Sanzo, he is alive!

eyner said:
Sanzo, he is alive!

No hes not this is old art :c

ryonascum said:
No hes not this is old art :c

Really? Damn.....

Ok so, I'm not sure if this is supposed to be read from left to right or vice versa, but here's the translation I got. Right to left;
"As a punishment for cutting down the tree where God dwells for personal gain

A man who loves himself becomes a monster of a tree with a cursed man

Woman who loved a man"
I hope this is somewhat correct.

luminantstar said:Ok so, I'm not sure if this is supposed to be read from left to right or vice versa...

Basically, Japanese is read from Right to Left line. ( I numbered my notes for clarity. )
Though, the unique expression 自分 is difficult to translate. 　ex. : (rating:Q)Posts/1562624
In this case, 自分を ＝ 彼を/him.
I could have translated it as "them" since it can be used by both men and women, but I decided it was more natural to use "him".

ryonascum said:
No hes not this is old art :c

What happened to Sanzo?

gusvo said:
What happened to Sanzo?

From what I could tell. I think they've given up on drawing stuff featuring full monsters. Their latest manga is a standard anime girl with some animal traits. Pretty depressing.

d-class said:
From what I could tell. I think they've given up on drawing stuff featuring full monsters. Their latest manga is a standard anime girl with some animal traits. Pretty depressing.

GOD DAMN IT! I would buy every edition of his stuff if it was in English.

d-class said:
From what I could tell. I think they've given up on drawing stuff featuring full monsters. Their latest manga is a standard anime girl with some animal traits. Pretty depressing.

Do you have a link? Or are you talking about T-rex na Kanojo? If the latter, this one's been out for quite a while, and came out before a lot of his stories with more monstrous heroines.

Hi viewer, welcome to the grave of Sanzo's full monster art.

we hope you enjoy this amazing page.

gusvo said:
What happened to Sanzo?

Well, to start, Sanzo is/was a female (a real one). This bit is important to understanding what happened because all of the monsters in her stories were more or less self-inserts - she had incredibly low self-esteem, and that's how she saw herself. Though her stuff had been around for a while beforehand, it caught some fancy business exec's eyes during the height of the whole 'Monster Girl' trend (kicked off by the manga and anime 'Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls). Wanting to cash in on that popularity, they gave Sanzo a manga deal based off of her oneshot 'My Girlfriend is a T-Rex', but under a condition: she had to change all of the dinosaurs into generic monster girls. Naturally, this clashed with Sanzo's whole theme (remember - every monster heroine in her stories was a reflection of how she saw herself), and she still insisted on making them more monstrous; in the end, they compromised with the abominations we got in the actual manga (wholly human upper torsos, wholly dinosaur lower torsos). The manga wasn't well received, and it flopped after a mere 2 volumes (20 chapters). Her comic was dropped, her reputation was tarnished, and she went completely radio silent almost immediately afterwards. Given her clear low sense of self-worth and the rather dark themes of her last works (including this one) involving the death or suicide of the main heroine (again, a stand-in for herself), there are some serious concerns about her abrupt and exceedingly prolonged silence - even her personal Twitter went completely dead, and has not updated in years...

aetherium85 said:
and has not updated in years...

Supposing that is true, that's pretty fucked up. I'm clueless about Japanese culture but how could one shitty manga ruin her reputation? Couldn't she have just jumped on the Patreon bandwagon? I would've supported her if that were the case. Sanzo isn't something that can be replicated and is truly a shame that she's faded into obscurity. I want more true monsters and human romance in her style. It's a bummer that most likely the majority of her audience wasn't even in Japan, so supporting her was difficult. Man, that's depressing.

d-class said:
Supposing that is true, that's pretty fucked up. I'm clueless about Japanese culture but how could one shitty manga ruin her reputation? Couldn't she have just jumped on the Patreon bandwagon? I would've supported her if that were the case. Sanzo isn't something that can be replicated and is truly a shame that she's faded into obscurity. I want more true monsters and human romance in her style. It's a bummer that most likely the majority of her audience wasn't even in Japan, so supporting her was difficult. Man, that's depressing.

