#ichiro ito

[goozeghost]

i can't draw anything but my ocs someone put me down

[akashiserizawa]

bringing this over from twitter. because what do you MEAN hypmic x charisma at evil a live??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN????

[joneswibu]

4th-5th: "The shape Of Charisma" AU 6th: Nyo Terra 8th: based on this, written by a friend https://archiveofourown.org/works/50497267

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[nian-7]

Hellooo! I hope you are having a good day :D I would like to request a romantic matchup for Hypmic, Paralive and Pjsk (if that's too much then hypmic and Pjsk please!)

My zodiac is Taurus and my MBTI is INFP, my love language is quality time! (Receiving) usually I'm not shy but it's more like I don't know how to talk to people? I feel like it's mostly awkward since I don't go out of my comfort zone quite often. I also overthink quite a lot, so if I were to talk to someone, I usually practice what I'm going to say in my head to make it sound natural and not too formal because I really don't want to sound weird and nervous talking to them.

I really really like drawing and painting! Both traditionally and digitally. For drawing i mostly draw people but weirdly when I paint, I mostly draw landscapes and scenes, I think that might be because I enjoy painting backgrounds more rather than drawing them. I also like fantasy stories/movies a lot more than other genres and my second favourite is thriller! Not too big on horror though I get scared easily...speaking of getting scared, I have a fear of darkness and frogs (no clue if that's important) I love playing indie games! Plus points if they have pixel art. I don't know what about them makes me like it so much, maybe it's the colours or atmosphere? But games that are like that and I liked are: omori (Favourite!), Yume Nikki, mad father, Ib, Angels of death (2nd favourite!) but I also like puzzle games or turn based games! I like games where you have to think it through or strategize your way through it, it makes it more fun.

For music, I mostly listen to Vocaloid producers or utaite's like Eve (favourite!), soraru, Teniwoha, Surii, PinocchioP, etc. But other than Vocaloid, I mostly listen to hypmic or enstars or paralive songs...

I'm more of a follower rather than a leader although if something goes out of hand or no one takes care of it then I will take the initiative.

I don't do well with new surroundings either, for example moving schools. I will have a harder time making new groups of friends and I also have a hard time getting used to everything 😞. But when I do find a friend group, I will stick with them for a long time (unless they turned into bad people)

I would consider myself as a loyal person, I would not leave someone dear to me ever unless there's a good reason for it. I also value honesty a lot, in my opinion a comfortable friendship or relationship can start with people being comfortable and saying what they want to say. Of course that way of thinking doesn't apply to everyone but that's how I view it.

I know I said I value honesty, but sometimes I can be a little too honest. At some point I can get too blunt with my opinions and accidentally hurt someone. I also struggle with opening up to people. It's not like I don't want them to know, it's more like I'm scared of what they'll think of me after. I don't want their view of me change just because I voiced my struggles 😞.

Oh I also want to slip this in, I absolutely ADORE lolita fashion! Anything with ribbons and laces and big dresses I'd love it, I also like vintage aesthetics, royal and steampunk.

That's it from me, I hope that's enough? Or if that's too much then I'm very sorry for rambling so much 😭

hi!! i absolutely love your interests.. like.. angels of death?! i love that game sm... anyways!! hope you enjoy your matchup, anon!

I match you with...

Ichiro Yamada!

-Okay, Ichiro would push you out of your comfort zone no matter how awkward you are but he does know his limits of when you're uncomfortable. He wants you to step outside of your comfort zone occasionally but respects your limits.

-Although I don't think his love language is quality time and it's more of a mix of words of affirmation and acts of service, he'd still cherish any quality time. Just a very respectful boyfriend of your limits that you set.

-I think I ended up picking people who'd support you a lot through your hobbies... (unintentionally). Either way, he'd support you through thick and thin no matter what.

-Movie dates with Ichiro....

-Loyalty and honesty are going to be a big theme between these three guys. Ichiro values both deeply and wants a loyal and honest partner above all else. He tries his best to be honest with you because he's already so loyal that well... you don't have to worry about it at all.

