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Apr. 25th, 2007 11:19 pmScans+translation of Poe no Icihizoku, aka The Poe Clan, by Moto Hagio. Not as handy as a scanlation, nor as glorious as would be a commercial English release that I could buy and cradle and drool over, but nevertheless, those of you who know won't be surprised that I'm sitting over there in the corner, quivering and going eeeeeeee.
Those of you who know about old shoujo manga, can you tell me/link me anything about Niohitani Yoshiko and Mizuno Hideko? I'm perilously interested in them, especially the latter, thanks to a wicked cool AB panel on 1960s shoujo romance ("Rock and Romance: Shoujo Manga of the 1960s." The panelist kicked things off by explaining that she'd realized too late that she'd gotten her dates wrong, and the rock influences didn't really come until the 1970s, and therefore that the focus of the panel would actually be on just romance. XD It turns out she went to Japan as a student, and wrote undergrad papers on shoujo manga, and was lucky enough to meet and work with the amazing Matt Thorn. I would stalk this woman, if I only knew where she lived. I would stalk Matt Thorn, except that I know where he lives, and it's in a different hemisphere.) The panelist was of the opinion that Mizuno Hideko merits a place up there in the mangaka canon with Tezuka, or would have, had she not been sidetracked from her comics career by becoming a single mother, that she was pretty much the granddam of shoujo manga and the Magnificent '49ers, and other such amazing things.
Needless to say, them's researchin' words.
Those of you who know about old shoujo manga, can you tell me/link me anything about Niohitani Yoshiko and Mizuno Hideko? I'm perilously interested in them, especially the latter, thanks to a wicked cool AB panel on 1960s shoujo romance ("Rock and Romance: Shoujo Manga of the 1960s." The panelist kicked things off by explaining that she'd realized too late that she'd gotten her dates wrong, and the rock influences didn't really come until the 1970s, and therefore that the focus of the panel would actually be on just romance. XD It turns out she went to Japan as a student, and wrote undergrad papers on shoujo manga, and was lucky enough to meet and work with the amazing Matt Thorn. I would stalk this woman, if I only knew where she lived. I would stalk Matt Thorn, except that I know where he lives, and it's in a different hemisphere.) The panelist was of the opinion that Mizuno Hideko merits a place up there in the mangaka canon with Tezuka, or would have, had she not been sidetracked from her comics career by becoming a single mother, that she was pretty much the granddam of shoujo manga and the Magnificent '49ers, and other such amazing things.
Needless to say, them's researchin' words.
