#Queen Emeraldas

[demifiendrsa]

Legendary manga and anime creator Leiji Matsumoto has passed away on February 13, 2023 at age 85 due to heart failure. 

Some of his notable works include Space Battleship Yamato, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999, and Queen Emeraldas. He also collaborated with Daft Punk to supervise several animated music videos for their Discovery album, and the videos were strung together into the Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem film.

#Leiji Matsumoto #Space Battleship Yamato #Star Blazers #Galaxy Express 999 #Space Pirate Captain Harlock #Queen Emeraldas #Queen Millennia #Daft Punk #Interstella 5555 #manga #anime #obituary #R.I.P.

[animenostalgia]

Some sad news to share, friends - Leiji Matsumoto, the iconic creator of Space Battleship Yamato (aka Starblazers), Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999, and many more, has passed away at the age of 85. A manga artist since the 50s who originally got his start in shoujo manga, Matsumoto’s works were a cornerstone of early anime fandom. American sci-fi fans of the 70s may not have known the terms “anime”, “manga”, or “cosplay”, but they knew and loved Matsumoto’s work, which was many fan’s first exposure to anime back in the day. One of the first recorded “cosplay” gatherings in the US was of fans dressed as mostly Leiji Matsumoto characters!

In other parts of the world, they also fell in love with Matsumoto’s work: as in France, where Harlock was known as Albator, and won the hearts of many fans. So much so that Matsumoto won many prestigious awards there, and would eventually be knighted in 2012 by the French government. French electronic duo Daft Punk was highly influenced by his work, and in 2001 collaborated with Matsumoto to release anime music videos (and eventually a feature-length film version called Interstella 555).

Modern anime & manga owe much to his work, as he was THE pioneer of space opera and what he liked to call “boy’s romance” stories--”romance” in the literarily sense--full of angst, heroism, and fighting for independence while celebrating nature, brotherhood, and friendship. He helped many people learn to never give up on themselves and their dreams, no matter how fantastical they may seem.

May his spirit travel on, in a new adventure in the endless sea of stars.

#news #death #Leiji Matsumoto #Leijiverse #classic manga #Classic anime #Starblazers #space battleship yamato #space pirate captain harlock #Queen Emeraldas #galaxy express 999

[remyfrenchrat]

she's everything. oh and he's there too

i actually love emeraldas & the rose motif she took after maya so so much

was gonna add tochiro into this drawing but i got lazy

#albator #captain harlock #queen emeraldas #harlock #leijiverse #arcadia of my youth #endless orbit ssx #artists on tumblr #space pirate captain harlock #pirates #queen #rose

[lasaraconor]

#queen emeraldas #leiji matsumoto #manga

[useyourimagination2020]

Galaxy Express 999 x Queen Emeraldas

#galaxy express 999 #queen emeraldas #leiji matsumoto #銀河鉄道999 #クイーンエメラルダス #comic art

[balrog-slayer66]

Promotional artwork for "Queen Emeraldas" illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto.

#queen emeraldas #leijiverse #leiji matsumoto #captain harlock #space pirate captain harlock #retro scifi #retro science fiction #retro manga #retro anime

[sofadoodlez]

the queen herself 

#leijiverse #queen emeraldas #captain harlock #galaxy express 999 #my art

[la-hannya]

So heartbroken that Leiji Matsumoto has passed. What a legend. Highly recommend his works. He made such a badass female character like Emeraldas

#RIP #leiji matsumoto #leijiverse #queen emeraldas #arcadia of my youth #galaxy express 999 #space captain harlock #gun frontier #maetel legend #battleship yamato #cosmo warrior zero

[xylospringsdomain]

Practice of Leiji Matsumoto Artstyle. Was fun to try this Queen Emeraldas.

#leiji matsumoto #art #digitalart #anime #fanart #ibispaint #ibispaintapp #queen emeraldas #current wip #practice

[capitanharlock78]

#emeraldas #queen emeraldas #tochiro #leijiverse

[mikurulucky]

Emeraldas with freckles. ‘Nuff said. 😊

#fanart #sketch #art #captain harlock #leijiverse #queen emeraldas #freckles #leiji matsumoto #freckles look surprisingly good on her #real cute

[phoenixfyreryn]

Found this gem of an English translation in my room while going through my pile (pile?! PILE?! More like cavernous mountian!) of Leiji Matsumoto stuff, and it always makes me cackle how people go 'are you a woman?!' to her... and frankly, I'm surprised she doesn't break heads more often. The utter disrespectful behavior before they know her name and the go 'oh *censored*! We screwed up!' is kinda boggling... like you see a woman, with a gravity saber.... and you think she's just a person you can harass?! I'd be smart and stay away... ah, hell! Who am I kidding?! I'd go talk to her!

And she either gets aggressive:

Or when finding a young boy crying in a desert, you tell him 'a man doesn't cry' and HE gets aggressive with her, saying that HE knows that! He didn't cry when his parents died, but his ship? It was everything.

So she's like 'ah... I see...'

... and then gets into a duel:

And the kid FINALLY gives her a modicum of respect and asks who she is, and the cape flares and she gives her name - Emeraldas.

And she just ends up being told 'WTH would you know? You're just a *woman*!'

She then tells him that if he's brave, he'll surely meet her in the vastness of space... which leads to the whole 'insight into Emeraldas', but this one is a bit different because there's a lot of self reflection and introspection compared to the 1977 Harlock manga.

It's a lovely piece and I need to get the rest of them. I realized I only have the first edition of them. Gotta be like a Pokémon collector and gotta grab 'em all!

#queen emeraldas #leiji matsumoto #leijiverse

[mediaomnivore]

This weekend I read the first fifth of Queen Emeraldas (クィーン・エメラルダス), Vol. 1 by Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士) which debuted in 1978.

#leiji matsumoto #queen emeraldas #クィーン・エメラルダス #松本零士 #1978 #manga #comics #japan

[showamagicalgirls]

I’ve recently been diving into the work of Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士) more than I have in the past. He influenced so many things, but I don’t think he had a major, direct impact on the Showa majokko trope. Still, there are two connections I might point to, and one of them is through his adventuring heroine pictured here, Queen Emeraldas (クィーン・エメラルダス). She’s definitely in the mix of Japanese female hero figures that predated the Heisei boom magical girls warrior stories.

#クィーン・エメラルダス #queen emeraldas #leiji matsumoto #majokko adjacent #昭和 #showa era #manga #comics #松本零士

[scotchfairy]

Happy 85th Birthday Leiji Matsumoto

Let's hope he has many more ahead of him

#leiji matsumoto #leijiverse #anime and manga #captain harlock #queen emeraldas #cosmo warrior zero #galaxy express 999 #space battleship yamato

[useyourimagination2020]

Leiji Matsumoto

#leiji matsumoto #queen emeraldas #captain harlock #松本零士