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1. It’s got the greatest intro cinematic in videogame history. In my opinion, that’s to say, but I don’t remember seeing anything more gorgeous than that.
2. I remember someone writing that it’s got some songs you’ll find yourself singing along to although you really shouldn’t. Who it was? The IGN reviewer? Well, he was right. Be damned the intro song.
3. Chun-Li’s legs seriously creep me out.
4. I’d hit Crimson Viper so hard.
5. My hands are way too small to play any fighting game without a proper stick. MY THUMB’S BLEEDING FROM THE INSIDE D:
6. When we got the game, VG said he wanted to play with Blanka and I wanted to try Viper out. We ended up going Ryu vs Ken about fifteen times.
7. By the way, it’s only me or Ken keeps getting hotter as the series goes on? Look at him now. seriously.

BRB, GOING TO GET MY ASS KICKED

The Hall of Changes is up :D this was faster than I thought. I’m personally pleased with the result; hope you’ll like it too. Have a look around.
I also edited Blind Dreaming’s index page to show the domain’s recent changes (pun not intended).

now I can sleep a happy night

been working on the Hall of Changes lately; it’s almost done. I don’t know when you’re going to see it online because I’ve got to study for a row of four exams in a week, but it will eventually be.

Also, I’m getting a new laptop very soon. The hard disk failure was but the beginning; now not only I cannot close this pc’s screen anymore, it opens at 180° unless I put something behind it and it flashes like mad because it doesn’t even make contact anymore. :/
I’m getting the red one. It will be a bit smaller and a lot lighter than this = it will fit into my bag so I will be able to bring it to school without a broken back :D

In the meanwhile, artworks:

be careful with those pirates
(her ass is actually supposed to look like this, no mistake this time)

random

summarizes my love for Samus

This was supposed to be some kind of “serious” self-portrait but I’d say it looks more like me this way.

this is only the beginning of a shower of Volkner and Flint fan art. You know, in the beginning I disliked Volkner because I thought he was the typical angsty cardboard character, but then I was surprised to see how cheerful he is in Platinum. good job with getting rid of stereotypes, Game Freak. also good job at making those two look even gayer than before, lol.
NEXT UP: A FANLISTING FOR THOSE TWO

TOLD YOU
man I’m so proud of this :D I’m putting this in the Hall of Changes as part of the layout

goodbye

About a month ago, I had a talk with VG about these alleged “western mangaka”, which are people from America or Europe who want to become manga artists even if they’re not Japanese. Now, this could seem like a choice of life like any other, and I’d like to make clear that I’m not saying they shouldn’t be allowed to become mangaka if they want to; what I’m questioning is the whole line of thought behind this choice.

As one might expect, most of these people have been reading manga since their childhood or youth, liked a few select series and then wanted to emulate their favorite authors by drawing with their style. This clearly explains why these “artists” seldom to never come to develop their own style.
One could say it’s just their way to give credit to that particular artist, much like fan art, but fan artists are not going to get a living from their creations as long as they keep working on derivative art. These other ones have as their greatest aspiration to get paid for their work, and when they do they’re stealing someone else’s talent.

On this same line, I think that the whole western mangaka business is about stealing Japanese culture. In Japan, manga is not a recent fad; the first examples of manga can be traced back to the 19th century with Hokusai. As of now, manga is an essential part of their culture; think that the first examples of pizza are almost contemporary to Hokusai’s manga to get an idea of how important can 150 years be. But while pizza began spreading worldwide in the late 19th century, modern manga began to be translated and sold outside of Japan only about thirty years ago. Not only that, but manga is also strictly tied to Japanese culture and traditions, thus making impossible for westerners to make “real” manga as they lack the necessary references to appeal to the public in the first place. Then, if they only want to use a manga-like drawing style to make comics to be sold in America and Europe, they should reflect more about their choice.

For example, some weeks ago I saw the first number of this new comic drew by an Italian girl. It had this manga-like style with dull lineart and ugly drawings, and this cover which was made of a badly digital-colored picture with the title in Monotype Corsiva. As you can imagine, the fact someone actually thought of publishing her work felt like an insultment to me. Not only it had as much quality as a thirteen-years-old’s first attempt with comics, it was almost as if she was using a random manga style to be as hip and trendy as possible.

What I’m saying could work with anything, of course. If some Russian wrote a great comic and everybody started to emulate him it would really be the same, but since here we’re talking about manga, here’s it.
The worst thing is that these western mangaka could actually be decent comic artists if they bothered to think about their work and developed their own style, but no, they want to live in someone else’s shadow and in another culture’s shadow, unable to understand that what they’re actually doing is nothing short of insulting their pet authors.

Will post new artworks later.

hay guys, been busy lately. not only because of school, I’m also working on the Hall of Changes. Its completion is already at a very advanced stage, so you’re going to see it finished very soon. This may be the first time I’m actually keeping up with my schedule :O

I wanted to post that anime and manga rant, and I’ll probably do that later, but tonight I had this bizarre dream in which I had downloaded a Metroid animated film. As the movie begun the perspective switched to first person: from then on I was impersonating Samus and saw through her eyes and clearly felt her body, but without any virtual reality apparel.

Samus was going through this religious facility on some planet. It was at dusk and the lights were off, so that the alien metal in which the walls were made was seen in shades of blue. Every room or corridor was completely empty. At some point she got into a large room, looked at the ceiling and saw this round thing covered in red slime, like it was some vent or lamp. All the electronic devices in her suit alerted her of the danger and she shot at it to remove the slime, then she scanned the thing under it with her visor and discovered that its purpose was to control people’s will, making extremely easy for them to be brainwashed as they just needed to hear someone else with a different opinion from their own to agree with them. It was turned off at that moment, probably because of the slime, but it looked like it had been already used a lot.
After this discovery, she went back to her gunship to rest, thinking she would have alerted the Galactic Confederation on the next morning.

When she woke up, she thought it was better to know more about that device before making a faux pas. She went back to the facility and when she got into the large room she was horrified to discover that the device was turned on and the room was filled with children! There were large posters hanging from the walls, each one of them saying that being gay is bad and against God and that if they knew someone was gay they had to report it to the church.
Though the device was turned on, Samus fighted its influence, getting violent as a side effect. She tore apart the posters and asked the children who hanged them, and they told her about a priest who was at that moment visiting people’s houses.
She rushed to that place and found the priest talking with my parents. They weren’t brainwashed, so maybe it was only to let people know his organization was holy and good. Anyway, Samus shouted at the priest saying he was breaking intergalactic rules and he fled away, losing his cape during the escape and revealing he was Ridley with a Mother Brain head. Chasing sequence, Ridley-Brain let Samus know about his evil plan, which had to do with milking the gay out of people to inject it in Metroids. basically using the power of gay to conquer the world. In the end, Samus and Ridley-Brain were on the top of a building; she shot him and he fell down 20 stories, hitting the ground with an explosion. Happy ending with all the children and gay people free to do whatever they please. :D

This movie also had a sequel about which I remember very little, it had probably to do with Ridley-Brain using gay people to catch the children who betrayed him, but I don’t know. I remember visiting some websites which said it was clearly worse than the prequel. haha, bad sequels are bad even in dreams.

Anyway it was really weird, especially because it had a story which somehow made sense. Also I don’t remember having issues with homophobia lately. I don’t really know why Samus should get all enflamed about that either, or why should there be homophobic priests in space. I do remember being very insulted by those posters when I woke up, in any case. >:(