#miyuki miyabe

[nouveauxamoris]

excerpts from miyuki’s sketchbook <3

RBS APPRECIATED!

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #bungo stray dogs fanart #ethamorisbsdverse #bsd ocs #dazai osamu #self ship #dazai bsd #oc x canon #miyuzai #miyuki miyabe #dark era dazai #dazai fanart #fun fact i did do this digitally! #I added a paper texture to the drawing afterwards to make it look real #wanted it to be immersive :3 like ur actually looking at her sketchbook #she draws dazai. a lot. the vision for this one is her drawing him while he’s in the middle of rambling #probably abt smthn she doesnt understand at all #but hes cute. so #the notes arnd the drawing are meant to be from miyuki as well! #i tried to make her handwriting as perfect as i imagined it to be #i also drew this in her art style. Teehee

[easternmind]

Before obtaining a book deal with Kodansha in 2004, Miyuke Miyabe’s novel adaptation of ICO, entitled ‘Kiri no Shiro’ (Castle in the Mist), was first published as a weekly serial on the Shūkan Gendai magazine between May 2002 and May 2003. For the occasion, Miyabe teamed up with preeminent illustrator and long time collaborator Shinsaku Fujita, whose artworks adorned the covers of most her every book.

Because Miyabe took certain liberties when deviating from the original story and concept, Fujita’s illustrations do reveal a host of characters and events finding no parallel with the game experience itself. Other drawings produce highly evocative reproductions of some its most emblematic moments, demonstrating not only firsthand knowledge but a veritable affinity for Fumito Ueda’s debut work. Departing from his habitual style, quite possibly due to ICO finding its own references within ancient and contemporary Italian art, the presence of the Italian renaissance masters is strongly felt in each of the seventy illustrations he created. It is fascinating how the artist restructures elements of the story to fit the period’s composition of prevalent religious icons, such as the Madonna and the Child or the Dead Christ. Together, they display an extraordinary reverence for Masaccio, Mantegna, Titian and Botticelli, to mention only a few.

Fujita earned a reputation in Japan for illustrating a variety of book editions, most notably the Japanese translations of Stephen King’s and Dean Koontz’s horror paperbacks. He also famously produced the artwork for a special edition of Edogawa Ranpo’s popular sleuth novel series ‘The Boy Detectives Club’. Japanese horror game enthusiasts will recognize his brushstroke from the original Siren game cover art, as well as that of Famitsu’s ‘Silent Hill Perfect Navigation Book’. Perhaps an even lesser known fact is that Fujita also created spellbinding cover for the 2001 Playstation edition of Yoshitaka Nishida’s RPG maker cult classic, ‘Palette: Forget me Not'.

Because these illustrations were a requirement that needed to be met for the publishing of a novel in Kodansha’s Modern Weekly magazine, as is quite customary in the case of such serializations, they were never again featured in any of the different editions of Miyabe’s book. If I am allowed a personal closing remark, I must say that I was astounded to find no mention whatsoever of these works anywhere online, even in dedicated wikis. I lived all these years assuming someone else from among the ever-inquisitive community had picked this up - apparently, that was not the case. Two decades too late, I nevertheless uploaded the complete gallery of illustrations to a Flickr album for your perusal.

#ico #fumito ueda #castle in the mist #miyuki miyabe #novel #illustration #shinsaku fujita #artwork #rennaisance art

[moreofeverything66]

#books #miyuki miyabe

[ipsens-castle]

The novelization of ICO by Miyuki Miyabe is blowing my entire face clean off - and it was translated by Ivalice's very own Alexander O. Smith too so it's indulgent even in prose, god

#Ico #Castle in the Mist #Team Ico #Fumito Ueda #Miyuki Miyabe #Ivalice #Alexander O Smith

[cryptid-crusader]

I just finished Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe and it was SO GOOD but hurt me SO MUCH. I sobbed the last 100 pages. Gwuuuuuh I'm entirely emotionally compromised!!!

