#yamashita kazumi

[rahxe-things]

OC Kazumi and the kiddos!!

Special drawing for chapter insert!

You can read "Harmony Within the Sky" on both FFN and Ao3!

[classic-shoujo]

High School Connection (1982) by Kazumi Yamashita

[purichou]

[blossommoonart]

I made the drawings of Kane and Salima's children, Satoru (older) and Kazumi (younger). I have to credit @nekodarkkitten for aiding me in choosing a name for the girl. Satoru is a mamma's boy and Kazumi is Dad's little princess. Pardon me if Kazumi looks older, but she is tall for a girl plus the face cut and jawline with the hairstyle, and has that little specs, soo. I might change their designs a little in the future, but here it's just for reference.

Since it's Salima's birthday today (November 29), I decided to do something different other than just drawing her. But I never planned these drawings to be posted on this day. But, this is combined for both Kane and Salima's birthdays (I missed Kane's due to busyness :/).

Do note, don't use my OCs without my permission.

[dozydawn]

Kazumi Yamashita competes in the Sapporo International Winter Sports Championships, 1972.

[hatsumishinogu]

Twisted Sisters Vol.7

[parcequefandom]

Recent manga readings

Last month I got to buy and read three manga I'd been looking forward to for a good while:

-Land by Kazumi Yamashita is the one I'd heard of most "recently", since I learnt about it through the pilot episode of Urasawa's Manben documentary, back in 2015. We saw the mangaka working on content that was in this first volume and I was charmed by her artstyle and what was mentioned of the plot.

Not a fan of the cover illustration for the French version (it's quite bland compared to the original one) but otherwise I loved what I read! It's beautiful, the characters are pretty interesting already and the setting is very mysterious and intriguing. We have twin girls separated at birth, one living at the fantastical border of the known world while the other has been living in a village secluded by heavy traditions and rules that feels quite cultish and that she is trying to understand the reasons behind.

-second half of The Poe Clan: I discovered Moto Hagio around 2012~2013, back when I started getting more involved in looking for works by female mangaka and manga aimed primarly at a female audiences. I was charmed by her short stories I could read and Poe was one of her series that I really wanted to read: the episodic, non-chronological format spanning through decades and centuries with some recurring "immortal"/long-living characters is a very appealing one to me. A few of the chapters could be found on the internet back then, which only made me crave for it even more.

I'd seen rumors for years (I think starting around 2017?) that a French editor had gotten the rights to publish it but it took until 2022 for an announcement to get made and even after that, the first-half got delayed from the release initially planned by around 6 months. But now that the original publication is complete, my wait has come to an end and I've very much enjoyed both volumes! The second one is especially good for the interconnected threads of stories and characters aspect; I wanted to take my time but I read it pretty fast.

I'd love to discover the recent revival stories too, as I'm very curious and interested in how similar/different they might be given all the time that has passed after the last published chapter of the original. But I'm happy enough with what I have for now and ready to wait some time for more!

-And finally, we have Cocoon by Machiko Kyô, published back in 2009 in Japan. I first learnt of it through the mangaka's blog (it's still up after all those years!!), which I was following around that time. I don't remember how exactly but I think I probably found it through blindly clicking rec links on art blogs by various Japanese (fan) artists. I was immediately charmed by her art and little comics, from the poetic and surreal subjects they had to the beautiful colors. So I really wanted to be able to read one of her works at one point.

Cocoon is in black and white, aside from a few pages, so unfortunately, that aspect of her work I especially enjoyed isn't present. The story is inspired by real life stories and centered around a rough and gruesome subject as we follow a group of Japanese schoolgirls working as nurses for hurt soldiers during WWII and death is everywhere. It's pretty brutal; even with an artstyle that would seem on the cuter and not too detailed side, the graphic and psychological violence are very much there. I was left feeling a bit empty after finishing my read and not really knowing to what degree I enjoyed it.

[citypopdaily]

バイブレイション (Vibration) by Kimiko Kasai / 笠井紀美子

Album: Tokyo Special Year: 1977 Label: CBS/Sony Lyrics: Kazumi Yasui / 安井かずみ Music: Tatsuro Yamashita / 山下達郎

[ljaesch]

Manga Creator Rieko Takeishi Passes Away

Manga creator Kazumi Yamashita has announced on her Twitter account that her sister, former manga creator Rieko Takeishi, had passed away after an eight-year battle with an unspecified illness. Takeishi drew shōjo manga mainly in the 1980’s, drawing manga such as Reiko-san ga Iku, Tengoku-teki Saijitsu, Shigeki-kun no Akarui Seikatsu, and Uchi no Fusaku. She also drew one-shots such as “RAINBOW,”…

[lunarpanda]

Totaka Kazumi put his entire pussy into making a K.K. Slider version of Tatsuro Yamashita’s Sparkle (with some Love Space thrown in) and then just put it as a secret song so we’re gonna have to fucking wait until the next game in five years or so for it to be available to play in our homes.

AUGH.

And they KNEW it was gonna be HELLA DOPE and made an official remix of it.

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Koi to Uso

Episode 1 end card by Yamashita Kazumi

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[mahoumanga]

• Land •

ランド

[desideriasubrosa]

Episode on Itou Junji, subtitles

Naoki Urasawa’s Manben

If you haven’t watched Naoki Urasawa’s Manben Go watch it now!..well if you are into manga or comics and want to see the process, tools and lives of famous Japanese manga creators in a documentary style program exploring all that then you’ll surely like Manben!

The series is hosted by Naoki Urasawa who is the mastermind behind a body of work that includes masterpieces like : 20th Century Boys, Monster, Pluto, Billy Bat and more. I’m a huge fan if you haven’t noticed, however, it’s not just about him..it’s got so many different flavors and inputs and I really enjoyed it and learnt (learning still) a lot from it.

I recommend that you looks it up and watch it if you like what you read.. and I’ll put links to what I found on the interwebs .so if it doesn’t work or if it violates any rights please let me know and I’ll fix it/remove it. (it’s still ongoing so there will be more in the future..like this month of September!..and I don’t want it to stop! :D)  But first..some pictures:

Second, comes the English subbed episodes that I found that I’m not sure about sharing them..let me know if there is other sources that should be here instead or where to buy them..etc Urasawa Naoki Manben S0E0 - Kawaguchi Kaiji & Yamashita Kazumi 

Urasawa Naoki  S1E1 2015 - Higashimura Akiko 

Urasawa Naoki  S1E2 2015 - Fujita Kazuhiro

Urasawa Naoki  S1E3 2015 - Asano Inio

Urasawa Naoki  S1E4 2015 - Saito Takao

Urasawa Naoki  S2E1 2016 - Hagio Moto

Urasawa Naoki  S2E2 2016 - Hanazawa Kengo

Urasawa Naoki  S2E3 2016 - Igarashi Daisuke

..I believe season 3 is on through September still..Enjoy!

(I will update this post with new episodes if I ever find them online in the future!)

[dozydawn]

Kazumi Yamashita competes in the Sapporo International Winter Sports Championships, 1971.

[laikagohome]

some books from book off last week