#mangaka interview

[minyicho]

same energy as “if i didn’t become famous by 30, i would become a serial killer”

[saccharinescorpion]

The Invisible Man And His Soon-To-Be Wife is a really sweet and fun romance in a cool supernatural setting, i would describe it as “wholesome” except every once in a while the author starts playing horny chess in dimensions my brain can barely process

[nezuchuuko]

Skip and Loafer. The seinen manga that serializes in Monthly Afternoon. The same Monthly Afternoon seinen magazine that serializes seinen manga, Vinland Saga.

[hyeahgaku]

Yūto Suzuki-sensei's comment about the TV anime adaptation of SAKAMOTO DAYS

"SAKAMOTO DAYS is going to be animated! It's amazing to see my work on the big screen! This is all thanks to the fans who have supported me, thank you very much!! I'd be very happy if you could continue supporting SAKAMOTO DAYS with me in the future! Thank you very much!"

[m0e-ru]

in every universe adachi and the attendant ARE friends it's just that the one we're in is the outlier.

[mysticdragon3md3]

[almoststedytimetravel]

The things you can learn about from translated developer interviews is wild. Because I asked myself why Apollo is drawn in fan art with a Calico cat and the answer I got was that *checks my notes* Apollo has a male calico cat named Mineko that he calls his girlfriend. The things you can learn from Mr Shu Takumi

[righteousdelusions]

half of what Fujimoto says he does is probably fake

[hesitationss]

if you hate women you miss out on like most of the good writing and interesting story elements happening in jjk

[qqchurch]

“the grasslands somehow become yuri” is such an insane statement yet makes so much sense at the same time

[thewonderofanime]

X 1999 Deep Dive! Part 3 (vols 7-9) CLAMP Reread Series

X 1999 Deep Dive! Part 3 (vols 7-9) CLAMP Reread Series

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE! That’s all I can say about this part of the story. Watch me as I cry along and breakdown volumes 7-9 of X/1999

[ichiharas-familiar]

Honestly the more posts I see about how Makima is genuinely abhorrent and not written as mommy-domme fetish fuel the more excited I am to see her. We need more women who use sex in a way that is actually threatening and I am not joking.

[yuriartillery]

praying that the shinzo abe memes get spy x family fans to do anything resembling a close reading of the text’s assumptions about family and gender

[knuckle]

I hope I’m not coming off as rude but I think you will enjoy a longer, healthier life by sparing yourself the headache and blocking that person and moving on. They clearly have a chip on their shoulder from no one online clapping for their whiteness

Oh I'm done with them after that lol I just find it mind boggling sometimes people can be given Names of Color, then portrayed by whites and people don't care but that's just part of the years-long chip on my shoulder with people about whitewashing anime or turning to the whitest interpretation by default as if it's entirely harmless especially to Asian Americans who are most marginalized by this type of interpretation when so much more work can and should be going to us 🤷🏻‍♀️

[bakuen]

The pipeline with Horikoshi writing the ending by following every shounen stereotype and redeeming the villain by showing their Sad Childhood™, Vs Gege who tries v hard to steer away from said stereotypes by killing or clowning on every noteworthy character just to appear "edgy" and that his story is "Not like other shounen" ✨ Yet both are incredibly bad

[ampleappleamble]

haven't seen this on here yet so:

in case you don't want to slog through the shitscape that is the bird/letter website, take a peek beneath the cut (shamelessly copied from the something awful forums dungeon meshi thread)

- Her first memory of video games was watching her father playing Wizardry on Famicom, also Dragon Quest, Ultima, and Fire Emblem among others.

- She was a difficult child so her parents didn't let her play. Wizardry is a boring game to watch, but the monster illustrations on the walkthrough evoked her imagination and made her keep watching.

- She only started becoming a serious gamer after the serialization of Dungeon Meshi was locked, for research purposes. Before that, she read fantasy novels such as The Neverending Story (Michael Ende) and The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien).

- The international title for Dungeon Meshi: Delicious in Dungeons was decided by her editor.

- D&D popped up a lot when she researched the history of video games, so she read the rule books, replay novels, and games inspired by D&D.

- One of the first games she studied was the Legend of Grimrock (game's 80% off on Steam atm). Originally, she wanted Dungeon Master (FTL Games) which was famous for "RPG with meals" but hunting down the game and machine was too much.

- She didn't like games other than turn-based RPGs at first, but she decided to stop being picky and play anything that piqued her interest.

- She played Zelda: BotW and TotK on a borrowed Switch from her editor due to the console's scarcity at the time.

- She enjoyed Red Dead Redemption 2 and God of War for their stories. RDR2's incredible attention to detail had Kui engrossed so much that she asked her editor and other mangaka to play it so she could discuss it with them.

- Kui praised The Witcher 3 localization as something only possible with full support from the developer. Cyberpunk 2077 is one of her all-time favorites.

- Papers, Please was her first taste of indie games.

- Disco Elysium is the perfect game for her due to the lack of fighting, intriguing story, charming character interaction, and top-down perspective. She tried playing it in English at first due to an unlikely chance for JP loc, but it was out of her ability. Thus she is forever grateful to Spike Chunsoft for localizing it.

- Kui played Baldur's Gate 3 from the time it was in Early Access. Again, she's grateful for Spike Chunsoft's JP loc. She hoped BG3's success would bring the possibility of JP loc for other titles too, such as Pathfinder: wotr

- She likes games with top-down perspective because they have narration text for monologues and scenery description. Even if the graphic is lacking, the texts show the atmosphere and each character's behavior and psyche. Also, characters that react to your choices.

- She praised Unpacking and House Flipper for being able to tell what kind of person lives there only through their belongings, and that there's no right or wrong for the placements; she would make the best arrangement and then enjoy her hard work while sipping tea.

- The biggest inspiration for Dungeon Meshi was the Cosmic Forge pen from Wizardry VI. With improved graphics from its predecessor, now it could show broken farming tools in the background and many more details that made exploration so much fun.

- At the time of the interview (Dec '23) she still hadn't watched DunMeshi anime, but she attended the recording sessions. She's embarrassed that the dialog she wrote now acted passionately by professionals. Marcille's screaming was wonderful but also made her want to flee.

- Kui was anxious about the CP2077 anime adaptation, but she was relieved it was the Night City she knows and loves.

- Other than minor adjustments, she left it to TRIGGER as to how to adapt

- She's happy that Mitsuda Yasunori was chosen as the anime composer, as she used to play Chrono Cross and rewatched the opening many times.

- Her anticipated games in 2024 are Cloudpunk, Nivalis, and Avowed.

- DunMeshi would be hard to adapt into a game because in the first place, what Kui depicted in the manga are parts that are omitted in games for the sake of brevity.

- If DunMeshi game was Wizardry-like, it'd be told through Laios' perspective and eating was essential not to die