beyond the edge

I have been out of anime and manga world for so long, but every now and then I go back to check if any of my favourites have finished (answer: NO), but just a few tidbits.

1. Sailor Moon is getting a reboot
This could be good or terrible, however I have high hopes for it as it promises to be "closer to the source material". Supposedly that's a good thing, but I haven't read the original manga either. Presumably any anime that tries to tell a story in 26 episodes will be more bearable than one told over 144 episodes.

2. Gintama anime resumes
After making it look like the Gintama anime is over for good, it comes back after barely 6 months off the block. Or something. That said, I appreciate the anime pausing for a season, every season, just for the manga to catch up instead of filling it up with endless fillers like...Sailor Moon, for example. Or Naruto. Or Bleach. Or Hunter X Hunter. Or any other manga that had the misfortune of not being complete when the anime is still going.

3. And oh, gets a(nother) movie
The script for the new movie will be penned by Sorachi-gorilla. I have no doubts it will be funny and bizarre, but early sketches are teasing a Gintoki origin story. Will we finally canonically know what happened during Gintoki's famous "Shiroyasha" years? Or Sorachi's having a go at us, again. And when will the Shinsengumi ever turn up in a Gintama movie?

4. Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden is still going
And amazingly, NO ONE IMPORTANT HAS DIED YET. What is going on. This is unacceptable.

5. Gakuen Alice is still going
After about 20 chapters of Natsume nearly dying...and then not dying...and then nearly dying...and then not dying...and then nearly dying, I'm going to sit this one out until she makes up her mind.

5. Ludwig Kakumei restarted
As much as Fairy Cube was refreshing, and Ningyou was sweet, Yuki Kaori really hasn't returned to her former epic-ness since Count Cain ended. She's like the Japanese version of Tim Burton, deriving her tales from well-established stories, and like Burton she's lost her touch. As much as I adored Ian, I don't think I've cared much about any of her characters, certainly not in the way I used to love them in the heyday of Angel Sanctuary or Count Cain.



Other things #1
Recently I tried to watch Timeslip Dr. Jin (aka the Korean version). I never managed to watch the Japanese version because as much as I find Ayase adorable I can't stand her acting.

One lesson to learn from the Korean version is...if you have bland, uninteresting main characters, do NOT make your secondary major character a tragic anti-hero who struggles with such profound issues as obligation and filial duty and integrity, because suddenly no one's interested in the main characters. And do NOT, then, make every tragedy imaginable happen to this sole character just to deepen the emotional impact, because suddenly no one gives a hoot about the main characters' own tragic love story. And next, do NOT cast someone who is ten times more eye-catching (that is not, actually to say, he is in any sense of the word a better actor or in fact suited to his role) than the main actor; because everyone's eyes glaze over when the girl opts for the bland guy for no apparent reason. And finally, DO NOT make the story's pivotal events eventuate because of the actions of this secondary character, because then everyone's kinda wondering, so what's the point of the main character?

Other things #2
Searching "Gintama" on Ebay is a very, very bad idea. It reminded me of those long ago high school days, when my young innocent eyes came upon Yuu Yuu Hakusho doujin's. O how I shudder to think of it.

Other things #3
Speaking of Yuu Yuu Hakusho, I drew this for my friend's birthday:


Maybe one day I'll finish it (I'll have to steal my parents' computer for the Photoshop). Does anyone still remember these 2 anime?

Other things #4
After drawing the above picture, I remembered these were some of my first favourite anime characters ever -


...Not to mention the craploads of long-haired guys in Bleach, Saiunkoku, anything by CLAMP or Yuki Kaori, or Kenshin, or Fujiwara Sai...

Suddenly it all made sense =0=;;;;;;;;;;;

(To be fair, only Nuriko acted like a girl despite having the non-girly superpower of superstrength...I'd never accuse Kurama or Inuyasha or Duo of being girly, possibly on the account they can incinerate me with a thumb)

Finally done zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I don't want to colour anything goldish or gem-like ever again.


Click for actual colour LOL


Have acquired serious thoracolumbar back pain due to trying to colour this picture with really poor posture Orz

For the record, I started this picture before I realised the royal wedding was on.

