Manga Shop - Imort Japanese Manga Supplies

For everyone who came to visit me at Comitia... uh... and wondered why I wasn't there, well, it turns out my manga is cursed and when printing it the printer totally had a spazfest and spewed ink out onto a clump of print paper. Stayed up with all night trying to work on it, but never got it to print even a single book, let alone four pages. We both ended up giving up and skipping the event. This is my second event I've missed thanks to this book! So I'm printing out ten copies before I even sign up for another event, because this is very unlike me to miss an opportunity to sell my goods for comic fans. So there's that. I am posting the finished pages online, at least, so you can see the toned versions as I finish adding the English and converting the files. Next week it's off to get my ass handed to me by publishers...

I have a nice announcement! I have purchased a domain and web space at OGAWABURUKKU.COM, though at the moment there isn't anything there. That's the space where I will be posting FaLLEN pages, as a webcomic, starting sometime this summer. The other thing I purchased, or rather my husband purchased, was a separate domain name for his new venture: Gazai Mart. What's Gazai Mart?

Gazai Mart came about because my husband realized there was a lot of interest in manga making outside of Japan, but not a lot of supplies for those artists. Copics are nearly twice as much in the US as they are in Japan, screen tone isn't sold in stores, etc etc. He's been working on this idea for almost a year ever since he saw how successful my personal shopper project was. We are currently setting up the website for his store, but we've already gotten our first shipments in and he wanted me to post something about what we have for sale:

Bakuman Mangaka Starter Kits!

You want to draw manga like the pros in the Bakuman world, but you don't know where to start. In these kits, you get screen tone, sample manga paper, and line art from the official anime series to practice on. These sets are put out by screen tone giant Deleter and are official goods.


Comes with two pages of tone and a "tone hera", which is used to flatten the screen tones against the paper as well as two lineart pieces of Shuujin and Saikou.


Comes with three pages of tone and two pages of practice lineart with Eiji.

Both of these items are $10.50 each, not including shipping.


A great starter pack that comes with a french curve, five sheets of postcard-sized tone, a pen with three different nibs, and black ink.

This is going for $22, not including shipping.

Copic Markers

We have a BUNCH of individual markers, but we haven't made up a color chart yet, so if you want a color just let us know. We are only charging $5 per Copic Sketch marker and $4 for the Copic Ciao markers. Not including shipping.

We have two sets of twelve markers available that come inside a nice case to hold your markers. The first is a basic 12 color set of Copic Sketch markers (which are double-sided, in case you didn't know) and this is a great set to get started with. We are also selling a set specifically for shading skin tones, also with 12 markers.

Both sets only cost $60 each, which is more then twenty bucks less than what the official retail price is. That does not include shipping.

Reference Books

It's hard to draw manga that takes place in Japan when you don't live in Japan, but fortunately there are books that take photos of everyday places and people in Japan specifically for mangaka. Pose books, background books, etc.... we've got 'em! These books are full-color and over 100 pages of photos on specifically the theme of the book.



The first in a series of Boys Love (aka Yaoi) pose books. Perfect for finding suggestive poses for Japanese men with the hots for each other. These books are NOT porn, but they take many shots of men together from different angles. Even if you're not an artist, this book could still be appealing ;D

This book is $28, not including shipping.



Convenience stores! They are a huge part of Japanese culture, but without the right reference material they can be tricky to draw. This book will have you covered!

This book is $28, not including shipping.



Specifically for people who want to draw girls doing everyday things at home. This can be brushing their teeth, drying their hair, putting on a pair of jeans, baking a cake... Lots and lots of detail packed into 159 full-color pages.

This book is $35, not including shipping.



This book doubles as an excellent pose book for high school girls in their Japanese school uniforms as well as a great book for drawing the insides of Japanese schools. By the same company as the above book, it's another great resource for artists drawing a story that takes place in high school.

This book is also $35, not including shipping.



Those are the highlighted products we've gotten in so far, but we're getting tone in as well as manga tools like pens and nibs, ink, tone erasers, etc etc that we'll post on the website when we get that up and running by the end of the month. If anyone is interested in purchasing the above products, we are currently just accepting Paypal, but you can note me and we'll get back to you. Also, if there is anything you need that is NOT listed, feel free to ask us if it's available. Chances are we can get it ;D

Gazai Mart will also have a special How To series hosted by yours truly on how to use manga, as well as with my recommendations and me showing how it's done by toning/inking/etc pages from FaLLEN. The first few videos should go up sometime next month.

FaLLEN Novel Chapters

Book II Chapter 15 - DISSIDENT AGGRESSOR
Book II Chapter 14 - I'LL REMEMBER YOU
Book II Chapter 13 - COLD AS ICE

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Commissions Status

1. finished
2. working on sketches
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COMIC SHA-KEEN!

I'll be featured on the new comic site COMIC SHA-KEEN! for anyone interested.

Best Of Anime Girls Art Book -- Out Summer 2012!

and I are working together to create a book featuring what we consider some of the best looking girls in anime and Japanese games (or just girls we like ), past and present. He's mostly tackling the present but I'll be doing a lot of nostalgic characters. We have pretty different styles, and I'm hoping we can learn from each other as we do this.

Featured Anime


- Ah My Goddess
- Guilty Crown
- Kami-sama No Memo-chou
- Kyoukai Senjou No Horizon
- Monster Hunter 3G Armor Set
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Vocaloid



- Bakuretsu Hunter
- K-ON!!
- Lunar games
- Neon Genesis Evangelion movies
- Queen's Blade
- Ranma 1/2
- Sakura Taisen
- Thundercats

Original Characters
A X I S . L i n k s
FaLLEN

I think there will likely be about 20+ pages of full-color art with info about us and our personal projects, etc. Oh, and I absolutely realize that one of my series chosen is not actually anime
Some series may be dropped and added as we go.


made a really lovely collection of LJ icons featuring a lot of the artists who participated in this year's FaLLEN Art Contest, as well as some of my own art. So check them out here: [link]
Some examples are: