I recently acquired about 5 to 7 books and two supplemental texts from Simone Yotsuya (formerly Shio Sato) and their collaborator Yuko Morioka. Both authors are extremely private individuals and didn't answer any questions I had concerning their doujinshi activities prior to 1990, however, I was able to get some older printings of their books under the Pygmalion circle thanks to a friend doing the bank transfer / money order for me as well as them handling the shipping. They do not sell to foreigners without an intermediary nor do they use traditional proxy services.

Simone Yotsuya, born Haruka Sato, was a pioneer in the mecha Aniparo scene from 1979 to 1984 proper. Post their fame and subsequent forays into other mediums as well as work with publishing companies, Haruka adopted the penname Simone Yotsuya and began publishing works with their collaborator Yuko Morioka, who's the primary novelist of their joint circle Pygmalion. Haruka published original content with the novelist Shikiko Yamaai under Yamaai's imprint Walkure (Valkyrie) from 1989 to about 1993 or so. Haruka stated to me in an email that their Gundam parody works will not be republished as many of their old manuscripts are either lost, were given away or are in storage for personal reasons. Haruka republished many of her old manuscripts and novels with brand new art, character names and influences by the 1990s and seemingly moved away from Gundam all together, though not in spirit.

Bluest Blue in Blue (aka Nosai-No-Gi) was first published with Haruka's sub-imprint of Let's Play Around With Char known as Luna II or simply Luna. The novel originally circulated around Char x Garma's toxic relationship that takes place in an alternate timeline in which both Garma and Char are related / associated with the mob. Deviating from Gundam, Haruka recycled her works as noted. This particular preparatory newsletter includes segments from the novels and artwork. It has never been published before.

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Translation of Haruka / Simone's notes:

"Well, today (5/5) the book "NOSAI-NO-GI" was supposed to be released, but it was cancelled. So we're distributing the preparatory issue.

Thank you for coming to Pygmalion's space today!! It's been a while since the last new book or one that features Seiji. I'm sorry it's a lot later than planned. In reality, this book, "NOSAI-NO-GI," was supposed to come out on May 5th, and today was supposed to be the release of our personal magazine "Goseikon." But as you know, "Goseikon" will be published on August 15th at the Summer Comiket. ASo, as it turns out, the event is being carried out today in honor of Seiji's birthday and the Crown Prince's wedding anniversary on June 9th.

Coincidentally, Morioka just recently visited Sapporo. She decided to give away a small souvenir to everyone. The total is 125 pieces: 15 marriage buns, 10 Trappist cookies, 15 butter chocolates, and 85 milk chocolates (although these are not souvenirs from Sapporo). One will be given to each person who purchases a "NOSAI-NO-GI". This giveaway will end when the sweets run out, so we apologize to those who were unable to get one. Morioka will be participating in events in Tokyo in the future and will be releasing a new book, I have plans to take part in events in Tokyo and release a new book in the future...

June 20th: Yokohama City There may be a sudden new book. If there is, there will be a second round of sweets handouts.

July 4th: Harumi City "Modern Times 3" is scheduled to be published. Whether a book is released or not, I will be handing out merchandise (probably Seito's writing paper), so come along. At the same time, I will be handing out flyers with information about Summer Comic Market (space numbers, upcoming new books). July 18th: Harumi Live

July 25th: Mini-Comi Fair

August 1st: Harumi City

For now, the new publications planned for the summer Comiket are "Onkon", "Strange Fruit 5", "Young Master of the Speed ​​2 (Schumacher x Senna)", and maybe another collection of original works. As I wrote above, there will be no gifts for the first few people at the summer Comiket, so please take your time to come. See you at the next event."

Haruka / Simone initially got into quite a bit of trouble creating a doujin work about members of Aum Shinrikyo as they were privy to creating doujins surrounding real and living people at the time. Our of fear of being sued, many of these works were not continued or were pulled, making many rare to own til this day.

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