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#wow it took a MILLION GAZILLION years to get this at a resolution tumblr will accept#jiro suzuki#higurashi#straight up got this off zerochan its from the official higurashi special calendar#interestingly i think the style is cute#but i do see that tangent line for satokos tail and rikas hair like i was struggling to see them as seperate things but now i do#and now im sharing this fact with you#I just wanted it on my blog ;w;
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Junkyoju - Takatsuki Akira no Suisatsu
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Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture Vol. 3 features two fun mysteries
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture Vol. 3 features two fun mysteries #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel #manga
We walk a path that straddles the boundary between reality and the next world. Fukamachi loses his mysterious ability to distinguish untruths after catching a cold! While he’s out of commission, Professor Takatsuki makes an appearance on a panel next to an actress who claims to have seen ghosts! How will Takatsuki fare in an investigation of her haunted studio with his lie detector on the…
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Delusional Monthly Magazine
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#gekkan mousou kagaku#delusional monthly magazine#jiro tanaka#taro j suzuki#tarojiro#jirotaro#my art#i feel like taro is the kind of person who acts much younger than his age tbh#but when someone is in trouble suddenly he's right there saving them or taking care of them?? he helped even catherine
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Delusional Monthly Magazine Episode 4 Review - More Furries
This episode is basically an allusion to the whole Loch Ness monster myth in real life. However, while Nessie doesn’t exist, Nussie, the fictional version of Nessie, does. This episode is basically trying to prove her existence while fighting against the White Pegasus goons; one of them becomes a bear furry and now it’s a fight between furries.
I do feel like not showing Nussie until she showed up in a picture was a bit of a waste. While the episode was about proving her existence, it would’ve been great to see her in the flesh. Instead, all this episode was about was camping and fighting Perch and Noin. Heck, the supposed MOPart wasn’t even one at all; it seemed to be a scale or bone of Nussie in a way.
I was surprised when they used Taro’s supernatural abilities for him to talk to the ghost girl Yasuko. I think using that trait this way was creative. Because ghosts has always been seen as scary looking spirits, seeing a human-looking one does not tick his buttons. Though, I do feel bad that he didn’t realize Yasuko was a ghost until the end. I wonder if she was Nussie or if she became a part of her.
Now that there’s a Motarian on the enemy’s side, it makes me curious on how Noin was able to transform. Does he have a strange tattoo on his arm like how Taro has one on his head? What is the requirement of transformation? Will everyone change into furries as the show progresses? Also, with that mention of Catherine towards the end of the episode, I predict that she might be the main villain of the story…
There are only two minor characters here. Yasuko and the groundskeeper and they’re both voiced by rather prolific voice actors. Yasuko is voiced by Ayako Kawasumi and the groundskeeper, who’s name happens to be Scott via credits, is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama. For a crazy show like this, getting extremely big named voice actors as one-off characters is still crazy to me.
Since the MOPart wasn’t an actual MOPart, this feels like a pointless episode. Though, it was nice to see the gang have some R&R. I also feel bad for the living carrot. Goro, you horrible bastard (I’m kidding). Anyways, since this episode was pretty straightforward, I’m going to end it here. What are your thoughts on this episode?
#delusional monthly magazine#gekkan mousou kagaku#taro j suzuki#Jiro tanaka#saburo#goro satou#noin#perch#review#anime#anime review#arum journal#ecargmura
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Three years ago on March 27th, 2021, Twisted Wonderland's first Art Gallery was published!
