Genma496

Genma496

@genmajou.com

Writer & Illustrator https://genmajou.com

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New characters featured in the bonus short story "Howling at the Sun", which I plan to include in the physical release of Sunset Vallachia volume 1.

Finished the first part of Offering to the Void by Nakai Hideo. Finally reading one of the Big Three (/Four) after Seiryouin's Joker pelted me with nonstop references to them. More than ever I have no clue where the mystery is going, but the characters and dialogue in this book are impeccable.

Great sense of atmosphere too. Fujikida, Hisao and Ai-chan are all goated. And I have to respect any book that has a 100-page reasoning relay set in a gay bar. (I'm back btw, I will try to post more frequently, this is part of that)

Been a while since I posted anything, sorry about that. Life has kept me way too busy lately, but here is a simple little piece of Nikagami I did recently.

stephenmpierce.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/s... Stephen M. Pierce reviewed Vallachia vol. 2, thank you so much! I love to see this kind of thing (he also reviewed volume 1 and I should have probably said something about that too but I kinda forgot I have social media and I can use it sorry thank you)

stephenmpierce.wordpress.comSunset Vallachia: The 2nd NightIt’s easy to see why Twilight took off. Vampires are the sexiest type of monster, right? You kind of have to be a furry to get the appeal of werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster is canonically ugly, …

Sorry for the late release! For now only the pdf is up. If you want the epub or to read directly on the site, I will have that up later.

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i've been working for almost a year on my novel OMOPHAGIA/CORPSETALK and with the text semi-finished, all that's needed now is some help funding the illustrations done by my good friend matth just around 700 usd, enough so it can be released "pay what you want" late may ko-fi.com/kimoi/goal?g=0

Incidentally, I made this one on my new Asus Proart PZ13 to get used to it. The pen is definitely more blunt than my Huion tablet pen, and I had some issues with my hand holding the pen being detected by the touchscreen (even with a glove).

Thankfully CSP has a setting to deal with the latter issue, and I knew about the former going in. It's still a pretty good device, and I just love being able to draw anywhere on the go.

Character page for the new book. Quite a bit more crowded than last time. It'll be rough fitting descriptions in here.

Even more characters from Sunset Vallachia vol. 2 Craven Nevermore, vagrant vampire, and Nosferius Wisborg, servant of the manor

More characters from Sunset Vallachia vol. 2 Jackal V. V. Brooks, loan shark, and Zamira Zamirage, fallen queen.

After many unfortunate delays, I'll make it official. Sunset Vallachia vol. 2 is coming out this March! It follows runaway vampires Vio and Rafflesia as they are invited to a meeting of influential bloodsuckers where the seemingly impossible happens: the immortals start dying.

Hope everyone had happy holidays. I wanted to get SV2 out this year but sadly I've been too busy with other stuff to manage it, hopefully next January. Anyway, I wrote a big post yapping about my favorite mysteries this year, check it out if you want: genmajou.com/posts/blog/0...

Sunset Vallachia -The 2nd Night- Second installment of the vampire locked room mystery series coming soon. Here's the cover art.

New short story announcement! "The Last Stage of Agave's Dance" In which five knights of a secret order gather in an empty castle and wait for their missing master, only for a series of brutal locked room murders to begin. Check it out: genmajou.com/works/agave

It's up now btw, sorry for the tardiness on that

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The epub is currently not available, I'll try to get that up as soon as I can. I've been working on the release for 14 hours straight, though, so excuse me while I die for a bit.

The epub is currently not available, I'll try to get that up as soon as I can. I've been working on the release for 14 hours straight, though, so excuse me while I die for a bit.

NEW STORY ANNOUNCEMENT! "Samsara, or the War Pigs' Feast" It's a ~50 page locked room mystery about an impossible attack on a country locked in battle, and a treasonous prisoner that seemingly knows its secrets.

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ushiromiya battler is the guy at the party being like "tarot cards are so stupid" and then when he gets a reading that's essentially "you feel sad sometimes" he goes fuuuuuck maybe it's real fuuuuuck

messy sketch of Grin Barleycorn and Cheshire from Yamaguchi Masaya's Death of the Living Dead, one of my favorite mystery novels.

Bit late for where I am but happy new year. Been a good one, all in all. Here's hoping I get to both read and write a lot more stories this year.

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