Featured image: “Thailand Magical Girl Malai” by shijyu.
I’m afraid I’ve nothing new to report. I’m running short of time tonight.
Tag: art
Addendum
Yesterday’s post featured art for which I could not find the source because it had already been traded around like a cheap whore.
But reader Tom Geraci, whose Google-fu surpasses mine, discovered that it was the product of one CKYM, an apparently Korean artist. CKYM has a cover image for his site so good, I stole it, too.
In other news, although I typically refrain from talking about personal matters with strangers on the internet, I have a job. It’s not quite the job I wanted, but it’s a real job that pays real money. I’ve also been accepted in the university program I’m entering for retraining. When I got out of college, I entered a field that was volatile, but where I could easily pick up a new job within two weeks whenever I lost one. But the last time I went job-hunting, it took me two years to find a position. Now the market’s even worse, and I’m not going to go through that again. So I’m changing careers.
Update
I’d tell you who did the featured image, but I can’t find the original source. But I can tell you that it’s Sugar Sugar Rune
Sorry for the slow week here. Things are moving along on Jake and the Dynamo. I have a draft of chapter 22, but chapter 21 is still incomplete. Funny, huh?
Pretty soon, I’m going to rearrange the blog. The menu at the top is getting so long, so I’ll be creating a separate page for the Jake and the Dynamo table of contents.
I’ve got various non-blog things going on as well. I should have a new review up tomorrow after I get my act together.
Whatever, I’m Writin’. Have some Pocky.
I was going to post another video I wanted to show you, but I previewed it and … yeah, I can’t show that here. It overstepped my vague semblance of family-friendliness.
I need to be writing something else, so I’m afraid you get another art post.
Here we see a Pocky-themed magical girl, Pocky being a chocolate-covered biscuit stick that’s popular in Japan and appears frequently in manga and anime. As usual, Pinterest screws up my image searches, but I tracked this down to the official Pocky website, apparently an entry in a contest. This same artist, who I believe goes by the name of Mr. RoboT, appears also to have done the magical Pretz girl:
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Featured image: “Magical Girl Lilo” by Aijihi.
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Featured image: “Cure Lovely” by Murasaki-Hoshi.
Art, Now with More Utena
Source: Chiho Saito (I think).
I’m working on the second essay in my series on Revolutionary Girl Utena, and I hoped to have it finished today, but it’s time to discuss Herman Hesse’s Demian, one of the most important inspirations for the anime, and if there is one thing I simply cannot do at 9:30 at night, it’s summarize a navel-gazing literary novel.
If I try to write that summary now, it’s going to come out as, “There’s this whiny little bitch, and he’s really into Jung and Nietzsche.”
But anyway, have you some Utena art instead. I think this one is actually from Chiho Saito, the manga-ka of the official manga, which is paradoxically both inspired by and the inspiration of the anime, because the studio broke the space-time continuum in making this thing.
(I’m kidding, sort of. Saito was in on the planning of the anime, but released the manga before the anime appeared, so the creators of the anime had the chance to make use of her work. At least, that’s how I understand it. It’s confusing.)
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Featured image: “Sakura” by Sunmomo.
Cardcaptor Sakura’s never looked so good.
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Featured artwork: “Star Guardian Lux” by goomrrat.
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Featured image: “Magical Girl of Night City” by chalii.