Riyoko Ikeda Puns

I was talking to my wife about manga yesterday, and she recalled reading a manga which was serialised which she read as a teenager in Japan. She mentioned that it was definitely by Ikeda, and towards the end it took on a horror theme and ended (she thinks, this is over 30 years ago....) with the lead character's face being ripped off or at least torn into by her husband/boyfriend due to them losing their mind.

Sounds like a pretty scary read....but she'd like to read it again (!) but has no idea what it was called.

I kinda doubt it was ever translated, so it's a longshot here, but if anyone has a idea what it might be, please do let me know : )

Episode 35 - A Beach of Dreams

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^April ^^^19th, ^^^1992

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Hisako Kyoda (Naoko Saito) - voice of Old Lady at the beach

> A voice actress and stage actress affiliated with the Tokyo LIfe Actor’s Cooperative, best known for voicing the roles of old women. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College she joined the theatre company Teatro Piccolo as a stage actress and dancer, and became known for her proficiency with a variety of musical traditions. Kyoda debuted as a voice actress in 1969’s The Genie Family, and a couple of years later she would have her live-action debut on episode 32 of Return of Ultraman. Kyoda won the "Achievement Award" in the 13th Annual Voice Actor Awards, and she has remained active despite her advanced age. Some of her more notable roles include Okamisan in Ashita no Joe, Kiyo in Botchan, Osaku-san in Hello! Spank, Ilda in Katry The Cowgirl, S

My top 10

1 Igarashi Yumiko (Candy Candy, Georgie, Mayme Angel)

• When it comes to shoujo art Igarashi is definitely my favourite. I really like the style and the flow of her art.

2 Yamamoto Sumika (Ace wo Nerae)

• I know she only got one manga (according to MAL?) but it's my favorite shoujo so I got to put it here

3 Ariyoshi Kyouko (Swan)

• I haven't yet read all of Swan but I gotta say that art is incredible

4 Ikeda Riyoko (Versailles no Bara, Oniisama e...)

5 Izumi Asou (Hikari no Densetsu, Natural)

6 Saeki Kayono (Hoshirenge, Akihi, Hi no Ryousen)

7 Urano Chikako (Attack No 1)

8 Hanabusa Youko (Lady!!)

9 Ono Hiromu (Lady Love, Diva)

10 Miuchi Suzue (Glass no Kamen)

Hi!
I've been trying really hard to find the scans for Orpheus no Mado by Riyoko Ikeda for like a month but every sites I found had only the three first volumes. Does anyone happen to know if the completed serie has been translated at all? If so, where can I read it?
Thanks!

”Feelings of love dwell in my heart, this must be the faeries' mischievous game."

Greetings, everyone! I am here to gauge interest in a Rewatch of the 1991 anime, Dear Brother, to commemorate its 30th anniversary. Said Rewatch would begin on July 14th and end on the 22nd of August, with threads going up every day at 11:00pm UTC (7:00pm EDT | 4:00pm PDT). If this interests you, do share your interest in the comments! Have a nice day!

What is this show?

Dear Brother, or Oniisama E…, is a shōjo series based on a 1975 manga of the same name by Riyoko Ikeda and directed by famed anime director Osamu Dezaki. The show revolves around sixteen-year-old Nanako Misonoo as she attends a prestigious all-girls academy and becomes an object of scorn when she is chosen to be one of few students invited to join the school’s famous sorority club and is embroiled in the interpersonal drama of the school’s most prominent students. A show which revells in its intense melodrama and heightened emotional stakes, Dear Brother is an experience not soon forgotten.

How do I watch it?

Dear Brother is available for streaming in English on Retrocrush, and will be receiving a Blu-Ray physical release from Discotek in just two weeks.

Information

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Episode Count: 39

Episode Length: 24 minutes

Genre Tags: Psychological, Drama, School, Shoujo, Shoujo Ai

Aired from: July 14th, 1991 to May 31st, 1992

Studio: Tezuka Productions

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Once there was a website called OneManga.com back in the 2000s and if you were a manga-reading teenager like me back then thats where you you got access to manga. Which unfortunately means piracy. Shame.

So whenever I remember a manga that I read back in the day I try to buy it legally to make up for what I did. And recently I have obtained the five volumes (the complete story) of The Rose of Versailles. And since that was an expensive investment and am not entirely sure if I ended up finishing it, I have been re-reading The Rose of Versailles.

And I have to say the reread has been rewarding.

