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No. 17713
Nozmo (zeeenya and junjouprince on tumblr, punkblues on twitter) is an artist that eventually rose to internet fame with her (ongoing) webcomic "Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet", after publishing a bunch of unfinished comics on SmackJeeves across the years.
A huge weeb and fanartist as well, Nozmo has dabbled in many fandoms (most notoriously Free!, Yowapeda, Miraculous Ladybug and YuGiOh Arc-V) prdoucing fanart and doujinshi that she put up for sale.
Around September 2015, Nozmo dropped off the face of earth… along with the money of all those who several months prior had preordered her Free! and Arc-V merchandise and never received it.
A new, one-shot comic by Nozmo was posted on her SJ account around November-December 2015. She did not try to contact any of the people waiting on their purchases, nor did she resurface on any of her social media. She simply uploaded the comic without any kind of notice and disappeared again.
Eventually, things started to move, people started to investigate. Some came forward claiming that it's not the first time Nozmo has done this, that there are fans who haven't even received their rewards for backing the TAPV kickstarter (2014). Baseless (?) rumors have it that Nozmo has spent part of that money and the earnings from the Free! book preorders for a trip to Japan.
In December, someone was able to find Nozmo's sister on Twitter, who explained that Nozmo was overwhelmed and scared by the situation she herself created by procrastinating. In February, only after being prodded again, Nozmo's sister stated that the fanbooks and everything are there, they just need to be sent out, that Nozmo has refused help with that from her and the rest of their family. (Caps of the exchange here:
http://tapvfans.tumblr.com/tagged/the-nozmo-situation) However, nothing happened since then and Nozmo's sister abandoned her twitter after a few weeks.
Earlier this month, a different tumblr user was able to come in contact with an RL friend of Nozmo's, however, this person stated that Nozmo won't reply to their emails, nor did she pick up when they called her. The friend has however confirmed that refusing help is a weakness of Nozmo and that they're sure she'll come back, eventually. Source:
http://matsuoka-lin.tumblr.com/post/140469599203/2nd-update-on-nozmo-ordersSo, farmers, what's your take on this?
No. 17717
>>17713Oh wow, I love Nozmo's comics. Brings me back to browsing Smackjeeves way too much years ago. She was easily one of my favorite creators there. My favorite comic of hers was the one with the school kids and the grumpy male protag.
She honestly doesn't come off as a bad person from this description. I used to have a few friends from the SJ site and a lot of them come off as almost, I don't know, maybe a bit autistic? It sounds like she can't handle the stress very much and is creating her own problems. I don't see her as much a flake or anything. Just sounds like she has some obvious mental issues and is really stubbornly independent.
However, if she did blow the money on a Japanese trip, then kek, that's terrible.
No. 17718
>>17717I enjoy her work too! I do not think she's a bad person either, but the situation has gotten out of hand. I mean, at first it was just the people waiting for their Arc-V fanbooks, then it turns it's not the first time it happens.
I agree that as of now she does not qualify to be a 'flake, but I really didn't know where else to bring this.
>>17716IIRC someone contacted them some time ago and they said that while they do not know the details regarding her situation, Nozmo is most certainly alive and well.
No. 17719
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So. Hiveworks has officially archived TAPV as discontinued after several, fruitless attempts to get in touch with Nozmo over the past 9 months.
Nozmo, on the other hand, has been found out to be quite active on the Japanese side of the internet, trying to make a name for herself there after running away from her western fans.
Here's her drawr (a site similar to the old Oekaki) account, where she's been posting fanart almost daily: drawr.net/eclectic
Here's a one-shot comic she submitted to a Japanese magazine contest, winning almost 1000 dollars, earlier this year:
http://www.moae.jp/comic/morningzero_johnnyandlove/1/1As a fan of her work, I can only say that I've lost all respect I had for her as an artist.
I'm also appalled that so many people out there are still defending her. No, I don't think Nozmo is a malicious person like many of the people posted here, but she fucked up big time and that can't be ignored anymore.
After all, she's been trying to build a new online presence and go pro in spaces where - she assumed - the fans she stole money from would never find her again.
Honestly, she'd deserve an international call out post, warning her Japanese fans and possible future employers.
No. 17721
>>17720I dont think Tessa ever did a kickstarter though as well as HiNaBN was way more popular(and better let's be real) than nozmo's comics ever were.
I wish I could figure out a way to make a call out post like
>>17719 suggested but I dont even know where I'd put it.
I'm going to assume she might be part of the reason for the recent call for new Hiveworks comics though so I'm not going to complain since at least she's not making money off of that anymore and it gives me a chance to promo my comic there kek
No. 17722
>>17721Not too long ago, a popular Korean artist was called out on Twitter by fellow Koreans who had witnessed her bullying her underclassmen. The same people tried to reach out to her English speaking fans as well, and succeeded, albeit none of them was really fluent in the language.
If we could get enough people to spam her Drawr with messages in English and Japanese (IIRC you can 'comment' with drawings to people's entries) and do the same on Twitter, things could start to move.
People have reported that (of course) she does not reply to private messages on Drawr. Only stops posting for a day or two before resuming as if nothing ever happened. It appears that her sister's Twitter is as of now locked too: at this point it seems 100% certain that she's gonna try and avoid people forever and has no intention of returning the money.
It would also be good if we could get a list of all the people who were scammed to get an idea of how much she stole exactly (I've seen people mention thousands of dollars).
