I PASSED, HALLELUJAH, I PASSED!!!! NOW I CAN TAKE A HUGE BREATH OF RELIEF! WHOOOOOO!
What are your plans for the summer? :D
yuuzora edit: Gah...had to fix that typo. It was bothering me. >_<;
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
I PASSED
I PASSED, HALLELUJAH, I PASSED!!!! NOW I CAN TAKE A HUGE BREATH OF RELIEF! WHOOOOOO!
What are your plans for the summer? :D
yuuzora edit: Gah...had to fix that typo. It was bothering me. >_<;
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Chronology, 1995-2006
(1995) Virgo Shaka - Saint Seiya
The first androgynous male in memory who left his mark in Jing's psyche--note the age; the girl was five or six years old and wasn't quite sure of his gender, but already blown off of her feet regardless. Saint Seiya was my first manga and exposal to any type of anime-stuffs...and, well, yeah. Shaka was also most probably the father, the origin of Jing's obsession with men of LONG WHITE HAIR. (It looked white in the manga. -_-)
As to Shaka himself...he keeps his eyes closed the greater majority of the time because he tends to overkill whatever he happens to be looking at. This works somewhat like the "release art control" levels of Alucard from Hellsing.
Lasting influences: For the longest while, Jing had the strong tendency to draw a dot or some other kind of "decoration" between the eyebrows of her humanoid creations almost compulsively. (Examples: see this and this.) Also, during the age of doujinshi-creations (circa 2002), the concept of the closed eyes were prevalent in Jing's character design.
(1995) Aries Mu - Saint Seiya
In the manga, there was no way to tell that his hair was pink...so all he looked like was an awesome girl with no eyebrows (but instead two huge dots in their place) who tied "her" hair in a manner I have adored ever since. At least I was dubious over Shaka's gender, but for this guy? I seriously thought he was a girl. I couldn't stop giggling at first when I watched it on YouTube because his voice sounded so manly and all...
Lasting influences: I often find myself drawing things or people with dotted eyebrows, or eyebrows with accented dots. This has happened since as long as I've drawn human faces, and never once have I realized that Mu was the father of it all. (Examples, see this and this.)
(2000) King Meifuisu/Memphis - "Daughter of the Nile"
This series was the origin of Jing's fascination with ancient Egypt and the whole Pharaoh thing...the whole reason why, years later, YuGiOh's plot will have so much appeal. The story itself is actually quite cheesy now that I think about it in retrospect, but for the ten-year-old Jing, it was spectacular. Influences from the series included the whole concept of time travel and...Egypt, period. Bishies like Memphis and Izmir simply pushed things further.
(2000) Prince Izumiru/Izmir - "Daughter of the Nile"
The second person to push Jing's "obsession" with dudes with long white hair. Again, that way of tying his hair...ended up being the one other lasting influence in Jing's character design.
(2003) Malik Ishtar - Yu Gi Oh
Getting closer to the present...or rather, that legendary year of eighth grade. For a long while I worshiped this dude as a god. Woosh. Here was where the "long white hair" fetish had a little tweak: now I feel crazed toward the combination of extremely light-colored hair contrasting with dark skin, and light eyes to accent it all. But that wasn't all--seriously, Malik has to have the most awesome character design out of anything I have seen to date: knife-carvings on back, choice of clothing, etc.
Lasting influences: The color lavender/purple, the number 23, blades. This last item on this list hast to do with the fact that for a while during eighth grade, I became obsessed with weaponry design. Or more specifically, just swords and anything blade-y.
(2003) The males of Ayami Kojima - Castlevania
...I think this is rather self-explanatory. But goodness, there's so many of them. XD The only thing I will say is that had my first game been Harmony of Dissonance instead of Aria of Sorrow, I may have a bigger liking for the Belmonts than I do the vampires. But since Soma was the first to come to my attention, Jing is rather significantly biased...
Soma Cruz - Aria of Sorrow
Genya Arikado - Aria of Sorrow
Juste Belmont - Harmony of Dissonance
Leon Belmont and Mathias Cronqvist - Lament of Innocence
Joachim Armster - Lament of Innocence
Alucard - Symphony of the Night
Lasting influences: Vampires (not too surprisingly) and again, blades. With specifically Soma and Juste (and Joachim) came the final realization that albinos are simply awesome.
(2004) Lucifer and Rociel - Angel Sanctuary
These first came as influences from wifey later in eighth grade, though I didn't start to look deeper into the series until Faye got them later. I know I'm into Rociel simply because of his looks, but I forget whether I liked Lucifer first because of John Milton's Paradise Lost or vice-versa.
