Heliotrope no Koi by Mizuno Hideko (1969)
What can I say? It is known that I am weak for Russian literature and character who run towards their ruin at full speed, so I had to do this Mizuno one shot too... Here is another story by Turgenev, like the previous First Love, to give you some feelings on this cold weekend. Heliotrope Love, was adapted from his Smoke, and I strongly recommend that you read it. Here are some parts that I loved, but that were sadly weren't included in the limited page count of the manga, so I'll leave them here:
‘But I can’t live without you, Irina,’ Litvinov interrupted, in a whisper now; ‘I am yours for ever and always, since yesterday.... I can only breathe at your feet....’
...As though I could complain when you love me, Irina! I wanted only to tell you that, of all this dead past, all those hopes and efforts, turned to smoke and ashes, there is only one thing left living, invincible, my love for you. Except that love, nothing is left for me; to say it is the sole thing precious to me, would be too little; I live wholly in that love; that love is my whole being; in it are my future, my career, my vocation, my country! You know me, Irina; you know that fine talk of any sort is foreign to my nature, hateful to me, and however strong the words in which I try to express my feelings, you will have no doubts of their sincerity, you will not suppose them exaggerated. I’m not a boy, in the impulse of momentary ecstasy, lisping unreflecting vows to you, but a man of matured age—simply and plainly, almost with terror, telling you what he has recognised for unmistakable truth. Yes, your love has replaced everything for me—everything, everything!
God I wish I could love someone like that/someone loved me like that.
DDL
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This manga was originally published in Monthly Seventeen's issues 30-36 in 1969. I must say all Seventeen manga might be just to my taste.
Thanks go to 5MENP for splitting Edelweiss with me, to phuji and shielshi, my dear Seldom gang, for making this project see the light of day.
And of course, thank you, Attolia, for giving me the push I needed to translate this. I've missed you <3
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Fire!
WAKE UP! 5menp has just picked Fire! up. You read that right. Fire! FIIIIIIIRE! https://mangadex.org/title/d15267de-2481-4a74-bb3c-7b7504f245d9/fire
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News - Viz Media announced at NYCC 2022 that they will be re-releasing Kazuo Umezz’s horror classic Cat-Eyed Boy, in a deluxe hardcover Perfect Edition for Summer 2023! Viz originally released the series in 2008 in 2 paperback omnibus editions, but it’s been out of print for some time now. A great announcement for Halloween time! I’ll post more info on this release as it becomes available.
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My brain just had a series of thoughts where I remember searching about a 70s (maybe even 60s) shoujo manga that was about swimming. I feel like I remember it was made into a live action drama that was really successful and popular, and it may have actually been that the manga was an adaptation of the live action instead of the other way around. If anyone knows what I’m talking about let me know!!!
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Aoike Yasuko's Vampire (1969)
We present you another spooky manga for the spooky month!
This time, it's an earlier work of the great Aoike Yasuko called Vampire (吸血鬼). You can find it in this compilation among her other earlier works.
Once again, many thanks to shielshi and phuji for making this see the light of day.
DDL
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Where it all started...
Platypus, the preserver of manga history, showed this page he scanned from a 1978 issue of Monthly Manga Shounen (月刊マンガ少年) to me. It was great seeing a manga artist, Minamoto Tarou, acknowledged the importance of Fire! even back then, and hailed it as the grandmother of the 70s bishounen manga.
Here's a quick translation for you.
Monthly Manga Shounen, issue no. 1978/8
Minamoto Tarou
Speaking of show business, when I was watching Yamaguchi Momoe sing “Playback” on TV the other day, I was suddenly reminded of Takakura Ken’s youth. Her dreamy gaze when she sings, how she looks slightly bashful when her song ends... She was almost the spitting image of Ken-san of the past. Is it that there’s something "manly" in a woman’s charm? Or does a man’s masculinity has something akin to femininity?
...And it brings me to the topic of male-male romance manga drawn by women.
Things took off after manga like Mo-sama’s “Gymnasium” or “Thomas”, and Takemiya Keiko-shi’s “Yuki to Hoshi to Tenshi to.” And until now, there has been a plethora of works in that vein, and every magazine you pick up today sure to be full of such works. But when did it really start? When I think about it, Mizuno Hideko-shi shines bright. Yes, I'm talking about “Fire!”
“For the first time in my life, I loved someone more than I did my mother: Fire Wolf.”
Didn’t this whole world came to be in young Aaron’s cries as he was breaking down in tears before the flames of the explosion that killed Wolf? This is what I think.
**Insert fangirl squee here!**
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