Hisashi Eguchi (江口寿史 , Eguchi Hisashi), is a Japanese illustrator, manga creator and animation concept artist. Eguchi is considered one of Japan's most prominent illustrators of female characters. He has been nicknamed 'king of pop', for the strong influence of pop-art in the evolution of his drawing style. Eguchi was born in the Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto in 1956. He started his career and earned fame as a gag manga cartoonist in the late 70's. After winning the 1977 Young Jump Award, Eguchi serialised his first comic series Susume!! Pirates in the pages of 'Weekly Shōnen Jump' from 1977 to 1980. His next and most famous comic series, Stop!! Hibari-kun!, was serialized in the same magazine from 1981 to 1983. The manga is a romantic comedy where the main female character, Hibari, is a cross-dressing teenager boy. It was adapted into an anime by Fuji Television in 1983-1984. In the animation field, Eguchi worked as a character designer for the movies Roujin Z, Spriggan and Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue. Nowadays Eguchi mostly keeps himself occupied as an illustrator for Japanese magazines and advertisement.
i can't believe the baddest bitch in literature is a high-school-aged character from an 80s boy manga
anyways, tbh i don't even mind that the story is unfinished, i love making up my own headcanons, so I'm set. i am really appreciative that we finally addressed tsubame's complicated feelings towards hibari. i also think that if this story had continued, that might've turned into my favourite arc (i love family-oriented stories). adding this new character at the end could've turned out super interesting anyways,,, i enjoyed my time with this; I thought the mafia stuff was funny. children as the voices of reason is one of my favourite tropes so i loved all the suzume scenes. she might be my favourite character. the new villain is so gross and diabolical, i would've been interested to see where the story would've gone. the stuff that didn't age well (or the things that have always been gross and are played off for laughs here),,,, eh, i can deal with that, i read a lot of older books, so i can filter that out most of the time, but i think people who are very sensitive towards them should maybe skip this manga. content warnings ig:
look, it kinda made me happy her dad finally said daughter but that the bare minimum but im sad it doesnt have a proper ending? gonna do fanart where they are married and hibari got hrt and the tits she wanted brb
I'm very torn on this last volume. The jokes were still the same, but the characters were more solid. It's a shame that Eguchi-sensei ended it when he did. I would have rather this had been a monthly instead of a weekly comic.
After seeing the new Illustrations, I really wish there was more Hibari-kun in the future. Oh well.