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Genshiken, Childhood Comics, and More: Kio Shimoku at Umeda Lateral Talk Notes
Kio recently had a talk at Umeda Lateral, an Osaka-based live music house and talk venue, to celebrate the release of his new artbook. Below are my notes…
Anime Like 2.5 Dimensional Seduction
After a disastrous love confession, Masamune Okumura retreated into the loving arms of his 2D waifu Liliel. Now in his second year of high school and the sole
2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Genshiken, Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights September 2024
This month featured a special live talk with Kio-sensei himself, as well as reactions to his artbook! Kio enjoyed a panpanya interview in Rakuen. Having seen the anime…
See Kio Shimoku Talk About His Career!
To celebrate the release of his new artbook, Mata Ashita, Bushitsu de (See You Tomorrow in the Clubroom), Genshiken author Kio Shimoku had a special 2+ hour talk…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights August 2024
The latest side chapter of Spotted Flower! Available for free only for a limited time. The site for Kio’s artbook is showing off updated samples. Kio visiting his…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights July 2024
New chapter of Spotted Flower came out at the end of last month, which is now followed by a new volume of Spotted Flower too! New chapter of…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights June 2024
The big thing this month is the announcement of the Kio Shimoku artbook! Also, a drawing of Darkness from KonoSuba! Kio is going to have an artbook! (I…
Kio Shimoku Is Releasing a 30th Anniversary Artbook!
Kio Shimoku, author of Genshiken, recently announced that he’s going to be releasing an artbook collecting his work from across his 30-year career! It will also include an…
A Hot Spring Inn in Ogiue’s Home Prefecture: Meigetsuso
On my trip to Japan last year, I stayed briefly at Meigetsuso, a hot spring ryoukan located in the city of Kaminoyama in Yamagata Prefecture. The reason I…
Bakuen Campus Guardress
When I first watched Bakuen Campus Guardress ( Combustible Campus Guardress ), a four-episode episode OVA from 1994, I was gobsmacked by ho...
Combustible, Cosmic Fantasy, Hashire!, Blue Sonnet, Gallery Fake
Science Saru x MBS Original Short Anime Daisakusen
Here's another set of four 90-second anime from Japanese TV. Titled Science Saru x MBS Original Short Anime Daisakusen - the title takes lo...
Moriarty the Patriot, Ragna Crimson, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Star Wars: Visions, Cutie Honey Universe
I Found Out FUWAMOCO’s Favorite Genshiken Character
When the Virtual Youtuber group “hololive English Advent” debuted last summer, something in particular caught my eye: The twin demon guard dogs known as FUWAMOCO listed Genshiken as…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights February 2024
Spotted Flower voice comic! Genshiken LINE stickers released! And more from February! Spotted Flower has a voiced manga version now! …Unfortunately, I can’t seem to register for the…
Genshiken LINE Stickers Now on Sale
Kio Shimoku just released a set of Genshiken LINE stickers! Best of all, they’re available outside of Japan (unlike so many others). He recently went through a process…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights January 2024
Tweets for a new year, including the announcement of a planned set of Genshiken LINE stickers! An Ohno from Genshiken drawing for 2024, the Year of the Dragon.…
DAYS OAD
Back in 2016, Orphan subbed DAYS: Touin Gakuensen , the second set of DAYS OADs and the next step in the Seiseki High School soccer team's q...
Yowamushi Pedal, The Familiar of Zero, AJIN: Demi-Human, Yona of the Dawn, Antique Bakery
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights December 2023
A round of tweets by Kio Shimoku to end the year, including a special illustration of Ogiue! Kio wishes the manga author Hayamira Senjin a happy 52nd birthday.…
GENSHIKEN POWER LEVELS
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 10 For no particular reason, all the members of the Genshiken have had their abilities translated into specific parameters. It’s pretty obvious that…
Uchuu Neko: Mardock no Bouken
So here's Orphan's holiday release, the 2016 short series Uchuu Neko: Mardock no Bouken ( Space Cat: Mardock's Adventures , or more grandil...
Black Jack, Eternal Boys, Interspecies Reviewers, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Ace of the Diamond
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights November 2023
A fairly light month of tweets by Kio, but a doozy right at the end. Spotted Flower Chapter 44 came out at the beginning of the month. Kio…
Maniac Road, Souta-kun no Akihabara Funtouki & the grand otaku drama
Both manga read like a victory lap around otaku culture’s greatest hits circa-2000 in their coverage. Though despite the intentional approach both manga took to read like a…
When Am I?: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for November 2023
We’re at November already?! I really can’t believe it’s this close to the end of the year when the summer months felt like forever. New York Comic Con…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights October 2023
Not much to speak of this month, but I did post this right before Halloween, so there might be something interesting in the next few days (that I’ll…
Read Chapter 1 of Kio Shimoku’s Genderbending Sci-Fi Parody, Sister Wars
Kio Shimoku, author of Genshiken, is a fan of Star Wars. He even contributed to a Star Wars art anthology. Recently, he finished the first chapter of a…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights September 2023
This month, Kio Shimoku posted more Genshiken art, and we saw the opening of Genshiken pop-up shops across Japan! Yes, there’s even Ogiue merch! Kio had a good…
11 Anime Characters Who Cosplay Their Favorite Anime Characters
Do you know more passionate anime characters who cosplay? Let fans know in the comments section below.
