Best Drawing 2016/09 to 2017/09

Once again, I'm gonna ask you all to vote on your favorite among my drawings this year.

Got new tools this year which completely changed the way I drew, so this should be interesting. I used 3D models for proportion on some of these (namely the ones which look good lol)
Tried doing this to try to understand proportions more, but ended up having hard time not using it anymore.

Let me know why you choose the one you did, if you feel like it, and I'll use the comments to get better!

Adult Kagami

Hiiragi sister's birthday

Neige Part 2 cover

umbrella

nico (OC)

Konata's Birthday cosplay party

Uzume Punch

Uzumeh

Yui Halloween

Tsukasa Hatsumode

Nep Slash

KonaKaga Kiss

Patty

Ritsu Christmas

Uzume Kawaii

Sad Mikoto

Neko Mikoto

Mikoto's birthday present

Lucky Star 10th anniversary

Choiyawa card

Tsuyu

Monogatari Series Sega Collabo Café in Akihabara

It's been a while since my last blog post! Won't tell you I'll write more, it would probably be a lie, but here's a report on the Monogatari Series Sega Collabo Café in Akihabara I went to today!

The cafe was on the 5th floor of the SEGA arcade that's right outside of the Akihabara JR station. We got there a bit earlier and had time to check the corridor and the shop outside of the café, it was nice enough, with the TV playing a pretty neat loop.... having some (triggering) voice lines bringing with them strong emotions from the series.








The Café room itself was pretty, nice. I was surprised to see so few people, but we went on sunday night of the 4th week.
Each table had a different character on it, you can see the Shinobu one here, which was the cutest one, you can also see most of the others in the full album.



The walls were filled with pretty nice Images from the characters and screenshots from the show.... I'd actually like to have this as my room's wall paint! Some TVs were also playing a couple of clips from the series. Of course, OPs and EDs from the shows played in the background.







There was also a nice display of Character cutouts on a stage. You can see a picture of all the cutouts individually on the album.



A common thing about these collabo café is the character themed food, and the goods you get when ordering them, this Café was obviously similar. While the drinks were soso, the main food looked pretty nice and tasted good. The dessert were also pretty good. An interesting thing is that the coaster iun this event were made of plastic instead of the usual cardboard, so they feel like they could actually be used without risking to damage them.













We learned at some point that you could actually scan the coaster in the left corner, and that if all coasters were scanned, there were some special image displayed by a projector.
Eventually, everyone in the room joined together to do it and we got these two images.
There might have been more, but there are the 2 we got to see.





On the other side of the room there was a white board (actually a glass) where people were invited to write messages on. I gave it a try but it turned pretty bad. However there was a lot of nice one one there.



Overall, this cafe was really nice. Probably one of the best I've been to. There's 1 more week of it, so if I have time I'll try to go again!

If you want to see more pictures from the event, you can see them on the full album here!

3 years of drawing!

So I have now been drawing for 3 years as of today!

This year I actually published 2 doujinshi (1 was really small though). It was my first time as a circle at Comiket, and it was great. I sold a lot of books, which I really didn't expect, and people seemed to have appreciated it. I did try to get into summer Comiket, but failed. I applied for next Winter Comiket, and I'll know if I'm accepted or not in a few months, but regardless of this, I'll be finishing and releasing Neige 2 soon. (if it's not at Winter Comiket, I'll sell it at Comic1 or LuckyFes)

Going to Comiket, and making doujinshi means that I drew a whole lot more this year than in the previous years.
Making a comic is a lot of work, and even if mine wasn't that big, it took me a lot of time.
It helped me get a lot faster. I though that because I drew all these comics, I did less illustrations, but apparently I still did quite a few of them.
I also tough I didn't improve my drawing much, but today, comparing my "this year in drawing" picture with last one, I can clearly see improvement.

Speaking of which, here it is:(once again sorry for the pixelisation caused by resizing)

Like last year, I made a poll for people to vote on their favorite drawing I made during that last year. please go vote for it
http://otakushurikn.blogspot.jp/2016/09/best-drawing-201509-to-201609.html

Best Drawing 2015/09 to 2016/09

Like the previous years, I'm gonna ask you all to vote on your favorite among my drawings this year.
Got more serious contenders this year I think so it should be an interesting poll.
Let me know why you choose the one you did, if you feel like it, and I'll use the comments to get better!

