Love for the BL manga-ka Sumomo Yumeka

A desperate attempt to put some life in the community

2008-08-13T19:50:01Z

If anybody is interested, Morii Akira´s drawing-style is similar to Sumomo Yumeka´s. It´s not really the same feeling and it´s a bit more graphic than Sumomo Yumeka but if you want to give it a try then you can read the manga "Shiawase no Ashioto" containg the one-shots: "Seiten no Hekireki" which you can get here,"Omoi no Yukue," which you can get here and "Kimi bi Yori" which you can get here. Enjoy!

I looked through the entire community out of boredom and found some links to Sumomo Yumeka´s stuff at Amazon Link1 and Link2. I´m pretty sure the 2nd link are novels that she did the illustations to and I´m guessing the things in the first link that I don´t recognize are the same but since I only see squares I can´t be sure and would like to have it confirmed. And if somebody could tell me what the squares say and what kind of work it is so I can add the novels (or whatever it is) to the organisation post ^_^ Thank you!

And, is Shalala from Boku no Shalala a girl? I always asumed he was a boy since he transforms into a human boy but then I read that she was a girl and when I think about it Shalala is drawn more like a girl than a boy and Strange Stories isn´t supposed to be BL. So, which is it?

I hope your lives are going well~

EDIT: Here is a link to Amazon with works she´s done as Mizu Sahara, Link3 . Is the 3rd one Bus Hashiro?

My Girl chapter 6

2008-07-23T17:14:51Z

Hi everyone!
A new chapter of My Girl has been released ♥
Here is the link to chapter 6 on Storm in Heaven´s page
Here is the link to chapter 6 on Aku-Tenshi´s page
Enjoy!

If anybody missed it karopanda posted a link to comicbunch where you can read the first chapter of Watashitachi shiawase na jikan in japanese: http://www.comicbunch.com/comic_info/watashitachino/index.php
And since I don´t understand japanese at all, I´m wondering if it still isn´t available for download, and if it is, could someone please translate it? ^_^

I hope you´re all doing well

Fanfiction

2008-06-24T13:06:55Z

karopanda told me I had to awaken the community so I thought that I would share a fanfic. It was supposed to be part 1 of a 5part fanfic but after writing the first 2 parts I kind of died and lost all my motivation so it´ll probably not continue. I wasn´t going to post it at first because it´s kind of lame but now I´m doing it anyway. Enjoy!

Title: A real kiss
Author: morninggreen
Fandom: Tengujin by Sumomo Yumeka
Pairing: Mozuku/Shinonome/Sai
Rating: PG-13
Words: no idea
Warning: None really, just thoughts of boys kissing.
Disclaimer: Don´t own anything.
Summary: Mozuku´s thoughts after the meeting with Sai
Note: Written for karopandabecause she wanted some Mozuku/Sacchan/Shii-chan threesome. It´s not really a threesome but I hope it´ll do anyway. I´m sorry for not continuing this and for taking forever, please don´t hate me. This is my first fanfic EVER so there´s a reason if you think it´s really crappy. It´s unbeta'd and English is not my native language. Writing fanfiction was a litlle hard because I´m really no good at getting my thoughts written down, even if the idea in my head was good it didn´t come out as I wanted it no matter how many times I tried. And I also have a bad habit of repeating myself. Please tell me what you think (maybe disguise the insults as constructive criticism?)

Part one, Mozuku POV

Mozuku threw himself down on his bed with a heavy sigh. His mind had a hard time adjusting to all the things that had happened recently, his twin brother being the God of the East and this Sai, the God of the West who was going to eat his dear older brother unless he could find an impure human who would sacrifice himself. He sighed again, it seemed like such an impossible task.

But he would not give up! He really didn´t want to become a monkey and more importantly, he would never let his brother get eaten! Shinonome was the most important person to him and he didn´t want to think about what life would be without him.

His brother, although they were close, always seemed to have this distance about him, making it impossible to figure out what he was thinking. (Well, since it turned out that he was a god, maybe it wasn´t so strange.) It was the same thing with the kiss, he had no idea what his brother had been thinking when he kissed him.