I match you with...

Satsuki Ito!

-Probably beats Ichiro in terms of loyalty and honesty. Just by a bit... Satsuki can't even lie to you no matter what it is. He's just so obvious that you don't have to worry about him lying to you whatsoever.

-He's far too embarrassed to do a lot of physical affection or words of affirmation so quality time is a big one he enjoys a lot. Just being around you makes him so giddy that he can't help but love being in the moment.

-He's such a big softie and he loves you so much that he feels offended that you think he'd treat you differently because of your struggles. Everyone has them, even him!

-Poor guy.. he really hopes you get along with his brothers and wants you to be comfortable with them like you are with him! He knows you have a hard time with new people and communicating so he just hopes that it goes well.

I match you with...

Toya Aoyagi!

-I know the other two on this list are very extroverted or at least extroverted compared to Toya of all people but! I picked Toya because I feel like he's trying to be a little more extroverted but wouldn't push you out of your comfort zone in social situations.

-He's a very supportive boyfriend like the other two and always enjoys it when you show your art to him and cherishes any pieces you might gift to him if anything.

-His love language is also quality time so that's a big reason I matched you up with him as well. He loves quality time above all else and he's a very low maintenance boyfriend overall. No need for fancy dates. As long as he can spend time with you, he's happy.

-Unlike the other two, Toya is also more of a follower but can be a leader in a way if needed for you. He doesn't mind taking the lead as long as he's confident in it or if you reassure him.

-As a very loyal person himself, I think he'd love it if you got along with his friends as well and always puts you on a pedestal in his heart. He'd never dare to betray you and is a little hesitant when he has to lie about something like a surprise birthday gift.

-He's a very honest person too and would never dare to think differently of you just because you have your own struggles. Everyone does so why should he treat you differently because of them?

[louis-pikman]

Happy 60th anniversary Mothra vs Godzilla!

Logo from here

[atthequillsmercy]

Lenni Reviews: "Mimi's Tales of Terror", by Hirokatsu Kihara, Ichiro Nakayama & Junji Ito

(Image Source) *This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review. College student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto go through a series of horrific stories in this creepy collection. This volume has a series of creepy and effectively scary stories that showcase some powerful ability to scare with only a few pages. They’re all strong offerings with some chilling and disturbing creatures. Some…

[tigger8900]

Mimi's Tales of Terror, by Junji Ito

⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Whether you call them urban myths, creepypasta, contemporary legends, or something else entirely, there's power in the stories that might have happened to a friend of a friend. This volume retells nine such stories (plus one bonus) from an earlier Japanese collection — Shin Mimibukuro, by Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama — adapting them for manga through the eyes of Mimi, a student who can't seem to stop stumbling headfirst into horror. In these pages, she will encounter everything from spooky shadows and leaping monsters to corpses that stalk lethal waters and spirits that watch from beyond the grave. Just remember: everything told here really happened. Honest.

When we sit down to enjoy a horror story, there's a certain comfort in the agreed-upon fact that it's fictional. Stepping out of that safety zone into the realm of things that could have happened, that maybe did to someone just a few small degrees away from us, adds a particular thrill to the horror. I've long been a fan of the sub-genre, devouring Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark (all three volumes!) as a child, and in adulthood discovering the carefully-curated suspension of disbelief of the /r/nosleep community on reddit. So I was excited when I heard about this re-issue of a collection of such stories from Junji Ito.

I found them to be satisfying, but nothing to write home about. There's a good mix of shorter scares and long tales with elaborate set-up. But they never quite hit that "this really happened to a guy my cousin knows!" spot that I associate with a good urban legend, I suspect due to the use of Mimi as a protagonist. I could never get away from the feeling that I was reading a fictional story, because the recurring protagonist was getting in the way of true immersion.

