This month, Kio Shimoku posted more Genshiken art, and we saw the opening of Genshiken pop-up shops across Japan! Yes, there’s even Ogiue merch!
Kio had a good deal of trouble finding this Engage SR3 model kit from The Five Star Stories, but then managed to order and receive it.
カメさん絶対殺さないマンとしてプレイしてたけど、魔法塔入るのに霊体のカメさん3体倒さないといけなくて……初めての時様子見で周辺うろうろしてたら池に不審な波紋見つけて攻撃したら消えてるカメさん霊体だった……
やってしまった……と諦めて残り2体倒しました……— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) August 31, 2023
Having trouble with a turtle in Elden Ring.
More pages from Sister Wars, Kio’s genderbending The Phantom Menace parody. With that, Chapter 1 is done.
フルカラー、かなーり適当塗りでやったけどそれなりに時間はかかりますな…モノクロでも試してみようかとも思いますが……多分そんなに変わらないような気が……
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 4, 2023
スターウォーズ自体は当然カラーと相性いいですしねぇ。まぁ、いろいろ試してみます。
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 4, 2023
Kio kind of wings it with the color, but thinks that the work wouldn’t be that different even in B&W. Kio likes the color palette in Star Wars in general.
Amidala-kun.
Kio also uploaded Sister Wars Chapter 1 to Pixiv.
作業動画がありましてね。やったー！って見始めて、もう完成近いのかな？というところから２０分で終了。いやぁ丁寧、と思ってループで戻ったら下書きから始まりまして。……「いちから？いちからか？」結局1時間くらいあって笑うしかないですｗ
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 5, 2023
これも見ました！ぬいぐるみはとてもかわいい……！のですが、何よりこの空間感をペンのみで描いてしまうところが……尋常じゃねぇ……となりました。
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 5, 2023
この棚ベタじゃなくてカケアミで潰してる感じですね……楳図かずお先生レベルじゃないですか……！
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 6, 2023
Kio went to an Azuma Kiyohiko Yotsuba&! exhibit at the Tokiwa-sou museum.
Kio is especially flabbergasted by how Azuma managed to do this panel.
まぁ最近は、好きなパターンってのはあるなぁ……と思い始めてます……ｗ
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 7, 2023
Kio mentions that this Jedi is not to be confused with this girl from Kio’s 18+ doujinshi. However, he realizes that he might have certain preferences when the characters he came up with in 2010 and 2022 are so similar.
Ogiue and Ohno might technically fall under this category too. Kio includes an old drawing of Ohno cosplaying Leina from Queen’s Blade and asking Ogiue to cosplay as Leina’s little sister Elina. This is a voice actor joke because the original Ohno (Kawasumi Ayako) voiced Leina and the original Ogiue (Mizuhashi Kaori) voiced Elina.
台風の後また35度の予報って…昔マンガで見た「拷問は、慣れてきた頃に一瞬希望を持たせてから絶望に落とすと最大効果が得られる」まんまじゃねぇか……
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 7, 2023
After seeing a weather report that the temperature is going to be 35 degrees C (95 degrees F) after a typhoon, Kio is reminded of a line about becoming accustomed to torture.
マンガ家の性（サガ）なのか、「ネームは無駄なく美しく」短ければ短いほど嬉しくなってしまいます。
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 10, 2023
It’s in the nature of manga artists to want to make efficiently beautiful manuscripts. The shorter, the better.
「……………………うん！倍かかるね！！」と判明したので腹を据えて全部描くことにしました。
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 10, 2023
Kio got through 70 pages of his eromanga manuscript, but then wasn’t sure of a certain part and ultimately decided to put in twice as much effort and drew the whole thing.
寺沢武一ファンのみなさまへ(訃報）
漫画家・寺沢武一は2023年9月8日に永眠しました。
3度の脳腫瘍の手術を経ても、コブラその人のような生命力で生き抜いてきた寺沢武一でしたが、今回は本人も不意打ちを食らってしまったのでしょう。心筋梗塞でした。…
— ブイチギルド 【寺沢武一作品公式】 (@BuichiGuild) September 11, 2023
In response to the passing of Terasawa Buichi (author of Space Adventure Cobra), Kio describes Cobra as an accumulated mass of sense. (That sense seems to mean like an artistic/aesthetic/creative sense.)
Kio buys a doujinshi by manga artist Kusada, who released it at the originals doujin event Comitia.
Kio took a lot at the author Shima Tokio’s 18+ doujinshi, and was not only surprised at a development that happens in the middle, but that Shima would have the time to draw this on top of working on a serialized manga.
Kio purchased a doujinshi by the artist Kusada called Sister vs. Chupacabra. He likes how there’s tsukkomi after tsukkomi in it.
Kio is thanked by the author Ichihara Hikari Z for preordering their manga, Seishun Libido Yama.
数日ツイッターを開いてなかったです。タイムラインを見てますが追いつけてません。今日は寝ます。また明日がんばります。
— 木尾士目＠はしっこアンサンブル全8巻 (@kioshimoku1) September 16, 2023
Kio opened Twitter for the first time in a while. He couldn’t keep up with the timeline, so he’s decided to give up and go to bed.
Kio read a comic drawn by Nagata Reiji, a person who left being a surgeon to become a manga artist, about that very experience. Nagata was apparently also serialized in Afternoon, and Kio decided to buy one of his manga.
Kio has been meaning to tweet about the Genshiken pop-up shop at all TSUTAYA stores (that began on September 22nd) but kept forgetting to do so. (Check out the replies as well for lots of Kio thanking very excited fans.)
High-resolution art of the school swimsuit Ogiue on the limited edition Volume 6 of Genshiken. [If you’re wondering if I own it, the answer is yes.]
Kio retweeted Koume Keito’s art for Wandjina in Fate/Grand Order. (Koume was the artist on the Kujibiki Unbalance manga.)
A tweet about the start of the Genshiken pop-up shop event, with Kio retweeting and responding to various photos taken by fans of the displays, including those lamenting items being sold out.
Kio’s own purchases from the pop-up shop. He got a full Madarame set.
The title page art for Genshiken Volume 6. (I seriously love this image.)
Something about starting from Nidaime/Second Generation (I’ll admit that this is a bit vague, and I’m not sure I fully understand this).
Some Genshiken Nidaime art from the 2012 Afternoon calendar.
Sue from the title page of Genshiken Volume 7.