Clothes pin ninja

Grumpy Kiss-Shot

Misaka Imouto

Neige 1 cover

Christmas Shinobu (Yotsugi Cosplay)

Neige 1.5 cover

Ougi-chan

Beako

Kagami draft

Miko-Konata draft

Maihime

Fashionable Kagami

Hajisai Ema

Akiba Report 2016/07/18

Been a while since I wrote any of this kind of post... like... 9 months if you count the YRYR café one as the last one.

Yesterday I went to Akihabara. There was a couple of Re:Zero collaborations I wanted to check. It had actually been a while since I had been to Akiba for myself, instead of just being there to show it to someone from oversea.

The first collaboration was with Go Go Curry, it's their second collaboration with the series it seems, in the first one they gave a special spoon, this time it was just a clear file. But this was enough to make the place full, and it had a waiting line outside.
Even when we passed in front of it hours later, it still had a waiting line.
The special menu item was a curry with mashed potato and a fried potato.... I'm actually not sure why, maybe because Subaru and Ram peeled a lot of potatoes?



The second Collaboration was with Pasela Resort, a Karaoke place. They had a few special menu items, which were all pretty normal, except 2, but they were good. For every items your order you get a random coaster. I got lucky and got Rem&Ram! Though I completely forgot about it, so I'm not sure but I think the special item for the Honey Toast was supposed to be something else....




After going to collabo I went to Akiba for, me and my friend wandered around town. Gamers had a lot of different museums this time, and finished their renewal.













Also since a new Animate was opened, a lot of stuff moved in the old one. The top floor is now only for cards.

Did a bit of shopping too, of course, but not much,
Here's a pic of that day's loot, including collabo items.



You can see all pictures in full resolution in the day's album on flickr

Simoun

I posted this on G+ already, but because 2 days later I'm still mad, and because I don't want this rant to just disappear without anyone even commenting on it, I'm going to post it here too.

This is a rant about Simoun, a 10 years old anime, that I just finished marathoning.
It contain SPOILERS
be warned.

I loved Simoun, the art style was great, and while the animations were pretty bad, even for the time, and the OST was fucking atrocious, the story was pretty good, the characters were nice, and developed well, though not completely....
I liked the anime... I liked it enough that I fucking wish it had more episode, because that fucking ending.... THAT FUCKING ENDING
Makes me so fucking mad.
It makes me feel like I've wasted the last 2 days, it makes me feel like I should have never watched this, it makes me feel... like I fucking hate this show.
This endings about as bad as OreImo's ending. It makes me as mad/sad as it.not because it's a bad ending, in the sad sense of bad, but because it's a no ending. I fucking hate this so much. Given the story was probably too hard to completely try to explain everything, since it seemed to have a bunch of plot holes, but the whole complete main plot of the last 5 episodes, was all fucking useless, people risked their life, their job, a fucking peace treaty, people from all factions, even the priestess from the other country, the head priestess of their country also tried everything to get them to do this... and it was all fucking useless. It didn't change anything, everyone got old, their religion is pretty much dead, there's still war, and they don't land anywhere.
We still don't know what happened to Amuria. The only characters which kinda have an actual ending is Limone and Dominura. And even then, they just ended up doing nothing new and repeated whatever they already did.
We still don't really know what the Simoun are, though that's fine, really even when they came back they didn't know anything, except that... looking into it is dangerous I guess.

That ending was fucking garbage.
And I kinda saw it coming, and I was checking the time left, and I was like "no don't do this to me" and they did, even worse than I though.
Oh also, beside Morinas, everyone did dumb stuff, and random people became super friends. The 2 sister randomly made up, Kaimu completely gave up on Paraietta and we still don't know who raped who. They never talked about it, and their.
AAAAA I'm so mad.

just rechecked the staff... Studio Deen... I get it now, fuck you again Deen.(as I understand it, it was an original)