Cosplay Complex OVA, Genshiken, My Tiny Senpai, Nurse Witch Komugi, Oreimo
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights August 2023
This month, Kio mostly talks about Elden Ring. But we also get to see a high-quality version of one of the best covers he ever drew (no bias…
Tomoyo…The Time Has Come to Demonstrate Our Power: Otakon 2023
At this point, Otakon is a given in my life. I have enough faith in the people who run the anime convention every summer that they will create…
The Advent of Pitch Accent: Pronouncing FuwaMoco’s Names Correctly
The new Hololive English generation, HoloAdvent, has made their debut after more than two years of waiting. Among the five Virtual Youtubers are actually a pair of twins—the…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights July 2023
Kio watched a bunch of movies this month. Kio attended a live screening of the newest How Do You Like Wednesday?, which included people from the cast. It…
A Slice of Second Lead Syndrome: Genshiken
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! It’s that time again for a slice of second lead syndrome, but today, with a bit of a twist! You’ll…
World Connectooo!: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for July 2023
July is a packed month. Not only do I have Otakon at the end of the year, but I’m also in LA this weekend for Anime Expo and…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights June 2023
This month, Kio talks a lot about Elden Ring and drawing smut. Gundam manga artist Tokita Kouichi shares a photo of a first-era Gundam model kit. Kio reacts…
Sanada 10 - The Battle of Sekigahara (Ep 1-3)
Sanada 10 - more formally, Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Juu Yuushi ( New Legend of the Warring States Heroes: The Ten Warriors ...
BABYLON, Cowboy Bebop, Blue Flames, Blue Exorcist, Blue Sonnet
COVID the 19th—The First: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for June 2023
So it finally happened: I got my first case of COVID-19. I’ve been isolating, but I’ve also finally started testing negative, so I think I’m over the hump.…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights May 2023
Kio Shimoku goes back to fulfill one of his old unfinished projects in this month’s tweets. Replying to manga creator Kusada (who just got done selling at the…
Sanada 10 Special
Once upon a time, in the ancient days of the mid-oughts, there was a TV series with the rather long title of Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densets...
Fire Tripper, Hellsing, Magic Knight Rayearth, Wild 7, My Hero Academia
You May Dream: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for May 2023
I find myself in a constant state of worry that I’m not doing enough with anime and manga. It’s not like I’m avoiding it entirely, but I think…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights April 2023
Kio Shimoku announces the release of his first original 18+ doujinshi in his tweets this month. Kio made these cool photo/drawing composites featuring his characters sitting on the…
What I can still learn from Otaku no Video
I cried the first time I watched the Daicon opening animations. In earnest, my emotions took over and filled me with an overwhelming sensation all at once. Far…
Memoriam-o-rama: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for April 2023
April is cherry blossoms in Japan, and their fleeting nature is associated with an aesthetic valuing of the ephemeral in Japanese culture. I normally don’t get all poetic…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights March 2023
March has been a big month for Kio, as Spotted Flower Volume 6 just came out today, the 31st! Not only that, but he’s been posting lots of…
Rediscovering the Sea of Stars: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for March 2023
The end of last month hit with some tough news as the world learned that Matsumoto Leiji had passed away at the age of 85. I’m still thinking…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights February 2023
This month’s Kio Shimoku tweets are a real treat, as he’s been posting a bunch of old Genshiken art without any text, including at least one piece that’s…
I Almost Forgot the Power of Tsundere, or “Ogiue and Me”
It’s been many years since the late-2000s peak of the tsundere archetype, when the girls with prickly personalities all but captivated anime and its fandom. I was no…
“Love Letter”
I find myself frequently looking back over my shoulder; a phantom of a memory that exists just out of mind and out of sight lingers somewhere back there.…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights January 2023
In amazing news for people who run blogs called Ogiue Maniax, Kio actually retweeted one of my blog posts this month! He also drew a bunch of Year…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights January 2023
In amazing news for people who run blogs called Ogiue Maniax, Kio actually retweeted one of my blog posts this month! He also drew a bunch of Year…
“Keiko” Debuts in Spotted Flower with Baby
Last month, another Genshiken side character analogue finally appeared in Spotted Flower: the editor’s sister, Not-Keiko. I’m not sure if her having a kid (named Mani) should come…
Bitter doomer is disgusted with a vanilla romcom anime
I remembered the itch in the back of my mind that bothered me enough to put my beloved Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai- a manga I was otherwise…
Tokimeki Memorial, Genshiken, The World God Only Knows, Haruka Nogizaka's Secret