#shōjo tsubaki

[kinasin]

Shōjo Tsubaki - Suehiro Maruo

[skelekerrry]

Sometimes I still think about this anime 💀

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[readtilyoudie]

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Vol 9

[unfilteredcurse]

I agree with that post about jin "apologists". hell, most jin stans i interacted with in the tekken fandom are not even trying to write essay in comments defending the tekken 6 bullshit they know it's bad, and they also want it straight up retconned like how tekken 7 retconned heihachi's actions. honestly namco just retcon it already and say jin was brainwashed by azazel. also jin kazama and the mishimas looks like a saint compared to other characters in fiction that ppl online simp for and defend like Tokkuriji Muchisute and Kanabun from Midori Shōjo Tsubaki (those two creepy bastards are sadly kinda popular on tumblr and I remember them being very popular on tiktok). Griffith from Berserk too, with the whole "Griffith did nothing wrong" meme.

I mean, there are extreme fans who will take every chance to dickride a character so hard that people will start to dislike or even hate them, and Jin is one of those cases (although can also be argued with Kazuya, Lee, the Mishimas and other Tekken characters in general). However, I personally have not seen many Jin Kazama fans who are like that. In fact, many of them are cool lads who want to hang out with other fans and who truly despise Jin's portrayal in Tekken 6, and I think I'm right when I say that almost everyone else in the fandom, whether they're a Jin fan or not, agrees that Jin's character assassination in part 6 of the franchise was absolutely disgusting and never should've happened.

We can only wish for a retcon to be done now, but who knows - perhaps the series will be rebooted in the future and Jin might get a proper treatment like he used to get in pre T6 era.

And about that last part - I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, I have seen both Shōjo Tsubaki and Berserk, so naturally I witnessed the disgusting acts of all those characters you mentioned and it could be very well argued that they're all worse than the Mishima family in certain aspects. But again, people will be people and they will defend their favourite thing/character/ship/etc. to death, so nothing to add there. Cheers.

[g0rechan]

Shōjo Tsubaki headcanon idea

Muchisute wears anklets, and has multiple

Omg yesssssss I love that

Give him a Kandi one😍

[elen-000]

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun: The Charming Comedy of High School Romance

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun) is a delightful four-panel manga series by Izumi Tsubaki that brings together humor, romance, and a touch of the artistic world. Serialized online in Gangan Online and published in tankōbon volumes by Square Enix, this series has captured the hearts of many since its anime adaptation aired in 2014.

Plot Summary

High school student Chiyo Sakura is head over heels for her classmate, Umetarou Nozaki. When she confesses her feelings, Nozaki, hilariously mistaking her for a fan, gives her an autograph. But the real twist comes when Sakura learns that Nozaki is a famous shōjo manga artist writing under the pen name Sakiko Yumeno. Determined to get closer to him, Sakura agrees to help him with his manga, Let's Fall in Love. As she assists Nozaki, the duo navigates through the ups and downs of high school life, encountering quirky friends and drawing inspiration from their experiences.

Meet the Characters

Chiyo Sakura: The bubbly protagonist with a crush on Nozaki. Known for her signature polka-dotted ribbons, Sakura is not just a fan but also Nozaki’s dedicated assistant. Her enthusiasm is as charming as her art skills.

Umetarou Nozaki: A tall and stoic high school student, who, despite his fame as a shōjo manga artist, is clueless about romance. His manga, Let's Fall in Love, might be about love, but his real-life experiences are hilariously lacking.

Mikoto Mikoshiba: Nozaki’s assistant whose flirtatious exterior hides a shy and embarrassed personality. He’s the inspiration for Nozaki’s heroine, Mamiko, without even realizing it.

Yuzuki Seo: Sakura’s athletic friend with a knack for unintentionally offending others. Her blunt personality is balanced by her hidden talent as a singer, earning her the nickname "Lorelei."

Yuu Kashima: The charming, androgynous star of the school drama club, adored by everyone except for Hori, who is often exasperated by Kashima’s antics. Her affections are secretly reserved for Hori.