(2006) Gemini Saga - Saint Seiya
Yes, the series make a comeback. I'm starting to realize that everyone seem to have their eyes closed a lot. Or I just happen to save a lot of their pictures WHEN they have their eyes closed. (WTF?) But anyway...it was quite interesting, because the first clips of Shaka I found on YouTube were of the part where he gets killed by Saga and two others, namely Shura and Camus. The later two looked like total douchebags from beginning to end, but Saga remained fascinating, the way he always had that sad sad look on his face, "weeping tears of blood", as Mu says. Then I found out more about how he has a twin and also has a split personality, blah blah blah...plus (lame as it is) Jing is also a Gemini... *snore* Anyway. He's easily the prettiest of the Gold Saints in the anime, or at least the Hades OVA part.
...And I think I'm done. Notice these are NOT every SINGLE bishonen Jing has ever liked in the history of her bishi-exposal, but just the ones that have at least somewhat of a significant (psychological? spiritual, even?) meaning to her. Of course, it may seem odd how Saint Seiya should ultimately be the one series here that mean the most to me (yes, as in, more than Malik and all of Castlevania combined), but...really. Jing may value things she remember more than she does things of the present. But the things from a distant past that she doesn't remember much about--or not at all, even...it's the rediscovery of those that mean more than anything. This whole business of finding Saint Seiya again--finding Shaka again--brought forth a period of near-depression, what with the feeling of wanting to cry her eyes out but no tears would come. Meh.
This was the opening theme to the arc that contained the part where Saga and co. kills Shaka. Though I will advice this: KEEP AN EYE ON THE TIME AND STOP PROMPTLY WHEN IT REACHES 35 SECONDS. I promise you, everything after that mark is total crap. The song sucks because it doesn't progress beyond what you have heard already, and when the final part hits...goddamn it, Kyo's falsetto is better than this girl's and her chorus's. But other than that...ugh. What an unfortunate opening; that sweep through all the Gold Saints (do we see Mu's pink hair, followed immediately by Shaka and Saga?) and the way there are so many petals and how the logo was introduced were made for tears and nostalgia.
Boohoo.
The first androgynous male in memory who left his mark in Jing's psyche--note the age; the girl was five or six years old and wasn't quite sure of his gender, but already blown off of her feet regardless. Saint Seiya was my first manga and exposal to any type of anime-stuffs...and, well, yeah. Shaka was also most probably the father, the origin of Jing's obsession with men of LONG WHITE HAIR. (It looked white in the manga. -_-)
As to Shaka himself...he keeps his eyes closed the greater majority of the time because he tends to overkill whatever he happens to be looking at. This works somewhat like the "release art control" levels of Alucard from Hellsing.
Lasting influences: For the longest while, Jing had the strong tendency to draw a dot or some other kind of "decoration" between the eyebrows of her humanoid creations almost compulsively. (Examples: see this and this.) Also, during the age of doujinshi-creations (circa 2002), the concept of the closed eyes were prevalent in Jing's character design.
(1995) Aries Mu - Saint Seiya
In the manga, there was no way to tell that his hair was pink...so all he looked like was an awesome girl with no eyebrows (but instead two huge dots in their place) who tied "her" hair in a manner I have adored ever since. At least I was dubious over Shaka's gender, but for this guy? I seriously thought he was a girl. I couldn't stop giggling at first when I watched it on YouTube because his voice sounded so manly and all...
Lasting influences: I often find myself drawing things or people with dotted eyebrows, or eyebrows with accented dots. This has happened since as long as I've drawn human faces, and never once have I realized that Mu was the father of it all. (Examples, see this and this.)
(2000) King Meifuisu/Memphis - "Daughter of the Nile"
This series was the origin of Jing's fascination with ancient Egypt and the whole Pharaoh thing...the whole reason why, years later, YuGiOh's plot will have so much appeal. The story itself is actually quite cheesy now that I think about it in retrospect, but for the ten-year-old Jing, it was spectacular. Influences from the series included the whole concept of time travel and...Egypt, period. Bishies like Memphis and Izmir simply pushed things further.
(2000) Prince Izumiru/Izmir - "Daughter of the Nile"
The second person to push Jing's "obsession" with dudes with long white hair. Again, that way of tying his hair...ended up being the one other lasting influence in Jing's character design.
(2003) Malik Ishtar - Yu Gi Oh
Getting closer to the present...or rather, that legendary year of eighth grade. For a long while I worshiped this dude as a god. Woosh. Here was where the "long white hair" fetish had a little tweak: now I feel crazed toward the combination of extremely light-colored hair contrasting with dark skin, and light eyes to accent it all. But that wasn't all--seriously, Malik has to have the most awesome character design out of anything I have seen to date: knife-carvings on back, choice of clothing, etc.
Lasting influences: The color lavender/purple, the number 23, blades. This last item on this list hast to do with the fact that for a while during eighth grade, I became obsessed with weaponry design. Or more specifically, just swords and anything blade-y.
