#the star of cottonland

[roseillith]

#a #the star of cottonland #wata no kuni hoshi

[runawaycarouselhorse]

The Chibineko bisque dolls actually have longer, fluffy white tails! This is the Takara White Dream doll. The lace trim on her socks and pinafore has yellowed, but she looks incredible otherwise, doesn't she? I love her curls

#Ooshima Yumiko #bisque dolls #Suwano Chibineko #The Star of Cottonland #nekomimi #kemonomimi #White Dream #dolls

[classic-shoujo]

Wata no Kunihoshi (1978) by Yumiko Ooshima

#wata no kunihoshi #wata no kuni hoshi #Yumiko Ooshima #the star of cottonland #70s manga #70s shojo #綿の国星

[ps1maiden]

#wata no kuni hoshi #2000s web #animecore #internetcore #moecore #figure #figurine #statuette #anime figure #anime figurine #angelcore #the star of cottonland #✟my posts

[schwarzfee]

#wata no kuni hoshi #the star of cottonland #catgirl #anime #animated gifs

[obscurecats]

Chibi-Neko from The Star of Cottonland

#The Star of Cottonland

[jamboreeofsurprises]

#the star of cottonland #audio

[sugarbear2001]

Anyone have a full copy of The Star of Cottonland? I can only find peices of it on youtube I use to have a full copy I tried to upload on youtube years ago but I lost it.

#the star of cottonland #anime

[seldomscans]

Wata no Kunihoshi - Chapter 19

The OG catgirl is back! I repeat! Chibi-neko is back!

Sadly, few of Ooshima Yumiko's works are available to English readership. Possibly her most known work, Wata no Kunihoshi, is the manga that invented catgirls and won the Kodansha Manga Award in 1979. Yet even this shoujo classic couldn't escape the "no license curse", and fan translations are incomplete.

Friendship Scans, who brought many classic shoujo titles to us, scanlated 18 chapters before disbanding. I was translating Drops of Dreams for them right before their disbandment, and that's how I got to know the state of Wata no Kunihoshi scanlations: There were some translations, some proofread scripts, and some cleans. So many people had already spent their time and effort for the rest of the chapters, but then lack of typesetters and disbandment happened, and all that work was just sitting there. I like this manga, and thought that it was a waste. Knowing that the scanlations can actually be finished spurred me to take it upon myself to fill the gaps and see this through the end. Red and Unnoticedkouhai, project managers of Friendship Scans, kindly allowed me to use the work of their former staff. (I would like to thank them, and all the other staff I never got to know! I hope they are all doing well. You'll see it in our credits page when their work is used.) Then I took this kitten I picked up to Attolia, who gruelingly did everything for this chapter, and we proudly present you: Chapter 19 of Wata no Kunihoshi!

Download the chapter here, or read it online on Mangadex to find out how hard it is to be a cat. Give me a little paw-pat if you want to help.

Rant corner: After actually translating an Ooshima work, now I know why there are few scanlations. This woman is really beyond my level. Please, good translators out there, translate stuff like this instead of generic shoujo romance/isekai #4578.

#wata no kunihoshi #star of cottonland #綿の国星 #ooshima yumiko #yumiko ooshima #大島弓子 #year 24 group #24年組 #70s manga #70s shoujo #cat #releases

[shoujo-helado]

so small, i want to hold her

#wata no kuni hoshi #star of cottonland #chibi-neko

[majokkoradio]

“Blue Heart” - Wata no Kuni Hoshi - February 11, 1984

#star of cottonland #wata no kuni hoshi #綿の国星 #yuko endo #shoujo saturdays

[roseillith]

#a #the star of cottonland #wata no kuni hoshi

[runawaycarouselhorse]

This Chibineko doll is made of ceramic and cloth, with glass eyes and painted details.

#Suwano Chibineko #The Star of Cottonland #Ooshima Yumiko #classic shoujo #dolls #merchandise #nekomimi #kemonomimi

[classic-shoujo]

Wata no Kunihoshi (1984)

#wata no kuni hoshi #wata no kunihoshi #80s anime #the star of cottonland #綿の国星

[analog-sentimentalism]

it is so strange to me that when you study shojo culture, shojo manga, authors like matsuda aoko and yoshimoto banana - everyone cites oshima yumiko as a key influence in the 1970s - 1980s (< the 1980s are generally under researched because they were the cobalt era of 33 volume novels and no one has time to read all those to write about them)

but in my research I have never come across an article about oshima (maybe they're out there in a japanese library to be fair), her manga appears to have never been reprinted at least after 90s, she has never been translated, I have not even found her works illegally translated anywhere

#I'm sure there's some problems in her works but I really doubt that she's been obscured by controversy #thinking about it #it's probably because she never had a crazy successful series like rose of versailles or poe clan or sailor moon #star of cottonland is probably her biggest one(?) but it seems more like she had a lot of relatively popular works rather than one #maybe they were less suited to adaptation to be revamped in the 90s as well #now that I tihnk about it

[schwarzfee]

#wata no kuni hoshi #the star of cottonland #catgirl #anime #animated gifs