#Nagata Kohei

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Musical Touken Ranbu ~Hanakage Yureru Tomizu~

Countdown

April 30 - May 7, 2023 at Tokyo Dome City Hall May 13 - 20 2023 at Amashin Archaic Hall Hyogo May 26 - 28, 2023 at Kitakyushu Soleil Hall Fukuoka June 3 -18, 2023 at Tachikawa Stage Garden Tokyo

Livestreams on DMM TV: Purchase link HERE (VPN Required) April 30, 2023 18:30 JPT June 18, 2023 13:00, 18:30 JPT

[mandilo]

ミュージカル 『刀剣乱舞』 ～花影

Musical Touken Ranbu Hana Kage Yureru Tomizu

3 Days until day 1, 7 days until i see it !

[gloriuspandablog]

Musical "Touken Ranbu" -Hanakage Yureru Tomizu- 1st week statistics

Hello everyone! It's me again with your TouMyu update

so Oricon has released the 1st week sale statistics of Musical "Touken Ranbu" -Hanakage Yureru Tomizu- BD/DVD already!

on the DVD side the production sold a total of

3,542 DVD copies! Ranked as the 6th best selling DVD of the week!

and on the BD side the production sold a total of

13,139 BD copies!! Ranked as the best selling BD of the week! Even on par with nationally famous band and idol group!

In total this production sold a total of 16,681 copies in its 1st week of sale!!!

Unwavering popularity even with a mostly new Touken Danshi lineup!!

CONGRATULATIONS! And thank you to everyone who purchased a copy.

Please continue to support them this year also!

Source; DVD, BD

[duckprintspress]

My June Reads

Storygraph introduced auto-generated graphics for sharing our reads by the month, which makes it much easier to do a review, and here I am! Sorry it's kinda pixelly, the settings on Storygraph aren't perfect yet but they're planning to add functionality.

I've been posting on the Duck Prints Press Book Lover's Server for a while, so everyone knows there that the answer to "how do you read so much?" is the library, but just to be clear, if it's a graphic novel, I got it from one of three libraries - either my local system, @queerliblib, or the Japan Foundation Library. The last two are both free-throughout-the-US Libby libraries and they've both been awesome.

Prose books, I usually own.

Anyway. Onward! My June reads:

How to Love: A Guide to Feelings and Relationships for Everyone by Alex Norris (graphic novel, short self-help stories about how to be in relationships, how to be alone, etc., all very inclusive.

Blue Flag Vol. 1 - 2 by Kaito (manga series about modern high school and a young man and his best friend - who has a crush on him - and a young woman and her best friend - who has a crush on her. poly vibes.)

The Tea Dragon Festival and The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O'Neill (graphic novels, very fluffy fantasy slice-of-life with various queer rep)

Squad by Maggie Toluda-Hall and Lisa Sterle (graphic novel, modern with magic, wlw high school student discovers that fitting in with the cool kids means becoming a murderous werewolf)

Clementine vol. 1 and 2 by Tille Walden (graphic novel, post-apocalyptic set in the same 'verse as The Walking Dead about a wlw amputee surviving against the zombies.

A Thousand Hopes, A Thousand Risks by Kelas Lloyd (short story, fantasy, pre-mlm between a young merchant and a god)

Ride On, Shooting Star by J. D. Harlock (short story, science fiction, a space courier wants to retire)

Deadendia vol. 1 by Hamish Steele (graphic novel, modern with magic/horror elements, about a trans male teenager who runs away from home and moves into a haunted house at an amusement park)

Giant Days vol. 2 by John Allison and Whitney Cogar (graphic novel, modern college setting, about the somewhat silly lives of the main characters)

Yona of the Dawn vol. 1 by Mizuho Kusanagi (manga, fantasy, about a young princess whose kingdom gets taken over by someone she thought a friend)

In the Dark vol. 3 by Jin Shisi Chai (danmei novel, mlm, last of three volumes - I read the other two in May - about an undercover drug cop who returns home after six years undercover)

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manhua vol. 6 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (manhua version of the MDZS novel, mlm, historical cultivation about a fraught political situation)

The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha (graphic novel playing on story of the fox maiden Gumiho in Korean mythology, with a side of wlw)