That said, the stories themselves weren't bad by any stretch of the imagination. I think I would have minded less if it had been billed as a collection of short spooky manga adapted by Junji Ito rather than the marketing specifying that these were meant to be read as "true" urban legends. My favorites were Just the Two of Us, Sign in the Field, and the bonus story Monster Prop, but there were none that I particularly disliked. Junji Ito's art is, as always, on point. I'd recommend it to fans of his work, or spooky manga in general, but not to people who are looking for urban legends in particular.

[graphicpolicy]

Mimi's Tales of Terror is 10 tales of dread adapted by Junji Ito

Mimi's Tales of Terror is 10 tales of dread adapted by Junji Ito #comics #comicbooks #manga #graphicnovel

University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There’s the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe—but if she’s so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi’s movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing…

[jariten]

Recurring themes in 2023: Horror and Gore

My knowledge and experience with horror still remains shallow, but I had some chilling encounters with I dare say some essential reads in the manga genre that got to me. Of those are: PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki Mimi's Tales of Terror by Hirokatsu Kihara & Ichiro Nakayama adapted by Junji Ito Cold Apartment by Akane Saiga

I was encouraged to check out Masaaki Nakayama's work many years ago and the licensing of PTSD Radio gave me a great reason to finally get started. Not only is the horror truly unnerving, deploying great sequences and a wide range of spirits, I was also blown away by the balancing of multiple timelines, locations, and overarching story thread playing out in the unfortunately unfinished series. What got me most though was in the final volume when he in detail describes and artistically depicts his affliction with a sudden and extremely rare blood disease that put him out of commission for some time. Then a series of truly eerie and unnerving hauntings that had affected himself and several acquaintances. A series not to be missed by lovers of ghost and spirits based horror. Maybe more action-packed and body horror than a typical horror I was so happy to finally have read the famous for decades work that is Parasyte. I found myself absorbed into the well planned story and the questions it asked itself. Its status among Japanese readers as a gateway work is not one I will challenge.

Junji Ito is beyond cliche at this point but Mimi's Tales of Horror reminded me that I like him a lot as someone who does adaptions or his own spin on other people's ideas so I found this with its mix of comedic and intense encounters with the supernatural to be my favorite Ito release of the year. While these reads were all great, it still felt like part of the cultural catch up I was doing as they are quite famous in their genre, but there was one fluke find I was surprised I couldn't find much info in english. Cold Apartment by Akane Saiga. Literally handed to me as I was browsing in a store, I was intrigued by the art style on the cover and didn't find myself disappointed by the contents of this one-shot compilation. A landlord must feed his giant carnivorous cat, a stalker becomes the stalked, two children stumble upon a slashers hideout, those are just the stories easy for me to quickly summarize. With some gorey panels that made me wince, depictions of intense emotions that rocked me, and an artistic expression reminiscent on the type of original horror content you could mistakenly stumble upon on the 2000's internet. This read will be impossible for me to forget any time soon

[goozeghost]

The day i stop drawing my ocs that no one cares abt is the day i DIIEEE! i love making stuff up!!!

[raven-smith]

The Genealogy of The First Spinjitzu Master, Redemancy AU

The Overlord is the first consciousness of primordial chaos. Not evil, not destruction, but chaos. The Overlord was nothing but also everything. There was no time, there was no up, there was no down. He was bored being the only thing to exist. Up until the day he created The 13 Realms with an intention to let all fall into chaos. But this creation took a great amount of his power. He chose to sit among his creations in Ninjago as an immortal witness to their fall into chaos. The Overlord took on the name Khaos and took a wife named Kanna. Khaos, due to his love for Kanna, made her immortal and established her as one of the first kitsune.

Kanna and Khaos had three children:

Kocho

Ryū

Hideo

Kocho was the oldest and was born the first dragon. Ryū grew up to become the first elemental master. Hideo grew up to be the first oracle. Ryū was the first to learn of Khaos's magic of bargains. In return for doing something for Khaos, Ryū could wish for anything he wanted. Ryū requested power equal to that of Khaos in return, Khaos would have entertainment beyond compare. Kocho and Hideo spent their lives celibate, Kocho because she's a lizard with wings due to Khaos's primordial DNA and Hideo because he never felt sexual attraction toward no one. Ryū meanwhile had three children that he created using magic.

