Sometimes I look at manga artists' blogs.

[snarp]

They're weird!

Kumiko Suekane (Afterschool Charisma): Suekane is allll over the place. The blog's tone is very casual, fannish, and jaded, to the point that I can't understand, like, 75% of her references. She's into Phoenix Wright. Complains about her magazine (!).

Moyoco Anno (Hataraki Man, Sugar Sugar Rune): There's one post on there, and in it she apologizes for not posting. And drawing - sounds like she's been sick. Tone is sad and bored. Feel better, Moyoco Anno!

Natsuki Takaya (Fruits Basket, Hoshi wa Utau): Very domestic. She talks about her assistants, presents people have given her, stuff she's bought, food she likes, and the weather. She posts photos of all of these things. The title of the blog is "Cat and Mouse and Stars and the Moon."

Kubo Tite's Twitter (Bleach): Casual stuff about work and his assistants. His fans send him fan-Tweets, and he says, "Thank you!" and sometimes comments on personal details they've mentioned. "I'm glad I've made a manga that fathers can read with their sons!" IF THEY WANT THEIR SONS TO GROW UP TO BE MISOGYNISTS i didn't say anything

Kaoru Mori (Emma, Otoyomegatari): I really enjoy hers. Excited discussions of her research material for Otoyomegatari and anything else she's been into recently. She went through an opera phase at one point, and obviously still likes the Victorian era.

She also posts a lot of sketches of busty women, attended by mock-embarrassed disclaimers that she does draw things other than busty women. Well, evidently you do not do so very often, Kaoru Mori. If you wondered why her women in Emma and Otoyomegatari are so much hotter than her men, this blog may help to answer your question.

Comments

[snarp]

Agh! Sorry I freaked you out. The word "neoplasm" was in there, and for some reason it was in my head that that always meant "malignant." I should've looked that up first - I'm really sorry.

[chomiji]

It's easy to understand how it happened! It's just that like many other Saiyuki fans, we love Minekura as though we know her (she's such a fangirl herself). And we knew she'd been sick - she had some surgery last year or so, which delayed all her manga releases. So we got a little carried away when we thought it was cancer... .

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

It's OK, really! Medical jargon can be confusing enough even when you're not running it through a layer of translation, and I certainly don't expect people to be mindreaders about that sort of random trigger (especially when I didn't even know just how hard it would hit me until it happened.) And I channelled the nervous energy from that little freakout into starting up a project to make a collaborative senbazura, so it's all good.