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Kind of sad that there aren’t much in the way of scans. I was kind of looking forward to this release.

TODAY IS HARUHI LAUNCH DAY

HERE IS A MIKURU IMAGE TO CELEBRATE

I asked for special edition vol. 1 for my birthday, which is in a few days. Let’s hope my parents didn’t fail me >:O

Got a couple of things in the works right now. Since I’m a week or so ahead on comics, I have some time to do normal art (I have next week’s comic already drawn, so I have about 2 weeks before I have to do another one.) I’m kind of delayed at the moment because the .3mm mechanical pencil I use to clean lineart broke yesterday. I just ordered a new one off Amazon, which should be here in a few days.

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Spoilers for TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN after the jump!

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Am I going: Yes

Hotel Room: Got one

Dirty ero badges designed? You bet. Normal version, for the kiddies.

Meet ups with internet folks: Got a few

How many of YOU GUYS are going to Otakon? Does a small Mistakes of Youth meet up wanna happen?

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Tried to emulate KyoAni style with this one. Mostly tried to capture Haruhi-esque lighting. I threw in hints of blue here and there, which I think helped. The art in general is fairly good. The second panel could use some work, but overall it’s fine. The joke is kind of lame, but I wanted to expand on the Romeo X Juliet stuff a bit more. I already have the comic for next week completed. It’s pretty good, I think.

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So uh, Yuuko Goto, Minori Chihara and Aya Hirano will be at Anime Expo.

I hope you fuckers in California enjoy yourselves. In other news, us poppets on the East Coast have significantly less important guests for Otakon…

Just a few songs I came across today.

Makka na Scarf — This is the full version of the Yamato ending theme. I’ve been looking for this forever. Sasaki’s voice is so great.

Meros no Youni ~Lonely Way~ –  Opening to some anime I’ve never seen, but I love the song.

Sorairo Days — Full opening to Gurren Lagann. Ripped from the PV since the single won’t be out for another 10 billion years.

How pissed would you guys be if ads suddenly developed on the site?

Link since wordpress shinks the image

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Honestly, why can’t they make anime like this anymore? I’d love more shows about aliens “indiscriminately attacking Earth.” Anime today doesn’t have enough APOCALYPSE. Also, I love how crudely drawn that city is, especially considering it gets obliterated a couple frames later.

Romeo x Juliet is such easy prey. The show is so fucking ridiculous and stupid that it’s basically begging to be made fun of. However, in this comic I don’t even poke fun at its absolutely absurd changes and additions to the original story. Rather, I take the easy way out by saying, “hey now people can see Romeo and Juliet fucking in dirty doujin!” Chances are dirty Romeo and Juliet stories already exist out there. Rule 34 and all that. But now there will be Romeo and Juliet anime porn. YAY! I may continue on with this train of thought for another comic, or just drop it. I’m not sure if I like the Part II I came up with. The art here is ok. I like the background for the third panel a lot. I actually sketched this one out two times. The original sketches looked something like Gurren Lagann 4, so in comparison to those these aren’t too bad.

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I didn’t want to do this but I guess I have to. This is what happens when general animation fans and otaku collide, I guess. This entry is primarily influenced by the comments here, specifically those of Harakiri. Basically he’s saying the Kyoto Animation’s craft is poor and lacks artistic integrity, while works such Denno Coil are worlds better given they uh… have artistic integrity, I guess. Basically the point of this entry will be to illustrate that works such as Kanon and Denno Coil are at the same level when they come to quality of their craft, they’re just for totally different audiences.

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Someone told me that parody falls under “fair use.” So does that mean I won’t be thrown in the slammer for directly copying Death Note dialogue and artwork? I’m quite happy with how this comic turned out. I really like the first panel. It kind of got bogged down by text, but it looks nice on its own. This marks the end of the KyoAni arc. Will go back to regular gag comics now, though the next set of comics do have a hint of continuity also… Don’t worry, I don’t plan on turning this into Megatokyo. It’s just nice to dwell on certain subjects for a little while.

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In which I pick up from where comic 40 left off. The end of that comic doesn’t entirely suggest continuity, but hints at it and the title confirms it. I would have finished this arc back in April, but finals, Anime Boston, Gurren Lagann 4 and Genshiken II happened, so all those took priority. I suppose this little series of comics would be a bit more relevant 5 weeks ago, but that’s how things go. I already have part III finished, and that will be posted on Wednesday.

That’s all really. Kind of have a headache at the moment, so I’ll be off…

Sometimes I punch “OTAKU USA” into the search bar in Firefox to see if any more news has developed on this project that I am a part of. Today I did just that, and after scrolling past the usual results I happened upon this. Yes, IT NOW HAS A COVER and can be SUBSCRIBED TO.

Of course searching the web I also found one-hundred-million forum threads about it, each of them saying either YAY THIS IS GREAT or BOO THIS IS GOING TO SUCK. YAY INTERNET.

But yeah buy it when it hits. It’ll be giving me money, kind of. Money for me to buy more figures to do semenonfigure with.

Also I can’t sleep. YAY RED BULL. Maybe I should watch animu.