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I've posted many times before about how surrogacy exploits vulnerable women and turns their babies into commodities. This article is about the impact of the fertility industry on the children themselves.

‘I slept with my half-sibling’: Woman’s horror story reflects loosely regulated nature of US fertility industry

By Rob Kuznia, Allison Gordon, Nelli Black and Kyung Lah, CNN | Photographs by Laura Oliverio, CNN

Published 10:00 AM EST, Wed February 14, 2024CNN — 

Victoria Hill never quite understood how she could be so different from her father – in looks and in temperament. The 39-year-old licensed clinical social worker from suburban Connecticut used to joke that perhaps she was the mailman’s child.

Her joke eventually became no laughing matter. Worried about a health issue, and puzzled because neither of her parents had suffered any of the symptoms, Hill purchased a DNA testing kit from 23andMe a few years ago and sent her DNA to the genomics company.

What should have been a routine quest to learn more about herself turned into a shocking revelation that she had many more siblings than just the brother she grew up with – the count now stands at 22. Some of them reached out to her and dropped more bombshells: Hill’s biological father was not the man she grew up with but a fertility doctor who had been helping her mother conceive using donated sperm. That doctor, Burton Caldwell, a sibling told her, had used his own sperm to inseminate her mother, allegedly without her consent.

But the most devastating revelation came this summer, when Hill found out that one of her newly discovered siblings had been her high school boyfriend – one she says she easily could have married.

“I was traumatized by this,” Hill told CNN in an exclusive interview. “Now I’m looking at pictures of people thinking, well, if he could be my sibling, anybody could be my sibling.”

Hill’s story appears to represent one of the most extreme cases to date of fertility fraud in which fertility doctors have misled their female patients and their families by secretly using their own sperm instead of that of a donor. It also illustrates how the huge groups of siblings made possible in part by a lack of regulation can lead to a worst-case scenario coming to pass: accidental incest.

In this sense, say advocates of new laws criminalizing fertility fraud, Hill’s story is historic.

“This was the first time where we’ve had a confirmed case of someone actually dating, someone being intimate with someone who was their half-sibling,” said Jody Madeira, a law professor at Indiana University and an expert on fertility fraud.

A CNN investigation into fertility fraud nationwide found that most states, including Connecticut, have no laws against it. Victims of this form of deception face long odds in getting any kind of recourse, and doctors who are accused of it have an enormous advantage in court, meaning they rarely face consequences and, in some cases, have continued practicing, according to documents and interviews with fertility experts, lawmakers and several people fathered by sperm donors.

CNN also found that Hill’s romantic relationship with her half-brother wasn’t the only case in which she or other people in her newly discovered sibling group interacted with someone in their community who turned out to be a sibling.

At a time when do-it-yourself DNA kits are turning donor-conceived children into online sleuths about their own origins – and when this subset of the American population has reached an estimated one million people – Hill’s situation is a sign of the times. She is part of a larger groundswell of donor-conceived people who in recent years have sought to expose practices in the fertility industry they say have caused them distress: huge sibling pods, unethical doctors, unreachable biological fathers, a lack of information about their biological family’s medical history.

The movement has been the main driver in getting about a dozen new state laws passed over the past four years. Still, the legal landscape is patchy, and the US fertility industry is often referred to by critics as the “Wild West” for its dearth of regulation relative to other western countries.

“Nail salons are more regulated than the fertility industry,” said Eve Wiley, who traced her origins to fertility fraud and is a prominent advocate for new laws.

Accountability in short supply

More than 30 doctors around the country have been caught or accused of covertly using their own sperm to impregnate their patients, CNN has confirmed; advocates say they know of at least 80.

Accountability for the deception has been in short supply. The near-absence of laws criminalizing the practice of fertility fraud until recently means no doctors have yet been criminally charged for the behavior. In 2019, Indiana became the second state, more than 20 years after California, to pass a statute making fertility fraud a felony.

Even in civil cases that have been settled out of court, the affected families have typically signed non-disclosure agreements, effectively shielding the doctors from public scrutiny.

Meanwhile, some doctors who have been found out were allowed to keep their medical licenses.

In Kentucky, retired fertility doctor Marvin YussmanMarvin Yussman admitted using his own sperm to inseminate about half a dozen patients who at the time were unaware that he was the donor. One of them filed a complaint to the state’s board of medical licensure when her daughter – who was born in 1976 – learned Yussman was the likely father after submitting her DNA to Ancestry.com.

“I feel betrayed that Dr. Yussman knowingly deceived me and my husband about the origin of the sperm he injected into my body,” the woman wrote in a letter to the board in 2019. “Although I realize Dr. Yussman did not break any laws as such, I certainly feel his actions were unconscionable and depraved.”

In his response to the medical board, Yussman said that during that era, fresh sperm was prioritized over frozen sperm, meaning donors had to arrive on a schedule.

“On very rare occasions when the donor did not show and no frozen specimen was available, I used my own sperm if I otherwise would have been an appropriate donor: appropriate blood type, race, physical characteristics,” Yussman wrote.

He added some of his biological children have “expressed gratitude for their existence” to him and even sent him photos of their own children. Yussman, who noted in his defense that he didn’t remember the woman who made the complaint, said his policy decades ago was to inform patients that physicians could be among the possible donors, though neither he nor the complainant could provide records that clarified the protocol.

The board declined to discipline him, citing insufficient evidence, according to case documents. Reached on the phone by CNN, Yussman declined to comment.

The story that really put fertility fraud on the national radar was that of Dr. Donald Cline, who fathered at least 90 children in Indiana. Cline’s case spurred lawmakers to pass legislation that outlawed fertility fraud but wasn’t retroactive, meaning he was never prosecuted for it. But he was convicted of obstruction of justice after lying to investigators in the state attorney general’s office who briefly looked into the case. Following that conviction in 2018, Cline surrendered his license. Cline’s lawyer did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Netflix followed up with a documentary about Cline in 2022 that inspired two members of Congress – Reps. Stephanie Bice, an Oklahoma Republican, and Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat – to coauthor the first federal bill outlawing fertility fraud. If passed, the Protecting Families from Fertility Fraud Act would establish a new federal sexual-assault crime for knowingly misrepresenting the nature or source of DNA used in assisted reproductive procedures and other fertility treatments. The bill has found dozens of backers – 28 Republicans and 20 Democrats – amid a renewed effort to push it on Capitol Hill.