#also I'm dumb but i def did not see the thing with captain ronmel coming at the end #even though it could be guessed it blimd sided me #and when he mentioned that he would be able to watch over the world kutz would be reborn into??? #AHHHHHHHHH #i had to put the book down for a few mins to cry it not not gonna lie #anyway please read brave story it is really incredibly good :) #brave story #miyuki miyabe #flapping my wings

[angie80k]

2026 : 1분기 : FujiTV : 방영예정작

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: Non, Sanzo 555년, yoru와길었다.

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#Miyabe Miyuki

[authorssd]

He's reading the novelization of the game ICO, written by Miyuki Miyabe.

If you wanna support Puro's reading habit, consider supporting him and his human roommate here.

#puro #puro changed #puro changed plush #puro plush #puro is reading #changed #reading #books and reading #booklr #plush photography #plush #ICO

[sweetbottletops]

The October 2023 issue of Da Vinci magazine!

Agu got the cover story!

Prior to this she was interviewed in the May issue which you can still purchase at places like amazon.jp. I imagine this can also be purchased there very soon as in Japan magazines tend to come out way before their print date. This looks like the pre-order page.

"I drew the cover illustration for the October issue of "Da Vinci" released on September 6📗 I also draw a new manga for the SNS manga feature." Twitter

And that's not all.... if you order the issue from Animate you can get a clear file of the clean cover image while supplies last.

They are keeping her really busy but it's all good things.

More details on content below the cut.

Release date: September 06, 2023  Format: A4 size  Product form: Magazine  Pages: 180

Natsuhiko Kyogoku/SNS Manga

★ Cover Illustration "The person I was interested in was not a man" Feature 1 The latest work in the "Hyakki Yakou" series has been published! Writer Debut 30th Anniversary Natsuhiko Kyogoku Long Interview with Natsuhiko Kyogoku Guide to the Complete "Hyakki Yakou" Series Luxury Talk! Natsuhiko Kyogoku × Miyuki Miyabe and others Dear Sir, Natsuhiko Kyogoku [Contribution & Interview] Yukito Ayatsuji/Ryo Arai/Arisu Arisugawa Special feature 2 Anytime, with one hand, as much as you want. There is an SNS manga for a night alone [Manga] ★ Sumiko Arai “The person I was interested in was not a man” Hanage no Mai “Kora-kun and Amagi-kun” [Manga & Interview] Diana “Night Words” "Tachi" Penguin Box "Odekakeko Shark" Yajima "Uncle Who Reincarnated as a Cat" SNS Manga Editor Roundtable SNS Manga Must-Read Guide, etc.

#the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all #arai sumiko #green manga #manga #yuri #this is very cool for her #but let her rest too yknow

[dankthereader]

Here we are, my READING LIST 2024:

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Rainbow Troops: A Novel by Andea Hirata (reread Eng ver)

Q & A by Vikas Swarup (I watched the film)

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (I read the Viet ver)

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

One Little Lie by Collen Coble

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

A Little History Of The World by E.H. Gombrich

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Series by Chris Grabenstein (I read book 1 in Viet ver and I think it's pretty cool)

Minute Mage (try out book 1?)(havent read litrpg b4..)

The Prophet And The Idiot by Jonas Jonasson

The Devotion Of Suspect X by Higashino Keigo

Solomon's Perjury 1&2 by Miyabe Miyuki

The Librarians Series by Greg Cox (I like the show🥰)

I think that's enough, huh?

#reading list #books #reading #booklr #books to read #bookworm #fantasy #adventurous #litrpg #dankthereader

[sword-and-stars]

I've been arguing with myself for some time whether to ask you this.... This year's (2023) Book Riot Read Harder challenge includes a challenge to "Read one of your favorite author's favorite books." Since you are one of my favorite authors, would you be willing to share with the internet some of your favorite books, please? (I also plan to ask muffinlance, so don't be alarmed if you see this on their feed, please.)

