{"id":704,"date":"2023-02-09T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=704"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:14:36","slug":"manga-drawing-my-student-miho-gave-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/manga-drawing-my-student-miho-gave-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga drawing my student Miho gave me!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/miho-1-minmay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/miho-1-minmay.jpg 960w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/miho-1-minmay-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/miho-1-minmay-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight I was very moved! It was the last night for the adult English class, at the end of the 15 weeks of lessons we&#8217;ve had together. Miho-san is a quiet woman who did not speak English much, but she became very interested in learning about my incredible love story, of <a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/life\/life130.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/life\/life130.htm\">how I came to fall in love with my pen pal Mayu and married her.<\/a> She was very moved with how I was a shy nerd\/otaku type who married his Japanese pen pal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miho-san said that she&#8217;s just been preoccupied with raising her children to adulthood that she never thought much about having a hobby, but she said that I helped inspire her to reach back to her old hobby of drawing anime\/manga characters. She&#8217;d shown me a beautiful picture of Maetel she&#8217;d drawn a long time ago. For me tonight, she gave me a booklet with two sketches of Minmay from Macross and Lum from Urusei Yatsura. I was so happy and almost started to cry! Miho-san is an excellent artist! Thank you, Miho-san. These sketches are my new treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/miho-2-lum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/miho-2-lum.jpg 752w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/miho-2-lum-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a photo I took of a watercolor painting of Maetel that Miho-san showed me. She is rather talented.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KIMG1508.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KIMG1508.jpg 854w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KIMG1508-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KIMG1508-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was very moved! It was the last night for the adult English class, at the end of the 15 weeks of lessons we&#8217;ve had together. Miho-san is a quiet woman who did not speak English much, but she became very interested in learning about my incredible love story, of how I came to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/manga-drawing-my-student-miho-gave-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Manga drawing my student Miho gave me!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,5],"tags":[14,56,76],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-manga","category-japan","category-life","tag-galaxy-express-999","tag-macross","tag-urusei-yatsura"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}