Seldom Scans

Her art is exquisite indeed. Sadly, her works are not digitalized (except for Kaiten Mokuba which is only available on cmoa, which will not take my gaijin credit card, grrr). As a result, you will have to hunt down her books in print, which are very likely already out of print. That's why I'm not sure if all of her published works are collected in volumes. You can see a little list of her published volumes here, but I'm not sure if that list is exhaustive. Apparently, she even worked for the kashihon market, so there might be more.

Drop by our Discord for recommendations ;) But right off the bat, I can recommend works of Yamagishi Ryoko. I love reading her in Japanese.

We are done with the shoujo Frakenstein story, but this Takashina Ryouko volume had another short story included. Oniazami was also published in Nakayoshi, and will leave you wondering what the little girls in 1976 were doing with all this drama and trauma.

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This crazy ride is over. Thank you for flying with us, and we hope you enjoyed this little 70s horror story.

This volume has also a short story included. It will follow shortly if you still haven't had enough DRAMA.

Thanks to @jariten's resourcefulness and impressive archive, we bring you the second installment of Ooshima Yumiko's cute and cosy Milk Rhapsody. You can download it here, or read it here.

Thank you! <3

With this, all three stories in Siren are scanlated now!

This story takes its name from an actual poem, André Chenier's Pannychis. I want to leave it here as well, because poetry translation is another level and I'm far from anywhre near that level:

Ma belle Pannychis, il faut bien que tu m'aimes; Nous avons même toit, nos âges sont les mêmes. Vois comme je suis grand, vois comme je suis beau. Hier je me suis mis auprès de mon chevreau; Par Pollux et Minerve! il ne pouvait qu'à peine Faire arriver sa tête au niveau de la mienne. D'une coque de noix j'ai fait un abri sûr Pour un beau scarabée étincelant d'azur; Il couche sur la laine, et je te le destine. Ce matin, j'ai trouvé parmi l'algue marine Une vaste coquille aux brillantes couleurs; Nous l'emplirons de terre, il y viendra des fleurs. Je veux, pour te montrer une flotte nombreuse, Lancer sur notre étang des écorces d'yeuse. Le chien de la maison est si doux! chaque soir, Mollement sur son dos je veux te faire asseoir; Et, marchant devant toi jusques à notre asile, Je guiderai les pas de ce coursier docile.

A nicer English translation of the poem is available in Eleanor Farjeon's The Little Bookroom, so I urge you to read that.

The beautiful double spread above is also used as the cover of another Yamagishi compilation, Syrinx Pan.

We proudly bring you a shoujo maddo scientisto story from a very prolific shoujo artist, Takashina Ryouko: Jigoku de Mes ga Hikaru (A Scalpel Glints in Hell).

I, the translator, have decided to pick this up after reading Julia Popek's article on 70s shoujo manga artists in the French magazine Animeland's issue no. 250 dedicated to Rose of Versailles. Barely two minutes after I read that a shoujo Frankenstein exists, it was in my shopping cart. We are lucky that Nakayoshi decided to reprint the first edition to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Let's hope more old shoujo get this treatment.

Remember the Tam-Tam oneshot we recently did? We bring you another spooky little story from the same collection (flowers Garden - Gensou no Meikyuu, 2009).

Unlike Blue Lion, this manga can be found in another collection: Nishi Keiko no Konnan Demashita kedo, Miru? (西炯子のこんなん出ましたけど、見る？, 2013).

If you have ever flipped through a June issue or any book about the history of BL, you must have come across the name "belne." A regular of the magazine and from what I can tell, a prominent figure in the June culture, we are proud to share a work of hers.

This story can (digitally) be found in a June manga compilation with the same name, and her 40th anniversary book.

This week, we are back to Yamagishi spookiness. We bring you a short story from 1979 titled Ghoul (グール).

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