Featured image: “Mahou-Shoujo” by PriyoNewvKy.
I’m on a writing kick, so you’ll have to excuse the lack of meaningful blog content. In the meanwhile, enjoy this small but highly detailed image of a magical girl.
Category: Art Showcase
Art featuring Yii-shii
Featured image: “Magical Girl” by Yii-shii.
Art Post: Image by SeenasArt (and some other stuff)
Featured image: “Magical Rena” by SeenasArt.
We haven’t had an art post in a while, so I thought it was time for one. Gazing on magical girls is just so … so soothing …
Also, I found one of those stupid online quizzes, this one asking the question, “Would you be a magical girl?” It’s posed like a personality test, though it’s really more of a test of how well you know the genre’s tropes. I probably could have got 100% if it hadn’t asked me my age and sex. Anyway, props to me:
Would You be a Magical Girl?
Your Result: You are a regular magical girl!
You are a nurturing magical girl!
You are the heroine of all magical girls!
You are a mysterious magical girl!
You would not become a magical girl.
Uh … reading that more closely, I just realized it’s based on Madoka. Dammit, why is everything Madoka these days?
Oh, and don’t forget I have a novel out. Have I mentioned that? Get it here. Expect the paperback in a few days.
Soon …
So, what do you all think? This appears to be the completed cover art for the upcoming release.
Art
Featured image: “Mahou Shoujo Lillie Magica” by Arken.
Art
Featured image by blamspam.
I find myself still slowly gathering volumes of Saint Tail, and it won’t be long now until I’ve finished the manga, though the anime still eludes me. I thought some Saint Tail art would be appropriate.
Walpurgisnacht 2018
Featured image swiped from the Suushuu image board.
I’m now in the final home stretch on finishing my degree, so one of my goals is to be posting more regularly from now on.
Anyway, it is the Feast of Walpurgisnacht again already, historically believed to be the night of a witches’ sabbath and still celebrated tongue-in-cheek in parts of Europe. Here at deus ex magical girl, it is a time of year to celebrate cute witches. This year, it also marks the date when there is one month left until the official release date of Jake and the Dynamo.
This year, we’re going to display some crossover fan art, which I ripped off from the image board linked above. I’m a bit embarrassed that I can’t instantly identify all of the characters in these.
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Featured Image: “Phantom Thief Jeanne” by AkiraDBios.
I’m just about finished with the Phantom Thief Jeanne manga, also known as Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne, by Arina Tanemura, which, conveniently, saw a republication from Viz Media in 2014, making it an unusually easy-to-acquire older title. The anime from Toei Animation has, as far as I know, never seen a commercial release in English, so our discussion will be of the manga.
I was hoping to have more of Saint Tail under my belt before I talked about Jeanne, but that one, which I believe was only published in English in a flopped edition from the now-largely-defunct Tokyopop, is hard to acquire, and I have only ever found its anime adaptation being sold at outrageous collectors’ prices bigger than my budget. Nonetheless, I think I’ve seen enough of it that we can make some meaningful comparisons with Jeanne, which clearly draws on it, even if I can’t justifiably give it a full review.
Anyway, we previously had some Saint Tail fan art, so now have some Phantom Thief Jeanne fan art.
The Magic of Friendship Compels You!
Featured image: “An Ordeal from God” by UniqueSKD.
A reader asked if he could use my face as the basis for a character in the cover art of some fan fiction. I told him I don’t think it’s actually necessary to ask permission for that kind of thing or political cartoonists would always be getting sued.
The story for which this image was created does not appear to have been posted yet.
Anyway, that is apparently an image of me as a Catholic priest holding up a DVD set of the original 1980s My Little Pony. Sounds legit.
I notice I’m holding up the complete season 1 released from Rhino in 2004, which is no longer available, but has been supplanted by the 2014 complete series box set from Shout! Factory, which also includes season 2 and is still in print.
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Featured image: “Mimi, the explosive magical girl” by Pokkiu.