Translation of a 2007 interview with Keiko Takemiya.

Apr. 15th, 2010 10:20 pm
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. )
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A warning and a Wikipedia entry.

Mar. 25th, 2010 03:16 am
Hi to all the people who have friended me and commented! Thank you all so much! I love you all and you are awesome, and making awesome observations all over the place!

But: I should warn you that I totally don't usually post such a high density of serious stuff. I do complain about manga, but it's not always coherent! I mean, sometimes I just edit pictures of Hitsugaya so he talks funny, or make wild claims to the effect that I am going to marry Olivia Armstrong. (Hint: I am not going to do this. Olivia Armstrong is not real.) And sometimes I don't talk about manga. A not-insignificant number of my posts are about, like... sandwiches. I'm basically lazy.

(This is why I'm totally behind on comments? I'm sorry, I'm working on it!)

And now, having established that I am usually lazy - I just spent all night trying to kill myself reading Japanese Wikipedia entries about the Magnificent 49ers. I've translated this one.

Ooizumi Salon

Ooizumi Salon is the name given to the apartment shared by artists Keiko Takemiya and Moto Hagio, where many members of the group of manga artists known as the Magnificent 49ers (in Japanese, the 24-nen-gumi or Year-24 Group) would gather.

Yasuko Sakata christened the apartment for its location in Ooizumi, in Tokyo's Nerimaku ward. [citation needed] Takemiya's friend Norie Masuyama (a novelist who has acted as Takemiya's producer and collaborator) had come up with the idea of establishing a "women's version of Tokiwa-sō," a famous apartment building inhabited at various times by mangaka like Osamu Tezuka, Shotaro Ishinomori, and both halves of the duo comprising Fujiko Fujio. Under her influence, Takemiya and Hagio moved into a row-house across the road opposite Masuyama's home. According to Masuyama, though Hagio and Takemiya were enthusiastic about manga, they had almost no knowledge about books and movies, and the knowledge Masuyama would introduce them to many new works. The theme of "shounen-ai" that would appear in both artists' work was also apparently due to Masuyama's influence and instruction.

Over the next several years, many young female manga artists, all born around the year 1949, would congregate at this apartment. These include Ryouko Yamagishi (born 1947), Mineko Yamada (1949), Nanaeko Sasaya (1950), Itou Aiko (1952), Shio Satou (1952), Misako Nachi (birthdate unknown), Sakata Yasuko (1953), and Yukiko Kai (1954). These women would come to the salon to meet, talk, draw their own manga, help others with theirs, and then return home again. Many of the women who participated in the salon would one day become the leaders of the shoujo manga world.

The Salon's most active years were the period between 1970 and 1973. In that time they produced the zine "Mahoutsukai," worked together on various projects, and debated the future of shoujo manga at all hours, according to Takemiya. [I'm not sure about that sentence.] Even after the Salon's dissolution, many of the artists involved have maintained close ties.

( So, somebody translate Masuyama's novels for me now? )
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