My Hero Academia vol. 9 - 12 by Kohei Horikoshi (manga series about teenagers at a high school for superheroes)

Frontera by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo (graphic novel about a young man crossing the border between the US and Mexico illegally, and about the mlm ghost who helps him)

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi (autobiographical manga about a young lesbian in Japan trying to figure out her identity and find companionship)

Solo Leveling vol. 1 - 2 by Chugong (a manwha series set in modern fantasy Korea, about a young man is terrible at "hunting"...until he isn't)

Haikyu!! vol. 5 - 6 by Haruichi Furudate (manga series about young men who play high school volleyball)

Little Birds by Anaïs Nin (a collection of short erotic stories with lots of trigger warnings applicable and a few dashes of wlw, originally written in the 1930s and 1940s)

To Strip the Flesh by Oto Toda (manga collection of short stories, with the longest/most involved being about a young man's journey coming out as a trans man)

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed (graphic novel exploring three stories of Egyptians getting first-grade wishes in a modern-with-magic world, includes NB rep)

Limerence by Jiang Zi Bei (danmei novel, mlm, about a young college student who breaks up with his boyfriend and ends up falling for his ex's roommate.)

Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame (manga about a young Japanese gay man coming our of the closet and making friends/finding a mentor in an older gay man)

Silent Hearts vol. 1 by Jing Shui Bian (danmei novel, mlm, modern high school setting, lots of disability rep though not for either member of the main couple)

Rainbow! vol. 1 by Sunny (modern, maybe with magic, about a young woman with a tough life and the people around her; wlw implied in the future?)

Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman (real-life-inspired graphic novel about a young gay man navigating high school)

Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up by Lewis Hancox (autobiographical graphic novel about a young trans man with severe anxiety)

This was the most pages I've read in a month all year, and the second most individual books. There's actually one more book not pictured, as it wasn't on Storygraph and I opted not to add it.

Happy reading, y'all.

[byneddiedingo]

Machiko Kyo in Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953) Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyo, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa, Kotaro Bando, Jun Tazaki, Koreya Senda. Screenplay: Teinosuke Kinugasa, Masaichi Nagata, based on a play by Kan Kikuchi. Cinematography: Kohei Sugiyama. Production design: Hiroshi Ozawa. Film editing: Shigeo Nishida. Music: Yasushi Akutagawa. Can a movie be too stylish for its own good? As Pauline Kael says of Gate of Hell, "It's as if the director, Teinosuke Kinugasa, had read those critics who compare every Japanese movie to a Japanese print and had decided to give them more pictorial effects than they could handle -- delicately choreographed battles, the flow and texture of garments, and everywhere the grace of movement and composition." What gets lost in Gate of Hell is the simple dignity of its story about a wife who sacrifices herself for her husband's sake. The film won an Oscar* for costume design, and it certainly deserved it. But when the eye is continually caught by the color and texture of surfaces, the film risks being superficial. Fortunately, the wife, Kesa, is played by the superb Machiko Kyo, who makes the character into more than a mannequin for exquisite robes. *The award was presented to Sanzo Wada, whereas the credited costume design is Shima Yoshizane. I haven't been able to discover whether Sanzo Wada is the same person as the credited "color consultant" for the film, Mitsuzo Wada, but Sanzo was a noted designer and the author of the six-volume Dictionary of Color Combinations, so it seems likely.

[kondou-shouri]

17.06.2018

We've completed the 43 performances of Engeki Haikyuu!! Hajimari no Kyojin!! Thank you for your support!! 

I'm proud to be part of Nekoma, and being able to play Kuroo Tetsurou 

I've always been on stage, but this autumn I will be cheering from the audience! 

Karasuno Volleyball Club! Thank you for these 2 years!!

[heroicadventurists]

And The Nominees Are....