Artists are:
・雪広うたこ (Yukihiro Utako) @mielelatte , Website
・Hou @honippo , Official Website
・ ホノジロトヲジ (Honojiro Towoji) @siroimorino , Tumblr
・ 巖本 英利 (Iwamoto Eiri) iwamotobusta , Pixiv
・カズアキ (Kazuaki) kazuaki_info
・lack lalalalack , Interview on kai-you.net
・LAM ramdayo1122 , Official Website
・ミカ ピカゾ (Mika Pikazo) @MikaPikaZo , Official Website
・水溜鳥 (Mizutametori) @mizumizutorisan , Official Website
・中原 (Nakahara) @nakaharu_wo , Official Website
・煮たか (Nitaka) @2tkinfo , Official Website
・野崎つばた (Nozaki Tsubata) @tsubatako , Pixiv
・おかざきおか (Okazakioka) @okazakiokaa , Tumblr
・POKImari @POKImari02 , Official Website
・白浜 鴎 (Shirahama Kamome) @shirahamakamome , Official Website
・鈴木 次郎 (Suzuki Jiro) @jirosuzuki , Tumblr
・TCB @tcb0 , Pixiv
・兔ろうと (Usagi Routo) @usagi_lokiloki , Official Website
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A 'skill' I've ended up honing is a sense of the various art styles of the Umineko manga artists. Generally when I see a panel I can tell what episode it's from based on either context, it being an often-posted panel, or even just... how it's drawn.
Episode 1, 3, and 8 are drawn by Natsumi Kei! Natsumi Kei doesn't draw Battler with his vest. She has a specific way of drawing eyes (for example, drawing Beato's with no/little shading) and Battler's hair is super spiky. She draws Beatrice's dress as entirely black besides the pattern, with some white parts for shading/lighting - a trait which most of the Umineko artists share
She also has a tendency towards some fanservice angles/poses (such as that oft-memed panel that shows off Eva's ass while she's raging at her misogynistic brother/family).
She likes to do these 'close-up' shots to show off detailed expressions.
She also draws Beato's eyes with blonde eyelashes! So pretty... A lot of the Umineko manga artists draw Beatrice with blond eyelashes, which always seem so delicate when they do the detailed close ups.
The EP2 mangaka, Jiro Suzuki, contrasts Natsumi Kei a lot. They use heavier shading at times, and their anatomy is also different - I often get the impression that their Beato is more broad-shouldered, while their Battler is more skinny. Like a twig.
From this panel, you can really get the impression of 'glowing' in a way that you can't get from Natsumi Kei's work.
In general, their style has a lot more detail for things like face and hair. Just like Natsumi Kei, they draw Beato with blonde eyelashes, though they interpret Battler's hair differently.
Battler's clothes feel very flowy, which adds to the sense of him being very skinny. Just like Natsumi Kei, Battler is drawn without his vest. I feel as though there's a sharpness to the joints.
EP4 is drawn by Soichiro! A return to spikier Battler hair. I feel like they tend towards narrower, sharper eyes.
Soichiro has a certain way of paneling... It relies a lot on very similar-looking boxes. They're generally all the same shape, and often the same size. Some examples:
As you may have noticed, Battler is still bereft of his vest. It's probably a choice all of these mangakas made in order to simplify his design.
...I would also like to submit for your consideration the travesty that is the paneling in this page. It's... a bit confusing to follow. This is a tendency in their style - sometimes the emphasis, paneling, etc. isn't quite right. They're a great artist, but I get the feeling that they weren't quite accustomed to this medium at the time of drawing.
EP5 is drawn by Akitaka.
Akitaka is one of my favorite Umineko manga artists by the sheer virtue of the fact that Akitaka restores Battler's vest to its proper place: on his body. Battler's hair is still spiky, but it's a different, sometime toned-down interpretation. The way they shade his hair feels really unique to me - a mix of the usual screentones with some black sections (depending on the angle and level of detail). In general I feel like Akitaka works a lot with screentones to add a lot of shading to their panels.
Rather than using pure black for Beatrice' dress, it's a mix of black and screentones. Part of this is for lighting, but it also allows Akitaka to show a lot more details for the dress, which the artists who use primarily black for the dress can't do.
Akitaka also has some really detailed expressions. They manage to bring a lot of character to even the 'dead' Beato.
EP6 is drawn by Hinase Momoyama. Battler's vest, the most important character in Umineko, triumphantly remains. However, Battler's hair is less spiky and more slicked-down. Like Akitaka, there are often black sections of it, but these are more often at the front, rather than the back, of the head.
