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Dawn ♡ Your Anime Grandma ♡ loves spooky, cute, & retro ♡ Host/producer of The Anime Nostalgia Podcast ♡ AnimeNostalgiaPodcast(a)gmail(.)com ♡ BLM! ♡
Nov 10, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Considering how Riyoko Ikeda has fought to keep total control over her iconic Rose of Versailles manga at every turn, it saddens me that Moschino would put out these cheap Hook-Ups style imitations of her work on their fashion. Like, this is obviously meant to evoke her work. If you're too young to get the reference, Hook-ups is a skate brand that's been ripping off & blatantly stealing anime & manga art since the 90s--I helped @terebifunhouse with an article he wrote on it back in 2013: letsanime.blogspot.com/2013/05/proper…
Nov 9, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Me from several years ago, smiling, with much longer hair. From before I copped all my hair off lol. One of the rare moments my hair was actually behaving!
Oct 12, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
Some extremely sad news to share. Izumi Matsumoto, the creator of Kimagure Orange Road, passed away on October 6th--shared in a blog post today on his official website: comic-on.co.jp/hidiary/hidiar… Mangaka Izumi Matsumoto with his cat. He suffered from Spinal Stenosis, which made it extremely difficult for him to work on art or manga. This is the main reason why even though Kimagure Orange Road was a hugely popular & influential series, he didn't do much afterwords because it was just too much for him.
Oct 12, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Jumped out of bed to get an early morning package!! Lol is anyone actually surprised I bought all the Ranma 1/2 Hobonichi collab stuff for next year? 🤣 (since there were no cons this year, I used money I'd normally set aside for that on it...kinda lucky, as shipping was high!) Ranma 1/2 designed Hobonichi techo products, including a wee I'd been considering trying a Weeks, and WELP....I finally caved after seeing the Ranma lenticular cover they did for this. ITS SO NEAT IN PERSON!!
Nov 19, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
DID YOU KNOW that to celebrate Kaiji reaching 500 chapters, Young Magazine had a bunch of mangaka draw Kaiji to celebrate?

That included one drawn by CLAMP. CLAMP loves Kaiji!! (Which, if you're familiar with CLAMP's works and Kaiji....that isn't a big surprise. 😂) CLAMP's drawing of Kaiji holding a black Mokona. Here's a Kaiji drawn by Tetsuya Chiba, best known as the creator of Ashita no Joe! Kaiji drawn in Tetsuya Chiba's style.
Sep 19, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
There's a thread going around about how being an anime fan was "better" in the time when we got maybe 20 anime VHS released a year officially & we had to find fansubs for anything else...and as someone who lived through those times, I'm here to tell you: that's a load of BS. Sure, I often talk about being nostalgic (lol) for anime from that era, but MAN O MAN I sure don't miss having to send money to complete strangers via snail mail & pray that a. it doesn't get lost and b. the person isn't a scammer who'll just take my money & run.