(2003) The males of Ayami Kojima - Castlevania
...I think this is rather self-explanatory. But goodness, there's so many of them. XD The only thing I will say is that had my first game been Harmony of Dissonance instead of Aria of Sorrow, I may have a bigger liking for the Belmonts than I do the vampires. But since Soma was the first to come to my attention, Jing is rather significantly biased...
Soma Cruz - Aria of Sorrow
Genya Arikado - Aria of Sorrow
Juste Belmont - Harmony of Dissonance
Leon Belmont and Mathias Cronqvist - Lament of Innocence
Joachim Armster - Lament of Innocence
Alucard - Symphony of the Night
Lasting influences: Vampires (not too surprisingly) and again, blades. With specifically Soma and Juste (and Joachim) came the final realization that albinos are simply awesome.
(2004) Lucifer and Rociel - Angel Sanctuary
These first came as influences from wifey later in eighth grade, though I didn't start to look deeper into the series until Faye got them later. I know I'm into Rociel simply because of his looks, but I forget whether I liked Lucifer first because of John Milton's Paradise Lost or vice-versa.
(2006) Gemini Saga - Saint Seiya
Yes, the series make a comeback. I'm starting to realize that everyone seem to have their eyes closed a lot. Or I just happen to save a lot of their pictures WHEN they have their eyes closed. (WTF?) But anyway...it was quite interesting, because the first clips of Shaka I found on YouTube were of the part where he gets killed by Saga and two others, namely Shura and Camus. The later two looked like total douchebags from beginning to end, but Saga remained fascinating, the way he always had that sad sad look on his face, "weeping tears of blood", as Mu says. Then I found out more about how he has a twin and also has a split personality, blah blah blah...plus (lame as it is) Jing is also a Gemini... *snore* Anyway. He's easily the prettiest of the Gold Saints in the anime, or at least the Hades OVA part.
...And I think I'm done. Notice these are NOT every SINGLE bishonen Jing has ever liked in the history of her bishi-exposal, but just the ones that have at least somewhat of a significant (psychological? spiritual, even?) meaning to her. Of course, it may seem odd how Saint Seiya should ultimately be the one series here that mean the most to me (yes, as in, more than Malik and all of Castlevania combined), but...really. Jing may value things she remember more than she does things of the present. But the things from a distant past that she doesn't remember much about--or not at all, even...it's the rediscovery of those that mean more than anything. This whole business of finding Saint Seiya again--finding Shaka again--brought forth a period of near-depression, what with the feeling of wanting to cry her eyes out but no tears would come. Meh.
This was the opening theme to the arc that contained the part where Saga and co. kills Shaka. Though I will advice this: KEEP AN EYE ON THE TIME AND STOP PROMPTLY WHEN IT REACHES 35 SECONDS. I promise you, everything after that mark is total crap. The song sucks because it doesn't progress beyond what you have heard already, and when the final part hits...goddamn it, Kyo's falsetto is better than this girl's and her chorus's. But other than that...ugh. What an unfortunate opening; that sweep through all the Gold Saints (do we see Mu's pink hair, followed immediately by Shaka and Saga?) and the way there are so many petals and how the logo was introduced were made for tears and nostalgia.
Boohoo.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
THEY'RE FUCKING TURDS, YOU SAUSAGE
*************: AIM or email @ yahoo, gmail, bluebottle, myway... You choose.But by god...do talk to me, please? Goodness, mister, you be driving me up and down trees. I'm out of ideas on what else to do before the year ends; it's rather difficult to approach you at school and look natural doing it since you're so deathly/mythically/alluringly/whatnotly/quiet. Quite a shame that at this rate I may never get to know you, no? So please excuse the strangeness of the request this note puts forth... I hope you are not too into turning down secret (or maybe not-so-secret) admirers/stalkers on the spot.
Happy homeroom-day.
^ Another one of Jing's horribly horrible&cheesy HR-note ideas farting out of her noggin. Jaises, I don't even need people laughing at me to confirm the knowledge that I should probably be slapping myself silly for even thinking this stuff.
But seriously, I don't believe this. Mr. Prince of Persia seems to be apparently disabling my brain almost as severely as Brother W ever did...if not even more severely. I must be really driven to the end of the desperation spectrum this time; this is absolutely vain and disgusting even to myself now that I think about it in retrospect. What sort of turdy-sausage is this, anyway? Truth be told, I actually don't quite know how to react to this latest obsession myself... Things have been quite odd.
The only worry here is the way Chet has been acting up, launching accusations such as I'm "throwing him over for an improved version" of himself... This is rather a big inconvinience, as there are issues behind Mr.
Speaking of which, 4chan is apparently down once more. Ohoho...*salute* =_=EDIT: 4chan is back. Not dead yet! =O
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Grave of the Fireflies
I just watched Grave of the Fireflies today, and IT IS SO RIDICULOUSLY SAD. Everyone should watch it!! But prepare to cry!!
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