“I hope these images will lead to a dialogue between parent and child, or whoever sees them. For me, animals and plants are not simple backgrounds, but living things that remind us that we are interconnected.”
“Why do I always draw girls? I have this lingering image I had when I was a sixth-grader, right after the war,” Takahashi told The Daily Yomiuri in a recent interview. “There was a church of the Allied Occupation Forces near my house, and one day I saw a girl over the fence. She was about 5 and was playing in the garden filled with flowers.
“The girl, her leg in a cast, was called by her mother. She turned around and ran to her mother, her beautiful blond hair flowing. It was such a beautiful scene in such a gloomy time as was postwar Japan. The image stuck with me, and I came to want to paint that girl.”
Ikeda Riyoko, Hagio Moto, Aoike Yasuko, Takemiya Keiko
okay you guys, ask me some more questions please!
Takemiya Keiko, Ikeda Riyoko, Aoike Yasuko
Please ask me semi-personal questions! (essentially, nothing about love, dating, etc., but yes to things I like about One Piece, year 24 group, etc.!) (btw, this is a bribe! ask, and you get more of your favorites!)
Saeki Kayono, Hello! Marian (or is it Mary Ann?)
Chapter 3, Ribon Dec 1978
I can’t decide whether this character is cute or if she looks like an alien. It’s not quite as pronounced here, but her forehead is huge and her eyes are about a mile apart. :P
