Chobits

Series: Chobits

My relation to the show:
This is one of my many "I'd rather read it", and is currently the only series where I have the complete collection of the manga. I fell in love with the thin delicate lines of the artwork on the pages and decided that I just didn't like it in color. So I never got past the first episode of the anime.

It is something I consider a classic. There is a love story but it is not something sappy with tonnes of sparkles and googly eyes. It is set in the future, but not in a way that makes it alien to anyone, rather than that it raises the question of how much people relies on computers. A sweet light-hearted story with a more serious undertone and a definite good re-read.

Mononoke

Series: Mononoke

My relation to the show:
My friend recommended it to me, but as many times before I ignored that. Later on I found I wanted to watch something different, coming across a list of anime categories this was listed as artsy fartsy - and I was not disappointed when I finally watched it.

The style of the show is simple and extremely demanding at the same time. It's like old japanese paintings. Big flats with single or gradient color, then nothing but patterns as far as the eye can see. Colors everywhere. Always changing.

I really do like the main character, Kusuriuri, I can't get over how happy he is and then I remember it's his face paint makes it look like he is always smiling. Which reflects how he is a bit of a tricky character.

Fan Art Gallore / Pink Supervisor

I have decided this year that I will try to do one full drawing each week, and to get me started I decided to make fanarts of my favourite shows, at least the cartoon ones.

Some of these shows are most likely way out of date for most people, but that's the way I tend to roll - I always seem to join the bandwagon long after it stopped.

Title: Pink Supervisor
Series: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
"This years new year resolutions have left me in despair!"

My relation to the show:
 I have to blame my friend for getting me into this one. "Zetsuboshitaaaaaaa" (I am in despair) was somewhat of a catchphrase among us for a little while when we were all watching the series. It is one of the shows I never finished watching, nor did I ever finish reading the manga that it is adapted from even though the series is finished.

Then why is it even on the list?

Well, I can't get over the clever puns with the names of the characters for starters. I find it amusing how the author picks names that sound like names when written horizontal and personality descriptions when written vertical.

For the anime I quite enjoy that the style and/or colors changes all the time. It adds a very odd flavour to the show which would otherwise be very boring. The opening credits and endings do however make me question the sanity of the people working on the show sometimes....

Pot Noodles

Just a doodle of Noir and Phoenix.
I still don't know how he can get stuff eaten with his mask on.

Band boys

Me and my friends have made a little band with a buncha boys, Leo is mine, Sheep belongs to Kerri, Dog to Ai and Monkey (not in the pictures this time) to Milla.

*sigh* Leo you shouldn't fall asleep and start hugging your band member....

"Aww, aren't you two adorable"
"Sheep, I swear, if that picture comes online I will kill you!"
"zzz..."

Sass master Sheep.
Shush you. Your hair is fab.

Dramatic apperances

My friend seems to have a case of "one of my characters shows up whenever I doodle something" and of some reason I decided it was because he didn't feel loved any more.

And he is making a point to be angry about it. Because characters being sort of OOC seems to be a thing that I like to do. Except the part where he doesn't like Fuego.

Back to school again

Back in England again.

It's weird for me, because of some reason I have no feeling that it's the last year. I have no feeling of a person that is going to stop going to school at the end of this. It's the same thing that happens with me when I travel between home and here. I never have the sense I am going anywhere unless it's the very first time, I don't get the whole "Ahhh! I am going to go somewhere!" that most other people seem to get every time they go to a place far away.

It just strikes me as odd that my personality seems so distant from everything. I sort of know why that is I ended up like that, but taking a step back and looking at myself as a character it just seems very blank. Kind of like Haru from the anime Free!.
There are something that interests me, I am in a content happy sort of state while doing it and it does keep me going, but still I don't really know why it keeps me going, I'm really just doing it, and most of the reason it still is going at all is because of my friends encouraging me. If I am not enjoying it together with anyone I don't enjoy it the same way and it just kind of works on autopilot.

I just feel like a bland Haru sinking away to hide from the world in my bathtub most of the time.