Mozuku gently touched his right cheek and wondered about the kiss, he didn´t want to admit it but he had felt something spark inside of him when Shinonome had kissed him. He was supposed to feel disgusted, he had been kissed by another boy, by his own twin brother no less! Strangely he didn´t feel bad at all. He had actually thought that the kiss was nice and over and over again he caught himself thinking about how it would feel to kiss Shinonome for real, you know on the mouth with tongue and all.

He had always had special feelings for his brother but he always thought that it was because they were twins and they were supposed to feel something for each other that no one else could ever understand. But now he questioned these feelings, it was not normal to want to kiss your own brother and the feelings he had for his brother had certainly changed after that little innocent kiss on the cheek.

Mozuku had never been in love. Of course he had always loved his brother but not in that way. Now the thought kept popping up in his mind, maybe he had fallen in love with Shinonome for real, like the kind of love he was supposed to feel for a lover.

No that couldn´t be! That really wasn´t normal. Maybe he was just obsessed with the kissing? This Sai guy had kissed him too in the bath. It was aggressive, over in less than a second and was more like a lips-against-cheek-thing than an actual kiss but saying that it hadn´t felt nice would be lying. And even though Sai was weird and really truly scary, Mozuku thought that he looked wonderful when he smiled and that it would be nice to share a real kiss with him too, a soft and gentle one.

Okay, maybe he actually was obsessed with kissing but that really didn´t explain the strange feelings he apparently had for his brother and it really didn´t explain the strange feelings he had for the God of the West. Shinonome probably just kissed him so that he wouldn´t be able to sacrifice himself and Sai probably just kissed him just because he was a really weird guy.But even though none of them had the same feelings he did he still wanted to kiss them both again. He could not deny that.

If he told his brother about it he would probably reject him and that was the worst that could happen and if he told Sai about it he would probably be turned into a monkey on the spot, so trying to kiss either of them was not an alternative. Mozuku hoped that this kissing-obsession would go away and with that the strange feelings too.

Updates

2008-06-20T16:47:07Z

This community has been a quiet lately so I've decided to tell you guys in case you didn't know (I didn't know) Storm in heaven has just realeased My girl chapter five is and Aku-tenshi has released Tenjuin chapter 3 recently.

This is the link to aku-tenshi's Tengujin. They also have two side chapters to the story 'Zanouka'.

Here is Aku-tenshi's my girl page if you need to get caught up

Here Is Storm in heaven because Aku-tenshi sometimes has bandwidth issues.

How are you guys? :D

Icons

2008-05-04T20:09:13Z

Hello! First time posting here ^^ I want to show you some icons, tell me what you think about them...

Teasers:

More here

Wasurene no LANGUAGE

2008-05-01T03:21:19Z

:D we translated it into English and our mother tongue (Vietnamese) XDD Though it is a very lousy English and translation, we hope all of you could understand a little XDD

Download here

But leave some comment after reading it :D thanks :D

sumomoyumeka @ 2008-04-26T20:39:00

2008-04-26T18:19:00Z

Something that struck me when I made the organization post: Does anybody know what Sumomo has done under the penname Keita Sahara? It says on Wikipedia that she does shoujo-works under that name.

Also if somebody knows something about The place promised in our early days? It seems that it excist minimum information on this. If anybody is interested you can watch the anime here btw: http://onemoreanime.com/anime-movies/the-place-promised-in-our-early-days/

And if there´s somebody from Italy here that could translate Wasurene no Language to English? I really want to know what they´re saying there and my Italian-skills only go as far as knowing that 'si' means 'yes' and 'bastardo' probably means 'bastard' x3 It doesn´s have to be something outstanding, just so you understand the main plot.

