Max Is So Sweet Being This Happy For Nico. I Was Already Thinking Of Featuring Max In The Gabico Thing.

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Oh how completely adorable this is 🤩

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Starting a streak of reboots for me but also for writing purposes…

Nico being clueless about the podium protocole is so dear to me

Nico not realising they had to bring their helmets in with them and Lando doing it for him aw

Superman or: How I Stopped Being Apathetic And Learned To Love The Big Blue Boy Scout:

Last year when I finally watched Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, I was blown away. Not just because it was an incredible movie (in my opinion), but because Zack had done something which I thought unlikely to happen. He made me care for the character of Superman. For as long as I can remember, I was always apathetic to Superman. No strong opinions one way or another. I’d seen the Reeves’ movies when I was younger an, aside from that; I cared very little for the character. I suppose it may have had something to do with the idea in pop culture that he is just this nearly indestructible God who can’t be killed (bar Kryptonite) and is just a boy scout. Even when I first got into superheroes when I was twelve, I immediately fell in love with Batman.I thought it was awesome how a guy, who has no superpowers and who witnessed a horrifying ordeal, became the hero he is. Hence the reason why I only saw Man of Steel last year instead of when it first came out in 2013. Now I love the character, thanks to Zack and co. Yet his Superman is polarizing to say the least; just look at its Rotten Tomatoes score of 55%. Many people will say it’s “grimdark” (To slightly misquote Charlie Brooker “Anyone who combines words like grim and dark to make grimdark is just a funt.”) and isn’t the real Superman because he’s not smiling. Which I assure you, he does. People don’t like this take on Superman as it’s nothing like the Superman of yesteryear. The Superman of their childhood. And hear in lies the crux of the problem with the character of Superman. He’s not been allowed to evolve in the media and within popular culture as much as a certain other DC character. Batman. Just think about it.Since 1966, Batman has appeared in nine films including this years Justice League; it’s sequel and Matt Reeve’s Batman movie in 2019. Not to mention the eight or so animated shows and their subsequent movies. Superman, on the other hand has appeared in seven movies including this years Justice League, it’s sequel and Man of Steel 2. Plus an animated series.Between 1966 and last years Batman v Superman:Dawn of Justice, Batman has gone from: campy to dark back to campy to gritty realism and then back to dark. Apart from the gap between the ‘66 movie and the ‘89 movie, the longest gap between Batman movies was between 1997 and 2005. Eight years, Compare that to Superman IV:The Quest for Peace and Superman Returns which had a twenty-year gap between the two. My point is that the gaps between Batman movies are so small that it allows the audience to familiarize themselves with a new iteration of the character with each reboot.Hence, the reason Bale’s Batman is so popular. Batman has evolved in the public eye.The twenty-year gap between Superman IV and Superman Returns meant that a lot of people grew up with one iteration of Superman meaning Reeves became the de-facto Superman, anything other than this was not the real Superman, and that was bolstered by Superman Returns which was a continuation of the Reeves movies (but with a new cast). Then along comes Zack Snyder who gives us a slightly different take on the character which most people are not used to. He portrays Superman as a character who has flaws and who isn’t perfect. A person who’s trying to find his place in our world.Yet unlike Batman, whenever there’s a new take on the character most are well like and few aren’t *cough* Clooney *cough*, Snyder’s version is disliked and as stated before, not the true Superman. I feel the twenty-year gap between Superman IV and Superman Returns has actually harmed the image of Superman within popular culture. Now maybe this was down to WB who think that Superman isn’t as much of a bankable character as Batman, who knows. But at the end of the day,to quote BvS, “The fact is, maybe he’s not some sort of devil or Jesus character. Maybe he’s just a guy trying to do the right thing.“Superman is a more interesting character than most people would believe. Just because Snyder’s Superman isn’t like Reeves or doesn’t smile 24/7, it doesn’t make him any less Superman. 

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im sorry but its crazy that its Gabi having Noemi on the phone! Did Noemi call Gabi? Sweet. Or is this Nico’s phone and this just confirms that Gabi already knows Nico’s password

Yoneda Kou Poll: Translated Questions

I finally got round to translating the ten winner questions of my little Yoneda Kou Poll. Sorry for the wait, I had a busy weekend. You can send Sensei these questions by answering the 10-Year Anniversary Survey until July 31st. It wasn’t specified anywhere if the number of questions per person is limited, so it should be okay to ask more than one. If you ask all the questions at once though, that might be considered spam, so choose your favorites below and then copy & paste the Japanese translation into the specified field in part 3 of the survey. Maybe there’s a word limit once you try, but I don’t know since I haven’t answered it yet.

At the end of the post I’ve also added some questions I translated for @lustfulcat as a bonus. She’s always working hard for the fandom, so I thought that’s only fair. I also included my own questions, in case someone else wants to ask them too.

On to the Questions:

(1) If Yashiro had outright confessed to Kageyama, would they have dated? How long would it have lasted for?

もし高校生の矢代が勇気を絞って景山に告白してたら、2人は付き合うことになったでしょうか。なかなか想像がつきませんが、2人の関係はどれくらい続いてたでしょうか。

(2) Why Yashiro have a change in his color hair? I see a lot of posters and in them his hair changes.

矢代の髪の毛の色は絵によって違う気がしますが、先生はなぜ時々髪の毛の色を変えたりしますか。

(3) If she could pick actors to play Saezuru characters, who would she pick?

もし「囀る～」の映画化が決まって、先生は世界のどの俳優でも選べることが出来るのなら（あり得ない前提ですみません）、誰が「囀る～」 のキャラに一番イメージが近いと思いますか？

(4) What are your top ten yaoi manga by other mangaka?

