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"The choujin Robin Mask was indeed on set. His muscular body, sharp gaze and silver armor all evoke memories of many battles. Even on a commercial filming site surrounded by cameras and lights, we were captivated by his aura, as if he were prepared to fight at any moment. The way he stood, the way he slowly turned around and the way he shadowboxed in the wind, he really was the justice choujin Robin Mask we've always admired. The English gentleman listened intently to our explanation of the product, understood the filmmakers' commitment, and repeatedly performed his act. Before we knew it, we were more excited to be in the same space as him than to be operating the cameras." (Robin Mask x PITTA MASK production crew member comment)

#kinnikuman #robin mask #unreality

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Kinko Revamp Process

Wanted to try something slightly different with this post, call it a little behind the scenes process.

As you all know, I am Ramenking…

I make pixels, and I have done for a good long while, and today to lead up to my next Blurry Boy post, I want to show you a little bit of what my process has been for these revamps. Let's start with Kinko, as he is the first to have been revealed.

So when it comes to Kinkotsuman, out of the whole group I did. He is a character I mainly like for the uniqueness of his look, and the specific body type on him. As a character he is abit of a… Iffy guy for me. Just I'm not the biggest fan of trash Dad’s, like Kinko just falls right into that category full stop guys. Poor Bone Cold. 😔

All that said when approaching him it was quite an interesting task, as he is actually one of only 8 characters from the Kinnikuman franchise I've been spriting since I started in this little pixel square field. I did start other characters but they always were forever WIP stuff. All of those works though are long gone, probably on an old laptop somewhere in a storage room. That said, I at least have Kinko here looking nice and rough.

This period of spriting for myself wasn't the best one looking back on it. Majority of my work was more akin to sloppy edits and recolours trying to fit into a style I had little to no skill at all in. That being said it was still fun to actually make pixels for the first time, so it drove me to further dabble.

That nicely leads us to 2011 Kinko next to 2011 Kinnikuman…

Kinkotsuman and others get a face lift, or just get made for the first time in some cases. What's a bit neat about the Kinkotsuman Pixel of 2011, this sprite was initially a revamp made by an old forum buddy of mine (with heavy tweaks after made by myself). I had a mighty struggle with his head, my brain just couldn't get it and his could, the hair as well I kept having a problem with and Poof all of these issues were non existent, to him. What I really liked about this Kinko compared to the 2009 attempt was the body type actually got closer to what I envisioned. (Still a bit too tall though, and wide to a degree though)

See I've never been a massive fan of slightly buff Kinko as a norm. Not saying it couldn't make for an interesting growth of the character body wise throughout the series. Just in my head, he is Skull and Bones guy, and that type of person shouldn't have to much meat on his bones. All that said I do enjoy me a good character evolution over time chart. Might do one for all the Kinniku Characters like I did this quick mock up of Kinnikuman one day.

Onto now… When I approached Kinko this time, I wanted to try and strike a balance between the newer look Yude does for him, his first appearance look, and the anime look.

So I had examples of all three works as I went to it. I took the 2011 sprite and stripped off the colors and from there I readjusted placements of black lines inside the framework, and trimmed the framework down where I saw fit aswell. Then I laid back in some of the flat Colors across it all when I was happy with my framework. Then came the first run of shades. I take a look, see how I feel, then I will make adjustments where I see fit in different ways, just to get across the “Feel of the Character” that I want to achieve with this sprite.

Aside - |{When I say “Feel of the Character”, I am meaning I want whatever I do, however complex or simplistic it is with my pixels. I want someone to look at that, and the drawn character and be like “Oh yeah, I see it. That's them.” Like I'm not after getting every detail 100% perfect, really if you are working in pixels as small as I am. You flat out can't be. But what I want to do, is get that feel of them across as best as I can. Sometimes that means sacrificing certain elements (You will see that in some sprites to come), other times it means really emphasizing sometimes a single aspect of the sprite. It's a fun little challenge every time sprite by sprite I have to play with. By no means though am I a master at this pixel, nor do I want to disparage others who have a different approach. This is just how I prefer to do it.}|

Next once I got the sprite down, I threw up my faceset. Used my WIP Kinnikuman as a base to make edits to find Kinko in the pixels. I chipped away, and remolded bit by bit until. Poof. I got my faceset I was happy with. (Which I was so happy with, it made me not too happy with the sprite so I actually later went back and made yet a last adjustment after the initial posting. Whoops!)