In this March 29, 2007 file photo, Dr. Donald Cline, a reproductive endocrinologist and fertility specialist, speaks at a news conference in Indianapolis.Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star/AP/File

A group of advocates including Hill plans to go to DC to champion the bill on Wednesday.

To be sure, passage wouldn’t mean that any of the dozens of doctors who have already been accused of fertility fraud would go to prison, as the crime would have occurred before the law existed. But the measure would provide more pathways for civil litigation in such cases.

The push to better regulate the fertility industry isn’t without critics. It inspires unease – if not outright opposition – from some who fear any industry crackdown could have the unintended effect of making the formation of families less accessible to the LGBTQ community, which comprises an outsized share of the donor-recipient clientele.

“I think we should pause before creating additional criminal liability for people practicing reproductive medicine,” said Katherine L. Kraschel, assistant professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “It gives me great pause … to say we want the government to try to step in and regulate what amounts to a reproductive choice.”

Some experts also point out that the advent of take-at-home DNA tests by companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry has pretty much stamped out fertility fraud in the modern era.

“To my knowledge, the majority of fertility fraud cases took place before 2000,” said Julia T. Woodward, a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor in psychiatry and OBGYN in the Duke University Health System, in an email to CNN. “I think it is highly unlikely any person would engage in such practices today (it would be too easy to be exposed). So this part of the landscape has improved significantly.”

But activists in the donor-conceived community still want laws, in part to provide pathways for civil litigation, and also to send a message to any medical professional who might feel emboldened by the lack of accountability.

“Let’s say arguably that it doesn’t happen anymore,” said Laura High, a donor-conceived person and comedian who, with more than 600,000 followers on TikTok, has carved out something of a niche as a fertility-industry watchdog on social media. “Pass the f**king legislation just in case.

“Why not just out of the optics – just out of a, ‘Hey we’re going to stand by the victims.’ Let’s just do this. We know it’s never going to happen anymore, but let’s just make this illegal.”

Victoria Hill and her two children play with toys in the living room of her mother's house in Wethersfield. Laura Oliverio/CNN

‘You are my sister’

The lack of a law in Connecticut appears to have been a stumbling block for a pair of siblings seeking recourse for what they allege is a case of fertility fraud.

The half-siblings – a sister and brother – sued OBGYN Narendra Tohan of New Britain in 2021, saying he deceived their mothers when using his own sperm in the fertility treatments.

He has derailed the suit with a novel defense, arguing successfully that it amounts to a “wrongful life” case, which typically pertains to people born with severe life-limiting conditions and isn’t recognized in Connecticut. Tohan, who is still practicing, did not return an email or call to his office seeking comment. The siblings are appealing the ruling.

Madeira, the expert in fertility fraud from Indiana University, called the “wrongful life” decision absurd.

“In fertility fraud, no parent is saying that – no parent is saying I would have gotten an abortion,” she said. “Every parent is saying, ‘I love my child. I just wish that my wishes would have been respected and my doctor wouldn’t have used his sperm.��”

And then there is Dr. Burton Caldwell, who declined CNN’s request for an interview. One of his apparent biological children decided to sue him last year, even though she knows it will be an uphill battle without a fertility fraud law on the books. Janine Pierson and her mother, Doreen Pierson, accuse Caldwell – who stopped practicing in the early 2000s – of impregnating Doreen with his own sperm after having falsely told her that the donor would be a Yale medical student.

Half-sisters Alyssa Denniston, Victoria Hill and Janine Pierson pose for a portrait in Hartford, Connecticut. The three of them say they — and at least 20 others — all share a biological father, Dr. Burton Caldwell. Laura Oliverio/CNN

Janine Pierson, a social worker, thought she was an only child until she took a 23andMe test in the summer of 2022 and was floored to learn she had 19 siblings. (That number has since grown to 22.)

“It was like my entire life just came to this screeching halt,” she told CNN.

When she learned through one of her siblings that Caldwell was the likely father, Pierson said she immediately phoned her mom, who was stunned.

“We both just cried for a few minutes because it just felt like such a violation,” Pierson said.

Pierson said she decided to pursue the lawsuit even though she knows the lack of a fertility-fraud law in Connecticut could pose a challenge.

“It shouldn’t just be, you know, the Wild West where these doctors can just do whatever it is that they want,” she said.

Hill is watching her newly discovered half-sister’s case closely.

For her, the first surprise was learning the dad she grew up with wasn’t her biological father.  Although her mom had told her when Hill was younger that she’d sought help conceiving at a fertility clinic, she also said – falsely – that the doctor had used her dad’s sperm.

When Hill learned that the biological father appeared to be Caldwell a few years ago, she contacted lawyers to inquire about filing a suit, but was told she doesn’t have much of a case, so she didn’t pursue it. Now, she said, her statute of limitations is about to expire.

Last year, Hill was hit with another shattering revelation.

In May, she and her three closest friends were celebrating their 20-year high school reunion over dinner.

She was sharing the tale with them of how she learned about her biological father. Everyone was captivated, except one person – her former boyfriend. He looked like he was turning something over in his head. Then he noted that his parents, too, had sought help conceiving from a fertility clinic.

A couple months later, in July, as Hill was leaving for a summer vacation with her husband and two young children, the ex-boyfriend texted her a screenshot showing their 23andMe connection.

“You are my sister,” he said.

Fertility industry regulations in US lax relative to other countries

Hill’s high school boyfriend isn’t the only person she knew in the community who turned out to be a sibling.

“I have slept with my half-sibling,” Hill said. “I went to elementary school with another.”

What’s more, Hill said, back in the early 2000s, she lived across the street from a deli in Norwalk she often went to that was owned by twins who she later learned are her siblings.

