We have a Drunken winner

Congratulations to Julia on winning the copy of Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Fantagraphics). As you may recall, I asked entrants to pick a manga-ka who should receive the curatorial treatment. Here’s Julia’s choice:

“I’m going to pull a selfish-license-request and go with Machiko Satonaka, another older era shojo manga artist. I’ve fallen in love with what I’ve seen of her artwork, especially the historical and period pieces and would love to read something longer by her, even if it’s short stories. I think she’d fit in nicely with the classic manga line.”

Other recommendations included:

Eiichiro Oda for “a passion and determination that are hard to match in any author.”

Hagio assistant Yukiko Kai, “who has earned comparisons to such masters of modern Japanese literature as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazi from her fans deserves to be more well known to the English speaking world.”

Katsuhiro Otomo, so that we can “have those lesser-known stories from an acknowledged master more widely available.”

Shio Sato, “based entirely on the fact that [the entrant] love[s] ‘Changeling’”.

Yuu Watase, best known for some big hits here but who also has “quite a number of short stories under her belt, with several small anthologies of her work published in Japan.”

Reiko Shimizu, “an older shoujo mangaka, though not of the same generation as Hagio.”

By the way, one of the entrants asked a question I can’t answer, so I’ll throw it out there:

“Just out of curiosity, you don’t happen to know if any of Ursula K. LeGuin’s works have been adapted into manga, do you? Moto Hagio’s A,A’ really makes me think of Left Hand of Darkness.”

Anyone?