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Alternate Title: Norie Masuyama - The Dark Lord of Shoujo Manga?
Original text here. I'm seriously getting really curious about Norie Masuyama. (I talked about her before in this post.) In this interview Takemiya calls her "someone in Hagio's and my circle of friends" rather than "a friend," and talks about her in kind of a distant way - but from all the evidence they must have been pretty close at some point. I mean, she moved to Oizumi in part to be close to Masuyama, Masuyama got her into shounen-ai, and Masuyama was her co-author on Hensoukyoku. Did something happen there? (It's kind of paparazzi of me even to be thinking about this...)
It's kind of a funny interview, because the interviewer is really bombastic, and Takemiya keeps obliquely shooting her down. I don't think my translation really captures how hyper the interviewer comes off. I can't find her name anywhere - it'd be interesting to know if she's always like this, or it's just her reaction to getting to interview Takemiya.
( The interview. )
Original text here. I'm seriously getting really curious about Norie Masuyama. (I talked about her before in this post.) In this interview Takemiya calls her "someone in Hagio's and my circle of friends" rather than "a friend," and talks about her in kind of a distant way - but from all the evidence they must have been pretty close at some point. I mean, she moved to Oizumi in part to be close to Masuyama, Masuyama got her into shounen-ai, and Masuyama was her co-author on Hensoukyoku. Did something happen there? (It's kind of paparazzi of me even to be thinking about this...)
It's kind of a funny interview, because the interviewer is really bombastic, and Takemiya keeps obliquely shooting her down. I don't think my translation really captures how hyper the interviewer comes off. I can't find her name anywhere - it'd be interesting to know if she's always like this, or it's just her reaction to getting to interview Takemiya.
( The interview. )