Masayuki Hori: The drama club president and Nozaki’s assistant. Though he’s a talented actor, Hori prefers directing and has a short fuse, especially when dealing with Kashima.

Hirotaka Wakamatsu: Nozaki’s former basketball teammate who now helps with manga screentones. He is hilariously tormented by Seo’s antics but finds solace in her singing.

Supporting Characters

Ken Miyamae: Nozaki’s grumpy yet competent editor who is well-regarded despite his stress-induced weight gain.

Mitsuya Maeno: Nozaki’s former editor who is more interested in cute characters than in managing his duties.

Yukari Miyako: Nozaki’s neighbor and a shōjo manga artist herself, keeping her identity a secret while struggling with her editor's quirks.

Mayu Nozaki: Nozaki’s lazy younger brother who draws inspiration from otaku culture in his judo club.

Ryōsuke Seo: Seo’s older brother, who awkwardly tries to get closer to Miyako while misunderstanding his sister’s feelings for Wakamatsu.

Rei Kashima: Kashima’s younger sister, who is a big fan of Yumeno Sakiko’s works and dreams of romance.

In the Manga: Characters from Let's Fall in Love

Mamiko: The charming heroine modeled after Mikoshiba, with a look inspired by Sakura’s ribbons.

Saburo Suzuki: Mamiko’s love interest, drawn as Nozaki’s favorite face.

Oze: A popular male character in Nozaki’s manga, inspired by Seo’s personality.

Waka: A supporting female character modeled after Wakamatsu.

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is a blend of comedy, romance, and the behind-the-scenes of manga creation, making it a delightful read for anyone who enjoys a good laugh and a touch of artistic flair.

[fanficwriter284]

I found the name "Chika Gentō Gekiga: Shōjo Tsubaki"

"Oh! Well nope I haven't seen it"

[angrytreemartensmain]

Childhood Fictional Crushes

-Lady Esdeath (Akame ga Kill!)

-Raven (Teen Titans) (Not teen titans go, the one where they look like actual teens)

-The Undertaker (Black Butler)

-Grell (Black Butler)

-Pluto (Black Butler)

-Peter White (Alice in the Country of Hearts)

-Blood (Alice in the Country of Hearts)

-Illumi (Hunter X Hunter)

-PLZDONTHATEMEFORTHIS Mahito (Jujutsu Kaisen)

-Geto (Jujutsu Kaisen)

-Sakura (Naruto)

-Kakashi (Naruto)

-Garfield (Garfield) 🥲

-Yandere-chan (Yandere Simulator)

-Mafiafell!Sans (Sooner or Later You’re Gonna Be Mine)

-Ink (Sans AU)

-Nightmare (Sans AU)

-G! (Underrated Sans AU)

-Error (Sans AU)

-Gaster (Undertale)

-The entire Gaster Gang (Gaster Gang)

-Alister (Hazbin Hotel)

-Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel)

-Sir.Pentious (Hazbin Hotel)

-Loona (Helluva Boss)

-Tokkuriji Muchisute (Shōjo Tsubaki)

-Peter (Your Boyfriend)

-Many More…

I still simp for half of these. 🙂

Reblog with a few of your childhood fictional crushes!

[thunder-jolt]

I'm on a slow descent into madness and also on the descent of internally hating myself...

Why? Well... I'm slowly getting back to that one phase dedicated to an anime/manga full of fucked up stuff...

It's Shōjo Tsubaki, a.k.a Midori, a.k.a Camellia Girl, a.k.a Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show...

Time for the dread to seep in now because I can't get out unless I get myself interested in another work!

*screams and cries on the inside*

[the-acid-pear]

Shōjo Tsubaki time!! Aka Midori the camellia girl. I remembered this movie was free on its entirety on YouTube and i was RIGHT so that's a win 🤩

If i hit post limit while liveblogging this I'm becoming the joker btw.

[readtilyoudie]

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Vol 12

[canmom]

Animation Night 129 - Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed...

thrice and once the hedge-pig whined, harpier cries; ‘tis time! ‘tis time!

