Aiba Kyoko at Otakon 2024: Reverse Villainess Isekai, Social Issues, and the Manga-Making Process
Aiba Kyoko has been working as a manga artist since the 2000s, developing a signature style that spotlights familiar tropes and turns them on their head. While best known for her BL work (especially, in English, the stunning Derail), Aiba’s most recent series targets a different genre: the wish-fulfillment isekai.
“In a typical isekai, you become a pretty woman, or a cool guy. It’s always these positive transformations, and I just didn’t like that. So I decided to do something the exact opposite,” Aiba explained during our interview, comparing the experience of an isekai protagonist to her own convention visit. “Me traveling to America is already this much of an ordeal, so how can someone going to an unknown land have such a great experience?”
That “opposite,” upside down and reversed isekai is Oji Tensei: The Villainess’s Days of Aging Gracefully, the story of a haughty villainess who awakens from execution to find she’s been reborn in modern Japan…as a middle-aged man. Originally a one-shot, the title was greenlit for serialization after it broke its platform’s record for most comments on a one-short work. It’s now a monthly series with five chapters available at time of writing.
While the premise of the series involves playing with gender, Aiba noted that her impulse in creating the series was more about that upending of expectations than telling a trans narrative. The chapters of Oji Tensei so far focus more on villainess Chloe learning life skills she was ignorant of in her former life and coming to terms with living in an aging, unglamorous body. Aging gracefully, in other words.
That isn’t to say that Aiba is uninterested in social issues—in fact, she emphasized the subject in her Otakon biography. The story that prompted her changing interest was Young Carer: Invisible Me, which she wrote last year. “I t actually started with a conversation with my editor when we got to talking about what my background is like [as a former young carer], and we thought it was an interesting topic so I was asked to write it. It was happenstance. It became a more socially conscious piece, but I didn’t think I would do that when I was working on it.”
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Luz Shouldve Been Dressed By A POC (Person Of Color Or Luz Batista To Show Better Cultural & POC Reprensation)
Hello Tumblers, This is kyoko cane of daystar voyage, as a proud black person who’s genderqueer who makes content creations On Pop culture such as Cosplay & drag, I do talk on Animation & Family Entertainment So glad to get this topic cause what we see on tv can be put into reality, Now (Disclaimer)
I will not accept hate on the daystar voyage anyone who can’t handle different opinions, ship whatever (unless legal) if not walk out or off this spaceship into a asteroid belt and black hole
Don’t hate appreciate.
One more thing I do love my girl Luz pilot outfits, there goals however wish they had time to put patterns into her clothes often, like I said in my hootview
However the female cast had a better closet then her, and I did discuss that in my video, for some time they did make her dress in a shonen archetype, (which I made a post about her hair) or an spicy Latina Which of of course personality wise too, (cause she’s made to be the gender non confirming character) but excuse all that cause in a way, the staff shoulda hired someone whos Either Afro, African American Or Latin to dress this girl.
Oh boy now that im done rewatching The Owl House there’s so much in store soon anyway,
I do feel its time to start this short post, I have a fashion hootview which is the intermission so there’s still a lot to come meantime, finished my rewatch of The Owl House as an animation lover,
Lets discuss this topic at hand,
2020s animators need to take notes on costuming & style tips to make characters stand out in environments and to treat there characters better in fashion or color coordination,
yes you can have a color coded character and not rely of a main palette to be able to bring out there features & complexion,
Animators need to take notes, how to properly show kids & there audience that good clothing could be put onto a character of any occasion & not have to rely on sexuality or Stereotype (Disney Programs have a hit or miss on certain shows.)
while proper fashion can do justice, that goes into making a franchise and making a product to sell for marketability in retail & consumers.
if the character or product can be sold with a great design if executed flawless by character, design, costuming, and the app that comes within the series,
This goes to the fandom cause there might be future artistsor small indie creators reading this who probably never read, or look up fashion brands, magazines either hot couture or brand clothing and don’t have that knowledge But that shouldn’t stop you from being able to experiment with different color palettes on what goes into your art.
The fandom needs a wake up call that not only is everything’s perfect and people have the right to critic and criticize a show or any form of art.
cause fandoms today has a self righteous way of bullying others of different opinions and ostracizing others and ithas to stop,
Here’s a quick tv trope in color-coded characters, & a Toonsmag article on fashion in animation.
Marketability is a important factor, industries rely on that to make the money off of that series, be a cartoons or projects,
it impacts the character and representation that kids see when they purchase said item and teaching kids, see good representation within media can matter if done right.
Especially POCs if executed well however
DONW BELOW in some cases miraculous ladybug fumbles it hard, at one point had all the poc of color (EXAMPLE limited to alya and nino if not max be lighter tones on there merch.)
You know lighting character's skin tones like Alya and other brown or dark skin characters, on their products & merch (bad ethnic representation award goes to them).
Not to mention the whole Vas underpaid controversy, that’s been discussed countless times.
(still disappointed about there business decisions)
I appreciate the love of anyone who can view and read this article if you gotten this far,
thanks for reading make sure to check my Tumblr and YouTube vlog cause so much of this particular series I’m gonna debunk
The show had a-lot going for it however feel flat including in the fashion department along miraculous ladybug that’s another thing to be discuss OH BOY so anyway
here’s an example of the video game art of Guilty Gear showing great costume progress years later
always educate yourself cause I do want my platform to show variety on what I offer creatively and semi-education-wise to be able to let people be inspired and that you don't need to follow trends, thank you very much seeya on the next space voyage.