Pierson, too, discovered recently that she’d crossed paths with a sibling long ago. She said she has a group photo from when she was a kid at summer camp that shows her on a stage and a boy in the audience. In 2022, she learned that he is her older half-brother.

“Within 20 feet of one another, and we have no idea,” she said.

In general, the bigger the sibling pool, the greater the risk of accidental incest – regardless of whether fertility fraud came into play.

“I don’t date people my age. I can’t do it,” said Jamie LeRose, a 23-year-old singer from New Jersey who has at least 150 siblings from a regular sperm donor, not a doctor. “I look at people my age and I’m automatically unattracted to them because I just, I go, that could be my sibling.”

With this in mind, activists also often advocate for laws that cap the number of siblings per donor – and that do away with donor anonymity. (Neither of these restrictions are included in the proposed federal bill.)

Other countries have instituted such regulations. Norway for instance limits the number of children to eight; Germany, to 15. Germany and the UK have banished anonymity at sperm banks.

The United States government has no such requirements – and the professional association that represents the fertility industry wants to keep it that way.

“What we have not done very much in this country is pass regulations about who gets to have children,” said Sean Tipton, the chief advocacy and policy officer for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. “If you’re going to say you should only be able to have 50 children, that’s fine. But that should apply to everybody. It shouldn’t apply just to sperm donors.”

Regarding the concern among donor-conceived people about accidental incest, Tipton added, “if you want to be sure that before you have children with somebody, you can run DNA tests to make sure you’re not related.”

The ASRM, which often clashes with donor-conceived activists, has not taken a stance on the federal bill, Tipton told CNN.

The organization does offer nonbinding guidelines that address concerns about incest, recommending for instance no more than 25 births per donor in a population of 800,000.

Although most of the donor-conceived people who spoke with CNN for this story said they wanted to see legislative change, they also described an emotional aspect of the topic that no new law or regulation could begin to quell: a yearning to better understand one’s origins and identity. For Pierson, it was this desire, coupled with a mix of anger and curiosity, that compelled her to pay Caldwell an unannounced visit one day in 2022 – weeks after she’d learned he was most likely her biological father.

Confronting Caldwell

“I woke up that day and I had decided I didn’t want to call him,” Pierson said. “I didn’t want to give him the opportunity to say no. So I just drove directly to his house from work.”

Pierson, who lived in Cheshire at the time, describes an experience that was equal parts surreal and awkward.

After an hourlong trip, she pulled up to a large, stately house with a long driveway not far from the Connecticut coast. When she knocked on the door, nobody answered. But when a neighbor stopped by to drop something off, Caldwell opened the door. Seizing the moment, Pierson introduced herself. He let her in.

Laying eyes for the first time on her biological father, Pierson, 36, saw a man in his 80s with a slight tremor due to Parkinson’s, sporting a blue golf shirt.

He invited her inside and they sat at his dining room table.

Caldwell, she said, didn’t seem surprised – likely because Hill had made a similar visit a couple of years earlier.

“He was not in any way apologetic,” Pierson said, but she added that he did not deny using his own sperm when working in the 1980s at a New Haven clinic. She said Caldwell confessed that he “never gave it the thought that he should have … that there would be so many (children), and that it would have any kind of an impact on us.”

Pierson said Caldwell asked her questions that gave her pause.

“One thing that really has always bothered me is that he asked me how many grandchildren he had,” she said. “And he was very curious about my scholastic achievements and what I made of myself. … Like how intelligent I was, basically.”

She said their conversation ended abruptly when, looking uncomfortable, Caldwell stood up, which she took as a signal that the visit was over. Before parting ways, she asked if he would pose for a photo with her. He consented.

“I knew it would be the only time that I actually ever had that opportunity to take a picture,” she said. “Not that I wanted like a relationship with him in any way because – it was just like mixed of emotions of, you know, like, I despise you, but at the same time, I’m grateful to be here.”

Janine Pierson displays a selfie she took with Caldwell on her phone in Hartford, Connecticut. Pierson took the photo during a visit with Caldwell in 2022 and it is the only photograph she has with him. Laura Oliverio/CNN

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HI Digimon Fandom, do you remember that photo the kids tried to take in the last episode of Digimon Adventure? Well the retake will now be sold on an art canvas, this truly is THE year to be a Digimon Adventure fan 😭

In collaboration with the brand Tohan, an art pop up exhibition + store will be held at Akihabara Onoden from 27th April till 12th May. This will feature some old and some new art, including the one used by andGallery cafe collab. These art will be exhibited at the location and you can place an order for the canvas print in person (it will take 2 months to get delivered).

I will add the full infographic at the end, but these are the illustrations used featuring the kids + partners.

One of these is the new art drawn by kaeru_dx as a collaboration project ongoing between official Digimon twitter and 3 illustrators.

For ordering a canvas piece on the spot in Akihabara, purchasers will be eligible to receive a minicard which features the second illustration from the project mentioned above, which was released today.

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A lot of fun new photos and merch news to look forward to this week!

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Birds of different feathers flock together

Noticed online by head-hunting publishers, Mokumokuren hasn’t waited very long before polarising the attention of Japanese readers. With strange The Summer Hikaru Died, horrific bromance dealing with body dispossession, the mangaka signs a series of sophisticated oddity, that sets itself apart from the predictability of current fantasy productions.

Interview by Fausto Fasulo. Original translation: Aurélien Estager. English translation: “Keikotwins”. Bibliography: Marius Chapuis. Thanks: Camille Hospital & Clarisse Langlet (Pika), Yuta Nabatame, Mayuko Yamamoto & Mana Kukimoto (Kadokawa), Chiho Muramatsu (Tohan)

(T/N: Interview given to ATOM in winter 2023; 2 volumes were out in French.)

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In an interview given to the CREA website in November 2022, you confided inventing stories since very young. Did your first fictions resemble the ones you draw nowadays?

It’s true that there are quite a lot of common points between the stories I imagined when I was a child and the ones I tell nowadays in my mangas. Especially a specific motif, that has been haunting me since the time when I wasn’t really aware of the world surrounding me: the presence amongst us of “non-human” beings, that nonetheless have a perfectly normal, ordinary appearance…

And how was this “obsession” born?

