Yashahime Manga Volume 2 - Bonus Interview with Rumiko Takahashi and Takashi Shiina
The long-awaited interview with Rumiko Takahashi, legendary creator of Inuyasha, and Takashi Shiina, who pens Yashahime, continues!
How was it reading Takahashi's manga for the first time?
Shiina: I read Urusei Yatsura in middle school when it was first serialized, and I thought, "This is the start of something big!" It was set in a fantasy manga world, but the characters were modeled after real people. I was surprised that they seemed like they were really there. I thought, "If you can make these characters seem real, imagine the potential for other manga!" That's how Takahashi's work became the catalyst for me to enter the manga world. That's how great an impact she made on me.
What do you mean, "it seemed like they were really there"?
Shiina: The characters in manga up till then would express themselves directly and pretty much mean what they said. That was the norm, especially with kids' manga. But when Takahashi came onto the scene, her characters' speech had subtext. Previously, characters lacked dimension and nuance. Her portrayal of multi- dimensional characters was a leap forward. Plus, her stories were slapstick comedies. Those two elements in one manga really surprised me.
Takahashi, were you conscious of this innovation when drawing your manga?
Takahashi: I didn't think about it at all. I've always just wanted to have fun drawing manga and hoped that my audience would laugh along. I love shonen manga, and I was reading a lot of that at the time. What Shiina is describing is something I learned from a variety of sources. I think when I began working professionally, I'd been stockpiling inspiration from manga and novels. Those were the elements I wanted to put into my work, and I guess everything just clicked into place.
^ Lum and Ataru from Urusei Yatsura, the manga that inspired Shiina.
Takahashi, what was the first manga by Shiina that you read?
Takahashi: I read his four-panel joke manga Shiina Department Store. When the series began in Sunday, I thought to myself, "It looks so effortless. How can it be so good when he isn't a veteran manga artist?" I wondered what he had worked on before to get to that level. When Ghost Sweeper Mikami began, I really enjoyed its momentum. Shiiina's work still has that energy. I can tell he puts a lot of thought into his characters. His manga are such a pleasure to read. Those were my first impressions of him.
^ From the short story "Pocket Knight," included in Shiina Department Store, one of Shiina's first works.
Do you think it was the near-professional quality of his work that led you to believe that his first series was effortless?
Takahashi: That's right. It just appeared one day in Sunday without any fanfare. I remember reading it uncritically. He was so young yet so professional.
Shiina: (LOL).
Takahashi herself appeared in Ghost Sweeper Mikami. How did that happen?
Shiina: Well, I asked her if I could put her in the manga. (LOL) I wanted to have a 1970s vibe when I flashed back to Mikami's boss's younger days-like a time-travel story. At that time, Narita International Airport was still being built, and the Shinjuku skyscrapers didn't exist. But those details alone would have been boring, so I wanted to add in some of Sunday's history. I told Takahashi that I wanted to include a scene about the moment Urusei Yatsura was born. I asked her permission, and then I went ahead with it. She got mad at me afterwards though. (LOL)
Takahashi: He asked me for permission, and I said, "Sure." I let him take care of the rest. (LOL). I think it's another interesting feature of Shiina's storytelling style.
^ Rumiko Takahashi appears from Ghost Sweeper Mikami vol. 37 on. It's totally her!
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yashahime was bad fanfiction so was tros and duel of the fates
It's your opinion. I don't find Yashahime bad and nothing, apart from myself, could change my mind.
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I still hate the fact sesshomaru had kids with rin
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Yashahime chapter 30 redraw
I seen other artists redrew from this scene from the manga and I wanted to try. I hope you like it @inuyasharedraw
This beautiful background was made by this amazing artist I purchased from Artstation
https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/WmAM5/800-feudal-japan-visual-novel-backgrounds
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