“‘97 Ribon calendar” – Ikeno Koi (January 1997)

Hime-chan no ribbon 4koma from Ribon furoku booklet

Handsome na kanojo 4koma from Ribon furoku booklet

These are the Yazawa Ai pages from this furoku booklet featuring 4koma from all Ribon artists at the time. I don’t believe they’ve ever been included in any of her tankobon. They deal with her two cats, and how she saved them as kittens from a yakuza (?) when she first moved to Tokyo. Yoshizumi Wataru appears on the second page, another example of Yazawa and Yoshizumi’s friendship!

that moment when you’ve finally blocked everyone in the #figure skating tag who

• are delusional v/m fans who think everything that every skater ever does is a tribute to v/m
• are delusional hanyu fans who think hanyu would have won everything if only the scoring was fair
• post vague accusations about random people without ever actually coming out to say what these people did wrong, because you’re just supposed to take their word for it and if you actually want specifics or proof you’re an apologist (“nathan chen is a homophobe! what did he say or do? not gonna tell you, because if i told you then you might form your own opinions and disagree with me, and we can’t have that; if i vague about something you’re supposed to fall in line or else you’re a bigot OKAY”)
• can’t read protocols but complain about scoring anyway
• post yoi content

and then there were none.

hotwaterandmilk:

Series: Mint na Bokura
Artist: Yoshizumi Wataru
Publication: Ribon Magazine (05/1998)
Details: Noeru & Maria Sandwich Box
Source: Scanned from personal collection

Furoku sale post!

Here we go again! For sale are various Ribon, Nakayoshi, Hana to yume, Ciao etc. furoku, and at the bottom of the post you will also find a bunch of furoku I’m giving away for free for anyone willing to pay shipping. Everything will be sold or given away on a first come, first serve basis.

If you want to see more images or inquire about condition or shipping, please just poke me on chat or send an ask. :) Everything will be shipped with regular unregistered mail. Please note that because of the current global situation, shipping might take quite a while, up to 7 or 8 weeks. I’ve never had a package lost in the mail or returned to me, so I expect everything to be safely delivered, but if you’re not willing to wait for quite a while, this post is not for you.

HANA TO YUME

1. Otona ni naru hoho poster with stickers on back - $1
   
2. W Juliet CD and comics box - $1
   
3. Gakuen Alice bear-shaped plastic case - $1
   
4. Fruits Basket set of 3 plastic bags for CDs - $5 SOLD
   
5. Fruits Basket Kyo notebook - $3 SOLD
   

NAKAYOSHI

1. Kingyo Chuiho game - $2
   
2. Sailor Moon plastic bag - $5 SOLD
3. Sailor Moon tissues - $2
4. Sailor Moon stamp and fortune telling sheet - $2
5. Minmin! photo album - $2 SOLD
6. Miracle Girls new year’s postcard - $1 SOLD
7. Taiho shite Miina! plastic bag - free with any purchase GONE
   
8. Kataoka Michiru ema - free with any purchase GONE
9. Yagi Chiaki otoshidama bag - free with any purchase GONE

Keep reading

Hime-chan no ribbon “pop-up pen case” – Mizusawa Megumi (October 1990)

Handsome na kanojo zen'in present telephone cards – Yoshizumi Wataru (Feb-Mar 1990, Feb-Mar 1992)

Hoshi no hitomi no silhouette “Valentine daisakusen book” – Hiiragi Aoi (February 1989)

Asked by Anonymous

Good question! I’m probably not the best person to ask, since I don’t follow the English translation scene closely. If anyone reading this has recs, please leave a reply.

• To Terra… by Keiko Takemiya
• The Heart of Thomas by Hagio Moto
• The Rose of Versailles by Ikeda Riyoko

There are a few other works out in English by Takemiya and Hagio, and if you can find Hagio’s They Were Eleven! for cheap I think you should pick it up, but that’s about it off the top of my head. I also have a few Yamagishi Ryoko short stories scanlated in my tags.

Asked by Anonymous

Modern. I think the 80s is when we go from the stereotype of the “retro shojo manga” to something we might look back on today and perceive to be “modern”. (No value judgement implied with those words, since I like retro shojo a lot.)

Some comparisons from the same publishers/magazines:

70s

80s

70s

80s

70s

80s

This isn’t specific to shojo manga, though, since manga in general went through a similar change, e.g. shonen manga:

Another way 80s shojo might be perceived as more “modern” is how shojo moved away from fantastically “historical” and/or fantastically “western” settings and began to explore contemporary settings, including contemporary Japanese settings the readers could more directly relate to. As Japan developed and became a modern superpower, the Japanese people’s perception of themselves also changed, making contemporary settings more interesting and acceptably “fashionable”, and this trend created what we perceive to be the mainstream of shojo manga today, i.e. “ordinary Japanese school girls and their ordinary school and love lives”. (Not that this type of manga didn’t exist at all in the 70s, plenty of this type of manga was actually written which led directly into the 80s, but the titles we now consider influential in the history of manga were Not That.)

Ponytail Hakusho “Mister Valentine card” – Mizusawa Megumi (February 1987)

“Ribon no fancy Valentine card” (February 1990)