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Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights September 2026

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Spotted Flower is back, baby! That and more in this month’s tweets.

Kio finds that with age, the habits he’s developed when drawing can cause issues with balance and proportion, like the position of eyes and the size of the head. Since he does digital art now, he goes back and fixes stuff.

https://twitter.com/kioshimoku1/status/2096578369240641953

A poster from attending the How Do You Like Wednesday? anniversary show.

Spotted Flower is continuing! See this post for more info.

https://twitter.com/kioshimoku1/status/2100957128311841151

Kio ordered some manga at the same time: The Kinks Volume 4 and Under 3 Volumes and 4. However, only The Kinks arrived, which has him a little nervous about the other books.

Kio loves the viciousness of this character in Dekapai Kishi.

Girls und Panzer Episode 9 streamed for free on Youtube. Kio recalls that he liked the episode so much that he actually showed his recording to his editor at the time.

Kio sharing someone’s photos of Chuo University, the visual reference for the college in Genshiken.

The End of Rakuen: Le Paradis

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Rakuen: Le Paradis, the manga magazine that runs Spotted Flower by Kio Shimoku, announced that it will be ending in February with its 50th issue, with its web supplements going to March.  While nothing is definite forSpotted Flower, the chances of it allso ending then are pretty high.

An image of a Japanese announcement that Rakuen is ending.

Rakuen has been a truly unorthodox publication. Rather than running weekly or even monthly, issues are released every quarter. The content is intended for mature readers, but that idea really runs the gamut. It’s been home to sexually charged adult dramas such as Spotted Flower, but also visually experimental works from panpanya (Guyabano Holiday), fetish territory like that of Kurosaki Rendou, and even gentle high school romances. In terms of different demographics as genres, Rakuen really defies easy categorization.

I hope that a spiritual successor emerges in some form. Just having something that takes the idea of “adult manga” and embraces all possible definitions of the idea was a real breath of fresh air.