Not that it's relevant LOL


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This is a most unusual pairing. Although in social terms, they are actually well-matched, down to the fact they're now both stripped of their titles and (kind of) exiled LOL

Those plumes look kinda edible XD

Did all of the lining and half of the drawing in Paint Tool SAI, which is apparently (one of) the colouring programs in Japan. Clearly I hadn't gotten around to colouring yet, but so far it feels like OpenCanvas, but apparently SAI can't take many layers so I might end up doing the colour in OC per usual. There's also two giant bars of menu (you can adjust amount of items), a feature that's both convenient and occasionally annoying as it takes up so much space. Colour picker is great though, much better than OC4.02.

I have resolutely put my tablet away so I could get some studying done, so guess I won't be able to look at OC4.5 and SAI properly until after my exams.

I found out today that my USB harddisk died, possibly from that time I accidentally dropped it.

......Hopefully I can get it fixed because it has nearly 8 years of my life on there, especially in terms of photoshop documents and webpages and all my writing...............

Fortunately I've been working off my laptop hard-drive so all of my most up-to-date writing are still here *touch wood*

On the other hand this is good because otherwise I might have been tempted to colour this...in spite of exams coming up verrrrry soon.


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Umm...sorry about the huge file size...that's usually the size I use to colour my pictures, but since my USB died I had to upload it as-is because I have nowhere else to store it Orz

Speaking of random things that went missing...does someone have a copy of Nodame with the 6-disk mammoth La folle journee soundtrack? I have somehow misplaced mine....T_T

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(No close-up cos unimpressed with his face so teaser cap instead)

I don't think I can ever be a psychiatrist.

It's interesting but every day I feel like I'm losing a bit of my sanity @__@

It's also helpful that more and more of the spectrum of normal is being categorised into silly syndromes for funding purposes.

I don't know if I'd feel better attached to a completely wacko ward, like the one where everyone walks around humming to themselves and chasing invisible butterflies. I'm actually at the ward where if you see these people on the street or as your neighbour, they'd be pretty much on the weird end of normal but you can still hold a fairly normal conversation with them. Sitting in with apparently normal people and then stepping back and realising they're confined in a ward..........is not a nice feeling. LOL. It also made me realise how many weirdos I've met previously outside....are really quite weird.

That said, there are some........unusual minds in there.



Finished another picture~ This is about all my artistic activity in the last 6 months *sighs*

The guy on the left hand side is the same guy as the smiley girly guy in the last post.........HAHA.


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I think I like him better with short hair.......



EBM....EBM....how I hate thee EBM........*waddles away*

I am getting so senile...can't stay up past 1am any more T__T


The Hanged Man

Umm. I don't have much to say because it's too late at night x__x

Except that I keep thinking this looks like a yaoi picture even with just one person, which, I suppose, is some sort of achievement Orz

No, tis BL~ tis unwavering trust~ No, tis just the two of them trying to find an excuse to kill each other again.........

But I like drawing the two of them =3= Almost as much as I like drawing Vivant with Kamaeh (...but you haven't drawn any pictures of Vivant with Kamaeh =_=)

Well, this picture is at least in contradiction to every impression they have given so far of their lack of.....mutual respect for each other.


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It looks a little washed out here......how many times do I need to tell myself not to trust my LCD before I stop trusting my LCD? ==;

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I didn't do the last few Gakuen Alice summaries because I was stuck at hospital full time and by the time weekend came around, the scanlated chapters were out already. I've noticed that Raws-Paradise has dropped a whole bunch of magazines, which I guess is partly the reason for the scanlations also slowing down. I'm still willing to do summaries if people can give me links to raws, Chinese (preferably) or Japanese. Well in the ideal world I'd like both, but I can probably get a summary done from Chinese in half an hour, whereas it'd take me at least a good hour to get through a Japanese chapter. It'll just be much slower than before because....whoever told me that pathology is an easy term was a LIAR. The deceptively empty timetable has filled up like the a stormwater drain during torrential rain. I have a 7am class tomorrow. Means I need to get out of the house at 5:45 |||||||||Orz

But the people there are so NICE. It's so NICE not having to talk to people who have an overinflated sense of their communication skills. Pathologists are like the uber duber nerds of medicine, and there's nothing like not having talked to real people for years to make NICE people cautious and NICE when communicating with others.

It's such a NICE change from surgery. I might even go buy a packet of NICE in celebration, even though I hate it. Maybe I'll just get MORNING COFFEE instead.

.......I'm talking about Arnott's biscuits, by the way.