No. 17724
>>17721>>17722Her coming has been shared on Twitter by Japanese readers and it appears that some are popular aritsts themselves like
https://twitter.com/kusomiso/status/738400939590062080Maybe someone could write up a Japanese message to tweet in reply to these people?
No. 17727
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I just wanted to update I did receive a package from Nozmo today with the books I ordered and a sketch as well, so they may be in the way to you!
No. 17728
>>17727fuckin rinharu tho
shame on you anon
No. 17729
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her comic books better be fucking mind-blowing because I don't see how or why anyone would pay money for art skills this utterly shit.
No. 17733
>>17732-Post Frequently (preferrably daily)
-Draw fandom shit
-Have an interesting style
-Sell. Merch.
The people who go to cons and sell merch seems to do the best from what I've seen.
tbh nozo gets by because she is willing to jump on any big fandom (i.e. Dingle Hoppers and Swim gays) and then even in those she will stil to a few main characters to draw.
(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE) No. 17739
I would like to say something, after reading all the comments so far. I would like to state something, don't you think it's a bit too soon to judge? Yes, she's been very mysterious and stubborn to ask others for help. But I don't think she's a bad person, more of, I think handling tons of package and prefer to do everything herself is too much for one.
How about we give her some time, I heard she's been shipping the items late than usual, but still it is going to process, better than nothing.
I don't she's running off with the money, more like, her being lazy and stubborn led her readers to conclusion that isn't even proven at all. And let's be honest, nozmo is a timid person. And noticing all the swears and exaggerated conclusions about her deceiving isn't helping her depression at all, it's making it worse.
I have a feeling that she's not being active to western sites so far due to her delays in the package and rumors, and I think she'll only return once the situation is over.
Besides, there is no such thing as a shitty art style. There only an art style that captivates more than the other, let us not discriminate something further other than this field please. Styles are a whole new different topic that shouldn't be brought up, if you don't find it attractive than beat it and leave. Because I clearly can see some who appreciate it, we all have are taste. There's no good or bad to that.
No. 17741
if you check her twitter profile, she even changed the profile pic to chat noire from the magnificent ladybug.
in fact, shes been active on twitter. her last activity was 25 sept 2015 which really isn't that long ago.
>>17739 this isn't about 'too soon' to judge, and people have a right to deride her for failing to follow through with her promises. she took peoples money, promised them a service, and never delivered on that service. she deserves to be sued. people need to start taking steps to filing a lawsuit against her because she just committed fraud and defrauded people who believed in her. if she can't follow through, then she needs to summilarily return all the money she took from people.
she shouldn't be doing these kinds of things all by herself. am i supposed to pity her for being so brave and doing everything on her own? nah, she costed people who believed in her thousands of dollars and that is criminal. this is theft.
No. 17742
>>17739if she was jsut doing her own thing that would be one thing but she's literally been selling other products in the meantime and that's BS. She doesnt deserve any 'mercy' or 'pity' she should have fessed up from the beginning
she could have easily said 'wow I wasnt expecting putting this all together to be so hard so I'm going to take my time and process everything please be patient with me'
She literally dropped all her responsibilities in the 'western' world (even a funded webcomic wtf???) to run around and be a fucking weeb and try to pretend to be someone else. She is literally scum imho.
No. 17743
>>17739
>I don't she's running off with the money, more like, her being lazy and stubborn led her readers to conclusion that isn't even proven at all. And let's be honest, nozmo is a timid person. And noticing all the swears and exaggerated conclusions about her deceiving isn't helping her depression at all, it's making it worse.
>I have a feeling that she's not being active to western sites so far due to her delays in the package and rumors, and I think she'll only return once the situation is over. Lmao. So let me get this straight. She has depression, which in its own is bad and I empathize with her for it, but that just means that there's all the more reason to HIRE someone ELSE so she can have help putting in the orders. And because of this, she stopped responding to her fans in the west who funded her and ran away to Japan where she not only resumed making comics under the same name, but entered a contest unabashedly and won $1,000. She apparently is active in the Japan manga scene and is trying to build up a fanbase. Meanwhile, her fans that paid her got jack-didly squat.
I used to love nozmo. I loved TAPV. I recommended it to all my friends and everyone I knew, because I thought that it was so great. Years down the line and inconsistent chapter posting asside, I was loyal to her because every chapter she put out was amazing to me. When I found out she had that kickstarter for her comic, I was more than ecstatic for her. After all, if you see your fave moving up in the world you'd be happy for them too, right? Then news of this nonsense came around and at first I was shocked. Then I became angry because my fave artist at the time defrauded these people.
When I saw her sister or whomever that was defending her, I thought "how unprofessional". You literally cannot contact her because there is no way to reach her. Even hiveworks, the website that picked up her comics after mangamagazine closed down unexpectedly couldn't reach her, so they archived her comic.
If any exaggerations being posted here make her feel something, then that is good. She should feel a pang of guilt for ghosting on people's orders for years. Nozmo, if you're reading this, you need to do right by whatever fans you have left and post up a response or something. Communicate to us what the hell is going on.
A similar albeit not so similar situation happened with yuumei, where after she ran a massively successful kickstarter her co-founder betrayed her and sicked her lawyers on her over some nonsense, so for the longest time people that ordered her product didn't get it for a good year+ after the fundraiser happened. The difference between both is that yuumei gave people back their donations and consistently update people with news. Nozmo went ghost and reappeared later somewhere else.