Ichiro Ito, who would go onto take the name Garmadon as it was an ancient name meaning conquerer.

Kenji Ito, who would go onto take the name Wu from a nickname an oni named Masami had given him as a joke.

Kazuko Ito, who went onto lead Ninjago under her husband's surname Fujiwara.

Garmadon made a pact with Khaos to not be able to die unless directly killed. Wu made a pact with Khaos to not die as long as Garmadon continued to live, in return for that, Wu would always put up a fight to Garmadon's schemes. That was the exact kind of chaos that Khaos desired.

Garmadon and Wu would outlive Kazuko and watch her progeny build Ninjago into a beautiful, harmonious nation as they continued to fight one another, and when the situation called for it, alongside each other. Up until the day Garmadon and Wu met Misako from Hayami Village. Garmadon and Misako fell in love and had a son. Misako left Garmadon to raise Lloyd on his own. Garmadon could not do that due to his proclivaties as the last great warlord of Ninajgo. Wu took in Lloyd to be cared for by a home for abandoned children in Emiko City ran by a girl named Delphi Drakos. It is six years after that day that this story takes place.

[retrosofa]

I have some little tidbits to share about Cutie Honey episode 20: “The Forgotten Legendary City." Check it out below!

Screenwriter: Susumu Takaku

Art Director: Eiji Ito

Animation Director: Kazuo Komatsubara

Director: Hiroshi Shidara

Augustus Le Plongeon introduced his idea of a lost continent called "Mu" after investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. You can read more about it here.

According to the 1974 January issue of TV Magazine, Honey really loves anmitsu and chocolate.

Anmitsu is a traditional Japanese cold jelly dessert, topped with fruits, dango, bean paste, ice cream and a dark colored syrup. Considering how much Honey enjoys chocolate, it’s not surprising she would be carrying around a bar of it during her travels. That being said, she shouldn’t have given chocolate to those baby monkeys. It’s not good for them!

The design for Crocodile Claw appears to be inspired by Ogon Bat. Ogon Bat was a superhero created by Suzuki Ichiro and Takeo Nagamatsu back in the 1930’s. This Japanese superhero made his debut in kamishibai, a type of street storytelling, in which a narrator tells a story with occupying images. Despite being a superhero, Ogon Bat evokes a very ghoulish appearance with his skull-like face and a Dracula-like cloak.

Honey transforms herself into a female version of Tarzan, known as Onna Tarzan or “Lady Tarzan.” Eiko Masuyama even does her own imitation of Johnny Weissmuller’s famous “Tarzan yell.”

Go Nagai has included female versions of Tarzan in a few of his works, including his extremely raunchy manga, Kekko Kamen.

There are at least two different versions of this episode: one where the Cutie Honey logo appears during a scene transition (after the Hayami guys ogle Honey in her Tarzan outfit) and one where it doesn't. The logo-less version has appeared on early home video releases and even the French dub. The version with the logo appears on the 2004 DVD remaster.

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Welcome to the Favorite Classmate Tournament!

This is gonna be a big one. Due to the number of classmates and the fact i couldn't evenly distribute it in a number of pairs and sides that made sense for the brackets (maybe there's a way and I'm just bad at math), every side initially includes 3 pairs and 1 trio each, and finals will be a poll between 3 contenders and y'all will have to live with that, I did my best.

As always, pairs/trios and their order in the bracket were randomly generated.

Complete list of polls under the cut, they'll be linked as soon as they're posted. Polls will be open for a week. May your fave win!

