traghetto

I’m a loner here in this city.  I left all my friends in Canada.  Back then I had a social life, I left anime behind me and drew much less.  Now that I’m in Hong Kong I don’t have a job (yet) so I don’t go out in order to save money.  And by extension I don’t have any friends here.  Most of my friends from highschool here are either abroad or we simply do not see eachother.  I’ve been getting back into a lot of my old loner habits,  I draw more, I’m a bit more shy when I speak, I’ve been watching more anime now.  I guess the fact 2D has and still is a big part of my life wont change. I remember growing up with things like Doraemon GeGeGe no Kitaro, A few old Gundam, Patlabor and Macross…still a few more obscure series I cannot remember…

But I’ve been watching a few anime lately.  Finished watching Bakemonogatari awhile ago.  If anyone still hasn’t watched it, go watch it.  Animation is cheap as hell but the author is good so despite the cheap animation.  It’s still a good series.

Also watched Bounen no Xamdou.  It made me sad because of how unpopular it is.  It started as a PS3 series commissioned to Bones by Sony.  The production quality is stunning, fantastic backgrounds, very thoughtful character designs.  Some may beg to differ, but I think they were splendid, it throws away the concept that main characters need to look flashy, instead opted to keep them normal looking but found ways to develop their character instead.  Family is a strong recurring theme which makes it a very heartwarming watch.  But I assume that due to how unpopular it was.  The second half of the series was given the fast-forward treatment.  The pacing was too fast as if someone was behind blowing the whistle on the project…It would’ve been fantastic as a 52episode series (it’s 26 instead), it has a great soundtrack to boot.   It makes me sad to see that something with so much quality, potential and creative energy was treated so crassly simply because people never wanted to give it a chance, because they couldn’t stand to part with their loli moe moe yuri for 10 seconds to appreciate a high caliber piece of animation that isn’t full of moe loli fetish.  So in the end great ideas like this get shafted whilst more harem pedo crap get the green light.

God I wish I didn’t have to class myself with the same name as those people….Otaku…makes me fucking sick.

Plans to watch Marimite season4 soon and G.A.  I don’t know why I haven’t watched Marimite 4 yet…Although I remember watching half of it and mysteriously stopping…maybe I was busy? I dunno but I’ll be watching those.

Didn’t think I wouldn’t doodle something right?

I doodled this whilst listening to Kylee’s VACANCY.  She’s 14 >____> makes me wish I had some sort of talent to sell.  Anyways.  This thing took me like an hour and a bit to draw and colour.   And another hour and a bit to fiddle with in photoshop because I’m a perfectionist.  I need to boot that habit.  It kills my output rate.