My call-to-action by way of lawsuit still stands. She should have never run off to begin with. Shit happens with your brand? Then you sit through that shit and work it out. You can't just up and leave, especially when people are rooting for you and invested in you.
No. 17744
>>17743Also if you look at twitter it's simple to see that yes a FEW people received their doujin orders but there are PLENTY MORE who still havent and now it's past the time of making a paypal claim ?? it's absolute nonsense. I used to be casual artist friends with nozmo and I've been through a super similar situation and yeah it super sucks to run a business all by yourself especially when most of your orders and in another country but nah son you dont get to run away and pretend like nothing ever happened. I literally spent a year making sure people got either refunds or their orders in the long run (at least the people who got back to me about it)? but nah seriously.
idk I see so many small artists struggle to get by and deal with shit so tbh seeing her literally run away like this??? it really grosses me out.
No. 17752
So this person claims nozmo actually refunded some people?
https://twitter.com/shirahoshime/status/773048293328773120Is this true? She seems to be defensive of nozmo.
Holy shit, how do people not know anything at all? Don't people know her IRL?
No. 17753
I know I never received a refund for the 3 doujinshi i ordered from her more than a year ago now. Yeah, they do seem defensive of her, understandable of an artist you admire, but they seem to know nothing of the circumstances involved in this case (maybe they're a new fan). They say "only 15 dollars was lost get over it." Like no its not right my order was over 15 bucks, but thats beside the point. Nozmo offered a product and it was her duty to work with the customers to either fulfill the orders or make it right. While the complete opposite happened, she up and disappeared from all online interaction in the western world went on a trip to japan and is making comics one of which won 500 + dollars. All the while she basically took advantage of her fans by not saying or contacting any of the people who gave their money to her because they loved her work and wanted to support her. A big fu if you ask me. I know some people, a month or more now, have gotten the stuff they ordered, but I haven't received mine. I think all the people who got their orders are from Canada(maybe). Im in the us, so I'm hoping that nozmo is just working on the other orders finally at her pace (which she should have been doing all along) and that she just hasn't decided to forego all the others who ordered from her. I wish she'd let anyone know what is up with orders or just contact the people who ordered from her and offer a refund if it's to much for her. If not, oh well maybe next year haha.
No. 17760
>>17754I dont feel bad for her. I hope she attempts a comeback and gets shot the fuck down and that people continue to shoot her down for a solid year after she comes back. She fucked up in TOO many ways to deserve any pity. It's one thing to take a year to get people their stuff but she also ran off to japan, was still making money off of hiveworks. It should have been as simple as limiting the amount of preorders and doing them in sets.
I dont give a fuck if she's young or whatever idk how many orders she sold but even if it was 100 (which I'm assuming it was a lot more) I see it less as 'people complaining about $15' and more as 'an artist ran away with hundreds to thousands of dollars with seemingly no intention to send them out.
No. 17761
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>>17760This.
Like her art style or not, I think she's a good story teller and it saddens me that at this rate TAPV will most likely never be finished, but she fucked up big time.
She had talent, a decent fanbase and things could have only gotten better from there but no. It's over for her and she's got no one to blame but her own fucking self.
I wonder what is she up to, now that she's stopped posting on Japanese sites as well? Will she try and reappear with a new identity and style, eventually? She literally has nowhere to run at this point and boy, do I wish someone could get a hold of her irl and force her to admit that she stole thousands of dollars from her fans.
At the very least, her artist friends who tabled with her should be able to get in touch with her? Why has no one done anything yet? Are they still protecting her?
No. 17764
>>17758Me as well. Might be off topic, but I guess I'll just ask here: while following the Nozmo situation on Twitter, I found a single tweet (
https://twitter.com/RforRoo/status/750835360834293761) mentioning that the TAPV site's domain expires at the end of this year. I don't know anything about maintaining websites or how Hiveworks functions, but should fans be concerned about the comic site being a 404 in the future?
No. 17766
>>17765*credit card company
Also I should add it doesn't matter if a long period of time has passed if there is proof they kept putting things off and not shipping, but telling you they would. So you can do this any time. Good luck anons.
No. 17769
>>17767No problem! Happy to help!
>>17768>Are there other legal things we can do?You could perhaps report her to the better business bureau, or whatever equivalence would be in the country she is from/lives in? (Sorry, again I didn't much about her.) But that depends on if she is established as a business or not. If not, you could perhaps report her to that other one which handles people getting scammed on the internet (I think it is FBI related?).
If everyone she scammed reports her and also contacts their CC company or bank, I think that would be very effective.
No. 17770
>>17769I think you can report her to paypal and storenvy even though her store is closed. IDK I think the best thing to do is keep awareness up. Like dont be mean because then you'll be dismissed as a 'omigawd h8r'
Play the pity card like 'It's been x-months and I still havent gotten my nozmo books. Starting to feel like she just ran off to japan with my money and I'll never get them' or whatever fits. Cause it's just like to completely disappear and to ACTIVELY try to continue being an artist online in another country is just SO SHITTY.
idk i just keep thinking she literally had it ALL and had time to post stuff otherwise too? She has a webcomic she was getting paid for, sold seemingly hundreds of doujinshi (which is super rare for western artists) and sold other merch??? Like she probably made enough money to go to japan 100% on the money she made and the average artist who is BETTER than her isnt able to do that.
No. 17771
>>17762I've only recently learned that she upped the number of copies up for preorder myself and I have to say that I agree with you, at this point.