2018 Harvey Awards

Book of the Year

Digital Book of the Year

Best Children’s or Young Adult Book Award

Best Adaptation from a Comic

Best European Book

Best Manga Title

MY BROTHER'S HUSBAND by Gengoroh Tagame Anne Ishii (Pantheon Graphic Library)

MY HERO ACADEMIA by Kohei Horikoshi (Viz Media)

MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS by Nagata Kabi (Seven Seas)

TOKYO GHOUL by Sui Ishida (Viz Media)

YOUR NAME by Makoto Shinkai and Ranmaru Kotone (Yen Press)

 Ceremony Oct 5 at NYCC

[recentanimenews]

Witch Hat Atelier Takes Home Best Manga Honors at Harvey Awards

  Last month kicked off with the announcement of a bunch of manga titles in the running for the Best Manga category in this year's Harvey Awards. The official awards ceremony is set for later this week, but the winners have been announced ahead of the event, and Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier took home the award for Best Manga. 

  Other manga that were in the running include H.P. Lovecraft’s At Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe, The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge, The Poe Clan by Moto Hagio, and The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono.

  Kodansha Comics publishes Witch Hat Atelier in English and describes it like so: 

  In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem …

    Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang took home Book of the Year, and the Matt Bors-edited The Nib won Digital Book of the Year. Other winners include Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru's Superman Smashes the Klan for Best Children or Young Adult Book, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass for Best International Book, and HBO's Watchmen for Best Adaptation from a Comic Book/Graphic Novel. 

  Prior to this year, manga nominations were presented in the now defunct category of Best American Edition of Foreign Material. Previous winners of the Best Manga category include Kabi Nagata's My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness in 2018 and Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia in 2019. 

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox. 

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[ljaesch]

My Hero Academia Occupies Seven of the Top 20 Spots on the U.S. Monthly BookScan List for June 2018

My Hero Academia Occupies Seven of the Top 20 Spots on the U.S. Monthly BookScan List for June 2018

Manga occupied 13 of the Top 20 spots on BookScan’s June 2018 list, and seven of the 13 are volumes of Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia.

The 13 manga that appeared on BookScan’s June 2018 list are:

My Hero Academia Volume 13 by Kōhei Horikoshi (#1)

My Hero Academia Volume 1 by Kōhei Horikoshi (#4)

My Hero Academia Volume 12 by Kōhei Horikoshi (#5)

Tokyo Ghoul:re Volume 5 by Sui Ishida (#8)

My…

[otaku-mama73]

Musical Touken Ranbu ~ Kosui Sanka no Yuki~ Singles CD ~ “Omae ga Shitteru” Release date: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Press Limited Edition ver. A to F [CD + DVD] ¥ 1,760 each Press Limited Edition ver. A to F [CD + Mcard] ¥ 1,100 each

[mandilo]

Musical Touken Ranbu Spring 2023 has a name

We finally have a name for the new stage

花影ゆれる砥水

Hanakage yureru tomizu

I don't have the knowledgeto translate the title but the name of the humans have been revealed :

Mitsuru will be playing Honami Kotoku. In history he is known to be a sword appraiser/inscriptor/ polisher from a pretty well known familly that appraised or inscribed many of our boys

Yasuto Kosuda will be playing toyotomi hideyoshi

and our dear ex-ensemble will be playing a character named Kage

So for now our best and most credible theme is going to be around the worth of a sword !

speaking of swords we have new more complete visuals :

Let's be honnest i am ready to see the stream of the first day on dmm and then in person.

[gloriuspandablog]

Musical Touken Ranbu ～Kosui Sanka no Yuki～BD/DVD 1st week sale statistic

Hello everyone! I’m back with the usual TouMyu sales statistic and this time it’s the 1st week sale statistic of  Musical Touken Ranbu ～Kosui Sanka no Yuki～BD and DVD disc and wowowowowowowo Nelke must be really pleased with this number.

On the DVD side this production sold a total of 

6,820 DVD COPIES in its first week!!!!

Ranked as the 4th best selling DVD of the week!!

WOW

and as for the BD side, the production sold a total of...

22,700 BD COPIES!!!!!!!!!!

Ranked as the 2nd best selling BD of the week!!!!!

in total this production sold a total combined of 29,520 DISC in its first week!!!!

This is the best 1st week number of TOUMYU non-live production BD/DVD ever.

unwavering popularity! 😭😭♥😭😭 Congratulations!!!!

Thank you to everyone who purchased a copy! 

Thank you Thank you Thank you.