Beatrice's dress varies from "mostly black" to "mostly screentones" in EP6. Elder Beatrice, however, has these very detailed and eye-catching ruffles to her skirt. She is also drawn with sharper eyes and expressions than Chick Beatrice, who is wide-eyed and has very flowy princess sleeves on her dress.
Battler comes off as super cute when he's angry, rather than something more menacing or serious, as he does in Natsumi Kei's art. For comparison: (EP6, then EP8)
This is probably a result of how Natsumi Kei draws 'sharper', while Momoyama uses rounder shapes.
EP7 is drawn by Eita Mizuno, who is a saint for managing to draw beautifully for all NINE volumes. NINE. A saint.
They draw Beatrice's dress primarily with screentones, and have very bright, wide eyes.
They use a lot of texture with their screentones, which gives their art a unique feel amongst the artists for the manga.
I'd also like to have a special shout out to this page. The way the art style shifts in the final panel to reflect Lion's shock and horror is an incredible use of the medium. This artist really seems to like these horizontal spreads, but they use the space well.
More masculine characters like Will have narrower eyes, though the pupils/light isn't that different. While characters with light hair like Lion have no screentones for their hair, Will receives a healthy mix: primarily black, with some screentone highlights. Of course, light-haired characters will have screentoned hair depending on the lighting, but in bright lighting, Lion has entirely white hair.
...Also, Battler has once more lost his vest. At least his hair is spiky again...?
That covers all the main mangaka, but there's also the mangaka for the side manga, Tsubasa: Fumi Ito. Their art is really cute and suits the often-comedic stories well. The small highlights they put in hair feels characteristic of their style. They often draw characters with wide, round, bright eyes.
Battler's hair spikiness is toned down (so fluffy...) and his vest returns for the final time. A true blessing.
This is just a super brief overview of it all - there's a lot of characters whose varying depictions I didn't mention, I didn't really talk about how they do backgrounds, and plenty of other things. But Umineko has a lot of talented artists who worked on it, and many of them still sometimes post fanart (or new official art) for the series!
I feel like we should appreciate the amazing range of artists who have done their best to interpret Umineko's story. They all did a great job!
#umineko#umineko no naku koro ni#manga#umineko spoilers#just in case since I grabbed panels from everywhere
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Did you enjoy The Boy and the Heron? I don't think it's my new favorite Ghibli film but it's got me thinking a lot. I had the same sort of feeling about Wind Rises where the film itself wasn't my favorite work but I really appreciated the film's message/theme more than some of the other Ghibli films that I DO love. would love to hear your thoughts!!
No spoilers below--
I enjoyed the first ninety minutes very much. Some of the sequences in it are among the best Miyazaki's done. I like the heron a lot and I loved the character Kiriko. Mahito was a good kid too, he was a little less opaque than a lot of Miyazaki's protagonists and I loved his intense madness in the first half.
But then, man, does that movie fall down hard towards the end. All the modern Miyazaki movies do, he hasn't ended a movie coherently since Mononoke Hime, but it's at its most detrimental here. So much is dropped. There are so many elements that never have a pay-off.
Now you mentioned The Wind Rises and I think that's a fine movie to compare this one with. The Wind Rises also had a surface narrative - the highly fictionalized life of Jiro Horikoshi - and a personal thematic narrative - Hayao Miyazaki's rumination on what it is to be an artist. Both are very well managed in that movie and they each come to a satisfying, if characteristically rushed and choppy end.
How Do You Live does NOT, in my opinion, stick the landing with its primary tale about a grieving kid named Mahito. Instead it's constantly battling with its second function as a symbolic depiction of Miyazaki's creative process and advice to The Youth. The characters are given precedence as symbols rather than as people. I found this unsatisfying and frustratingly self-indulgent on his part. By the end I pretty much understood that Mahito was the the Youth, that the tower was the director working through the process of a film, that the mother was both a curse and a protective inspiration, that the pregnant stepmother was a new project, that the heron was Toshio Suzuki, yadda yadda. The film is much more interested in this self-indulgence than in resolving its primary story about Mahito. It all but abandons that kid's struggle in favour of its wanking.
There is so, so much left unresolved. And the resolutions it does come to feel unjustified, frantic, and like afterthoughts.