Last book was in 2019. https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=27990
Her pixiv says she's using the premium under her name.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/1110826/illustrations

aetherium85 said:
Well, to start, Sanzo is/was a female (a real one). This bit is important to understanding what happened because all of the monsters in her stories were more or less self-inserts - she had incredibly low self-esteem, and that's how she saw herself. Though her stuff had been around for a while beforehand, it caught some fancy business exec's eyes during the height of the whole 'Monster Girl' trend (kicked off by the manga and anime 'Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls). Wanting to cash in on that popularity, they gave Sanzo a manga deal based off of her oneshot 'My Girlfriend is a T-Rex', but under a condition: she had to change all of the dinosaurs into generic monster girls. Naturally, this clashed with Sanzo's whole theme (remember - every monster heroine in her stories was a reflection of how she saw herself), and she still insisted on making them more monstrous; in the end, they compromised with the abominations we got in the actual manga (wholly human upper torsos, wholly dinosaur lower torsos). The manga wasn't well received, and it flopped after a mere 2 volumes (20 chapters). Her comic was dropped, her reputation was tarnished, and she went completely radio silent almost immediately afterwards. Given her clear low sense of self-worth and the rather dark themes of her last works (including this one) involving the death or suicide of the main heroine (again, a stand-in for herself), there are some serious concerns about her abrupt and exceedingly prolonged silence - even her personal Twitter went completely dead, and has not updated in years...

jfc that's sad

aetherium85 said:
Well, to start, Sanzo is/was a female (a real one). This bit is important to understanding what happened because all of the monsters in her stories were more or less self-inserts - she had incredibly low self-esteem, and that's how she saw herself. Though her stuff had been around for a while beforehand, it caught some fancy business exec's eyes during the height of the whole 'Monster Girl' trend (kicked off by the manga and anime 'Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls). Wanting to cash in on that popularity, they gave Sanzo a manga deal based off of her oneshot 'My Girlfriend is a T-Rex', but under a condition: she had to change all of the dinosaurs into generic monster girls. Naturally, this clashed with Sanzo's whole theme (remember - every monster heroine in her stories was a reflection of how she saw herself), and she still insisted on making them more monstrous; in the end, they compromised with the abominations we got in the actual manga (wholly human upper torsos, wholly dinosaur lower torsos). The manga wasn't well received, and it flopped after a mere 2 volumes (20 chapters). Her comic was dropped, her reputation was tarnished, and she went completely radio silent almost immediately afterwards. Given her clear low sense of self-worth and the rather dark themes of her last works (including this one) involving the death or suicide of the main heroine (again, a stand-in for herself), there are some serious concerns about her abrupt and exceedingly prolonged silence - even her personal Twitter went completely dead, and has not updated in years...

is there a source for this for some of this? a lot of this feels like potentially really dangerous hearsay and i'd prefer it not to be the case

i hope she's ok...

aetherium85 said:
Well, to start, Sanzo is/was a female (a real one). This bit is important to understanding what happened because all of the monsters in her stories were more or less self-inserts - she had incredibly low self-esteem, and that's how she saw herself.

Though her stuff had been around for a while beforehand, it caught some fancy business exec's eyes during the height of the whole 'Monster Girl' trend (kicked off by the manga and anime 'Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls). Wanting to cash in on that popularity, they gave Sanzo a manga deal based off of her oneshot 'My Girlfriend is a T-Rex', but under a condition: she had to change all of the dinosaurs into generic monster girls. Naturally, this clashed with Sanzo's whole theme (remember - every monster heroine in her stories was a reflection of how she saw herself), and she still insisted on making them more monstrous; in the end, they compromised with the abominations we got in the actual manga (wholly human upper torsos, wholly dinosaur lower torsos).

The manga wasn't well received, and it flopped after a mere 2 volumes (20 chapters). Her comic was dropped, her reputation was tarnished, and she went completely radio silent almost immediately afterwards. Given her clear low sense of self-worth and the rather dark themes of her last works (including this one) involving the death or suicide of the main heroine (again, a stand-in for herself), there are some serious concerns about her abrupt and exceedingly prolonged silence - even her personal Twitter went completely dead, and has not updated in years...

This is terrible, she was a really good artist and she was making a niche thing...

Japan is really unfair towards people even if they fail just once.

And I didn't know that she saw herself like that... I wish she would feel better about herself asap and gain back self esteem.