So, I'm watching the first episode of Soul Eater, right?

And it turns out that the titular character wants to get promoted... and become a Death Scythe.

Death Scythe.

DEATH. SCYTHE.




I don't even watch Wing and I died laughing.

That's not even covering how the translator seems to have the impression that the people who wield them are called Meisters. (Although it's not in the Japanese as far as I can tell, and I can't figure out if it's a joke on the part of the subbers, or if it's something off the manga.) AGH, that word was a perfectly normal German borrow-word for me that I adored using in normal writing until anime came along, dammit.

Seriously, this series is made of such awesome crack... and I haven't even gotten to the part where Miyano Mamoru-as-Death the Kid shows up yet. FOR SRS, DUDE.

(Plus, is it scary that I recognized Takanori Nishikawa singing the title song right off the bat? LOL TMR I ♥ YOU)

Speaking of Deathscythe, I hit thurisaz83's place on Thursday and we built and photographed the above gunpla. Which is so freaking awesome that I have decided that I need one of my own. Which I will then assemble and put, bat wings and all, on the display shelf next to my new desk in my office.

The packaging, though. The packaging.

You know how gunpla always come with the stats of the Gundam, height weight and weaponry, and so on. This one was no different. All the usual, submachine guns and what not... and then one singular line that said "BEAM SCISSORS X1".

BEAM. SCISSORS.

Seriously guys, the word "scythe" is in the freaking Gundam's name. How could you not know this? CLUE UP: It's called Deathscythe, not DEATHSCISSORS. Beam scissors, oh god. "I KEEL YOU WITH MAH BEAM SCISSORS!!!!one!!!" *makes clippy finger motions*

But! But but! I GOT THE FIRST 25 EPISODES OF WING FROM thurisaz83! Yessss. No marathonning for me because I do not have that much time on my hands, but--

I get to watch Wing!

I get to figure out why everyone and their grandma's llama wants to rape Duo!

\o/



...I'm done now.

Because I've signed myself on to dilettantka and hinoai's english language b00bies dooujin project, I've been spending my spare time (on the bus, in the shower etc) agonizing about what to do about it. I've already got the story I want to tell in my head, but I was worried about the page count and art style.

I dislike using screentones but my lineart seems too plain to go as-is, but in the past couple of days I've started reading Death Note again (this time in Japanese), and I realized that Obata-sensei's art style actually makes very little use of them. So I'm going to go with his style: heavy on the inks for linework and shading, and screentones primarily to indicate blocks of color, like hair. It probably suits me since I learnt to draw from Western comic drawing how-tos anyway.

On Friday I made a bunch of headsketch turnarounds just to practise and get a hang of what I want the kids to look like:




Tieria's look still bugs me. I wanted him to look closer to Allelujah in terms of age but my pencil simply insisted on the cherubic tantrumy three year old. I think I might have a thing for cute round pinchable cheeks.

In any case, I figure the doujin would look more surreal with TinyTieria, so I'm sticking with it. Next up, test sketches of Halle and Regene.



And just some random guy I doodled in on my work Moleskine during a meeting with Animax that I merrily inserted myself into (because I think the project is awesome and I want to watch it while it develops). I have no idea who he is or where he came from. Since I pretty much only draw girls and bishieboys this dorky-looking dude caught me by surprise. He looks a bit like Milo Ventigmila. Except not as pretty.