It is once again halloween! Or as close as we can get to it on a Thursday this year. Which means it’s time to once again celebrate horror, in the field of animation...

In previous years, we’ve enjoyed the prog rock album cover spectacle of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, the devastating ruined-world masterpiece Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, the hilarious creepypasta jankiness of Yamishibai in one year...

...and the next, the exquisite Katsuya Terada design and impossibly slick animation of Blood: The Last Vampire, the tense Korean zombie film Seoul Station, the sublime ero-guro festival of Suehiro Maruo paraphilias in Shōjo Tsubaki, the viscerally upsetting abstract dive into a Chilean Nazi cult in The Wolf House... and of course plenty more Yamishibai.

Halloween animation nights are some of my absolute favourites, you guys.

This year, we’ve got our hands on the long-awaited Mad God, the thirty year(!) project of stop motion animator Phil Tippett to take all the techniques he learned doing movie special effects and put it towards a fully stop motion film...

Who’s that? Tippett started his career at the animation studio Cascade Pictures, inspired by the legendary stop motion of Ray Harryhausen. His break into in special effects cane in 1976, when he and Jon Berg were hired to create the miniature holographic chess sequence in the original Star Wars.

Working at Industrial Light and Magic, Tippett was on almost all the big 70s-80s special effects movies - e.g. Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Robocop - earning industry renown. One of his major achievements was a set of techniques termed “go motion” to simulate motion blur when photographing stop motion animations, by moving the camera or smearing a glass plate with petroleum jelly. He was also heavily involved in creating the creature props, so he and his team are behind all those inescapably replicated Star Wars aliens. It’s wild to think of how an idea created at a studio one time is now replicated so widely: how many people have spent time creating 3D models or illustrations of a ‘Rancor monster’?

Yet despite all that success in stop motion, Tippett also oversaw the transition to CG special effects, starting on Jurassic Park (where he’s credited as ‘dinosaur supervisor’) and then Starship Troopers (1977) - Verhoeven deemed him effectively a co-director of the elaborate battle scenes.

And that brings us to Mad God...

The way Tippett described it, Mad God is a form of ‘therapy’ in contrast to his increasingly constrained day job. It’s widely described as an exceptionally bleak film, depicting a figure known as the ‘Assassin’ descending into an increasingly grotesque body horror world. Tippett started it while working on Robocop in 1987, but shelved it for decades on the feeling that nobody was interested in stop motion anymore; he came back to it in the early 2010s, running a kickstarter which raised $124k, three times its goal; with this money Tippett brought on other people to assist him in finishing the film.

In an interview with Variety, he describes what went into it:

I had to archive it because it was just too big for me, the scope was too big, I didn’t have enough people, so I kind of canned it, but never forgot about it. Over the next 20 years, I studied a number of things like art history and literature, there’s a lot of Dante and Milton in the film, and then I really got into Freud and particularly “The Red Book” by Carl Jung. He wrote it over a period of 16 years, and it drove him insane. A similar thing happened to me. I went down this psychological path that took me into this bizarre world that ended up in the psych ward. It was that kind of experience where I guess I became a method filmmaker, I got lost in this unconscious vision.

As he alludes, in the last year Tippett suffered a mental breakdown - I can only imagine what it must feel like to reach the end of a thirty year project and just kick that 80 minute film out the door. I can’t wait to see what monsters emerge from Tippett’s subconscious from his almost improvisational process of animation.

Next on the docket is... do you remember ‘Ujicha’, the ingenious ‘gekimation’ animator whose The Burning Buddha Man we watched back on Animation Night 108?

Ujicha’s technique is termed ‘gekimation’, a portmanteau of animation with 劇画 gekiga, the darker, more adult comics movement which once contrasted itself to 漫画 manga. Gekiga, published in magazines like GARO, was eventually reabsorbed back into mainstream manga - its influence is a big part of the reason why manga doesn’t look like an early Osamu Tezuka or Go Nagai drawing anymore. However, Ujicha’s method draws even more on kamishibai street theatre; it’s a process of limited animation with complex painted cels, moved like puppets. To this he brings a fantastic eye for body horror imagery and some really fascinatingly strange stories.