先生の一番好きなBL漫画を10作教えてください。もし答えにくいのであれば、どういうBL漫画が個人的にお好みですか？

(She might be hesitant to directly name titles as her favorites since she has many BL mangaka friends who she might be afraid to offend with her answer. So I’ve added : If it’s difficult to answer this question, what kind of yaoi manga do you like in general?)

(5) Which of her couples are reversible? If none are, would you ever draw a reversible couple?*

先生は リバーシブル についてどう思いますか？先生のカップルの中にはリバCPがいますか？小野田と出口ならリバあり得るかなと思いますが、もし違うのなら、いつかリバカプを描きたいと思いますか？

(What do you think about reversible couples? Do any of your couples like to switch? Onoda and Deguchi kind of seem like they would, but if I’m wrong, would you ever draw a reversible couple?)

(6) What’s a detail in one of your works that you think most people don’t notice?

今まで描いてきた漫画を振り返ってみると、こだわったわりにはなかなか読者に注目されていないところ、又はあまり気付かれていないところなどありますか？

(7) Do you get *feels* when you read your own work?

先生はご自分の作品に萌えられますか？

(8) Is there a Yoneda Kou “universe” in which all or many of her works take place? Now that we’ve seen Shark and Whale from “Saezuru” in “Op,” I really want to know whether Masaki from “Nights” (police, drug division) and Ryouji from “Why do you love me anyway” (police, organized crime division) know Yashiro’s sex friend … (No. 1)

ヨネダ先生の多くの作品の舞台になった「ヨネダコウの世界」みたいな設定がありますか？鮫と鯨は「囀る～」にもOpにも現れますが、NightSの真崎は「俺に恋して～」の良司や「囀る～」の矢代の（警察の）セフレとの知り合いですか？とても気になります。

(9) Does Yashiro have any particular feelings about his birthday? Did any specific event happen that might have soured the occasion for him?

矢代は自分の誕生日について何か特別な気持ちを抱いていますか？昔、その日には何か嫌なこととかありましたか？

(10) Who is Yoneda-sensei type of man among all the characters she has created, and why?

ヨネダ先生が考えたキャラクターの中から、個人的に誰が一番タイプですか？こういう人がいれば気になるというキャラはいますか？ 理由も教えてください。

Bonus Questions:

1. How does Yoneda Kou feel about the love she gets from foreign fanbases? (@lustfulcat​ )

先生は海外のファンもたくさんいるかと思いますが、そのことについてどう思いますか？もし何か伝えたいことがあれば教えてください。

2. Would she consider a Saezuru OVA / is that something she eventually wants? (@lustfulcat​ )

もしそういう機会があれば、先生はご自分の作品のアニメ化を望ましいと思いますか？どの作品が一番アニメに向いていると思いますか？

(Worded more generally: Do you like the idea of one of your works to be made into an anime? Which one of them do you think would be suited best?)

3. We know why Kageyama fell in love with Kuga, but what is it that attracts Kuga to Kageyama? What are their dates like?

景山は久我のことをギラギラやイケイケと言いますが、久我は景山のどういうところに惹かれてますか？2人のデートはどんな感じでしょうか？

4. Will there ever be a continuation of Yorube Naki Mono?

「寄る辺無き者」の続きがとても気になります。いつか続編が読めるでしょうか。

Notes:

*@wouldnt-touch-you-anyway kindly reminded me that Sensei had once said in an interview that she liked gentle semes like Doumeki and Onoda who ultimately wouldn’t mind being uke if their partner asked them to. She also said that Togawa probably wouldn’t switch.

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I was just thinking of this ask/reply, and I got reminded of this.

Stray cats are definitely Batman. This is my adopted stray. She definitely seems to think she is Batman.

Omega Bruce sort of reminds me of a stray cat. Not quick to love people, lashes out when uncomfortable, hides away when seriously hurt (both physically and emotionally in Bruce's case), but once he's found his true home and people who love him, he's happy.

That is a very accurate description of Bruce in a lot of my stories… but omegaverse especially.

Fuck. Look at the curve on that thigh. This is what Carlos’ dreams are made of

Charles plays in the Fight Aids Cup charity football match at Monaco's Stade Louis II stadium | Jan 2024

Interview Translation

I finally had some time to translate the Yoneda Kou interview in the March issue of the magazine “Da Vinci” that came out last month. The issue focuses on introducing BL manga to male readers, and includes interviews with some other BL mangaka like Harada, Takarai Rihito, and Kumota Haruko as well.

Yoneda Kou – Her realistic portrayals of men receive attention even outside the genre of BL

“Saezuru tori wa habatakanai” is a BL manga about the lives of men on the dark side of society. Despite its genre and graphic sex scenes the series has an exceptional number of male supporters as well. Why is that? We’ve asked the author Yoneda Kou who recently started serializing another series called “OP – The Colorless Days of Yoake Itaru” in the seinen magazine “Evening”.

The setting is a well-known criminal organization, the Japanese Yakuza. In Saezuru tori wa habatakanai which tells the story of the shrewd wakagashira Yashiro and the ex-cop Doumeki who becomes his personal assistant / bodyguard, Yoneda Kou creates a dense picture of a male-dominated world wavering between chivalry and jealousy, conspiracies and sexual desire. Not only is the series immensely popular among BL readers, it also receives favorable ratings from outside the genre, having won prizes like the FRaU Manga Award and the SUGOI JAPAN Award. Even the author herself never expected such a response from Non-BL readers when she first started serializing her work. »It feels very odd to me, since I’m drawing with the intention of creating a straightforward BL story. Given Yashiro’s characterization as lewd and masochistic, I first thought that my manga wouldn’t even appeal to many BL readers. That’s why I simply feel happy that someone would go so far as recommend it to others.«

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