And has the Soshite koi ga Hajimaru novel been translated to English? I heard somewhere that it had (don´t remember where) I don´t believe that it has but I thought I would ask anyway. Well, if somebody suddenly got an impulse and translated the whole novel so that us poor souls that can´t understand japanese can read it then please share 8D

And I was also wondering if you lovely people that can make wonderful icons felt like making some Nemunoki no Geshukusou/Silk Tree Boarding House icons? ^_~

some icons

2008-04-24T15:08:29Z

Hi. First time posting here, but I made some icons. They're all from Nanairo Sekai, so I'll take the opportunity to say a massive thank you to kiarin for the scanlation! They're part of a multi-fandom post, so I think you'll have to scroll down to them, because I don't know if there is a way to jump to a specific table.

here

Kon no Ki Konoha Icons (i.e., SPAM)

2008-04-23T01:50:01Z

Since karopanda asked and I'm her monkey anyway~ Set of six (plus 2 alternative) Kon no Ki Konoha icons!

A cute kid!Akino preview:

Kon no Ki Konoha Icon Set
01	02	03

04	05	06

01 Alternative	02 Alternative	No Icon

Please do credit me for these icons. :) I'm not gonna go Nazi on you or anything, but it's just nice 8D? Here's how to:

Yeah, ignore the typos *cough*

Credits:
Scans: karopanda
Icons: blck_hyacinth
Textures and Brushes: colorfilter, graphic_sl, girlboheme, and Hybrid Genesis

So yeah, these aren't very good (and sorry for any trauma I've caused), but the good news is I think Persimmons also asked by_yume to do icons, too. Yay for us all 8D

Kon no Ki Konoha

2008-04-21T03:55:06Z

I didn't beat anyone, stop lying D:!!! I got too excited so I can't shove Tomi at this one cause I type faster! :D And I even have a somewhat ugly icon for it!

Aku Tenshi has Yumeka Sumomo's oneshot Kon no Ki Konoha for everyone to LOVE LONG TIME, which you can download here or hop over to the #aku-tenshi IRC channel and talk with other fans...minus the 50-something afk-ers. :P

This is my second favorite of her oneshots, right after Chou ni Naru Hi @ @; They both have a lot of the same...feelings? I guess, it's...so...beyond my level of articulation... blck_hyacinth did the edits for this one, which is why all the SFX look so nice and all the things that were ALL OVER THE IMAGES---look like they were never completely moved in the first place <3 I LOVE YOU TOMI. You rock my socks. And more. ♥ 40 pages of love~

Moral of the story: Do not smoke! Not only does it make you smell bad, it causes angst.

A drabble Mimi+Uka

2008-04-19T04:24:49Z

karopanda ~~Beat me~~Inspired me to do a fanfic. It's just a hastily written drabble. I decided that I'll open up for one line prompts. Any Sumomo Yumeka, or Mizu Sahara work. English manga though please. (I've only read what is in english) What you do is fill out the form and I do one line (most is a drabble) of your prompt. I'll do 10-15 of them since they are short.

Please fill out the form, The drabble(under the cut) is a sample of my work too.

Manga:
Characters:
Prompt:
Rating:
Anything else?:

It's hot.

Slants of light come through the blinds and he wakes up a little bit more. The sheets are stifling. I throw them away from me without thinking and hear a muffled groan.

"Ugh. Why did you do that?" Mikami moans groggily and grumpy.I can't help but to laugh. We've just moved in together so it's kind of hard to remember where I am still sometimes. We haven't moved in everything just yet so we had to suffer the heat last night. I'm sweating already and I wonder if Mikami is too.

"C'mon lets get cooled off. I'm dying." Mikami says getting up and dragging me along with him. I smile, and can't help but to giggle. He totes me around all the time and never lets me out of his sites now. "What's so funny?" He asks, his hair falling into his face, pouting. I brush the hair out of his eyes and give him a kiss.

"I promise I won't leave you again." I say and he blushes. He pulls me towards the shower still. He grumbles a little bit but then when we get to the bathroom he looks me in the eyes.

"Even if you do, I'll just tell you to come back to me again." The water is running in the shower but we ignore it for the moment to look into each others eyes. I hold out my pinky.

"I swear my allegiance to you only." I say to him and Mikami's face lights up with gentle laughter. We pinky promise, and he leans into to kiss me again.

"Then lets do our best."

I love him utterly and my heart feels light as a feather.

Gai said unto me, "Tomi, you must SPAM."

2008-04-19T03:08:49Z

... and I said, "And so I shall."