Precisely identifying the origins is complicated, my memories are too blurry, I think… What I can tell you is that I’ve always been fascinated by “creatures”. For example, I remember being very impressed by Peter Jackson’s bestiary in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. By the way, still in a fantasy register, I am also a big fan of Harry Potter adaptations… (She thinks.) And I’ve always liked yōkai stories, you know. I think that what I like in all these mythologies is the idea of species classification: each has its own characteristics – physical, biological – its own way to apprehend its environment.

In Japan, yōkai are integral part of regional folklore. Did the place you grew up in have some specific beliefs?

I was born and grew up in Tokyo, and, as you must know, yōkai are mostly associated with rural areas. I was thus never really bathed in this type of regional fantasy folklore. There are all kinds of yōkai and we can perhaps see in some more contemporary urban legends the echo of certain past beliefs? (She thinks.) I am a bit frustrated, because I believe that I could remember a legend that would have impacted me, but nothing comes to mind immediately, sorry!

You have already said so in an interview and it’s quite obvious when reading your work: you are a big amateur of horrific fiction. What has been your first contact with the genre, all medium included?

It was television that introduced me to horror: special shows, television films, series, I was watching these programs with a mix of fear and enthusiasm, a confused sensation that particularly delighted me! (She thinks.) And amongst all the aired shows, I will remember two titles: Hontō ni atta kowai hanashi and Kaidan shin mimibukuro*.

* Inspired by the homonymous manga magazine published by Asahi Shimbun, Hontō ni atta kowai hanashi (lit. “Scary stories that really happened”) is a series produced by Fuji Television that has been airing more or less weekly since 2004. Derived from literary material (a series of compilations of hundreds of short stories by Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichirō Nakayama, published from 1990 to 2005) Kaidan shin mimibukuro is a series made of several short movies depicting ghost stories based on real testimony.

Did you read horror mangas when you were young?

Let’s say that I was more interested in live-action productions. Nowadays, I obviously appreciate some horror manga authors, without pretending to be any expert in the subject. For example, I like Junji Itō’s work, but I am far from knowing it for a long time… (She thinks.) I could also talk about Shigeru Mizuki, who I also appreciate a lot.

The mechanics of fear aren’t the same in occidental and oriental fictions. You like American horrific productions – like Ari Aster movies – as much as ones from Japanese origin – you notably quote Ichi Sawamura novels and Kōji Shiraishi feature films. Can we say that you are tying these two perspectives with The Summer Hikaru Died?

My relationship with horror is more imbued with oriental sensitivity. But what I find remarkable in occidental horrific productions is work on image. In The Shining like in Ari Aster movies, for example, there is real research made on frame composition and choice of colours. I also try to follow this aesthetic reflection in my work as a mangaka.

In Ari Aster’s work, beyond the very precise staging, there is this permanent desire of ambiguity. Do you try to dig this same equivocal trench?

Absolutely. I try to tell complex feelings as well in The Summer Hikaru Died, like fear dyed with nostalgia or attachment, repulsion mixed with fascination, with attraction…

How do you “sort out” the shots that inspire you in cinema?

I don’t draw while freeze-framing during specific scenes. I would always rather watch a movie as a “focussed” spectator. However, I pay a lot of attention to the way the director composes their frame. I sometimes take some notes, but I most often simply keep it in a corner of my mind.

Could you tell us when and how the story and characters of The Summer Hikaru Died appeared to you? Have they matured a long time within you?

I’ve started thinking about this story when I was preparing university entrance exams. I was aspiring to join an art uni, and I was drawing every day. I can’t really say I made my characters “mature”: back then, I wasn’t thinking that the drawings I was making would one day end up being published, way less being serialised! I innocently created characters close to me, without guessing that one day they’d become manga protagonists.

One of your foundational reads was Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul manga. Can you tell us how you discovered it and what effect it had on you?

I don’t really remember how I discovered this series, but what I know is that I became crazy about it at first read. What I liked – and what I still like – is this idea of telling a story that confronts humans to these “different” beings while following the point of view of a character that represents alterity. Beyond this strictly dramatic aspect, Sui Ishida’s storyboarding and character design have had a strong impact on my work. However, I want to add that Tokyo Ghoul isn’t the only title I took inspiration from, I obviously have other references…

Do you do a lot of researches to define the design of your characters? You seem to draw them easily, in a very natural gesture…

I haven’t spent a long time defining my protagonists. First, there are few in the manga, then, they evolve in a rather realistic universe. My goal was rather simple: they had to look believable in the reader’s eyes. I wanted people to be able to imagine crossing them in the street, you see?

It’s after seeing illustrations posted on social media that depicted the future characters of The Summer Hikaru Died that the publishing department of the Young Ace Up magazine noticed you. How have you reacted when approached?

I was very surprised, because I absolutely wasn’t trying to become a mangaka. I would have never projected in such a future, you see. And, very honestly, if they hadn’t suggested working on this series, I don’t think I would ever had pushed the doors of a publishing house… I am then very thankful towards the persons who have allowed me to enter.

And what would you have done if you hadn’t been solicited?

Back when I’ve been contacted, I was considering – still vaguely – working in the video games field. But I wasn’t really proactive, I wasn’t contacting anyone, wasn’t sending resumes…

Did you want to do chara-design?

Why not, yes. What I like in video games is the range of possibilities they offer. You can then create an entire universe and this is rather exhilarating.

So you’re a gamer…

I have dropped my controller since I’ve started drawing manga. But yes, when I had more time, I played rather regularly, especially Nintendo productions…

Even if you play rather little nowadays, do video games influence your work?

I can’t say whether it really is an influence, but the Undertale game has left a big mark on me. I felt its creator’s strong will to surprise players, to make them feel unprecedented sensations…

Horror manga only relies on art and storyboard to provoke fear, whereas cinema and video games can also rely on sound. Is it from this observation that you have decided to particularly work on your sound effects?

Absolutely. I have thought a lot about the way to introduce and stage sound in The Summer Hikaru Died. The sound effects that you can find in the manga are indeed the result of this approach.

