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Hikaru

  name
  b-day date
  blood type
  height
  occupation
  birthplace
  residence
  family
  pets
: Yamane Ayano (やまねあやの)
: December 18
: A
: 161 cm
: mangaka, illustrator
: Awazi Island [Hyogo prefecture]
: Osaka prefecture
: Parents, younger brother and dog
: cat - Hikaru

In October 2004, Yamane-sensei was a honor guest at Yaoi-con. Interview from the con is available at Aestheticism website ^_^.

Yamane-sensei also gave an interview in BLMagazine (vol . 1 & 2) and in Puff Magazine.



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Puff Magazine Interview
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Yamane Ayano Sensei
Libre Shuppan Gold Editorial Department
Kagurazaka Building 7-F
Shinjuku-ku Kagurazaka 6-46 Lobel
Tokyo 162-0825
JAPAN

80 Questions from AYA artbook

01: Tell us one appeal of your birthplace, please.
A: The sea food varieties are too delicious.

02: Tell us your blood type, please.
A: A type.

03: What's your motto?
A: Charging the enemy is a honorable death?

04: Do you have a qualification?
A: Such as Kanji proficiency...

05: Describe your personality in one word, please.
A: Inside my self I am an optimistic.

06: Is there anything that you end up failing?
A: Cooking.

07: Are you the type who say clearly anything you have in mind?
A: I end up saying.

08: What's your favorite animal?
A: Cat. I love animals.

09: If you were able to raise anyone, which one would you like to raise?
A: A Koyokoyo. [*Final Fantasy character, I think*]

10: What's your favorite TV commercial?
A: I don't watch commercial broadcasting nowadays.

11: What's the type of music you've been listening recently?
A: Movie and Game's soundtracks.

12: Tell us your favorite phrase, please.
A: It's not a lie.

13: What's your favorite food?
A: Fried ones, dairy products.

14: What's your favorite drink?
A: Japanese sake, milk.

15: Tell us the food you'd never eat.
A: Celery.

16: If you were invited to eat it by Asami san, what would you do?
A: Itadakimasu. [*word you say before eating*]

18: Tell us what is without fail inside your bag.
A: Receipt.

19: Tell us the item that was a worst buying recently.
A: iMac OSX.

20: What happened?
A: I use it sometimes.

21: Tell us if there's something you're at a loss if you'd buy or not.
A: HDD [* hard disk drive*]

22: Tell us if you have something you really collect.
A: Figure Toys.

23: Among the tools of a type of robot cat that came from the future, which one you would like to have the most?
A: A reserve pocke... a door to anywhere.

24: If you received another instead, tell us what would make you a little worried to receive.
A: A time machine.

25: If you could undertake in your body a super ability, what kind of ability would be the best?
A: Manuscripts in extraordinary speed.

26: By having that, you are invited by a secret society to protect the Earth, what would you do?
A: With my ability I'd possibly not protect the Earth, but I'd enter to a company.

27: When and for what kind of thing did you cry recently?
A: I watched a movie and I cried... the story of the ring. [*Lord of the Rings, probably*]

28: Tell us one song from your memories, please.
A: T-Bolan "Hanashitaku ha nai". [*I don't want to separate from you*]

29: Tell us one song that can make you feel healthy when you listen to.
A: Game soundtracks.

30: When you are drawing manga, do you turn on the radio and TV?
A: Except when I am elaborating the story/chapter, they're turned on.

31: Tell us what was the most sorrowful experience you've had until now, please.
A: In a test, my decayed tooth's nerve was giving a oversensitive reaction.... I thought I'd die.

32: Tell us who's the person you have respect for.
A: My father.

33: Tell us who was your idol when you were a child and who is your idol at the present.
A: Now and in the past, the manga's heroes.

34: Tell us about your present concept of the male and female images.
A: Men are gentle and women are pretty, that's how I like it.

35: Tell us the ring tone of your cell phone.
A: FF.

36: Tell us what's the ring tone you certainly would like to make.
A: It's something alike those I already have.

37: What's the 18th in the karaoke?
A: An anime song.

38: How do you spend your day off?
A: Games, cleaning.