ANYWAY.

As prompted by ~~Gai~~ karopanda:

Storm in Heaven has just released their version of My Girl Chapter 2, which we (Aku Tenshi) have already released. But if you want better scans (or so the rumor goes; mind you, scans--NOT scanlations D:), you should check them out.

Remember, once they release chapter 3, then it officially becomes a joint project between us and them 8D Does that mean faster releases? I HAVE NO CLUE. 8DDDb

Icon Post

2008-04-18T17:58:40Z

Hello!
I made some Sumomo Yumeka Icons for you!!

TEASERS

Link Here

FANART [Chou Ni Naru Hi]

2008-04-18T01:57:15Z

Just a little something I did during my spare today!

...butterflies.

every now and then when I have an art block, I pick up any work from Sumomo Yumeka and I instantly snap back into the swing of things =)

My Girl Ch. 3~

2008-04-15T08:18:23Z

This is actually karopanda/Persimmons in disguise, spamming your flist again!! >]

No, I'm just kidding. XD This is actually Tomi, one of Aku Tenshi's ~~slaves~~ editors~ Hallo, hallo! Good news to you all:

Yet another quick update from AT! Chapter 3 of My Girl is available from AT and available for download here.

Aren't we nice to you munchkins~? Now, say, "itadakimasu~" and dig in. BUT DON'T FORGET TO THANK US FOR THE MEAL WHEN YOU'RE DONE! We work hard, damnit ;_; Especially Persimmons, who does just about all of our Japanese translations~ Grovel at her feet >[

Just a little reminder that after this chapter, My Girl will become a joint project with Storm In Heaven... Thus. Slow updates probably. Sorry! It's not us, it's them!! *points fingers randomly*

My Girl Chapter 2 (and 1, again, but elsewhere)

2008-04-14T08:50:15Z

*spams*

Chapter 2 of My Girl is available from Aku Tenshi and available for download here. The typo on page 9 is driving me crazy, by the way.

Chapter 1 of My Girl is now up for download from Storm in Heaven, so if you want better scans than A-T's to oogle, by all means :D Anywho, A-T will be doing a joint from chapter 4 onwards with SiH, just aren't jointing until then since we've had chapter 2&3 done for about...2 weeks now? *kicks the QCer* Be fasteeeer. Anywho, they said they'd take a month to catch up, so from there scanlations might be a bit slower, but we currently have up through chapter 5 translated, and 6 will be done whenever I get off my butt...

Tengujin - Zanouka - Part 1

2008-04-12T10:33:56Z

The first part of the 2 part short story in Tengujin, Zanouka, is out today from Aku Tenshi. You can download it here. After part 2, all that's left that has been serialized is chapter 3~ We have the scans from the Gensou Anthology, and it's a continuation of the main story in Tengujin. The next anthology should be in...June? Yes. June.

My Girl

2008-04-06T03:50:22Z

Great joy and happiness---though I wish someone else here would post new topics too, since I feel like a spammer.

Chapter 1 of My Girl by Sahara Mizu (Yumeka Sumomo's seinen pen name) is done and available for direct download from Aku Tenshi. It's a very sad but sweet story, so I hope everyone enjoys it~

Chapter 2&3 should be out shortly since they just need to be QCed, and chapter 1&2 of Zanouka (short story in Tengujin) should be out shortly as well since again...just need to be QCed.

In other news (well, 2 week old news, I just haven't posted it here yet and haven't seen it posted here < <; ), Sahara Mizu started a new project being published by Comic Bunch (same people who serialized My Girl & Bus Hashiru, I do believe) based on a Korean novel by Gong Ji-Young. It's called "Our Happy Times" or watashitachi no shiawase na jikan. Linky linky. It's about the relationship between a woman and a man on death row. The original novel was already translated into Japanese, and has been made into a popular Korean film Maundy Thursday.