Wishing them a successful GouMyu and a successful 2023 as always ♥

Source : BD : https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/bd/w/2022-11-21/                DVD : https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/dg/w/2022-11-21/

[digitalsnail]

which artists inspire the look of your art the most? mine are @trcoot on tumblr (who did some vocaloid music videos) and kabi nagata (the person who wrote My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness)

oH man i look up to so many artists .... right now i really love the works of aoicocare, maegigil, and sticksandsharks (tumblr) gettehld (twitter) and satrn (deviantart)

as for more famous artists temmie chang (artist for undertale) kohei horikoshi (author of bnha) and yoh yoshinari(artist/animator of gurren laggan and little witch academia) immediately come to mind

im on a sugar low atm so i know im missing a ton LOL

[saito-kohei]

「箱の中の天使 (Angel inside a box)」(2018)

Video installation

Animation 2′26″ / sound 3′55 loop

panel size 1300×1300mm 

Animation by Kohei Saito

Sound by Kyosuke Nagano and Fuka Nagata

修士１年次制作

GEIDAI ANIMATION 09 oh! ( 2018.3 横浜美術館）にて展示

[byneddiedingo]

Kinuyo Tanaka and Sanae Takasugi in Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1948) Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda, Mitsuo Nagata. Screenplay: Yoshikata Yoda, based on a novel by Eijiro Hisaita. Cinematography: Kohei Sugiyama. Production design: Hiroshi Mizutani. Film editing: Tatsuko Sakane. Music: Hisato Osawa. Rougher and less polished than Kenji Mizoguchi's prewar films and the masterpieces -- The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954) --  that would follow, Women of the Night is one of his harshest and most unforgiving works, with several breathtakingly raw moments. It begins in the aftermath of the war, with Fusako (Kinuyo Tanaka) struggling to get by: Her husband is still missing and their small child is dangerously ill. A woman to whom she tries to sell some spare items of clothing hints that her best option is to sell herself, an idea that she rejects in shock. She then learns that her husband has died, and the opening sequence ends with the sick child going into convulsions. There's a remarkable jump cut at this point, and we see Fusako somewhat better dressed and learn that the child has died, but she has gone to work for her husband's former boss, Kuriyama (Mitsuo Nagata). By accident she also meets her sister, Natsuko (Sanae Takasugi), whom she has not seen since the war, when Natsuko and their parents were in Korea. Natsuko is working as a "dance hostess," and when Fusako introduces her to her teenage sister-in-law, Kumiko (Tomie Tsunoda), the girl is taken with what sounds like a glamorous job. Fusako and Natsuko move in together, but Fusako has been cultivating a profitable illicit relationship with Kuriyama, and one day she arrives home early to find that Natsuko is also sleeping with him. Furious, Fusako finds the old woman who had suggested that she become a sex worker and takes her revenge on her sister and her boss by becoming a streetwalker. Meanwhile, Kumiko runs away from home and she, too, winds up prostituting herself. Eventually, the three women find one another and struggle to get out of the destructive cycle into which they have been drawn. The story is highlighted by a couple of remarkable scenes: In the first of them, the naive Kumiko encounters a street hustler who belongs to a gang of young thugs; after raping her, he sics the girls in the gang onto Kumiko, who strip her and then make her one of them. Later, Fusako discovers that Kumiko has become a prostitute, but when she tries to get the girl to an organization that tries to rehabilitate prostitutes she is set upon and severely beaten by a gang of streetwalkers who oppose the reformists. Mizoguchi stages these violent scenes with brutal clarity. Unfortunately, Women of the Night ends with a somewhat sentimental scene in the ruins of a church whose stained-glass window of the Madonna and child seem somehow to have escaped breakage. Even Mizoguchi later felt inclined to apologize for the film, particularly for what he felt was its dominant note of anger. But as a story about the predicament of women, it's still a fascinating postwar complement to his more finished 1936 films Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion.

[kondou-shouri]

Congratulations on successfully completing the 43 performances of Engeki Haikyuu!! Hajimari no Kyojin

I am so proud and thankful to everyone involved in this production! Thank you for bringing Haikyuu to us on stage, and making sure each and every performance is the best it can be, These three years have been awesome!