In an interview given to the Realsound website, you mention the use of the シャワシャワ (“shawa shawa”) sound effect. Knowing that occidental readers are way less sensitive to these graphicoustic details, can you explain its meaning?

“Shawa shawa” expresses the song cicadas make in western Japan. It’s a very special noise because in the different regions live different species that make specific sounds. So when I choose this specific sound effect, I convey a geographic and temporal piece of information to the reader, who can then guess the location and season the action takes place in. (She thinks.) When using this sound – that we especially find in the beginning of the manga – my goal was to play with silence, particularly when the song stops. I thus had the idea of representing this sound effect with an easily readable font, so the reader would make no effort to decipher it, as if the sound was asserting itself naturally, you see? I hoped to suggest a saturation they couldn’t avoid and that, when it’d stop, would immerse them in absolute silence.

The Summer Hikaru Died transcribes very well this particular atmosphere of Japanese summers…

Yes, I really wanted to signify this languor in my manga. And the cicadas’ song we discussed earlier contributes to creating this atmosphere: it’s an overwhelming sound, sometimes irritating, you cannot escape from in summer – Japanese readers obviously know what I’m talking about. (She thinks.) I also gave special attention to shadows: summer light being very bright, shadows are very sharp, very deep.

Do digital tools allow you to get this result more efficiently than traditional?

I work on Clip Studio Paint, and it’s true that it sometimes allow me to save time. Consider the work on shadows: I never apply solid black because I like saturating space with hatches and, with digital tools, I can obtain the desired result faster because I can duplicate each of my lines.

Your use of hatches is sometimes reminiscent of Shūzō Oshimi’s…

I don’t know his mangas very well, but it’s funny that you mention him because I recently read his latest series, Okaeri Alice. In any case, I really like his style and I perfectly understand how you can bring his universe and mine together.

The Summer Hikaru Died relies on the concept of body dispossession, that obviously takes back to the Body Snatcher novel by Jack Finney and its movie adaptations. Did you think about it?

I don’t know this book very well, but I know its theme has been approached often, especially in movies. As I was saying at the beginning of this interview, my idea was to adopt the point of view of a non-human and tell his indecision, his moral questions…

We also find this idea in Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Parasite…

I haven’t read the manga fully, but I’ve watched the anime adaptation that was released a few years ago (R/N: in 2014). I remember rather liking it, even if I think I offer something different with The Summer Hikaru Died. What interests me is sounding the inwardness of my non-human character out and expose all his dilemmas. What is his place amongst men? Is he legitimate in our world? Here is the type of questions that pushed me.

One of the impacting scenes of volume 1 of The Summer Hikaru Died is the one when Yoshiki penetrated Hikaru’s body by shoving his arm into his torso. It’s a sequence that is both very sensuaI – to not say sexuaI – and also very horrific. How did you get this idea?

I wanted to put the readers in an uncomfortable position. A stressful situation that could take several forms because, according to your sensitivity, you can feel very different emotions in front of this scene: sexuaI arousaI, fear or disgust. For me, it was supposed to put the reader in some kind of catatonia, you see?

Do you chat a lot with your tantō, especially around these slightly “complicated” scenes?

I have free rein, you know, I can draw everything I want. My editorial supervisor has never asked me to temper some sexuaIIy connotated parts. My discussions with him don’t revolve around this kind of things, but rather around the structure of the scenario itself: where to place this scene in the narration? Is it better to put this sequence before this other one? Nowadays, I am more at ease with all the scripting layout but, at the beginning, I needed support.

What allows you to get, from a dramatic point of view, the mix between bromance and horror?

I wanted to show the differences in sensitivities and values between a human being and an “other than human”, and tell the misunderstandings this can cause when both meet. When Yoshiki “scratches” under the appearance of the one who is supposed to be his best friend, it creates a first point of conflict in the story. I then hoped to make his relationship with Hikaru – or rather with the “entity” that pretends to embody him – a kind of undefinable bond, that wouldn’t be friendship, nor love.

Do you know today where this strange relationship between your two heroes will lead you?

I know more or less how all of this will evolve, yes. I have decided on my story’s general plot since the beginning. I can only tell you that The Summer Hikaru Died won’t be a long series.

How do you explain the almost instant public plebiscite of your series in Japan? You perhaps cannot have perspective on it but, in a saturated publishing landscape, you have managed to stand out…

Hm… Indeed, I don’t really have precise explanations to give you about this success. Maybe the covers’ design has been in favour of the manga? I asked the person in charge of graphics to make sure that the visuals would be noticeable in bookstores. That’s why the books have this monochrome aspect, with the title discreetly placed. I didn’t want obvious advertisement banners, but something simple, like this blue background for the first volume, on which the character stands out. I also wished to create contrast between the jacket’s and the inner cover’s drawings. I thus had requirements that didn’t quite go alongside what we can nowadays see on the shelves of Japanese bookstores.

[fainfrumos]

Hands and a train window - a series - part V, Halta Tohan [10.03.24]

[talesofalethrion]

Spotlight: Mik!

Will Mik choose to accept the dark gifts from the demon Greed or be strong enough to keep it at bay?

If we reach the next stretch goal of our Kickstarter campaign for Tales of Alethrion - Season 3 you'll be able to find out:

We only have 3 days left of this campaign, so it is the last chance to support our campaign 🪕

But back to Mik - a happy-go-lucky bard who travels from town to town, enjoying a good tale that he can put into lyrics and melodies and inspire heroes and crowds all over the realm. His muse, Ken, was a trusted friend who did the damage, while Mik did the singing.

Mik's adventure started in Tohan when he and Ken received a treasure map from the OG iconic duo, Wilhelm and Vito. They then traveled the realm thin before finally finding the X on the map. They found a huge treasure and a mysterious chest. This chest was unfortunately opened and a great evil called Greed was released. This became the end of Ken and the beginning of what could be a dark pact between Mik and Greed...