My theory is that she saw shit sold out fast, saw the potential to make enough to fund her trip and overestimated herself/underestimated the situation and went on to sell more than planned. I believe the anxiety and stuff came into play once she came back and realized that she wouldn't be able to send out all orders nor to send out what she had and refund the others. IMHO the reason for this would be that she didn't have all the doujinshi and charms printed out beforehand (would make sense considering the raised the cap) and when she came back she didn't have enough money left to get everything done.
What she did was shitty and I'd slap anyone trying to defend Nozmo at this point, however I do believe that the root of the problem here is her immaturity and selfishness. I don't think she meant for this to be a scam from the beginning.
I will also say again that I'm surprised none of the fellow artists that know her irl have come forward. People at Hiveworks can only do so much as they've always communicated through email from what I gather, but surely, the people who know what she looks like and have her number, her address could have done something to help.
No. 17779
>>17778No, there's nothing wrong with still liking her work. I'm also still fond of TAPV as a comic and I wish the author wouldn't have done something this stupid and disappeared before it could finish.
All the potential future opportunities her comics work and fanbase (which seemed to only be growing until the incident) could have offered her was probably way more than a quick (and dishonest) buck made off of a doujinshi.
No. 17783
Surprised to see Nozmo here! I was recently wondering where she went the past year since I follow her twitter like
>>17745I've been a fan of her since her Death Note/Alternate days so it's surprising to see this from her. She was always really nice, active, and energetic online but seemed to have anxiety problems in real life. I hope she gets this situation sorted out and works on redeeming herself. Sage for no milk to contribute.
No. 17793
>>17792…they were already online.
and the person said they weren't even hard to find lol
No. 17794
What a terrifying turn of events!
In related news:
>>17764It looks as though the domain to petuniaviolet /does/ expire on Dec. 31st 2k16 though! I hope she renews it before then.
I still see Nozmo on sj should I send a pm her way? What should I say? I'd hate to scare her off but :^I
No. 17797
>>17796smackjeeves!
The comic hosting site!
No. 17800
>>17794Same anon who originally asked about the site here, and I hope she renews it too. :C I'll be sure to back up everything just in case.
Huh, and you mean she is still logging onto Smackjeeves? Idk if you've already decided on whether or not to pm her, but I'm not not sure if it would help resolve things. I'm aware that at least one person who was posting about the Nozmo situation on Twitter/Tumblr had messaged her on Drawr a couple times, though they didn't mention what they wrote… I could be wrong, but I'm assuming other people have sent her messages as well, and judging from the range of people's reactions (concerned, disappointed, sympathetic, unforgiving, upset), it's quite possible that she's received different messages reflecting these. But that could be just be speculation on my part. xD So… I guess my unhelpful answer is anything could happen since we don't know exactly what's going on. She might get scared off again, or she might not.
man do i just wish she'd say something to her fans
No. 17805
>>17803Me again, I'm pretty unknowledgeable on an 'easy' way of backing things up, but I was just going through each page of the comic and saving them in both the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and archive.is. Wayback Machine in case archive.is goes down/has ads someday (they seem to be asking for donations now), archive.is in case the site gets slapped with a robots.txt or something and Wayback can't display the site anymore. There are… probably better ways of going about making sure things are archived, but I'm okay with this since I'm basically rereading the comic again :D Currently archived up to page 298. I'm busy with school so it's a little sporadic, but I'll have it done unless I die or don't have Internet for some reason.
And also I already have the majority of the comic pages saved on a thumb drive somewhere, so there's that
No. 17816
>>17814I remember this ask sent on tumblr
>starrwinter asked:>I can confirm just received my Nozmo order and sketch, so they're definitely on the way which is awesome news! In Canada, so might take a little longer for others.>>17815It would be nice if she sent ALL her Canadian orders but she obviously only sent out a handful.
No. 17817
>>17816Yeah, I searched around for a bit and found that ask. I also made a list of tweets I found in which people said they received their orders (if anyone wants and if it's not bad, I could paste it for reference, I guess). It didn't seem to me to be just Canadians, but then again people weren't really disclosing their locations. I think two others were from California though, from poking around.
At any rate, the list of tweets is a rather short one. I don't know how many people placed orders, and how many people just didn't make ecstatic announcements on social media, but it's 9 tweets. And not much else but ppl's reactions afterward, unfortunately :/ Sorry all.
No. 17824
>>17822Are you even following the conversation here? This isn't about tapv books, she wasn't in charge of sending those out at all.
The only thing tapv kickstarter thing she didn't do was complete the $200 commissions.
No. 17826
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>>17825Hi, there! I had honestly been terrified for over a year that Nozmo had died. I'm thankful to this thread for proving otherwise, but I'm so sad and sorry to everyone who was mistreated in this incident. :(
anyway, I wanted to share the back cover of the TAPV volume for you.. It's a very lovely book. I'm sorry that the picture is a little dark.
No. 17837
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Certainly! I don't have her yugi oh one nor the first in her TAPV series (there was 3, AA,BB,CC) and I don't have her free! One she released in color with her stuff from online but these are the ones I do have. And sorry anon I don't have intentions to sell these I do apologize.
But I can scan them and set aside files to send out for anyone that wants to see them.
No. 17840
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Finally finished scanning everything, it's late here at the moment so I will be uploading this tomorrow sometime later if not the day after, will post link when I do. (All the files will be in one zip)
No. 17841
Hey everyone!