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»»-----------► y/n is a professional photographer, though she’s been out of the game for a bit due to an unexpected medical issue, she’s back. she got a job ready for a couple days out so why not go to a party with some mutual friends? it was a good idea until she finds herself drunk and kissing one of the most beautiful men she’s ever laid her eyes on. next thing y/n knows her newest client is the same man she was grinding on two nights ago. will something happen with this drunken love? or will it go down the drain just like it normally does?
UPDATE:
this was the very first SMAU that i made, therefor this AU does NOT use they/them pronouns for the reader but she/her.
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Face Claims📷
☄️Introducing bakusquad☄️
⭐️Introducing y/n gang⭐️
🌌priv accounts for both!🌌
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✦ episode one: I know places
✦ epidode two: gorgeous
✦ episode three: i did something bad
✦ episode four: gold rush ✎
✦ episode five: you need to calm down
✦ episode six: this is why we can’t have nice things…literally ✎
✦ episode seven: sweet nothing ✎
✦ episode eight: enchanted ✎
✦ episode nine: other side of the door
✦ episode ten: if this was a movie ✎
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✦ episode eleven: all of the girls you’ve loved before
✦ episode twelve: today was a fairytale ✎
✦ episode thirteen: begin again
✦ episode fourteen: false god ✎
✦ episode fifteen: call it what you want
✦ episode sixteen: i wish you would ✎
✦ episode seventeen: labyrinth
✦ episode eighteen: soon you’ll get better ✎
✦ episode nineteen: cowboy like me ✎
✦ episode twenty: wildest dreams ✎
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Antag Swap Ideas
Clown: Out of all of the 3 main games what cast do ya'll think Ouma would thrive with??
And why is it sdr2?/j
Hina: Trigger Happy Havoc
It is not SDR2, no way sksksksms
Clown: Nah but I'm curious if any of you think he would have genuinely had a better time with the others
Also shhh, let me pretend he'd have an easier time with hajime hinata
Me: It's true, no pretending
Hina: Well Makoto is the calmest dkdkkddk
I just think THH as a whole tends to get less angry
Not as many loud personalities to conflict with
Me: There's no need to fight, he'd be way better off in either of those than in v3
Ves: kokichi in thh would be so funny. he is pulling celeste's pigtails
Hina: (Also I am going under the assumption by joining these casts he is replacing either Byakuya or Nagito respectively)
Clown: Yeah same
Hina: Nagito would thrive in V3
Ves: he would be friends with tsumugi
..frenemies maybe
Clown: HE WOULD BE
Nagito would attach himself to kaede so fast
And it will go so bad, but in a very funny way
Hina: Byakuya in SDR2 would go well tbh
There’s two of him
Ves: I'M THE REAL BYAKUYA, KILL THE CLONE-
Clown: He's the less cool byakuya everyone's gonna vote him off the island
Me: Twogami [handshake emoji] Fuyuhiko - being the Cooler Dan to him
Me: Sdr2 Works because they're all like that. He wouldn't be outcasted. He doesn't reach the levels at which Nagito managed to cross the line of their tolerance
Hina: See my thought with THH is having more calculated personalities, more people who are willing to work together. I think he’d have a better time as a leader in that cast
Thh never outcasts anyone in the way the other games do
Me: Oh yeah, he would be still able to antagonize a few people in thh and keep his shtick, it just would not escalate like in v3, because they have more integrity (low bar) and can be more normal about disliking someone. Sdr2 gang would be just not phased by this clown, they'd sense he's one of them (freaks)
Ves: he'd fare better even in udg i think
v3 is a uniquely unhinged cast
Clown: Yeah!! This combined with the fact that hajime is just the type of person to push pass any frustration and think about what they can do (asking nagito for help when he needs it), akane being suprisingly good at reading people (like fuyuhiko), and even Hiyoko with her not being shy on putting out there that she has a grudge and doubts.
For ouma in THH tho, what would his relationship with kirgiri be like?
Hina: I think it’d be a mutual respect
Maybe not besties
I don’t think she trusts him
But she can respect him
Clown: I could see him getting along with chihiro and sakura too, and sayaka
Okay yeah I can see how he would've been Ballin in literally any of the other two casts
Sakuras gonna shove him to the side and go
"Actually I'm the one who's gonna sacrifice myself to further our goal to end the killing game" and then they fight/j
Having a play fight over who takes the last bottle of poison (the rest are shattered on the floor)
Apollo: I love Kokichi and Chihiro friendship
Clown: Okay but imagining ouma in thh oh man, so much.
IF the first murder still is Sayaka breaking down and going for it I can imagine him doing his silly little warnings towards her. But since she is not the main driving force of the group like kaede was how differently would it affect him??
And with the sakura situation, that fucker never sleeps. Like kirgiri he is sticking his nose everywhere. I could see him finding out that sakura is hiding something, and begin to needle her about it. Offhand comments here and there. And sakura is smart, and more than that she isnt rash, she'd confront him about it in private almost immediately. And she wouldn't try to kill him. Maybe she would tell him or maybe not but she isn't violent with him and she doesn't fit his view of a murderer. DOUBTS.
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