Art by: Anna Fischer-Larsen, Natasha Sallustio, Nadine Van Baarsen, Mikkel Mainz

[erixislost]

omg all the Akito stuff is so real my fav little boy he's so stupid I love him

Also Anhane and Akitoya forever!! If I'm going to get headcanony I feel like Toya definitely is gay while Akito and An are bisexuals and Kohane a lesbian and Kohane was definitely in love w An since the first time she saw her sing, like I legit thought this was the way the story was going when I read it but no 😭

Also isn't there a dialogue where Akito just confesses he likes looking at Toya? Or am I braindead

I SEE U ON PINTEREST STANNING AKITO AND AKITOYA i understand tbh BUT STAN SAKI TOO

HELL YEAH STAN THEM ALL!!! I did finish the Vivid Bad Squad story though a little bit sad there wasn't actually anything canonically gay but they're fruity enough as it is

[marshmellowpaint]

No. 17: TOHAN I love her,,,,,, so much

[women-history]

Junko Tabei

Junko Tabei, • (1939 - 2016)

The Woman Who Conquered the Seven Summits

Junko Taibei was born in Miharu Japan, the 22 of September

1939. When she was young she was a fragile girl that would easily get hurt and injure herself. Despite this, when she was 10 she took interest in Mountain climbing when she hiked Mount Nasu on a class trip. She was a very shy, quiet kid so she saw it natural that she would enjoy hiking because of how peaceful it was, it is a sport where you compete against oneself and the prize was the beautiful view one gets reaching the top. The biggest problem she encountered at the time was that she was from a relatively poor family and mountain climbing is extremely expensive, so during her teenage years she almost did not climb. She went off to Uni to study English and American literature and had planned a career as a teacher, only re-entering the word of mountaineering after graduating.

She decided to join multiple men's climbing clubs as there were no women's climbing clubs in Japan. This caused many men to question and judge her as this was a sport that women generally did not partake in. Regardless of all the doubts, she proved herself worthy quickly by climbing all major mountains in Japan, in one of these excursions she met her future husband, Masanobu. In 1969, Junko established the first Female-Only Mountain Climbing group in Japan: The Joshi-Tohan Club. She did this because she felt that these male-only clubs were hostile environments for women and the main reason why most women quit this sport.

This group went to climb the Nepalese mountain Annapurna

III becoming the first female and Japanese climbers of that mountain.

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[wenamedthedogkylo]

fUCKING OTOHAN

THAT HO-TOHAN

[fortunetellersdilettante]

chagoo hiloi donya umeed aahe the tohan badhi rahya aahiyo jekadhan maan jawan ahyan the moon kee muaf karyo mor khaan bahar galhayon laaa ati ko aahe jeko moon kee gome kiyo viyo aahe moon kee lagi tho the ahi thi saghan tha moon jo better adh ahi ghalt jaa tay ahan in kee sahih banaen jee koshish karyo per aaeon jawaz deen khaan thakji viyo ahyan tanhankary maan tokey chuan tho gahar achee gahar a "chhakan the maan tunhanjo intezar kare rahyo ahyan etri deer taini etri deer taeen ۽ hen waqat winnin jee witch ۾ jang aahe per maan saraf ton ۽ moon kee disan tho ۽ aawhaan laaa jang subh moon kee kadahan beh janyo aahe tanhankary gahar hc ohe aaun hassan ۾ gome thi wendy ahyan her shea jo moon kee disan ۾ achi tho donya adh kharab neh aahe jeean the ahi in kee paint kan tha jekadhan subh patta subh niyaniyoon in kee ander wathan laaa rokyo khairee umeed aahe tahey nafrat ghatji wendy aahe ۽ piyar sharooa kare saghi tho ahoo shayad hani sharooa thi saghi thoi ha khairee shayad aaeon saraf zor saan khawab dise rahyo ahyan chagoo in waqat taeen gahar achee gahar a "chhakan the maan tunhanjo intezar kare rahyo ahyan etri deer taini etri deer taeen ۽ hen waqat winnin jee witch ۾ jang aahe per maan saraf ton ۽ moon kee disan tho ۽ aawhaan laaa jang subh moon kee kadahan beh janyo aahe, kadahan jani tanhan kare achi ha

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No, ahoj, svet Dúfam, že počúvate Odpusť mi, ak som mladý Za to, že hovoril mimo poradia Je tu niekto, kto mi chýbal Myslím si, že by mohli byť Lepšia polovica mňa Sú na nesprávnom mieste Snažím sa to napraviť Ale už ma nebaví ospravedlňovať Tak ti hovorím Príď domov, vráť sa domov Pretože som na teba čakal Tak dlho, tak dlho A práve teraz prebieha vojna medzi márnosťami Ale všetko, čo vidím, si ty a ja A boj o teba je všetko, čo som kedy poznal Tak vráť sa domov Ooh Strácam sa v kráse Zo všetkého, čo vidím Svet nie je ani z polovice taký zlý Ako to maľujú Ak všetci synovia, všetky dcéry Zastavil som sa, aby som to prijal Dúfajme, že nenávisť ustúpi A láska môže začať Mohlo by sa to začať teraz, áno No, možno len snívam nahlas Dovtedy Príď domov, vráť sa domov Pretože som na teba čakal Tak dlho, tak dlho A práve teraz prebieha vojna medzi márnosťami Ale všetko, čo vidím, si ty a ja A boj za teba je všetko, čo som kedy poznal, kedy som poznal Tak poď h