As seen in the earlier comments I offered to scan what I had of nozmos collection of doujin/zones etc and put it all together in one file.
Well I have finished doing so and it can be found here at this Dropbox for anyone who wants to see the things stated.
feel free to pass along the link to anyone else that you may know that wanted to see these pieces of work by NOZMO.
LINK:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wqfjitegpbclyvi/NOZMO%20COLLECTION.zip?dl=0If there is any issues with files or the link do let me know.
Cheers and take care everyone.
No. 17843
>>17841thank you!
I would never support this artist so this is satisfying
No. 17845
>>17841You're amazing! I'd ordered Yowapeda zines and they never arrived, been a fan of TAPV and Free! as well, so I'm really glad you took your time to scan all of these.
It sucks I'll never get hard copies, but this is still better than nothing. Once again, thanks!
No. 17849
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Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet is a 404. Apparently it was down yesterday too. Reminder that everything has been saved on Wayback Machine and archive.is.
No. 17850
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My Japanese is really dusty, but it seems Nozmo won another original manga competition…
No. 17851
>>17850Link:
http://morning.moae.jp/news/3372… :c Well, this is disheartening, though according to
http://morning.moae.jp/news/2781 the deadline was way back on August 31. She got quite a bit of money there… I gotta wonder why she isn't going by a different name.
No. 17852
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Would anyone be interested in me scanning these? I bought them from her at a local con a few years back and reading through the thread a lot of her ygo djs never got shipped?
No. 17854
>>17850She's fucking awful. How can some people still say she can be forgiven? Love yourselves.
That's 6 thousand USD that she won.
I don't think changing her pen name would matter, her artstyle can't be disguised and people would still find out eventually somehow.
Did the person who had her personal details call and speak to her parents? I wonder if they even know their child has stolen thousands from people who trusted her. Dishonor on her family, their cow, etc.
No. 17859
>>17858Some of you guys must be tripping.
The doujinshi orders were from May 2015.
Since she stopped shitposting on twitter, she has posted Sweetie and won prize money from two different japanese manga competitions in 2016.
What signs of returning? She posted a few orders after people found her active on drawr and then disappeared again. If anything, this is a sign she doesn't give a fuck that people know she's alive but is ignoring what she can do to make things right.
Also keeping to the same pen name only helps her build her brand if she can point to her past work as her portfolio. What's the point of pretending to be a new artist if others can easily pick out her art style anyway.
No. 17864
Her new manga is up.
http://www.moae.jp/comic/chibasho_undergrounduchujin/1/1She's fucking shameless, her author comments there indicate clearly to me that she will only continue to do stuff in the japanese market and hopes to start a serialization there.
Nozmo-apologists need to realize she doesn't deserve to be defended further.
>>17863You're assuming japanese publishers would care about what she has done. If they think she can sell and might have an established fanbase, why wouldn't they publish her work? Clearly she still has international fans who don't care what she did and just want her to start drawing again. So why would japanese readers care? It didn't happen to them.
Also obviously what Nozmo has done is not comparable to the heinous acts of Woody Allen or Roman Polanski, but those two still have fans saying their body of work is more important than what they've done to actual human beings. Most people are just not gonna care as long as they are entertained (by her comics), that's how Nozmo will get away with this. Or rather, is already getting away with it.
It seems like something you'd avoid doing because I'd wager you wouldn't have just flounced off with other people's money either but Nozmo has done both. Your logic won't apply to her behavior.
No. 17870
>>17864A serialization, huh. Well I guess I'm out on being neutral now. I'm disappointed. If Google Translate on that link is correct, her statement on winning in the contest includes 'trying to continue to do her best'. People have lost their money and TAPV has died with no forewarning, with only its fans to ensure it doesn't disappear from the Internet entirely. Nozmo, I don't think this is your best.
In the meantime, this new comic has blown up a little more than "Johnny and Love" did amongst Japanese Twitter people:
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=nozmo&src=typd I feel a little ill…
No. 17887
>>17886Part of me thinks she won't try to scam them. Everyone's shitty weeaboo dream is to be a ~*~*manga-ka in japan*~*~ and she seems to be getting her foot in the door, so why mess it up?
I don't think scamming western fans was her intention, as much as it was "lets get these books out!" turned into "oh i dont need my western fans to get big in japan time to leave them behind" and then just got up and left with no regard to her old fans, rather than "i'm malicious and plan to outright scam them from the start"
No. 17894
>>17890Basically this
>>17891I followed her pre-tumblr (aka dA years) and she had a recognizable style and a fun sense of humor. She also would actually update her smackjeeves comics which was impressive considering most comics would give up around 10 pages in. Her art isn't the best but it's recognizable enough to tell if an alt account is hers and her storytelling beats out a lot of webcomic artists
No. 17902
I reached out to a couple of Nozmo's old 2k10 fanbase for some pics or scans of Asymmetrical Applications. The trilogy is complete.
http://imgur.com/a/UWlGg (Sorry for taking so long to post. I actually haven't read it myself yet. )
No. 17905
>>17904No posts on her drawr since June, not aware of any postings elsewhere. I noticed she hasn't updated nozmo.tumblr.com Works page with the Underground manga.
In random news, I found that one of the lucky people to get their doujins last July (
https://twitter.com/princeofichis/status/749039984552927232) got into hot water themselves for not sending stuff that people paid for:
http://pacaprincessholly.tumblr.com/post/157752163513/do-not-buy-from-prince-ichiichi-art-scammer So that's… sad and mildly amusing.
