I wish I had a girlfriend who always enters the room drinking shitty beer wearing a helmet, looking high as fuck.

>>225056
There just haven't been any since the June issue (April).

I can see various other series from Dengeki's July issue (May) on Share, but there was no new Yotsuba that month.

Although now that you mention it, I don't see anything at all from the August issue (June) on Share. But according to Dengeki's website there was still no new Yotsuba that month either.

Nice Nobue cosplay by the way.

Miu cosplay, hehe.

another one. Miu got clobbered yet again.

The Chika one just wasn't that successful.

>>225062
She has an awfully masculine face...

>>225056
Azuma is addicted to some fairly strong "legal" pharmaceuticals, so his ability to work on new material is quite impaired.

>>225065
where do you get your info from? Why is he addicted? Mental problems or health problems?
If that's true then the future of Yots is quite in doubt.

>>225066
He's just trolling.

>>225067
Is it the same guy, all the time? Because he's been doing this for a good while now.

>>225068
This is only the second time I recall hearing someone mention it, and to be honest, since I don't know Azuma personally, I can't say for sure whether he's abusing prescription drugs or not, but >>225065 just seems obviously made up to me.

>>225058

The August issue was really terrible. Let alone Y&! or IM, there wasn't even any Railgun. It was just a thousand pages of garbage, and then Naoko-san.

This is a misappropriation of the board, but can anyone tell me what is written in the bubble to the left, in particular the bit after 邪?

>>225072
That second character is shorthand for 魔 (making the whole word 邪魔: jama - inconvenience; hindrance).

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

The entire sentence would be something along the lines of "If it's not an inconvenience."

>>225073

King of the world, Ralen.

For the enlightenment of the zero people who care, the text in question is from the final chapter of Hayate Cross Blade.

>>225073
Whoa, that's a really convenient shorthand... And oh boy, more kanji writings to learn...

>>225072
Appropriatin' right along with you, is this emoji the "You Did A Great Job!" from Danbo's sticker, or is it something else entirely?💮

>>225076
That looks just like a regular flower.
Danbo's stamp was flower-shaped, but it also had text in it.
These stamps are common in elementary level grading. There are different levels like "You did a great job", "You did well," "Average," "Please try a little harder," etc.

>>225069

> I can't say for sure whether he's abusing prescription drugs or not

so you just said that >>225065 wasn't true because thats what you want to be the case?
thats not how reality works. the fact is that sobriety and the arts community are not close friends and writers are particularly prone the falling into uncontrolled, shameful, self-reenforcing situations like being a drug addicted hikikomori.
takimoto tatsuhiko (welcome to the NHK) is a probably the best known case like this, but he is by no means unique and this isn't a new phenomenon or a japanese one. lewis carroll and samuel coleridge were both similarly incapacitated by drugs and/or social anxiety while being productive members of the arts community.
the ideas that "doing drugs is bad" or "being a hiki is bad" are concepts which many people believe in, but are both blatantly false. they're certainly not conducive to productivity, but they don't preclude it either and when one encounter a formerly productive author who's output seems to have dropped off then you have to assume that something is hindering that artist's ability to work.
drugs are probably a pretty good guess.

>>225078
I assume it isn't true, because without evidence to support the claim, I have no reason to believe that it's true.

Burden of proof lies on the one making the claim and all that.

Also, he's only missed 2 months so far (he's missed longer stretches in the past) and based on his twitter posts, it seems pretty likely a lot of his time has been taken up by this: >>225008

So jumping to the immediate conclusion that it must be drugs seems a bit unfounded.

>>225076
as you can see, it is similar, but not the same.

>>225078
first time I hear "Lewis Carroll" had a drug problem. Yes, he did have an anxiety problem because he was a stutter but I have never heard of the drugs.
Then again, all you have do is look and Alice is filed with drug references: Alice eating mushrooms, drinking stuff and changing size, talking caterpillars smoking hookas, etc, etc.
Can you present some proof "Lewis Carroll" was a drug user please? Quite interesting subject.

^he was also a pedo

>>225085
Did you personally see him molest a child? Then you are just speculating. And it doesn't really matter if he was or wasn't. All that matters is he wrote brilliant books that can still be enjoyed by both children AND adults. I still love them and as a child I thought they were amazingly amusing.
According to some sources, Mark Twain was also one too. Will you now hate reading Tom Sawier and Huck Finn?

>>225086
you don't need to molest a child to be a pedophile

>>225081

>he's missed longer stretches in the past

Whoa!
That must have been a major bender.
I guess painting the town red really takes a while when you live in a metropolis the size of Tokyo.

>>225077
Yes, and so does mine. It's an actual Unicode character, so just copy it into a text editor and kick it up to 144pt.

I'm crazy confused why after ten years the -chan software doesn't allow for TEXT FORMATTING of any kind. I mean, italic, bold, SOMETHING.

>>225090
Right, that's what I'm saying is that the unicode character just looks like a plain flower (as opposed to one with text in it) and the shape of the petals is slightly different from the stamp as well.

The image board does allow italics and bold (and strikethrough).

Certain people may violate certain laws by translating and releasing a certain thing.

Certain national and trans-international agencies sponsor this particular release of information.

Yotsuba&! 2014 Monthly Calendar Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2014 (13 Original Illustrations)(Preorder)

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=CGD2-63263&page=top

He spent two whole months on this shit?