හොඳයි, ආයුබෝවන්, ලෝකය ඔබ සවන් දෙනු ඇතැයි සිතමි මම තරුණ නම් මට සමාව දෙන්න මාරුවෙන් මාරුවට කතා කිරීම සඳහා මට මග හැරුණු කෙනෙක් ඉන්නවා මම හිතන්නේ ඔවුන් විය හැකි බව මට වඩා හොඳ භාගය එයාලා ඉන්නේ වැරදි තැනක. එය නිවැරදි කිරීමට උත්සාහ කරන්න ඒත් මට සාධාරණීකරණය කරන්න කම්මැලියි ඒ නිසා මම ඔබට කියමි ගෙ��ර එන්න, ගෙදර එන්න මොකද මම ඔයා එනකම් බලාගෙන හිටියා. මෙච්චර කල්, මෙච්චර කල් ඒ වගේම මේ වෙලාවේ වනිවරුන් අතර යුද්ධයක් තියෙනවා. ඒත් මට පේන්නෙ උඹයි මමයි විතරයි ඒ වගේම ඔයා වෙනුවෙන් කරන සටන තමයි මම දැනගෙන හිටියේ. ඒ නිසා ගෙදර එන්න ඔහ්හ් මම සුන්දරත්වය අතර අතරමං වෙනවා මම දකින හැම දේකින්ම ලෝකය අඩක් නරක නැහැ ඔවුන් එය තීන්ත ආලේප කරන පරිදි සියලු පුතුන් නම්, සියලු දියණියන් ඒක ඇතුලට ගන්න නැවැත්තුවා හොඳයි, බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා, වෛරය අඩු වේවි කියලා ආදරය ආරම්භ කළ හැකිය එය දැන් ආරම්භ විය හැකිය, ඔව් හොඳයි, සමහර විට මම හයියෙන් හීන දකිනවා. හොඳයි, එතකන් ගෙදර එන්න, ගෙදර එන්න මොකද මම ඔයා එනකම් බලාගෙන හිටියා. මෙච්චර කල්, මෙච්චර කල් ඒ වගේම මේ වෙලාවේ වනිවරුන් අතර යුද්ධයක් තියෙනවා. ඒත් මට පේන්නෙ උඹයි මමයි විතරයි ඒ වගේම ඔයා වෙනුවෙන් කරන සටන තමයි මම දැනගෙන හිටියේ, දැනගෙන හිටපු හැමදේම. ඉතින් එන්න h

چڱو، هيلو، دنيا اميد آهي ته توهان ٻڌي رهيا آهيو جيڪڏهن مان جوان آهيان ته مون کي معاف ڪريو موڙ کان ٻاهر ڳالهائڻ لاء اتي ڪو آهي جيڪو مون کي گم ڪيو ويو آهي مون کي لڳي ٿو ته اهي ٿي سگھن ٿا مون جو بهتر اڌ اهي غلط جاء تي آهن ان کي صحيح بڻائڻ جي ڪوشش ڪريو پر آئون جواز ڏيڻ کان ٿڪجي ويو آهيان تنهنڪري مان توکي چوان ٿو گهر اچ، گهر آ "ڇاڪاڻ ته مان تنهنجو انتظار ڪري رهيو آهيان ايتري دير تائين، ايتري دير تائين ۽ هن وقت وينين جي وچ ۾ جنگ آهي پر مان صرف تون ۽ مون کي ڏسان ٿو ۽ اوھان لاء جنگ سڀ مون کي ڪڏهن به ڄاڻيو آهي تنهنڪري گهر اچ اوهه آءٌ حسن ۾ گم ٿي ويندي آهيان هر شيء جو مون کي ڏسڻ ۾ اچي ٿو دنيا اڌ خراب نه آهي جيئن ته اهي ان کي پينٽ ڪن ٿا جيڪڏهن سڀ پٽ، سڀ نياڻيون ان کي اندر وٺڻ لاء روڪيو خير، اميد آهي ته، نفرت گهٽجي ويندي آهي ۽ پيار شروع ڪري سگھي ٿو اهو شايد هاڻي شروع ٿي سگهي ٿو، ها خير، شايد آئون صرف زور سان خواب ڏسي رهيو آهيان چڱو، ان وقت تائين گهر اچ، گهر آ "ڇاڪاڻ ته مان تنهنجو انتظار ڪري رهيو آهيان ايتري دير تائين، ايتري دير تائين ۽ هن وقت وينين جي وچ ۾ جنگ آهي پر مان صرف تون ۽ مون کي ڏسان ٿو ۽ اوھان لاء جنگ سڀ مون کي ڪڏهن به ڄاڻيو آهي, ڪڏهن ڄاڻي تنهن ڪري اچي ها

Zvakanaka, mhoro, nyika Ndinovimba kuti uri kuteerera Ndiregererei kana ndiri mudiki Nokuda kwekutaura kunze kwekutendeuka Pane mumwe munhu wandave ndichishayiwa Ndinofunga kuti vanogona kuva Hafu yangu iri nani Vari munzvimbo isiri iyo Edza kuita kuti zvive zvakanaka Asi ndaneta nekururamisa Saka ndinoti kwamuri Uyai kumba, dzokai kumba 'Cause I've waited for you Kwenguva yakareba kwazvo, kwenguva yakareba kwazvo Uye parizvino pane hondo pakati pezvisina maturo Asi zvose zvandinoona iwe neni Uye kurwira iwe ndiko chete kwandakamboziva Saka uyai kumba Ooh Ndinorasika mukunaka Zvese zvandinoona Nyika haisi hafu yakaipa Sezvo ivo kupenda kuti kuva Kana vanakomana vose, vanasikana vose Akamira kuitora Eya, netariro, ruvengo runoderera Uye rudo runogona kutanga Inogona kutanga zvino, hongu Zvakanaka, pamwe ndiri kungorota zvinonzwika Zvakanaka, kusvikira panguva iyoyo Uyai kumba, dzokai kumba 'Cause I've waited for you Kwenguva yakareba kwazvo, kwenguva yakareba kwazvo Uye parizvino pane hondo pakati pezvisina maturo Asi zvose zvandinoona iwe neni Uye kurwira iwe ndiko chete kwandakamboziva, kumboziva Saka uyai h

