Look at how cute they are!! 🥺😭 Thank you so SO much to this wonderful artist for drawing this absolutely beautiful commission for me, I absolutely adore it! 💕
2023 was not just a great year for indie video games, it was also a year where several amazing and delightful indie comics were published. Here is a list of some of those comics that may have slipped past everyone's radars.
commissioned this sketch from @laweyd - she has a really cute artstyle, it gives me such fairytale or storybook-esque vibes!! which I think makes it all the more neat for smol tonitoni because of her own youthful, innocent vibes wwwwwwwww
IN ANY CASE PLEASE LOOK AT MY DOTTER LOOK AT HOW CUTE AND PRETTY AND COOL SHE IS......... I LOVE HEEEERRRRRR falls over)
have you bought any utena merch (offical or not) yourself? what do you recommend 👀
Hiya Anon! Yeah, I got a few fanmerch myself, not a lot though which is part of the reason why i started this blog haha
There's this beautiful print by Laweyd, plus these charms from ICIAAAStore, I definitely recommend both! The charms are also available as enamel pins, but I got the keychains because the designs are more elaborate, and they were on sale then. ICIAAAStore may be making Adolescence designs of Utena and Anthy too, which I'm keeping an eye out for.
I might also be getting these gorgeous Nüwa pins from some server pals! Maybe they'll be back in stock one day, but otherwise they're only available through third party markets and sellers now
I also have some official merch (rip my wallet), mostly books because I'm a sucker for production art
Clockwise from the top left:
*The Hardcore of Utena: Animation Side - selection of anime, movie production art and scans of cells. Really, really nice print quality
*Art of Utena - interviews and anime production art, illustration sketches
Adolescence of Utena manga
Revolutionary Girl Utena manga vol 1-5
After the Revolution manga
*Adolescence of Utena Newtype Illustrated Collection book - some movie production sketches, more interviews, movie analysis/summary with movie screen caps, screenplay
*all text in Japanese, which I can't read
If you're interested in anime production art, I'd recommend the Hardcore Animation Side, or The Art of Utena. The latter's image quality is ok, and has more stuff to read, but most images are smaller. There's some overlap in content between all 3 art books, especially certain art from the movie, but they're different enough from each other imo
There is also The Hardcore of Utena Illustration Side book, which I don't have, which has all the finished marketing illustrations for the anime, if you're looking for those instead!
If you don't mind seeing everything digitally though, pretty much all the art here, minus the manga, are available for free on ohtori.nu
And I have the complete bluray of course, I needed it in my hands (the ribbon is for making sure the individual cases don't slip it off the box).