Aight bestie so fun fact I’m supposed to be in bed so I can’t scour the bookshelves so these are gonna be off the top of my head. You asked the queer librarian about books so uh. You’re getting jeopardy categories, babey.

I will be accepting no criticism on my absolutely flawless taste in reading material, thank you.

Comfort reads

1. The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)

2. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine l’Engle)

3. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Sangu Mandanna)

4. Howl’s Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)

5. Brave Story (Miyuki Miyabe)

Books I think are genuinely good that say “i like books but I’m not a pretentious fuckwit”

1. Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

2. Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)

3. Under the Whispering Door (TJ Klune)

4. Call Us What We Carry (Amanda Gorman)

5. The Circle of Magic Quartet (Tamora Pierce) and I don’t care that sticking four books in one slot is a cop out. Suck my nuts.

Fun books of dubious quality that I will nevertheless defend to the death

1. Battle Royal (Lucy Parker)

2. Golden Spoon (Jessa Maxwell)

3. Moorewood Family Rules (HelenKay Dimon)

4. How to Bite Your Neighbor (and win a wager) (D.N. Bryn)

5. The Honey Don’t List (Christina Lauren)

Literary equivalent of my AO3 history

1. The Rake Gets Ravished (Sophie Jordan)

2. Love & Other Disasters (Anita Kelly)

3. A Soul to Keep (Opal Reyne)

4. King of Immortal Tithe (Ben Alderson)

5. Dead Romantics (Ashley Poston)

#shove it up my ask #book recs #sorry if I’m a colossal disappointment to you but if I am you can be in a club with my parents

[icology]

In the sacrifice room, there are 53 standing coffins, the 54th being knocked over at the start of the game. In congruency with this fact, there are 53 shadows that you fight in this same room at the end of the game. It's a safe assumption that these are all the shadows The Queen has at her disposal and they all come from the sacrificed children.

A horrific but often overlooked fact can be paired with this observation: In the game's manual, it is stated that horned children are born once per generation. That's an indefinite space between 20-30 years, but we'll average it and say 25. Ico is the 54th child, so 54 generations have passed since the planning for The Queen's dark ritual began. 25 * 54 = 1,350 years But hold on, The Queen definitely seems to know a lot about this process, with an assuredness that hints at personal experience. It's very possible that this has been done before. Which would make it approximately 2,700 years that the tradition of sacrificing horned children has carried on. For reference, our earliest coherent historic texts date back to about 2600 BCE. Approximately 4,623 years ago. From a certain perspective, we have about 4,623 years of historical documentation. 2,700 years is over half of that. And I only know that much because I have Wikipedia, imagine living in this time period! There's a good chance, even if The Queen only attempted this ritual once, that the process of doing it has consumed most of humanity's recorded history... and 99.9% of all people do not have access to the earliest historic records. The line "Do not be angry with us, this is for the good of the village." is given a strange weight when considering this. Not only has that man probably carried out this exact same task ~25 years ago, not only has he heard about this process since he was a boy, he has also accepted that, from a limited human perspective, this has been happening since the dawn of time.

Interesting topic!

Adding to this horrific fact, we all know that in the universe of the games, Ico is considered a spiritual successor of Shadow. As far as the little lore we have allows us, we can kinda agree that Wander was the very first horned kid, but those were not the first humans to be sacrificed in that universe, like Mono for having a "cursed fate", and the chosen ones in the world of The Last Guardian, who were taken away. Much like in Ico, it seems that people are familiar with it enough that pretty much no one interferes (save for, you know, WANDER.) A thousand years is a long time for people to sit with this knowledge and to reflect on it, but they seem to not question the natural order of things and just let them happen, like you said. In a section of the special symposium that the team did for The Last Guardian, Ueda actually answers a question related to this:

Q: "When the boy was abducted by the eagle, the village leader didn’t seem that sad, he looked like he had given up to some extent. If he truthfully didn’t want the kids to be kidnapped, then it seems a bit strange that he had them sleep all gathered together."