New Tengujin Chapter

2008-03-25T05:12:47Z

Much love and happiness. Aku Tenshi released chapter 2.5 of tengujin today (only 8 pages :< But it's something!), so if you need any access...help, just ask ;D Otherwise it's out on IRC~ I feel really bad for Mozuku 8D Decreasing population lowering the number of schools to that few is a little...@ @;;; Really like how Sumomo incorporates common Japanese societal issues in the slightly futuristic story <3 This chapter also gives a brief glance at the two main characters in Zanouka, as well as Shinonome as Taichou. Chapter 1 of Zanouka (second story in Tengujin) is being edited at the moment, so it should hopefully be out soon, though if anyone has sexy photoshop skills and wants to jump on board... < <;

In other news, in volume 7 of the anthology Sumomo Yumeka has been serializing Tengujin in, she released another chapter, and in volume 8 she released a short story about a dark-blue haired boy who lives in a tree and only appears in the fall and a young father (I think? Haven't actually gotten my grubby hands on it yet, but Tsubasa ordered it today, so yay <3 Was just reading reviews~) who happen to meet when the young man's visiting the countryside. So yippee! The oneshot is 40 pages long, so I'm excited :D *doesn't stalk Sumomo's site or anything...*

Edit:
Got my grubby hands on it, and it's actually about a young girl whose father takes her to the countryside and she meets the tree spirit and continues coming every fall since that's the only time he appears <3 It's a super bittersweet love story @ @; Made my eyes watery.

Mood theme? Anyone?...

2008-03-23T11:50:33Z

Hi!
I has been looking for a Sumomo Yumeka mood set but i didn't find it.
So, does anyone know where I can find one?
Thanks so much!!!!!

Tengujin ala Aku-Tenshi

2008-03-14T22:20:29Z

Hi all, long time lurker...short time joiner! Just noticed it wasn't posted here that Aku Tenshi started scanlating Tengujin by Sumomo Yumeka. The chapter isn't up for direct download yet (bandwidth issues), but you can get it on IRC, or if you want, I can send it to you directly if IRC hates you. Figured no one posted it since Aku Tenshi's not exactly where you usually find Sumomo-loving (like MochiMochi or Storm in Heaven, but Mochi's sort of dead ;___; ).

The rest of the first story in Tengujin should be done soon since it's already been edited, just needs to be QCed and released ♥, and I already translated both chapters of the second story, Zanouka, too~ So hopefully that won't take long to be edited ♥~

Linky-linky.

EDIT: 03/17 Chapter 2 of Tengujin is released! And chapter 1 is now available on the site for direct download~

moving sale

2008-03-06T18:15:26Z

Hello guys!

I am auctioning off my copy of Rooster vol. 1 anthology, with a cover and story "Soshite Hibi Koi Shite" by Sumomo Yumeka. (Plus other great yaoi authors.) This volume is getting harder and harder to find, so take advantage of this chance. ^_~

I also have four volumes of a Nauruto doujinshi anthology, for which Yumeka-sensei was the cover artist (credited as Sasshi). :) Here is set one, and set two.

The auctions are ending tomorrow, March 7th after 6pm PST. Please check them out if you're interested. Thanks!

Olga (urdsama)

(moderator, if this type of post is not permitted please delete and accept my apologies. :)

sumomoyumeka @ 2008-02-15T17:04:00

2008-02-15T15:14:52Z

Hi everybody!
I´ve been lurking here for a while but I haven´t posted anything.

Recently I bought Strange Stories/Natsukashi Machi no Rozione in German from a website I found ( I´m not from Germany but I understand German fairly well) and I was wondering if somebody from Germany or someone else know if there´s some other of Sumomo Yumeka´s work ( or Mizu Sahara´s) published in German and where you can get them?

Thanks a lot ^_^
/morninggreen

Help me please!

2008-02-01T23:47:19Z

Does anybody know where can I download Sumomo's manga "Kono wagamamana bokutachi wo" in English? I've been searching it for 1 year already... And also "Mai Gaaru", what about it? Does it already available in the Internet?

Bus Hashiru

2008-01-23T01:39:34Z

Storm in Heaven has released 4 of the remaining chapters of Bus Hashiru (which Nanairo Sekai is from) and this whole book is great... <3
So go read:D

[update 4/2]
Last chapter of Bus Hashiru has been released.