No. 17909
Okay LOL one day after I said there were no postings, she started posting art to her drawr:
http://drawr.net/eclectic well um ok then
No. 17911
She's in my basement
No. 17914
>>17913It was a handful of people back in July (I found 10 tweets where people got the things), but there are plenty who never got their stuff.
I second
>>17910, Nozmo get help
headdesk No. 17920
>>17915From the looks of it the only people that got their orders were those who were really close to her, to use an excuse that "she did try to send the merch".
>>17916>I'm sure she wouldn't be able to live with herself if this issue went unresolved.She already is, she made off to Japan with all the money she stole lol.
No. 17922
>>17920Can you prove that these people were close to her at all?
I also don't believe she's living in Japan, and I'm not sure how people got to that conclusion. On her sister's twitter there are a bunch of tweets regarding P5.
No. 17924
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Throwback to this fucking thing
No. 17926
>>17924I found out about Manami Murder Mania too late to buy but seeing this sensual beanpole here I'm a little glad I missed out. Jeepers.
>>17923 You're going to have to shake someone down for their copy or maybe ask former Inkblazer employees if they know where unsold copies went. I've always wondered that myself,, Where'd the books, stickers and handmade dolls go?
No. 17927
>>17924Is it weird to say that I kinda like the style?
It seems familiar to another artist who mostly does tragic stories…. the name escapes me
No. 17934
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>>17930Here's the third and final page of nozmo's comic. I'd scan it but I don't want to damage the book, sorry.
>>17932It's a Yowamushi Pedal Doujin
No. 17937
>>17936No one is posting about it here bc not
only is it useless info but it's pretty easy to find online.
but mostly, who gives a shit.
Get me that good info. How often is noz playing/drawing p5 instead of
working on orders from 2k15? Someone fill me in and end me.
No. 17940
>>17939lol ikr. I'm still sympathetic towards her but has anyone gone ahead with what
>>17872 said? DO IT GUYS
No. 17945
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Found a picture of her. She's on the left.
No. 17962
>>17961lmao I find it hilarious how people are still licking her ass after she took 2 years to mail it out, when she wasn't even the one who did it, her sister did.
people are sooo thankful as if yall didn't pay for this shit 2 YEARS AGO lmao. she had no problem taking the money and using it to fund a trip but actually completing and sending out the product was ~*too stressful uwu*~…come on. ugh
No. 17965
>>17962Nah, no ass licking, more like "damn im glad I finally got my shit after 2 years instead of never getting what I paid for". Because it did not feel cool at all, nor do I ever want to "uwu support nozmo-chan" again after I and hundreds of others paid for her escape ticket to Japan.
So her (or sister, whatever) sending out our shit and being able to finally put it past us feels good
No. 17977
>>17976lmao i've got my panties in a wad yet you replied, unsaged, within 5 mins to wk this trash? do you know where you are?
really, i'm just genuinely surprised at how bad this is when people have spent this entire thread fapping and crying about how they'd still forgive her as long as they got their precious doujin 4 years late. i really expected something a lot more… quality
No. 17979
>>17978i think you guys are misreading my surprise for intense hatred here, but i'm becoming really suspicious about the continuing amount of white knighting itt
alright, in your words then, what makes this worth putting up with a scammy artist and waiting years for? it looks like a weird recolour multiverse yugioh?
No. 17981
>>17979Obviously I didn't know I would have to wait 2 years for some niche fanbook when I first ordered it, not knowing exactly how much of a flake the author was going to be. It was pretty much what I expected it to be since there was a PV and I had read through TAPV.
The doujin was made before Arc-V nosedived and became the shittiest anime (even for a merch anime) known to mankind but I'm still a fan of the characters (or what they used to be) so I enjoyed it, especially since the source material itself failed to deliver on the main characters' interactions.
Also very obviously, I won't be supporting any of Nozmo's future endeavors if she ever works up the gall to try launching any projects on the western side of the internet again. Wouldn't be unwarranted if the people burned by her spread the word about her like wildfire on twitter if she tried anything again. She burned her bridges and should face the furthest extent of the potential consequences in that case, which is about the most anyone can do.
No. 17983
>>17980i mean, i called a spade a spade. go look at axel ash's thread or holly brown's or any other art-related cow; they all get way harsher criticism than this, and no one cries that it's anything personal. the tone change in this thread makes me wonder where a lot of you came from and if you're really frequent users of the rest of this board.
also it's beyond just the art style, there's just not much talent to the layout or the paneling either. really, it looks amateurish. it's surprising to see a thread full of so many hopeful fans for something that looks like axel ash could have done the layout.
>>17981>Obviously I didn't know I would have to wait 2 years for some niche fanbook when I first ordered it>Also very obviously, I won't be supporting any of Nozmo's future endeavors this is fair, and i'm also curious how many people WOULD reorder after being burned by that, even if she's apparently sending out at least some orders now. i definitely agree that her shitty attitude should ruin her career, regardless of the quality of the work she puts out.
(also, thank you for being reasonable and not getting super defensive like the other anon shouting HAAATE)
>>17982to be totally honest, i skimmed this thread when it first got traction when it was first posted and then never read it again until now because it became a weirdly hopeful circlejerk. most threads like this would have devolved into pitchforks and torches, not having anons dreaming that the artist would keep doing more or being happy to see her continued works elsewhere.
