Another month of Kio Shimoku tweets is here! The guy has finally learned how to thread tweets, which makes things easier for me. A lot of the month was promoting his books, as well as other titles in Rakuen: Le Paradis, where Spotted Flower runs.
Crossover Images Featuring Genshiken, Hashikko Ensemble, and Spotted Flower
A crossover between Jin and Madarame.
Image 1:
“Stand like you’re being held by a string from the sky!” [a way to teach proper posture for singing]
“It’s normal for me to be hunched over, you know. *mutter*”
A duo who will never see eye to eye.
Image 2:
“So what was like in high school?”
“Well, it was pretty ordinary. I was in an otaku club…and I had long hair…”
“Ahh, Hashi Tech has one of those too. It’s called the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture.”
“……Huh?”
I find this amusing because I sort of think of Jin and Madarame as similar characters, but they’re actually quite different. Jin is almost like if you mixed Madarame and Kohsaka.
Also, it turns out that teenage Madarame, Tanaka, and Kugayama doppelgangers (in an actual Genshiken club) actually did make a cameo in Hashikko Ensemble!
Old drawings from the @hashikko_music Twitter. In the first, Hasegawa is commenting that Sue has a nasty expression. In the second, Himari is about to make the same comment about Ogino-sensei, but is struck by their similarities.
More old drawings from the other account. This time, it’s Not-Sue holding Himari, only to realize it’s not Ogino-sensei.
Ohno and Mimi-sensei…and also Shion, who wants a grab.
More Tortoise!
Sleeping Tortoise Pose Series. Pose: Manji
Kio recalls a moment from 10 years ago, where a stray cat was curiously poking at the tortoise as the latter slowly tried to scuttle away. He remarks that, amazingly, this is the same tortoise who now actively rams the window asking to be let in.
Here’s how the turtle crawls in.
Miscellaneous
Thanking Taniguchi Jun’ichirou for his animation work on Genshiken. This includes Nidaime and the original series, where Taniguchi and Mizushima Tsutomu (who would later go on to direct Nidaime) worked on the infamous “nose hair” episode.
And another old drawing about washing your hands. I believe this was from early on in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kio bought an L-Gaim model kit!
Kurotaki Mai from Hashikko Ensemble with extremely realistic bunny ears.
That’s all for this month!
