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Kazeki is turning 50!

#kaze to ki no uta #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #la balada del viento y los arboles #風と木の詩 #serge battour #year 24 group

Help me find this specific Gilbert illustration!!

I've been searching for it for years now, it's not in any of the artbooks, collections or magazines I own of Takemiya and I don't recall it being in the actual manga. No other Kazeki related account has posted the source, I'm desperate it was my new years goal to find it

#kaze to ki no uta #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #la balada del viento y los arboles #風と木の詩 #year 24 group

faggvert

#kaze to ki no uta #literally my experience with the manga

marikoshinobu-deactivated202503

#kaze to ki no uta #kazeki #gilbertocastrodiosmio

#kaze to ki no uta #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #la balada del viento y los arboles #serge battour #the poem of the wind and the trees #風と木の詩 #shoujo manga #year 24 group #vintage manga

yard666sale

#kaze to ki no uta #i need this

artbydeedee

Happy anniversary Yuri on ice! Here are a few of my favourite pages from the Yuri on Ice Select book MAPPA brought out and I treated myself to because I am weak and I love them 😂

#yuri on ice #yuri x victor #yuuri katsuki #victor nikiforov

yuurikatsukienthusiast

Happy 8th birthday to one of the most beautiful shows to ever exist ❤️❤️❤️

#imissyouyoi

@windstir I drew them...

#kaze to ki no uta #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #la balada del viento y los arboles #serge battour #the poem of the wind and the trees #風と木の詩 #gilserge #idk why the quality is so bad

Gilbert Cocteau garage kit by Panopticon

#kaze to ki no uta #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #la balada del viento y los arboles #serge battour #the poem of the wind and the trees #風と木の詩 #garage kit #anime figure

gilserges

gilserge except they're not a long distance relationship serge is just at work

dailydefunctmangamagazine

Deluxe Margaret (デラックスマーガレット) / Shūeisha (集英社) / Autumn 1973 issue

#kaze to ki no uta #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #la balada del viento y los arboles #serge battour #the poem of the wind and the trees #風と木の詩

This is my first time revisiting the story since volume 17 got translated to English. Crazy because I've claimed myself to be a fan of Kazeki for quite some time, so why have I only read the story once? Simply because I just didn't believe I could take the mental anguish again, the ending just morally destroyed me when I first read it.

I must say I knew how the story ended way back before that, though (because I was desperate, asked, and someone told me, lol). I still was in denial that THAT was the ending. Then the Spanish license was announced, and I waited to get my hands on the last volume (which in Spanish is volume 10, because they released the Bundo-ban edition), and at this point I had been waiting years for this; I knew what was coming, and I actually thought the ending was "Fitting." Bettter said, I thought it was realistic for the story, but I still didn't like it.

That was almost four years ago. When I read the story for the first time, I was the same age as the characters, fourteen. I'm not a 14-year-old teen with unsupervised internet access anymore; I'm a 20-year-old with a slightly more developed frontal lobe (wait for my kazeki rereading when I turn 25).

Now, why am I saying all of this in my silly little post about me the first volume? Because this is also my first time reading the full story without time gaps of waiting for translations AND the first time reading it all in Spanish (which is my first language). Tragedy back to back, good for me. This last part has actually been really impactful in my reading. Kazeki was notorious for being passed around scalation groups, and the first scans are well, not the best (yet not the worst; I'll forever be grateful for those first scans of the manga), so it's easy to miss some details in Keiko’s artwork (Kurt fans, you know what I mean if you own the volumes), and it's been overall more easy to read; the story feels more coherent somehow it gives me a better understanding of everything, and I'm actually comparing the English and Spanish translation as I read. And its kind of crazy how the vibes change, i guess because of the words and phrasings in some parts of the spanish one, I resonate a little more with it.

I’ll wait for my second volume to arrive to give my complete thoughts on the first part of the story (I'm a demon that buys books out of order and I'm still missing some volumes lmao). For the moment, I would like to say that those first pages are Berserk crazzy levels of first pages, or actually, Berserk’s first pages are Kazeki levels of crazy.