39: How do you call the place you make much use of?
A: Supermarket, the bentou shop. [*a place where sells lunch boxes*]

40: As for movies, are you the kind of person who goes to the theater? Or you watch them at home?
A: I go to the theater to see those which I have interest as work subject.

41: Tell us what's your favorite movie.
A: Lord of the Rings, Totoro, Police Academy, they're too many...

42: What's the destination of the trip you'd like to do, a famous big city, or the landscape of a beautiful country area?
A: A big city.

43: If you were caught by the mafia, all of a sudden, in your trip, what would you do?
A: Beg for life while taking some notes.

44: Tell us what's the sport you'd like to do as a self-challenge.
A: Scuba Diving.

45: Tell us if you have any costumes you'd like to wear even once.
A: A Mobile Suit (particularly the red Zaku) [*it's from Gundum, I think*]

46: As a child, what was the game you excitedly enjoyed to play the most?
A: A made-up secret base.

47: What was the game you took the longest time to finish?
A: FF7 or Bio Hazard.

48: What's your treasured item?
A: The letter from Morota. [*Morota Kaori, maybe. She's a Seiyuu*]

49: Among the tools of your habitual use, tell us what's the particular one that if it's missing you get bothered.
A: A 0.3mm sharp pencil.

50: During the process of drawing, what's the work you like most?
A: Pasting tones. [*screen tone*]

51: When you are drawing the face of a character, from where do you start? Tell us the order, please.
A: The outline of the face.

52: What's your favorite color?
A: It's light yellow. Although I like it, I don't use it in my illustrations.

53: The moment to decide the title of a manga is in the beginning, in the middle, or in the end?
A: I like to do it in the end.

54: How do you always look when you are drawing manga?
A: I look stupefied.

55: During work, what's the necessary condition?
A: An environment that I can rest the spirit

56: Until now, have you ever drawn manga in a strange place?
A: In an after-recording studio. I was too embarrassed.

57: Among "introduction, development, turn and conclusion", which is the most difficult to think about?
A: Conclusion

58: Which was the character that put you at a loss to name?
A: Maybe... Takaba Akihito...

59: On the other hand, who was the easiest character to decide the name?
A: Asami Ryuichi.

60: Do you think you are a seme-type or an uke-type?
A: A seme-type.

61: What do you do in order to make a change of pace in the work?
A: A coffee break.

62: Have you ever had assistants?
A: Some help from friends.

63: Tell us your average time of sleep.
A: Generally, 8 hours. When work is hard, 3 hours.

64: Does your shoulder get stiff easily?
A: A shoulder like a rock, but I have headaches.

65: Tell us what's the method for health that has been effective until now.
A: The health of sleeping over anthocyanin. .

66: Is eyesight the best way?
A: It's the worst.

67: If you haven't become a mangaka, what kind of thing do you think you were doing now?
A: I'd be an explorer (hope).

68: If you won two hundred million yens in lottery, in what would you use it?
A: A world trip.

69: What's the start to draw manga?
A: Doujinshi.

70: Who was the first character with glasses that made your heart beat fast?
A: Akechi Kengo (Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo).

71: Is there any manga that you want to read again, or you want to do a revival?
A: Hikaru no Go, Slam Dunk, Seitoushi Seiya. [*Saint Seiya*]

72: Is there anyone you would like to meet one time?
A: Those mangakas. [*on the above*]

73: If you really met them, would you greet them?
A: I couldn't greet.

74: Where lies the manga's greatest charm in your opinion?
A: You can dream in a world of fantasy.

75: Do you have material warming up in mind now?
A: Lots inside wild ideas.

76: Show us, in one character, what's your favorite kanji.
A: Nin. [*Endure, put up with; conceal; secret; spy*]

77: Tell us your secret ambition, please.
A: A world trip.

78: One word about having to face being bathed with so many questions, please.
A: Thanks for your trouble with all these 80 questions.

79: In reversal, ask me one question, please.
A: Eh... like what's your favorite manga?...

80: A phrase to those who were so kind to read until here, please.
A: I tried to answer honestly. Thank you very much.

Translated by V-chan ^^
[*italic text*]
- translator notes.