>I'm not going to sit in a thread dedicated to those webcomics and flail around asking why people like a thing.this is what makes me say what i said above about the tone of this thread being weird and wondering if y'all are really regular posters. it's lolcow. we're here to tear people apart for the nitpickiest of things. this isn't a fan thread, it's a hate thread on a hate site. why is it so ridiculous to think that someone would come shit on it?
No. 17984
>>17983> it's lolcow. we're here to tear people apart for the nitpickiest of things. this isn't a fan thread, it's a hate thread on a hate siteExcept that naturally most people in here would be fans (or former fans) of her work since unlike the /pt/ darlings Nozmo is very closed off about anything in her personal life and the most she would talk about on twitter is whatever tv show she's into.
In fact, it's that lack of info of her life that led to this thread. Since she's as transparent as a brick wall about any issues or logistics problems there might have been with the orders, which was a very retarded move on her part.
No. 17992
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>>17991It became a trainwreck
No. 17993
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>>17991Every single character on the main cast got majorly shafted in some way. The MC became insufferable, even relative to the average shounen MC, so it's not like there were any high (or even average) standards going on around this toyetic show.
The main cast spent a lot more time on irrelevant bullshit dealing with unlikeable or boring one-off/side character nobodies rather than actually interacting with each other. Main cast interaction is one thing all its predecessors got at least halfway right even if they're also heavily flawed in other ways.
There's more but I dropped the show somewhere mid-way. It all led to the show eventually becoming the most infamous and lowest rated anime on nico, which is the most visited anime streaming site in Japan.
No. 17994
>>17984>Except that naturally most people in here would be fansby that logic, any of the other artist threads should be full of stans too. someone on the internet thinks you have shit taste, get over it.
>>17988i definitely dont have the patience to read all this shit but she better be some jk rowling tier storyteller to get traction with that mess, wew lad>>17990
>>17990literally mte
No. 17995
>>17994>by that logic, any of the other artist threads should be full of stans too. someone on the internet thinks you have shit taste, get over it.Except my point only was that you said that you were surprised there were any fans in here when it shouldn't be a surprise. I entirely understand why Nozmo's art would be unappealing to some people, no one's going to like everything. So why are so eager to tell everyone 10x you don't like a thing when everyone heard you the first time? Comes off as kinda insecure.
99% of the people who even recognize the name "Nozmo" and bother with this thread would've found her through her comics and art since she was very reserved about her personal stuff. Artists who get mentioned negatively here are often those blog more about their lives or are some kind of 'internet personality', or have a style that's purposely a lot more repulsive in the name of being a rebel against normal beauty norms.
No. 18005
>>18004Ditto
I will honestly forgive all else if I got to see the end. It left off on an interesting point too
No. 18010
>>18009I know. Some part of me has hope for TAPV to return one day. It really meant a lot to me.
I just can't accept that she's really never going to return to her fans here in the west.
I wish there was something I could do or say to make her come back. I loved her work, and she's my biggest inspiration as an artist.
It hurts that she'd leave us. She meant the world to her fans. :(
No. 18013
>>18012I wasn't aware that it would be a problem to post more than once, I don't typically go on forums. :/
Sorry if that's frowned upon, but there's no need to be a dick about it.
No. 18017
>>18016Same guy here:
Never mind, I am in fact a goddamn idiot. It's working just fine.
No. 18020
>>18019Her art is still pretty nice. I haven't seen her style in a while, it's nostalgic.
Damn shame about this whole mess, seeing that stuff reminds me of how much I always loved her shit. She used to inspire me a lot, in terms of her art style.
huh.
No. 18026
>>18024Keeping people's money for years without delivering is not a scam? Okay.
Also sage your shit
No. 18030
Have all of you already received your packages? I have seen that most people have received packages during October of 2017. Are there still people who have not received anything?
The latest update of Nozmo was 2018-01-01 :
http://drawr.net/eclectic No. 18050
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I might have found her new Twitter? The art seems close enough, and they have the same way they format their comics. Thoughts? Pic related.
https://twitter.com/Komanguito?s=09 No. 18051
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>>18050>>737767I was put off by the art style at first but the variety of similar interests is too much of a coincidence for me. Plus she could definitely have adjusted her style to put people off her track. This picture definitely reminds me of her style though. I also saw her twpf link says she may post “incest, noncon, underage, shota etc”.
No. 18052
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>>18050I'm not convinced but like the other anon said, the combination of art style and interests makes it seem plausible.
Nozmo is just updating TAPV like nothing happened, wonder if she's going to return to her old socials.
No. 18053
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>>18050>>18051Okay, does anyone else think it's more than just a coincidence that nozmo and this person happened to be into the same old non-mainstream anime in the same year? In addition to this person also loving chat noir, komaeda, and arc v as well as the art style, it just seems like too much of a coincidence.
By the way, do you think Nozmo browses this thread? It's the first thing that appears when you google her. There's something I'm considering but obviously it won't work if she already knows about it.
No. 18054
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>>18053nozmo definitely browses this place. just probably not all the time.
>>18051One of the biggest factors that sells me on the fact that this is nozmo is the fact that she first started posting using Japanese, then later to english. Her older works are also somehow cleaner and neater than the ones she worked on before? This twitter page was also made in feburary, which would make some sense in the timeline of nozmo disappearing and then reappearing on Japanese sites later on.