So! Five years after The Burning Buddha Man (2013), which saw a girl investigating her parents’ deaths only to stumble into a bizarre conspiracy involving merging bodies with carved buddhas to gain superpowers, Ujicha came back with a film titled Violence Voyager. This one follows two young boys who stumble into a weird theme park where they participate in a ‘macabre game’. I can only imagine where it’s gonna go from that vague description.

Ujicha is something of a mystery to me - last time I could only find a scant couple of paragraphs, and searching today I only find similar information echoed on other sites. The Guardian article there mentions that he has the backing of production house Yoshimoto Kogyo, although I’m not sure when that began. Ujicha’s own words about his work are pretty brief, saying that they draw on his childhood:

It’s a mashup of all the things he enjoyed in his childhood, says the director, from trips to Universal Studios Japan to horror movies by Lucio Fulci, John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, to the gory zombie violence of the Resident Evil video game. The amusement-park-gone-awry scenario is a perfect fit for the strange world of gekimation. “It’s like I’m making an attraction myself,” Ujicha says. “Using my own supplies, and my childhood experiences.”

To me it’s just extremely cool to have someone pulling off something so distinctly different from just about all contemporary animation as well as plain fun, almost entirely alone, and getting rewarded for it! I am really hype for this one, and whatever Ujicha does next.

Now, it wouldn’t be an Animation Night Halloween if we didn’t have an anime about vampires. We’ve done (one take on) Vampire Hunter D, and we’ve done Blood The Last Vampire... so this time let’s take a look at Hellsing, specifically the 2006-2008 OVA series Hellsing Ultimate, a joint production of Satelight (who animated the first half) and Madhouse (who animated the second). What’s it about? It’s about Alucard, a vampire in the service of a British aristocrat, who hunts Nazi vampires with a great deal of gleeful violence.

This one is memorable to me because I actually ended up with a DVD of it when I was a kid, and watched the dub, which is hilarious because it’s packed with British accents or absurd movie German in a really hammy way.

The full Hellsing Ultimate is very long, consisting of ten episodes that are each almost an hour, so there’s no way I can pack it into this format. (We still never got round to the second half of Alexander Senki!) Nevertheless, I think it would be really fun to give everyone a little sampling of it.

Meanwhile, continuing the stop motion theme, I have this fascinating little oddity courtesy of @mogsk​: The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993) directed by a British guy, Dave Borthwick, at his studio bolexbrothers in Bristol - the city where I was born funnily enough, and basically the home of UK animation. It’s a surreal story of a tiny guy who escapes from a lab and into a weird swamp.

Dave Borthwick sadly died in 2013, and so a lot of the information about his life comes from his obituary. From there, we know that he was - like me! - born in Bristol, and graduated the West of English College of Art (now UWE) in 1969, spending many years working in experimental theatre, where he used traditional animation techniques in light shows, and then as a cameraman in the film industry. He founded bolexbrothers in the mid 80s, at first creating mostly short films, ads and music videos such as Feel Free (1984), I Can Hear the Grass Grow (1986), Vikings Go Pumping (1987) and Igors Horn (1988).

The studio was known for their experimental animation, using not just the familiar claymation of studios like Aardman but also pixilation (stop motion animation using living human actors). Their short films tend to involve a lot of industrial settings and favour mood (set particularly by music) over a lot of dialogue or plot.

Tom Thumb is an evolution of that to a longer format, and I’m really curious to see how it plays out. Honestly I had no idea anyone was doing anything cool like this in the UK! It would have been really cool to have met Borthman. Alas...

Besides these main features? We have our usual sampling of shorter stuff - Yamishibai in particular! If you have any cool bits of horror animation, please throw em my way!

To finish up, let me point at some exciting incoming stuff! Alberto Vasquez, the director of the incredible Birdboy: The Forgotten Children and Decorado, has put a release date on his latest film, Unicorn Wars. The film is notable for being animated entirely in Blender Grease Pencil, with much of the same team as J’ai Perdu mon Corps (Animation Night 32). Much as with Birdboy, it’s an expansion of one of Vasquez’s earlier short films into a full length movie. Here’s the trailer...

