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Kazuya Minekura

Kazuya Minekura (峰倉かずや Minekura Kazuya, born March 23, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist most known for the Saiyuki series. Her other manga series include Wild Adapter, Shiritsu Araiso Koto Gakko Seitokai Shikkobu (Araiso Private School Student Council Executive Committee), and Stigma. Stigma is notable for being a full-color work, unusual as manga is generally drawn in black and white.

She had an illness that affected her writing from 2004–2007, which caused her to have a hysterectomy. On 28 September 2010, she went on Hiatus to undergo surgery for ameloblastoma on the right half of her upper jawbone. On 31 December 2010, she reported her surgery was successful after removing the tumor on her right upper jawbone and is currently resting and being fitted with artificial prosthetics to reconstruct the area where her bones were removed.


“Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one.”
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“Hakkai: Your footwork is lacking.Gojyo: It's hard to control such long, sexy gams.”
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“Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you!Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!”
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“Sanzo to Gojyo, who is lifting weights: What are you doing?Gojyo: I've gotta keep my temple sculpted or the ladies of the world will cry.”
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“Goku: But I'm so hungry, I have rigor mortis!”
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“Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.”
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“Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us...Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed...When we die,No-one will know it's happened”
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“What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?”
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“Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is”
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“Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.”
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“There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?”
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“Regret is just a waste of time for fools.”
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“A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.”
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“You can choose to die. You can choose to run... but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change... you're going to have to live.”
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“With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.”
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“If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.”
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“He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.”
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“My heart hurts that means I’m alive.”
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“When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.”
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“Monk: Forgive our rudenessHakkai: Please, don't worry about it. A little purity is good for them.Sanzo: You saying I'm corrupt?”
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“We both have no home to go back to... so we can go anywhere at all.”
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“Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.”
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