Side A

Yuji Sagawa vs Masato Rinno

Natsumi Sato vs Jun Sato

Minto Wada vs Naomi Okuyama

Kazuya Yoshida vs Hajime Kikuchi vs Michiaki Watabe

Side B

Mutsumi Kudo vs Itoko Hamada

Manabu Takagi vs Kota Amano

Hiroko Kine vs Miho Maruyama

Ichiro Hirano vs Kenta Iizuka vs Marina Koizumi

Side C

Koji Ito vs Kotaro Okajima

Tamaki Reika vs Yuko Koyama

Yoko Manda vs Kayoko Nagato

Shino Hanada vs Nobuaki Yamauchi vs Keiko Yamamoto

Side D

Yukari Umeno vs Masayoshi Nakajima

Takeshi Hasebe vs Maki Higuchi

Noriko Kano vs Nanako Okada

Junji Manda vs Sachiko Ijuuin vs Goji Nakata

Side E

Sora Miyamae vs Masaharu Miyamoto

Masaru Yada vs Takuro Hagiwara

Yutaka Ota vs Dai Morikawa

Kotake Tetsutya vs Kanae Iida vs Ryota Hayashi

Side F

Susumu Yanagida vs Aya Matsushita

Nobuko Yokokawa vs Kenji Ogura

Shiori Nakayama vs Kaori Shimakura

Takao Kimura vs Toyokazu Sugiyama vs Shouta Taniyama

[diedraechin]

Io has been editing like gangbusters! And actually is indeed almost done with editing the next chapter (reminder, only half of what was going to be the next chapter).

Which means it's time for another sneak peek. I'm thinking: "Yuuri introduces LOVE-ly to Murata and his boyfriend". I was thinking about "Viktor opens his birthday present", but then that would ruin the surprise of what's in the box, and I don't want to be too spoilery in these sneak peeks.

Yuuri gave her a curious look, but Yuuko just waved it off — she didn’t want him worrying about her — so he turned to his friends. “LOVE-ly, you’ve already met Yuu-chan briefly before. This is Murata Akira, silver medalist in Men’s, and…” He paused, since he hadn’t yet met Shiga himself.

“Shiga Ichiro. It’s so very nice to meet you.” Shiga-san bowed quite low while the girls gave him their best cute, media-ready smiles.

“This is Noda Haruka, Yoshida Fumika, Ito Erika, Isobe Satomi, and… Kanon.” Yuuri paused with a frown, digging his toepick into the ice. “I’m not being weird. I’m not supposed to use her last name. I probably should have gone with just first names for everyone, but too late now.”

Laughing, Kanon shook her head and stepped forward. “It’s fine, Yuu-kun.” She looked at the new arrivals, her smile a bit more genuine now. “I just don’t use my last name professionally. It’s very nice to meet you all.” She bowed alongside the rest of the group before looking over at Yuuri. “You’re getting better, Yuu-kun. One day you might actually be good at this.”

Yuuri shook his head. “Where is the bubbly? Keiko told me last night that your personality type was cute and bubbly. I was expecting bubbly.”

Shiga-san stepped forward. “Kanon-chan is cute and bubbly, Katsuki-san, but Kanon-chan also has a secret mysterious side.” His expression was so earnest that Yuuko had to hide her blossoming smile behind her hand. The excitement at meeting some of his favorite idols was definitely evident.

By contrast, Yuuri’s expression was unreadable: he looked straight down at the ice for a second before turning his attention to Kanon. “Is ‘mysterious’ code for ‘skipped a handshake event because you weren’t happy with what the producers did with that one single and decided to fix it yourself’?” he stage-whispered.

“No. It’s code for ‘I don’t use my last name’.” Kanon replied, smiling at him.

Yuuri hummed. “I thought you didn’t use your last name because your mother is the head of a legal department for a multinational.”

Kanon lifted one shoulder in a delicate shrug. “There is that, since my mother was hoping I’d get the modeling and singing nonsense out of my system and settle down and go to university after I graduated from Fukuzawa. But we all know that was never going to happen. So now it’s just ‘mysterious’.” She tilted her head to the side and gave him a small smile. “Don’t you think I’m a little mysterious, Yuu-kun?”

From where she was standing, it was easy for Yuuko to tell that Yuuri was biting the inside of his cheek to try and stop blurting out his initial reaction. “Well, it’s probably a better defining type than just ‘bubbly’. I mean, bubbly? How is ‘bubbly’ at all related to argumentative?” he remarked, forcing Sattan and Erika to hide their giggles behind their respective hands.

