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I've been a big fan of Akimi Yoshida lately. I can't really say that her comics are the best I've ever read, but the stories she draws are always pretty engrossing, the storytelling is good, the characters are more or less likable. Although I must say: the lady isn't capable of drawing any story where less than 75% of the cast doesn't die.

As for the art, I actually liked the style in the beginning of Banana Fish the most. It was tighter and more detailed, and the flow was clearer, if that makes any sense. Schumie says I'm partial to the old-school style, but I really thought that the artwork had aged better than say, Yasha, which was drawn a few years afterwards. By the time Yasha rolled around, it seemed to have gone back to the style of Lover's Kiss, and her artwork had gotten looser, although not necessarily in a good way. The paneling had also become a bit more typical shoujo, being a bit less structured, more freeform and to a certain degree, more expressive. However, I liked the artwork in BF right from the get-go, and Yasha... well, I wouldn't have picked it up if it wasn't drawn by Akimi Yoshida.

I'm glad I did though, because the story's pretty good (the project was being scanlated by Shoujo Magic, but unfortunately they've dropped it due to "lack of interest"). But the scans that I'm reading lets me experience in full the woes of the language barrier (I can understand the 50% of the plot that's not in Simplified Chinese) and horrible typesetting (the page on the left: how the fuck did that sentence miss its intended target by 2 inches?).

After finishing Banana Fish and Kisso Tenyo, I had more or less stopped expecting any real slash in the stories, so imagine my surprise when there were prominent characters who were a canon gay couple! The story itself also hits pretty much every fetish in the book (except for the naked apron), including but not limited to:

1. Twincest. They have a love/hate/love/hate?/love/hate/love/?/are-you-me-or-am-I-you relationship.
2. Subservience. Twice. One's a bodyguard, one's a servant/best friend/lover.
3. Bromance. The bodyguards.
4. Childhood friends. The type who can tell if the protagonist is thinking about sacrificing himself and tell him to "snap out of it".

Overall it's pretty fun to read, but as it's written by Akimi Yoshida, I'm expecting at least one of the twins, one of the bodyguards, and two of the three childhood friends to die before the series is over.

*shakes fist, Colbert-style* YOSHIIIIDDAAAAAAA..!!

I conclude my rant with Rin/Takeru fanart, because I liked them the most.

( The first time I saw you, you were, like, sittin around. )

A pic of Kakyoin:


( ++++++ )

I've been feeling a bit uninspired lately. I'm not sure if it's the stress of school weighing down on me, or if it's just the weather. If it's the weather, I hope the weather goddamn changes soon.

The other day, I was watching my sister play Innocent Sin, and she got to that one bit in the Sky Museum where Tatsuya has to catch Maya, and his Persona comes out for a few moments. I thought it was Apollo's hand, so I thought it strange since the persona he had wasn't Apollo.
So I said this:

"Is his stand Apollo?"

My sister stared at me.

I really despise flash, with the burning intensity of a thousand firey suns.
It's unfortunate, because I'm required to spend at least one afternoon a week learning how to use the despicable program. Today I gave up half-way through the lesson (my button wouldn't make a sound that went "whoop".) and spent the rest of the time doodling instead.

Anyway.

This was not what I drew, but it's close.

I started out drawing a group pic of All The Characters in Jojo who have Half a Brain, but it eventually turned into Orgy of All My Favorite Characters. So I went along with that.


( The Mother of all scribbles. )

This is the first time I've ever filled out an art meme. I usually don't try to approach them as I figured that I'd be way too lazy to actually finish filling them. Or that there are certain questions that I don't feel like doing. This meme was pretty fun all the way though though, although I was somewhat surprised that I managed to finish it... seeing how lazy I am.


( Jojo art meme )

I finally got pchat to work! Wanna pchat, metanomaly???

It was heart_mint's birthday today, so I went on pchat. (Happy birthday, heart_mint.)

I asked cloverx who I should draw, and she said Johan, so.


( Few Johan pics )

And I drew Giorno. I like Giorno.


( MANLY SHIT IS MANLY. )

Pics.
Giorno, ala Godfather. The Godfather III poster.


( flehwa;fwe )

( Caeser. )

I feel kind of dead. As in, the type where you just feel no energy all day long, and want to sleep the entire day away, but you drag yourself out of bed to go to school, act like a zombie through the entire day, and come home to pass out on the floor. Not to mention unmotivated. Just a little.

I think I could really use a coffee.

Anyway, I did sit around to draw Giorno yesterday, if only for lack of energy to do any real thinking on my assignments.


( LFJE;AHFEIWA;FEJW;l )

By the way, anyone write jojo fics? Anyone wanna do a trade (or collab) with me? Anyone... anyone...

School made me sad. Nothing else to report.

I drew some gay. Some Bucciarati/Giorno and some Mista/Giorno. I know, I'm a whore, but I don't really have an otp for Part 5. Although I think Giorno is my favorite JoJo as of now.


( Giorno/Bruno )

( Giorno/Mista )

...Kakyoin dump, basically.

Finished reading Stardust Crusaders today, actually. It helped that I was at school for 2 hours with nothing to do.

So, I drew Kakyoin an awful lot. A little Jotaro. Like, once. Overall, a bunch of chicken scratches with some stuff on top to make boring drawings not as boring. All are watermarked because I am a crazy lady with 13 cats and a shot gun.


( Sketches, Jotaro/Kakyoin )

( Sunglasses at night )

( The Eyescars make everything better )

I think I've almost gotten the hang of drawing him.

Someone... stole my garbage, what the hell? I swear I put garbage in it yesterday, and now it's just... gone. Oh well.

Spent the better part of last night doodling when I promised to design my sister's resume for her. Which really reminds me, I need to write my resume too. I didn't realize that I'd need it for class.

Gonna head to the VAG to see Krazy tomorrow. I've already seen it, but this is a field trip. For some reason I have to bring my resume. Go figure.


( Roooflcopter )