All of Dekapai Kishi Matari Tooru! (a manga about a big-boobed female knight) was available to read for free. Kio read through everything at once, which left his head spinning (in a good way).
Genderswap character art for Kio’s Star Wars parody, Sister Wars. Luke Skywalker was raised as a boy (father is Padmé, mother is Anakin), Han is basically Han, and Leia is an otoko no ko.
Kio explains that Sister Wars is not necessarily a “genderswap” alternate universe but one where only girls are allowed to become Jedi, and to defy that, some hide their gender.
After the World Cup finals, Kio gives his thoughts. He’s impressed by Messi as always. He also finds it interesting that what ultimately overcame Argentina was not the power, technique, and speed of France, but rather the way Spain evaded and made Argentina crumble. He also jokes that defeating Argentina meant engaging in duels rather than playing a game.
Showing off the photo spot for the Genshiken exhibit at the Afternoon 40th Anniversary exhibit. According to Kio, it’s the color spread from a particular chapter.
The 2026 Ghost in the Shell adapts the manga chapters “Revolt of the Robots” and “The Making of a Cyborg” in a pretty direct manner, which is pretty surprising to Kio. He thinks they worked well adapting to anime, and he likes the conversation between Batou and the Fuchikoma.
Manga author panpanya drew the final web bonus for Rakuen, which involves exploring a store based on all the different Rakuen titles. Kio comments “Heh-heh-heh, what a suspicious store this. How wonderful…”
To celebrate the 500th issue of Young Comic, the magazine interviewed various creators about their fetishes, and Kio drew a short informational comic about his fondness for futanari. Kio comments that the preview thumbnail makes it look like he’s calling himself a futanari.
(I’ll probably write a summary of Kio’s entry and post it to the blog in the near future.)
Having watched the World Cup match between Japan and the Netherlands, Kio says that getting a tie score demonstrates that the Japan team isn’t just for show, and that they have what it takes to win.
Watching Ueda Ayase play is also apparently quite the rollercoaster.
Kio read the first volume of Kuroda Iou’s new manga, Sendou Yasugorou, and loved the realism and sense of tension. (Incidentally, Kuroda is one of my favorite manga artists stylistically, so I gotta check it out!)
Kio also loves Kuroda’s manga Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, as well as the film based on it. (I didn’t realize the movie was based on a work by Kuroda Iou!)
I’m including some replies to this that I haven’t translated or summarized so I can go back to them once I have proper context.
A quote tweet of someone who’s correcting a mistaken assumption about an old Animage cover featuring Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service. The erroneous belief is that the cover depicts Kiki three years after the events of the film, but it’s actually supposed to be how she looks and dresses before the events of the film.
Kio recalls reading this issue in middle school, and that it showed how Kiki looks when riding a broom in this outfit.
He watched the new Patlabor EZY File 01, and felt that it was very much a modern-day Yuki Masami series and very Patlabor. Cognizant of the old OVAs, Kio is anticipating some major storylines to develop.
In a Twitter discussion about works people expect might never get a real ending, one title that popped up is Pandora in the Crimson Shell by Shirow Masamune and Koshi Rikudo, which was expected to never conclude but then suddenly came back with a proper conclusion.
In response to the initial tweet, another person talks about how those who criticize Shirow’s works for not having endings do not understand the world of Shirow and the entertainment his manga provide. Kio in turn says that when it comes to incomplete Shirow stuff, he mainly thinks of Appleseed rather than Ghost in the Shell, but that he’s grateful for getting a complete series in the form of Pandora in the Crimson Shell.
Kio makes a pun here, basically saying he feels grateful with all his “ghost,” playing off of the Japanese zenshin zenrei (with all my body and soul) and the idea of the “ghost” as one’s soul/consciousness from Ghost in the Shell.
Kio upgraded to Clip Studio Paint 5.0. He’s normally not so comfortable with new features, but he thinks he might be able to make good use of Smart Shape.
Kio says the boobs of the main heroine in Dekapai Kishi Makari Tooru! (The Big-Boobed Knight Goes Unpunished) are so distracting that it might just be hiding a panty reveal.
A picture of the fan booklet that came with the fourth Girls und Panzer Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! movie. Kio finally saw it and wants to watch it again.
Kio is grateful that you can still buy physical paper copies of Dokaben volumes even today. (Dokaben is a famous and extremely long-running baseball manga that notably uses real baseball teams.)
Re-posting some old drawings, like this one of Madarame and Jin. (I previously covered this, but it’s been enough years that this is probably worth showing again.)
Kio is surprised at the announcement of the Neo Geo AES+. He feels like he might have brought it into existence by drawing a Neo Geo in Spotted Flower.
The Afternoon 40th anniversary exhibition released its key visual, featuring Genshiken among numerous other works. The follow-up tweet lists all the authors and titles.
The past month’s chapter of The Five Star Stories is apparently so full of information that it’s ridiculous. Also the character Concord makes an “erotic expression.”
Kio will be going analog (physical media + projector!) for his live drawing session this month with Minoda Kaidou. He plans to draw a Spotted Flower character.
Because Kio has felt his concentration decline recently, he decided to draw outside. He’s not sure how well it worked, despite being more productive overall.
Having decided to write out the plot in the morning for something in Spotted Flower, Kio went and finished the written storyboard. He had thought about how it should go for a while, so the drawing went pretty smoothly.
Additional advertisement for the live drawing event. Kio mentions you can get a photo copy of the drawings! He also reconfirms that it’ll be streamed using a projector.
When asked about what they’re hoping for at the live drawing event, Minoda said her answer was a difficult one—she wants to see people to react to their drawings by going, “What the heck is this?!” This makes Kio look forward to being there.
Kio thanks Minoda for her congratulatory message on 50 chapters of Spotted Flower. Minoda also drew characters from Kio’s previous manga Jigopuri. Minoda also mentions the live drawings will be bunny girls.
Kio responding to a person who considers Haraguchi from Genshiken their “#1 oshi,” and asks whether the character has a full name. Kio’s answer: He never came up with one.
The print edition of Spotted Flower Chapter 50 is out [and so is the digital edition now!]. There will be one more print chapter and then two digital ones after this, due to Rakuen: Le Paradisending.
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