Kanon pursed her lips and drew in a deep breath. “I’m argumentative? You’re the one who is so competitive that–”

“Would the two of you stop?” Haruka-chan cut Kanon off, shaking her head before turning to smile at Yuuko. The rest of LOVE-ly were still tittering, but Haruka-chan seemed to be pretending that they weren’t. “Yuu-kun has told us a lot about you, Yuuko-san. It’s very nice to see you again.”

Yuuri groaned. “I hate this sort of small talk, and now I’m no longer allowed to argue with Kanon-chan about what exactly makes her 'mysterious' because No-chan says so. I’d rather skate and leave you all to talk or whatever, so that is what I’m going to do. No-chan, if you all wanted to be super nice to me since I’m doing you a favor… Shiga-san might like a photo or autograph or something. You know, idol-y things. じゃあね 。(Ja ne)” Yuuri took off before anyone could say something to stop him, skating straight for the far end of the rink.

However, Kanon apparently had one more thing to say, leaning forward onto her toes and calling out at a volume that Yuuri couldn’t hope to miss, “Does anyone have a one hundred yen coin? I need to test a hypothesis.” This sent Yuuri spinning on his skates to stare at the lot of them, his face suddenly an astonishing shade of crimson.

[byneddiedingo]

Isao Shirasawa, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Ichiro Sugai, Kuniko Miyake, and Zen Murase in Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951) Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichiro Sugai, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Igawa, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi. Shuji Sano, Toyo Takahashi, Seiji Miyaguchi. Screenplay: Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu. Cinematography: Yuharu Atsuta. Art direction: Tatsuo Hamada. Film editing: Yoshiyasu Hamamura. Music: Senji Ito. Early Summer is the second of the "seasonal" films made by Yasujiro Ozu in what is now recognized as his peak postwar period. The first was Late Spring (1949), and they were followed by Early Spring (1956), Late Autumn (1960), The End of Summer (1961), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). I mention this chiefly because the English-language titles confuse even Ozu's hard-core admirers, among whom I count myself. "Was that Early Summer or The End of Summer?" we find ourselves asking when we're talking about Ozu's films. The confusion is further compounded by the fact that four of them starred the marvelous Setsuko Hara. It also doesn't help that the name of her character in Early Summer is Noriko, which was the name of her characters in Late Spring and Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953). So we have to remind ourselves that in Early Summer she is Noriko Mamiya, the unmarried 28-year-old daughter of Shukichi (Ichiro Sugai) and Shige Mamiya (Chieko Higashiyama). She lives with them as well as with her brother, Koichi (Chishu Ryu), and sister-in-law, Fumiko (Kuniko Miyake), and their two bratty sons. She also has a well-paying clerical job and a group of old girlfriends from her schooldays. So why does everyone, even her boss, want her to get married? When her boss starts arranging things with an old business friend of his, her family encourages the connection, even though she's never met the man and he's in his early 40s. Noriko has a mind of her own, however, and eventually surprises everyone -- perhaps even herself -- with her decision. It's a comedy-drama in which nothing exciting happens -- even key events like the search for the bratty boys when they decide to run away from home take place mostly off-screen -- but Ozu holds everything in such delicate suspension, allowing us to meditate on the relationships at length, that we get caught up in the everyday lives of the film's huge cast. There are some wonderful scenes between Noriko and her girlfriends, who share the kind of in-jokes that old friends everywhere have. Some of these are lost in translation, but even that reminds us of real life, when we're left out of a group's established routines. And sometimes the subtitles wittily help us out, finding equivalents for the hick accents Noriko and her friend adopt when talking about the possibility of moving from Tokyo to the country. Ozu and co-screenwriter Kogo Noda bring the characters to life in their private moments, as when Shukichi and Shige talk wistfully about the son who remained MIA after the war, or when they see a balloon floating ahead and reflect on how sad the child who lost it must be. No filmmaker had a profounder sense of the inner lives of people in their ordinary routine.