A: "For the whole village, it might not have been thought of as something to be avoided – they thought of it as destiny. It was like being “The Chosen One”. (read the full interview here)"

So yes... when they said "this is for the good of the village," maybe they really believed it to be true, and perhaps they also feared the consequences of not doing it. There is also a scene in Castle in the Mist (Miyuki Miyabe's wonderful novelization of Ico) where the theme of the queen's guards is discussed. In the story, one of the guards who accompanies Ico to the castle seems to pity him and acts compassionate, unlike the other one, who just seems to go along and follow the orders he's been given. It is an unspoken truth, and no one questions it.

One thing I wonder about this subject: are the enemies in Ico really part of the sacrificed kids? Or are they some sort of "imitation" that the Queen creates with her magic, weird and gnarly as they look? Guess we'll never know!

(Tagging @sparkylurkdragon on this one cause I feel like this little piece of horrific trivia might come in handy for their amazing fanfiction on immortal Wander and his journey since SOTC)

#sorry for the late response but I needed time to elaborate a whole scientific article on this #today's subject: history #ico #trivia #answered

[nouveauxamoris]

fighting for her life trying to defend her attraction to dazai osamu

RBS APPRECIATED!

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #bungo stray dogs fanart #ethamorisbsdverse #dazai osamu #self ship #dazai bsd #oc x canon #bsd ocs #miyuki miyabe #dazai osamu x oc #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #f/o community #f/o #self ship fanart #self ship community #self shipper #self shipping

[easternmind]

As promised, here is an album containing all the higher resolution versions of Shinsaku Fujita's illustrations for Miyabe's ICO-inspired novel, Castle In The Mist. This set of illustrations is incomplete but is all that remains from that particular work, as Fujita-San informed me. You can view the images here.

To learn more about these images, their author and origin, please refer to my original post.

#ico #castle in the mist #miyuki miyabe #shinsaku fujita #illustrations #book #artwork #album

[mercymornsimpathizer]

Have you ever read the Wayward Children series and/or the first book, Every Heart a Doorway? If so, do you have any recs based on that? Or perhaps the vibes if you haven't read it?

i have indeed read Every Heart a Doorway! here is a dubiously coherent collection of recs:

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore (portals! into different worlds! each one a different genre!)

The Great Night by Chris Adrian (midsummer night's dream, in san francisco, ft. the trauma of being chewed up and spit out by a wacky fairy tale adventure)

Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (my favorite portal fantasy, very dark, 800 pages)

In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Grimwitz (all the stories, all at once; middle grade but actually good)

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (neverwhere x alice in wonderland, weird and superb)

#asked and answered #full disclosure i did not love every heart a doorway so i might be missed The Thing u like abt it #but here are my de-constructed fairy tale / portal fantasy recs #book recs

[ipsens-castle]

Time does not imprison me, I imprison time.

(Excerpt from ICO: Castle in the Mist, by Miyuki Miyabe; translated by Alexander O. Smith)

#ICO #Team Ico #Fumito Ueda

[purparo]

@haptism tagged me : )

last song I listened to: love, me normally - will wood

last movie I watched: Atlantis the lost empire

currently watching: uhmmm I am still slowly watching hunter x hunter... I am so bad at watching things though

other things I've watched this year: trigun stampede, bungo stray dogs, I rewatched gravity falls, doctor who (started at 9th doctor and got to 10th with Donna... I'll watch more eventually), jujutsu kaisen but I'm so far behind

currently reading: brave story by miyuki miyabe

currently listening to: MAG 61 hard shoulder

currently working on: finishing a massive pit in a Minecraft server with my friends (I started digging it nearly two years ago. 60x60 block pit all the way to bedrock. I need to finish it in the next few weeks before we update the server and move worlds)

current obsession: the Magnus archives. also my own OCs.

I tag @tubapun and who ever of my mutuals wants to : )

#speaks #tag game #idk who else of my mutuals would be interested so if you are go for it!!