No. 18055
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Hey so… this probably wasn't the smartest course of action but I just went ahead and asked Nozmo if the account was hers(and asked if she'd return to social media), and she responded with this. Less than 2 hours later I found out that account went on private(I already saved some drawings so I'm not as concerned). She also posted an apology on smackjeeves and said she'd continue the comic
http://todd-petunia.smackjeeves.com/comics/2702439/001-call-at-7/And you may take this with a grain of salt, but a friend told me they saw the account's recent tweets before privating, something along the lines of "I'm a big idiot" and "I love my fave artist so much". So do you think this person really is just some Nozmo impersonator?
No. 18060
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Drawr pics on the left, Komanguito's on the right. Tell me if you find a better comparison but they remind me of each other because of the eyes and how the right one looks like it was done in drawr too.
No. 18065
>>18064>>18055That hardly seem like evidence that this artist is actually Nozmo in the hidding. Like, no shit that artist locked their account, their art/account is being shared on here, they could've just panicked and decided to lock.
I'm digging up their tweets and I've noticed a shit ton of consistent grammatical errors, which would make sense since they appear to be japanese– or to not speak english fluently, at least.
https://twitter.com/Komanguito/status/1032084295744188416 https://twitter.com/Komanguito/status/1045494288824586241They regularly fuck up past tenses and butcher words ('tought' instead of 'thought', 'ayone' instead of 'anyone') and probably some other stuff I'm too lazy to look up.
Even the person who contacted Nozmo, @alienlesbians/@nymria
https://twitter.com/meowzerswowzers/status/1067263480837926913 ) and her friends are publicy tweeting about it/potentially planning to brigade (
https://twitter.com/necronyamicon/status/1067224805013774338 ) , so imo it's not farfetched to think someone might have contacted Komanguito upon being posted here, causing them to panic and lock their account.
They unlocked pretty quickly though, so it seems doubtful that person is actually trying to hide anything.
No. 18067
>>18063I think that's why she felt comfortable returning there, most people were probably just there to read the comic. Twitter and tumblr would be much harder to get away with.
>>18065Yeah, it's obviously not her, and honestly even if it somehow was it doesn't really matter compared to her sneaky return.
No. 18075
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No. 18077
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>>18075she genuinely seems regretful, but… coming back on tumblr without thinking that you should have the refunds ready? Have fun trying to make people think you have your shit together nozmo.
No. 70638
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This is getting a lot of traction on twitter
No. 70686
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Nozmo 2019
No. 70693
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glad to see her style hasn't progressed at all
No. 70702
>>70638>>70686Just read about this today and it's fucking hilarious.
>nozmo creating tapv, a comic about racism, class oppression and indigenous people organizing in defiance of human rights violations, and then running a despicable me incest art account feels like an actual literal clock to the face>What happened to nozmo after they ran away with that kickstarter money to bring them to draw despicable me incest>of all the things i thought i might wake up and see today “nozmo is back and has a side account devoted to despicable me incest shipping” was truly not even in the ballpark>"former yowamushi pedal, yugioh, dmmd, fire emblem, miraculous ladybug and free fanartist nozmo now runs a despicable me incest yaoi account" sounds like something from a riverdale scriptI mean I don't care about the kinky trash she is into but to be back on the radar because of this ridiculous shit is just…
No. 70729
>>70707>people saying the problem is the incest are just as cows as nozmo>people saying the problem is incest are cowsI'm kinkshaming you, anon.
>>70638>>70686>>70702What a glorious return.
No. 70743
>>70638doesn't she routinely get attacked for liking "
problematic" things anyways? this doesn't really feel like anything new and I don't really care for the puritanical cancel culture twitter has going these days but it is funny that it had to be despicable me of all things
No. 70745
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>>70736I have one picture but it’s a screencap
No. 70762
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screencap with more Despicable Me art from one of the callout posts
No. 70785
>>70774Newfags need to understand saging but also that these threads are for Nozmos
entire cow behavior. Yes she scammed but unless the
buyers actually do something about it the "heat" of those actions eventually die down because nobody besides the people who wasted money on some random online artist with a less than stellar trackrecord are actually affected by this. The Incest art is the funniest cow comeback I have seen especially from someone who has kept low for the most part so I hope the thread fills up with it kek
No. 70804
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Not incest but I do find this screencap pretty golden
No. 71213
>>70804imagine getting wet over gru from despicable me lmfao
i think babby tumblr/twitterfags policing ppl over whatever fetish art is dumb af and is a trend that needs to die but this is seriously the funniest shit to happen that i never could've imagined and holy shit her art has become so ugly now
No. 71252
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got this scrap from wayback machine out of morbid curiosity
No. 71256
>>71253GOD IT'S SO UGLY??
DM is already a weird style but works but this….this is just so hard to look at. Her style was always kind of ugly but it was like…acceptable ugly.
No. 298006
>>297992fuck, i was so excited to see the thread bumped.
but yes, i wish we got a conclusion. sucks we will never get that
No. 298041
At least I'm not the only one dealing with feels about it still.
Wonder if there's anyway to convince her to start up again like a patreon goal, but I'd say after all this tapv might be kinda traumatizing to return to.
Worst part is my favourite character was a minor one so there's precious little content to revisit
If anyone wants to reread Tapv here's the link
https://archive.is/20170802235343/http://toddallisonpetuniaviolet.imgur.com/(sage your shit) No. 302939
>>298096Yes but it’s autographed with my name in it, how much would you pay for it
nonnie?