#ooshima yumiko

[runawaycarouselhorse]

The Chibineko bisque dolls actually have longer, fluffy white tails! This is the Takara White Dream doll. The lace trim on her socks and pinafore has yellowed, but she looks incredible otherwise, doesn't she? I love her curls

[asnowperson]

Ooshima Yumiko's Tanjou! (1970)

Work (that will kill me) in progress...

[seldomscans]

Wata no Kunihoshi - Chapter 19

The OG catgirl is back! I repeat! Chibi-neko is back!

Sadly, few of Ooshima Yumiko's works are available to English readership. Possibly her most known work, Wata no Kunihoshi, is the manga that invented catgirls and won the Kodansha Manga Award in 1979. Yet even this shoujo classic couldn't escape the "no license curse", and fan translations are incomplete.

Friendship Scans, who brought many classic shoujo titles to us, scanlated 18 chapters before disbanding. I was translating Drops of Dreams for them right before their disbandment, and that's how I got to know the state of Wata no Kunihoshi scanlations: There were some translations, some proofread scripts, and some cleans. So many people had already spent their time and effort for the rest of the chapters, but then lack of typesetters and disbandment happened, and all that work was just sitting there. I like this manga, and thought that it was a waste. Knowing that the scanlations can actually be finished spurred me to take it upon myself to fill the gaps and see this through the end. Red and Unnoticedkouhai, project managers of Friendship Scans, kindly allowed me to use the work of their former staff. (I would like to thank them, and all the other staff I never got to know! I hope they are all doing well. You'll see it in our credits page when their work is used.) Then I took this kitten I picked up to Attolia, who gruelingly did everything for this chapter, and we proudly present you: Chapter 19 of Wata no Kunihoshi!

Download the chapter here, or read it online on Mangadex to find out how hard it is to be a cat. Give me a little paw-pat if you want to help.

Rant corner: After actually translating an Ooshima work, now I know why there are few scanlations. This woman is really beyond my level. Please, good translators out there, translate stuff like this instead of generic shoujo romance/isekai #4578.

[d-0gma]

[flowerymoments]

Shigatsu Kaidan (四月怪談), Yumiko Oshima

[roseillith]

Wata no Kuni Hoshi OST (1984)

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Banana Bread no Pudding (1978) by Yumiko Ooshima

[hakonohanayome]

Joker e... - Yumiko Ooshima

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Yumiko Oshima

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大島弓子 Yumiko Oshima

[dayinanimanga]

Today in Manga History

December 27th, 1970

Tanjou! or Birth! begins serialization in Margaret Magazine. The series features themes of teenage pregnancy.

Written and illustrated by Yumiko Ooshima

[runawaycarouselhorse]

This Chibineko doll is made of ceramic and cloth, with glass eyes and painted details.

[asnowperson]

This is Ooshima Yumiko's Dansei Shikkaku (男性失格, No Longer Man), another 1970 short story published in issue #27 of Weekly Margaret, and included in her Tanjou one shot collection (Also available in her 1977 星にいく汽車 and vol. 1 of 1986 大島弓子選集１巻). Yet again, I couldn't find this early one shot in any of her digital one shot editions, which shows the importance of what deadscanlations is doing.

I believe that the title of this story is a reference to Dazai Osamu's novel, Ningen Shikkaku (人間失格, No Longer Human).

This one shot tells the story of Simon, a manly man, getting hit by some radioactive waves (very likely because of nuclear tests-I see what you did there, Ooshima-sensei!) and slowly becoming a woman, Simone. And (s)he and Arvie, Simon's room mate, slowly fall in love with each other, until maddo scientists and Simone's dangerously radioactive body separates them. Another tragic story by Ooshima.

His chest hair is killing me. It looks so out of place in this shoujo art style, but it also makes sense.

Of course, this story reminds you of another Ooshima story: To Joker (ジョカへ…, 1974), which everyone should read. Really. You have no excuse. It even has a great scanlation. One can argue that Dansei Shikkaku is its precursor, playing with the gender swap theme.

I love how despite the seemingly orthodox shoujo feel of the story and the shoujo wackiness, it has an underlying message about nuclear tests, which was quite a heated topic of debate at that time. The titular work, Tanjou (誕生, Birth, which I have already translated hehehe), is also on a very controversial topic (teen pregnancy). The second one shot, Utako to Yonde Mou Ichido, is the most conventional shoujo story of the bunch, yet even that is too real in its depiction of sickness and he hopelessness of those who have leukemia. I still have a ton of Ooshima works to read, but reading some earlier works of hers was really nice. Knowing the artist she became later, you can catch little glimpses of what made her one of the prominent artists of her time even in these more "generic shoujo" works.

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Anime y Manga “Wata No Kunihoshi, de Ooshima Yumiko”

Buenos días amigos y amigas, hoy para empezar nos introducimos en la siempre interesante cultura japonesa, hoy comparto un manga llamada Wata no Kunikoshi, de Ooshima Yumiko” “Wata no Kunihoshi” es una serie de manga japonesa escrita e ilustrada por Yumiko Ōshima. Fue serializada por Hakusensha en la revista LaLa desde 1978 hasta 1987 y recopilada en siete volúmenes de tankōbon[1]. La historia…

[d-0gma]

Is there someone out there yanking on a tangled thread, dragging people towards those they don’t mesh with, never allowing people to stand where they should?

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ローズティーセレモニー (1976) by Yumiko Oshima