There was a model for Starsha and Maetel! The real thing…?

I was 36 years old when I drew the face of Starsha. She became the foundation for Maetel. However, this face emerged years ago in a manga I drew when I was 17. I casually drew my ideal image of a woman and was not conscious of any particular model for it.

But in 2000 I finally discovered the model for both Maetel and Starsha. During the war, my mother’s parents evacuated to Ehime-Ozu Prefecture, and one of their old photographs was recently found in the warehouse of their former neighbor. It was the portrait of a woman named Takako Mise.

She was the granddaughter of Philipp Franz Von Siebold, a Dutch doctor who was the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan during the Edo period [the 1800s].

She came from my homeland, and it is certain that she had some involvement with my ancestors. And she’s the spitting image of Maetel and Starsha. I lined up my painting of Starsha, and the position of the eyes and eyebrows matched perfectly. Thus, the ancestral memory of my DNA caused me to draw the face of Maetel and Starsha.

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i want these this instant

SAME OMFG

Gunbuster - what do you mean those uniforms are sexist and humiliating?

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WWI facial prosthesis.

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Socially awkward partygoers

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Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?

And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?

Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?

The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.

You know, I always did like Scarlett Johannson.

Dat side-eye.

Let me just hug you forever Miss Johannson.

Scarlett Johansson gives the best side-eye. 

I’m a Christian now

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Hashima Island (端島^?, or correctly Hashima, as -shima is Japanese for island), commonly called Gunkanjima or Gunkanshima (軍艦島; meaning Battleship Island), is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself.

The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island’s most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it. The island has been administered as part of Nagasaki city since 2005; it had previously been administered by the former town of Takashima.

It is known for its coal mines and their operation during the industrialization of Japan. Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began the project, the aim of which was retrieving coal from undersea mines. They built Japan’s first large concrete building (9 stories high), a block of apartments in 1916 to accommodate their burgeoning ranks of workers (many of whom were forcibly recruited labourers from other parts of Asia) and to protect against typhoon destruction. According to a South Korean commission, the island housed 500 Koreans who were forced to work between 1939 and 1945, during World War II.

In 1959, the 15-acre island’s population reached its peak of 5,259, with a population density of 835 people per hectare (83,500 people/km², 216,264 people per square mile) for the whole island, or 1,391 per hectare (139,100 people/km²) for the residential district.

As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima’s mines were no exception. Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and today it is empty and bare, which is why it is called Ghost Island.Travel to Hashima was re-opened on April 22, 2009 after 35 years of closure.

Description Source - Wikipedia.

For more info and images visit this link.

Image - 1: View of Hashima from the sea - Source

Image - 2: Most of the apartments on the island can only be accessed by this single staircase, dubbed the “Stairway to Hell”. - Source

Image - 3,4: Source

Spoilers: when I am a supervillain, this will be my base of operations.