Bonjour Mme Monde Ke tshepa hore letla utlwa Ke tla intshwarêla fa ke le monnye Go bua go tswa kwa ntle ga go boa ga Anyone Else I'm Gone Ke ne ke akanya gore ba ka nna ba Kaone Rabine Ba mo lefelong le le sa siamang. Leka go dira se se siameng. Ke lapisitswe ke go lokafatsa Ka jalo ke lo raya ke re, Go Home, Go Home Gonne ke sa ntse ke go emetse. Gone So Long - So Long Jaanong go na le ntwa e e neng e le teng fa gare ga magare a batho. Ke go bone fela gore ke wena le wena. Lololololololololol i've all i have never seen Gonna Go Home oh ya lo se Kefilwe Bontle Sengwe le sengwe se ke se bonang Halofo ya lefatshe ga e a siama. Jaaka ba ne ba e tshwantsha, gore e nne Fa bana ba gago botlhe, basimane botlhe ba ne ba a emisa go e tsaya mo teng ga Tshepo Tlhowe Lorato Lo ka Simolola Simolola jaanong, ee, go I'm just dreaming kwa Go fitlha ka nako eo, Go Home, Go Home Gonne ke sa ntse ke go emetse. Gone So Long - So Long Jaanong go na le ntwa e e neng e le teng fa gare ga magare a batho. Ke go bone fela gore ke wena le wena. Lololololololololol i've all i have ever seen Here ya go H

Goodbye World Goodbye Kholofelo Thee Forgive Me If I'm a Go Go Go bolela ka ntle le go tšhabiša Ke na le motho yo ke bego ke mo hlologetše I think they might be ya Kaone Motheka Ba be ba le lefelong le le fošagetšego To be done right Ke lapišitšwe ke go lokafatša Ke go bo boditše Go home, go home Gobane ke be ke go emetše So Long - So Long Lehono go na le ntwa magareng ga dithekisi I feel ya and you be 12Ke ka baka la lena, ke lwa le bohle ba ke ba tsebeng, Go home, go home go go ooh Kefilwe Beauty All i see ya 2010 No Go No Go 1⁄2 Drawing it's gonna be Moka Mora - Moka Mora Go Stop Go In Y yo ya no le digo, ya no les digo Lerato Thoma Let's Go Now, Yeah I just wanna be a dreamin' ya Go fihlela ka nako yeo Go home, go home Gobane ke be ke go emetše So Long - So Long Lehono go na le ntwa magareng ga dithekisi I feel ya and you be 12Ke ka baka la lena, ka gobane ke tseba tšohle tše ke bego ke di tseba, Here ya go H

Hello world, hello le monde Ke tšepa hore u mametse Excuse Me While I'm A Little Ho bua ka ntle le ho tima Ho na le motho eo ke mo hlolohetsoeng Ke nahana hore ba ka ba Halofo ea ka e betere Ba sebakeng se fosahetseng Leka ho e etsa ka nepo Ke khathetse ke ho lokafatsa Kahoo ke re ho uena Boa, Boa Home Hobane esale ke u emetse So Long , So Long Hona joale ho na le ntoa lipakeng tsa li-vans Sohle seo ke se bonang ke uena le uena 'Me ntoa khahlanong le uena ke sohle seo ke sa se tsebeng Kahoo, e-ea hae Ooh ooh ho Ke lahlehetswe ke botle Tsohle tseo ke li bonang Halofo ea lefatše ha e mpe Ha ba ntse ba penta hore e be Bonkeng - Moka Mora Khaotsa ho kena Ka hopena o ka hoʻolimalima Lerato Le Ka Qala E ka qala hona joale, e, I'm just dreaming loud ho Ho fihlela ka nako eo Boa, Boa Home Hobane esale ke u emetse So Long , So Long Hona joale ho na le ntoa lipakeng tsa li-vans Sohle seo ke se bonang ke uena le uena 'Me ntoa e khahlanong le uena ke sohle seo nkileng ka se tseba, leha ho le joalo So, Tsang Ho

Pa, zdravo, svet Nadam se da slušate Oprosti mi ako sam mlad Za govor van reda Neko mi je nedostajao Mislim da bi mogli biti Bolja polovina mene Oni su na pogrešnom mestu Pokušavam da to ispravim Ali umoran sam od opravdavanja Zato vam kažem Dođi kući, vrati se kući Jer sam te čekao Toliko dugo, tako dugo I upravo sada postoji rat između taština Ali sve što vidim je ti i ja A borba za tebe je sve što sam ikada poznavao Zato se vrati kući Ooh Izgubim se u lepoti Od svega što vidim Svet nije ni upola loš Kao što ga slikaju da bude Ako su svi sinovi, sve ćerke Zaustavio sam se da ga uzmem Pa, nadamo se, mržnja se smiruje I ljubav može da počne Moglo bi da počne sada, da Pa, možda samo sanjam naglas Pa, do tada Dođi kući, vrati se kući Jer sam te čekao Toliko dugo, tako dugo I upravo sada postoji rat između taština Ali sve što vidim je ti i ja I borba za tebe je sve što sam ikada znao, ikada znao Pa hajde h

Па , здраво, свет Надам се да слушате Опрости ми ако сам млад За говор ван реда Неко ми је недостајао Мислим да би могли бити Боља половина мене Они су на погрешном месту Покушавам да то исправим Али уморан сам од оправдавања Зато вам кажем Дођи кући, врати се кући Јер сам те чекао Толико дуго, тако дуго И управо сада постоји рат између таштина Али све што видим је ти и ја А борба за тебе је све што сам икада познавао Зато се врати кући Оох Изгубим се у лепоти Од свега што видим Свет није ни упола лош Као што га сликају да буде Ако су сви синови, све ћерке Зауставио сам се да га узмем Па , надамо се, мржња се смирује И љубав може да почне Могло би да почне сада, да Па , можда само сањам наглас Па , до тада Дођи кући, врати се кући Јер сам те чекао Толико дуго, тако дуго И управо сада постоји рат између таштина Али све што видим је ти и ја И борба за тебе је све што сам икада знао, икада знао Па хајде х

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JUNKO TABEI // CLIMBER

“She was a Japanese climber who was the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest. As well as the first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent. Some male mountaineers refused to climb with her, others thought so only climbed to find a husband, so she founded the Joshi-Tohan Club (Women’s Mountaineering Club) in 1969. The club’s slogan was ‘Let’s go on an overseas expedition by ourselves.’ In 1970, the club completed the first female and first Japanese ascent of Annapurna III in Nepal. To find the climb, Junko taught piano and tutored kids in music and English. The club members made their gloves out of old car seats and sewed their own sleeping bags.”

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