, Shounen Note, and Busshi no Busshin under the read more.

Nabari no Ou

Kamatani’s first and most well known series. It was made into a 2 season anime, and both the manga and anime have been adapted into many languages, including English, and has numerous other adaptions such as drama cds as well. However I really don’t recommend watching the anime before or instead of the manga. Many of the character backstories are changed, as well as the arcs and overall story, as the anime changes the ending and ends before the manga. The majority of the important arcs and character development occurs in the parts not included in the anime.

An action manga set in a modern ninja world. The series centers around Miharu Rokujou, a 14-year-old boy who is the possessor of a secret ninja art called the Shinrabanshou, which gives the user the power of creation and knowledge of the universe. However, he wants nothing to do with it or the ninja world, despite how much his situation and the people around him drag him into it. He later meets an enemy ninja named Yoite who wants Miharu to use the Shinrabanshou to erase his existence before he dies, and the two make a promise to find a way to make it so Yoite never existed, while also collecting the other forbidden arts of other villages which would help them find a way to remove the Shinrabanshou from Miharu for good.

Shounen Note

Shounen Note: Days of Evanescence is Kamatani’s second main series. All eight volumes have been localized in Spanish by Ediciones Tomodomo under the name of Shonen Note. If you order it from the Spanish publisher’s website, it also comes with special bookmarks/postcards for each volume.

The story is a slice of life, somewhat sports-y type manga with its competitive choir competitions. It centers around Yutaka Aoi, a middle schooler with a love for singing who joins his school choir, and later an opera group. It follows the stories of him and his choirmates, as well as Vladimir, a Russian boy soprano, as they compete in choir competitions, perform in operas, and attempt to support their town. It’s also jam-packed with really neat visual metaphors.

Busshi no Busshin

Busshi no Busshin - The Sculptor's Buddhakaya is the series Kamatani was working on prior to Shimanami Tasogare, and for some time, simultaneously, before putting the series on hiatus to focus on Shimanami. Other than Chinese, it has not yet been localized in any other languages, but currently has five volumes.

The story is historical fiction with lots of action. It follows Sou, a Buddhist image sculptor (busshi) who can use a technique called raigou to call Buddhas and other gods into the sculptures he carves. While fighting the goddess Mizuchi who was attacking his homeland, he summons the Bodhisattva Myoujou to save them, but the two are easily defeated and eaten in half, leaving each with only half their body. In a last ditch attempt to survive, Sou manages to fuse his remaining body with the remaining half of the statue he had used to summon Myoujou. Five years later, he finally reawakens, but must now face the return of Mizuchi and the Heike clan who seek revenge for their defeat alongside the family of busshi that took him in . 

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[ID: a banner image reading “Yuhki Kamatani Fans Gift Exchange 2022″. The background images are manga spreads from Shimanami Tasogare, Shounen Note, Hiraeth: The End of the Journey, and Nabari no Ou /end ID]

Hello! Are you a fan of any of Yuhki Kamatani’s manga, or perhaps multiple of their works? Would you like to draw fanart, write fanfic, create music playlists, edits, manga colorings, and more, and get a gift in return for it? You’re in luck!

This is my third time hosting a gift exchange for these fandoms, and I’m excited to see everyone’s creations once again! As per usual, you can specify which series and characters you are most fond of and will be matched with someone with similar tastes, so that hopefully every ends up with a gift that they enjoy!

The only requirements besides meeting the deadline are to be willing to produce some kind of digital (or scanned/well-photographed traditional) fanwork for the person you are matched with, and to have a Discord account for ease of contact.

Sign-ups are open until November 15th at 11:59 PM CST, and you have until early/mid January to complete your gift!

The form to sign up is here: [link] And the Kamatani Fans Discord server is here!: [link]

More information under cut!

This is the current schedule for signups, assignments, and posting. Check-ins will be implemented to make sure that I can organize somebody to cover for any gift drop-outs.

Nov 15- Signups close Nov 18- Everyone is contacted with their assignments, you can start on your gift as soon as you like after this point! Nov 30- First reminder Dec 15- Check-in Dec 25- Final check-in, gifts can be posted any time from here to the deadline Jan 10- Final deadline for posting gifts

All dates end US CST, so anyone east of that needn’t worry about being too late at the end of the day!

Please contact me directly through tumblr or join the server if you have any questions or concerns, I would be happy to help in any way that I can! Thank you ^ ^

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Digital+Print:

🎵Shonen Note: Boy Soprano, Volume 4🎵 By Yuhki Kamatani

🌅The Kawami Higashi Middle School choir has won the district competition and is moving on to regionals, but the choir just isn’t the same without Yutaka’s voice.

Get Your Copy and Read Now

[gilgamemesh]

What is shounen note actually about? I'm thinking of checking it out

It’s about a middle school’s choir group! When a boy soprano Yutaka joins the choir they get new motivation to aim for the national gold medal in a choir competition and start training. 

It’s slice-of-life so it’s very down-to-earth but if you have read Kamatani’s other works the image language where sound is illustrated as things like vines and bubbles is very rich and stunning, and the characters all deal with their own problems too that are addressed and usually more or less sorted out in the series! It’s the kind of manga that makes you really emotional but it still has a very positive undertone and doesn’t leave you feeling bad! And it most likely has at least one person to relate to because the cast is large and very charming and feels really human ;v; 

Some people say it has a slow start but I super recommend just going in blind and see if you like it! 

[fykamatani]

@memeyuhkinto

2023年がみなみなさまにとって健やかでおもしろい年になりますように。本年も作品をお届けできるよう励んでまいります。どうぞよろしくお願い致します🐰

From Yuhki Kamatani's official twitter!

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to celebrate v2 eng release and cause dee @dianbalpin-0p suggested i draw yutaka ages ago ops