5/21/15 | 2 Comments | Top
It has been a while since I posted anything related to graphics. Truth is, I haven’t really done anything except things for Chronos – my group in FFSNG – and, of course, for my facebook (and maybe onee-sama’s as well). So make this story short, I’ll be just dumping my cover photos here since I’ve decided to use my Deviantart for illustrations purposes only.
As some of you might know that I am a big fan of Nano (ナノ) so I happen to have stumbled on one of his song that was used in a PSVITA Game, Re:Viced's Promotional Video. And I went like, "Why not make cover photos out of these cute looking characters?" So it happened.
Originally, I only made two - that's for me and for Krantz - then Bea and Badz ask for theirs and so I made them too.
Isn't Yukine so cute?
I also made the ones bellow as my other facebook sets with my Onee-sama, Krantz.
Please tell me you have read and watched Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April)! Because if you haven't yet, you have missed the top-ranked musical anime of all time! So I will recommend it!
The manga has 44 Chapters that ended last March 2015 and the Anime with 22 episodes that ended last March 2015. There is another manga entitled, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso - Coda which tells Kousei Arima's (the lead character) past. The Code started last April.
The ones written on the cover photo was what Kousei once said about Kaori (female) on episode 2, I think.
"I don't want to but I want to hear it."
"I don't want to but I want to see her."
I also made another version featuring other characters where my friends wore them for their facebook profiles. How lovely is it to do it in bulk? I love my friends!
As obvious as it may look, I am a big fan of Emi! She was one of the contestants that thought winning doesn't matter. She was only there to show something to Arima Kousei through her piano - which she had done marvelously, by the way.
After that was actually Valentines Day. So I made a cover for the Holiday. Actually, I planned to do this for me and Krantz only (again) but my other friends demanded for their share so I had no choice but to edit ones for them. LOL
And it turned out like this:
And after Valentines, Krantz told me to change sets so I have to make a new one. LOL Why am I being ordered around by these guys anyway?!
This one was hard to make because the original illustration was cut off and not really meant for graphics work but I liked it so much that I didn't have a choice but to make something out of it. This was the outcome.
Then after a month, Krantz wanted a new one. OTL
This time, Krantz chose the image to be used and I made it simple with a little blending and lighting.
As for the latest one, I made Krantz do the choosing since I downloaded this image pack from Vocaloid Otaku's Rin and Len Fanclub (oh, if you're interested, I am inviting you over haha). I made a few selections and ended up with six of them all so I went and ask Krantz to choose the image for the next set from my selected pieces.
We ended up with this one. I used some simple editing and spammed it with brushes. I like how it turned out.
Hope you enjoyed looking at them! /o/
Labels: anime, cover photos, facebook, Kaito Kid, Kimi ni Todoke, Len Kagamine, Magic Kaito 1412, Re:Viced, rin kagamine, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, vocaloid, Your Lie in April
3/14/14 | 3 Comments | Top
It is actually pretty rare of me to post about something
other than graphics, right? But yes, since this blog is actually under a lot of
interest which my attention is revolved upon, you guys should expect some
similar posts in the future as well.
As the title implies, there’s one question in my mind: are
good shoujo shows are now near extinction?
As far as you have notice, as we grow up from teenagers to
our late teens and so on, our taste in anime genre changes. Yes, because mine
did and one thing that significantly affected the change that happened to me
was: there are no more interesting shows under the genre. Yes, and in this
post, we will talk about the ever popular genre, SHOUJO.
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| Log Horizon: Addicting shounen anime. |
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| Noragami: Another really good shounen. |
- Shoujo is being overshadowed by Shounen shows – this is actually because most of the viewers are after action. Believe it or not, no matter how I love drama in life, I’d still prefer action over anything else. Most Shounen shows are paired with the action genre while shoujo shows don’t. Which is why there are just less shoujo shows that are being produced.
- Jerk-ish Characters – trust me, in most shoujo shows that I have watched and manga that I have read, most of the characters are just being a jerk or just plain stupid. I get the feeling that whenever the author tries to prolong a romantic story between two characters in a shoujo (since most shoujo are paired with romance), the author ruins the characters! Not to be rude or anything at all but that is how I feel. It’s either the author murders the essence of the characters or just makes the characters stupid or even worse: pull off a really stupid idea of a relationship hurdle whenever the author has the chance. (See Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun & Say I Love You from last year) Why can’t they just end the show after they gotten together before this shit happens? Just see Clannad – even though the story continued after the main characters had gotten together, it wasn’t stupid. There wasn’t any forced obstacle thrown at them. Everything was normal. And may I just mention Vampire Knight that made every character expressionless half the show. The comedy at the manga didn’t even do any effect anymore, at all.
- Shoujo often overthrown with Comedy – as much as I do love comedy in a show, there is also a “too much” into everything. I know that most of the time, it is necessary to put comedy in a show but just… not too much! I have watched Golden Time and I enjoyed the first episode but the second episode just blew it up with too much forced comedy scenes for a seinen anime. Come on, xxxHolic just did fine as a seinen with good humor too.
- Most Shoujo shows now are being replaced by Mahou Shoujo (Magical Girl) – yes, technically, they are being replaced nowadays. No matter how much I love Magical Girls, there are just some times that I can get sick of them (let us just skip the ever popular ‘transformation cues’). But in a sense, there are also magical girl shows that deserve me attention: i.e. Cardcaptor Sakura had my attention into almost all episode and Mermaid Melody with no matter how many times I was pissed off with the transformation shit.
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1. Lastly, I just became a Yaoi fan. End of story.
I actually have more minor reasons why and the almost
oh-so-popular one among the girls is: it becomes weird shit.
Yes, I am talking about the exaggeration of boobs, the ominous
amount of fanservice and the fucking headphones.The three photos above are from Super Sonico The Animation.
Above all things stated above, I still have some interest in
Shoujo as a genre especially if it pairs with Comedy and Romance. There is this
one show that caught my eyes and interest despite I have long ditched shoujo
shows years ago: Inari Konkon Koi Iroha.
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| The lead character and her love interest. |
What’s different about this show than the other shoujo? No exaggerated fanservice even though there is an exaggeration of boobs on one of the characters. Not stupid characters. Good romance. Good sense of humor and definitely with a lot of lessons to learn from the show. This show is pure and reminded me a lot that I was once a great fan of the shoujo genre.
More Screenshots of the show:
They should release more shows like this. Ugh. OTL
I also would like to mention Red Data Girl, released also
last year. It was a bit boring but it had a good sense as a shoujo show as well
compared to other shows. It concentrated less on Romance too.
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| Taken from the last episode. Quite the scenery, imo. |
I believe that there are actually a lot of shoujo manga that
deserves an anime adaptation but with lacking funds for the production. And as
stated on my reason #1, people tend to prefer action over some boring romantic
shit you often see.
Well, rant’s over!
Labels: anime, bad shoujo shows, rant, shoujo, The Extinction of Good Shoujo Shows
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