Maybe its because the story of Marie Antoinette is a timelessly fascinating moment in history (the story is about Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution by the way) or that Oscar de Jarjayes is so awesome. I really appreciate Riyoko Ikeda’s first attempt at trans representation with Oscar, even though its not accurate (the character is raised as a boy) she still tried to portray a trans character in a positive way. And I just think that was really sweet of her. After RoV she even made a short story Claudine about another transmasc character who this time was the main character and this time had more accuracies put in.

Also did you know that Ikeda left the manga industry for a time to become an opera singer? Yeah she did! Don’t believe me? Here’s a link > https://youtu.be/0PKzx_kyras (she still does manga now but she does a lot of performance art more so now)

Oh yeach I was talking about RoV on the reread. I think a lot of times when we think of Marie Antoinette we forget that she was just a little girl when she was sent to France to begin her journey into monarchy. I remember watching Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation of Marie Antoinette which was meant to invoke some of the issues a teenage girl might face (that film is more about Marie Antoinette than it is about the French Revolution). And RoV kind of does something similar, portraying Marie Antoinette as this sweet beautiful girl who through no fault of her own got swept up into something she didn’t fully understand, all designed by the adults in her life, and all she wanted to do was have a good time and She misses her mother so dearly (they get separated when she was just 14).

I know a little bit about Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution, and what i can say is that RoV is pretty accurate without being a bore. Oscar wasn’t a

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month and here in Helsinki, we have Pride Week in the final week of June. Regardless of where you live, Pride Month is a time for increased visibility of LGBTQ+ people and with that intent in mind, I came up with this Compilation Watch This Thread for anime featuring characters that fall under the LGBTQ+ umbrella, organized by letters in LGBTQ.

Beware of spoilers beyond this point. These spoilers will reveal the queer identity of characters in various anime.

#Anime With Lesbians

##Yuri Kuma Arashi (Yuri Bear Storm)

Content Warning

Yurikuma Arashi is a direct critique of the idea that Girls' Love is pure and free of any sexual desire. The idea that lesbian love is a form of fleeting adolescent intimacy between girls allows people (often straight males) to indulge in a voyeuristic fantasy by stripping would-be lesbians of their sexuality and treating their intimacy as a platonic relationship that's merely service for onlookers. Yurikuma Arashi is a critique of how queer people are often commodified and their personal identities are drastically altered for the sake of conformity. The lesbians in Yurikuma Arashi express desire for the same sex (NSFW LINK) and this causes them to be excluded from the rest of society. Yurikuma Arashi is about stereotypes associated with lesbians and the pressure on them to conform to those stereotypes and how acceptance can break down oppressive hierarchies within a society that makes victims out of queer people.

Yurikuma Arashi can be streamed on Funimation.

##Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Bloom Into You)

Bloom Into You is a recent anime and it's quickly asserted its position as one of the most influential works in the LGBTQ+ community. Yuu Koito, the protagonist of the anime is in love with the idea of love yet when a guy confesses to her, she realizes she's incapable of experiencing it herself. This changes when she meets Touko Nanami as both struggle to come to terms with their feelings for each other. Bloom Into You highlights how confusing your first relationship can be especially when you haven't quite figured yourself out yet.

Bloom Into You can be streamed on HIDIVE.

##[Aoi Hana

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Earlier today, TV Asahi's "150,000 People Vote with Their Hands! Manga General Election" was shown in Japan, where Japanese manga fans voted for their all time favorite manga series. (I believe fans picked 10 of their favorite series for the vote, but I am not for sure on it..) The first half of the election was broadcast on TV Asahi from 0:40 to 1:40 on Sunday, January 3, 2021, and the second half was broadcast live on the official YouTube "Video, Hajimemimashita" until 3:40!.

Hajime no Ippo ended up placing 47 on it with 3100 pts...

Here the whole list Source:

• 1 - ONE PIECE / Eiichiro Oda
• 2 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃) / Koyoharu Gotōge
• 3 - SLAM DUNK / Takehiko Inoue
• 4 - Detective Conan / Gosho Aoyama
• 5 - DRAGON BALL / Akira Toriyama
• 6 - Attack on Titan / Hajime Isayama
• 7 - Naruto / Masashi Kishimoto
• 8 - Haikyu !! / Haruichi Furudate
• 9 - Fullmetal Alchemist / Hiromu Arakawa
• 10 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure / Hirohiko Araki
• 11 - HUNTER × HUNTER / Yoshihiro Togashi
• 12 - Gintama (銀魂)/ Hideaki Sorachi
• 13 - Kingdom / Yasuhisa Hara
• 14 - World Trigger / Daisuke Ashihara
• 15 - Doraemon / Fujiko F. Fujio
• 16 - My Hero Academia / Kohei Horikoshi
• 17 - Yu Yu Hakusho / Yoshihiro Togashi
• 18 - Black Jack / Osamu Tezuka
• 19 - Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦) / Gege Akutami
• 20 - Natsume's Book of Friends (夏目友人帳) / Yuki Midorikawa
• 21 - Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面) / Suzue Miuchi
• 22 - Fist of the North Star / Buronson, Tetsuo Hara
• 23 - BLEACH / Kubo Tite
• 24 - Touch / Mitsuru Adachi
• 25 - Phoenix (火の鳥)/ Osamu Tezuka
• 26 - BANANA FISH / Akimi Yoshida
• 27 - The Rose of Versailles / Riyoko Ikeda
• 28 - Inuyasha / Rumiko Takahashi
• 29 - Ashita no Joe (あしたのジョー) / Tetsuya Chiba, Asao Takamori
• 30 - Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (DRAGON QUEST -ダイの大冒険-)/ Riku Sanjo, Koji Inada, Yuji Horii
• 31 - Rurouni Kenshin / Nobuhiro Watsuki
• 32 - Maison Ikkoku / Rumiko Takahashi
• 33 - Zatch Bell ! / Makoto Raiku
• 34 - Poe no Ichizoku (ポーの一族)/ Moto Hagio
• 35 - Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo (こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所) / Osamu Akimoto
• 36 - Golgo 13 / Takao Saito
• 37 - Sazae-san (サザエさん)/ Machiko Hasegawa
• 38 - Star of the Giants (巨人の星) / Ikki Kajiwara, Noboru Kawasaki
• 39 - Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム) / Osamu Tezuka
• 40 - Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ) / Sator

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Episode 30 - The Petition

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^March ^^^15th, ^^^1992

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Yumi Takayama - Voice of Miyuki Sonobe

> An actress turned voice actress who was affiliated with the voice acting agency 81 Produce. Formerly a member of the musical theatre company Mr. Slim Co., she became a voice actress after leaving there and joining the recently founded Production Baobab, which allowed her to debut as a radio personality in 1979. The following year, she had her anime debut in a TV special adaptation of Captain. Takayama seems to have retired as of 2013, but because she is still listed as a member of 81 Produce and there has been no official word on the matter, it is uncertain. Among her notable roles are Yoshinaga-Sensei in Crayon Shin-Chan, Keen Kiss in Aura Battler Dunbine, Chitose Fujinomiya in Kingyo Chūihō!, Hitomi in Miss Machiko, Seika in Legend of Himiko, Jun Yagami in Okawari-Boy Starzan S,

Episode 39 - A Lingering Fragrance

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^May ^^^17th, ^^^1992

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Farewell

 

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Riyoko Ikeda - Source author

> A manga artist, singer, and poet best known for her immensely popular shōjo manga The Rose of Versailles and being a member of the Year 24 Group. When attending Tokyo University of Education Ikeda began drawing as a way of sustaining herself, since her father’s financial support was set to end before the completion of her degree, first illustrating and later being scouted by a publisher. Around this time she also joined the Democratic Youth League of Japan, which was affiliated with the Japanese Communist Party, and partook in student movements. When serialization of The Rose of Versailles began in 1972, the work was such an unprecedented hit that Ikeda was asked to work on it more, which meant Ikeda had to drop out of university in order to dedicate herself to it full time. In 1992 Ikeda decided

Episode 9 - Relapse; Broken Heart

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^September ^^^8th, ^^^1991

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Condition

 

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Masahiro Ando - Key Animator, Animation Director, and Layout Artist

> An animator, animation director, storyboard artist, and director perhaps best known for his action animation. He joined Studio Annapuru (Studio An Apple) after graduating from high school, where he was immediately put to work on prestigious productions such as Ace wo Nerae! 2, YAWARA! A fashionable Judo Girl, and Lupin III: The Mystery of the Hemingway Papers. After the production of Dear Brother wrapped up Ando left Annapuru and became a freelancer, though he became largely associated with Production I.G. works for some time, and more recently is seen frequently working for productions by Studio Bones and P.A. Works. His directorial debut was for 2007’s Sword of The Stranger. Other works were he is credit as key animator include Eureka Seven, *Clu