With all that done, I quickly did up a little I'll call it a “Pixel Showcase”. Gathered some old GameBoy text assets for the lettering, and just free handed some shapes and lines to put Kinko and his Face on display for you all. As the last “Showcase” background I realized was a bit busy for the eyes, and you kind of can't appreciate the sprites on display in it. I still very much like it though, so maybe I'll do something with it later on.

And that is all peeples. My behind the scenes Esque thing, to somewhat build interest for the next Blur Boy coming. (Which will come hopefully soon, if work doesn't beat me down too much before) Hope you all enjoyed this, if it's liked enough I might try doing more in the future as it's nice to almost get my process down for all to understand the approach from sprite to sprite, and for my own benefit as well as most of these ideas and practices aren't written but just in my head.

Until the next Blurry Boy post, I gotta rest my fingers now. Seeyah…

Ramen Out!

#oooo this is super interesting to see! #been curious about your spriting process so reading through this was fun :D

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gurorororo.mp4

#肉 #studying for finals is going great as you can see #he has the same laugh as enma #i can kind of hear how “guroro” turned into “uluru”

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I think i'm cursed or I have the magical power of making my friends like interests of mine that were a huge brainrot before or are a huge brainrot now, and it's happening to me that an old brainrot is slowly coming back again. I love giant robot boys

#YOU LITERALLY POSTED THIS RIGHT AS I WAS LOOKING AT THE METAL CARDBOT TAG IM CRIYNG #how could u do this to me #ur literally a magician

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First Blurry Boy up, with surprisingly the most votes… Kinkotsuman!

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So this one actually wasn't as in-depth of a revamp as the others in the set, and didn't have really any extras. In a sense though I guess that makes him a perfect start to this group before I drop the others.

Hope you all enjoy the Skelly Boy, and stay tuned for the next one I drop in about a week or so, and thanks to everyone who voted again. Appreciate you peeps! One down, five more to go...

(Also I've presented him here at 300x the normal size just for convenience on the eyes.)

Until the next post, stay cool everyone.

-Ramen

#KINKOTSUUUUU #my favorite skelly boy

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Enma Daio Johari View Mirror, Kawanabe Kyosai.

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your snakes are so beautiful and clearly well cared for! i always love seeing them pop up on my dash!

Thank you! Here are some Sunny bleps for you :)

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long overdue update <:D

i now have most of the books i want to scan! lots of art books, guide books, compilation books, autobiographies and novels ranging from the 80s through the 2010s. there's only about 4-6 more that i'd like to hunt down. i want to get the two gakken encyclopedias (「超人」 and 「技」) too, but those are available in digital format while the rest aren't. already finished scanning the 2004 daizenshu, the nikuman book and the muscle gallery, so those 3 only need cropping and cleaning.

for so long ive wondered where the HELL those colored images on the kinnikuman wiki were from, and looks like theyre from the choujin taizen book (not my photo)

theres like 6 unscanned special books (キン肉マン特盛, キン肉マン77の謎, キン肉マン超人大全, マッスル・リターンズ, キン肉マン肉萬, キン肉マン 超人大全集 minus the gakken technique book) and im gonna try to get my hands on all of them

#肉 #so much cool stuff that i cant wait to share its hard to be patient afhafajkhfjfsdjkf #if theres anything here that you want to have priority or want to know more about lmk

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>new kinnikuman game

>its another gacha app

#肉 #wake me when muscle grand prix 3 comes out #or just any console game pLEASE

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Reading through the first volume, and it's wild how Yude with time actually got the swole level Suguru always imagined himself to be in the first chapters, within this new run.

I'm not the biggest fan of every character in the new run basically all having the same body type in some shots. But I'm immensely happy for Suguru finally getting that level of big the man dreamed he could do.

Think it, believe it, do it... And so he did!! Hoorah!!

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P.S. Poll ends in a couple hours (Really excited to see who you all voted for), I'll roll out the winner of it in the next post I do on here. Keep your eyes on this space. 🤙🙂

-Ramen

#those are some gains

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great thanks

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Reblog if you can hear this image I'm trying to see something

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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#kinnikuman #buffaloman #i dont even

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