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Second day into Nanowrimo.

10206 / 50000 words. 20% done!

Take that!

Sooo in one hour Nanowrimo starts and since this is the first time I'm participating, I don't have any writing buddies. Add me? I also created a twitter account for this month of insanity.

The title will be "The Moon and the Magnet" from the as of now non-existant "Sunken Glory" franchise; I'll make it one, hur hur.

Provided that I might not have much to do in the upcoming months... >_> and after finishing the mysterious background story, I may do a oneshot comic about a 12/13 year old kid living on the moon as well. I gave him a temporary name, Wayde, until I can find something better. It will be my second try at a comic... I barely remember the first one, but it failed and it didn't have a solid story.

Today I forced myself to look at some old designs that make me cringe endlessly. [tehorror]The hair!! D: Wayde's like omg ewwwwwwwww the worst. What's up with the colors man! This was done 5 years ago and ever since I hadn't bothered with his character design. The green eyes will stay, but otherwise it's scrapped.[/tehorror] Of course, he'll be de-aged as well.
The only character I've been consistent on art-wise, is the main character for the background stories. This is a serious ":-|" lady in late twenties with a crazy "I'm in the resistance!!1" father and a somewhat helpless little brother jerk who hates on her two three male underlings subordinates.

Did this sketch yesterday. Not bad if I say so myself. Drawing eyes and decent heads is a piece of cake, but now I just need to work on drawing bodies and uh, noses.

Paint Tool Sai is fantastic (Vector line art layers own!) by the way. It's the same tool I used to create a fanart of Jack from Pandora Hearts. Heavily experimented using patterns and filters. I'm so proud of the braid and just hair that blows in the wind and unties for no particular reason.

/-[o]_[0]-/

Sort of interested in going to the HAFF, an animation festival in Utrecht next week. They're showing tons of anime, but either I can't go or am not interested or seen it already. Friday seems the most interesting day with:

12:30 - Coraline
14:30 - Alice by Jan Svankmajer
16:30 - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea or Tekkonkinkreet

Probably won't make it to the first one, because of presentations the entire morning... >_> *sigh*

The question is... Ponyo or Tekkonkinkreet?

Erk, I'll do that post after holidays are over. It's nothing terrible though. Don't worry.

Anyway this is a generic anime/manga catch up post.

Anime
Aoi Bungaku 1 - Interesting and the style smells like MnY, except grittier and less shiny.
Kuchu Buranko 2 - I could probably list a dozen of differences, but this ending was so much more heart-warming than in the book. I like the fact that they slipped in a Kayo for Tetsuya.
Tegami Bachi 3 - so far so good. I'm still addicted to the ED song.
Seiken no Blacksmith 2 - Looks like I'll keep up with this one after all.
Tatakau Shisho - The Book of Bantorra 4 - Awesome fighting in this episode!! The story is interesting and mysterious~ I still can't get over the silly names though.


Manga
Sugiru Juushichi no Haru - Hey Fuyumi Ono fans out there, especially the Ghost Hunt and other mystery/horror fans - check this manga out! You'll like it!
UDDUP: Where is chapter 89 and 90?! D:

ps. I may have unintentionally cosplayed Pyro today depending on whether he wears a brown attire or not.