We can look forward to that in December this year! So if I’m still running Animation Night in a year, maybe it will be our next halloween pick. If I can wait that long.

The other one I have my eye on with decidedly more mixed feelings is... Shintaro Kago, the legendary ero-guro mangaka and one of my favourite illustrators, is directing an anime film, putting his unique spin on Christian mythology. Fantastic, I should be over the moon right? Only, the thing is, to fund this anime film, Kago has been selling NFTs. Apparently very successful NFTs. From a purely mercenary perspective, it’s not a bad move to exploit the vast amount of money flowing through the NFT bubble - but proof-of-work cryptocurrency is massive gaping environmental wound, and it fucking sucks to see an artist I admire like Kago lending the weight of his reputation to this exhausting ponzi scheme.

Course, I’m still gonna watch a Shintaro Kago anime. No idea who’ll be hired to animate it or whether Kago’s style - one of incredibly precise finicky detail - will translate well to animation.

Which brings me to the adaptation of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki to anime by Drive, a young studio that also made Mamoru Oshii’s comedy series VladLove, for Adult Swim and Production I.G. USA (did you know they had a US branch? I didn’t!). The animation they’ve been able to accomplish is nothing short of extraordinary, using designs straight from the manga that are anything but animation-friendly, with subtle, slow motions and drawing counts that would be at home in an expensive film. You have to see this...

The project’s release has been moved back several times, and is currently indefinitely delayed, in part due to the pandemic - something which is frankly a much better state of affairs than animators and production staff working themselves to death trying to get this done on a deadline. I’m sure, whenever it arrives, it will be worth the wait.

And that’s what’s going on - at least to my knowledge - in horror animation at the moment. Hopefully a worthy introduction to these four films. So, without further ado...

Round about the cauldron go, In the poisoned entrails throw...

Animation Night 129 will be starting in about half an hour at https://twitch.tv/canmom - that’s about 9pm UK time!

[valleyfthdolls]

My opinions on every horror film I’ve seen so far

The Ring was pretty good. Samara was an interesting mystery and it was sufficiently dark, but not super disturbing. There were a few plot beats that felt dull, irrelevant or weirdly placed, but the aesthetics and atmosphere carried it really well. Similarly to Smile, I found myself bizarrely intrigued by the scene where the horse falls off the ferry and dies. It’s disturbing and strange but its portrayal is atmospheric and tense to the point it becomes intriguingly beautiful.

Recommendation: Watch it.

Rating: 9/10

The Blair Witch Project was alright. It wasn’t particularly atmospheric like The Ring was, but it was engaging enough to finish. I was really losing interest about halfway through, but the pacing wasn’t bad enough for me to give up.

Recommendation: Watch it just to have seen it.

Rating: 4/10

Smile was good, I liked the story, and I found myself so intrigued by the story that I just replayed the opening scene in the psychiatric hospital a dozen or so times after finishing. It’s an interesting take on using horror in a way that represents mental health, and I even enjoyed the themes around the stigma against mental illness and how it dooms those who need help. But it’s not really exceptional. It’s just kind of… a horror movie.

Recommendation: I don’t have strong feelings on recommending this one.

Rating: 7/10

Friday the Thirteenth I didn’t even finish it was SO boring. I’ve been told I dropped just before it got good but if your movie only gets good in the last thirty-five minutes it needs some rewriting.

Recommendation: Don’t bother.

Rating: 2/10. The scene where the guy takes an arrow through the throat and chokes on his blood is the most interesting thing there.

Uzumaki was a mediocre adaptation of a great manga series. However, I also think there’s only so much you can do to adapt Junji Ito’s work to live action. It had the same atmosphere heavy focus as The Ring, even if imperfectly executed. I guess I really like the sickly green visual of both.

Recommendation: If you want to watch this, just read the manga instead.

