Oh, shit. I was really smirking on that last page. I feel so caught.

Oh, shit. I was really smirking on that last page. I feel so caught.

Saaaaammmeeee!!!

The covers effin sweet tho. Totally rooting for their happy ending.

Vampires don't get a whole lot of happy endings though.

I didn't recognize the cover on page 1 at first glance, for a bit I thought it was Prism's. That would have been the perfect cruel joke.

In other news - it's been ages since I heard of Hihi Puffy Amiyumi indeed! They're still as cute as they've ever been.
It's weird to reach an age at which one can be told "hey remember that?".

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We're watching girls!

I feel attacked

That monkey image that focking monkey image from chapter 5.5 I've seen this as a meme format but I don't know where it's from
Does anyone know a link to the source or the image itself

That monkey image that focking monkey image from chapter 5.5 I've seen this as a meme format but I don't know where it's from
Does anyone know a link to the source or the image itself

The image is this:

And it comes from Grant Morrison's "Animal Man" #25, circa 1990.

I didn't recognize the cover on page 1 at first glance, for a bit I thought it was Prism's. That would have been the perfect cruel joke.

That's because Prism is by Higashiyama Show while Vampeerz and Stretch are by Akiri, who is clearly not just Show wearing a fake mustache, but a totally different person.

I didn't recognize the cover on page 1 at first glance, for a bit I thought it was Prism's. That would have been the perfect cruel joke.

That's because Prism is by Higashiyama Show while Vampeerz and Stretch are by Akiri, who is clearly not just Show wearing a fake mustache, but a totally different person.

Or.... and I could be wrong here... OR maybe he, yannow, doesn't wanna dredge up old memories about his work that was canceled due to a scandal.....

Oh god Amiyumi, what a blast from the past. Always lingers in memory but kept forgetting the name.

I didn't recognize the cover on page 1 at first glance, for a bit I thought it was Prism's. That would have been the perfect cruel joke.

That's because Prism is by Higashiyama Show while Vampeerz and Stretch are by Akiri, who is clearly not just Show wearing a fake mustache, but a totally different person.

(Ned actually is Zed's evil twin brother mind you)

I think I busted a gut with that 5.5 chapter. I was like laughing for 2 minutes here. xD Shit, that was totally unexpected!

I've been spotted. Oh noes.
runs away

Or.... and I could be wrong here... OR maybe he, yannow, doesn't wanna dredge up old memories about his work that was canceled due to a scandal.....

According to Show's Wikipedia the only non-H manga he ever did was Prism. Stretch and Vampeerz are no where to be seen.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E5%B1%B1%E7%BF%94

Lolz I need someone photoshop the Prism cover on that page. Now that is a power move from Shou

And then.. Marissa stole the precious thing

Oh I didn't realize this was by the fraud that did Sketch. Dropped.

I think I busted a gut with that 5.5 chapter. I was like laughing for 2 minutes here. xD Shit, that was totally unexpected!

ding! ding! ding! I think I scared someone when I busted out laughing. Kept thinking to myself, wtg Shou! plug your other works!

Oh I didn't realize this was by the fraud that did Sketch. Dropped.

Wrong in at least three different ways...

I didn't recognize the cover on page 1 at first glance, for a bit I thought it was Prism's. That would have been the perfect cruel joke.

It took me a minute to realize it was stretch too. I was laughing so hard when I saw it because at first, I thought it might be a teaser about Prism (like maybe a reference to him restarting/continuing it). then once i realized it was Stretch, all I could think about was Shou plugging his other works. Now that Stretch has shown up, I kinda half-expect (and very much hope) to see Prism references because he's been punished enough. We all make mistakes and I hope people let it go. plus, his artwork is great and his SFW stories are always good reads. (ok. I'm off my soapbox)

I kinda half-expect (and very much hope) to see Prism references because he's been punished enough.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the nonstop degrading and referencing of prism and the sketching scandal just doesn't happen in Japanese circles and doesn't seem to hinder Shou's work. Shou hasn't stopped publishing by any means and it seems much more likely that Shou uses a different pen name to distance themself from the very graphic, intense loli porn and sci fi epic they've been doing.

Hmm guess I start poking Seven Seas Entertainment to release this....next month anyway.
Say does anyone know how to get Yen Press in releasing the manga in english?

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I kinda half-expect (and very much hope) to see Prism references because he's been punished enough.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the nonstop degrading and referencing of prism and the sketching scandal just doesn't happen in Japanese circles and doesn't seem to hinder Shou's work. Shou hasn't stopped publishing by any means and it seems much more likely that Shou uses a different pen name to distance themself from the very graphic, intense loli porn and sci fi epic they've been doing.

don't disagree with your comment about the scandal hindering Shou's work, but this is more a comment about the readers. maybe it's not that big a deal, but if some of comments that were made (for example on this site after the whole scandal became known and even today) are a representation of all his readers, my point is they need to let it go. it was a thing. it happened.

I kinda half-expect (and very much hope) to see Prism references because he's been punished enough.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the nonstop degrading and referencing of prism and the sketching scandal just doesn't happen in Japanese circles and doesn't seem to hinder Shou's work. Shou hasn't stopped publishing by any means and it seems much more likely that Shou uses a different pen name to distance themself from the very graphic, intense loli porn and sci fi epic they've been doing.

This.
I think the users in this page give the whole tracing incident a lot more importante than the actual japanese readers (not that it isn't important). The name seems to simply be a way of trying to distance he's hardcore pornography from he's fluffy fun safe for work manga.
If so then I would say it's a pretty smart move, first impressions are important and having your name be associated with a certain type of content can be very harmful to the stuff you want to put out. I saw Shou's NSFW works before he's SFW ones and it was really quite hard for me to read the latter without feeling a little bit weirded out. However with cool kyoushinja I read his non H works before even knowing of his NSFW works' existence, so I never made the conection in the first place.
Presenting himself with a different pen name is a good way of dissociating he's two (very) different types of work. Even if readers eventually find out about the other content he makes, they will have likely already formed an image of the type of manga they expect from him.