bowldeepfannish replied to your photoset “I’d really love to know where Naoko gets her body horror from, because...”
If we talk Shoujo manga Ryoko Ikeda had sudden melting skull body horror in her period/historical/romance/queer Rose Of Versailles in the very early chapters ;D and then much later in the bonus stories something more pops up. Among the other manga ladies Chie Shinohara and Rumiko Takahashi deliveted a hefty dose of manga horror. And then of course we have Naoko's hubby. I dare say she influenced his Hisoka's character design in HxH ( he's Fish Eye ' s lost twin)...
and the man has a talent for the grotesque and horrorific. Cross - pollination at the very least
Oooh, thank you for the insight! Those all sound like very likely sources of inspiration. At the very least, we know Naoko was a Rose of Versailles fan. This also makes me curious about how long Naoko and her husband knew each other before they got married, since they obviously influenced each other’s work!
fadesinthesun replied to your photo “She one-shotted the Dark Guys! Aw shit, Seiya was in there. WELP....”
Alternatively: is it possible that some youma were initially humans who existed in the past? HMMMMM.
Somehow, the idea of a human becoming a youma is its own level of horror. But maybe, yeah, some of the youma are like, incomplete reincarnations or something. Maybe they were Beryl’s attempt at resurrecting people from the past, but they’re imperfect because only the ginzuishou can truly bring back the dead.
fadesinthesun replied to your photo “Look, all I’m saying is that Tuxedo Kamen does not have the market...”
Now I am vaguely curious what year this one originally came out, because the Cutie Honey ref is making me giggle.
I can answer this one! It appeared in the August 1992 issue of RunRun. According to Wikipedia, Cutie Honey ran in the 70s and 80s, but a new manga series also started in 1992, so Cutie Honey might have been pretty topical when this came out!