Rating: 4/10

The Shining wasn’t scary to me, but it was extremely engaging. It also has my favorite old timey song in it. I think I’m probably just stupid and unobservant enough that most of the subtle horror tricks did not work on me because I didn’t even see them. Oops.

Recommendation: Forewarning that the main character is a fucking racist and an abusive parent and shitty husband

Rating: 7/10

Insidious was pretty good. But I think as it began to explain the story more it lost its footing as it wasn’t totally able to live up to what it built up around, like, the demon in particular. It was underwhelming and took away a lot of suspense.

Recommendation: I wouldn’t really recommend this one, but it’s not because it’s a bad movie.

Rating: 6/10

Before I Wake is my favorite movie. I love the atmosphere, the set and character designs, the monster, the use of butterflies and moths which I am notoriously afraid of AS something bizarre and unnerving- and the way ALL of it is used to further the narrative. Everything is crafted around the story the movie is telling in a way that even makes up for what initially appears to be a clichéd monster design that isn’t as scary as its presence- like Insidious- because of what the monster represents and the way it plays into the role it has in this story. It’s a great story in a movie that’s not terrifying or nightmare inducing but certainly is uniquely unnerving and really makes you feel the true discomfort of the situation.

Recommendation: If you’ve experienced loss of a loved one, this movie portrays that in a way that could really resonate with you. I think it’s absolutely worth a watch. Heck, even if you haven’t, you may not connect to it but it’s still a good story.

Rating: 9/10

Shōjo Tsubaki, I did not realize was a horror movie. I knew what content was in it when I started and it certainly is disturbing, but I didn’t realize it was classified as horror until I was done with it and saw someone call it a horror movie weeks later. Regardless, I… actually enjoyed the movie. I found much more artistic merit in it than most seemed to, and actually enjoyed the truly disturbing way it told its story without holding back. The art style is both visually appealing and rather grotesque, which serves well for a dark interpretation of a stock story of a little girl forced to join a circus to make money that shows off how deeply inhumane those industries can be. However, the story is a LOT to take in. Rape, abuse, grooming, pedophilia, animal cruelty, gore and body horror, and suicide- it doesn’t shy away as it basically deals this little girl the worst hand imaginable all because of the circus.

Recommendation: I genuinely wouldn’t recommend this one to anyone. If you want to watch it, know what you’re getting into and watch a few scenes on YouTube first so you’re prepared and preemptively informed.

Rating: 7/10

Bonus:

Final Destination I actually didn’t watch but I’ve seen clips and fuck if there’s a better definition of mindless, stupid, unrealistic and visually awful gorefest disguised as a movie and not something you’d find on a shitty porn site, I don’t know where it fucking is. It’s so unbelievably stupid in that it doesn’t even try to hide its fucking gore fetish. It’s disgustingly gratuitous with the amount of blood, shit just drags on and on to get the most dead bodies, dismemberment, disembowelment and unrealistically, unbelievably bloody death scenes imaginable. The fact that there are FIVE of these movies is appalling. It’s no better a movie than Guinea Pig which is basically a movie length torture and gore fetish porno. Hm, sound familiar?

Recommendation: You’d get more enjoyment out of a traffic cone up the ass.

Rating: Get fucked/10

[sewers-headmates]

hello everyone ^^

my name is Midori! I’m kinda in front right now and just wanted to say hi!!!

i’m a fictive of Hanamura Midori from Shōjo Tsubaki ^^ also Kanabun is frontstuck with me hehe but he’s a lot more asocial!

i am very bored in front and and i can’t remember the login to our personal account so posting it here ^^ i just wanna talk about me

some info about me ^^

i’m not a mod here as i’m to little the system said :< but i also have a bad attention span! i will be helping out right now!

i’m 12, straight, and use basically every transHarmed label under the sun! I love to play Genshin Impact and Dress To Impress and reading and writing! I love musicals and my source!

feel free to leave me asks! can be anything haha! i just want to interact with people

so unrelated but i wanna join a fult so bad but one where my system can still do my own thing and they’ll understand it would just be me not my system! like i just want to be degraded and worship someone not my system t^t

-midori