So yeah, not one of my favourites either. Just a mess of a movie. But the fact it was all pulled together by an eighty-something year old dude is impressive for sure. I don't think we'll ever see another animated movie like this again. For better or for worse :3
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Junkyoju Takatsuki Akira no Suisatsu EX2 (light novel)
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Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture Vol. 2 is so good. A must for ghost hunter fans
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture Vol. 2 is so good. A must for ghost hunter fans #comics #comicbooks #manga #graphicnovel
The mysterious lurks in that which fills the crevices between ordinary things―“The Extraordinary.” Akira Takatsuki, an associate professor of folklore studies and a collector of strange tales, has taken Naoya Fukamachi, a college student with the uncanny ability to detect lies, under his wing. When another of Professor Takatsuki’s students reveals that she is living through an urban…
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Some times ago I found out that in the original Tatarigoroshi ending, Shion and Keiichi weren’t supposed to die, but actually Shion was supposed to visit Keiichi and to help him to recover, but in the end it was dropped and included in the Higurashi Kuradashi light novel, a collection of ‘’what if’’ stories derivated from Ryukishi’s scrapped ideas related to the series
The illustration is by Jiro Suzuki
There’s also Higurashi Kuradashi Zoku that’s another light novel, kind of a sequel of the other one with the same kind of content and there’s one story named ‘’A Hidden Satoko Episode from Connecting Fragments’’ with that illustration by Jiro Suzuki; based on it, I wonder if there could have been a connecting fragment that showed Satoko’s POV when she pushed her parents off the cliff...?
#higurashi#Higurashi no Naku Koro ni#tatarigoroshi#keiichi maebara#shion sonozaki#satoko houjou#matsuribayashi
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Higurashi: Curse Killing Chapter 3
There are a few details about Keiichi's attempt at cooking that make that scene even worse than it obviously is.
He washed the rice by hand inside the water it was going to be cooked in. If you're going to rinse your rice before cooking it, you want to do it in a strainer so the water can pour out.
That carrot was cut into large chunks. Those sizes aren't bad for stew, but they're far too big for soup.
He used salad oil which is not typically used for cooking.
I can't find if "egona" refers to a special type of oil or if it a brand (actual or knockoff name).
And let Keiichi's dilemma be an example about why it's a good idea to know how to cook. You don't need to be a 5-star chef, but if you at least know how to use a stove-top, you can make several dishes.
If you've never cooked before, you should follow the recipe as exactly as you can. Intuition only works when you've done something enough times that your body and brain have things memorized.
And there's no shame in using pre-prepared ingredients. Prep work is a long and tiring process. If I can just skip to the part where I put everything in my skillet, I will.
After cooking a few dishes, then you should try altering it a little. Try cooking it a little longer or shorter, try adding a bit more or less heat, and try adding a few herbs and spices.
Then you can become the iron chef Keiichi thought he was.
This is the only arc that Jiro Suzuki illustrates. Her art style is what I'd describe as fast and loose. It lets her get away with things like drawing Rika as a cat which wouldn't work in Suzuragi and Houjyou's style.
Satoko is probably borrowing Keiichi's mom's slippers. They are way too big for her. Also, I think this is the first time I've seen Satoko's lower legs in her non-school attire. The stripped socks caught me by surprise.
We've spent two arcs trying to figure out the truth behind the curse, while Rika and Satoko, who lost their families to it, were always set to the side.
We've gotten an answer to the bigger part of the mystery of Oyashiro-sama's curse, so we can focus more on the periphery. In particular, we can take time to learn how the series of deaths have actually affected the people closest to the victims.
In the last arc, Mion said Satoko's parents were cold and treated her like she's good for nothing and said Satoko's aunt was abusive. She also said Satoshi protected her.
Of all the deaths and disappearances, Satoshi's disappearance hits the main cast hardest because he was their friend. But he was also Satoko's brother. His disappearance would hurt her the most. Behind all her antics, she's a lonely child who misses the brother she relied on.
Keiichi has a bandaid on his cheek after they badmouthed curry in front of Chie.
NIPA BEAM!!!
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