Hyper Japan 25 -27 July 2014

I'm joining Hyper Japan at Earl's Court in London this weekend.
Find me for getting portraits or postcards, and manga comics!!

For event info: http://hyperjapan.co.uk/

Japan Expo Paris - 2nd July - 6th July

In next week, "D.K./UMISEN-YAMASEN (me, Chie Kutsuwada, Artist DeadlyKawaii )will be joining Japan Expo in Paris! Our table is DN93 in Hall 6. Please visit us to check out new postcards, and get manga portraits!

Do you want to taste a bit of Japanese horror manga?

A genealogy of Japanese horror manga - 200 years ago Japanese people loved having a gathering of telling 100 scary tales especially in hot summer night in order to get a little chill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakumonogatari_Kaidankai

But Sekien Toriyama published a Yokai catalogue which gave many scary folklores clear visual images. Collectionism is really a part of our culture（gotta catch'em all!!)

1960- Shigeru MIzuki (yokai stories) - '70&'80 - Kazuo Umezu (Sci-Fi/ monsters) - Hideshi Hino (lyrical spratter), '90~ Junji Ito (dark surrealism).
2000- There are more mangas of adaptation of urban legends. Such as Ryoko Yamagishi's "Yurei Dan (Ghost Tales)"Minetaro Mochizuki's "Zashiki Onna(Zashiki Woman)", and Masaaki Nakayama's "Fuan no Tane (Pet Peeve)".

Those skillfully drawn and told horror manga are so eerie that you might don't want to keep the copy in your home...

By the way, m absolute favorite horror manga is "Tomie" by Junji Ito. Tomie is a name of a girl who most men fell in love instantly in first site. But then for no reason they develop an urge to cut her apart, but all parts of her body grow into another Tomie...

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomie ohttp://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqtc8G3az1r4xqamo1_r1...


日本のホラー漫画の系譜をたどってみた。

江戸時代に流行した百物語怪談をはじめ、気持ち悪い怪談は日本人の間でとても人気があり、鳥山石燕の「画図百鬼夜行」刊行で古い妖怪話がきちんと形を伴っていったようだ。

６０年代以降にも水木しげる画の「妖怪図鑑」などがある。
その後も梅図かずお、日野日出志、伊藤潤二などの著名ホラー作家が名を馳せるが、９０年代をすぎると、妖怪や怪物の他に、じっとりと怖い都市伝説系のものも人気になる。
「ゆうれい談」山岸凉子、「座敷女」望月峯太郎、そして「不安の種」中山昌亮などが上げられる。

素晴らしい画力とストーリーテリング力で制作されたこれらの漫画は、素晴らしいのだが、その怖さ故に家に置いておくのは抵抗がある…。

自分のお気に入りのホラー漫画を一冊上げるとしたら、伊藤潤二の「富江」であろう。その美しさから、ほぼ全ての男性は一目で恋に落ちるのだが、何故か全員富江をバラバラに切り刻みたい欲求にかられ始める。バラバラにされた富江の身体は、その部分すべてがそれぞれ別の富江に育ち、また男性を惑わせ始める…。
異常なまでのねっちょりとした書き込みでじわじわ怖がらせる伊藤潤二の漫画は素晴らしいの一言！

Love unlimited

I gave a manga workshop at Phoenix Gallery last Friday titled 'Love Unlimited".
Having Chie Kutsuwada as a guest artist to talk about love romance manga including Yaoi with its brief history, recent trend, and broad genre treating some kind of "Love": Love manga for boys, for girls, Yaoi, Yuri, Otoko no ko, and so on with actual samples.


We also discussed with participants about escapism and gender issues on the market.

Why Yaoi market is ever so growing now?
Is it differ from Gay comic?
What group of people are attracted by Yuri manga?

There are countless subjects we could have explore more.

Finally we did an activity to try expressing a relationship by drawing 2 characters together.
Intense love? Or rivals? Tsundere? Bromance? Giving it try to explain what kind of relationship the characters have as much as possible by the drawing.

The way of expression of different kind of love are indeed unlimited. I hope the introductions and the practice would inspire all creators.

4 more seats left for Extreme Manga course in Brighton!

Hello, people!
There is an unmissable manga course at Phoenix Gallery in Brighton.

Extreme Manga is a special course for people want to know & try creating manga. Which you would gain basic knowledge + knowledge which never been taught at other schools.

The course is £45 and starts on Friday 6th June from 7 - 9pm ( with 15 min break ), then 3 following Fridays:

1st Friday (6th June) Manga unmasked

An introduction of it's culture. "How much do you know about manga?"

You will practice a basic manga character drawings. It's not as simple as a stick man or Simpsons type, but not as realistic as observation drawings.
Please bring any questions / any specific pens or tools you want to practice with / artworks you want to show.

2nd Friday (13th June) - Friday the 13th the horror, the underground manga

Manga is only for kids & teenagers? No, take this course - you'll find out why.

You'll experience see some extreme examples to go beyond.

if you know a lot about British underground and zine culture, it would be a good comparison.

3rd Friday (20th June) - Love unlimited

In particularly manga, there are countless genre of depicting love - Yaoi, Yuri, furry, Otokonoko, and more.

But how you express different kind of love?

Yaoi manga artist, Chie Kutsuwada also join us to enrich the activity.

Final Friday (27th June) - Happily ever after?

Create 1 page manga with a guidance of Inko.

In either a short story or a art of a bigger scale story, but let's sum up one episode.
This is a good opportunity to use skills you gained through the previous classes and get practical advices from Inko.

I'll giving away info of career advise, further readings, competitions & conventions to join...

So if you're up for it, please book soon. :D

Manga portraits, anyone?

Any of you missed the last MCM London Comic Con, you can still have a chance to get a manga portrait or a commission by Inko. :)


 £8 + £2posting fee (in UK) for A4 portrait for 1 person.
2 people - £12 + £2
3 people - £16 + £2
4 people - £20 + £2

Please send pictures of model's which face features are clearly captured.
Payments can be made by PayPal (to the account: aitakita@hotmail.com) or bank transfer, and posting a cheque.

all enquiry : dokoteiinko@gmail.com

The Wind Rises

The Wind Rises fan art - Boy Jiro & grown-up Jiro together.

I went to see "The Wind Rises" 5th time today, this time, dubbed. Naoko's voice was dubbed by Emily Blunt, who brilliantly depicted that she's getting weaker & weaker as days go.
Which made my heart sore.