>>225094
No, that's just the 2014 calendar.
The project he's been tweeting about lately is the photo book of all prior calendar photos to date.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/o/ASIN/4048918796/

>>225086

Actually, the pedo thing is quite well documented. He was quite a prolific photographer, and many of his photographs survive today. The majority of them are child nudes.

Of course I agree with that has nothing to do with whether or not his books are enjoyable or not--one has nothing to do with the other.

>>225097
Yeah, you don't have to be a nazi to enjoy Horst Wessel song.

Or an uniform http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/07/20137191141644129.html

>>225097
I don't know if this is true or not, but I read somewhere that during Lewis Carroll's time it was actually not uncommon to take nude photographs of children. It supposedly didn't have the same negative sexual connotation it has today.

Kind of like how it used to not be unusual for men to hold hands or sleep in the same bed, because the stigma of "Ew, that's gay" didn't yet exist.

Again, this is something I read on the internet, so take it for what it's worth.

>>225097
gotcha. There is the proof you know nothing and pardon my French but you are talking out of your bunghole. In short, you should NOT have opened your mouth. There are NO surviving nude photos because they were ALL destroyed by a friend except for only 2 that survive to today and were painted over. It's a FACT, not your fantasies about pedos. It's an easily checked fact. 99.99% are clothed children and they are quite beautiful as a matter of fact. The real Alice was really cute for example. A challenge: Show us the nude photos he took. You can't cuz there arent any. Sorry, you lose.
Second, taking photos of nude children doesnt one make a pedo. Was Mapplethorpe a pedo too then? IS Sally Mann a pedo? That guy(forgot his name) who took photos of girls and the US gov tried to ruin him so the children themselves came to his defense? All the hundreds of thousand of naturalists who routinely take photos of their children, that makes then pedos?
You are projecting your own imaginary sicko fantasies onto others, in short, you are full of you know what.

>>225096
Oh, well, now I want to piss on his face less now I guess.

I also hate how Japan adopted the name Daboard as opposed to Danbo.
vc: Dabo4lyfe

>>225106
I think "Danboard" is kind of endearing in an Engrishy sort of way.

>>225091
Huh. Stupid Windows.

How's this?

Anyone here remember a few years ago when Azuma made a long, angry post on his blog about how the police pulled him over when he was driving?
He was saying bullshit like "why can't they catch real criminals, they're bothering me when there are unsolved murders" and other such common bullshit you get from people with a sense of entitlement and from people with delusions of grandeur (sometimes these are drug induced delusions).

It was at this time that he had been busted for driving under the influence and he actually did a few weeks in jail as a result and had his driving privileges rescinded. He is lucky the police stopped him, if he had actually hurt someone his career would have been over. Nobody wants to buy stories from an asshole like that.

>>225102

Woah, chill out dude. All I said was that he took a large number of nude photos of children. I didn't say that made him a pedo, and I didn't say there was anything wrong with it either. I think you're reading more into what I wrote than I actually did. I have nothing against him. I simply stated that he took nude photos of children; I'm not drawing any further conclusions than that.

Anyway, since you wanted a source for his photos. There are more than a thousand documented here:

Taylor, Roger; Wakeling, Edward (25 February 2002). Lewis Carroll, Photographer. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-07443-6

>>225113
This made me LOL; I know that post was joking/trolling, but I actually thought it was impressive that when Azuma was pulled over (IIRC), he didn't try to play the fame card to get out of getting a ticket.

>>225115
I don't know whether Carroll was a pedo either, but if he was, this board is a strange place for that to be considered offensive.

>>225115

Indeed.

I think the real truth is that we simply don't know, and probably never will. Alas the debate will go on forever. On the one hand you've got fans of Lewis Carrol's literature who somehow get offended if you suggest that Carrol might have been a pedo. God forbid their beloved author wasn't perfect! You end up with a knee-jerk reaction: Of course he wasn't! How could you even suggest that, etc. This doesn't make any sense to me because even if he was a pedo (which we don't know) it has no bearing on his literature at all. It's still great, pedo or not.

On the other hand you've got people who think that just because he took photos of children then he must be a pedo, which is just as silly as the above.

Bottom line: we don't know one way or the other, and even if we did, why would it matter?

the way danbo is powered by money lewis carrol is powered by nude lolis

>>225116

>play the fame card

just because he is popular on 4chan doesn't mean he is actually famous.
i'm sure the police officer probably never heard of him, it would have just been one of those scenes with some pathetic, egotistical tenth-rate 'celebrity" saying DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? YOU'RE MAKING A BIG MISTAKE FUCKING WITH ME and the cops going lol, just fuck off and lrn2drive
srsly, azuma is so famous and recognizable that you've never seen a photo of him.

>>225119
Based on the size and quality of the Yotsuba displays I've seen pjotographed in bookstores (not to mention the ridiculous merchandise whoring of the Danbo character) I'd say Yotsuba is kind of a BFD in Japan.

>>225119
Again, I know you're not completely serious, but there are a couple of photos of Azuma out there. And I think he said the cop that pulled him over asked what he did for a living; when he said he was a mangaka, the cop asked whether he drew anything the cop had heard of, and he said no, instead of something like "Oh, just a little thing called Azumanga Daioh" (although that still may not have done him any good).

Azuma should have said he wrote Do Your Best! or any of the Sailor Moon doujin. Would have had a better chance of the cop recognizing him and got off without a ticket and 6oz of weed.