#catria

Day 110 - Catria, Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon

Scans by ShiningEmblem64, gaebolgz, and FlareHabanero

Previous artist: Tetsu Matsudaira

Happy 30th anniversary to FE4! On today's episode of the "Old School FE Artist Spotlight" we have; Yuuka Matsumoto! I chose her since she's worked on a lot of FE4 related material.

Yuuka Matsumoto is a Teen's Love (TL)* mangaka that has been active since the late (?) 90s. She focuses on writing for the shoujo and josei demographic, but she also made some Boy's Love manga as well (some of which includes shotacon). Early on in her career, she made a few one shots for horror magazine, Gakuen Mystery.

*Teen's Love (TL) refers to erotic and smut manga written for older teen girls and women. The characters in those manga have an adult cast. Though these days, I believe they're more targeted towards adult women.

She's created doujinshi for series such as Detective Conan, Final Fantasy, Digimon, and Gundam Wing.

Here is a list of her artist credits for the FE series:

Fire Emblem The Legend of Archanea Comic Anthology

Fire Emblem Enix Super Comic Gekijoh Vol.2

FE World Tour (Vol. 3, 4)

Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War: Shounen Oh Short Gag Box 

Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War: Gag Battle (Holy Warrior in Love, Holy Warriors of Light, Assault Edition, Gag Paradise, Pursuit Edition,) 

Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War Kobunsha Heaven Short Comic

Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War: Holy Legend Comic Anthology

Fire Emblem Thracia 776 Kobunsha Comic Anthology 1 (Artist)

Fire Emblem Thracia 776 Kobunsha Comic Anthology 2

Fire Emblem Thracia 776 Kobunsha Short Comics

She's also made a few FE doujinshi! Here's a list of them:

TOP OF THE WORLD (Date unknown) [Leaf centric]

Digital Outlet (Date unknown)

FIRE・FIRE (Date unknown) [General]

marvelous！！ (Date unknown)

Don't blame the children (1996) [Quan/Eldigan]

Feeling great (1997)

Her recent work as of writing this post is 同居人は義弟【単行本版】未亡人は彼の恋心にまだ気づいていない (2025). It does not a have an English release as of yet.

I hope you enjoyed this post on one of FE's many contributing artists!

Links to her socials:

Twitter

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Early days still, but I'm quite happy with my Celica and Catria/Thea. As expected though, it's tougher to decide on which skills to give my darling silly dragons.

I never went back to draw Catria's sword and then the game kind of fell apart, but shout out to my "once a noble, disowned for having morals, became a rich family's bodyguard as punishment, accidentally adopted said family's youngest daughter as her own kid, ran off with the kid after the dad mentally abused her and swore bloody vengeance should they ever cross paths again, and then tried to flirt with a dragon twice" Bloodhunter