Kurata Emi's Es no Kaihou (1979)
We proudly present you our new pick, Kurata Emi's Es no Kaihou (エスの解放 - Id Unchained). This manga was published in LaLa between September 1978 and February 1979. Special thanks to Platypus who first showed me the cover of this manga, which really set things in motion, and VIP thanks to phuji and shielshi for riding my hype train and being even faster than me at finishing this! <3
The "Es" in the title is the German for the good old "id" you see in psychology, and Japanese has borrowed it from German. The more you know...
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Also you should know that 5MENP, savior of all old and good manga, will be finishing off Ki no Mi, Kusa no Mi. Don't forget to keep an eye out for it!
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Shin Seishun (新青春, The New Youth) by Kurata Emi. Published in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Zoukan Ciao (back when Ciao was a supplement of Shoujo Comic) on 12/6/1975.
It tells the story of two bros4life who are struggling with youth, their friendship, the upcoming university entrance exams, and the ressure the society puts on them. It's mainly a social commentary on how the education system kills young minds, and university entrance exams are not much of a big deal, veiled behind some good old fun shoujo adventures.
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Broo something's up with my Persona 4 copy
Adding more to my p4/mp100 au hhfhd here are the characters and their arcanas
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Easygoing by Kurata Emi (1976)
This has been in the works for a while... We are proud to bring you a true gem from 1976, Kurata Emi's striking one shot, Easygoing.
This story, especially the last couple of pages, hit me on a personal level. What really impressed me even more is that this story was published in Hana to Yume of all things. Isn't it sad to see what the magazine has become after publishing good stories like this one, reduced to a shoujo magazine filled with tedious romance stories that doesn't even a single brain cell? Honestly, I wouldn't have expected to see such historical and social criticism in a 1970s shoujo manga magazine.
Also, apologies for the text left in Japanese on p. 29, because I couldn't make sense of them for the life of me. I even asked people. So, unless someone sends me scans/pics of the print book, we'll never know. Digitalization does old manga dirty like that.
Get your self-loathing here:
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Now, be on the lookout for 5MENP's releases, because I'm passing the baton to them to finish this compilation off. I don't want to ruin Kurata's works with my crappy TLs.
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Kurata Emi's Es no Kaihou
I like my shoujo manga trippy... Check those backgrounds out.
From Kurata Emi's psychological manga Esu no Kaihou (エスの解放, Id Unchained, 1979). Published in LaLa between issues 1978/9 and 1979/2. It taught me Japan uses words borrowed from German to talk about psychology terms.
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mp100 girls wearing my clothes
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