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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.

Pink or White?

I’m leaning towards pink, but white looks pretty good, too. Speaking of leaning, that other Mikuru figure I got can’t stay up straight! Any figure enthusiasts out there know how to rectify this problem? I have a half a mind to Crazy Glue it into place…

Edit: Pink is pre-ordered.

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The last two comics have been two panels simply due to time constraints. Last week I made the comic in the midst of finals, and this week I was working on two other things (one being this, the other being the second OTAKU USA comic.) This one is alright. The joke is pretty lame (and old news), but I like the first panel. Tina kind of looks like she’s falling on Rets, but other than that it’s fine. The second panel is just awkward. Totally unrelated, I finally changed the featured site and song. Check ‘em out in the sidebar.

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Hey look, it’s Hazuki!

ネコミミモード

ネコミミモードです～

´・ω・`

For some reason this guy fucking loves Manabi Straight. Yeah, it was an ok show, but loving it seems a tad extreme to me.

Manabi is like Haruhi without all the stuff that made Haruhi fucking great. To be honest, I would not have given the show a chance if wasn’t for UFOtable being behind its production and the production values. I guess the rori character designs would have drawn me in a little, but there are better shows with better roris.

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Whoa, cheapshot alert. This comic isn’t very clever at all. I felt I had to do something about Genshiken 2 though, given it is Big News. Yes, I am excited about it, but if it’s going to be the quality of the previous two animated works, then I can’t help but be a little disappointed. The art here is ok, I suppose. I can do better. I want to do something about Gurren Lagann episode 4 next week, but I’m not sure if it’ll be totally Old News by then. Oh well. After that I may continue on with my short Lucky Star arc (which really feels out of date now… do people still hate it?)

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Thank god.

The promotional art is so hot…

Pics after the jump. They are arranged from least boner inducing to most boner inducing.

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Yeah, I forgot to do April Anime. I was going to do one complete post once I had all the new shows sorted out but never got around to it. Anyway…

Taken from here.

Fansubs/Raw
Bokura No: I guess it’s fine. Hasn’t really had a chance to show its stuff. Plan to keep watching.
Darker Than Black: An ok Bones show. Episode 3 was probably the best the show had the offer, and that’s not saying much. Waiting on episode 4. May drop if it gets too boring.
Death Note: Kind of wish the animation was consistent here. On the silly part of the story right now.
First Gundam: Sub more Sixtydeuce.
Hayate no Gotoku: Funny show is funny. Though I think the first episode was probably the best in terms of humour, but the rest are pretty good. Nagi is hot.
Hidamari Sketch: Gave up on rawz, waiting on subz.
iDOLM@STER XENOGLOSSIA: Boring show. Still watching it because it’s Sunrise and they’ve yet to fail me. Cute girls and robots kind of make it watchable.
Jigoku Shoujo Futagomori: One episode left. Has turned into something of an absurdest comedy.
Lucky Star: Cute laid back humour. Konata is best |3
Manabi Straight: Waiting for the subs.
Negima!?: MIA.
Nodame Cantabile: :V :V :V
Romeo x Juliet: Very impressive first episode, less impressive second episode and not so impressive third. I’ll keep with it, I guess, provided it doesn’t go too Gonzo on me.
Seirei no Moribito: Watching for the production values alone. Couldn’t care less about the story or characters.
Shakugan no Shanna: Starting off slow. Kind of interesting. Started watching it because I felt I had to. Or something.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Still the best of the season. Has gotten a little slower, but still has a great sense of adventure and courage. I kind of wish they’d fire the monkeys who did episode 4, though
Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Is this not something every man should watch?

Was watching Heroic Age but I kind of bored with it. It’s a good show, just Not My Thing.

Finished
Renkin 3-Kyuu Magical? Pokaan: Apparently I finished this between April and May, and have little memory of doing so! Cute fun, with a hint of hilarity. Kind of porny. Overall solid stuff. Would do business with again.

Yep. That’s her right there. Yukiho something or other. Don’t know much about her personality except that she’s prone to falling asleep at random and could be a Good Girl. She looks like Shiori, has big boobs and hasn’t exhibited any behavior that would make me not like her, so she’s my no.1 in this show.

The problem with Xenoglossia is that it’s boring. All the characters are boring, the concept is boring (LOL LETS BLOW UP ASTEROIDS) and it’s just not fun enough. Well it’s “fun” but it’s a fun that smells like yens being stolen from Japanese otaku. A show like Magipokaa is real fun. Well, that also smells like yens being stolen from Japanese otaku, but them yens are well spent. The people making this show also fucking love Evangelion. There are numerous visual references and homages to the show, much like like Eva contains a lot of Yamato homages (I’m watching Yamato, by the way.)

I’m going to keep watching this, though. It’s Sunrise, and they’ve yet to deliver something that totally sucks, so I’ll wait until the end to pass judgment. They have presented some interesting mysteries in the opening and in previous episodes, so I hope they build upon those. If anything, I’ll watch it just for this