Featured Image by Tsukushi Akito
I was going to aim for a new review tonight, but I’ve come down with a cold and should get to bed. However, I’m on course to have a new chapter of Jake and the Dynamo out this coming week. This one ends with a line I’ve been waiting months to write.
Featured image: “Magical Girl!Feferi” by AwesomeBlossomPossum
Featured image: “Magical Girl She-Ra” by weremole.
I’m way behind where I want to be on reviews, but I’m struggling to adjust to a new schedule. The little spare time I have, I want to devote mostly to Jake and the Dynamo.
The site’s also due for an overhaul. I might go rearranging things this weekend. Nothing too drastic, but some improvements in organization. I’m still mulling over changing the theme, but the ones I would want cost money I don’t have right now, and the present one is fairly versatile, if unadorned.
Featured image: “Thailand Magical Girl Malai” by shijyu.
I’m afraid I’ve nothing new to report. I’m running short of time tonight.
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.
Featured image: “Magical Girl Lilo” by Aijihi.
Featured image: “Cure Lovely” by Murasaki-Hoshi.
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.)
Featured image: “Sakura” by Sunmomo.
Cardcaptor Sakura’s never looked so good.
Featured artwork: “Star Guardian Lux” by goomrrat.
